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as shown by juxtaposition or comparison. The contrasts and resemblances of the seasons. Whewell.

re at jerusalem. Rom. xv. 26. Aristotle's actual contributions to the physical sciences. Whewell.

t agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. "Conventional decorum." Whewell. The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. Motley. The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. Latham.

Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines. Whewell. Converging rays(Opt.), rays of light, which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward a single point. -- Converging series (Math.), a series in which if an indefinitely great number of terms be taken, their sum w…

to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a convex surface. Whewell. Double convex, convex on both sides; convexo-convex.

music. See Polyphony. Counterpoint, an invention equivalent to a new creation of music. Whewell.

he act of creation. "Creative talent." W. Irving. The creative force exists in the germ. Whewell.

insects. Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular. Whewell.

Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell.

mach, to be cheved a second time. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Levit. xi. 3

One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. Whewell.

e of causes is deductive. Glanvill. Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process. Whewell.

gard; respect; complaisance. Deference to the authority of thoughtful and sagacious men. Whewell. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. Shenstone.

finite measure; a definite period or interval. Elements combine in definite proportions. Whewell.

uiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream. Delusive and unsubstantial ideas. Whewell. -- De*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- De*lu"sive*ness, n.

or name; distinctive title; appellation. The usual designation of the days of the week. Whewell.

"[The moon] was dichotomized." Whewell.

Grimaldi (1665), and referred by him to a property of light which he called diffraction. Whewell. Diffraction grating. (Optics) See under Grating. -- Diffraction spectrum. (Optics) See under Spectrum.

and ages infinite. Milton. We find this knowledge diffused among all civilized nations. Whewell.

usky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished. The dim magnificence of poetry. Whewell. How is the gold become dim! Lam. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth.