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Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking sheep. [Eng.] Woodsward.

p. p. of Smite.

To infect. [Prov. Eng.]

Infectious; catching. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] H. Kingsley.

A telephone transmitter in which a carbon contact is used.

A fossil resin, so called from its strong, peculiar, pleasant odor.

Transmission. Swift.

Transmission.

One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver.

Capable of being transmitted; transmissible.

Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.

Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder- smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. Shelley.

The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe. Grove. Chose in action. (Law) See Chose. -- Quantity of action (Physics), the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through, and its velocity.…

Not transmitting the actinic rays.

(Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. Jer. Taylor.

ome crystals which exhibit a star- shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica.

Not transmitting heat; -- opposed to diathermanous.

chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.

In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.