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The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.

Fig.: To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction. Must I rust in Egypt never more Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece Dryden.

measuring the dip of the horizon. -- Sector of a sphere, or Spherical sector, the solid generated by the revolution of the sector of a circle about one of its radii, or, more rarely, about any straight line drawn in the plane of the sector through its vertex.

ts us to conceal. HIde, for shame, Romans, your grandsires' images, That blush at their degenerate progeny. Dryden. Have you no modesty, no maiden shame Shak.

ng, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.

To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt. One edition [of books] spawneth another. Fuller.

A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes. Oblate spheroid, Prolate spheroid. See Oblate, Prolate, and Ellipsoid.

A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n. Spire bearer. (Paleon.) Same as Spirifer.

To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.

To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

stem of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet…

Not begot; not yet generated; also, having never been generated; self-existent; eternal.

Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.

Generated by water. [R.] Kirwan.

The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.

To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam. Warped surface (Geom.), a surface generated by a straight line moving so that no two of its consecutive positions shall be in the same plane. Davies & Peck.

Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.

Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables.

The place where anything is generated or produced. The womb of earth the genial seed receives. Dryden.