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An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion.

was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion. Sir W. Scott.

The operation of striking out common factora, in both the dividend and divisor.

ance offered to the rifling. Also, a groove around the base of a cartridge, where the extractor takes hold. --Can"ne*lured (#), a.

To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part. Our parts in the other world will be new cast. Addison. To cast anchor (Naut.) Se under Anchor. -- To cast a horoscope, to calculate it. -- To cast a horse, sheep, or other animal, to throw with the feet upwards,…

ice of cutting the instrument of contract in two, and giving one part to each of the contractors] (Com.), a mercantile lease of a vessel; a specific contract by which the owners of a vessel let the entire vessel, or some principal part of the vessel, to another person, to be used by the latter in transportation for his…

impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.

A standing still or idle (of mills, factories, etc.).

church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors. Bulwer.

Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.

A number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as to temperature, length, volume, etc.; as, the coefficient of expansion; the coefficient of friction. Arbitrary coefficient (Math.), a literal coefficient placed arbitrarily in an algebrai…

Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. "Cold news for me." "Cold comfort." Shak.

An actor or player in comedy. "The famous comedian, Roscius." Middleton.

at the University of Oxford, Eng., an annual observance or ceremony in honor of the benefactors of the University, at which time honorary degrees are conferred.

The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere. Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array. -- Commission of bankrupty, a commission apointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative…

An agent or factor; a commission merchant.

The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play. To keep company with. See under Keep, v. t.

To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure. Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done. Shak. Wilt thou condemn him that is most just Job xxxiv. 17.

retained till the end of his engagement, and paid over only if his conduct has been satisfactory.

hither, And let him confess a truth. Shak. As I confess it needs must be. Tennyson. As an actor confessed without rival to shine. Goldsmith.