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The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.

y the rotation of a line or surface about a fixed axis, depending upon the principle that every figure formed by the revolution of a line or surface about such an axis has for measure the product of the line or surface by the length of the path of its center of gravity; -- sometimes called theorem of Pappus, also, inco…

Fixed or stated; regular; determinate. The people go out and gather a certain rate every day. Ex. xvi. 4.

dominion. Milton. Know well each Ancient's proper character; His fable, subject, scope in every page; Religion, Country, genius of his Age. Pope. A man of . . . thoroughly subservient character. Motley.

A horse for battle or parade. Macaulay. And furious every charger neighed. Campbell.

the "Great Charter," either granted or secured very important liberties and privileges to every order of men in the kingdom. Hume.

Of comparatively small value; common; mean. You grow cheap in every subject's eye. Dryden. Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]

when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds. And like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. Shak.

To chew the cud, to chew the food ocer again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Deut. xxiv. 6.

To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage. Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits. Rogers.

To be in harmony; to agree; to sut; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with. Everything chimed in with such a humor. W. irving.

Making choices; fickle. [Obs.] His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser.

d body of Christian believers worshiping together. "When they had ordained them elders in every church." Acts xiv. 23.

One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide. Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero. Trench.

A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.

cular points at infinity (Geom.), two imaginary points at infinite distance through which every circle in the plane is, in the theory of curves, imagined to pass. -- Circular polarization. (Min.) See under Polarization. -- Circular or Globular sailing (Naut.), the method of sailing by the arc of a great circle. -- C…

ood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.

Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering ou every side.

Lying round; borderong on every side. T. Fuller.

Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. [Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.