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A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39¡ Fahr., or 4¡ Centigrade; and from that point down to 32¡ Fahr., or 0¡ Centigrade, or the freezing point, it expands.
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The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.
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The longest note formerly used, equal to two longs, or four breves; a large.
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To increase to the highest degree.
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Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.
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The act or process of increasing to the highest degree.
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A speech; something said; an expression of opinion; a current story; a maxim or proverb.
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A saying; a proverb; a maxim.
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A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.
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Resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument.
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A sentence, or passage, considered as the expression of a thought; a maxim; a saying; a toast.
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A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
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Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer.
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A self-registering thermometer, especially one that registers the maximum and minimum during long periods.
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A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter.
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Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title.
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Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat.
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Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
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The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to minimum.
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