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convex surfaces exposed to the wind. This kite was extensively used by Eddy in his famous meteorological experiments. It is now generally superseded by the box kite.

The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal. Edging machine, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.

elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.

yman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder. Presiding elder (Meth. Ch.), an elder commissioned by a bishop to have the oversight of the churches and preachers in a certain district. -- Ruling elder, a lay presbyter or member of a Presbyterian church session. Schaff.

A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A method of determining the presence or absence of life in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting the presence or absence of muscular contraction.

A mode of etching upon metals by electrolytic action.

A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.…

The act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty.

Pertaining to electrometry; made by means of electrometer; as, an electrometrical experiment.

The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.

Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.

consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.

To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by means of electrolysis.

t or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.

Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid.

ent upon the temperature of a conductor, or a part of a circuit composed of two different metals.

A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of thi…

The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.

An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitæ, or the elixir of life.