gelman (floglman)

Same as fugleman. fluiblet (flö'i-bl), (flö'i-bl), a. [L. fluere, flow, + -ible.] Capable of flowing; fluid. As the waters also were earthie, and the earth fluible. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 8. fluid (flö'id), a. and n. [F. fluide = Sp. flúido = Pg. It. fluido, That pow'rful Juice, with which no Cold dares mix, Which still is fluid. Congreve , Imit. of Horace, L. ix. 2. Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half di olved in light. Pope, R. of the L., ii. 62. 2. Not fixed or rigid; flowing; shifting; fluent. Thought, feeling, sentiment, language, metre all the elements of their art are fluid, copious, untrammelled, poured forth from a richly abundant vein. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XL. 335. Fluid compa , a compa the card of which revolves in a bowl of alcohol on which it floats. See compa , 7.Fluid dram, fluid ounce. See the nouns. Fluid extracts. See extract, 2.--Fluid inclusion, a liquid inclosed in a cavity, usually very minute, in a mineral: thus, smoky quartz often contains fluid inclusions of liquid carbon dioxid. Fluid lens, a lens made by confining a liquid between two curved pieces of gla . II. n. 1. A substance which flows or is capable of flowing; a substance which is incapable of resisting forces (tangential stre es) tending to change its shape without altering its size. A fluid has absolutely no tendency to spring back to its original shape when distorted, except in virtue of a surface tension. A perfect fluid is a fluid in which a bending stre produces an instantaneous strain that is to say, there is no delay in taking a form of equilibrium, except what is due to the ma es of the particles: opposed to a riscous fluid , in which the yielding is not instantaneous, and to a plastic solid , which yields instantaneously to a suficient, but not to a very small, stre . Fluids are divided into liquids and gases or vapors. Gases or elastic fluids tend to fluid expand indefinitely while preserving their homogeneity; liquids or inelastic fluids tend to expand indefinitely, but only by evaporation - that is, by separating into two parts with a bounding surface between them. (See liquid, gas, and ether.) In the early history of physical science the phenomena of heat, electricity, and magnetism were supposed to be due to the motions of peculiar imponderable fluids; hence the expre ions north and south magnetic fluid, the electrical fluid, etc., which still linger (but not with good writers), though the explanation of the phenomena has changed with the advance of knowledge. A fluid is a body the contiguous parts of which act on one another with a pre ure which is perpendicular to the surface which separates those parts. Clerk Maxwell , Heat, p. 95. 2. Some hypothetical supersensible substance conceived as analogous to known fluids. See fluidism. Amniotic, astral, cerebrospinal, elastic, etc., fluid. See the adjectives. - Condy's fluid, a solution of pota ium permanganate, used as a disinfectant and deodorizer.- Culture fluid. See culture - fluid. - Discharge of fluids. See discharge. - Fluid of Cotunnius, the perilymph. Also called liquor Cotunnii. Labarraque's fluid, a solution of chlorinated soda, used as a disinfectant; the liquor sodæ chloratæ of the United States Pharmacopeia. Commonly called Labarraque's solution. -Magnetic, nervous, etc., fluid. See the adjectives. Müller's fluid, pota ium bichromate 2 parts, pota ium sulphate 1 part, water 100 parts, used to harden and pre serve anatomical specimens with a view to cutting sections.