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The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.

t distance to the crown is due. Dryden. 'T is by respect and distance that authority is upheld. Atterbury.

A saloon or hall where a council is held, in Oriental countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room.

ical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.

One who divides or makes division. [Obs.] Sheldon.

Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.

Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetæ. "Docetic Gnosticism." Plumptre.

That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances. "The doctrine of gravitation." I. Watts. A…

That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine. The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity. Whewell.

A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables. R. H. Dana.

Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right. Burrill.

A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. Raymond.

The tenure by which a drench held land. [Obs.] Burrill.

-- Driving note (Mus.), a syncopated note; a tone begun on a weak part of a measure and held through the next accented part, thus anticipating the accent and driving it through. -- Driving spring, a spring fixed upon the box of the driving axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and deaden shocks. [Eng.] W…

An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.

prevailing winds. [Written also dun.] Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley.

s) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.

on.) See Anomaly. -- Eccentric chuck (Mach.), a lathe chuck so constructed that the work held by it may be altered as to its center of motion, so as to produce combinations of eccentric combinations of eccentric circles. -- Eccentric gear. (Mach.) (a) The whole apparatus, strap, and other parts, by which the motion o…

The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.