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y limited, which treats of the laws of motion and action of nonelastic fluids, whether as investigated mathematically, or by observation and experiment; the principles of dynamics, as applied to water and other fluids.

theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis.

Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession. [R.] Cotgrave.

To invest with imperial authority, character, or style; to bring to the form of an empire. Fuller.

To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.

The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.

or within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among. It is used: --

Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton.

The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies. At his regal inauguration, his old father resigned the kingdom to him. Sir T. Browne.

To cover or invest with flesh. [R.] Wiseman.

Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body. Here shalt thou sit incarnate. Milton. He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind. Jortin.

Search; inquiry; investigation. [Obs.]

Searching; exploring; investigating. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

A searcher; an explorer; an investigator. [Obs.] Searched into by such skillful indagators of nature. Boyle.

To invest with the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [R.] Words indenizened, and commonly used as English. B. Jonson.

To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

The mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality. The peculiarities which individualize and distinguish the humor of Addison. N. Drake.

To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities. Indu'd with robes of various hue she flies. Dryden. Indued with intellectual sense and souls. Shak.

The act of induing, or state of being indued; investment; endowment. W. Montagu.

News, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction. Larger opportunities of information. Rogers. He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle. Swift.