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y the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. -- Fire eater. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] -- Fire engine, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. -- Fire escape, a contrivance f…

The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.

Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection. Express the syntactical relations by flexion. Sir W. Hamilton.

tral point; a point of concentration. Aplanatic focus. (Opt.) See under Aplanatic. -- Conjugate focus (Opt.), the focus for rays which have a sensible divergence, as from a near object; -- so called because the positions of the object and its image are interchangeable. -- Focus tube (Phys.), a vacuum tube for Roentge…

A sexual cell or germ cell; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and…

A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet. Mollett.

The West Indian sapindaceous tree Melicocca bijuga, which yields the honeyberry; also, the related trees Exothea paniculata and E. trifoliata.

ng to, or composed of, glycocoll and cholic acid. Glycocholic acid (Physiol. Chem.), a conjugate acid, composed of glycocoll and cholic acid, present in bile in the form of a sodium salt. The acid commonly forms a resinous mass, but can be crystallized in long, white needles.

am.), the stem or basis of a word, to which the other parts are added in declension or conjugation. It is sometimes, but not always, the same as the root. -- Ground furze (Bot.), a low slightly thorny, leguminous shrub (Ononis arvensis) of Europe and Central Asia,; -- called also rest- harrow. -- Ground game, hares,…

Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery. [Colloq.]

A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.

A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension.

A juggler. [Cant] hocus pocus Hudibras.

A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.

In the West Indies, the genip (Melicocca bijuga).

of revolution is the transverse axis, but only one when the axis of revolution is the conjugate axis of the hyperbola.

Not prejuged; unprejudiced; impartial. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

ry, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.

See Juggernaut.

A juggler; a conjuror. See Juggler. Milton.