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An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour. Knight.

To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate. [Archaic] Fuller.

among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.

Any detergent plant, or the part of it used as a detergent, as the roots of Agave Americana, Chlorogalum pomeridianum, etc. [Sp. Amer. & Mex.]

Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. Kirwan.

r connected with, both land and water. The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea. Hare.

Instrument for determining the amount of starch in a substance.

h the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.

expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

l show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire. Num. ix. 15. For man looketh on the outward…

To ordain; to determine; to arrange. For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithoph2 Sam. xvii. 14.

Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed. Aqua ammoniæ, the aqueous solution of ammonia; liquid ammonia; often called aqua ammonia. -- Aqua marine, or Aqua marina. Same as Aquamarine. -- Aqua regia. Etym: [L., royal water] (Chem.),…

A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination. [Archaic]

Determination; decision; arbitration. The arbitrament of time. Everett. Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament. Sir W. Scott.

To decide, or determine generally. South. There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate. Shak.

The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.

A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration.

To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking.