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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
weak
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bad/weak heart (=an unhealthy heart)
▪ The effort proved too much for her weak heart.
a feeble/flimsy/weak excuse (=one that is difficult to believe)
▪ Joe muttered some feeble excuse about having a headache.
a strong/weak leader
▪ She’s a strong leader and an intelligent woman.
a weak chin (=small in proportion to the face, and not square in shape)
▪ He’s grown a beard to cover his weak chin.
a weak position (=a situation in which you have a disadvantage)
▪ Someone who is desperate to sell their house is in a weak position.
a weak will
▪ It's a myth that people are fat because of a weak will.
be in a strong/weak etc position
▪ We are in a good position to help.
had a weak spot for
▪ I’ve always had a weak spot for chocolate.
sb’s weak point (=something that they are not good at)
▪ Be honest about assessing your weak points.
strong/weak
▪ I needed some strong coffee to wake me up.
weak (=from a country with a weak economy)
▪ The fund was set up to support weak currencies.
weak (=one that often gets infections)
▪ As a child her chest was weak.
weak
▪ You have your tea weak, don't you Chris?
weak/ailing/depressed
▪ The economy is weak and consumer confidence is low.
weaker sex
weak/faint
▪ The boy's pulse was very weak.
weak/faint
▪ The signals were too weak for the receiver to pick up.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Nation states are not as weak as some make out-they do have the power to seek alternatives.
▪ Two days later Janir and I were still as weak as young mice.
▪ She's as weak as a kitten.
▪ Anything in the form of participation would be viewed as weak management.
▪ This could be interpreted as weak and lacking authority; it could equally be interpreted as polite and considerate.
▪ Nor does it have to: we know his fears are as weak as his desires.
▪ A year ago he was as weak and unloved a Democratic presidential candidate as it was possible to be.
much
▪ This comprises a few intense lines and a much weaker continuous background.
▪ Some quasi-experimental designs do not include a control group and are therefore much weaker designs.
▪ At present there are two programs playing at Master levels and three others not much weaker than that.
▪ Bradley said the bill that passed was much weaker than the original version, which spelled out remedies for job discrimination.
▪ In fact the western Empire was probably in a much weaker position after 406 than the sources suggest.
▪ In popular music, such functions are either lacking or much weaker.
▪ The current, away from the mainstream, was much weaker.
▪ However, bow shocks become wrapped around blunt obstacles and become much weaker the further away they are from the obstacle head.
rather
▪ The rather weak reason given was the waste of the resources used in training these people.
▪ Apparently he was a rather weak, inadequate man who never was able to make much of a living.
▪ Flight rather weak, but buoyant swimmers, like tiny gulls, often spinning round in circles and picking insects off surface.
▪ This, however, is the second rather weak argument, the simplicity argument.
▪ They tend to be somewhat static, so the contours of phrases can be rather weak.
▪ Indeed, his technical electioneering skills remained rather weak.
▪ Were his eyes blue or grey? Rather weak, Nicholas remembered, probably short-sighted.
▪ The problem, though, according to Keynesians is that stages 1 and 2 are unpredictable and perhaps rather weak.
relatively
▪ Such a state of affairs provides the seller with a unique opportunity to exploit the relatively weak bargaining position of the investor.
▪ Sometimes the child who is relatively weaker in visual-spatial abilities may be stronger in the auditory-verbal processing area.
▪ Hot, hydrothermally altered ground and relatively weak fumaroles, but no active hot springs, are found on these volcanoes.
▪ Norris has a relatively weak chin but more experience than Trinidad, which could give Whitaker some trouble.
▪ However the study shows that the degree quality of the AEs is relatively weak.
▪ With a child who is relatively weaker visually you can emphasize play that builds these skills.
▪ Performance was relatively weaker with small scale acoustic recital and chamber material where a certain hardness sometimes intruded.
▪ Like many children who are relatively weak in these skills, the elementary school years were hard for Louisa.
so
▪ It's so weak, so dismissive, like the girl's body was a cupcake and you took a nibble.
▪ Why is the West so strong, and why are we so weak and vulnerable?
▪ Carrie felt impatient with her - no grown-up should be so weak and so silly - but she was sorry as well.
▪ State health officials have warned that some of those structures are so weak that they could collapse at any time.
▪ At 6.40am he tried for another bearing, but their signal was now so weak, Darwin were unable to comply.
▪ When the local Sisters took him in, he was so weak that he could not sit up.
▪ His legs were so weak that they shook beneath him.
▪ He was so weak he had to be carried out.
too
▪ He threw out no sounding parties too weak to guarantee their own safety, and he lost none of them.
▪ But the municipal oligarchy was too weak to pursue its course for long, and eventually came to terms with the state.
▪ Seal pelts are thin to the point of transparency and seabird chicks are too weak to stand.
▪ The generals and admirals said they had always been against the blockade as being too weak and now they wanted immediate action.
▪ Even for the more careful managers, their decade or so of good fortune had far too weak a base to survive.
▪ A few cuts of sun break through the roof and walls but once there they are too weak to shift for themselves.
▪ Almost certainly it felt that its position was still too weak.
▪ She was too weak and malnourished to eat.
unexpectedly
▪ Other companies issuing profit warnings or unexpectedly weak earnings included Hutchison Technology Inc., down 6 to 36 1 / 2.
very
▪ He was very weak, but able to talk.
▪ The woman in the next bed was in her late seventies, very weak, and obviously malnourished.
▪ She was being carried, almost, badly shot and very weak.
▪ The reason is that there is a very weak legal basis for television regulation.
▪ Suppose that person is a stranger and is very weak.
▪ I feel very weak being without protection.
▪ The north-south winds are very weak by comparison.
▪ It was a positive step but it was very weak in the way it sought to cover the children.
■ NOUN
currency
▪ This could not support weak currencies indefinitely.
▪ That will lead them to seek weaker currencies to boost their exports, traders said.
▪ Attention on world money markets then switched to the next weakest currency - the pound.
▪ While governments dither, funds leave those countries with weak currencies and go to those countries with strong currencies.
demand
▪ Similar properties tend to have got a little stale, some not having taken account of weaker demand with their original asking prices.
▪ It blamed weak demand in the third and fourth quarters.
▪ Excess capacity and weak demand continued to undermine performance in the downstream oil and chemicals sectors.
▪ Issuing B shares usually raises less money because of weak demand.
▪ In the recent period of excessive unemployment and weak demand for labour, the validity of this assumption is less clear.
dollar
▪ In London, light trading on currency markets saw the pound gain 10 points against a weak dollar to close at 1.4843.
▪ And, Mr Trittin notes, some of the buyers were large foreign financial firms, taking advantage of the weak dollar.
▪ But with a weak dollar, it will quickly burn out in faster core inflation.
▪ Profits at auto makers and other exporters could be tarnished by a weaker dollar against the yen.
earnings
▪ Co., fell for the third straight week on reports of weak earnings and a slack retail climate.
▪ Manufacturing Co. reported weaker earnings than expected.
▪ Other companies issuing profit warnings or unexpectedly weak earnings included Hutchison Technology Inc., down 6 to 36 1 / 2.
▪ While weak earnings forecasts caused many stocks to fall sharply, unexpectedly strong outlooks or actual earnings were rewarded.
economy
▪ The debt burden is weighing more and more heavily on the weakest economies.
▪ Rates may continue to fall, but earnings will have a tough time climbing in a weak economy.
▪ It builds in and reinforces their dominance, but it damages the weaker economies.
▪ A weaker economy means inflation is less likely to eat into the value of bonds' interest and principal payments.
▪ And Mr Bush's economic advisers fear that any extra regulation could further damage an already weak economy.
▪ Sales across the country were slower than expected this year as consumers grappled with higher debts and concern about a weaker economy.
▪ Brochier, which restores piping networks, has announced a restructuring plan to deal with a weak economy in its key markets.
form
▪ This reply comes in a stronger and a weaker form, but in either form it has clearly got some point.
▪ This group of pronouns has weak forms pronounced with weaker vowels than the and of their strong forms.
▪ We must distinguish between weak forms and contracted forms.
▪ The freedom and dignity of autonomous man seem to be preserved when only weak forms of non-aversive control are used.
▪ In its weakest form it can be a moistening of the eyes on hearing a moving poem or line of music.
▪ Bounded rationality is a weak form of rationality.
heart
▪ He also learned that Sir Charles believed these supernatural stories, and that he had a weak heart.
▪ A weak heart, another Vandervort inheritance, like the table and the portrait.
▪ However, this often happens with deaths which are caused by weak hearts.
▪ Sir Charles' weak heart had failed, and this had caused his death.
▪ My grandfather had a weak heart, and he died in this way.
▪ The nymph attempted a final arabesque but the effort proved too much for her weak heart.
▪ Because our usual enzymes can not tackle this large molecule, its presence may cause problems for people with weak hearts.
link
▪ Breaking the weak link proved a bigger hazard than actual cable breaks or power failures.
▪ Anderson is the weakest link in his.
▪ With such fundamental changes involved, a business can only be as strong as its weakest link.
▪ You also learn in combat that your flight is only as strong as its weakest link.
▪ The layer reinforces the wall's weak link - the mortar.
▪ This time, it was the primacy of the office as gathering place that was the weak link in the chain.
▪ This is the weakest link in the chain, and we have a system for chasing referees and eventually going elsewhere.
▪ Therefore, the leadership challenge is to have no weak links.
point
▪ Positive interpretation of weaknesses Be honest about assessing your weak points as well.
▪ This solution came to the rescue of the system; but it was the weak point that all its critics attacked.
▪ What are his strong and weak points?
▪ That is why molecular studies designed to find the weak points in the viral attack must continue, Trono said.
▪ We examined our weak points, and turned them into strengths.
▪ The weakest point of the 320SLi is its screen.
▪ However, in most of these, effusive approval is showered upon her, and her weak points are minimized.
points
▪ He had not dealt with the bishop's weak points nor, according to Hooker, had he carried the audience with him.
▪ Scattered in pursuit, they provided perfect weak points for our counterattack.
▪ Positive interpretation of weaknesses Be honest about assessing your weak points as well.
▪ That is why molecular studies designed to find the weak points in the viral attack must continue, Trono said.
▪ What are his strong and weak points?
▪ We examined our weak points, and turned them into strengths.
▪ Are you naturally more cautious, preferring to test the strength of your enemy before striking at his weak points?
▪ However, in most of these, effusive approval is showered upon her, and her weak points are minimized.
position
▪ It might seem, then, that the anti-realist is in a peculiarly weak position.
▪ De Gaulle needed the Big Lie to help build up his otherwise weak position in the eyes of the allies.
▪ Parliament, however, has a far weaker position.
▪ A desperate seller is in a weak position.
▪ In fact the western Empire was probably in a much weaker position after 406 than the sources suggest.
▪ Khrushchev was in the weaker position at home, since Eisenhower was almost immune to criticism, especially on military matters.
▪ Politically such change will almost certainly reduce even further the already weak position of high need interests.
▪ The Bruins appear to have strengthened their weakest position, the secondary.
smile
▪ Instead he gave a weak smile and fingered the locket, through the cloth of his lapels.
▪ Bob gives me a weak smile.
▪ She gave me a weak smile and a fluttery little wave.
▪ He gives me a weak smile, the smile of a ma1n who knows he has been a fool.
▪ He gave me a weak smile and hiked his chest protector up to his nose.
spot
▪ Rheumatic fever as a child, so the infection settled there, on the weakest spot.
▪ Fogarty told me he was eleven when he understood his own weak spot.
▪ If this type of interviewer senses a weak spot he or she will hang on in there - mercilessly.
▪ So while the weather is reasonably dry, check the exterior for weak spots in the defences.
▪ A young teenage girl often becomes hypercritical of her mum-and knows exactly how to hit her weak spots.
▪ Its only weak spot is in coping with bigger potholes, which send a jarring crash through the bodyshell.
▪ He had two fundamental weak spots.
▪ Find a weak spot and pick at it.
syllable
▪ The distribution of strong and weak syllables is a subject that will be met in several later chapters.
▪ Elision is a closely related subject, and in considering intonation the difference between strong and weak syllables is also important.
▪ In this chapter we look at the general nature of weak syllables.
▪ Not all weak syllables contain, though many do.
yen
▪ Solomon said the weaker yen is likely to start weighing on earnings.
▪ A weak yen creates havoc in several ways for Detroit.
▪ To be sure, some investors feel the impact of a weaker yen on bonds may be limited.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the spirit is willing (but the flesh is weak)
the weaker sex
weak spot
▪ A young teenage girl often becomes hypercritical of her mum-and knows exactly how to hit her weak spots.
▪ Find a weak spot and pick at it.
▪ Fogarty told me he was eleven when he understood his own weak spot.
▪ He had two fundamental weak spots.
▪ If this type of interviewer senses a weak spot he or she will hang on in there - mercilessly.
▪ Its only weak spot is in coping with bigger potholes, which send a jarring crash through the bodyshell.
▪ Rheumatic fever as a child, so the infection settled there, on the weakest spot.
▪ So while the weather is reasonably dry, check the exterior for weak spots in the defences.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a weak excuse
▪ a weak radio signal
▪ a weak, indecisive principal
▪ Be careful - that ladder looks a little weak.
▪ Betty was too weak to get out of bed.
▪ Do you like your tea strong or weak?
▪ He came across as a weak and indecisive leader.
▪ I can't go running - I've got a weak heart.
▪ In 1949-50 China was a weak, vulnerable country devastated by war.
▪ In the weak light inside the bus Tom couldn't see to read.
▪ Martin is a weak swimmer.
▪ Recent elections have left Christian Democrats weak.
▪ She felt weak with emotion at the sight of him.
▪ the weak glow of the dashboard lights
▪ The actors are good, but the plot is weak.
▪ The child was too weak to undergo a transplant operation.
▪ The dollar was weaker on Monday.
▪ The soldiers were weak from hunger and exhaustion.
▪ These policies failed because the government was weak and ineffective.
▪ Unfortunately, our leader was a weak and indecisive man.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fools rush on war to make a weaker country their slave.
▪ Oil companies fell in response to weaker crude oil and natural gas prices.
▪ One of the men was ill and very weak and would have to be brought out on a stretcher.
▪ Some critics have considered it to be too weak and idiosyncratic to carry responsibility for major public and social services.
▪ Technology shares, weak all day, ended near their lows.
▪ The more lethargic, weak and ill the infant, the greater is the urgency and need for expert advice.
▪ These very weak stones are rich in water, which is bound up in both hydrated salts and clay minerals.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weak

Weak \Weak\ (w[=e]k), a. [Compar. Weaker (w[=e]k"[~e]r); superl. Weakest.] [OE. weik, Icel. veikr; akin to Sw. vek, Dan. veg soft, flexible, pliant, AS. w[=a]c weak, soft, pliant, D. week, G. weich, OHG. weih; all from the verb seen in Icel. v[=i]kja to turn, veer, recede, AS. w[=i]can to yield, give way, G. weichen, OHG. w[=i]hhan, akin to Skr. vij, and probably to E. week, L. vicis a change, turn, Gr. e'i`kein to yield, give way. [root]132. Cf. Week, Wink, v. i. Vicissitude.]

  1. Wanting physical strength. Specifically:

    1. Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.

      A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.
      --Shak.

      Weak with hunger, mad with love.
      --Dryden.

    2. Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.

    3. Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.

    4. Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant.

    5. Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress.

    6. Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.

      A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish.
      --Ascham.

    7. Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.

    8. Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army.

  2. Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc. Specifically:

    1. Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate.

      To think every thing disputable is a proof of a weak mind and captious temper.
      --Beattie.

      Origen was never weak enough to imagine that there were two Gods.
      --Waterland.

    2. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.

      If evil thence ensue, She first his weak indulgence will accuse.
      --Milton.

    3. Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.

      Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
      --Rom. xiv. 1.

    4. Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue.

      Guard thy heart On this weak side, where most our nature fails.
      --Addison.

    5. Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty.

    6. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case. ``Convinced of his weak arguing.''
      --Milton.

      A case so weak . . . hath much persisted in.
      --Hooker.

    7. Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style.

    8. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble. ``Weak prayers.''
      --Shak.

    9. Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state.

      I must make fair weather yet awhile, Till Henry be more weak, and I more strong.
      --Shak. (k) (Stock Exchange) Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market.

  3. (Gram.)

    1. Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a) .

    2. Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b) .

  4. (Stock Exchange) Tending toward a lower price or lower prices; as, wheat is weak; a weak market.

  5. (Card Playing) Lacking in good cards; deficient as to number or strength; as, a hand weak in trumps.

  6. (Photog.) Lacking contrast; as, a weak negative.

    Note: Weak is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, weak-eyed, weak-handed, weak-hearted, weak-minded, weak-spirited, and the like.

    Weak conjugation (Gram.), the conjugation of weak verbs; -- called also new conjugation, or regular conjugation, and distinguished from the old conjugation, or irregular conjugation.

    Weak declension (Anglo-Saxon Gram.), the declension of weak nouns; also, one of the declensions of adjectives.

    Weak side, the side or aspect of a person's character or disposition by which he is most easily affected or influenced; weakness; infirmity.

    weak sore or weak ulcer (Med.), a sore covered with pale, flabby, sluggish granulations.

Weak

Weak \Weak\, v. t. & i. [Cf. AS. w?can. w[=a]cian. See Weak, a.] To make or become weak; to weaken. [R.]

Never to seek weaking variety.
--Marston.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
weak

c.1300, from Old Norse veikr "weak," cognate with Old English wac "weak, pliant, soft," from Proto-Germanic *waikwa- "yield" (cognates: Old Saxon wek, Swedish vek, Middle Dutch weec, Dutch week "weak, soft, tender," Old High German weih "yielding, soft," German weich "soft"), from PIE root *weik- (4) "to bend, wind" (see vicarious).\n

\nSense of "lacking authority" is first recorded early 15c.; that of "lacking moral strength" late 14c. In grammar, denoting a verb inflected by regular syllabic addition rather than by change of the radical vowel, from 1833. Related: Weakly. Weak-kneed "wanting in resolve" is from 1870.

Wiktionary
weak

a. 1 Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability. 2 Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain. 3 Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable. 4 dilute, lacking in taste or potency.

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WordNet
weak

  1. adj. having little physical or spiritual strength; "a weak radio signal"; "a weak link" [ant: strong]

  2. overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea" [syn: watery, washy]

  3. lacking power [syn: powerless] [ant: powerful]

  4. used of vowels or syllables; pronounced with little or no stress; "a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable"; "a weak stress on the second syllable" [syn: unaccented, light]

  5. having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only human"; "frail humanity" [syn: fallible, frail, imperfect]

  6. lacking force; feeble; "a forceless argument" [syn: forceless, unforceful] [ant: forceful]

  7. lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, sapless, weakly]

  8. used of verbs having standard (or regular) inflection

  9. lacking physical strength or vigor

  10. characterized by excessive softness or self-indulgence; "an effeminate civilization" [syn: effeminate]

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Wikipedia
Weak

Weak may refer to:

  • "Weak" (SWV song), 1993
  • "Weak" (Skunk Anansie song), 1995
  • "Weak", a song by Westlife from Gravity
  • "Weak", a song by Seether from the band's compilation Seether: 2002-2013
  • "Weak" (Melanie C song), 2011
  • "Weak" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Weak (SWV song)

"Weak" is an R&B ballad recorded by the girl group SWV for their debut album, It's About Time (1992). It was written and produced by Brian Alexander Morgan, who composed the lyrics based upon his feelings towards R&B singer Chanté Moore. Morgan originally wrote the song for Charlie Wilson, but he later decided to give the song to the group. Morgan revealed that Coko didn't like the song and gave him attitude during the recording of the single.

"Weak" was released as the third single from SWV's album, following the top-ten success of "I'm So into You". The song hit number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in July 1993 where it stayed for two weeks, and also reached number six on the New Zealand Singles Charts; it went on to become their signature song. It also topped the Hot R&B Singles chart for two weeks. It sold over one million copies domestically and was awarded a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.

Teen singer JoJo covered "Weak" in 2004 on her self-titled debut album.

Weak (Skunk Anansie song)

"Weak" is a song by Skunk Anansie, released as their fourth single. It was the last release to be taken from their debut album Paranoid & Sunburnt. The song is one of Skunk Anansie's well known releases, and often a favourite at festivals. Skin performs a slower, more ballad-like version at many of her solo gigs. The song has also been covered by Rod Stewart on his 1998 album " When We Were the New Boys".

Weak (Melanie C song)

"Weak" is a song by English singer-songwriter Melanie C from her fifth studio album The Sea. It was released as the third single from the album on 6 November 2011. The song was written by Chisholm, Ina Wroldsen and Jez Ashurt and produced by Andy Chatterley.

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Usage examples of "weak".

Manner of performing the experiments--Action of distilled water in comparison with the solutions--Carbonate of ammonia, absorbed by the roots--The vapour absorbed by the glands--Drops on the disc--Minute drops applied to separate glands--Leaves immersed in weak solutions--Minuteness of the doses which induce aggregation of the protoplasm--Nitrate of ammonia, analogous experiments with--Phosphate of ammonia, analogous experiments with--Other salts of ammonia--Summary and concluding remarks on the action of salts of ammonia.

After a leaf had been left in a weak infusion of raw meat for 10 hours, the cells of the papillae had evidently absorbed animal matter, for instead of limpid fluid they now contained small aggregated masses of protoplasm, which slowly and incessantly changed their forms.

These cases of the simultaneous darkening or blackening of the glands from the action of weak solutions are important, as they show that all the glands absorbed the carbonate within the same time, which fact indeed there was not the least reason to doubt.

You may, therefore, comprehend, that being of no country, asking no protection from any government, acknowledging no man as my brother, not one of the scruples that arrest the powerful, or the obstacles which paralyze the weak, paralyzes or arrests me.

While I was staying with him I became acquainted with some of his weak points, and endeavoured to correct them, at which he took great offence.

Grasped, then, as an underlie in each order of Being, it can be no actualization of either: all that is allowed to it is to be a Potentiality, a weak and blurred phantasm, a thing incapable of a Shape of its own.

Being, it can be no actualization of either: all that is allowed to it is to be a Potentiality, a weak and blurred phantasm, a thing incapable of a Shape of its own.

The cigarette tastes good and it burns my throat and my lungs and though it is the lowest and weakest drug that I am addicted to, it is still a drug and it feels fucking good.

He stood by his assertion that cocaine could be useful in the process of weaning opium addicts from their addiction, justifiying this statement by asserting that cocaine would be addictive only to a certain type of weak personality.

Before, he had withheld from me that which he had adjudged me too weak to know.

I saw the makings of a great adventurer in him, but I thought his luxury would prove the weak point in his cuirass.

And therefore I wander these solitary and desolate places in search of adventures, determined to bring my arm and my person to the most dangerous that fortune may offer, in defense of the weak and helpless.

They hovered as best they could on their weak aerofoils, but the breeze caught them up and carried them away, and the night became still again.

He heard his complaints with great patience and affability, assured him of his assistance and protection, and even undertook to introduce him to the empress-queen, who would not suffer the weakest of her subjects to be oppressed, much less disregard the cause of an injured young nobleman, who, by his own services, and those of his family, was peculiarly entitled to her favour.

We cannot, In conclusion, too strongly condemn the general resort to strong diuretics so often prescribed by physicians for all forms of renal maladies, but which, by over-stimulating the already weak and delicate kidneys, only aggravate and render incurable thousands of cases annually.