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A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, the rail being insulated from the ground and the current being taken off by means of contact brushes or other devices.

Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.

A system of registration of titles to land (as distinct from registration of deeds) introduced into South Australia by the Real Property (or Torrens) Act (act 15 of 1857-58), drafted by Sir Robert Torrens (1814-84). Its essential feature is the guaranty by the government of properly registered titles. The system has be…

A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.

One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore.

Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.

One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coördinate axes.

The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

g; absorptive. Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. Beau. & Fl.

Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray.

The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.

ng his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.

The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed.

Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses.

To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system. Adjusting the orthography. Johnson.

The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.

Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.