That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment.
Damp weather and moist air can weaken or even prevent electrical attraction, for it impedes the efflux of the humor at the source and accordingly diminishes the attraction.
Port Natal is the only harbor, and not a specially fine one; for a sand bar across its mouth impedes navigation.
The size of its unwieldy horns often impedes the range of its small, deep-set eyes, hence it can see only what comes immediately before it.
Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees.
Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.
Sluggish is still stronger, implying some defect of temperament which directly impedes action.
Stuffing the wound daily with large dossils of lint, smeared or not with irritating ointments, is attended with much pain, and certainly impedes the cure.
The artery is more involved at the middle portion of the axilla than at the superior and inferior; at that point, too, the cephalic vein, as well as the axillary, impedes the operator.
The part protruding around the gums is deeply indented by the teeth of the upper jaw; it separates the jaws to a greater or less extent, prevents closure of the lips, induces salivation, and impedes the taking of nourishment.
Regret identifies us with the past and impedes progress.
We give up nothing but that which impedes the inflow of godly forces.
Different experiments would vary with the velocity, quantity of water, and smoothness of the pipe; but nothing is more certain, than that every change of direction impedes velocity.
Indeed, if there be not some stratum below the soil, which impedes the passage of water, it would pass downward, and the land would need no artificial drainage.
Whatever the theory, the fact is acknowledged, that stagnant water in as well as on the soil, impedes the growth of all our valuable crops, and that drainage soon cures the evil, by removing the effect with its cause.
Sluggish is still stronger, implying some defect of temperament which directly impedes action.
Defn: Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees.
Defn: That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.
Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will.
This fight of humanity cannot be other than directed against something that impedes the sensation of life.
Lucina complies with her request, and places herself on an altar at the gate of Alcmena’s abode, where, by a magic spell, she increases her pains and impedes her delivery.
He orders, {but} the adverse storm impedes the execution; and the roaring of the sea does not allow any voice to be heard.
The slave-hunting abomination is, we must repeat, the mortal wound of Central Africa; it impedes commercial enterprise, and paralyzes the efforts of the pioneers of Christian civilization.
In the rainy season, a hollow or valley, which cuts across it from north to south, is filled with water, which impedes communication, and renders the place insalubrious.
Nothing so much impedes the liberation of men as this remarkable delusion.
Such is the process by means of which Christianity, in spite of the violence which is exercised by the power of the state and which impedes the forward movement of humanity, takes possession of men more and more.
Not that it proves really serviceable to him or facilitates his task of vengeance; on the contrary, it impedes his action by tempting him from the straight path into witty digressions and deviations.
Their peculiarly Polish characteristic is that what enervates and impedes them is not their reflective but their poetic bias.
He has taken year by year a more intensive view of life, he has grown too conscious of the inertia thatimpedes ideas and the overwhelming immediacies of the actual world to be called glib and easy any more.
The airspace between the clothing significantly impedes heat transfer and may prevent or reduce the severity of burns, depending on the magnitude of the thermal flux.
It does not theoretically limit, but it practically impedes and interferes with the legislative sovereignty of Parliament.
Ordinarily we say that a condenser impedes an alternating current less and less the higher is the frequency of the current.
The fact that iron decreases the inductance and so seriously impedes alternating currents leads us to use iron-core coils where we want high inductance.
The alternating-current component can't get along in the coil because its frequency is so high that the coil impedes the motion of the electrons so much as practically to stop them.
And as to inductances, we say that an inductance impedes an alternating current more and more the higher is the frequency.
Fourthly-tight lacing, as I have already said, compresses the heart as well as the lungs, and impedes the motion of this important organ.
While doing this, they throw over the mother a material which impedes her movement, and which we call by a name that may be freely translated, "Clinging Flannel.
The patient is unconscious of the fact that it is in herself that the obstacle lies which should be overcome, the boundary that is difficult to cross which impedes further progress.
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