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Silkiness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness. [Obs.]

to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc. Erskine.

otland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands. Erskine. Lord high steward, formerly, the first officer of the crown; afterward, an officer occasionally appointed, as for a coronation, or upon the trial of a peer. [Eng.]

A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress. Rankine.

or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress. Rankine. Stress is the mutual action between portions of matter. Clerk Maxwell.

taken with sickness. Bacon. There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch kine yield blood. Shak.

certain district, or of his sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding. Erskine.

To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind. "Tie the kine to the cart." 1 Sam. vi. 7. My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. Prov. vi. 20,21.

The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. G. Eliot.

a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. (Kinematics) See under Pair, n., 7.

perature of greatest density (39.1º Fahr.) through one degree of the Fahrenheit scale. Rankine. -- Unit of illumination, the light of a sperm candle burning 120 grains per hour. Standard gas, burning at the rate of five cubic feet per hour, must have an illuminating power equal to that of fourteen such candles. -- Un…

ing against resistance, or doing work, in distinction from vis mortua, or dead force; the kinetic energy of a moving body; the capacity of a moving body to do work by reason of its being in motion. See Kinetic energy, in the Note under Energy. The term vis viva is not usually understood to include that part of the kine…

e quality or state of being viscid; also, that which is viscid; glutinous concretion; stickiness.

nish; to afford; to render; to give forth. "Vines yield nectar." Milton. [He] makes milch kine yield blood. Shak. The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. Job xxiv. 5.