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n. 1. a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye.
Syn. -- abducent, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye.
Syn. -- abducent nerve, abducens, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. 1 (physiol) drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part; -- especially of muscles adducent
Syn. -- abducting [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adduced p. pr. & vb. n. Adducing ] [ L. adducere, adductum, to lead or bring to; ad + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Adduct. ] To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To present; allege; advance; cite; quote; assign; urge; name; mention. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. addunces, p. pr. of adducere. ] (Physiol.) Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who adduces. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. caduceum, caduceus; akin to Gr. &unr_; a herald's wand, fr. &unr_; herald. ] (Myth.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Circumduct. ] (Scots Law) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Conduced p. pr. & vb. n. Conducing. ] [ L. conducere to bring together, conduce, hire; con- + ducere to lead. See Duke and cf. Conduct, n., Cond. ] To lead or tend, esp. with reference to a favorable or desirable result; to contribute; -- usually followed by to or toward. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was sensible how much such a union would conduce to the happiness of both. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The reasons you allege do more conduce
To the hot passion of distemper'd blood. Shak.

Syn. -- To contribute; aid; assist; tend; subserve. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To conduct; to lead; to guide. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He was sent to conduce hither the princess. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conducens, p. pr. ] Conducive; tending. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conducent to the good success of this business. Abp. Laud. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deduced p. pr. & vb. n. Deducing. ] [ L. deducere; de- + ducere to lead, draw. See Duke, and cf. Deduct. ] 1. To lead forth. [ A Latinism ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He should hither deduce a colony. Selden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of. [ 1913 Webster ]

O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes
From the dire nation in its early times? Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inference; deduction; thing deduced. [ R. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Diduction; separation into distinct parts. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., bring with thee. ] A judicial process commanding a person to appear in court and bring with him some piece of evidence or other thing to be produced to the court. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Educed p. pr. & vb. n. Educing ] [ L. educere; e out + ducere to lead. See Duke. ] To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The eternal art educing good from ill. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

They want to educe and cultivate what is best and noblest in themselves. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Induced p. pr. & vb. n. Inducing ] [ L. inducere, inductum; pref. in- in + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Induct. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To lead in; to introduce. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The poet may be seen inducing his personages in the first Iliad. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To draw on; to overspread. [ A Latinism ] Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to persuade; to move by persuasion or influence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is not obliged by your offer to do it, . . . though he may be induced, persuaded, prevailed upon, tempted. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let not the covetous desire of growing rich induce you to ruin your reputation. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure; anaphylactic shock induced by exposure to a allergen. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Sour things induces a contraction in the nerves. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Physics) To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Logic) To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.

7. (Genetics, Biochemistry) To cause the expression of (a gene or gene product) by affecting a transcription control element on the genome, either by inhibiting a negative control or by activating a positive control; to derepress; as, lactose induces the production of beta-galactosidase in Eschericia coli.. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- To move; instigate; urge; impel; incite; press; influence; actuate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. brought about or caused; not spontaneous; as, a case of steroid-induced weakness. Contrasted to spontaneous. [ Narrower terms: elicited, evoked ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (Elec.) A current due to variation in the magnetic field surrounding its conductor. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ From Induce. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of inducing, or the state of being induced. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which induces; a motive or consideration that leads one to action or induces one to act; as, reward is an inducement to toil. “Mark the inducement.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Motive; reason; influence. See Motive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, induces or incites. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: (Genetics) A substance which, when it contacts a living cell, causes the activation of a gene; as, non-metabolizable inducers are useful for studying the kinetics of genetic control systems. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. entre-deux, literally, between two. ] (Carp.) An intertie. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Introduced p. pr. & vb. n. Introducing ] [ L. introducere, introductum; intro within + ducere to lead. See Intro-, and Duke. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put (something into a place); to insert; as, to introduce the finger, or a probe. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To lead to and make known by formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause to be acquainted; as, to introduce strangers; to introduce one person to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bring into notice, practice, cultivation, or use; as, to introduce a new fashion, method, or plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To produce; to cause to exist; to induce. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Whosoever introduces habits in children, deserves the care and attention of their governors. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To open to notice; to begin; to present; as, he introduced the subject with a long preface.

Syn. -- To bring in; usher in; insert; begin; preface. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Introduction. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, introduces. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who leads by the hand; a manuductor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To produce on a large scale. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Produced in large quantity, often by automated or assembly-line techniques. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ L. obducere, obductum; ob (see Ob-) + ducere to lead. ] To draw over, as a covering. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors; hence, specifically, agricultural products. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Produced p. pr. & vb. n. Producing ] [ L. producere, productum, to bring forward, beget, produce; pro forward, forth + ducere to lead. See Duke. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court. [ 1913 Webster ]

Produce your cause, saith the Lord. Isa. xli. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your parents did not produce you much into the world. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain. [ 1913 Webster ]

This soil produces all sorts of palm trees. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ They ] produce prodigious births of body or mind. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The greatest jurist his country had produced. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Geom.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Production. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. producens, p. pr. ] One who produces, or offers to notice. [ Obs. ] Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Iron & Steel Manuf.) A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Horse Racing) A race to be run by the produce of horses named or described at the time of entry. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Polit. Econ.) Goods that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting. from consumers' goods. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Polit. Econ.) Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly (temporary or permanent) of the means or materials of production; -- called also . [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reduced p. pr. & vb. n. Reducing ] [ L. reducere, reductum; pref. red-. re-, re- + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Redoubt, n. ] 1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And to his brother's house reduced his wife. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat. “An ancient but reduced family.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Having reduced
Their foe to misery beneath their fears. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp. [ 1913 Webster ]

It were but right
And equal to reduce me to my dust. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Arith.) (a) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours. (b) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Chem.) To add an electron to an atom or ion. Specifically: To remove oxygen from; to deoxidize. (Metallurgy) To bring to the metallic state by separating from combined oxygen and impurities; as, metals are reduced from their ores. (Chem.) To combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen or any other reducing agent; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; aldehydes can be reduced to alcohols by lithium hydride; -- opposed to oxidize. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

8. (Med.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reduced iron (Chem.), metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also iron by hydrogen. --
To reduce an equation (Alg.), to bring the unknown quantity by itself on one side, and all the known quantities on the other side, without destroying the equation. --
To reduce an expression (Alg.), to obtain an equivalent expression of simpler form. --
To reduce a square (Mil.), to reform the line or column from the square. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To diminish; lessen; decrease; abate; shorten; curtail; impair; lower; subject; subdue; subjugate; conquer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Reduction. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. reducens, p. pr. of reducere. ] Tending to reduce. -- n. A reducent agent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, reduces. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mach.) (a) A contrivance for reducing the dimensions of one part so as to fit it to another, as a reducing coupling, or a device for holding a drilling a chuck. (b) A reducing motion. (c) A reducing valve. (d) A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machines. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. (Photog.) A reducing agent, either a developer or an agent for reducing density. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (Chem.) a reducing agent. [ PJC ]

v. t. To induce again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To introduce again. -- Re*in`tro*duc"tion n. [1913 Webster]

v. t. To produce again. Especially: (a) To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. (b) To cause to exist again. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with those their colors are mixed again they reproduce the same white light as before. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the existence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation. (d) To make an image or other representation of; to portray; to cause to exist in the memory or imagination; to make a copy of; as, to reproduce a person's features in marble, or on canvas; to reproduce a design. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a phonograph, a device containing a sounding diaphragm and the needle or stylus that traverses the moving record, for reproducing the sound. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. In a manograph, a device for reproducing the engine stroke on a reduced scale. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. Sadducaei, p., Gr. &unr_;, Heb. Tsaddūkīm; -- so called from Tsādōk, the founder of the sect. ] One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels. -- Sad`du*ce"an a. [1913 Webster]