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The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc. Strenthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long- suffering. Col. i. 11. I must have patience to endure the load. Shak. Who hat…

Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell.

In a patient manner. Cowper.

The production or absorption of heat at the junction of two metals on the passage of a current. Heat generated by the passage of the current in one direction will be absorbed if the current is reversed.

A cross formed of two strips of different metals, to illustrate the Peltier effect.

Striking; having the power of striking. -- n.

One who pities. Gauden.

A curtain hanging across a doorway.

Feeling or perceiving beforehand.

Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.

One who putties; a glazier.

Furnished with qualities; endowed. [Obs.] "He was well qualitied." Chapman.

r by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three.

The relation of an object to number. Krauth-Fleming.

One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like.

The middle latitudes of the southern hemisphere. So called from the boisterous and prevailing westerly winds, which are especially strong in the South Indian Ocean up to 50º S.

A chart of a course, esp. at sea. [Obs.]

A kind of freezer for ices.

The European dab.

See Saltire.