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An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property.

Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.

A namber of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.

The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.

Calciferous. Specifically: (Zoöl.) of or pertaining to hte portion of the which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles. Huxley.

An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam.

The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion.

e and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.

cclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in…

ce or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.

e principle of the cantalever is applied. It is usually a trussed bridge, composed of two portions reaching out from opposite banks, and supported near the middle of their own length on piers which they overhang, thus forming cantalevers which meet over the space to be spanned or sustain a third portion, to complete th…

A small portion; a division; a compartment. That little canton of land called the "English pale" Davies. There is another piece of Holbein's, . . . in which, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Savior's passion are represented. Bp. Burnet.

That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. M'Culloch.

One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc.

A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold.

with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6.

rms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite. Carbon compounds, Compounds of carbon (Chem.), those compounds consisting largely of carbon, commonl…

transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portions being dissolved away). If the process stops here it is called single transfer; if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print, the method is called double transfer.

A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel.

To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion. "To carve a capon." Shak.