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ch refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one. Indicator diagram. (Steam Engine) See Indicator card, under indicator

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a diagram; showing by diagram. -- Di`a*gram*mat"ic*ly, adv.

the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.

A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.

onds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulæ by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence. Arbitration bond. See under Arbitration. -- Bond crediter (Law), a creditor whose debt is secured by a bond. Blackstone. -- Bond debt (Law), a debt contracted under the obligation of a bo…

peculiar mixture of calcareous and siliceous characteristics in many of the beds. See the Diagram under Grology.

s inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology.

period, and is by many geologists regarded as the beginning of the Silurian age, See the Diagram, under Geology.

, with beds of coal) which make up the strata of the Carboniferous age or period. See the Diagram under Geology.

Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology.

from the characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of cauda galli. See the Diagram under Geology.

ican Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology.

e rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology.

Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age.(See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York.

sand, etc., formed in the Cretaceous period; -- called also the chalk formation. See the Diagram under Geology. -- Cretaceous period (Geol.), the time in the latter part of the Mesozoic age during which the Cretaceous formation was deposited.

To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation. Adventurous to delineate nature'…

The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints shades; accurate and minute representation, as disting…

ecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.

ebrates, the bony portions of many large and remarkable fishes of extinct groups. See the Diagram under Geology.