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To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness. Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. Johnson.

In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.

A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.

Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.

Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. "A deep and choky voice." Aytoun. The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. T. Hughes.

s [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton.

To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize. Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the shadow, and loses the substance. L'Estrange.

d, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. J. W. Chadwick.

moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of the motion. --Chron`o*pho*tog"ra*phy, n.

Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.

Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.

fore an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture machine; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other common names for the cinematograph are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinema…

. The cion overruleth the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft. Bacon.

An orbicular motion. [Obs.] bailey.

of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. This continual circulation of human things. Swift.

Proceeding in a circle; circular. [Obs.] "With motion circuline". Dr. H. More.

To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion. Ray.

To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion. Herrick.

ts of the same party, which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).