fluviomarine strata

pl. Geol.: Strata laid down in the bed of the sea by an adjacent river. flux, *flix, s. & a. [Fr. flux, from Lat. flux us =a flowing, from fluo to flow; Sp. & Port. fluxo; Ital. flus so.] IMG:content-1825.png:[blocks in formation] "Still and calm; no noise, no flux of waters." Beaum. & Flet .: Pilgrim , iii. 4. pine, pit, sire, sir, marîne; gō, pot, 3. Fusion; a liquid state caused by the applica- tion of heat. 4. A pa ing away, and giving place to others. "Amid the flux of many you sand years." Thomson: Summer , 35. 5. A coming together, concourse, or confluence. "Left and abandoned of his velvet friends; 'Tis right, quoth he: thus misery doth part The flux of company.' IMG:content-1826.png:[blocks in formation] 3. The fusion or running of metals into a fluid state. 4. A constantly varying indication. II. Technically : 7. To pa or move swiftly; to hasten; to hurry. "In the morning early will we both fly toward Bel- mont." 3. To quit or escape from by flight. "Dedalus, to fly the Cretan shore, His heavy limbs on jointed pinions bore." Dryden: Virgil's Æneid, vi. 18. 1. Med.: An unnatural flow or determination of blood or other humor toward any organ; a catarrh. 2. Math .: A method of calculation resulting from the operation of fluents, or flowing numbers. Thus a mathematical line may be considered as produced 1. To cause to fly or float in the air; as, to fly a by the fluxion or flowing of a point; a surface by kite. the fluxion of a line, and a solid by the fluxion of a surface. A mathematical point in motion will really 2. To flee from; to run away from; to avoid; to make a line; a revolving radius which is a line will shun. make a circle which is a surface, and its revolution "Pursuing that which flies, and flying what pursues." about its diameter will generate a sphere which is a Shakesp.: Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 2. solid. The same principle may be applied to purely numerical calculations, like the for mule of algebra. If of two quantities, x and y, the increase of x at a uniform and given rate produces an increase or decrease of y; and if x ' and y' represent the veloci- ties of x and y respectively, then y' is equal to the function of zand y depending on the equation con- necting them, the whole multiplied by x ' . In this formula x and y were called by Newton fluents, and ' and y ' their fluxions. This branch of the higher mathematics was invented by Newton in A. D. 1665. On October 24, 1676, he communicated his method to Oldenburg in a sentence with all the letters disar- ranged so that his correspondent could not po ibly have put them in order. If he had succeeded in doing this the sentence would have been "Data equatione quotcunque fluentes quantitates invol- vente flux i ones in venire et vice vers a." [Given it makes no matter how many equations involving fluent quantities, fluxions are to be discovered, and the reverse is true (that is, where fluxions occur the fluents are to be found).] Leibnitz received this letter in 1677, and in 1684 explained a discovery which he had made. It was that of the differential calculus, which was e entially the same as that of fluxions. What Newton called fluxions, Leibnitz called differences. An angry controversy subse- quently arose between Newton and Leibnitz as to priority of discovery, the Royal Society of London taking the part of the former, who was then its IMG:content-1827.png:[blocks in formation] of the latter, who was their countryman. Both appear to have made the discovery independently. "But what can salivation do? It has been fluxt and refluxt too." IMG:content-1828.png:[blocks in formation] fluxionist (as fiŭk-shun-Ist), *fluc-tion-Ist, 8. [Eng. fluxion; -ist.] One skilled in fluxions. flux-ive, a . [Eng. flux ; -ive.] 1. Flowing, running, as with tears. 2. Variable, changeable, inconstant. *fiŭx'-üre, s . [Lat. fluxura =a flowing.] 1. The quality of flowing or of being fluid. 2. A fluid matter. fly, *fileg-en, *fleg he, *filee, *file-on, *flie, *fligh, *flye, *flyghe, *flyyn (pa. t. * fleigh , fleyghe, flew , * flog he , flughe , * flu we ; pa. par. * flogen, * flone , *flowen, flown), v.i. . [A. S. fleógan (pt. t. fleah ); cogn. with Dut. vliegen ; Icel. Ajúga ; Dan. flyve ; Sw. fly a ; O. H. Ger. fliogan ; M. H. Ger. vliegen ; Low Ger. fleigen ; Ger. fliegen .] IMG:content-1829.png:[blocks in formation] 5. To move with rapidity; as, A wheel flies round. 6. To flee, to run away. "Ah, whither shall I fly to 'scape their hands." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . III . , i. 3. IMG:content-1830.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia to sell imps of this kind, whose power varied in proportion to the price paid for them. Thus Dapper in the Alchemist , having little money to spare, wants only "A rifling fly , none of your great familiars." Sidrophel's "talismanic louse" is a well-known example of more repulsive insects being supposed to entertain demoniac guests. *(6) A thing of the slightest importance or value. "Alein answered: I count him nat a flie." Chaucer: C. Т., 4,190. II. Technically: 1. Zoology: (1) Specially: (a) ( Sing .): The genus Musca, of which the House-fly, Musca domestic a, is the type. (b) ( Pl . flies): (i) The family Muscide, of which the genus Musca is the type; (ii) the order Diptera (two-winged Insects). (2) Gen. (Chiefly as the second word in a compound): Almost any flying insect, especially if with membraneous transparent wings. Thus butterflies are Lepidoptera, gall-flies chiefly Hymenoptera, dragon-flies Orthoptera, crane-flies Diptera, and Spanish-flies and turnip-flies Coleoptera. It is, however, only a small number of species in the last-named order that are called flies. 2. Hor .: A regulating device used formerly in clocks, and latterly in musical boxes, to control the rate of speed. 3. Knitting - machine : Another name for the Latch (q. v.). 4. Mach .: A fly-wheel (q. v.). 5. Naut .: A compa -card having marked upon it the points or rhumbs, thirty-two in number. The card is moved by a magnet-needle beneath. The angle of the ship's course with the magnetic merid ian is shown on the marginal plate by a line called hobber's linibrating frame with fingers, taking a printed sheet from the tapes, and delivering it on to the heap. 7. Spin.: The arms which revolve around the bobbin in a spinning-frame, to twist the roving or yarn which is wound on the bobbin. [FLYER.] 8. The at .: A gallery running along the side of the stage at a high level, where the ropes for drawing up parts of the scenes, ., are worked. 9. 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