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That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. "The colligation of facts." Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is…

ding to one method, the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative. After the dichromate has been washed out, the film is soaked in glycerin and water. As this treatment causes swelling in those parts of the film which have been acted on by light, a plate results from wh…

A large size of paper for drawings. See under Paper.

ything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance. They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. Acts xxvii. 30. That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a color for his death. Shak.

Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.

tation. Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss. Compton Reade. Dead coloring. See under Dead.

See under Sergeant.

See under Colt.

See Buffalo fly, under Buffalo.

s in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids. Attached column. See under Attach, v. t. -- Clustered column. See under Cluster, v. t. -- Column rule, a thin strip of brass separating columns of type in the form, and making a line between them in printing.

comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing. Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright. Shak.

e identical with, or are multiples or multiples of, the atomic weight. See Atomic weight, under Atomic, a.

separating the longer and more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also Carding machine, under Carding.

liable to take fire and burn. All such combustibles as are cheap enough for common use go under the name of fuel. Ure.

um. (f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance. Shak. -- To come to blows. See under Blow. -- To come to grief. See under Grief. -- To come to a head. (a) To suppurate, as a boil. (b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot. -- To come to one's self, to recover one's senses. -- To come to pass, to happen; to…

Strength and relief received under affliction;

(Zoöl.), an American butterfly (Grapta comma), having a white comma-shaped marking on the under side of the wings.

Authority; power or right of control; leadership; as, the forces under his command.

A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory.

36. There was [formerly] some sense for commendams. Selden. Partnership in commendam. See under Partnership.