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Emulously. [Obs.]

A heavier-than-air flying machine in which the motive power is furnished solely by the aviator.

The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

Any of several explosive mixtures, chiefly of ammonium nitrate and a nitrate derivative of naphthalene. They are stable, but require protection from moisture. As prepared it is a compressed cylinder of the explosive, filled with loose powder of the same composition, all inclosed in waterproof wrappers. It is used for m…

A castrated deer.

A paver.

Absolute terms. (Alg.), such as are known, or which do not contain the unknown quantity. Davies & Peck. -- Absolute temperature (Physics), the temperature as measured on a scale determined by certain general thermo-dynamic principles, and reckoned from the absolute zero. -- Absolute zero (Physics), the be ginning, or…

concord; as, the accord of tones. Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays. Sir J. Davies.

A power-driven, heavier-than-air flying machine.

To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. [Obs.] "To aggravate thy store." Shak.

A cloud formation similar to cirro-stratus, but heavier and at a lower level.

without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies.

hing armored and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first have more or heavier armor than the second.

Obs.] For this perfection she must yet attend, Till to her Maker she espoused be. Sir J. Davies.

To fly, or navigate the air, in an aëroplane or heavier-than- air flying machine. [Colloq.]

plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.

By way of reflection; reflexively. Sir J. Davies.

ten thousand to fifteen thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.

scales or hydrometers. There are two Baumé hydrometers. One, which is used with liquids heavier than water, sinks to 0º in pure water, and to 15º in a 15 per cent salt solution; the other, for liquids lighter than water, sinks to 0º in a 10 per cent salt solution and to 10º in pure water. In both cases the graduation,…

s in common arithmetic by ten. Thus, 1 is one; 10 is two; 11 is three; 100 is four, etc. Davies & Peck. -- Binary compound (Chem.), a compound of two elements, or of an element and a compound performing the function of an element, or of two compounds performing the function of elements. -- Binary logarithms, a system…