The horse vanished . . . out of sight. --Chaucer.
Go; vanish into air; away! --Shak.
The champions vanished from their posts with the
speed of lightning. --Sir W.
Scott.
Gliding from the twilight past to vanish among
realities. --Hawthorne.
2. To be annihilated or lost; to pass away. ``All these
delights will vanish.'' --Milton.
{Vanishing fraction} (Math.), a fraction which reduces to the
form 0/0 for a particular value of the variable which
enters it, usually in consequence of the existence of a
common factor in both terms of the fraction, which factor
becomes 0 for this particular value of the variable.
--Math. Dict.
{Vanishing line} (Persp.), the intersection of the parallel
of any original plane and picture; one of the lines
converging to the vanishing point.
{Vanishing point} (Persp.), the point to which all parallel
lines in the same plane tend in the representation.
--Gwilt.
{Vanishing stress} (Phon.), stress of voice upon the closing
portion of a syllable. --Rush.