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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.

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

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

Toward the side; sidewise. A second refraction made sideways. Sir I. Newton. His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . . Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings. Longfellow.

ss. Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another. Sir I. Newton.

; first cause. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself. Locke. The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense. Pope.

n; an image. [R.] "The species of the letters illuminated with indigo and violet." Sir I. Newton. Wit, . . . the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent. Dryden.

A kind of red and yellow apple, of medium size and spicy flavor. It originated at Newtown, on Long Island.

s follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy. Sir I. Newton.

Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which they do not reflect or transmit. Sir I. Newton.

ion. De Foe. Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy. Sir I. Newton. It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them. Locke.

ner. The whiteness, at length, changed successively into blue, indigo, and violet. Sir I. Newton.

The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton.

; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil. Sir I. Newton.

or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms. [R.] Sir I. Newton.

These stars not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures. Sir I. Newton. The western sky twinkled with stars. Sir W. Scott.

inued novelty. South. The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light. Sir I. Newton. For earth this variety from heaven. Milton. There is a variety in the tempers of good men. Atterbury.

wn to the veins of earth." Milton. Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins. Sir I. Newton.