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expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.

Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone. Rough ashlar, a block of freestone as brought from the quarry. When hammer-dressed it is known as common ashlar. Knight.

ent; acquiescence. Faith is the assent to any proposition, on the credit of the proposer. Locke. The assent, if not the approbation, of the prince. Prescott. Too many people read this ribaldry with assent and admiration. Macaulay. Royal assent, in England, the assent of the sovereign to a bill which has passed both hou…

he one [idea] no sooner comes into the understanding, than its associate appears with it. Locke.

h assurance. Knolles. Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance. Locke.

with the methods or principles of astronomy. -- As`tro*nom"ic*al*ly, adv. Astronomical clock. See under Clock. -- Astronomical day. See under Day. -- Astronomical fractions, Astronomical numbers. See under Sexagesimal.

The relations of time, age, or order; as, at ten o'clock; at twenty-one; at once; at first.

One who holds to the atomic philosophy or theory. Locke.

; to remain, abide, or be in store for. [Obs.] The state that attends all men after this. Locke. Three days I promised to attend my doom. Dryden.

Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.

sm of Pierre Bayle, the physical doctrines of Newton, and the epistemological theories of Locke, in the preceding century. Its chief center was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of Condillac, and the publication of the "Encyclopedia" by D'Alembe…

To justify; to furnish a ground for. Locke.

A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph. Knight.

A tearing asunder; a forcible separation. The avulsion of two polished superficies. Locke.

Aside; off; in another direction. The axis of rotation is inclined away from the sun. Lockyer.

elf in the eyes of another. She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes. Heywood.

Toward, or in, past time or events; ago. Some reigns backward. Locke.

ost enlightened nations. Prescott. The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us. Locke. Baffling wind (Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one point to another.

A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).

regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance.