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To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers. Macaulay.

One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their country in consequence.

State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; - - considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.

An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ. -- Ep`i*did"y*mal, a.

merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis.

lane passes through through the center of the body, and is perpendicular to its axis of revolution. -- Magnetic equator. See Aclinic.

To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution. Prior.

The act of evolving, or the state of being evolved; evolution.

Characterized by, or formed with, evolution of heat; as, an exothermic reaction; -- opposed to endothermic.

a given number or quantity. (b) The method or rule by which the operation is performed; evolution.

Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.

A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution. Wilder.

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

. Flash light, or Flashing light, a kind of light shown by lighthouses, produced by the revolution of reflectors, so as to show a flash of light every few seconds, alternating with periods of dimness. Knight. -- Flash in the pan, the flashing of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket without discharging the piec…

inning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.

esis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastræa theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula.

Of, pertaining to, or illustrating, the revolutions of the earth; as, a geocyclic machine.

m. -- Germ theory (Biol.), the theory that living organisms can be produced only by the evolution or development of living germs or seeds. See Biogenesis, and Abiogenesis. As applied to the origin of disease, the theory claims that the zymotic diseases are due to the rapid development and multiplication of various bac…

The Marxian socialism and programme of reform through revolution as advocated by the French political leader Jules Basile Guesde (pron. ged) (1845- ). -- Guesd"ist (#), n. & a.