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The newt.

several species of small aquatic salamanders. The common British species are the crested newt (Triton cristatus) and the smooth newt (Lophinus punctatus). In America, Diemictylus viridescens is one of the most abundant species.

Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or his discoveries. Newtonian philosophy, the philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton; -- applied to the doctrine of the universe as expounded in Newton's "Principia," to the modern or experimental philosophy (as opposed to the theories of Descartes and others), and, most frequently, to the…

Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers, drinking vessels, tankards, pots.

One whose occupation is to make utensils of pewter; a pewtersmith. Shak.

Belonging to, or resembling, pewter; as, a pewtery taste.

Ruth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Sloth; idleness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To beat; to break, as flax or hemp. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Truth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.

To do; in doing; as, there is nothing. "What is here ado" J. Newton.

To tend to by affinity or disposition. The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. Newton.

tical economy, and social science. -- Universal arithmetic, the name given by Sir Isaac Newton to algebra.

A water newt. [Scot. & North of Eng.]

An ask; a water newt. [Local Eng.]

ganic tissue. Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment. Sir I. Newton. His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons. Merivale.

The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction. Newton.

he power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton.

from the unsystematic but vigorous skepticism 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 pu…