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The act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it. Ure.

A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave. [Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. Froude.

Asphodel. [Obs.]

That branch of agriculture dealing with the methods of conversion of agricultural products into manufactured articles; agricultural technology.

An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain.

In a manner conformable to allopathy; by allopathic methods.

A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.

The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method.

or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style."A stiff annalistic method." Sir G. C. Lewis.

y which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode.

Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.

en. The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just. Thodey.

Of or pertaining to the city of Antioch, in Syria. Antiochian epoch (Chron.), a method of computing time, from the proclamation of liberty granted to the city of Antioch, about the time of the battle of Pharsalia, B.C. 48.

an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style. The method of the book is aphoristic. De Quincey.

A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."

Resort to physical means; recourse. Every milder method is to be tried, before a nation makes an appeal to arms. Kent.

esembling a drawing in water colors or India ink; also, the engraving produced by this method.

Of or pertaining to arithmetic; according to the rules or method of arithmetic. Arithmetical complement of a logarithm. See Logarithm. -- Arithmetical mean. See Mean. -- Arithmetical progression. See Progression. -- Arithmetical proportion. See Proportion.

Conformably to the principles or methods of arithmetic.