Webster's Practical Dictionary: A Practical Dictionary of the English Language Giving the Correct Spelling, Pronunciation and Definitions of Words Based on the Unabridged Dictionary of Noah Webster ...

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Reilly & Britton Company, 1910 - 520 pages
 

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Page 193 - The dictionary said that inertia was a property of matter, by which matter tends, when at rest, to remain so, and, when in motion, to move on in a straight line.
Page 211 - JURY.— A body of men, selected according to law, and sworn to inquire into and try any matter of fact, and to declare the truth of it on the evidence presented. JURY OF INQUEST.
Page 14 - ANGLE OF INCIDENCE, in optics, the angle which a ray of light makes with a perpendicular to that point of the surface of any medium on which it falls.
Page 340 - Webster as the recognition of God as an object of worship, love and obedience ; right feeling toward God, as rightly apprehended.
Page 244 - It has been denned as the art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient.
Page 179 - The art of curing founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses.
Page 221 - The lateral movement of a ship to leeward of her course ; or the angle which the line of her way makes with a line in the direction of her keel.
Page 64 - In arithmetic, a character which standing by itself expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number increases its value tenfold.
Page 325 - Quarantine, properly, the space of forty days ; appropriately, the term of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port and suspected of being infected with a malignant, contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the city or place.
Page 268 - Offensive to chastity and delicacy; expressing, or presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure, as obscene language, obscene pictures.

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