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ess.] Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy soul. Baxter.

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.

s. 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.

; 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.

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.

on. 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.

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

he 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.

r 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.

nued 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.

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

; vibratory. "A vibrative motion." Sir I. Newton.

in vapor. The water . . . dissolving the oil, and volatilizing it by the action. Sir I. Newton.

Unevenness; inequality of surface. Sir I. Newton.

te merganser (Zoöl.), the smew. -- White metal. (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia, etc. (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a certain stage in copper smelting. -- White miller. (Zoöl.) (a) The common clothes moth. (b) A common American bombycid moth (Spilosoma Virginica) w…