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Aleconner :: Aleconner (n.) Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.].

Crisis :: Crisis (n.) The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point..

Rotation :: Rotation (n.) The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution..

Try :: Try (v. t.) To strain; to subject to excessive tests; as, the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments try one's patience..

Diallage :: Diallage (n.) A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point..

Median :: Median (n.) A median line or point.

Sketch :: Sketch (n.) To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

Hook :: Hook (v. t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore..

Center :: Center (n.) A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction..

Polyacron :: Polyacron (n.) A solid having many summits or angular points; a polyhedron.

Radius Vector :: Radius vector () A straight line (or the length of such line) connecting any point, as of a curve, with a fixed point, or pole, round which the straight line turns, and to which it serves to refer the successive points of a curve, in a system of polar coordinates. See Coordinate, n..

Paralogism :: Paralogism (n.) A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formulae; a formal fallacy, or pseudo-syllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises..

Barbellate :: Barbellate (a.) Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point..

Spired :: Spire (n.) The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit..

Propretor :: Propretor (n.) A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province..

Assigner :: Assigner (n.) One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions..

Astatic :: Astatic (a.) Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction..

Appointment :: Appointment (n.) The state of being appointed to som/ service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer..

Quinquevir :: Quinquevir (n.) One of five commissioners appointed for some special object.

Ord :: Ord (n.) An edge or point; also, a beginning..

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