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n vibrating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called because devised by Sir Charles Wheatstone.

A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.

tellect." Lingard. Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form. I. Taylor.

morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.

ake up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass. Nichol. p. 8

Anything which absorbs. The ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat. Darwin.

An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.

Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat. Chaucer.

Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating. [Obs.] "An abusive treaty." Bacon.

suit. Blackstone. With one accord, with unanimity. They rushed with one accord into the theater. Acts xix. 29.

hone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.

Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions.

Acridity; pungency joined with heat. [Obs.]

An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.

Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic.

t of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action. One wise in council, one in action brave. Pope.

A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak.

Not giving out or receiving heat. -- Ad`i*a*bat`ic*al*ly, adv. Adiabatic line or curve, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. Rankine.

Not pervious to heat.