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h a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative.

on that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.

ertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star.

To render emblematic; as, to emblematicize a picture. [R.] Walpole.

in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to Ant: beginning, when used of anything having a first part. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Eccl. vii. 8.…

he imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres.

d place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.

In conformity with expectation. [R.] Walpole.

agitation. Subdue and cool the ferment of desire. Rogers. the nation is in a ferment. Walpole. in a ferment in a state of agitation, applied to human groups.

The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body. Fiddler crab. (Zoöl.) See Fiddler, n., 2.

hibition. [Obs. in the sing.] Night before last, the Duke of Richmond gave a firework. Walpole.

The European polecat; also, its fur.

The European polecat (Putorius foetidus). See Polecat.

y hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely. His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. Milton.

; as, to fling a party in litigation. His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him. Walpole.

The capacity or ability to fluctuate. [R.] H. Walpole.

The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.

footing; -- used only in the singular. [R.] As to his being on the foot of a servant. Walpole.

A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.

Formidableness. Walpole.