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e reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian.

The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.

omentary current of the same direction as the inducing current, produced by stopping or removing the latter; also, a similar current produced by removal of a magnet.

The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction.

Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty. Indefatigable in the discharge of business. Motley. Nothing can absolve us from the discharge of those duties. L'Estrange.

That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.

A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines. Rays come to the eye in a state of divergency.

or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.

One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.

Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden.

The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like. A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement. Sir W. Temple.

The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.

Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove. Milton.

A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4. Knight. Ductor roller (Printing), the roller which conveys or supplies ink to another roller. Knight.

A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.

In accordance with the principles of dynamics or moving forces. J. Peile.

The moving moral, as well as physical, forces of any kind, or the laws which relate to them.

A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore.

An instrument for removing wax from the ear.