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The cycle for the air engine proposed by Joule. In it air is taken by a pump from a cold chamber and compressed adiabatically until its pressure is eqal to that of the air in a hot chamber, into which it is then delivered, thereby displacing an equal amount of hot air into the engine cylinder. Here it expands adiabatic…

The law that the rate at which heat is produced in any part of an electric circuit is measured by the product of the square of the current into the resistance of that part of the circuit. If the current

An integrating wattmeter for measuring the energy in joules expended in an electric circuit or developed by a machine.

emulcent, acidulous, or mucilaginous mixture, used as a vehicle. Milton. Honey in woods, juleps in brooks. H. Vaughan.

A small landau.

Lawyerlike; legal. [R.] "Leguleian barbarism." De Quincey. -- n.

The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of leaf of grass.

A limulus.

A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe. Lobule of the ear. (Anat.) Same as Lobe of the ear.

A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule.

A little hollow; a loculus.

One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.

A spot or fleck on the sun brighter than the surrounding surface.

Clear; evident; luminous. " Most luculent testimonies." Hooker.

In a luculent manner; clearly.

Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune.

A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects.

The state or quality of being lutulent.

Muddy; turbid; thick. [Obs.]

A spot. [Obs.]