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nce for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4. Knight. Ductor roller (Printing), the roller which conveys or supplies ink to another roller. Knight.

A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. Verrill.

hich, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden.

Having the property of conducting. [R.]

The pilot whale or blackfish.

One who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts. Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether. E. Darwin.

The person who inducts another into an office or benefice.

An induction coil.

An introducer. [Obs.]

By way of introduction.

something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.

A conductor; an officer in the ancient church who gave the signal for the choir to sing, and who beat time with the hand, and regulated the music. Moore (Encyc. of Music.)

, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity.

A substance or device that has its conductivity altered in some way by electric waves, as a coherer.

Reproductive.

The strength of a current of electricity carried by a conductor or generated by a machine, measured in ampères.

distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.

A unit equal to the product of one complete convolution (of a coiled conductor) into one ampère of current; thus, a conductor having five convolutions and carrying a current of half an ampère is said to have 2½ ampère turns. The magnetizing effect of a coil is proportional to the number of its ampère turns.…

An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.