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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...arch, a pin, a bar, a screw, a cross, triangle, hexagon, &c., or other easy figure, may be shewn in this manner; and with the necessary distinctions, will express other things of their form, according to the practice of language, as cannon ball, finger ring; as verb to circle, arch, or bow, air arch, rainbow, free acute thing, or thorn tree, bar or pole, slick, &c., stripe or bar, in cloth, &c. The context will generally explain sufficiently the kind of ball, circle, bar, Sec. meant; and as to geometrical forms, they must be expressed by the scientific definitions, or the Latin terms. PRIMARY ARBITRARY SIGNS. DEFINITIONS--EXAMPLES OF APPLICATION. BODY, STRAIQHTNESS, or UPRIGHTNESS. Body and sign of truth. MATERIAL STRAIQHTNESS. Body figurative, i.e. matter, truth. CROOKEDNESS. Body, and sign of falsehood. JUSTICE. Heart, truth. JUSTNESS. Truth distinguished by sign of spirit. JUST MAN. Spiritual truth, as an adjective, because a man may be straight as well as just. PROPER. For the same just, viz., for the one just. NECESSARY. For being (i. e. existence) just, i. e. essential; or, for breath (i. e. life) just, i. e. vital. HOLINESS. Good with the sign of spirit. SIMILITUDE. Near, equal (see preposition.) THE SAM E. One with the sign of truth or reality. FIRST. Head one. SECOND. Out of head, 2, as adjective, (3rd, and in the same way.) SINGLE. One, as an adjective. ANNUL, ANNIHILATE, DESTROY. Nothing, as verb; or, DESTROY, or BADLY ANNUL. Evil, as adverb, with verb annul. QUANTITY. Greatness, division, i. e. degree. JUST QUANTITY, ENOUGH, &c. Truth adjectively, with quantity. MEASURE. Ruled Quantity (see hand as rule.) LAWFUL MEASURE, or GOVERNMENT DITTO. Place, rule, quantity. N. B. The technical name of the-measure required, must be added, a...
