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me of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings.

on a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1.

Beginning. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In a grinning manner.

from Spin. Spinning gland (Zoöl.), one of the glands which form the material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other larvæ. -- Spinning house, formerly a common name for a house of correction in England, the women confined therein being employed in spinning. -- Spinning jenny (Mach.), an engine or machine for sp…

The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like.

ference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about. Polysynthetic twinning, repeated twinning of crystal lamellæ, as that of the triclinic feldspars. -- Repeated twinning, twinning…

The act of one who underpins; the act of supporting by stones, masonry, or the like.

Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as, a winning address. "Each mild and winning note." Keble.

In a winning manner.

The quality or state of being winning. "Winningness in style." J. Morley.

Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.

mic principles, and reckoned from the absolute zero. -- Absolute zero (Physics), the be ginning, or zero point, in the scale of absolute temperature. It is equivalent to -273º centigrade or -459.4º Fahrenheit.

A native of Acadie. Acadian epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl (Zoöl.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. De Quincey.

used to designate an act declaring pardon or amnesty to numerous offenders, as at the beginning of a new reign. -- Act of indemnity, a statute passed for the protection of those who have committed some illegal act subjecting them to penalties. Abbott. -- Act in pais, a thing done out of court (anciently, in the coun…

That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth

A triple prayer in the sacrifice of the Mass, beginning with the words "Agnus Dei."

In the act of grinning. "His visage all agrin." Tennyson.