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Situated, directed, or moving toward the east; as, the easterly side of a lake; an easterly course or voyage.

Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive.

A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden. Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. Addison.

Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony.

y of light which makes it consist in the rapid alternation of transient electric currents moving transversely to the direction of the ray.

Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former.

Fig.: Whatever produces the effect of moving and persuasive speech. Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. Pope. The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence. Macaulay.

Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.

A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. How different the emotions between departure and return! W. Irving. Some vague emotion of delight. Tennyson.…

between the place of a planet as supposed to move uniformly in a circle, and its place as moving in an ellipse. -- Equations of condition (Math.), equations formed for deducing the true values of certain quantities from others on which they depend, when different sets of the latter, as given by observation, would yiel…

by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne. One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs.

Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars. The earth and each erratic world. Blackmore.

The operation of making an incision into the esophagus, for the purpose of removing any foreign substance that obstructs the passage. [Written also oesophagotomy.]

The act of removing or beating out the brains.

cation with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.

A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. Spelman.

An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.

six-eight time in which a large number join hands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room to room. It originated in Provence.

Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.

be in high spirits. [Collog.] -- To cut a feather. (a) (Naut.) To make the water foam in moving; in allusion to the ripple which a ship throws off from her bows. (b) To make one's self conspicuous.[Colloq.] -- To show the white feather, to betray cowardice, -- a white feather in the tail of a cock being considered an…