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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…

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.

itical 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.]

rganic 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.

the 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 p…

a cow after calving. B. Jonson. The thick and curdy milk . . . commonly called biestings. Newton. (1574).

ute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.

breccia in appearance. The brecciated appearance of many specimens [of meteorites]. H. A. Newton.

distillation, the water . . . brings over with it some part of the oil of vitriol. Sir I. Newton.

r or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat. "Calcining without fusion" Newton.

The side of a thing. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton.

than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. Sir I. Newton.

commixed impressions of all the colors do stir up and beget a sensation of white. Sir I. Newton. To commix With winds that sailors rail at. Shak.