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An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow. Brande & C.

An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley.

Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.

One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

The act of flying; flight; evaporation. [Obs.]

In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.

design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.

Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce. Bacon. Ure.

An alderman of a corporation. [Eng.] Ashmole.

A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.

Having two perforations.

Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton.

some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body. A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter. Prescott.

To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.

An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.

A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.

To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).

A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe.

saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters.

A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government. There was likewise a law to restrain the by-laws, or ordinances of corporations. Bacon. The law or institution; to which are added two by-laws, as a comment upon the general law. Addison.