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rom the instituted shore. Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley.

To center again; to restore to the center. Coleridge.

ecumbent. Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).

ecorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court.

A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholæmus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.

.), the operation of changing numbers of a lower into others of a higher denomination, as cents to dollars. -- Reduction descending (Arith.), the operation of changing numbers of a higher into others of a lower denomination, as dollars to cents.

A central or retired work within any other work.

ard or spar. Totten. To reef the paddles, to move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.

y in consequence of an impulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls into action certain muscles, organs, or cells. -- Reflex nerve (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See Exito- motory.

Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches.

One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.

To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops aras, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.

e hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent. [Spelt also ree.]

se designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.

A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

In a variable expansion central-valve engine, a small auxiliary engine for automatically adjusting the steam distribution to the load on the main engine. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

ement in Europe, marked by the revival of classical learning and art in Italy in the 15th century, and the similar revival following in other countries.

that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. 1 Kings x. 6. Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and . . . of good report among all the nation of the Jews. Acts x. 22.

The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls. [Also spelt reredosse.] Fairholt.