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ng which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible. Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion. Locke.

A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.

Wide; extensive. Sandys.

Without space. Coleridge.

In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.

The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.

To roam. [Obs.] In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser.

Space. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An imagined space having more than three dimensions.

Intervening space. Bp. Hacket.

At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior.

tual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

nding; profound. Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle.

aw) See Chose. -- Quantity of action (Physics), the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through, and its velocity.

t, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also adapter.]

ified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.

A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.

Subsequently in time or place; behind; afterward; as, he follows after. It was about the space of three hours after. Acts. v. 7.

An air-filled gap in a magnetic or electric circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the space between the field-magnet poles and the armature; clearance.

A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air of force in into a closed space.