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The act of pressing; pressure. Sir I. Newton.

by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board. Sir I. Newton. The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron. Sandys.

First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements; as. Newton's Principia.

gree; adapted relatively; as, all parts of the building are proportionally large. Sir I. Newton.

To tremble; to vibrate; to shake. Sir I. Newton.

tem and a perennial woody root. -- Queen's metal (Metal.), an alloy somewhat resembling pewter or britannia, and consisting essentially of tin with a slight admixture of antimony, bismuth, and lead or copper. -- Queen's pigeon. (Zoöl.) Same as Queen pigeon, above. -- Queen's ware, glazed English earthenware of a cre…

ith proposing only some queries, in order to a . . . search to be made by others. Sir I. Newton.

er is nineteen times lighter, and by consequence nineteen times rarer, than gold. Sir I. Newton.

ctions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and in opposite directions. Sir I. Newton (3d Law of Motion).

To cream; to mantle. [Scot.] A huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret. Sir W. Scott.

hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another. Sir I. Newton.

ty or capability of being reflexible; as, the reflexibility of the rays of light. Sir I. Newton.

ction out of the rarer medium into the denser, is made towards the perpendicular. Sir I. Newton.

those their colors are mixed again they reproduce the same white light as before. Sir I. Newton.

To sublime again. Newton. -- Re*sub`li*ma"tion, n.

Having the nature or quality of red; as, the rubiform rays of the sun. [R.] Sir I. newton.

To saturate. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton.

odic times of the planets are in the sesquiplicate ratio of their mean distances. Sir I. Newton.

The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.

A door or cover; a shutter. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton.