condensityt (kondensiti)

[= Sp. conden sidad, Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low esRom. xii. 16. tate. Spain's mighty monarch, In gracious clemency, does condescend, On these conditions, to become your friend. Dryden, Indian Emperor. The mind that would not condescend to little things. E. Go e, From Shakespeare to Pope, p. 36. a lower temperature. In them the vapor, gas, smoke, or fumes are brought into immediate contact with chilled surfaces. This is accomplished in a great variety of ways, 2. To stoop or submit; be subject; yield. as in the surface condenser of the steam-engine, the worm of a still, or the long convoluted tubes in which poisonous fumes or smoke are cooled before being allowed to escape to the chimney. The cooling surfaces are usually kept cold by water, as in the still, the gas-condenser, the sugar condenser, etc. For fumes and smoke, the contact with 3t. To a ent; agree. walls exposed to the air is sufficient. (b) A part of a cotton-gin which compre es the lint for convenient handling. (c) In wool - manuf., a machine which forms the wool received from the doffer of a carding-engine or comber, and rolls it into slubbings. The doffer of the carding-engine is covered by a series of parallel strips of card-clothing, wrapped about the cylinder. The wool thus comes off in a number of loose flat ribbons of fleece, which in the condensing-machine are carried by a leather apron beneath a roller which has a reciprocating motion transverse to their direction, and thus rolls these slivers into loose slubbings, which are wound upon a roll and are ready for spinning. (d) In the manufacture of sugar, the apparatus used for concentrating the clarified juice, preparatory to its final concentration in the vacuum or evaporating-pan. The liquor trickles over the surface of steam pipes, where heat evaporates the water which constitutes the greater part of the cane-juice. (e) In optical instruments, a lens, or combination of lenses, used to gather and concentrate the rays of light collected by a mirror and direct them upon the object, as the bull's-eye condenser (see bull's -eye, 9) and the achromatic condenser used with the microscope. Achromatic condenser. See achromatic. Condenser hygrometer, a dew-point hygrometer. See hygrometer . Condenser of electricity, any apparatus by which electricity can be accumulated, usually consisting of two conducting surfaces separated by a nonconductor, as in the condenser of Epinus (see figure), which is charged by connecting one of the plates ( 4 ) with the electrical machine and the other ( B ) with the ground; their distance from the gla plate (C) can Can they think me so broken, so debased With corporal servitude, that my mind ever Will condescend to such absurd commands? Milton , S. A., 1. 1337. Thereto they both did franckly con disc end . Spenser, F. Q., V. 1. 25. Condescending to Blount's advice to surprise the court. Bacon, Lord E ex's Treason. The Govr con des ended upon equall terms of agreemente. Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 128. These things they all willingly condescended unto. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 223. 4. To agree to submit or furnish; specify; vouchsafe: with upon: as, to condescend upon particulars. [Scotch.] Men do not condescend upon what would satisfy them. Guthrie's Trial, p. 71. =Syn. 1. To stoop, deign, vouchsafe, bend. condescendence (kon-de-sen'dens), n. [= F. condescend ance = Sp. Pg. condescendencia = It . condescendenza , s , ppr. of condescend ere , condescend: see condescend.] 1. The act of condescending; condescension. [Rare.] By the warrant of St. Paul's condescendence to the capacities he wrote unto, I may speak after the manner of men. W. Montague , Devoute E ays (1648), p. 31. 2. In Scots law, the principal written pleading will. A practical form of condenser is the Leyden jar put in by the pursuer, containing a distinct (which see, under jar ). Condensers are much used in connection with submarine telegraphy; one of the Atlantic cables has a condenser with over two acres of surface of tin-foil, arranged in plates separated by waxed paper statement of the facts on which his case is founded. It is annexed to the summons, and to it are subjoined the pleas in law, a concise note of the legal propositions on which he rests. condescendency