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To vanish. Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. Burns.

A vanishing; disappearance. [R.] T. Jefferson.

A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched.

A yellow, crystalline, organic dyestuff, C16H14N2, of artifical production. It is a strong base, and is a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline.

A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.

To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan. [Slang] Dickens.

Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents. Galvanic battery (Elec.), an apparatus for generating electrical currents by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; -- now usually called voltaic battery. See Battery. -- Galvanic circuit or circle. (E…

Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.

One versed in galvanism.

The act of process of galvanizing.

To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.

One who, or that which, galvanize.

Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.

Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current.

Same as Glyphography.

A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate.

Of or pertaining to galvanography.

The art or process of depositing metals by electricity; electrotypy.

One who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism.

A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena.