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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Datura \[d8]Da*tu"ra\, n. [NL.; cf. Skr. dhatt[?]ra, Per. & Ar. tat[?]ra, Tat[?]la.] (Bot.) A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit. Note: The commonest species are the thorn apple ({D. stramonium}), with a prickly capsule (see Illust. of {capsule}), white flowers and green stem, and {D. tatula}, with a purplish tinge of the stem and flowers. Both are narcotic and dangerously poisonous. | |
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Warbler \War"bler\, n. 1. One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds. In lulling strains the feathered warblers woo. --Tickell. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family {Sylviid[91]}, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under {Reed}), and sedge warbler (see under {Sedge}) are well-known species. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored, American singing birds of the family or subfamily {Mniotiltid[91]}, or {Sylvicolin[91]}. They are allied to the Old World warblers, but most of them are not particularly musical. Note: The American warblers are often divided, according to their habits, into bush warblers, creeping warblers, fly-catching warblers, ground warblers, wood warblers, wormeating warblers, etc. {Bush warbler} (Zo[94]l.) any American warbler of the genus {Opornis}, as the Connecticut warbler ({O. agilis}). {Creeping warbler} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of very small American warblers belonging to {Parula}, {Mniotilta}, and allied genera, as the blue yellow-backed warbler ({Parula Americana}), and the black-and-white creeper ({Mniotilta varia}). {Fly-catching warbler} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of warblers belonging to {Setophaga}, {Sylvania}, and allied genera having the bill hooked and notched at the tip, with strong rictal bristles at the base, as the hooded warbler ({Sylvania mitrata}), the black-capped warbler ({S. pusilla}), the Canadian warbler ({S. Canadensis}), and the American redstart (see {Redstart}). {Ground warbler} (Zo[94]l.), any American warbler of the genus {Geothlypis}, as the mourning ground warbler ({G. Philadelphia}), and the Maryland yellowthroat (see {Yellowthroat}). {Wood warbler} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous American warblers of the genus {Dendroica}. Among the most common wood warblers in the Eastern States are the yellowbird, or yellow warbler (see under {Yellow}), the black-throated green warbler ({Dendroica virens}), the yellow-rumped warbler ({D. coronata}), the blackpoll ({D. striata}), the bay-breasted warbler ({D. castanea}), the chestnut-sided warbler ({D. Pennsylvanica}), the Cape May warbler ({D. tigrina}), the prairie warbler (see under {Prairie}), and the pine warbler ({D. pinus}). See also {Magnolia warbler}, under {Magnolia}, and {Blackburnian warbler}. | |
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d1strian \[d1]s"tri*an\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to the gadflies. -- n. A gadfly. | |
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d1strual \[d1]s"tru*al\, a. [See {[d1]strus}.] (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to sexual desire; -- mostly applied to brute animals; as, the [d2]strual period; [d2]strual influence. | |
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d1struation \[d1]s`tru*a"tion\, n. (Physiol.) The state of being under [d2]strual influence, or of having sexual desire. | |
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d8d1strus \[d8][d1]s"trus\, n. [L., a gadfly; also, frenzy, fr.Gr. [?] gadfly; hence, sting, fury, insane desire, frenzy.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larv[91] in the nasal cavities of sheep is {[d2]strus ovis}. 2. A vehement desire; esp. (Physiol.), the periodical sexual impulse of animals; heat; rut. | |
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d8Ascidiarium \[d8]As*cid`i*a"ri*um\, n. [NL. See {Ascidium}.] (Zo[94]l.) The structure which unites together the ascidiozooids in a compound ascidian. | |
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d8Astarte \[d8]As*tar"te\, n. [Gr. [?] a Ph[d2]nician goddess.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe. | |
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d8Asterias \[d8]As*te"ri*as\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] starred, fr. 'asth`r star.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of echinoderms. Note: Formerly the group of this name included nearly all starfishes and ophiurans. Now it is restricted to a genus including the commonest shore starfishes. | |
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d8Asterioidea \[d8]As*te`ri*oid"e*a\, d8Asteridea \[d8]As`ter*id"e*a\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'asteri`as + -oid. See {Asterias}.] (Zo[94]l.) A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is star-shaped or pentagonal. | |
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d8Asterioidea \[d8]As*te`ri*oid"e*a\, d8Asteridea \[d8]As`ter*id"e*a\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'asteri`as + -oid. See {Asterias}.] (Zo[94]l.) A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is star-shaped or pentagonal. | |
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d8Asterion \[d8]As*te"ri*on\, n. [Gr. 'aste`rion starry.] (Anat.) The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures. | |
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d8Asteriscus \[d8]As`ter*is"cus\, n. [L., an asterisk. See {Asterisk}.] (Anat.) The smaller of the two otoliths found in the inner ear of many fishes. | |
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d8Asterolepis \[d8]As`te*rol"e*pis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'asth`r star + [?] scale.] (Paleon.) A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. --Hugh Miller. | |
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d8Astragalus \[d8]As*trag"a*lus\, n. [L. See {Astragal}.] 1. (Anat.) The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle. 2. (Bot.) A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe {Galege[91]}, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, {milk vetch} and {licorice vetch}. {Gum tragacanth} is obtained from different oriental species, particularly the {A. gummifer} and {A. verus}. 3. (Arch.) See {Astragal}, 1. | |
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d8Astrophyton \[d8]As*troph"y*ton\, n. [Astro- + Gr. fyton a plant.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched. | |
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d8Auster \[d8]Aus"ter\, n. [L. auster a dry, hot, south wind; the south.] The south wind. --Pope. | |
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d8Azoturia \[d8]Az`o*tu"ri*a\, n. [NL.; azote + Gr. [?] urine.] (Med.) Excess of urea or other nitrogenous substances in the urine. | |
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d8Cadre \[d8]Ca"dre\, n. [F. cadre, It. quadro square, from L. quadrum, fr. quatuor four.] (Mil.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. [Written also {cader}.] | |
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d8Catharsis \[d8]Ca*thar"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?]. See {Cathartic}.] (Med.) A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc. | |
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d8Chittra \[d8]Chit"tra\, n. [Native Indian name.] (Zo[94]l.) The axis deer of India. | |
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d8Citrus \[d8]Cit"rus\ (s[icr]t"r[ucr]s), n. [L., a citron tree.] (Bot.) A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia. | |
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d8Coterie \[d8]Co`te*rie"\ (k?`te-r?"; 277), n. [F., prob. from OF. coterie servile tenure, fr. colier cotter; of German origin. See 1st {Cot}.] A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique. [bd]The queen of your coterie.[b8] --Thackeray. | |
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d8Cothurnus \[d8]Co*thur"nus\ (-n?s), n. [L.] Same as {Cothurn}. | |
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d8d1strus \[d8][d1]s"trus\, n. [L., a gadfly; also, frenzy, fr.Gr. [?] gadfly; hence, sting, fury, insane desire, frenzy.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larv[91] in the nasal cavities of sheep is {[d2]strus ovis}. 2. A vehement desire; esp. (Physiol.), the periodical sexual impulse of animals; heat; rut. | |
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d8Desiderata \[d8]De*sid`e*ra"ta\, n. pl. See {Desideratum}. | |
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d8Desideratum \[d8]De*sid`e*ra"tum\, n.; pl. {Desiderata}. [L., fr. desideratus, p. p. See {Desiderate}.] Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge. | |
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d8Distrait \[d8]Dis`trait"\, a. [F. See {Distract}.] Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted. | |
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d8Distringas \[d8]Dis*trin"gas\, n. [L., that you distrain, fr. distringere. See {Distrain}.] (Law) A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him. | |
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d8Doctrinaire \[d8]Doc`tri*naire"\, n. [F. See {Doctrine}.] One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions. Note: In french history, the Doctrinaires were a constitutionalist party which originated after the restoration of the Bourbons, and represented the interests of liberalism and progress. After the Revolution of July, 1830, when they came into power, they assumed a conservative position in antagonism with the republicans and radicals. --Am. Cyc. | |
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d8Ecthoreum \[d8]Ec`tho*re"um\, n.; pl. {Ecthorea}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] to leap out; ek out + [?], [?], to leap, dart.] (Zo[94]l.) The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See {Nettling cell}. [Written also {ecthor[91]um}.] | |
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d8Ectropion \[d8]Ec*tro"pi*on\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] a turning aside; [?] from + [?] to turn.] (Med.) An unnatural eversion of the eyelids. | |
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d8Ectropium \[d8]Ec*tro"pi*um\, n. [NL.] (Med.) Same as {Ectropion}. | |
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d8Estramacon \[d8]Es`tra`ma`con"\, n. [F.] 1. A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries. 2. A blow with edge of a sword. --Farrow. | |
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d8Exedra \[d8]Ex"e*dra\, n.; pl. {Exedr[91]}. [L., fr. Gr [?]; [?] out + [?] seat.] 1. (Class. Antiq.) A room in a public building, furnished with seats. 2. (Arch.) (a) The projection of any part of a building in a rounded form. (b) Any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form. | |
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d8Exhedra \[d8]Ex"he*dra\, n. [NL.] See {Exedra}. | |
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d8Externe \[d8]Ex`terne"\ ([ecr]ks`t[ecr]rn"), n. [F.] An extern; esp;, a doctor or medical student who is in attendance upon, or is assisting at, a hospital, but who does not reside in it. | |
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d8Externe \[d8]Ex`terne"\, n. [F. Cf. {Extern}.] (med.) An officer in attendance upon a hospital, but not residing in it; esp., one who cares for the out-patients. | |
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d8Extra- \[d8]Ex"tra-\ [L., fr. exter. See {Exterior}.] A Latin preposition, denoting beyond, outside of; -- often used in composition as a prefix signifying outside of, beyond, besides, or in addition to what is denoted by the word to which it is prefixed. | |
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d8Goudron \[d8]Gou`dron"\, n. [F., tar.] (Mil.) a small fascine or fagot, steeped in wax, pitch, and glue, used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts. --Farrow. | |
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d8Haustorium \[d8]Haus*to"ri*um\, n.; pl. {Haustoria}. [LL., a well, fr. L. haurire, haustum, to drink.] (Bot.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy. --R. Brown. | |
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d8Historiette \[d8]His`to*ri*ette"\, n. [F., dim. of histoire a history.] Historical narration on a small scale; a brief recital; a story. --Emerson. | |
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d8Hyosternum \[d8]Hy`o*ster"num\, n. [Hyo- + sternum.] (Anat.) See {Hyoplastron}. | |
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d8Hysteresis \[d8]Hys`te*re"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] to be behind, to lag.] (Physics) A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a condition previously induced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity. | |
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d8Hysteron proteron \[d8]Hys"te*ron prot"e*ron\ [NL., fr. Gr. [?] the latter, following + [?] before, others, sooner.] (Rhet.) (a) A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, [bd]he is well and lives.[b8] (b) An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence. | |
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d8Ichthyornis \[d8]Ich`thy*or"nis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], [?], a fish + [?] bird.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of toothed birds found in the American Cretaceous formation. It is remarkable for having biconcave vertebr[91], and sharp, conical teeth set in sockets. Its wings were well developed. It is the type of the order Odontotorm[91]. | |
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d8Icterus \[d8]Ic"te*rus\, n. [NL. See {Icteric}, a.] (Med.) The jaundice. | |
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d8Jeterus \[d8]Jet"e*rus\, n. (Bot.) A yellowness of the parts of plants which are normally green; yellows. | |
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d8Kithara \[d8]Kith"a*ra\ (-[adot]*r[adot]), n. See {Cithara}. | |
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d8Octroi \[d8]Oc`troi"\, n. [F.] 1. A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession. 2. A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls. [Written also {octroy}.] | |
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d8Ostracea \[d8]Os*tra"ce*a\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] shell of a testacean.] (Zo[94]l.) A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells. | |
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d8Ostracion \[d8]Os*tra"ci*on\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] small shell.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of plectognath fishes having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes. | |
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d8Ostracoda \[d8]Os*trac"o*da\, n. pl. (Zo[94]l.) Ostracoidea. | |
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d8Ostracodermi \[d8]Os`tra*coder"mi\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] shell of a testacean + [?] skin.] (Zo[94]l.) A suborder of fishes of which Ostracion is the type. | |
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d8Ostracoidea \[d8]Os`tra*coi"de*a\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] shell of a testacean + -oid.] (Zo[94]l.) An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about. [Written also {Ostracoda}.] | |
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d8Ostrea \[d8]Os"tre*a\, n. [L., an oyster.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of bivalve Mollusca which includes the true oysters. | |
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d8Quadra \[d8]Quad"ra\, n.; pl. {Quadr[91]}. [L., a square, the socle, a platband, a fillet.] (Arch.) (a) The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like. (b) A fillet, or listel. | |
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d8Quadragesima \[d8]Quad`ra*ges"i*ma\, n. [L., fr. quadragesimus the fortieth, fr. quadraginta forty; akin to quattuor four. See {Four}.] (Eccl.) The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. {Quadragesima Sunday}, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter. | |
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d8Quadrans \[d8]Quad"rans\, n.; pl. {Quadrantes}. [L.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2. 2. The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See {Cur}. | |
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d8Quadrennium \[d8]Quad*ren"ni*um\, n. [NL. See {Quadrennial}.] A space or period of four years. | |
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d8Quadriceps \[d8]Quad"ri*ceps\, n. [NL., fr. L. qyattuor four + caput head.] (Anat.) The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee. | |
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d8Quadriga \[d8]Quad*ri"ga\, n.; pl. {Quadrig[91]}. [L. See {Quadrijugous}.] (Rom. Antiq.) A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast. | |
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d8Quadrivium \[d8]Quad*riv"i*um\, n. [L.] The four [bd]liberal arts,[b8] arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See {Trivium}. | |
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d8Quadrumana \[d8]Quad*ru"ma*na\, n. pl. [NL. See {Quadrumane}.] (Zo[94]l.) A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone. | |
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d8Quattrocento \[d8]Quat`tro*cen"to\, n. & a. [It., four hundred, used as an abbreviated expression for the dates beginning with fourteen hundred.] The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style. -- {Quat`tro*cen"tist}, n. | |
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d8Sadr \[d8]Sadr\, n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Ziziphus} ({Z. lotus}); -- so called by the Arabs of Barbary, who use its berries for food. See {Lotus} (b) . | |
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d8Satyriasis \[d8]Sat`y*ri"a*sis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?]. See {Satyr}.] Immoderate venereal appetite in the male. --Quain. | |
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d8Satyrion \[d8]Sa*tyr"i*on\, n. [L., fr. Gr. saty`rion.] (Bot.) Any one of several kinds of orchids. [Obs.] | |
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d8Sauter \[d8]Sau`ter"\, v. t. [F., properly, to jump.] To fry lightly and quickly, as meat, by turning or tossing it over frequently in a hot pan greased with a little fat. | |
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d8Sederunt \[d8]Se*de"runt\, n. [L., they sat, fr. sedere to sit.] A sitting, as of a court or other body. 'T is pity we have not Burn's own account of that long sederunt. --Prof. Wilson. {Acts of sederunt} (Scots Law), ordinances of the Court of Session for the ordering of processes and expediting of justice. --Bell. | |
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d8Siderosis \[d8]Sid`e*ro"sis\, n.[NL., fr. Gr. [?][?][?] iron.] (Med.) A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron. | |
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d8Sideroxylon \[d8]Sid`e*rox"y*lon\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?][?][?] iron + [?][?][?] wood.] (Bot.) A genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood. | |
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d8Soodra \[d8]Soo"dra\ Same as {Sudra}. | |
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d8Stearrhea \[d8]Ste`ar*rhe"a\, n. [NL., from Gr. [?] tallow + [?] to flow.] (Med.) seborrhea. | |
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d8Sterelmintha \[d8]Ster`el*min"tha\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. stereo`s solid + [?] a worm.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Platyelminthes}. | |
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d8Sternebra \[d8]Ster"ne*bra\, n.; pl. {Sternebr[91]}. [NL., fr. sternum + -bra of vertebra.] (Anat.) One of the segments of the sternum. -- {Ster"ne*bral}, a. | |
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d8Stirps \[d8]Stirps\, n.; pl. {Stirpes}. [L., stem, stock.] 1. (Law) Stock; race; family. --Blackstone. 2. (Bot.) A race, or a fixed and permanent variety. | |
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d8Storge \[d8]Stor"ge\, n. [NL., from Gr. [?], [?], to love.] Parental affection; the instinctive affection which animals have for their young. | |
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d8Storthing \[d8]Stor"thing\, n. [Norw. storting; stor great + ting court, court of justice; cf. Dan. ting, thing.] The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions. | |
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d8Stragulum \[d8]Strag"u*lum\, n.; pl. {Stragula}. [L., a spread or covering, from sternere to spread out.] (Zo[94]l.) The mantle, or pallium, of a bird. | |
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d8Strategus \[d8]Stra*te"gus\, n.; pl. {Strategi}. [L., fr. Gr. [?]. See {Stratagem}.] (Gr. Antiq.) The leader or commander of an army; a general. | |
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d8Strelitzia \[d8]Stre*litz"i*a\, n. [NL., named after Charlotte, Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and queen of George III of Great Britain.] (Bot.) A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape of Good Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers. | |
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d8Strepitores \[d8]Strep`i*to"res\, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. strepitus clamor.] (Zo[94]l.) A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs. | |
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d8Strepsiptera \[d8]Strep*sip"te*ra\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] a turning (fr. [?] to twist) + [?] a wing.] (Zo[94]l.) A group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also {Rhipiptera}. See Illust. under {Rhipipter}. | |
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d8Strepsorhina \[d8]Strep`so*rhi"na\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] a turning + [?], [?], the nose.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Lemuroidea}. | |
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d8Streptobacteria \[d8]Strep`to*bac*te"ri*a\, n. pl.; sing. {Streptobracterium}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] pliant, bent + E. & NL. bacteria.] (Biol.) A so-called variety of bacterium, consisting in reality of several bacteria linked together in the form of a chain. | |
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d8Streptococcus \[d8]Strep`to*coc"cus\, n.; pl. {Streptococci}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] pliant, curved + [?] a grain, seed.] (Biol.) A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved. | |
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d8Streptoneura \[d8]Strep`to*neu"ra\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] curved + [?] a sinew.] (Zo[94]l.) An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearly to equivalent to Prosobranchiata. | |
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d8Streptothrix \[d8]Strep"to*thrix\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] pliant, bent + [?] a hair.] (Biol.) A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted. | |
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d8Stretto \[d8]Stret"to\, n. [It., close or contacted, pressed.] (Mus.) (a) The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue. (b) In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time. [Written also {stretta}.] | |
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d8Striatum \[d8]Stri*a"tum\, n. [NL.] (Anat.) The corpus striatum. | |
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d8Stridor \[d8]Stri"dor\, n. [L., from stridere to make any harsh, grating, or creaking sound.] A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise. --Dryden. | |
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d8Striges \[d8]Stri"ges\, n. pl. [L., pl. of strix a streech owl; cf. Gr. [?] a screaming night bird.] (Zo[94]l.) The tribe of birds which comprises the owls. | |
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d8Stringendo \[d8]Strin"gen*do\, a. [It.] (Mus.) Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax. | |
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d8Strisores \[d8]Stri*so"res\, n. pl. [NL.; cf. L. stridere to creak, whiz, buzz.] (Zo[94]l.) A division of passerine birds including the humming birds, swifts, and goatsuckers. It is now generally considered an artificial group. | |
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d8Strobila \[d8]Stro*bi"la\, n.; pl. {Strobil[91]}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] anything twisted, a pine cone.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyr[91], or young medus[91]. (b) A mature tapeworm. | |
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d8Stroma \[d8]Stro"ma\, n.; pl. {Stromata}. [L., a bed covering, Gr. [?] a couch or bed.] 1. (Anat.) (a) The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney. (b) The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell. 2. (Bot.) A layer or mass of cellular tissue, especially that part of the thallus of certain fungi which incloses the perithecia. | |
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d8Strombus \[d8]Strom"bus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?].] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. It includes many large and handsome species commonly called {conch shells}, or {conchs}. See {Conch}. | |
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d8Strophanthus \[d8]Stro*phan"thus\, n. [NL., from Gr. [?] a turning + [?] a flower.] (Bot.) A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species ({Strophanthus hispidus}) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant. | |
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d8Strophulus \[d8]Stroph"u*lus\, n. [NL.] (Med.) See {Red-gum}, 1. | |
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d8Struma \[d8]Stru"ma\, n. [L., a scrofulous tumor.] 1. (Med.) Scrofula. 2. (Bot.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses. | |
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d8Struthio \[d8]Stru"thi*o\, n.; pl. {Struthiones}. [L., an ostrich, fr. Gr. [?].] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of birds including the African ostriches. | |
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d8Struthioidea \[d8]Stru`thi*oi"de*a\, n. pl. [NL. See {Struthio}, and {-oid}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Struthiones}. | |
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d8Struthiones \[d8]Stru`thi*o"nes\, n. pl. [NL. See {Struthio}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches. (b) In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to {Ratit[91]}, or {Drom[91]ognath[91]}. | |
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d8Strychnos \[d8]Strych"nos\, n. [L., a kind of nightshade, Gr. [?].] (Bot.) A genus of tropical trees and shrubs of the order {Loganiace[91]}. See {Nux vomica}. | |
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d8Sturiones \[d8]Stu`ri*o"nes\, n. pl. [NL., from LL. sturio. See {Sturgeon}.] (Zo[94]l.) An order of fishes including the sturgeons. | |
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d8Sudarium \[d8]Su*da"ri*um\, n. [L., a handkerchief.] (Eccl.) The handkerchief upon which the Savior is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion. | |
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d8Sudra \[d8]Su"dra\, n. [Skr. [87][?]dra.] The lowest of the four great castes among the Hindoos. See {Caste}. [Written also {Soorah}, {Soodra}, and {Sooder}.] | |
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d8Sutra \[d8]Su"tra\, n.; pl. {Sutras}. [Skr. s[?]tra a thread, a string of rules; an aphorism; fr. siv to sew.] 1. (a) A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule. (b) A collection of such aphorisms. 2. pl. A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature. --Balfour (Cyc. of India). | |
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d8Tectrices \[d8]Tec"tri*ces\, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tegere, tectum, to cover.] (Zo[94]l.) The wing coverts of a bird. See {Covert}, and Illust. of {Bird}. | |
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d8Testi8are \[d8]Tes`ti*[8a]re"\, n. [OF. testiere. See {Tester} a headpiece.] A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester. | |
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Dastard \Das"tard\, n. [Prob. from Icel. d[91]str exhausted. breathless, p. p. of d[91]sa to groan, lose one's breath; cf. dasask to become exhausted, and E. daze.] One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. --Shak. | |
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Dastard \Das"tard\, a. Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly. [bd]Their dastard souls.[b8] --Addison. | |
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Dastard \Das"tard\, v. t. To dastardize. [R.] --Dryden. | |
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Lapwing \Lap"wing`\, n. [OE. lapwynke, leepwynke, AS. hle[a0]pewince; hle[a0]pan to leap, jump + (prob.) a word akin to AS. wincian to wink, E. wink, AS. wancol wavering; cf. G. wanken to stagger, waver. See {Leap}, and {Wink}.] (Zo[94]l.) A small European bird of the Plover family ({Vanellus cristatus}, or {V. vanellus}). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the [bd]plover's eggs[b8] of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also {peewit}, {dastard plover}, and {wype}. The {gray lapwing} is the {Squatarola cinerea}. | |
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Dastardize \Das"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dastardized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dastardizing}.] To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage. --Dryden. | |
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Dastardize \Das"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dastardized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dastardizing}.] To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage. --Dryden. | |
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Dastardize \Das"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dastardized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dastardizing}.] To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage. --Dryden. | |
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Dastardliness \Das"tard*li*ness\, n. The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear. | |
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Dastardly \Das"tard*ly\, a. Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage. | |
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Dastardness \Das"tard*ness\, n. Dastardliness. | |
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Dastardy \Das"tard*y\, n. Base timidity; cowardliness. | |
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Daughter \Daugh"ter\, n.; pl. {Daughters}; obs. pl. {Daughtren}. [OE. doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. d[omac]ttir, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. da[a3]htar,, OSlav. d[ucr]shti, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt[emac], Gr. qyga`thr, Zend. dughdhar, Skr. duhit[rsdot]; possibly originally, the milker, cf. Skr. duh to milk. [root]68, 245.] 1. The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals. 2. A female descendant; a woman. This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. --Luke xiii. 16. Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. --Gen. xxxiv. 1. 3. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. --Ruth. i. 11. 4. A term of address indicating parental interest. Daughter, be of good comfort. --Matt. ix. 22. {Daughter cell} (Biol.), one of the cells formed by cell division. See {Cell division}, under {Division}. | |
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Daughter \Daugh"ter\, n.; pl. {Daughters}; obs. pl. {Daughtren}. [OE. doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. d[omac]ttir, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. da[a3]htar,, OSlav. d[ucr]shti, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt[emac], Gr. qyga`thr, Zend. dughdhar, Skr. duhit[rsdot]; possibly originally, the milker, cf. Skr. duh to milk. [root]68, 245.] 1. The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals. 2. A female descendant; a woman. This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. --Luke xiii. 16. Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. --Gen. xxxiv. 1. 3. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. --Ruth. i. 11. 4. A term of address indicating parental interest. Daughter, be of good comfort. --Matt. ix. 22. {Daughter cell} (Biol.), one of the cells formed by cell division. See {Cell division}, under {Division}. | |
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Daughter-in-law \Daugh"ter-in-law`\, n.; pl. {Daughters-in-law}. The wife of one's son. | |
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Daughterliness \Daugh"ter*li*ness\, n. The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter. | |
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Daughterly \Daugh"ter*ly\, a. Becoming a daughter; filial. Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. --Cavendish. | |
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Daughter \Daugh"ter\, n.; pl. {Daughters}; obs. pl. {Daughtren}. [OE. doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. d[omac]ttir, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. da[a3]htar,, OSlav. d[ucr]shti, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt[emac], Gr. qyga`thr, Zend. dughdhar, Skr. duhit[rsdot]; possibly originally, the milker, cf. Skr. duh to milk. [root]68, 245.] 1. The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals. 2. A female descendant; a woman. This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. --Luke xiii. 16. Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. --Gen. xxxiv. 1. 3. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. --Ruth. i. 11. 4. A term of address indicating parental interest. Daughter, be of good comfort. --Matt. ix. 22. {Daughter cell} (Biol.), one of the cells formed by cell division. See {Cell division}, under {Division}. | |
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Daughter-in-law \Daugh"ter-in-law`\, n.; pl. {Daughters-in-law}. The wife of one's son. | |
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Daughter \Daugh"ter\, n.; pl. {Daughters}; obs. pl. {Daughtren}. [OE. doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. d[omac]ttir, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. da[a3]htar,, OSlav. d[ucr]shti, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt[emac], Gr. qyga`thr, Zend. dughdhar, Skr. duhit[rsdot]; possibly originally, the milker, cf. Skr. duh to milk. [root]68, 245.] 1. The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals. 2. A female descendant; a woman. This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. --Luke xiii. 16. Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. --Gen. xxxiv. 1. 3. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. --Ruth. i. 11. 4. A term of address indicating parental interest. Daughter, be of good comfort. --Matt. ix. 22. {Daughter cell} (Biol.), one of the cells formed by cell division. See {Cell division}, under {Division}. | |
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Day-star \Day"-star`\ (-st[aum]r`), n. 1. The morning star; the star which ushers in the day. A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. --2 Peter i. 19. 2. The sun, as the orb of day. [Poetic] So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. --Milton. | |
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Decahedron \Dec`a*he"dron\, n.; pl. E. {Decahedrons}, L. {Decahedra}. [Pref. deca- + Gr. 'e`dra a seat, a base, fr. 'e`zesthai to sit: cf. F. d[82]ca[8a]dre.] (Geom.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. [Written also, less correctly, {decaedron}.] | |
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Decahedron \Dec`a*he"dron\, n.; pl. E. {Decahedrons}, L. {Decahedra}. [Pref. deca- + Gr. 'e`dra a seat, a base, fr. 'e`zesthai to sit: cf. F. d[82]ca[8a]dre.] (Geom.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. [Written also, less correctly, {decaedron}.] | |
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Decahedral \Dec`a*he"dral\, a. Having ten sides. | |
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Decahedron \Dec`a*he"dron\, n.; pl. E. {Decahedrons}, L. {Decahedra}. [Pref. deca- + Gr. 'e`dra a seat, a base, fr. 'e`zesthai to sit: cf. F. d[82]ca[8a]dre.] (Geom.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. [Written also, less correctly, {decaedron}.] | |
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Decahedron \Dec`a*he"dron\, n.; pl. E. {Decahedrons}, L. {Decahedra}. [Pref. deca- + Gr. 'e`dra a seat, a base, fr. 'e`zesthai to sit: cf. F. d[82]ca[8a]dre.] (Geom.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. [Written also, less correctly, {decaedron}.] | |
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Decider \De*cid"er\, n. One who decides. | |
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Deck \Deck\, n. [D. dek. See {Deck}, v.] 1. The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks. Note: The following are the more common names of the decks of vessels having more than one. {Berth deck} (Navy), a deck next below the gun deck, where the hammocks of the crew are swung. {Boiler deck} (River Steamers), the deck on which the boilers are placed. {Flush deck}, any continuous, unbroken deck from stem to stern. {Gun deck} (Navy), a deck below the spar deck, on which the ship's guns are carried. If there are two gun decks, the upper one is called the main deck, the lower, the lower gun deck; if there are three, one is called the middle gun deck. {Half-deck}, that portion of the deck next below the spar deck which is between the mainmast and the cabin. {Hurricane deck} (River Steamers, etc.), the upper deck, usually a light deck, erected above the frame of the hull. {Orlop deck}, the deck or part of a deck where the cables are stowed, usually below the water line. {Poop deck}, the deck forming the roof of a poop or poop cabin, built on the upper deck and extending from the mizzenmast aft. {Quarter-deck}, the part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. {Spar deck}. (a) Same as the upper deck. (b) Sometimes a light deck fitted over the upper deck. {Upper deck}, the highest deck of the hull, extending from stem to stern. 2. (arch.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat. 3. (Railroad) The roof of a passenger car. 4. A pack or set of playing cards. The king was slyly fingered from the deck. --Shak. 5. A heap or store. [Obs.] Who . . . hath such trinkets Ready in the deck. --Massinger. {Between decks}. See under {Between}. {Deck bridge} (Railroad Engineering), a bridge which carries the track upon the upper chords; -- distinguished from a through bridge, which carries the track upon the lower chords, between the girders. {Deck curb} (Arch.), a curb supporting a deck in roof construction. {Deck floor} (Arch.), a floor which serves also as a roof, as of a belfry or balcony. {Deck hand}, a sailor hired to help on the vessel's deck, but not expected to go aloft. {Deck molding} (Arch.), the molded finish of the edge of a deck, making the junction with the lower slope of the roof. {Deck roof} (Arch.), a nearly flat roof which is not surmounted by parapet walls. {Deck transom} (Shipbuilding), the transom into which the deck is framed. {To clear the decks} (Naut.), to remove every unnecessary incumbrance in preparation for battle; to prepare for action. {To sweep the deck} (Card Playing), to clear off all the stakes on the table by winning them. | |
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Desiderable \De*sid"er*a*ble\, a. Desirable. [R.] [bd]Good and desiderable things.[b8] --Holland. | |
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d8Desideratum \[d8]De*sid`e*ra"tum\, n.; pl. {Desiderata}. [L., fr. desideratus, p. p. See {Desiderate}.] Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge. | |
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Desiderate \De*sid"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Desiderated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Desiderating}.] [L. desideratus, p. p. of desiderare to desire, miss. See {Desire}, and cf. {Desideratum}.] To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want. Pray have the goodness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. --Prof. Wilson. Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. --A. W. Ward. | |
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Desiderate \De*sid"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Desiderated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Desiderating}.] [L. desideratus, p. p. of desiderare to desire, miss. See {Desire}, and cf. {Desideratum}.] To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want. Pray have the goodness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. --Prof. Wilson. Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. --A. W. Ward. | |
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Desiderate \De*sid"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Desiderated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Desiderating}.] [L. desideratus, p. p. of desiderare to desire, miss. See {Desire}, and cf. {Desideratum}.] To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want. Pray have the goodness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. --Prof. Wilson. Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. --A. W. Ward. | |
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Desideration \De*sid`er*a"tion\, n. [L. desideratio.] Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired. [R.] --Jeffrey. | |
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Desiderative \De*sid"er*a*tive\, a. [L. desiderativus.] Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs. | |
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Desiderative \De*sid"er*a*tive\, n. 1. An object of desire. 2. (Gram.) A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb. | |
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Destrer \Des*trer"\, Dextrer \Dex"trer\, n. [OF. destrier, fr. L. dextra on the right side. The squire led his master's horse beside him, on his right hand. Skeat.] A war horse. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Destrie \De*strie"\, v. t. To destroy. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Destroy \De*stroy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Destroyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Destroying}.] [OE. destroien, destruien, destrien, OF. destruire, F. d[82]truire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to pile up, build. See {Structure}.] 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. --Ex. xxxiv. 13. 2. To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume. I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation. --Jer. xii. 17. 3. To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill. If him by force he can destroy, or, worse, By some false guile pervert. --Milton. Syn: To demolish; lay waste; consume; raze; dismantle; ruin; throw down; overthrow; subvert; desolate; devastate; deface; extirpate; extinguish; kill; slay. See {Demolish}. | |
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Destroyable \De*stroy"a*ble\, a. Destructible. [R.] Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. --Derham. | |
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Destroy \De*stroy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Destroyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Destroying}.] [OE. destroien, destruien, destrien, OF. destruire, F. d[82]truire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to pile up, build. See {Structure}.] 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. --Ex. xxxiv. 13. 2. To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume. I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation. --Jer. xii. 17. 3. To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill. If him by force he can destroy, or, worse, By some false guile pervert. --Milton. Syn: To demolish; lay waste; consume; raze; dismantle; ruin; throw down; overthrow; subvert; desolate; devastate; deface; extirpate; extinguish; kill; slay. See {Demolish}. | |
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Destroyer \De*stroy"er\, n. = {Torpedo-boat destroyer}. | |
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Destroyer \De*stroy"er\, n. [Cf. OF. destruior.] One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates. | |
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Destroy \De*stroy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Destroyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Destroying}.] [OE. destroien, destruien, destrien, OF. destruire, F. d[82]truire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to pile up, build. See {Structure}.] 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. --Ex. xxxiv. 13. 2. To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume. I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation. --Jer. xii. 17. 3. To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill. If him by force he can destroy, or, worse, By some false guile pervert. --Milton. Syn: To demolish; lay waste; consume; raze; dismantle; ruin; throw down; overthrow; subvert; desolate; devastate; deface; extirpate; extinguish; kill; slay. See {Demolish}. | |
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Destruct \De*struct"\, v. t. [L. destructus, p. p. of destruere. See {Destroy}.] To destroy. [Obs.] --Mede. | |
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Destructibility \De*struc`ti*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. destructibilit[82].] The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness. | |
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Destructible \De*struc"ti*ble\, a. [L. destructibilis.] Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed. | |
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Destructibleness \De*struc"ti*ble*ness\, n. The quality of being destructible. | |
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Destruction \De*struc"tion\, n. [L. destructio: cf. F. destruction. See {Destroy}.] 1. The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation. The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction. --Esth. ix. 5. 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. --Shak. Destruction of venerable establishment. --Hallam. 2. The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated. This town came to destruction. --Chaucer. Thou castedst them down into destruction. --Ps. lxxiii. 18. 2. A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer. The destruction that wasteth at noonday. --Ps. xci. 6. Syn: Demolition; subversion; overthrow; desolation; extirpation; extinction; devastation; downfall; extermination; havoc; ruin. | |
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Destructionist \De*struc"tion*ist\, n. 1. One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive. 2. (Theol.) One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also {annihilationist}. --Shipley. | |
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Destructive \De*struc"tive\, a. [L. destructivus: cf. F. destructif.] Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth. Time's destructive power. --Wordsworth. {Destructive distillation}. See {Distillation}. {Destructive sorties}(Logic), a process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio ad absurdum. --Whately. Syn: Mortal; deadly; poisonous; fatal; ruinous; malignant; baleful; pernicious; mischievous. | |
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Destructive \De*struc"tive\, n. One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist. | |
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Destructive \De*struc"tive\, a. [L. destructivus: cf. F. destructif.] Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth. Time's destructive power. --Wordsworth. {Destructive distillation}. See {Distillation}. {Destructive sorties}(Logic), a process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio ad absurdum. --Whately. Syn: Mortal; deadly; poisonous; fatal; ruinous; malignant; baleful; pernicious; mischievous. | |
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Distillation \Dis`til*la"tion\, n. [F. distillation, L. destillatio.] 1. The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops. 2. That which falls in drops. [R.] --Johnson 3. (Chem.) The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam. Note: The evaporation of water, its condensation into clouds, and its precipitation as rain, dew, frost, snow, or hail, is an illustration of natural distillation. 4. The substance extracted by distilling. --Shak. {Destructive distillation} (Chem.), the distillation, especially of complex solid substances, so that the ultimate constituents are separated or evolved in new compounds, -- usually requiring a high degree of heat; as, the destructive distillation of soft coal or of wood. {Dry distillation}, the distillation of substances by themselves, or without the addition of water or of other volatile solvent; as, the dry distillation of citric acid. {Fractional distillation}. (Chem.) See under {Fractional}. | |
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Sorites \So*ri"tes\, n. [L., from Gr. swrei`ths (sc. syllogismo`s), properly, heaped up (hence, a heap of syllogisms), fr. swro`s a heap.] (Logic) An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition, as in following example; The soul is a thinking agent; A thinking agent can not be severed into parts; That which can not be severed can not be destroyed; Therefore the soul can not be destroyed. Note: When the series is arranged in the reverse order, it is called the Goclenian sorites, from Goclenius, a philosopher of the sixteenth century. {Destructive sorities}. See under {Destructive}. | |
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Destructive \De*struc"tive\, a. [L. destructivus: cf. F. destructif.] Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth. Time's destructive power. --Wordsworth. {Destructive distillation}. See {Distillation}. {Destructive sorties}(Logic), a process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio ad absurdum. --Whately. Syn: Mortal; deadly; poisonous; fatal; ruinous; malignant; baleful; pernicious; mischievous. | |
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Destructively \De*struc"tive*ly\, adv. In a destructive manner. | |
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Destructiveness \De*struc"tive*ness\, n. 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. --Prynne. 2. (Phren.) The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. | |
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Destructor \De*struct"or\, n. A furnace or oven for the burning or carbonizing of refuse; specif. (Sewage Disposal), a furnace (called in full {refuse destructor}) in which the more solid constituents of sewage are burnt. Destructors are often so constructed as to utilize refuse as fuel. | |
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Destructor \De*struc"tor\, n. [L., from destruere. See {Destroy}, and cf. {Destroyer}.] A destroyer. [R.] Fire, the destructor and the artificial death of things. --Boyle. | |
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Destruie \De*struie"\, v. t. To destroy. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Dexter \Dex"ter\, n. [Prob. so named after the original breeder.] One of a breed of small hardy cattle originating from the Kerry breed of Ireland, valuable both for beef and milk. They are usually chiefly black, sometimes red, and somewhat resemble a small shorthorn in build. Called also {Dexter Kerry}. | |
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Dexter \Dex"ter\, a. [L.,; akin to Gr. [?], [?], Skr. dakshi[?]a (cf. daksh to be strong, suit); Goth. taihswa, OHG. zeso. Cf. {Dexterous}.] 1. Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left. On sounding wings a dexter eagle flew. --Pope. 2. (Her.) On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side. {Dexter chief}, [or] {Dexter point} (Her.), a point in the dexter upper corner of the shield, being in the dexter extremity of the chief, as A in the cut. {Dexter base}, a point in the dexter lower part or base of the shield, as B in the cut. | |
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Dexter \Dex"ter\, a. [L.,; akin to Gr. [?], [?], Skr. dakshi[?]a (cf. daksh to be strong, suit); Goth. taihswa, OHG. zeso. Cf. {Dexterous}.] 1. Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left. On sounding wings a dexter eagle flew. --Pope. 2. (Her.) On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side. {Dexter chief}, [or] {Dexter point} (Her.), a point in the dexter upper corner of the shield, being in the dexter extremity of the chief, as A in the cut. {Dexter base}, a point in the dexter lower part or base of the shield, as B in the cut. | |
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Dexter \Dex"ter\, a. [L.,; akin to Gr. [?], [?], Skr. dakshi[?]a (cf. daksh to be strong, suit); Goth. taihswa, OHG. zeso. Cf. {Dexterous}.] 1. Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left. On sounding wings a dexter eagle flew. --Pope. 2. (Her.) On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side. {Dexter chief}, [or] {Dexter point} (Her.), a point in the dexter upper corner of the shield, being in the dexter extremity of the chief, as A in the cut. {Dexter base}, a point in the dexter lower part or base of the shield, as B in the cut. | |
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Dexter \Dex"ter\, n. [Prob. so named after the original breeder.] One of a breed of small hardy cattle originating from the Kerry breed of Ireland, valuable both for beef and milk. They are usually chiefly black, sometimes red, and somewhat resemble a small shorthorn in build. Called also {Dexter Kerry}. | |
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Dexter \Dex"ter\, a. [L.,; akin to Gr. [?], [?], Skr. dakshi[?]a (cf. daksh to be strong, suit); Goth. taihswa, OHG. zeso. Cf. {Dexterous}.] 1. Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left. On sounding wings a dexter eagle flew. --Pope. 2. (Her.) On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side. {Dexter chief}, [or] {Dexter point} (Her.), a point in the dexter upper corner of the shield, being in the dexter extremity of the chief, as A in the cut. {Dexter base}, a point in the dexter lower part or base of the shield, as B in the cut. | |
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Dexterical \Dex*ter"i*cal\, a. Dexterous. [Obs.] | |
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Dexterity \Dex*ter"i*ty\, n. [L. dexteritas, fr. dexter: cf. F. dext[82]rit[82]. See {Dexter}.] 1. Right-handedness. 2. Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel. In youth quick bearing and dexterity. --Shak. 3. Readiness in the use or control of the mental powers; quickness and skill in managing any complicated or difficult affair; adroitness. His wisdom . . . was turned . . . into a dexterity to deliver himself. --Bacon. He had conducted his own defense with singular boldness and dexterity. --Hallam. Syn: Adroitness; activity; nimbleness; expertness; skill; cleverness; art; ability; address; tact; facility; aptness; aptitude; faculty. See {Skill}. | |
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Dexterous \Dex"ter*ous\, a. [L. dexter. See {Dexter}.] [Written also {dextrous}.] 1. Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman. 2. Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager. Dexterous the craving, fawning crowd to quit. --Pope. 3. Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management. [bd]Dexterous sleights of hand.[b8] --Trench. Syn: Adroit; active; expert; skillful; clever; able; ready; apt; handy; versed. | |
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Dexterously \Dex"ter*ous*ly\, adv. In a dexterous manner; skillfully. | |
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Dexterousness \Dex"ter*ous*ness\, n. The quality of being dexterous; dexterity. | |
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Dextrad \Dex"trad\, adv. [L. dextra the right hand + ad to.] (Anat.) Toward the right side; dextrally. | |
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Dextral \Dex"tral\, a. [From {Dexter}.] Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left. {Dextral shell} (Zo[94]l.), a spiral shell the whorls of which turn from left right, or like the hands of a watch when the apex of the spire is toward the eye of the observer. | |
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Dextral \Dex"tral\, a. [From {Dexter}.] Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left. {Dextral shell} (Zo[94]l.), a spiral shell the whorls of which turn from left right, or like the hands of a watch when the apex of the spire is toward the eye of the observer. | |
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Dextrality \Dex*tral"i*ty\, n. The state of being on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness. --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Dextrally \Dex"tral*ly\, adv. Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally. | |
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Dextrer \Dex*trer"\, n. A war horse; a destrer. [Obs.] [bd]By him baiteth his dextrer.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Destrer \Des*trer"\, Dextrer \Dex"trer\, n. [OF. destrier, fr. L. dextra on the right side. The squire led his master's horse beside him, on his right hand. Skeat.] A war horse. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Dextrin \Dex"trin\, n. [Cf. F. dextrine, G. dextrin. See {Dexter}.] (Chem.) A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained from starch by the action of heat, acids, or diastase. It is of somewhat variable composition, containing several carbohydrates which change easily to their respective varieties of sugar. It is so named from its rotating the plane of polarization to the right; -- called also {British gum}, {Alsace gum}, {gommelin}, {leiocome}, etc. See {Achro[94]dextrin}, and {Erythrodextrin}. | |
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Dextro- \Dex"tro-\ A prefix, from L. dexter, meaning, pertaining to, or toward, the right; (Chem. & Opt.) having the property of turning the plane of polarized light to the right; as, dextrotartaric acid. | |
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Dextrogerous \Dex*trog"er*ous\, a. (Physics & Chem.) See {Dextrogyrate}. | |
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Dextroglucose \Dex`tro*glu"cose`\, n. [Dextro- + glucose.] (Chem.) Same as {Dextrose}. | |
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Dextrogyrate \Dex`tro*gy"rate\, a. [Dextro- + gyrate.] (Chem. & Opt.) Same as {Dextrorotatory}. | |
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Dextronic \Dex*tron"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, dextrose; as, dextronic acid. {Dextronic acid}, a sirupy substance obtained by the partial oxidation of various carbohydrates, as dextrose, etc. | |
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Maltonic \Mal*ton"ic\, a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also {gluconic} or {dextronic} acid. See {Gluconic}. | |
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Dextronic \Dex*tron"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, dextrose; as, dextronic acid. {Dextronic acid}, a sirupy substance obtained by the partial oxidation of various carbohydrates, as dextrose, etc. | |
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Maltonic \Mal*ton"ic\, a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also {gluconic} or {dextronic} acid. See {Gluconic}. | |
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Dextronic \Dex*tron"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, dextrose; as, dextronic acid. {Dextronic acid}, a sirupy substance obtained by the partial oxidation of various carbohydrates, as dextrose, etc. | |
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Gluconic \Glu*con"ic\, a. Pertaining to, or derived from, glucose. {Gluconic acid} (Chem.), an organic acid, obtained as a colorless, sirupy liquid, by the oxidation of glucose; -- called also {maltonic acid}, and {dextronic acid}. | |
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Dextronic \Dex*tron"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, dextrose; as, dextronic acid. {Dextronic acid}, a sirupy substance obtained by the partial oxidation of various carbohydrates, as dextrose, etc. | |
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Gluconic \Glu*con"ic\, a. Pertaining to, or derived from, glucose. {Gluconic acid} (Chem.), an organic acid, obtained as a colorless, sirupy liquid, by the oxidation of glucose; -- called also {maltonic acid}, and {dextronic acid}. | |
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Dextrorotary \Dex`tro*ro"ta*ry\, a. (Physics & Chem.) See {Dextrotatory}. | |
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Dextrorotatory \Dex`tro*ro"ta*to*ry\, a. [Dextro- + rotatory.] (Chem. & Opt.) Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc. Cf. {Levorotatory}. | |
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Dextrorsal \Dex*tror"sal\, Dextrorse \Dex"trorse`\, a. [L. dextrorsum, contr. fr. dextrovorsum, dextroversum, toward the right side; dexter right + versus, vorsus, p. p. of vertere, vortere, to turn.] Turning from the left to the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common morning-gl[a2]ry. Note: At present scientists predicate dextrorse or sinistrorse quality of the plant regarded objectively; formerly the plant was regarded subjectively, and what is now called dextrorse was then considered sinistrorse. | |
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Dextrorsal \Dex*tror"sal\, Dextrorse \Dex"trorse`\, a. [L. dextrorsum, contr. fr. dextrovorsum, dextroversum, toward the right side; dexter right + versus, vorsus, p. p. of vertere, vortere, to turn.] Turning from the left to the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common morning-gl[a2]ry. Note: At present scientists predicate dextrorse or sinistrorse quality of the plant regarded objectively; formerly the plant was regarded subjectively, and what is now called dextrorse was then considered sinistrorse. | |
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Dextrose \Dex"trose`\, n. [See {Dexter}.] (Chem.) A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, {C6H12O6} (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also {starch sugar}. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice. | |
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Glucose \Glu"cose`\, n. [Gr. [?] sweet. Cf. {Glycerin}.] 1. A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also {dextrose}, {grape sugar}, {diabetic sugar}, and {starch sugar}. See {Dextrose}. 2. (Chem.) Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc. | |
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Dextrose \Dex"trose`\, n. [See {Dexter}.] (Chem.) A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, {C6H12O6} (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also {starch sugar}. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice. | |
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Glucose \Glu"cose`\, n. [Gr. [?] sweet. Cf. {Glycerin}.] 1. A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also {dextrose}, {grape sugar}, {diabetic sugar}, and {starch sugar}. See {Dextrose}. 2. (Chem.) Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc. | |
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Tartaric \Tar*tar"ic\, a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from, or resembling, tartar. {Tartaric acid}. (a) An acid widely diffused throughout the vegetable kingdom, as in grapes, mountain-ash berries, etc., and obtained from tartar as a white crystalline substance, {C2H2(OH)2.(CO2H)2}, having a strong pure acid taste. It is used in medicine, in dyeing, calico printing, photography, etc., and also as a substitute for lemon juice. Called also {dextro-tartaric acid}. (b) By extension, any one of the series of isomeric acids (racemic acid, levotartaric acid, inactive tartaric acid) of which tartaric acid proper is the type. | |
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Dexterous \Dex"ter*ous\, a. [L. dexter. See {Dexter}.] [Written also {dextrous}.] 1. Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman. 2. Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager. Dexterous the craving, fawning crowd to quit. --Pope. 3. Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management. [bd]Dexterous sleights of hand.[b8] --Trench. Syn: Adroit; active; expert; skillful; clever; able; ready; apt; handy; versed. | |
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Dextrous \Dex"trous\, a., Dextrously \Dex"trous*ly\, adv., Dextrousness \Dex"trous*ness\, n. Same as {Dexterous}, {Dexterously}, etc. | |
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Dexterous \Dex"ter*ous\, a. [L. dexter. See {Dexter}.] [Written also {dextrous}.] 1. Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman. 2. Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager. Dexterous the craving, fawning crowd to quit. --Pope. 3. Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management. [bd]Dexterous sleights of hand.[b8] --Trench. Syn: Adroit; active; expert; skillful; clever; able; ready; apt; handy; versed. | |
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Dextrous \Dex"trous\, a., Dextrously \Dex"trous*ly\, adv., Dextrousness \Dex"trous*ness\, n. Same as {Dexterous}, {Dexterously}, etc. | |
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Dextrous \Dex"trous\, a., Dextrously \Dex"trous*ly\, adv., Dextrousness \Dex"trous*ness\, n. Same as {Dexterous}, {Dexterously}, etc. | |
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Dextrous \Dex"trous\, a., Dextrously \Dex"trous*ly\, adv., Dextrousness \Dex"trous*ness\, n. Same as {Dexterous}, {Dexterously}, etc. | |
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Diageotropic \Di`a*ge`o*trop"ic\, a. [Gr. dia` through, at variance + [?] earth + [?] turning.] (Bot.) Relating to, or exhibiting, diageotropism. | |
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Diageotropism \Di`a*ge*ot"ro*pism\, n. (Bot.) The tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth. | |
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Diaster \Di*as"ter\, n. [Gr. di- = di`s- twice + [?] star.] (Biol.) A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See {Karyokinesis}. | |
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Pithy \Pith"y\, a. [Compar. {Pithier}; superl. {Pithiest}.] 1. Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit. 2. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent. This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed. --Dryden. In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy. --Addison. {Pithy gall} (Zo[94]l.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly ({Diastrophus nebulosus}). | |
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Dighter \Dight"er\, n. One who dights. [Obs.] | |
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Crab \Crab\ (kr[acr]b), n. [AS. crabba; akin to D. krab, G. krabbe, krebs, Icel. krabbi, Sw. krabba, Dan. krabbe, and perh. to E. cramp. Cf. {Crawfish}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body. Note: The name is applied to all the Brachyura, and to certain Anomura, as the hermit crabs. Formerly, it was sometimes applied to Crustacea in general. Many species are edible, the blue crab of the Atlantic coast being one of the most esteemed. The large European edible crab is {Cancer padurus}. {Soft-shelled crabs} are blue crabs that have recently cast their shells. See {Cancer}; also, {Box crab}, {Fiddler crab}, {Hermit crab}, {Spider crab}, etc., under {Box}, {Fiddler}. etc. 2. The zodiacal constellation Cancer. 3. [See {Crab}, a.] (Bot.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste. When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl. --Shak. 4. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick. [Obs.] --Garrick. 5. (Mech.) (a) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc. (b) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc. (c) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn. (d) A claw for anchoring a portable machine. {Calling crab}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Fiddler}., n., 2. {Crab apple}, a small, sour apple, of several kinds; also, the tree which bears it; as, the European crab apple ({Pyrus Malus} var. sylvestris); the Siberian crab apple ({Pyrus baccata}); and the American ({Pyrus coronaria}). {Crab grass}. (Bot.) (a) A grass ({Digitaria, [or] Panicum, sanguinalis}); -- called also {finger grass}. (b) A grass of the genus {Eleusine} ({E. Indica}); -- called also {dog's-tail grass}, {wire grass}, etc. {Crab louse} (Zo[94]l.), a species of louse ({Phthirius pubis}), sometimes infesting the human body. {Crab plover} (Zo[94]l.), an Asiatic plover ({Dromas ardeola}). {Crab's eyes}, [or] {Crab's stones}, masses of calcareous matter found, at certain seasons of the year, on either side of the stomach of the European crawfishes, and formerly used in medicine for absorbent and antacid purposes; the gastroliths. {Crab spider} (Zo[94]l.), one of a group of spiders ({Laterigrad[91]}); -- called because they can run backwards or sideways like a crab. {Crab tree}, the tree that bears crab applies. {Crab wood}, a light cabinet wood obtained in Guiana, which takes a high polish. --McElrath. {To catch a crab} (Naut.), a phrase used of a rower: (a) when he fails to raise his oar clear of the water; (b) when he misses the water altogether in making a stroke. | |
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Digitorium \Dig`i*to"ri*um\, n. [NL., fr. L. digitus a finger.] A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also {dumb piano}. | |
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Disadorn \Dis`a*dorn"\, v. t. To deprive of ornaments. --Congreve. | |
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Disattire \Dis`at*tire"\, v. t. [Pref. dis- + attire: cf. OF. desatirier.] To unrobe; to undress. --Spenser. | |
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Disauthorize \Dis*au"thor*ize\, v. t. To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. [R.] --W. Wotton. | |
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Dishwater \Dish"wa`ter\, n. Water in which dishes have been washed. [bd]Suds and dishwater.[b8] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Disquieter \Dis*qui"et*er\, n. One who, or that which, disquiets, or makes uneasy; a disturber. | |
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Dissuader \Dis*suad"er\, n. One who dissuades; a dehorter. | |
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Dister \Dis*ter"\, v. t. [L. dis- + terra earth, country; cf. Sp. & Pg. desterrar.] To banish or drive from a country. [Obs.] --Howell. | |
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Disterminate \Dis*ter"mi*nate\, a. [L. disterminatus, p. p. of disterminare to limit. See {Terminate}.] Separated by bounds. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Distermination \Dis*ter`mi*na"tion\, n. [L. disterminatio.] Separation by bounds. [Obs.] --Hammond. | |
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Disthrone \Dis*throne"\, v. t. [Pref. dis- + throne: cf. OF. desthroner, F. d[82]troner.] To dethrone. [Obs.] | |
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Disthronize \Dis*thron"ize\, v. t. To dethrone. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Distort \Dis*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distorted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distorting}.] 1. To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body. Whose face was distorted with pain. --Thackeray. 2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men. --Tillotson. 3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning. Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert. | |
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Distort \Dis*tort"\, a. [L. distortus, p. p. of distorquere to twist, distort; dis- + torquere to twist. See {Torsion}.] Distorted; misshapen. [Obs.] Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. --Spenser. | |
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Distort \Dis*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distorted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distorting}.] 1. To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body. Whose face was distorted with pain. --Thackeray. 2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men. --Tillotson. 3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning. Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert. | |
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Distorter \Dis*tort"er\, n. One who, or that which, distorts. | |
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Distort \Dis*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distorted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distorting}.] 1. To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body. Whose face was distorted with pain. --Thackeray. 2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men. --Tillotson. 3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning. Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert. | |
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Distortion \Dis*tor"tion\, n. [L. distortio: cf. F. distortion.] 1. The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body. 2. A wresting from the true meaning. --Bp. Wren. 3. The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion. 4. (Med.) An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity. | |
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Distortive \Dis*tort"ive\, a. Causing distortion. | |
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Distract \Dis*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distracted}, old p. p. {Distraught}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distracting}.] 1. To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin. A city . . . distracted from itself. --Fuller. 2. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention. Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination. --Goldsmith. 3. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass. Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts. --Milton. 4. To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted. A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her. --Shak. | |
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Distract \Dis*tract"\, a. [L. distractus, p. p. of distrahere to draw asunder; dis- + trahere to draw. See {Trace}, and cf. {Distraught}.] 1. Separated; drawn asunder. [Obs.] 2. Insane; mad. [Obs.] --Drayton. | |
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Distract \Dis*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distracted}, old p. p. {Distraught}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distracting}.] 1. To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin. A city . . . distracted from itself. --Fuller. 2. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention. Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination. --Goldsmith. 3. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass. Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts. --Milton. 4. To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted. A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her. --Shak. | |
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Distracted \Dis*tract"ed\, a. Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. --Pope. | |
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Distractedly \Dis*tract"ed*ly\, adv. Disjointedly; madly. --Shak. | |
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Distractedness \Dis*tract"ed*ness\, n. A state of being distracted; distraction. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Distracter \Dis*tract"er\, n. One who, or that which, distracts away. | |
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Distractful \Dis*tract"ful\, a. Distracting. [R.] --Heywood. | |
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Distractible \Dis*tract"i*ble\, a. Capable of being drawn aside or distracted. | |
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Distractile \Dis*tract"ile\, a. (Bot.) Tending or serving to draw apart. | |
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Distract \Dis*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distracted}, old p. p. {Distraught}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distracting}.] 1. To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin. A city . . . distracted from itself. --Fuller. 2. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention. Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination. --Goldsmith. 3. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass. Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts. --Milton. 4. To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted. A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her. --Shak. | |
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Distracting \Dis*tract"ing\, a. Tending or serving to distract. | |
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Distraction \Dis*trac"tion\, n. [L. distractio: cf. F. distraction.] 1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. --Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. [bd]Domestic distractions.[b8] --G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. [Obs.] His power went out in such distractions as Beguiled all species. --Shak. 4. State in which the attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity. That ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. --1 Cor. vii. 3[?]. 5. Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions. Never was known a night of such distraction. --Dryden. 6. Agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind; despair. The distraction of the children, who saw both their parents together, would have melted the hardest heart. --Tatler. 7. Derangement of the mind; madness. --Atterbury. Syn: Perplexity; confusion; disturbance; disorder; dissension; tumult; derangement; madness; raving; franticness; furiousness. | |
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Distractious \Dis*trac"tious\, a. Distractive. [Obs.] | |
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Distractive \Dis*trac"tive\, a. Causing perplexity; distracting. [bd]Distractive thoughts.[b8] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Distrain \Dis*train"\, v. i. To levy a distress. Upon whom I can distrain for debt. --Camden. | |
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Distrain \Dis*train"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distrained}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distraining}.] [OE. destreinen to force, OF. destreindre to press, oppress, force, fr. L. distringere, districtum, to draw asunder, hinder, molest, LL., to punish severely; di- = stringere to draw tight, press together. See {Strain}, and cf. {Distress}, {District}, {Distraint}.] 1. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. [Obs.] [bd]Distrained with chains.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. To rend; to tear. [Obs.] Neither guile nor force might it [a net] distrain. --Spenser. 3. (Law) (a) To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement. (b) To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels. | |
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Distrainable \Dis*train"a*ble\, a. Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained. --Blackstone. | |
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Distrain \Dis*train"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distrained}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distraining}.] [OE. destreinen to force, OF. destreindre to press, oppress, force, fr. L. distringere, districtum, to draw asunder, hinder, molest, LL., to punish severely; di- = stringere to draw tight, press together. See {Strain}, and cf. {Distress}, {District}, {Distraint}.] 1. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. [Obs.] [bd]Distrained with chains.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. To rend; to tear. [Obs.] Neither guile nor force might it [a net] distrain. --Spenser. 3. (Law) (a) To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement. (b) To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels. | |
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Distrainer \Dis*train"er\, n. Same as {Distrainor}. | |
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Distrain \Dis*train"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distrained}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distraining}.] [OE. destreinen to force, OF. destreindre to press, oppress, force, fr. L. distringere, districtum, to draw asunder, hinder, molest, LL., to punish severely; di- = stringere to draw tight, press together. See {Strain}, and cf. {Distress}, {District}, {Distraint}.] 1. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. [Obs.] [bd]Distrained with chains.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. To rend; to tear. [Obs.] Neither guile nor force might it [a net] distrain. --Spenser. 3. (Law) (a) To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement. (b) To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels. | |
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Distrainor \Dis*train"or\, n. (Law) One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. --Blackstone. | |
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Distraint \Dis*traint"\, n. [OF. destrainte distress, force.] (Law) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress. --Abbott. | |
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Distract \Dis*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distracted}, old p. p. {Distraught}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distracting}.] 1. To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin. A city . . . distracted from itself. --Fuller. 2. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention. Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination. --Goldsmith. 3. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass. Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts. --Milton. 4. To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted. A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her. --Shak. | |
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Distraught \Dis*traught"\, p. p. & a. [OE. distract, distrauht. See {Distract}, a.] 1. Torn asunder; separated. [Obs.] [bd]His greedy throat . . . distraught.[b8] --Spenser. 2. Distracted; perplexed. [bd]Distraught twixt fear and pity.[b8] --Spenser. As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror. --Shak. To doubt betwixt our senses and our souls Which are the most distraught and full of pain. --Mrs. Browning. | |
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Distraughted \Dis*traught"ed\, a. Distracted. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Distream \Dis*tream"\, v. i. [Pref. dis- (intens.) + stream.] To flow. [Poetic] Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. --Shenstone. | |
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Distress \Dis*tress"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distressing}.] [Cf. OF. destrecier. See {Distress}, n.] 1. To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. --2 Cor. iv. 8. 2. To compel by pain or suffering. Men who can neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of duty. --A. Hamilton. 3. (Law) To seize for debt; to distrain. Syn: To pain; grieve; harass; trouble; perplex; afflict; worry; annoy. | |
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Distress \Dis*tress"\, n. [OE. destresse, distresse, OF. destresse, destrece, F. d[82]tresse, OF. destrecier to distress, (assumed) LL. districtiare, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere. See {Distrain}, and cf. {Stress}.] 1. Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress. --Shak. 2. That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery. Affliction's sons are brothers in distress. --Burns. 3. A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc. 4. (Law) (a) The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc. (b) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. --Bouvier. Kent. Burrill. If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle. --Spenser. The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for. --Blackstone. {Abuse of distress}. (Law) See under {Abuse}. Syn: Affliction; suffering; pain; agony; misery; torment; anguish; grief; sorrow; calamity; misfortune; trouble; adversity. See {Affliction}. | |
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Distress \Dis*tress"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distressing}.] [Cf. OF. destrecier. See {Distress}, n.] 1. To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. --2 Cor. iv. 8. 2. To compel by pain or suffering. Men who can neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of duty. --A. Hamilton. 3. (Law) To seize for debt; to distrain. Syn: To pain; grieve; harass; trouble; perplex; afflict; worry; annoy. | |
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Distressedness \Dis*tress"ed*ness\, n. A state of being distressed or greatly pained. | |
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Distressful \Dis*tress"ful\, a. Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation. [bd]Some distressful stroke.[b8] --Shak. [bd]Distressful cries.[b8] --Pope. -- {Dis*tress"ful*ly}, adv. | |
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Distressful \Dis*tress"ful\, a. Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation. [bd]Some distressful stroke.[b8] --Shak. [bd]Distressful cries.[b8] --Pope. -- {Dis*tress"ful*ly}, adv. | |
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Distressing \Dis*tress"ing\, a. Causing distress; painful; unpleasant. | |
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Distressing \Dis*tress"ing\, adv. In a distressing manner. | |
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Distress \Dis*tress"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distressing}.] [Cf. OF. destrecier. See {Distress}, n.] 1. To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. --2 Cor. iv. 8. 2. To compel by pain or suffering. Men who can neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of duty. --A. Hamilton. 3. (Law) To seize for debt; to distrain. Syn: To pain; grieve; harass; trouble; perplex; afflict; worry; annoy. | |
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Distributable \Dis*trib"u*ta*ble\, a. Capable of being distributed. --Sir W. Jones. | |
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Distributary \Dis*trib"u*ta*ry\, a. Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive. | |
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Distribute \Dis*trib"ute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distributed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distributing}.] [L. distributus, p. p. of distribuere to divide, distribute; dis- + tribuere to assign, give, allot. See {Tribute}.] 1. To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot. She did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred. --Judith xvi. 24. 2. To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice. --Shak. 3. To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc. 4. (Printing) (a) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases. (b) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table. 5. (Logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise. A term is said to be distributed when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to. --Whately. Syn: To dispense; deal out; apportion; allot; share; assign; divide. | |
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Distribute \Dis*trib"ute\, v. i. To make distribution. Distributing to the necessity of saints. --Rom. xii. 13. | |
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Distribute \Dis*trib"ute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distributed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distributing}.] [L. distributus, p. p. of distribuere to divide, distribute; dis- + tribuere to assign, give, allot. See {Tribute}.] 1. To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot. She did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred. --Judith xvi. 24. 2. To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice. --Shak. 3. To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc. 4. (Printing) (a) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases. (b) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table. 5. (Logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise. A term is said to be distributed when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to. --Whately. Syn: To dispense; deal out; apportion; allot; share; assign; divide. | |
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Distributer \Dis*trib"u*ter\, n. One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser. --Addison. | |
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Distribute \Dis*trib"ute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distributed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distributing}.] [L. distributus, p. p. of distribuere to divide, distribute; dis- + tribuere to assign, give, allot. See {Tribute}.] 1. To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot. She did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred. --Judith xvi. 24. 2. To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice. --Shak. 3. To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc. 4. (Printing) (a) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases. (b) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table. 5. (Logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise. A term is said to be distributed when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to. --Whately. Syn: To dispense; deal out; apportion; allot; share; assign; divide. | |
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Distributing \Dis*trib"u*ting\, a. That distributes; dealing out. {Distributing past office}, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded. | |
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Distributing \Dis*trib"u*ting\, a. That distributes; dealing out. {Distributing past office}, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded. | |
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Distribution \Dis`tri*bu"tion\, n. [L. distributio: cf. F. distribution.] 1. The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena of geological distribution are exactly analogous to those of geography. --A. R. Wallace. 2. Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification. 3. That which is distributed. [bd]Our charitable distributions.[b8] --Atterbury. 4. (Logic) A resolving a whole into its parts. 5. (Print.) The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases. 6. (Steam Engine) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission. {Geographical distribution}, the natural arrangements of animals and plants in particular regions or districts. Syn: Apportionments; allotment; dispensation; disposal; dispersion; classification; arrangement. | |
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Distributional \Dis`tri*bu"tion*al\, a. Of or pertaining to distribution. --Huxley. | |
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Distributionist \Dis`tri*bu"tion*ist\, n. A distributer. [R.] --Dickens. | |
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Distributive \Dis*trib"u*tive\, a. [Cf. F. distributif.] 1. Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. [bd]Distributive justice.[b8] --Swift. 2. (Logic) Assigning the species of a general term. 3. (Gram.) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two). {Distributive operation} (Math.), any operation which either consists of two or more parts, or works upon two or more things, and which is such that the result of the total operation is the same as the aggregated result of the two or more partial operations. Ordinary multiplication is distributive, since a [times] (b + c) = ab + ac, and (a + b) [times] c = ac + bc. {Distributive proportion}. (Math.) See {Fellowship}. | |
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Distributive \Dis*trib"u*tive\, n. (Gram.) A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral. | |
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Fault \Fault\, n. 1. (Elec.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit. 2. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping. Note: The surface along which the dislocated masses have moved is called the {fault plane}. When this plane is vertical, the fault is a {vertical fault}; when its inclination is such that the present relative position of the two masses could have been produced by the sliding down, along the fault plane, of the mass on its upper side, the fault is a {normal}, [or] {gravity}, {fault}. When the fault plane is so inclined that the mass on its upper side has moved up relatively, the fault is then called a {reverse} (or {reversed}), {thrust}, or {overthrust}, {fault}. If no vertical displacement has resulted, the fault is then called a {horizontal fault}. The linear extent of the dislocation measured on the fault plane and in the direction of movement is the {displacement}; the vertical displacement is the {throw}; the horizontal displacement is the {heave}. The direction of the line of intersection of the fault plane with a horizontal plane is the {trend} of the fault. A fault is a {strike fault} when its trend coincides approximately with the strike of associated strata (i.e., the line of intersection of the plane of the strata with a horizontal plane); it is a {dip fault} when its trend is at right angles to the strike; an {oblique fault} when its trend is oblique to the strike. Oblique faults and dip faults are sometimes called {cross faults}. A series of closely associated parallel faults are sometimes called {step faults} and sometimes {distributive faults}. | |
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Distributive \Dis*trib"u*tive\, a. [Cf. F. distributif.] 1. Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. [bd]Distributive justice.[b8] --Swift. 2. (Logic) Assigning the species of a general term. 3. (Gram.) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two). {Distributive operation} (Math.), any operation which either consists of two or more parts, or works upon two or more things, and which is such that the result of the total operation is the same as the aggregated result of the two or more partial operations. Ordinary multiplication is distributive, since a [times] (b + c) = ab + ac, and (a + b) [times] c = ac + bc. {Distributive proportion}. (Math.) See {Fellowship}. | |
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Distributive \Dis*trib"u*tive\, a. [Cf. F. distributif.] 1. Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. [bd]Distributive justice.[b8] --Swift. 2. (Logic) Assigning the species of a general term. 3. (Gram.) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two). {Distributive operation} (Math.), any operation which either consists of two or more parts, or works upon two or more things, and which is such that the result of the total operation is the same as the aggregated result of the two or more partial operations. Ordinary multiplication is distributive, since a [times] (b + c) = ab + ac, and (a + b) [times] c = ac + bc. {Distributive proportion}. (Math.) See {Fellowship}. | |
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Distributively \Dis*trib"u*tive*ly\, adv. By distribution; singly; not collectively; in a distributive manner. | |
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Distributiveness \Dis*trib"u*tive*ness\, n. Quality of being distributive. | |
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Distributor \Dis*trib"u*tor\, n. [L.] One that distributes; a distributer; specif.: (a) A machine for distributing type. (b) An appliance, as a roller, in a printing press, for distributing ink. (c) An apparatus for distributing an electric current, either to various points in rotation, as in some motors, or along two or more lines in parallel, as in a distributing system. | |
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District \Dis"trict\, a. [L. districtus, p. p.] Rigorous; stringent; harsh. [Obs.] Punishing with the rod of district severity. --Foxe. | |
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District \Dis"trict\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Districted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Districting}.] To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives. | |
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District \Dis"trict\, n. [LL. districtus district, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere: cf. F. district. See {Distrain}.] 1. (Feudal Law) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing. 2. A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. --The Constitution of the United States. 3. Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract. These districts which between the tropics lie. --Blackstone. {Congressional district}. See under {Congressional}. {District attorney}, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. {District court}, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases within a judicial district. {District judge}, one who presides over a district court. {District school}, a public school for the children within a school district. [U.S.] Syn: Division; circuit; quarter; province; tract; region; country. | |
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District \Dis"trict\, n. [LL. districtus district, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere: cf. F. district. See {Distrain}.] 1. (Feudal Law) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing. 2. A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. --The Constitution of the United States. 3. Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract. These districts which between the tropics lie. --Blackstone. {Congressional district}. See under {Congressional}. {District attorney}, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. {District court}, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases within a judicial district. {District judge}, one who presides over a district court. {District school}, a public school for the children within a school district. [U.S.] Syn: Division; circuit; quarter; province; tract; region; country. | |
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District \Dis"trict\, n. [LL. districtus district, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere: cf. F. district. See {Distrain}.] 1. (Feudal Law) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing. 2. A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. --The Constitution of the United States. 3. Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract. These districts which between the tropics lie. --Blackstone. {Congressional district}. See under {Congressional}. {District attorney}, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. {District court}, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases within a judicial district. {District judge}, one who presides over a district court. {District school}, a public school for the children within a school district. [U.S.] Syn: Division; circuit; quarter; province; tract; region; country. | |
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District \Dis"trict\, n. [LL. districtus district, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere: cf. F. district. See {Distrain}.] 1. (Feudal Law) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing. 2. A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. --The Constitution of the United States. 3. Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract. These districts which between the tropics lie. --Blackstone. {Congressional district}. See under {Congressional}. {District attorney}, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. {District court}, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases within a judicial district. {District judge}, one who presides over a district court. {District school}, a public school for the children within a school district. [U.S.] Syn: Division; circuit; quarter; province; tract; region; country. | |
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School \School\, n. [OE. scole, AS. sc[?]lu, L. schola, Gr. [?] leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation, lecture, a school, probably from the same root as [?], the original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a resting. See {Scheme}.] 1. A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets. Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. --Acts xix. 9. 2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school. As he sat in the school at his primer. --Chaucer. 3. A session of an institution of instruction. How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day? --Shak. 4. One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. --Macaulay. 5. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held. 6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils. What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences? --Buckminster. 7. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc. Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians. --Jer. Taylor. 8. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school. His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools. --A. S. Hardy. 9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience. {Boarding school}, {Common school}, {District school}, {Normal school}, etc. See under {Boarding}, {Common}, {District}, etc. {High school}, a free public school nearest the rank of a college. [U. S.] {School board}, a corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school accommodation for all children in their district. {School committee}, {School board}, an elected committee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city, and responsible for control of the money appropriated for school purposes. [U. S.] | |
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District \Dis"trict\, n. [LL. districtus district, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere: cf. F. district. See {Distrain}.] 1. (Feudal Law) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing. 2. A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. --The Constitution of the United States. 3. Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract. These districts which between the tropics lie. --Blackstone. {Congressional district}. See under {Congressional}. {District attorney}, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. {District court}, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases within a judicial district. {District judge}, one who presides over a district court. {District school}, a public school for the children within a school district. [U.S.] Syn: Division; circuit; quarter; province; tract; region; country. | |
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District \Dis"trict\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Districted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Districting}.] To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives. | |
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District \Dis"trict\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Districted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Districting}.] To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives. | |
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Distriction \Dis*tric"tion\, n. [L. districtio a stretching out.] Sudden display; flash; glitter. [R.] A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. --Collier. | |
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Districtly \Dis"trict*ly\, adv. Strictly. [Obs.] --Foxe. | |
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Distrouble \Dis*trou"ble\, v. t. [Pref. dis- (intens.) + trouble.] To trouble. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Distrust \Dis*trust"\, n. 1. Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc. 2. Suspicion of evil designs. Alienation and distrust . . . are the growth of false principles. --D. Webster. 3. State of being suspected; loss of trust. --Milton. | |
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Distrust \Dis*trust"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distrusted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distrusting}.] [Cf. {Mistrust}.] To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust. Not distrusting my health. --2 Mac. ix. 22. To distrust the justice of your cause. --Dryden. He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other. --Udall. Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid. --Collins. Note: Mistrust has been almost wholly driven out by distrust. --T. L. K. Oliphant. | |
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Distrust \Dis*trust"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distrusted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distrusting}.] [Cf. {Mistrust}.] To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust. Not distrusting my health. --2 Mac. ix. 22. To distrust the justice of your cause. --Dryden. He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other. --Udall. Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid. --Collins. Note: Mistrust has been almost wholly driven out by distrust. --T. L. K. Oliphant. | |
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Distruster \Dis*trust"er\, n. One who distrusts. | |
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Distrustful \Dis*trust"ful\, a. 1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. --Pope. 2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. --Boyle. -- {Dis*trust"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*trust"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Distrustful \Dis*trust"ful\, a. 1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. --Pope. 2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. --Boyle. -- {Dis*trust"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*trust"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Distrustful \Dis*trust"ful\, a. 1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. --Pope. 2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. --Boyle. -- {Dis*trust"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*trust"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Distrust \Dis*trust"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distrusted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distrusting}.] [Cf. {Mistrust}.] To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust. Not distrusting my health. --2 Mac. ix. 22. To distrust the justice of your cause. --Dryden. He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other. --Udall. Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid. --Collins. Note: Mistrust has been almost wholly driven out by distrust. --T. L. K. Oliphant. | |
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Distrusting \Dis*trust"ing\, a. That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in. -- {Dis*trust"ing*ly}, adv. | |
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Distrusting \Dis*trust"ing\, a. That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in. -- {Dis*trust"ing*ly}, adv. | |
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Distrustless \Dis*trust"less\, a. Free from distrust. --Shenstone. | |
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Disturb \Dis*turb"\, n. Disturbance. [Obs.] --Milton. | |
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Disturb \Dis*turb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disturbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disturbing}.] [OE. desturben, destourben, OF. destorber, desturber, destourber, fr. L. disturbare, disturbatum; dis- + turbare to disturb, trouble, turba disorder, tumult, crowd. See {Turbid}.] 1. To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest. Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms above. --Cowper. The bellow's noise disturbed his quiet rest. --Spenser. The utmost which the discontented colonies could do, was to disturb authority. --Burke. 2. To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy. 3. To turn from a regular or designed course. [Obs.] And disturb His inmost counsels from their destined aim. --Milton. Syn: To disorder; disquiet; agitate; discompose; molest; perplex; trouble; incommode; ruffle. | |
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Disturbance \Dis*turb"ance\, n. [OF. destorbance.] 1. An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current. 2. Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness. Any man . . . in a state of disturbance and irritation. --Burke. 3. Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult. The disturbance was made to support a general accusation against the province. --Bancroft. 4. (Law) The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. --Blackstone. Syn: Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil; uproar; hubbub; disorder; derangement; confusion; agitation; perturbation; annoyance. | |
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Disturbation \Dis`tur*ba"tion\, n. [L. disturbatio.] Act of disturbing; disturbance. [Obs.] --Daniel. | |
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Disturb \Dis*turb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disturbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disturbing}.] [OE. desturben, destourben, OF. destorber, desturber, destourber, fr. L. disturbare, disturbatum; dis- + turbare to disturb, trouble, turba disorder, tumult, crowd. See {Turbid}.] 1. To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest. Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms above. --Cowper. The bellow's noise disturbed his quiet rest. --Spenser. The utmost which the discontented colonies could do, was to disturb authority. --Burke. 2. To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy. 3. To turn from a regular or designed course. [Obs.] And disturb His inmost counsels from their destined aim. --Milton. Syn: To disorder; disquiet; agitate; discompose; molest; perplex; trouble; incommode; ruffle. | |
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Disturber \Dis*turb"er\, n. [Cf. OF. destorbeor.] 1. One who, or that which, disturbs of disquiets; a violator of peace; a troubler. A needless disturber of the peace of God's church and an author of dissension. --Hooker. 2. (Law) One who interrupts or incommodes another in the peaceable enjoyment of his right. | |
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Disturb \Dis*turb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disturbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disturbing}.] [OE. desturben, destourben, OF. destorber, desturber, destourber, fr. L. disturbare, disturbatum; dis- + turbare to disturb, trouble, turba disorder, tumult, crowd. See {Turbid}.] 1. To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest. Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms above. --Cowper. The bellow's noise disturbed his quiet rest. --Spenser. The utmost which the discontented colonies could do, was to disturb authority. --Burke. 2. To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy. 3. To turn from a regular or designed course. [Obs.] And disturb His inmost counsels from their destined aim. --Milton. Syn: To disorder; disquiet; agitate; discompose; molest; perplex; trouble; incommode; ruffle. | |
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Disturn \Dis*turn"\, v. t. [OF. destourner, F. d[82]tourner. See {Detour}.] To turn aside. [Obs.] --Daniel. | |
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Doctor \Doc"tor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Doctored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Doctoring}.] 1. To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. [Colloq.] 2. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor. 3. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. [Slang] | |
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Doctor \Doc"tor\, v. i. To practice physic. [Colloq.] | |
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Doctor \Doc"tor\, n. [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See {Docile}.] 1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. [Obs.] One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. -- Bacon. 2. An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only. 3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. -- Shak. 4. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also {donkey engine}. 5. (Zo[94]l.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.] {Doctors' Commons}. See under {Commons}. {Doctor's stuff}, physic, medicine. --G. Eliot. {Doctor fish} (Zo[94]l.), any fish of the genus {Acanthurus}; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called {barber fish}. See {Surgeon fish}. | |
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Friar \Fri"ar\, n. [OR. frere, F. fr[8a]re brother, friar, fr. L. frater brother. See {Brother}.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: {(a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans.} {(b) Augustines}. {(c) Dominicans or Black Friars.} {(d) White Friars or Carmelites.} See these names in the Vocabulary. 2. (Print.) A white or pale patch on a printed page. 3. (Zo[94]l.) An American fish; the silversides. {Friar bird} (Zo[94]l.), an Australian bird ({Tropidorhynchus corniculatus}), having the head destitute of feathers; -- called also {coldong}, {leatherhead}, {pimlico}; {poor soldier}, and {four-o'clock}. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus. {Friar's balsam} (Med.), a stimulating application for wounds and ulcers, being an alcoholic solution of benzoin, styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes; compound tincture of benzoin. --Brande & C. {Friar's cap} (Bot.), the monkshood. {Friar's cowl} (Bot.), an arumlike plant ({Arisarum vulgare}) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl. {Friar's lantern}, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. --Milton. {Friar skate} (Zo[94]l.), the European white or sharpnosed skate ({Raia alba}); -- called also {Burton skate}, {border ray}, {scad}, and {doctor}. | |
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Doctor \Doc"tor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Doctored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Doctoring}.] 1. To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. [Colloq.] 2. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor. 3. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. [Slang] | |
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Doctor \Doc"tor\, v. i. To practice physic. [Colloq.] | |
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Doctor \Doc"tor\, n. [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See {Docile}.] 1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. [Obs.] One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. -- Bacon. 2. An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only. 3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. -- Shak. 4. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also {donkey engine}. 5. (Zo[94]l.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.] {Doctors' Commons}. See under {Commons}. {Doctor's stuff}, physic, medicine. --G. Eliot. {Doctor fish} (Zo[94]l.), any fish of the genus {Acanthurus}; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called {barber fish}. See {Surgeon fish}. | |
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Friar \Fri"ar\, n. [OR. frere, F. fr[8a]re brother, friar, fr. L. frater brother. See {Brother}.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: {(a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans.} {(b) Augustines}. {(c) Dominicans or Black Friars.} {(d) White Friars or Carmelites.} See these names in the Vocabulary. 2. (Print.) A white or pale patch on a printed page. 3. (Zo[94]l.) An American fish; the silversides. {Friar bird} (Zo[94]l.), an Australian bird ({Tropidorhynchus corniculatus}), having the head destitute of feathers; -- called also {coldong}, {leatherhead}, {pimlico}; {poor soldier}, and {four-o'clock}. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus. {Friar's balsam} (Med.), a stimulating application for wounds and ulcers, being an alcoholic solution of benzoin, styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes; compound tincture of benzoin. --Brande & C. {Friar's cap} (Bot.), the monkshood. {Friar's cowl} (Bot.), an arumlike plant ({Arisarum vulgare}) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl. {Friar's lantern}, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. --Milton. {Friar skate} (Zo[94]l.), the European white or sharpnosed skate ({Raia alba}); -- called also {Burton skate}, {border ray}, {scad}, and {doctor}. | |
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Surgeon \Sur"geon\, n. [OE. surgien, OF. surgien, contr. fr. chirurgien. See {Chirurgeon}.] 1. One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of ch[91]todont fishes of the family {Teuthid[91]}, or {Acanthurid[91]}, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also {surgeon fish}, {doctor fish}, {lancet fish}, and {sea surgeon}. {Surgeon apothecary}, one who unites the practice of surgery with that of the apothecary. --Dunglison. {Surgeon dentist}, a dental surgeon; a dentist. {Surgeon fish}. See def. 2, above. {Surgeon general}. (a) In the United States army, the chief of the medical department. (b) In the British army, a surgeon ranking next below the chief of the medical department. | |
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Doctor \Doc"tor\, n. [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See {Docile}.] 1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. [Obs.] One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. -- Bacon. 2. An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only. 3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. -- Shak. 4. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also {donkey engine}. 5. (Zo[94]l.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.] {Doctors' Commons}. See under {Commons}. {Doctor's stuff}, physic, medicine. --G. Eliot. {Doctor fish} (Zo[94]l.), any fish of the genus {Acanthurus}; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called {barber fish}. See {Surgeon fish}. | |
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Surgeon \Sur"geon\, n. [OE. surgien, OF. surgien, contr. fr. chirurgien. See {Chirurgeon}.] 1. One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of ch[91]todont fishes of the family {Teuthid[91]}, or {Acanthurid[91]}, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also {surgeon fish}, {doctor fish}, {lancet fish}, and {sea surgeon}. {Surgeon apothecary}, one who unites the practice of surgery with that of the apothecary. --Dunglison. {Surgeon dentist}, a dental surgeon; a dentist. {Surgeon fish}. See def. 2, above. {Surgeon general}. (a) In the United States army, the chief of the medical department. (b) In the British army, a surgeon ranking next below the chief of the medical department. | |
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Doctor \Doc"tor\, n. [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See {Docile}.] 1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. [Obs.] One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. -- Bacon. 2. An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only. 3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. -- Shak. 4. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also {donkey engine}. 5. (Zo[94]l.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.] {Doctors' Commons}. See under {Commons}. {Doctor's stuff}, physic, medicine. --G. Eliot. {Doctor fish} (Zo[94]l.), any fish of the genus {Acanthurus}; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called {barber fish}. See {Surgeon fish}. | |
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Doctoral \Doc"tor*al\, a. [Cf. F. doctoral.] Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. -- Wood. | |
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Doctorally \Doc"tor*al*ly\, adv. In the manner of a doctor.[R.] | |
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Doctorate \Doc"tor*ate\, n. [Cf. F. doctorat.] The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor. | |
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Doctorate \Doc"tor*ate\, v. t. To make (one) a doctor. He was bred . . . in Oxford and there doctorated. -- Fuller. | |
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Doctor \Doc"tor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Doctored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Doctoring}.] 1. To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. [Colloq.] 2. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor. 3. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. [Slang] | |
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Doctoress \Doc"tor*ess\, n. A female doctor.[R.] | |
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Doctor \Doc"tor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Doctored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Doctoring}.] 1. To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. [Colloq.] 2. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor. 3. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. [Slang] | |
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Doctorly \Doc"tor*ly\, a. Like a doctor or learned man. [Obs.] [bd]Doctorly prelates.[b8] --Foxe. | |
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Doctor \Doc"tor\, n. [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See {Docile}.] 1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. [Obs.] One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. -- Bacon. 2. An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only. 3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. -- Shak. 4. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also {donkey engine}. 5. (Zo[94]l.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.] {Doctors' Commons}. See under {Commons}. {Doctor's stuff}, physic, medicine. --G. Eliot. {Doctor fish} (Zo[94]l.), any fish of the genus {Acanthurus}; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called {barber fish}. See {Surgeon fish}. | |
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Commons \Com"mons\, n. pl., 1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. [Eng.] 'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. --Shak. The word commons in its present ordinary signification comprises all the people who are under the rank of peers. --Blackstone. 2. The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities. It is agreed that the Commons were no part of the great council till some ages after the Conquest. --Hume. 3. Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities. Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing scant. --Dryden. 4. A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons. 5. A common; public pasture ground. To shake his ears, and graze in commons. --Shak. {Doctors' Commons}, a place near St. Paul's Churchyard in London where the doctors of civil law used to common together, and where were the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc. {To be on short commons}, to have a small allowance of food. [Colloq.] | |
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Doctor \Doc"tor\, n. [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See {Docile}.] 1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. [Obs.] One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. -- Bacon. 2. An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only. 3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. -- Shak. 4. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also {donkey engine}. 5. (Zo[94]l.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.] {Doctors' Commons}. See under {Commons}. {Doctor's stuff}, physic, medicine. --G. Eliot. {Doctor fish} (Zo[94]l.), any fish of the genus {Acanthurus}; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called {barber fish}. See {Surgeon fish}. | |
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Doctorship \Doc"tor*ship\, n. Doctorate. [R.] --Clarendon. | |
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Doctress \Doc"tress\, n. A female doctor. [R.] | |
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Doctrinable \Doc"tri*na*ble\, a. Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney. | |
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Doctrinal \Doc"tri*nal\, n. A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines. --T. Goodwin. Sir T. Elyot. | |
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Doctrinal \Doc"tri*nal\, a. [LL. doctrinalis, fr. L. doctrina: cf. F. doctrinal. See {Doctrine}.] 1. Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation. [bd]Doctrinal clauses.[b8] --Macaulay. 2. Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching. The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument. -- Hooker. | |
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Doctrinally \Doc"tri*nal*ly\, adv. In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction. | |
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Doctrinarian \Doc"tri*na"ri*an\, n. A doctrinaire. --J. H. Newman. | |
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Doctrinarianism \Doc`tri*na"ri*an*ism\, n. The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires. | |
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Doctrine \Doc"trine\, n. [F. doctrine, L. doctrina, fr. doctor. See {Doctor}.] 1. Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. -- Mark iv. 2. 2. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances. [bd]The doctrine of gravitation.[b8] --I. Watts. Articles of faith and doctrine. -- Hooker. {The Monroe doctrine} (Politics), a policy enunciated by President Monroe (Message, Dec. 2, 1823), the essential feature of which is that the United States will regard as an unfriendly act any attempt on the part of European powers to extend their systems on this continent, or any interference to oppress, or in any manner control the destiny of, governments whose independence had been acknowledged by the United States. Syn: Precept; tenet; principle; maxim; dogma. Usage: -- {Doctrine}, {Precept}. Doctrine denotes whatever is recommended as a speculative truth to the belief of others. Precept is a rule down to be obeyed. Doctrine supposes a teacher; precept supposes a superior, with a right to command. The doctrines of the Bible; the precepts of our holy religion. Unpracticed he to fawn or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour. -- Goldsmith. | |
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Atomic \A*tom"ic\, Atomical \A*tom"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. atomique.] 1. Of or pertaining to atoms. 2. Extremely minute; tiny. {Atomic philosophy}, or {Doctrine of atoms}, a system which, assuming that atoms are endued with gravity and motion, accounted thus for the origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy. {Atomic theory}, or the {Doctrine of definite proportions} (Chem.), teaches that chemical combinations take place between the supposed ultimate particles or atoms of bodies, in some simple ratio, as of one to one, two to three, or some other, always expressible in whole numbers. {Atomic weight} (Chem.), the weight of the atom of an element as compared with the weight of the atom of hydrogen, taken as a standard. | |
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Chance \Chance\ (ch[adot]ns), n. [F. chance, OF. cheance, fr. LL. cadentia a allusion to the falling of the dice), fr. L. cadere to fall; akin to Skr. [87]ad to fall, L. cedere to yield, E. cede. Cf. {Cadence}.] 1. A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified. It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. --Samuel Clark. Any society into which chance might throw him. --Macaulay. That power Which erring men call Chance. --Milton. 2. The operation or activity of such agent. By chance a priest came down that way. --Luke x. 31. 3. The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty. It was a chance that happened to us. --1 Sam. vi. 9. The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts, And wins (O shameful chance!) the Queen of Hearts. --Pope. I spake of most disastrous chance. --Shak. 4. A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him. So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune. That I would get my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on 't --Shak. 5. (Math.) Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance, or probability, that the event will happen is measured by the fraction a/a + b, and the chance, or probability, that it will fail is measured by b/a + b. {Chance comer}, one who comes unexpectedly. {The last chance}, the sole remaining ground of hope. {The main chance}, the chief opportunity; that upon which reliance is had, esp. self-interest. {Theory of chances}, {Doctrine of chances} (Math.), that branch of mathematics which treats of the probability of the occurrence of particular events, as the fall of dice in given positions. {To mind one's chances}, to take advantage of every circumstance; to seize every opportunity. | |
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Atomic \A*tom"ic\, Atomical \A*tom"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. atomique.] 1. Of or pertaining to atoms. 2. Extremely minute; tiny. {Atomic philosophy}, or {Doctrine of atoms}, a system which, assuming that atoms are endued with gravity and motion, accounted thus for the origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy. {Atomic theory}, or the {Doctrine of definite proportions} (Chem.), teaches that chemical combinations take place between the supposed ultimate particles or atoms of bodies, in some simple ratio, as of one to one, two to three, or some other, always expressible in whole numbers. {Atomic weight} (Chem.), the weight of the atom of an element as compared with the weight of the atom of hydrogen, taken as a standard. | |
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Hinterland \Hin"ter*land`\, n. [G.; hinter behind + land land.] The land or region lying behind the coast district. The term is used esp. with reference to the so-called {doctrine of the hinterland}, sometimes advanced, that occupation of the coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to time, the territory lying inland of the coast. | |
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Sphere \Sphere\, n. [OE. spere, OF. espere, F. sph[8a]re, L. sphaera,. Gr. [?][?][?] a sphere, a ball.] 1. (Geom.) A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center. 2. Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth. Of celestial bodies, first the sun, A mighty sphere, he framed. --Milton. 3. (Astron.) (a) The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it. (b) In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a manner as to produce their apparent motions. 4. (Logic) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied. 5. Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence. To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in 't. --Shak. Taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself. --Hawthorne. Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell. --Keble. 6. Rank; order of society; social positions. 7. An orbit, as of a star; a socket. [R.] --Shak. {Armillary sphere}, {Crystalline sphere}, {Oblique sphere},. See under {Armillary}, {Crystalline},. {Doctrine of the sphere}, applications of the principles of spherical trigonometry to the properties and relations of the circles of the sphere, and the problems connected with them, in astronomy and geography, as to the latitudes and longitudes, distance and bearing, of places on the earth, and the right ascension and declination, altitude and azimuth, rising and setting, etc., of the heavenly bodies; spherical geometry. {Music of the spheres}. See under {Music}. Syn: Globe; orb; circle. See {Globe}. | |
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Dog \Dog\ (d[ocr]g), n. [AS. docga; akin to D. dog mastiff, Dan. dogge, Sw. dogg.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A quadruped of the genus {Canis}, esp. the domestic dog ({C. familiaris}). Note: The dog is distinguished above all others of the inferior animals for intelligence, docility, and attachment to man. There are numerous carefully bred varieties, as the beagle, bloodhound, bulldog, coachdog, collie, Danish dog, foxhound, greyhound, mastiff, pointer, poodle, St. Bernard, setter, spaniel, spitz dog, terrier, etc. There are also many mixed breeds, and partially domesticated varieties, as well as wild dogs, like the dingo and dhole. (See these names in the Vocabulary.) 2. A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch. What is thy servant, which is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? -- 2 Kings viii. 13 (Rev. Ver. ) 3. A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog. [Colloq.] 4. (Astron.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius). 5. An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron. 6. (Mech.) (a) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them. (b) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill. (c) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool. Note: Dog is used adjectively or in composition, commonly in the sense of relating to, or characteristic of, a dog. It is also used to denote a male; as, dog fox or g-fox, a male fox; dog otter or dog-otter, dog wolf, etc.; -- also to denote a thing of cheap or mean quality; as, dog Latin. {A dead dog}, a thing of no use or value. --1 Sam. xxiv. 14. {A dog in the manger}, an ugly-natured person who prevents others from enjoying what would be an advantage to them but is none to him. {Dog ape} (Zo[94]l.), a male ape. {Dog cabbage}, [or] {Dog's cabbage} (Bot.), a succulent herb, native to the Mediterranean region ({Thelygonum Cynocrambe}). {Dog cheap}, very cheap. See under {Cheap}. {Dog ear} (Arch.), an acroterium. [Colloq.] {Dog flea} (Zo[94]l.), a species of flea ({Pulex canis}) which infests dogs and cats, and is often troublesome to man. In America it is the common flea. See {Flea}, and {Aphaniptera}. {Dog grass} (Bot.), a grass ({Triticum caninum}) of the same genus as wheat. {Dog Latin}, barbarous Latin; as, the dog Latin of pharmacy. {Dog lichen} (Bot.), a kind of lichen ({Peltigera canina}) growing on earth, rocks, and tree trunks, -- a lobed expansion, dingy green above and whitish with fuscous veins beneath. {Dog louse} (Zo[94]l.), a louse that infests the dog, esp. {H[91]matopinus piliferus}; another species is {Trichodectes latus}. {Dog power}, a machine operated by the weight of a dog traveling in a drum, or on an endless track, as for churning. {Dog salmon} (Zo[94]l.), a salmon of northwest America and northern Asia; -- the {gorbuscha}; -- called also {holia}, and {hone}. {Dog shark}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Dogfish}. {Dog's meat}, meat fit only for dogs; refuse; offal. {Dog Star}. See in the Vocabulary. {Dog wheat} (Bot.), Dog grass. {Dog whelk} (Zo[94]l.), any species of univalve shells of the family {Nassid[91]}, esp. the {Nassa reticulata} of England. {To give, [or] throw}, {to the dogs}, to throw away as useless. [bd]Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.[b8] --Shak. {To go to the dogs}, to go to ruin; to be ruined. | |
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Dog Star \Dog" Star`\ Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also {Canicula}, and, in astronomical charts, {[alpha] Canis Majoris}. See {Dog days}. | |
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Dogdraw \Dog"draw`\, n. (Eng. Forest Law) The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog. --Cowell. | |
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Dogtrick \Dog"trick`\, n. A gentle trot, like that of a dog. | |
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Dogwood \Dog"wood`\ (-w[oocr]d`), n. [So named from skewers (dags) being made of it. Dr. Prior. See {Dag}, and {Dagger}.] (Bot.) The {Cornus}, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes. Note: There are several species, one of which, {Cornus mascula}, called also {cornelian cherry}, bears a red acid berry. {C. florida} is the flowering dogwood, a small American tree with very showy blossoms. {Dogwood tree}. (a) The dogwood or {Cornus}. (b) A papilionaceous tree ({Piscidia erythrina}) growing in Jamaica. It has narcotic properties; -- called also {Jamaica dogwood}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Doughty \Dough"ty\, a. [Compar. {Doughtier}; superl. {Doughtiest}.] [OE. duhti, dohti, douhti, brave, valiant, fit, useful, AS, dyhtig; akin to G. t[81]chtig, Dan. dygtig, Sw. dygdig virtuous, and fr. AS. dugan to avail, be of use, be strong, akin to D. deugen, OHG. tugan, G. taugen, Icel. & Sw. duga, Dan. due, Goth. dugan, but of uncertain origin; cf. Skr. duh to milk, give milk, draw out, or Gr. [?] fortune. [?].] Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero. Sir Thopas wex [grew] a doughty swain. --Chaucer. Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation. --Motley. Note: Now seldom used, except in irony or burlesque. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Doughtren \Dough"tren\, n. pl. [See {Daughter}.] Daughters. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ductor \Duc"tor\, n. [L., fr. ducere to lead.] 1. One who leads. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. 2. (Mach.) A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See {Doctor}, 4. --Knight. {Ductor roller} (Printing), the roller which conveys or supplies ink to another roller. --Knight. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ductor \Duc"tor\, n. [L., fr. ducere to lead.] 1. One who leads. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. 2. (Mach.) A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See {Doctor}, 4. --Knight. {Ductor roller} (Printing), the roller which conveys or supplies ink to another roller. --Knight. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ducture \Duc"ture\, n. Guidance. [Obs.] --South. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Duster \Dust"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust. Specifically: (a) (Paper Making) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc. (b) (Milling) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran. 2. A light over-garment, worn in traveling to protect the clothing from dust. [U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dusty \Dust"y\, a. [Compar. {Dustier}; superl. {Dustiest}.] [AS. dystig. See {Dust}.] 1. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. --Shak. 2. Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white. {Dusty miller} (Bot.), a plant ({Cineraria maritima}); -- so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cotton \Cot"ton\ (k[ocr]t"t'n), n. [F. coton, Sp. algodon the cotton plant and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, cotton wool. Cf. {Acton}, {Hacqueton}.] 1. A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half. 2. The cotton plant. See {Cotten plant}, below. 3. Cloth made of cotton. Note: Cotton is used as an adjective before many nouns in a sense which commonly needs no explanation; as, cotton bagging; cotton cloth; cotton goods; cotton industry; cotton mill; cotton spinning; cotton tick. {Cotton cambric}. See {Cambric}, n., 2. {Cotton flannel}, the manufactures' name for a heavy cotton fabric, twilled, and with a long plush nap. In England it is called swan's-down cotton, or Canton flannel. {Cotton gin}, a machine to separate the seeds from cotton, invented by Eli Whitney. {Cotton grass} (Bot.), a genus of plants ({Eriphorum}) of the Sedge family, having delicate capillary bristles surrounding the fruit (seedlike achenia), which elongate at maturity and resemble tufts of cotton. {Cotton mouse} (Zool.), a field mouse ({Hesperomys gossypinus}), injurious to cotton crops. {Cotton plant} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Gossypium}, of several species, all growing in warm climates, and bearing the cotton of commerce. The common species, originally Asiatic, is {G. herbaceum}. {Cotton press}, a building and machinery in which cotton bales are compressed into smaller bulk for shipment; a press for baling cotton. {Cotton rose} (Bot.), a genus of composite herbs ({Filago}), covered with a white substance resembling cotton. {Cotton scale} (Zo[94]l.), a species of bark louse ({Pulvinaria innumerabilis}), which does great damage to the cotton plant. {Cotton shrub}. Same as Cotton plant. {Cotton stainer} (Zo[94]l.), a species of hemipterous insect ({Dysdercus suturellus}), which seriously damages growing cotton by staining it; -- called also {redbug}. {Cotton thistle} (Bot.), the Scotch thistle. See under {Thistle}. {Cotton velvet}, velvet in which the warp and woof are both of cotton, and the pile is of silk; also, velvet made wholly of cotton. {Cotton waste}, the refuse of cotton mills. {Cotton wool}, cotton in its raw or woolly state. {Cotton worm} (Zool.), a lepidopterous insect ({Aletia argillacea}), which in the larval state does great damage to the cotton plant by eating the leaves. It also feeds on corn, etc., and hence is often called {corn worm}, and {Southern army worm}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Decatur, AL (city, FIPS 20104) Location: 34.57183 N, 86.98817 W Population (1990): 48761 (20640 housing units) Area: 122.3 sq km (land), 16.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 35601, 35603 Decatur, AR (city, FIPS 17740) Location: 36.33758 N, 94.45848 W Population (1990): 918 (366 housing units) Area: 5.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72722 Decatur, GA (city, FIPS 22052) Location: 33.77125 N, 84.29781 W Population (1990): 17336 (8230 housing units) Area: 10.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30030, 30032, 30033, 30034, 30035 Decatur, IA Zip code(s): 50067 Decatur, IL (city, FIPS 18823) Location: 39.85225 N, 88.93385 W Population (1990): 83885 (37470 housing units) Area: 96.0 sq km (land), 11.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62521, 62522, 62523 Decatur, IN (city, FIPS 17074) Location: 40.83002 N, 84.92824 W Population (1990): 8644 (3532 housing units) Area: 10.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 46733 Decatur, MI (village, FIPS 21040) Location: 42.10972 N, 85.97343 W Population (1990): 1760 (754 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 49045 Decatur, MS (town, FIPS 18180) Location: 32.43818 N, 89.11086 W Population (1990): 1248 (423 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 39327 Decatur, NE (village, FIPS 12525) Location: 42.00810 N, 96.25072 W Population (1990): 641 (358 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68020 Decatur, TN (town, FIPS 19880) Location: 35.52505 N, 84.79124 W Population (1990): 1361 (550 housing units) Area: 6.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 37322 Decatur, TX (city, FIPS 19528) Location: 33.23333 N, 97.59136 W Population (1990): 4252 (1776 housing units) Area: 16.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76234 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Decatur City, IA (city, FIPS 19360) Location: 40.74227 N, 93.83251 W Population (1990): 177 (94 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Decatur County, GA (county, FIPS 87) Location: 30.87876 N, 84.57963 W Population (1990): 25511 (10120 housing units) Area: 1545.8 sq km (land), 68.3 sq km (water) Decatur County, IA (county, FIPS 53) Location: 40.73791 N, 93.78359 W Population (1990): 8338 (3692 housing units) Area: 1378.5 sq km (land), 2.9 sq km (water) Decatur County, IN (county, FIPS 31) Location: 39.30438 N, 85.50205 W Population (1990): 23645 (9098 housing units) Area: 965.1 sq km (land), 2.1 sq km (water) Decatur County, KS (county, FIPS 39) Location: 39.78495 N, 100.46005 W Population (1990): 4021 (2063 housing units) Area: 2314.4 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water) Decatur County, TN (county, FIPS 39) Location: 35.60549 N, 88.10568 W Population (1990): 10472 (5346 housing units) Area: 864.8 sq km (land), 28.5 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Decaturville, TN (town, FIPS 19900) Location: 35.58233 N, 88.11925 W Population (1990): 879 (385 housing units) Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38329 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Destrehan, LA (CDP, FIPS 20820) Location: 29.96179 N, 90.36905 W Population (1990): 8031 (2901 housing units) Area: 16.6 sq km (land), 2.2 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dexter, GA (town, FIPS 22752) Location: 32.43305 N, 83.05997 W Population (1990): 475 (213 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31019 Dexter, IA (city, FIPS 21225) Location: 41.51563 N, 94.22688 W Population (1990): 628 (260 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50070 Dexter, KS (city, FIPS 17925) Location: 37.17934 N, 96.71568 W Population (1990): 320 (134 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67038 Dexter, KY Zip code(s): 42036 Dexter, ME (CDP, FIPS 17495) Location: 45.01552 N, 69.29460 W Population (1990): 2650 (1238 housing units) Area: 12.3 sq km (land), 1.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 04930 Dexter, MI (village, FIPS 22160) Location: 42.33147 N, 83.87981 W Population (1990): 1497 (676 housing units) Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48130 Dexter, MN (city, FIPS 15886) Location: 43.71808 N, 92.70248 W Population (1990): 303 (122 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55926 Dexter, MO (city, FIPS 19396) Location: 36.79037 N, 89.96032 W Population (1990): 7559 (3433 housing units) Area: 13.5 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63841 Dexter, NM (town, FIPS 20620) Location: 33.19472 N, 104.36836 W Population (1990): 898 (348 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 88230 Dexter, NY (village, FIPS 20500) Location: 44.00821 N, 76.04572 W Population (1990): 1030 (404 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 13634 Dexter, OH Zip code(s): 45741 Dexter, OR Zip code(s): 97431 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dexter City, OH (village, FIPS 21910) Location: 39.65919 N, 81.47487 W Population (1990): 161 (73 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45727 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
District Heights, MD (city, FIPS 23025) Location: 38.85912 N, 76.88721 W Population (1990): 6704 (2594 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 20747 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
District of, DC (Columbia, FIPS 1) Location: 38.90505 N, 77.01617 W Population (1990): 606900 (278489 housing units) Area: 159.1 sq km (land), 18.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Doctor Phillips, FL (CDP, FIPS 17725) Location: 28.44923 N, 81.49249 W Population (1990): 7963 (3239 housing units) Area: 9.5 sq km (land), 3.8 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
distribution n. 1. A software source tree packaged for distribution; but see {kit}. Since about 1996 unqualified use of this term often implies `{Linux} distribution'. 2. A vague term encompassing mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups (but not {BBS} {fora}); any topic-oriented message channel with multiple recipients. 3. An information-space domain (usually loosely correlated with geography) to which propagation of a Usenet message is restricted; a much-underutilized feature. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
daughter {node} pointed to by a {parent}, i.e. another node closer to the {root node}. (1998-11-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
destructor some other {object-oriented languages} to delete an object, the inverse of a {constructor}. (1998-04-28) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Dijkstra's guarded command language It introduced the concept of {guards} and {committed choice nondeterminism} ({don't care nondeterminism}). Described and used in ["A Discipline of Programming", E. Dijkstra, P-H 1976]. (1994-12-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
disc drive {disc} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
disk drive "floppy disk drive", "floppy drive") A {peripheral} device that reads and writes {hard disks} or {floppy disks}. The drive contains a motor to rotate the disk at a constant rate and one or more read/write heads which are positioned over the desired {track} by a servo mechanism. It also contains the electronics to amplify the signals from the heads to normal digital logic levels and vice versa. In order for a disk drive to start to read or write a given location a read/write head must be positioned radially over the right track and rotationally over the start of the right sector. Radial motion is known as "{seek}ing" and it is this which causes most of the intermittent noise heard during disk activity. There is usually one head for each disk surface and all heads move together. The set of locations which are accessible with the heads in a given radial position are known as a "{cylinder}". The "{seek time}" is the time taken to seek to a different cylinder. The disk is constantly rotating (except for some {floppy disk} drives where the motor is switched off between accesses to reduce wear and power consumption) so positioning the heads over the right sector is simply a matter of waiting until it arrives under the head. With a single set of heads this "{rotational latency}" will be on average half a revolution but some big drives have multiple sets of heads spaced at equal angles around the disk. If seeking and rotation are independent, access time is seek time + rotational latency. When accessing multiple tracks sequentially, data is sometimes arranged so that by the time the seek from one track to the next has finished, the disk has rotated just enough to begin accessing the next track. See also {sector interleave}. The disks may be {removable disks}; floppy disks always are, removable hard disks were common on {mainframes} and {minicomputers} but less so on {microcomputers} until the mid 1990s(?) with products like the {Zip Drive}. A {CD-ROM} drive is not usually referred to as a disk drive. Two common interfaces for disk drives (and other devices) are {SCSI} and {IDE}. {ST506} used to be common in microcomputers (in the 1980s?). (1997-04-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
disk striping {data striping} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Distributed Component Object Model {Component Object Model} (COM) to support objects distributed across a {network}. DCOM has been submitted to the {IETF} as a draft standard. Since 1996, it has been part of {Windows NT} and is also available for {Windows 95}. Unlike {CORBA}, which runs on many {operating systems}, DCOM is currently (Dec 1997) only implemented by {Microsoft} for {Microsoft Windows} and by {Software AG}, under the name "{EntireX}", for {Unix} and {IBM} {mainframes}. DCOM serves the same purpose as {IBM}'s {DSOM} {protocol}. DCOM is broken because it's an {object model} that has no provisions for {inheritance}, one of the major reasons for {object oriented programming} in the first place. {Home (http://www.microsoft.com/com/tech/DCOM.asp)}. [Details?] (2000-08-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) An architecture consisting of {standard} programming interfaces, conventions and {server} functionalities (e.g. naming, distributed file system, {remote procedure call}) for distributing applications transparently across networks of {heterogeneous} computers. DCE is promoted and controlled by the {Open Software Foundation} (OSF). {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.soft-sys.dce}. {(http://www.dstc.edu.au/AU/research_news/dce/dce.html)}. (1994-12-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Distributed Data Management architecture for data management services across {distributed} systems in an {SNA} environment. DDM provides a common {data management language} for data interchange among different IBM system platforms. Products supporting DDM include {AS/400}, {System/36}, {System/38} and {CICS/DDM}. On the AS/400, DDM controls remote file processing. DDM enables application programs running on one AS/400 system to access data files stored on another system supporting DDM. Similarly, other systems that have DDM can access files in the database of the local AS/400 system. DDM makes it easier to distribute file processing between two or more systems. {OS/400 Distributed Data Management V3R6 Reference (http://as400bks.rochester.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/QBJALH00/CCONTENTS)}. (1999-04-26) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
distributed database A collection of several different {database}s that looks like a single {database} to the user. An example is the {Internet} {Domain Name System} (DNS). (1994-12-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Distributed Eiffel ["Distributed Eiffel: A Language for Programming Multi-Granular Distributed Objects on the Clouds Operating System", L. Gunaseelan et al, IEEE Conf Comp Langs, 1992]. (1994-12-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Distributed Logic Programming {Prolog}, combined with parallel {object orientation} similar to {POOL}. DLP supports distributed {backtracking} over the results of a {rendezvous} between {object}s. {Multi-threaded} objects have autonomous activity and may simultaneously evaluate {method} calls. ["DLP: A Language for Distributed Logic Programming", A. Eliens, Wiley 1992]. (1996-01-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Distributed Management Environment (DME) An {OSF} {standard}. It had reached the {RFT} stage. (1995-02-22) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
distributed memory where each processor has fast access to its own local memory and where to access another processor's memory it must send a message via the inter-processor network. Opposite: {shared memory}. (1995-03-22) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Distributed Network Operating System {Texas Instruments} {990}-series {minicomputers}. (1996-04-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network (DOMAIN) The proprietary network {protocol} used by {Apollo} {workstation}s. (1995-02-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Distributed Processes (DP) The first {concurrent} language based on {remote procedure call}s. ["Distributed Processes: A Concurrent Programming Concept", Per Brinch Hansen CACM 21(11):934-940 (Nov 1978)]. (1994-12-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Distributed Queue Dual Bus {metropolitan area networks}. {(http://www.ece.wpi.edu/~vlad/ee535/hw5/page1.html)}. [Details?] (2000-08-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Distributed Smalltalk ["The Design and Implementation of DIstributed Smalltalk", J. Bennett, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):318-330 (Dec 1980)]. (1994-12-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
distributed system A collection of (probably heterogeneous) automata whose distribution is transparent to the user so that the system appears as one local machine. This is in contrast to a network, where the user is aware that there are several machines, and their location, storage replication, load balancing and functionality is not transparent. Distributed systems usually use some kind of {client-server} organisation. Distributed systems are considered by some to be the "next wave" of computing. {Distributed Computing Environment} is the {Open Software Foundation}'s software architecture for distributed systems. {(http://www.dstc.edu.au/AU/research_news/dist-env.html)}. (1994-12-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
distributed systems {distributed system} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
distribution 1. distribution; but see {kit}. 2. {Usenet} {newsgroup}s (but not {BBS} {fora}); any topic-oriented message channel with multiple recipients. 3. correlated with geography) to which propagation of a {Usenet} message is restricted; a much-underused feature. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
distributive lattice and {greatest lower bound} (glb) operators distribute over one another so that a lub (b glb c) == (a lub c) glb (a lub b) and vice versa. ("lub" and "glb" are written in {LateX} as {\sqcup} and {\sqcap}). (1998-11-09) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Daughter This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate, (1.) A niece or any female descendant (Gen. 20:12; 24:48; 28:6). (2.) Women as natives of a place, or as professing the religion of a place; as, "the daughters of Zion" (Isa. 3:16), "daughters of the Philistines" (2 Sam. 1:20). (3.) Small towns and villages lying around a city are its "daughters," as related to the metropolis or mother city. Tyre is in this sense called the daughter of Sidon (Isa. 23:12). (4.) The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as "the daughters of Zion" (Isa. 37:22). (5.) The daughters of a tree are its boughs (Gen. 49:22). (6.) The "daughters of music" (Eccl. 12:4) are singing women. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Daystar which precedes and accompanies the sun-rising. It is found only in 2 Pet. 1:19, where it denotes the manifestation of Christ to the soul, imparting spiritual light and comfort. He is the "bright and morning star" of Rev. 2:28; 22:16. (Comp. Num. 24:17.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Destroyer (Ex. 12:23), the agent employed in the killing of the first-born; the destroying angel or messenger of God. (Comp. 2 Kings 19:35; 2 Sam. 24:15, 16; Ps. 78:49; Acts 12:23.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Destruction in Job 26:6, 28:22 (Heb. abaddon) is sheol, the realm of the dead. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Destruction, City of (Isa. 19:18; Heb. Ir-ha-Heres, "city of overthrow," because of the evidence it would present of the overthrow of heathenism), the ideal title of On or Heliopolis (q.v.). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Doctor (Luke 2:46; 5:17; Acts 5:34), a teacher. The Jewish doctors taught and disputed in synagogues, or wherever they could find an audience. Their disciples were allowed to propose to them questions. They assumed the office without any appointment to it. The doctors of the law were principally of the sect of the Pharisees. Schools were established after the destruction of Jerusalem at Babylon and Tiberias, in which academical degrees were conferred on those who passed a certain examination. Those of the school of Tiberias were called by the title "rabbi," and those of Babylon by that of "master." |