Every particle attracts every other with a force . . . inversely proportioned to the square of the distance. Sir I. Newton.

Easily managed from a distance. W. Irving.

'T is distance lends enchantment to the view. T. Campbell.

[He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato. Addison.

The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange.

* In trotting matches under the rules of the American Association, the distance varies with the conditions of the race, being 80 yards in races of mile heats, best two in three, and 150 yards in races of two-mile heats. At that distance from the winning post is placed the distance post. If any horse has not reached this distance post before the first horse in that heat has reached the winning post, such horse is distanced, and disqualified for running again during that race.

* In a picture, the Middle distance is the central portion between the foreground and the distance or the extreme distance. In a perspective drawing, the Point of distance is the point where the visual rays meet.

Ten years' distance between one and the other. Prior.

The writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years. Playfair.

I hope your modesty
Will know what distance to the crown is due. Dryden.

'T is by respect and distance that authority is upheld. Atterbury.

Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves. Bacon.

On the part of Heaven,
Now alienated, distance and distaste. Milton.

Angular distance, the distance made at the eye by lines drawn from the eye to two objects. -- Lunar distance. See under Lunar. -- North polar distance (Astron.), the distance on the heavens of a heavenly body from the north pole. It is the complement of the declination. -- Zenith distance (Astron.), the arc on the heavens from a heavenly body to the zenith of the observer. It is the complement of the altitude. -- To keep one's distance, to stand aloof; to refrain from familiarity.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is he keeps his at the same time. Swift.

I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence. Fuller.

His peculiar art of distancing an object to aggrandize his space. H. Miller.

He distanced the most skillful of his contemporaries. Milner.