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A conjunction or concentration of rays in one point. Bacom

The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

The function and rank or office of a counselor. Bacon.

A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.…

The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent. The mouse, Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, Or from the crevice peered about. Tennyson.

e; to imparir. [R.] This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified. Milton.

a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. "The queen, my lord, is dead." Shak. The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger. Arbuthnot. Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living. Shak.

Tending deceive; delusive. [R.] As if those organs had deceptious functions. Shak.

go aloft. -- Deck molding (Arch.), the molded finish of the edge of a deck, making the junction with the lower slope of the roof. -- Deck roof (Arch.), a nearly flat roof which is not surmounted by parapet walls. -- Deck transom (Shipbuilding), the transom into which the deck is framed. -- To clear the decks (Naut…

Feeling no compunction; apathetic. [R.] Hallywell.

To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism. A sudden fall deranges some of our internal parts. Blair.

The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.

A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process.

The science which treats of the skin, its structure, functions, and diseases.

Terminal. Furthermore, b, as a desinential element, has a dynamic function. Fitzed. Hall.

; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year. Nor poets enough to understand That life develops from within. Mrs. Brownin…

A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman.