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sed to rest. Speaking or mute, all comeliness and grace attends thee, and each word, each motion, forms. Milton.

A moving picture.

One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.

A mover. [Obs.]

Without motion; being at rest.

Removal; ousting; especially, the removal of a corporate officer from his office.

Disturbed or violent motion; agitation. [What] commotion in the winds! Shak.

The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.

fic exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. How different the emotions between departure and return! W. Irving. Some vague emotion of delight. Tennyson.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.

The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.

To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.

Affected with emotion. [R.] "The emotioned soul." Sir W. Scott.

Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.

An ideo-motor movement.

A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines.

The act of moving from place to place. " Animal locomotion." Milton.

The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.

Previous motion or excitement to action.

the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment. Milton. Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. Ps. lxxv. 6.