1. (n.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.

2. (n.) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.

3. (n.) The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15 C.

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