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Detent :: Detent (n.) That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking..

Pendulum :: Pendulum (n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.

Quake :: Quake (n.) A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.

Escort :: Escort (n.) A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea..

Current :: Current (a.) General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc..

Motive :: Motive (n.) The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading..

Cyclosis :: Cyclosis (n.) The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.

Motion :: Motion (n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity..

Humanist :: Humanist (n.) One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title..

Secrecy :: Secrecy (n.) The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy..

Pneumatogarm :: Pneumatogarm (n.) A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph..

March :: March (n.) A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.

Set :: Set (n.) In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed..

Trance :: Trance (n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible..

German :: German (n.) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures..

Weasel :: Weasel (n.) Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons..

Akinesia :: Akinesia (n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement.

Step :: Step (v. i.) An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.

Rhythmometer :: Rhythmometer (n.) An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.

Mover :: Mover (n.) One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition..

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