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The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.

To summon, as by a knell. Each matin bell, the baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death. Coleridge.

An instrument for estimating the purity or richness of milk, as a measuring glass, a specific gravity bulb, or other apparatus.

An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.

to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses.

ssembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soirée, or evening assembly; a matinée; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.

Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government.

Mating with but one of the opposite sex; -- said of birds and mammals.

s chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division.

nto two after its separation from the ovum. Each of the polar bodies removes maternal chromatin from the ovum to make room for the chromatin of the fertilizing spermatozoön; but their functions are not fully understood. -- Polar circles (Astron. & Geog.), two circles, each at a distance from a pole of the earth equal…

Pertaining to, or characterized by, polyandry; mating with several males. "Polyandric societies." H. Spencer.

Inciting; animating; encouraging. [R.] Johnson.

The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations. Fleming.

The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.

Reviving; reanimating. -- Re*fresh"ing*ly, adv. -- Re*fresh"ing*ness, n.

Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating. Milton. -- Re*viv"ing*ly, adv.

The act of estimating one's self; self-esteem.

An evening party; -- distinguished from levee, and matinée.

ng; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence." Tylor. The eyes of our souls only then begin to see, when our bodily eyes are closing. Law.

t of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.