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3d pers. sing. pres. of Ta, to take.

An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

ss, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt.

Of or pertaining to metathesis.

Of or pertaining to the metathorax.

The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of sulphur obtained by leading hydrogen sulphide into a solution of sulphur dioxide; -- so called because it contains five atoms of sulphur.

A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear.

A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train. Knight.

An extinct genus of large Eocene ungulates allied to Dinoceras. This name is sometimes used for nearly all the known species of the group. See Dinoceras.

A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep. [Prov. Eng.]

To grouped or classed. The genus or famiky under which it classes. Tatham.

A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.

in the investigation of all truth, have in the first place to encounter with particulars. Tatham.

uated. Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate and subordinate stages. Tatham.

he long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.

inverse. Thus the course of human study is the inverse of the course of things in nature. Tatham.

e by the hand; as, manual labor; the king's sign manual. "Manual and ocular examination." Tatham. Manual alphabet. See Dactylology. -- Manual exercise (Mil.) the exercise by which soldiers are taught the use of their muskets and other arms. -- Seal manual, the impression of a seal worn on the hand as a ring. -- Sign…

chronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely.

Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis. [R.]