A Technological Dictionary: Explaining the Terms of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Professions, and TradesW. Tegg, 1846 - 755 sider |
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... object which led to the compilation , and which has uniformly been kept in view in its preparation , was to furnish a Dictionary of Technological Terms , so moderate in size and price as to be generally accessible , and yet sufficiently ...
... object which led to the compilation , and which has uniformly been kept in view in its preparation , was to furnish a Dictionary of Technological Terms , so moderate in size and price as to be generally accessible , and yet sufficiently ...
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... object , or from the optic and eccentric equations : the other ideas which naturally accompany apparent inequality of a planet's motion it : as the solidity of marble , considered in its orbit , arising from its being at dif- apart from ...
... object , or from the optic and eccentric equations : the other ideas which naturally accompany apparent inequality of a planet's motion it : as the solidity of marble , considered in its orbit , arising from its being at dif- apart from ...
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... object of the action . They are also called transitive , as implying the passing of the action expressed by the verb to the object . ACTOR , Lat . from ago . An active agent . In theatricals , a man who acts in a play : Among civilians ...
... object of the action . They are also called transitive , as implying the passing of the action expressed by the verb to the object . ACTOR , Lat . from ago . An active agent . In theatricals , a man who acts in a play : Among civilians ...
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... object in advance of the ship opposed to astern . The word is composed of a , for at , and head . AHICCYATLI , a poisonous serpent of Mexico , somewhat resembling the rattle- snake , but destitute of rattles : its poison is as fatal as ...
... object in advance of the ship opposed to astern . The word is composed of a , for at , and head . AHICCYATLI , a poisonous serpent of Mexico , somewhat resembling the rattle- snake , but destitute of rattles : its poison is as fatal as ...
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... object is viewed , it is to be trans- ferred to the imitation on the canvas , and the effects which it produces , in re- gulating the sizes and colours of objects , constitute a large part of the artist's knowledge . AIRA , the hair ...
... object is viewed , it is to be trans- ferred to the imitation on the canvas , and the effects which it produces , in re- gulating the sizes and colours of objects , constitute a large part of the artist's knowledge . AIRA , the hair ...
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Side 250 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Side 309 - Are they Hebrews ? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham ? So am I.
Side 136 - The person who writes or draws the bill is called the drawer. The person to whom it is addressed is called the drawee.
Side 156 - Bow, is the rounding part of a ship's side forward, beginning where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close at the stem or prow. On the bow, an arch of the horizon, not exceeding 45 degrees.
Side 153 - Alfred : who, to prevent the rapines and disorders which formerly prevailed in the realm, instituted tithings ; so called from the Saxon, because ten freeholders with their families composed one. These all dwelt together, and were sureties or free pledges to the king for the good behaviour of each other ; and if any offence was committed in their district, they were bound to have the offender forthcoming b.
Side 227 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another.
Side 390 - The power or faculty of the mind, by which it conceives and forms ideas of things communicated to it by the organs of sense.
Side 36 - affray" is denned to be "the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror of the people.
Side 4 - For I perceived that, if light was propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object would not be the same when the eye is at rest, as when it is moving in any other direction than that of the line passing through the eye and...
Side 243 - ... when there are four proportionals, and it is inferred, that the excess of the first above the second, is to the second, as the excess of the third above the fourth, is to the fourth.