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uct form or state (Heb. Gram.), that of a noun used before another which has the genitive relation to it.

nes and figures as will represent geometrically the quantities in the equation, and their relations to each other. -- Construction train (Railroad), a train for transporting men and materials for construction or repairs.

t consummation have, And renownShak. Consummation of marrige, completion of the connubial relation by actual cohabition.

To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object. the figures of the groups must not be all on side . . . but must contrast each other by their several position. Dryden.

Etym: [L. conversus, p.p. of convertere. See Convert.] Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.

In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally. J. S. Mill.

Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. (Logic).

Relation to the heart. [Obs.] That the ancients had any respect of cordiality or reference unto the heart, will much be doubted. Sir T. Browne.

To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.

Having or indicating a reciprocal relation. Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume.

In a correlative relation.

Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.

Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity. Burrill.

h teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts.

The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrum; equiponderance. The pendulous round eart, with balanced air, In counterpoise. Milton.

Relationship; kinship. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.

The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood. G. Eliot.

Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other. Cross action (Law), an action brought by a party who is sued against the person who has sued him, upo…

A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides.