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Function :: Function (n.) A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x..

Credit :: Credit (n.) The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B..

Bluestone :: Bluestone (n.) A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States..

Lues :: Lues (n.) Disease, especially of a contagious kind..

Value :: Value (n.) In an artistical composition, the character of any one part in its relation to other parts and to the whole; -- often used in the plural; as, the values are well given, or well maintained..

Blue :: Blue (n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.

Parget :: Parget (v. t.) To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses..

Bluestocking :: Bluestocking (n.) A literary lady; a female pedant.

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.

Chimney :: Chimney (n.) That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft..

Element :: Element (n.) One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based; as, the elements of a planet's orbit..

Estimator :: Estimator (n.) One who estimates or values; a valuer.

Rose-rial :: Rose-rial (n.) A name of several English gold coins struck in different reigns and having having different values; a rose noble.

Ducatoon :: Ducatoon (n.) A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values..

Hypocaust :: Hypocaust (n.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses..

Bluestockingism :: Bluestockingism (n.) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

Tutty :: Tutty (n.) A yellow or brown amorphous substance obtained as a sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces of zinc, and consisting of a crude zinc oxide..

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.

Monometallism :: Monometallism (n.) The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism..

Bluestocking :: Bluestocking (n.) The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).

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