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Ruddy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pertaining to the force of air in motion.

The science which treats of the air and other gaseous bodies under the action of force, and of their mechanical effects.

Acting by the force of air and water; as, an aërohydrodynamic wheel.

An affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease.

Pertaining to arthrodynia, or pain in the joints; rheumatic.

A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.

enance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it. [Written also corrody.]

ived from, the dynamical action of water of a liquid; of or pertaining to water power. Hydrodynamic friction, friction produced by the viscosity of a liquid in motion.

That branch of the science of mechanics which relates to fluids, or, as usually limited, which treats of the laws of motion and action of nonelastic fluids, whether as investigated mathematically, or by observation and experiment; the principles of dynamics, as applied to water and other fluids.

An instrument to measure the velocity of a liquid current by the force of its impact.

ne subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty. The lively parody which he wrote . . . on Dryden's "Hind and Panther" was received with great applause. Macaulay.

A painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy, usually due to rheumatism.

The science of equilibrium and motion of air or an aëriform fluid, including aërodynamics and aërostatics.

The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.

Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire. Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people. Addison.

arities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody. [Formerly written caricatura.] The truest likeness of the prince of French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature. I. Taylor. A grotesque caricature of virtue. Macaulay.

Having the character of parody. Very paraphrastic, and sometimes parodical. T. Warton.

One who writes a parody; one who parodies. Coleridge.

An electrodynamic spiral having the conjuctive wire turned back along its axis, so as to neutralize that component of the effect of the current which is due to the length of the spiral, and reduce the whole effect to that of a series of equal and parallel circular currents. When traversed by a current the solenoid exhi…