magic tree (majiktre)

A beautiful shrub, Cantua buxifolia (natural order Pole mon i ace a ), of Peru, formerly used by the native Indians for the decoration of their houses on feast-days. magilp (ma-gilp'), n. [Also macgilp, magilph, magelp, maguilp, meggelup, megilph, megylph, miguilph; said to be from a proper name.] In Shak., 1 Hen. VI., 1. 1. 27. painting, a vehicle made of oil of turpentine and Shall we think the subtle-witted French Conjurers and sorcerers, that, afraid of him, By magic verses have contrived his end? As in Agrippa's magic gla , The loved and lost arose to view. pale drying-oil in equal proportions. These ingredients gelatinize, and when mixed with oil colors give Whittier, The Merrimack. them a certain body and a pulpy transparency. Magilp Till all thy magick structures, rear'd so high, Were shatter'd into heaps o'er thy false head. Milton , Comus, 1. 798. 3. Operating as if by magic; causing illusion; producing wonderful results. For three or four days, under the magic influence of his wit and imagination, these gloomy old pictures were a perpetual source of amusement and fun. Lady Holland, Sydney Smith, iv. Magic circle, a modification of the magic square as devised by Franklin, consisting of eight concentric circles equally divided by eight radii, in the sections of which all the numbers from 13 to 75 are so arranged that the sum of the numbers in each circle, together with 12 entered at the center, is equal to 360, and that the sum of the numbers in each radial column, together with the central 12, is also equal to 360. As reconstructed by Dr. Barnard, the numbers from 1 to 64 are taken, and are so arranged that the constant sum of both concentric and radial ranks, added to 100 entered at the center, is 360. - Magic cube, an extension of the arrangement of an arithmetical series in a magic square or parallelepiped on to all sides of a hexagon, so that the sum of the numbers in each lineal rank of numbers, parallel to the edges of the cube or the diagonals upon all faces, is constant. In a perfect magic cube every term enters into thirteen distinct equalities.-Magic cylinder, a modification of a perfect magic cube or parallelepiped on when one of its surfaces is transferred to a cylinder having a circumference equal to the edge of the cube, and the vertical squares are arranged in equidistant radii: such a magic cylinder will have either no number at the axis, or the same number in the center of every one of the five parallel planes. - Magic lantern. See lantern, and cut under stereopticon. - Magic music. See music. - Magic sphere, a modification of a magic cube or parallelepiped on when its surface is transferred to a sphere, and the several vertical columns are arranged in equidistant radii. - Magic square, a square figure may be made also of linseed drying-oil and mastic varnish, or of simple linseed-oil and sugar of lead, or of boiled oil. mastic varnish, and a little sugar of lead. Also spelled megilp.