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hat the sections are of the same shape, then lapping the ends so that the one cut surface exactly fits the other, and securing them by tying or otherwise. -- Whip grafting, tongue grafting, the same as splice grafting, except that a cleft or slit is made in the end of both scion and stock, in the direction of the grai…

The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See Grain, n., 4. Gram degree, or Gramme degree (Physics), a unit of heat, being the amount of heat…

To oppress by severe exactions; to harass. To grind the subject or defraud the prince. Dryden.

Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.

Habit of body or of action. Shak. It is impossible to gain an exact habitude without an infinite Dryden.

A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

To cause or procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire; to require. It had the church accurately described to me. Sir W. Scott. Wouldst thou have me turn traitor also Ld. Lytton.

To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.

To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit. Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right. Locke. There you hit him; . . . that argument never fails with him. Dryden. Whose saintly visage is too b…

A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.

n order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also Hexactinellinæ.

Excessively nice or exact. Evelyn.

ts faculty of imagination. I. Taylor. The business of conception is to present us with an exact transcript of what we have felt or perceived. But we have moreover a power of modifying our conceptions, by combining the parts of different ones together, so as to form new wholes of our creation. I shall employ the word im…

An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition. Shak.

The quality of being inaccurate; want of accuracy or exactness.

Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man, narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc. The expression is plainly inaccurate. Bp. Hurd.

In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.

Want of exact correspondence. [Obs.] Puller.

, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact. Addison.

Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation.