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pos>pr. n.. [ Gr. 'Archimh`dhs. ] Born at Syracuse about 287 b. c.: died at Syracuse, 212 b. c. The most celebrated geometrician of antiquity. He is said to have been a relative of King Hiero of Syracuse, to have traveled early in life in Egypt, and to have been the pupil of Conon the Samian at Alexandria. His most important services were rendered to pure geometry, but his popular fame rests chiefly on his application of mathematical theory to mechanics. He invented the water-screw, and discovered the principle of the lever. Concerning the latter the famous saying is attributed to him, "Give me where I may stand and I will move the world " (do`s pou^ stw^ kai` to`n ko`smos kinh`sw). By means of military engines which he invented he postponed the fall of Syracuse when besieged by Marcellus 214-212 b. c., whose fleet he is incorrectly said to have destroyed by mirrors reflecting the sun's rays. He detected the admixture of silver, and determined the proportions of the two metals, in a crown ordered by Hiero to be made of pure gold. The method of detecting the alloy, without destroying the crown, occurred to him as he stepped in the bath and observed the overflow caused by the displacement of the water. He ran home through the street naked crying heureka, "I have found it." He was killed at the capture of Syracuse by Marcellus. Century Dict. 1906 [ PJC ]

n. Same as Beadsman. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. -men A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. -women Fem. of Beadsman. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. dasy`s hairy, shaggy + &unr_;, &unr_;, a child. ] (Zool.) Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a leaping or oozing through, fr. &unr_; to leap through; dia` through + &unr_; to leap. ] (Med.) The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) Same as Natatores. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. ph`dhsis a leaping. ] Same as Brownian movement, under Brownian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. pedestal; cf. F. piédestal, It. piedestallo; fr. L. es, pedis, foot + OHG. stal standing place, station, place, akin to E. stall. See Foot, and Stall, and Footstall. ] 1. (Arch.) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column. [ 1913 Webster ]

Build him a pedestal, and say, “Stand there!” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A short free-standing column or column-like object designed to support a work of art or other object; a column serving the same function as the base of a statue. It may be made of wood, marble, or other suitable material. [ PJC ]

3. (Furniture) A part of a desk which contains a frame and drawers, stands on the floor, and provides support for the desk surface. There may be zero, one, or two such pedestals in a desk. [ PJC ]

4. (a) (Railroad Cars) A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box. (b) (Mach.) A pillow block; a low housing. (c) (Bridge Building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pedestal coil (steam Heating), a group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, -- used in a radiator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pedestaled haply in a palace court. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pedester, -esteris, fr. pes, pedis, a foot: cf. F. pédestere. See Pedal. ] Of or pertaining to the feet; employing the foot or feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a pedestrial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lacking in distinction or imaginativeness; ordinary; commonplace; dull; insipid; prosaic; as, pedestrian prose. [ PJC ]

n. A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Pedestrianized p. pr. & vb. n. Pedestrianizing. ] To practice walking; to travel on foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Going on foot; not winged. [ Obs. ] “Pedestrious animals.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) Same as Steganopodes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Logic) A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to predestination; as, the predestinarian controversy. Waterland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in or supports the doctrine of predestination. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The system or doctrine of the predestinarians. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Predestinarian. [ Obs. ] Heylin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praedestinatus, p. p. of praedestinare to predestine; prae before + destinare to determine. See Destine. ] Predestinated; foreordained; fated. “A predestinate scratched face.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Predestinated p. pr. & vb. n. Predestinating. ] [ Cf. Predestine. ] To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preëlect. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. Rom. viii. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To predetermine; foreordain; preordain; decree; predestine; foredoom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praedestinatio: cf. F. prédestination. ] 1. The act of predestinating. [ 1913 Webster ]

Predestination had overruled their will. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Theol.) The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Determining beforehand; predestinating. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. prédestinateur. ] 1. One who predestinates, or foreordains. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who holds to the doctrine of predestination; a predestinarian. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Predestined p. pr. & vb. n. Predestining. ] [ Cf. F. prédestiner. See Predestinate. ] To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Predestination. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr.&unr_; bare + &unr_;, &unr_;, offspring. ] (Zool.) birds whose young at first have down on the pterylæ only; -- called also Gymnopædes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a feather + &unr_;, &unr_;, offspring. ] (Zool.) Same as Dasypædes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref. re- + descend: cf. F. redescendre. ] To descend again. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A German wine made near Rüdesheim, on the Rhine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Samoyede /sing>. (Ethnol.) An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia. [ 1913 Webster ]