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Statics, n. [17th c. Eng. staticks (1656).] The science of weight, its mechanical effects and in relation to equilibrium. —1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1751) 83.
Like some attempting tricks in statics, Not vers'd in Euclid's mathematics
