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The extent of a movement measured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; -- applied especially to vibratory movements.

. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle. "Our ancient bickerings." Shak. Remove not the ancient landmarks, which thy fathers have set. Prov. xxii. 28. An ancient man, strangely habited, asked for quarters. Scott.

A movement or piece in andante time.

Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance." Prov. xxv. 23.

r conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.

A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone. -- An`ti*cy*clon"ic, a. -- An`ti*cy*clon"ic*al*ly, adv.

ruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first…

Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens. Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage…

Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable.

To ply; to move. [R.] I heard the sound of an oar applying swiftly through the water. T. Moore.

Movements to gain favor; advances.

The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation.

viser, inventor, or framer. "Artificer of fraud." Milton. The great Artificer of all that moves. Cowper.

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to Ant: descend. Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. John xx. 17.

s name, especially the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.

Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. Associated movements (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison.

To remove; to put off. [Obs.] She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil. Spenser.

by great irregularity of functions or symptoms, or (b) by a want of coordinating power in movements. Ataxic fever, malignant typhus fever. Pinel.

Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.