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along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.

A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.

prove. Yet can they never Toss into air the freedom of my birth, Or disavow my blood Plantagenet's. Ford.

An agent (as a medicinal application) which serves to disperse morbid matter. "Foment with discutiens." Wiseman.

That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.

Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution. The dissolution of the compound. South.

By the agency or influence of God. Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay.

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent. The doers of the law shall be justified. Rom. ii. 13.

e portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.

To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn. Byron. The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers. Thackeray.

; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability. Blair.…

To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter. The eternal art educing good from ill. Pope. They want to educe and cultivate what is best and noblest in themselves. M. Arnold.

is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer.

In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury. The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause. Whewell.

Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer. "Of noxious efficacy." Milton.

quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency. The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us. Hooker.

An efficient cause; a prime mover. God . . . moveth mere natural agents as an efficient only. Hooker.

Pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by change of action in a living organism.

at branch of physiology which treats of electric phenomena produced through physiological agencies.

The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.