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A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.

A dynamometer for measuring the force required to draw wheel carriages on roads of different constructions. G. Francis.

A large genus of plants of the order Geraniaceæ, differing from Geranium in having a spurred calyx and an irregular corolla.

A cross formed of two strips of different metals, to illustrate the Peltier effect.

A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body. Quain.

ject of the acrostic occurs five times -- the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.

A work in five different tongues.

The digestive organs. Is there some magic in the place, Or do my peptics differ Tennyson.

A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.

ermutation lock, a lock in which the parts can be transposed or shifted, so as to require different arrangements of the tumblers on different occasions of unlocking.

Light blue; grayish blue; -- a term applied to different shades at different periods. -- n.

To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst thou known thyself aright. Milton. How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend! South.

ertaining to human beings as distinct from things. Every man so termed by way of personal difference. Hooker.

d of feldspar consisting of a laminated intertexture of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors. -- Per*thit"ic, a.

body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men. "In cubic phalanx firm advanced." Milton. The Grecian phalanx, moveless as a tower. Pope.

s exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.

A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.

A device for measuring the difference in phase of two alternating currents of electromotive forces.

A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.

Pertaining to phase or differences of phase.