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In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin. [Obs.] Heylin.

definite fraction of its value for a given rise or fall of temperature; -- sometimes less correctly styled Gay Lussac's law, or Dalton's law. -- Law of nations. See International law, under International. -- Law of nature. (a) A broad generalization expressive of the constant action, or effect, of natural conditions;…

by following their line of flight. -- To line up (Mach.), to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running. See 3d Line, 19.

need hardly be observed that the explanation of livery which Spenser offers is perfectly correct, but . . . it is no longer applied to the ration or stated portion of food delivered at stated periods. Trench.

ience of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; correct reasoning.

r computing the moon's true place at any time past or future. (b) (Navigation) Tables for correcting an observed lunar distance on account of refraction and parallax. -- Lunar year, the period of twelve lunar months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, and 34.38 seconds.

, after, behind, over, about, reversely; as, metachronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely.

colytes, etc. -- Minor scale (Mus.) The form of the minor scale is various. The strictly correct form has the third and sixth minor, with a semitone between the seventh and eighth, which involves an augmented second interval, or three semitones, between the sixth and seventh, as, 6/F, 7/G#, 8/A. But, for melodic purpo…

Wrong; amiss. [Obs.] "To correcten that [which] is mis." Chaucer.

To affirm incorrectly.

To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend. Those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived. Hooker.

An incorrect or spurious edition. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To hear incorrectly.

To infer incorrectly.

Untrue or incorrect information. Bacon.

One who gives or incorrect information.

An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil. Wharton.

To measure or estimate incorrectly.

To pronounce incorrectly.

To punctuate wrongly or incorrectly.