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Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell.

nal neglect; omission of notice; want of attention; slight. The disregard of experience. Whewell.

To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive. [Obs.] My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences. W. Caxton. I shall . . . your cloister do make. Piers Plowman. A fatal plague which many did to die. Spenser. We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churche…

eld as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine. The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity. Whewell.

cane (Bot.), a west Indian plant of the Arum family (Dieffenbachia seguina), which, when chewed, causes the tongue to swell, and destroys temporarily the power of speech. -- Dumb crambo. See under crambo. -- Dumb show. (a) Formerly, a part of a dramatic representation, shown in pantomime. "Inexplicable dumb shows and…

A unit of measure for dynamical effect or work; a foot pound. See Foot pound. Whewell.

as, the effect of luxury. The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause. Whewell.

Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; -- applied to the equinoctial line. Whewell.

The libration of the moon. Whewell.

the human soul. Sir. M. Hale. The principles which art involves, science alone evolves. Whewell. Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above. J. C. Shairp.

strange arts." Stirling. This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. Whewell.

Beyond or outside of the tropics. Whewell.

treet in London. Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets. Matthewes.

To thrust with a sword or spear; to lunge. [Obs.] He stroke, he soused, he foynd, he hewed, he lashed. Spenser. They lash, they foin, they pass, they strive to bore Their corselets, and the thinnest parts explore. Dryden.

axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. -- Fundamental chord (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. -- Fundamental colors, red, gr…

fect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The futility of this mode of philosophizing. Whewell.

interlocked rings, gimmal mail. In their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit Lies foul with chewed grass. Shak. Gimmal joint. See Gimbal joint, under Gimbal.

A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. [Obs.] He cheweth grain and licorice, To smellen sweet. Chaucer. Against the grain, against or across the direction of the fibers; hence, against one's wishes or tastes; unwillingly; unpleasantly; reluctantly; with difficulty. Swift.Saintsbury.-- A grain of allowance, a slight in…

pressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell.

Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow; prismatic; as, the iridal colors. Whewell.