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each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another.

Serving to introduce; introductory. -- In`tro*duc"tive*ly, adv.

An introducer. [Obs.]

By way of introduction.

something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.

A female introducer.

Guidance by the hand. [Obs.] Glanvill. South.

A conductor; an officer in the ancient church who gave the signal for the choir to sing, and who beat time with the hand, and regulated the music. Moore (Encyc. of Music.)

Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison.

Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.

The quality of not being able to conduct or transmit; failure to conduct.

A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity.

A failure to produce or exhibit.

To draw over; to cover. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

.The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering. [Obs.]

Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.

A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.

That which conveys contagion or infection. [Obs.] Donne.

eration, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain. There are the product Of those ill-mated marriages. Milton. These institutions are the products of enthusiasm. Burke.…

The state of being productible; producibility. Ruskin.