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[ zif hit watz semly on to sene, A fayre reflayr zet fro hit flot, Ther wonys that worthyly I wot & wene. To Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 46. reflairt, v . i. [ME. reflaren ; reflair , n .] arise, as an odor. Haill! floscampy, and flower vyrgynall, The odour of thy goodnes reflars to vs all. York Plays , p. 444. To Chapman , Iliad, ix. 180. ( Davies .) flected rays. See reflection, 2. Then, grim in arms, with hasty vengeance flies, Arms that reflect a radiance through the skies. Pope , Iliad, xv. 137. Like a wave of water which is sent up against a seaW. K. Clifford, Lectures, II. 40. 4. To give back an image or likene of; mirror. wall, and which reflects itself back along the sea. Nature is the gla reflecting God, As by the sea reflected is the sun. Young , Night Thoughts, ix. 1007. Heav'n reflected in her face. Couper , A Comparison. The vast bosom of the Hudson was like an unruffled mirror, reflecting the golden splendor of the heavens. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 344. Among the lower forms of life there is but little variation among the units; the one reflects the other, and species are founded upon differences that are only determined by using the micrometer. Amer . Nat ., June, 1890, p. 578. II, in trans . 1. To bend or turn back; be re flected. Let thine eyes Reflect upon thy soul, and there behold How loathed black it is. Beau . and Fl . , Captain, iv. 5. Not any thing that shall Reflect injurious to yourself. Shirley, Love's Cruelty, i. 1. 2. To throw back light, heat, sound, etc.; give reflections; return rays or beams: as, a reflect ing mirror or gem. She lifts the coffer-lids that close his eyes, Where, lo, two lamps, burnt out, in darkne lies; Two gla es, where herself herself beheld A you sand times, and now no more reflect. Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 1130. 3. To throw or turn back the thoughts upon something; think or consider seriously; revolve matters in the mind, especially in relation to conduct; ponder or meditate. Who saith, Who could such ill events expect? With shame on his own counsels doth reflect . Sir J. Denham , Prudence. Content if hence the unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew. Pope , E ay on Criticism, 1. 740. We cannot be said to reflect upon any external object except in so far as that object has been previously perceived, and its image become part and parcel of our intellectual furniture. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., x. Let boys and girls in our schools be taught to think; let them not be drilled so much in remembering as in re flecting. J. F. Clarke , Self-Culture, p. 137. 4. To bring reproach; cast censure or blame: followed by on or upon. This kind of language reflects with the same ignominy upon all the Protestant Reformations that have bin since Luther. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, xiiii. IMG:content-1842.png:[blocks in formation] Lord Saturnine; whose virtues will, I hope, Reflect on Rome as Titan's rays on earth, And ripen justice. Shak., Tit. And., i. 1. 226. =Syn. 3. To consider, meditate upon, etc. (sce list under contemplate ), cogitate, ruminate, study. reflectt, n. [ reflect , v .] A reflection. [Rare.] Would you in blindne e live? these raies of myne Give that reflect by which your Beauties shine. Heywood, Apollo and Daphne (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, [VI. 289). reflame (re-flām′), v . i. [ re- + flame .] blaze again; burst again into flame. reflected (re-flek'ted), p . a . 1. Cast or thrown Stamp out the fire, or this back: as, reflected light.-2. In an at . , turned Will smoulder and re - flame , and burn the throne Where you should sit with Philip. back upon itself. See reflection , 10.-3. In en- Tennyson, Queen Mary, i. 5. tom ., turned upward or back: as, a reflected surface. A perfectly reflecting body is one which cannot absorb any ray. Polished silver suggests such a body. Tait , Light, § 307. 2. Given to reflection; thoughtful; meditative; provident: as, a reflecting mind. No reflecting man can ever wish to adulterate manly piety (the parent of all that is good in the world) with mummery and parade. Sydney Smith , in Lady Holland, iii. Reflecting circle, an instrument for measuring altitudes and angular distances, constructed on the principle of the sextant, the graduations, however, being continued completely round the limb of the circle. - Reflecting dial. See dial . Reflecting galvanometer. See Thomson's mirror galvanometer , under galvanometer . - Reflecting goniometer. See goniometer . - Reflecting lamp, a lamp with an upper reflector so arranged as to throw downward those rays of light which tend upward. - Reflecting level. (a) An instrument for determining a horizontal direction by looking at the reflection of an object at a distance. Thus, in Mariotte's level, the level is determined by bisecting the distance between the direct image of an object and its reflection in a sort of artificial horizon. In Ca ini's level, a telescope hangs vertically, carrying before its object-gla a plane mirror inclined 45° to the line of sight. (b) An instrument in which a slow-moving bubble is viewed by reflection, so that the image of the middle of it can be seen by the side of the direct image of a distant object. Such are Abney's and Locke's levels, used by topographers. See Locke level , under level1 . Reflecting microscope. See microscope . Reflecting power, the power po e ed by any surface of throwing off a greater or le proportion of incident This power is maximum for the polished metals and a minimum for a surface of ampla is the s ciprocal of the absorptive (and radiating) power. Re flecting quadrant. See quadrant, 4.- Reflecting sight, in firearms, a reflecting surface placed at such an angle as to reflect to the eye light from one direction only. E. H. Knight. - Reflecting telescope. See telescope. reflectingly (re-flek'ting-li), adv. 1. With reflection.-2. With censure; reproachfully; censoriously. [Rare.] A great indiscretion in the archbishop of Dublin, who applied a story out of Tacitus very reflectingly on Mr. Har Swift, Journal to Stella, xx, ley. reflection, reflexion (rē-flek's hon), n. [ Crooked Erimanthus wyth hys man ye turnynges and reflexions is consumed by the inhabytours with wateryng their ground. J. Brende , tr. of Quintus Curtius, fol. 232. 2. The act of reflecting, or the state of being reflected; specifically, in physics, the change of direction which a ray of light, radiant heat, or sound experiences when it strikes upon a surface and is thrown back into the same medium from which it approached. Reflection follows two laws, viz.-(1) the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence; and (2) the reflected and incident rays are in the same plane with a normal to the surface. If DE represents the surface of a mirror and CB the incident ray, then HBC is the angle of incidence, and HBA, equal to it, is the angle of reflection. This applies alike to sound, to radiant energy (heat and light), and also to a perfectly elastic body bounding from a perfectly elastic rigid surface. The plane pa ing through the perpendicular to the reflecting surface at the point of incidence and the path of the reflected ray of light or heat is called the plane of reflection. (See mirror, echo.) For the total reflection of rays when the critical angle is pa ed, see refraction. IMG:content-1843.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small] IMG:content-1844.png:[blocks in formation] phy of Reflection," 1878, uses the term to denote one of three fundamental modes of consciousne , namely that in which the objective and subjective aspects of what is present are discriminated without being separated as per- son and thing. The faculty by which I place the comparison of repre- sent a tions in general by the side of the faculty to which they belong, and by which I determine whether they are compared with each other as belonging to the pure under- standing or to sensuous intuition, I call transcendental re- flection. Kant , Critique of Pure Reason, tr. by Müller, p. 261. The particular reflection that states of consciousne are things, or that the Subject is its Objects, constitutes the reflective mode of consciousne . Perception is the rudimentary function in reflection as well as in pri- mary consciousne ; and reflective conception is a deriva- tive from it. S. Hodgson , Philosophy of Reflection, i. 2, § 3. 8t. That which corresponds to and reflects something in the mind or in the nature of any As if folkes complexiouns [constitutions, temperaments] Make hem dreme of reflexiouns . Chaucer , House of Fame, 1. 22. To suppose any Books of Scripture to be lost which con- tained any nece ary Points of Faith is a great Reflexion on Divine Providence. Stilling fleet , Sermons, III. ii. He bore all their weakne and prejudice, and returned not reflection for reflection . Penn , Rise and Progre of Quakers, v. 10. In an at .: ( a ) Duplication; the folding of a part, as a membrane, upon itself; a bending back or complete deflection. (b) That which is reflected; a fold: as, a reflection of the perito- neum forming a mesentery.-11. In zoöl ., a play of color which changes in different lights: as, the reflections of the iridescent plumage of a humming-bird. Coues . - Axis of reflection. See axis1 .-Logical reflection. See logical .-Point of re- flection. See point1.- Total reflection. See refraction1 . =Syn. 5. Rumination, cogitation.-6. See remark1 , n . reflectiont (re-flek's hon), v . t . [ reflection , n . ] To reflect. [Rare.] But, reflection ing apart, thou seest, Jack, that her plot is beginning to work. Richardson, Clari a Harlowe, IV. xxi. reflection ist (re-flek's hon-ist), n. [ reflection + -ist .] An adherent of Shad worth Hodgson's philosophy of reflection. The doctrine is that a power of perceiving the relations of subjective and ob- jective aspects and elements is the highest mode of con- sciousne . reflective (re-flektiv), a . [= F. réflectif ; as reflect + -ive . Cf. reflexive .] 1. Throwing back rays or images; giving reflections; reflecting. In the reflective stream the sighing bride Viewing her charms impair'd. IMG:content-1845.png:[blocks in formation] The Greeks are not reflective , but perfect in their senses and in their health, with the finest physical organization in the world. Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 23. Several persons having the true dramatic feeling were overborne by the reflective , idyllic fashion which then began to prevail in English verse. 4. Devoted to reflection; containing reflections. [Rare.] -5. In gram . , reflexive. - Reflective fac- ulties, in phren ., a division of the intellectual faculties, comprising the two so-called organs of comparison and causality. Reflective judgment, in the Kantian term i- ticular to the general. reflectively (re-flektiv-li), adv . In a reflective manner; by reflection, in any sense of that word. reflectivene (re-flektiv-nes), п . The state or quality of being reflective. The meditative lyric appeals to a profounder reflective- ne , which is feelingly alive to the full pathos of life, and to all the mystery of sorrow. reflectoire (ref-lek-twor'), n . [F. réflectoire ; as reflect + -ory .] A geometrical surface whose form is that of the appearance horizon- tal plane seen through a layer of water with air above it.- Re- flectoire curve, a curve which is a IMG:content-1846.png:[blocks in formation] This answerer has been pleased to find fault with about a dozen pa ages; the reflector is entirely mistaken, and forces interpretations which never once entered into the writer's head. Swift , Tale of a Tub, Apol. 3. That which reflects. Specifically - (a) A polished surface of metal or any other suitable material, used for the purpose of reflecting rays of light, heat, or sound in any required direction. Reflectors may be either plane or curvilinear; of the former the common mirror is a familiar example. Curvilinear reflectors admit of a great variety of forms, according to the purposes for which they are employed: they may be either convex or concave, spherical, elliptical, parabolic, or hyperbolic, etc. The parabolic form is perhaps the most generally serviceable, being used for many purposes of illumina- tion as well as for various highly important philosophi- cal instruments. Its property is to reflect, in parallel lines, all rays diverging from the focus of the parabola, and conversely. A series of parabolic mirrors, by which the rays from one or more lamps were reflected in a par- allel beam, so as to render the light visible at a great dis- tance, was the arrangement generally employed in light- houses previous to the invention of the Fresnel lamp, or dioptric light. The annexed cut is a section of a ship's lantern fitted with an Argand lamp and parabolic reflector. a a is the reflector, b the lamp, situated in the focus of the polished concave paraboloid, e the oil-cis- tern, d the outer frame of the lantern, and e the chimney for the escape of d the products of comb us- tion. (b) A reflecting tele- scope, the speculum of which is an example of the converse application of the parabolic reflector, the par- allel rays proceeding from a distant body being in this case concentrated into the focus of the reflector. See telescope, and cut under catoptric. IMG:content-1847.png:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] 2t. To reflect; cast or throw, as light; let shine. May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode. reflex 2. In painting, illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture. See reflected light, under reflected.—3. In biol., bent back; reflexed. - Reflex action, motion, or movement, in physiol., those comparatively simple actions of the nervous system in which a stimulus is transmitted along sensorý nerves to a nerve-center, from which again it is reflected along efferent nerves to call into play some muscular, glandular, or other activity. These actions are performed involuntarily, and often unconsciously, 5036 als, sepals, leaf-veins, etc.-2. In zoöl., bent back or up; reflex.-3. In her., curved twice: same as bowed, but applied especially to the chain secured to the collar of a beast, which often takes an S-curve. Also reflected. Reflexed antennæ, antennæ carried constantly bent back over the head and body. Reflexed ovipositor, an ovipositor which is turned back so as to lie on the upper surface of the abdomen, as in certain Chalcididæ. the contraction of the pupil of the eye when expusty as reflexibility (re-flek-si-bil'i-ti), n. [= F. ré strong light. There is another action , namely, that of aggregation, which in certain cases may be called reflex , and it is the only known instance in the vegetable kingdom. Darwin, Insectiv. Plants, p. 242. Reflex movements have slightly more of the appearance of a purposive character than automatic movements, though this is in many cases very vague and ill-defined. J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 594. flexibilité = Sp. reflexibilidad = Pg. reflexibili dade = It. refle ibilità; as reflexible + -ity (see -bility ).] The quality of being reflexible, or capable of being reflected: as, the reflexibility of light-rays. Reflexibility of Rays is their disposition to be reflected or turned back into the same Medium from any other Medium upon whose surface they fall. refoot For Israel to reflourish , and take new life by the influxes of the Holy Spirit. Water land, Works, III. 421. [ flow , v .] To flow