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s distinguished from a thing in action. -- Chose local, a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. -- Chose transitory, a thing which is movable. Cowell. Blount.

An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue. [India] J. Mill.

The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery. Millon.

Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.

One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill.

th hands and feet; -- also used figuratively. The narrow street that clambered toward the mill. Tennyson.

That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell. Clapper rail (Zoöl.), an Americam species of rail (Rallus scepitans).

of iron mixed with clay or sand. -- Clay marl, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay. -- Clay mill, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill. -- Clay pit, a pit where clay is dug. -- Clay slate (Min.), argillaceous schist; argillite. -- Fatty clays, clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical compounds of wate…

A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.

he round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

A plant of Central and Southern Anerica, of the Cactus familly, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.

The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.

Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. J. S. Mill.

A downfall; an humillation. [Colloq.]

nd, whether muscular or psychical. Of conation, in other words, of desire and will. J. S. Mill.

ed to a abstract. The names of individuals are concrete, those of classes abstract. J. S. Mill. Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs. I. Watts. Concrete number, a number associated with, or applied to, a particular object, as three men,…

er. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . used synonymously. J. S. Mill.

st conjectural fears to come into me. Shak. A slight expense of conjectural analogy. Hugh Miller. Who or what such editor may be, must remain conjectural. Carlyle.

ed, or associated; union; association; league. He will unite the white rose and the red: Smille heaven upon his fair conjunction. Shak. Man can effect no great matter by his personal strength but as he acts in society and conjunction with others. South.