English Dictionary: die down | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Adonai \[d8]Ad`o*na"i\, n. [Heb. ad[omac]n[be]i, lit., my lord.] A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word [bd]Lord[b8]. Note: The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton {Yhvh}, or {Ihvh}, [bd]the incommunicable name,[b8] and in reading substituted [bd]Adonai[b8]. | |
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d8Datum \[d8]Da"tum\, n.; pl. {Data}. [L. See 2d {Date}.] 1. Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural. Any writer, therefore, who . . . furnishes us with data sufficient to determine the time in which he wrote. --Priestley. 2. pl. (Math.) The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem. {Datum line} (Surv.), the horizontal or base line, from which the heights of points are reckoned or measured, as in the plan of a railway, etc. | |
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d8Didonia \[d8]Di*do"ni*a\, n. [NL. So called in allusion to the classical story of Dido and the bull's hide.] (Geom.) The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area. --Tait. | |
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d8Duettino \[d8]Du`et*ti"no\, n. [It ., dim. fr. duetto a duet.] A duet of short extent and concise form. | |
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d8Odeum \[d8]O*de"um\, n. [L.] See {Odeon}. | |
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d8Te Deum \[d8]Te De"um\ A musical setting of the Te Deum. | |
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d8Te Deum \[d8]Te` De"um\ [L., from te (accus. of tu thou) + Deum, accus. of Deus God. See {Thou}, and {Deity}.] 1. An ancient and celebrated Christian hymn, of uncertain authorship, but often ascribed to St. Ambrose; -- so called from the first words [bd]Te Deum laudamus.[b8] It forms part of the daily matins of the Roman Catholic breviary, and is sung on all occasions of thanksgiving. In its English form, commencing with words, [bd]We praise thee, O God,[b8] it forms a part of the regular morning service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in America. 2. A religious service in which the singing of the hymn forms a principal part. | |
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Daytime \Day"time`\ (-t[imac]m`), n. The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night. | |
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Deaden \Dead"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deadened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deadening}.] [From {Dead}; cf. AS. d[?]dan to kill, put to death. See {Dead}, a.] 1. To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound. | |
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Deaden \Dead"en\, v. t. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen. | |
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Detain \De*tain"\ (d[esl]*t[amac]n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Detained}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Detaining}.] [F. d[82]tenir, L. detinere, detentum; de + tenere to hold. See {Tenable}.] 1. To keep back or from; to withhold. Detain not the wages of the hireling. --Jer. Taylor. 2. To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident. Let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee. --Judges xiii. 15. 3. To hold or keep in custody. Syn: To withhold; retain; stop; stay; arrest; check; retard; delay; hinder. | |
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Detain \De*tain"\, n. Detention. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Detinue \Det"i*nue\ (?; 277), n. [OF. detinu, detenu, p. p. of detenir to detain. See {Detain}.] A person or thing detained; (Law) A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained. {Writ of detinue} (Law), one that lies against him who wrongfully detains goods or chattels delivered to him, or in possession, to recover the thing itself, or its value and damages, from the detainer. It is now in a great measure superseded by other remedies. | |
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Diadem \Di"a*dem\, v. t. To adorn with a diadem; to crown. Not so, when diadem'd with rays divine. --Pope. To terminate the evil, To diadem the right. --R. H. Neale. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Diadem \Di"a*dem\, n. [F. diad[8a]me, L. diadema, fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] to bind round; dia` through, across + [?] to bind; cf. Skr. d[be] to bind.] 1. Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general. [bd]The regal diadem.[b8] --Milton. 2. Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown. 3. (Her.) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center. {Diadem lemur}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Indri}. {Diadem spider} (Zo[94]l.), the garden spider. | |
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Diatom \Di"a*tom\, n. [Gr. [?] cut in two. See {Diatomous}.] 1. (Bot.) One of the Diatomace[91], a family of minute unicellular Alg[91] having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillari[91], but this word is not in general use. 2. A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle. The individual is nothing. He is no more than the diatom, the bit of protoplasm. --Mrs. E. Lynn Linton. | |
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Didine \Di"dine\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Like or pertaining to the genus {Didus}, or the dodo. | |
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Didym \Di"dym\, n. (Chem.) See {Didymium}. | |
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Dietine \Di"et*ine\, n. [Cf. F. di[82]tine.] A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank. | |
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Puffer \Puff"er\, n. 1. One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation. 2. One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. --Bouvier. 3. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of {Tetrodon} and {Diodon}; -- called also {blower}, {puff-fish}, {swellfish}, and {globefish}. | |
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Diodon \Di"o*don\, n. [Gr. di- = di`s- twice + [?], [?], a tooth: cf. F. diodon.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called {globefishes}, {swellfishes}, etc. Called also {porcupine fishes}, and {sea hedgehogs}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of whales. | |
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Dition \Di"tion\, n. [L. ditio, dicio: cf. F. dition.] Dominion; rule. [Obs.] --Evelyn. | |
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Ditone \Di"tone`\, n. [Gr. [?] of two tones; di- = di`s- twice + [?] tone.] (Mus.) The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone). | |
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Dittany \Dit"ta*ny\, n. [OE. dytane, detane, dytan, OF. ditain, F. dictame, L. dictamnum, fr. Gr. di`ktamnon, di`ktamnos, a plant growing in abundance on Mount Dicte in Crete. Cf. {Dittander}.] (Bot.) (a) A plant of the Mint family ({Origanum Dictamnus}), a native of Crete. (b) The {Dictamnus Fraxinella}. See {Dictamnus}. (c) In America, the {Cunila Mariana}, a fragrant herb of the Mint family. | |
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Dudeen \Du*deen"\, n. A short tobacco pipe. [Written also {dudheen}.] [Irish] | |
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Dudeen \Du*deen"\, n. A short tobacco pipe. [Written also {dudheen}.] [Irish] | |
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Duotone \Du"o*tone\, n. [L. duo two + tone.] (Photoengraving) Any picture printed in two shades of the same color, as duotypes and duographs are usually printed. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DWDM {wavelength division multiplexing} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Dathan welled; belonging to a fountain, a son of Eliab, a Reubenite, who joined Korah (q.v.) in his conspiracy, and with his accomplices was swallowed up by an earthquake (Num. 16:1; 26:9; Deut. 11:6; Ps. 106:17). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Dedan low ground. (1.) A son of Raamah (Gen. 10:7). His descendants are mentioned in Isa. 21:13, and Ezek. 27:15. They probably settled among the sons of Cush, on the north-west coast of the Persian Gulf. (2.) A son of Jokshan, Abraham's son by Keturah (1 Chr. 1:32). His descendants settled on the Syrian borders about the territory of Edom. They probably led a pastoral life. | |
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Diadem the tiara of a king (Ezek. 21:26; Isa. 28:5; 62:3); the turban (Job 29:14). In the New Testament a careful distinction is drawn between the diadem as a badge of royalty (Rev. 12:3; 13:1; 19:12) and the crown as a mark of distinction in private life. It is not known what the ancient Jewish "diadem" was. It was the mark of Oriental sovereigns. (See {CROWN}.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Dothan two wells, a famous pasture-ground where Joseph found his brethren watching their flocks. Here, at the suggestion of Judah, they sold him to the Ishmaelite merchants (Gen. 37:17). It is mentioned on monuments in B.C. 1600. It was the residence of Elisha (2 Kings 6:13), and the scene of a remarkable vision of chariots and horses of fire surrounding the mountain on which the city stood. It is identified with the modern Tell-Dothan, on the south side of the plain of Jezreel, about 12 miles north of Samaria, among the hills of Gilboa. The "two wells" are still in existence, one of which bears the name of the "pit of Joseph" (Jubb Yusuf). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Dathan, laws or rites | |
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Dedan, their breasts; friendship; a judge | |
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Dothan, the law; custom |