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Exaggerated representation. By a little aggravation of the features changed it into the Saracen's head. Addison.

An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.

The representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed. New Am. Cyc.

A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.

An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.

of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.

The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.

Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.

Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.

The science of representing spoken sounds by letters.

Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12.

ess is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.

A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.

The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See Be. God said unto Moses, I am that am. Exod. iii. 14.

A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

A picture taken on a place of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.

its hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido.

To lose. [Obs.] A lodestone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue. Sir T. Browne.

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

The matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications.