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, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit. Credit is nothing but the expectation of money, within some limited time. Locke.

The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.

or outer circle of the heavens, which by its motion was supposed to carry round all those within it), in order to explain certain movements of the heavently bodies. -- Crystalline lens (Anat.), the capsular lenslike body in the eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of rodlike cells derived from the exte…

A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.

lment; in secret. -- Curtain lecture, a querulous lecture given by a wife to her husband within the bed curtains, or in bed. Jerrold. A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. W. Irving. -- The curtain falls, the performance closes. -- The curtain…

A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house. Burrill.

ke by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out. Why should a man. whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster Shak. Loopholes cut through thickest shade. Milton.

ed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a singe subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. Milman.

The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.

lating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within. Weale.

A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.

to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. [Obs.] See In one's danger, below. You stand within his danger, do you not Shak. Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute. Robynson (More's Utopia).

(As we say) at a dead lift." Robynson (More's Utopia). -- Dead line (Mil.), a line drawn within or around a military prison, to cross which involves for a prisoner the penalty of being instantly shot. -- Dead load (Civil Engin.), a constant, motionless load, as the weight of a structure, in distinction from a moving…

To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.

Rural dean, one having, under the bishop, the especial care and inspection of the clergy within certain parishes or districts of the diocese.

A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.

An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.

ference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected. Farrow.

l; the mind develops year by year. Nor poets enough to understand That life develops from within. Mrs. Browning.

y manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. Letting the secret die within his own breast. Spectator. Great deeds can not die. Tennyson.