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A stanza. [Obs.] Chapman.

The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak.

Boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things. The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened. W. Irving.

particular position or condition; situated. The proposition is, that two bodies so circumstanced will balance each other. Whewell.

ng; cessation. [R.] Boyle. If fatigue of body or brain were in every case followed by desistance . . . then would the system be but seldom out of working order. H. Spencer.

cle attracts every other with a force . . . inversely proportioned to the square of the distance. Sir I. Newton.

Equal distance.

Inconstancy. Chaucer.

t or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. Undertook at her instance to restore them. Sir W. Scott.

Nonresistance; passive submission.

The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition.

ct of resisting; opposition, passive or active. When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces. 1. Macc. xi. 38.

A rheostat consisting of an open frame on which are stretched spirals of wire. Being freely exposed to the air, they radiate heat rapidly.

The substance of the medullary sheath.

real or existing essence. These cooks, how they stamp, and strain, and grind, And turn substance into accident! Chaucer. Heroic virtue did his actions guide, And he the substance, not the appearance, chose. Dryden.

Having no substance; unsubstantial. [R.] Coleridge.

Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.

A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata). Eng. Cyc.