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ndant spirit over him. South. The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth. J. S. Mill. Without some power of persuading or confuting, of defending himself against accusations, . . . no man could possibly hold an ascendent position. Grote.

29.166 + grams used in assaying, for convenience. Since it bears the same relation to the milligram that a ton of 2000 avoirdupois pounds does to the troy ounce, the weight in milligrams of precious metal obtained from an assay ton of ore gives directly the number of ounces to the ton.

er functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.

lity of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. Hugh Miller.

were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. Hugh Miller.

An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. Bell.

ments calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0º Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris. Sir W. Thomson.

Any gaseous envelope or medium. An atmosphere of cold oxygen. Miller.

A blow; a stroke. [Scot.] H. Miller.

the country were destroyed. Buckle. English workmen completely lose their balance. J. S. Mill.

d with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton.

in the atmospheric pressure. At the sea level its ordinary height is about 30 inches (760 millimeters). See Sympiesometer. Nichol. Aneroid barometer. See Aneroid barometer, under Aneroid. -- Marine barometer, a barometer with tube contracted at bottom to prevent rapid oscillations of the mercury, and suspended in gimb…

ny horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse. Blind bayard moves the mill. Philips.

ich fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.

To drink; to tipple. [Obs.] This miller hath . . . bibbed ale. Chaucer.

According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.

Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.

s blood; to emit or let drop, as sap. A decaying pine of stately size, bleeding amber. H. Miller.

A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.

sion of powder or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. "The enemy's magazines blew up." Tatler.