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a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death.

lural faith, which is too much by one. Shak. Plural number (Gram.), the number which designates more than one. See Number, n., 8.

oved by a longitudinal canal, at the lower end of which the duct of the poison gland terminates. See Illust. under Fang. -- Poison gland (Biol.), a gland, in animals or plants, which secretes an acrid or venomous matter, that is conveyed along an organ capable of inflicting a wound. -- Poison hemlock (Bot.), a poison…

Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common radiating point; as, polar coördinates. Polar axis, that axis of an astronomical instrument, as an equatorial, which is parallel to the earths axis. -- Polar bear (Zoöl.), a large bear (Ursus, or Thalarctos, maritimus) inhabiting the arctic regions. It sometimes measure…

y of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the coördinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force f…

One who predestinates, or foreordains.

One who procrastinates, or defers the performance of anything.

tation] (Bot.), the terminal cell of a stem, or of a leaf bud, from which new growth originates.

r the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas.

l side of the midbrain of most mammals; the optic lobes. The anterior pair are called the nates, and the posterior the testes.

Made of quickset. Dates and pomegranates on the quickset hedges. Walpole.

The luminous point or object from which light emanates; also, a body radiating light brightly.

to which it serves to refer the successive points of a curve, in a system of polar coördinates. See Coördinate, n.

One who recriminates.

of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction.

To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid. When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves, and turns alkaline. Arbuthhnot.

d, or Age, of the tide, the interval between the transit of the moon at which a tide originates and the appearance of the tide itself. It is found, in general, that any particular tide is not principally due to the moon's transit immediatelly proceeding, but to a transit which has occured some time before, and which is…

; to ponder; to reflect. Cowper. Apart from the hope of the gospel, who is there that ruminates on the felicity of heaven I. Taylor.

One who ruminates or muses; a meditator.

A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).