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Oat \Oat\ ([omac]t), n.; pl. {Oats} ([omac]ts). [OE. ote, ate, AS. [amac]ta, akin to Fries. oat. Of uncertain origin.] 1. (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass ({Avena sativa}), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense. 2. A musical pipe made of oat straw. [Obs.] --Milton. {Animated oats} or {Animal oats} (Bot.), A grass ({Avena sterilis}) much like oats, but with a long spirally twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently automatic motion. {Oat fowl} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting; -- so called from its feeding on oats. [Prov. Eng.] {Oat grass} (Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less resembling oats, as {Danthonia spicata}, {D. sericea}, and {Arrhenatherum avenaceum}, all common in parts of the United States. {To feel one's oats}, to be conceited ro self-important. [Slang] {To sow one's wild oats}, to indulge in youthful dissipation. --Thackeray. {Wild oats} (Bot.), a grass ({Avena fatua}) much resembling oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of cultivated oats. | |
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Wheat sawfly \Wheat sawfly\ (a) A small European sawfly ({Cephus pygm[91]us}) whose larva does great injury to wheat by boring in the stalks. (b) Any of several small American sawflies of the genus {Dolerus}, as {D. sericeus} and {D. arvensis}, whose larv[91] injure the stems or heads of wheat. (c) {Pachynematus extensicornis}, whose larv[91] feed chiefly on the blades of wheat; -- called also {grass sawfly}. | |
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d890corch82 \[d8][90]`cor`ch[82]"\, n. [F.] (Fine Arts) A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study. | |
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d890crasement \[d8][90]`crase`ment"\, n. [F.] (Surg.) The operation performed with an [82]craseur. | |
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d8Acarus \[d8]Ac"a*rus\, n.; pl. {Acari}. [NL., from Gr. [?] the cheese mite, tick.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus including many species of small mites. | |
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d8Acrasia \[d8]A*cra"si*a\, Acrasy \Ac"ra*sy\n. [Gr. akrasia.] Excess; intemperance. [Obs. except in Med.] --Farindon. | |
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d8Acraspeda \[d8]A*cras"pe*da\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'a priv. + [?] border.] (Zo[94]l.) A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora. | |
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d8Acrisia \[d8]A*cris"i*a\, Acrisy \Ac"ri*sy\, n. [LL. acrisia, Gr. [?]; 'a priv. + [?] to separate, to decide.] 1. Inability to judge. 2. (Med.) Undecided character of a disease. [Obs.] | |
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d8Agar-agar \[d8]A`gar-a"gar\, n. [Ceylonese local name.] A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss ({Gracilaria lichenoides}). | |
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d8Agrostis \[d8]A*gros"tis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?].] A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop ({Agrostis vulgaris}), are valuable pasture grasses. | |
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d8Aquarius \[d8]A*qua"ri*us\, n. [L. aquarius, adj., relating to water, and n., a water-carrier, fr. aqua. See {Aqua}.] (Astron.) (a) The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East. (b) A constellation south of Pegasus. | |
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d8Ascariasis \[d8]As`ca*ri"a*sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] an intestinal worm.] (Med.) A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal. | |
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d8Carcavelhos \[d8]Car`ca*vel"hos\, n. A sweet wine. See {Calcavella}. | |
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d8Carcinoma \[d8]Car`ci*no"ma\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] crab, cancer. See {-oma}.] (Med.) A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See {Cancer}. --Dunglison. | |
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d8Carcinosys \[d8]Car`ci*no"sys\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] cancer.] The affection of the system with cancer. | |
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d8Carex \[d8]Ca"rex\, n. [L., sedge.] (Bot.) A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order {Cypreace[91]}; the sedges. | |
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d8Cariccio \[d8]Ca*ric"cio\, n. [It. See {Caprice}.] 1. (Mus.) A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice. 2. A caprice; a freak; a fancy. --Shak. | |
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d8Caries \[d8]Ca"ri*es\, n.[L., decay.] (Med.) Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses. | |
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d8Carus \[d8]Ca"rus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?].] (Med.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy. | |
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d8Cerastes \[d8]Ce*ras"tes\, n. [L., a horned serpent, fr. Gr. [?] horned, fr. [?] horn.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper. | |
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d8Cercaria \[d8]Cer*ca"ri*a\, n.; pl. {Cercarle} [NL., fr. Gr. [?] tail.] (Zo[94]l.) The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage. | |
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d8Cercus \[d8]Cer"cus\, n.; pl. {Cerci}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] tail.] (Zo[94]l.) See {Cercopod}. | |
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d8Cereus \[d8]Ce"re*us\, n. [L., a wax candle, fr. cera wax. So named from the resemblance of one species to the columnar shape of a wax candle.] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili. Note: Although several species flower in the night, the name Night-blooming cereus is specially applied to the {Cereus grandiflorus}, which is cultivated for its beautiful, shortlived flowers. The {Cereus giganteus}, whose columnar trunk is sometimes sixty feet in height, is a striking feature of the scenery of New Mexico, Texas, etc. | |
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d8Cerise \[d8]Ce*rise"\, a. [F., a cherry. See {Cherry}.] Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk. | |
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d8Cerris \[d8]Cer"ris\, n. [L. cerrus.] (Bot.) A species of oak ({Quercus cerris}) native in the Orient and southern Europe; -- called also {bitter oak} and {Turkey oak}. | |
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d8Charg82 d'affaires \[d8]Char`g[82]" d'af`faires"\, n.; pl. {Charg[82]s d'affaires}. [F., [bd]charged with affairs.[b8]] A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary. | |
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d8Charqui \[d8]Char"qui\, n. [Sp. A term used in South America, Central America, and the Western United States.] Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun. --Darwin. | |
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d8Charras \[d8]Char"ras\, n. The gum resin of the hemp plant ({Cannabis sativa}). Same as {Churrus}. --Balfour. | |
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d8Chiaroscuro \[d8]Chia`ro*scu"ro\, d8Chiaro-oscuro \[d8]Chi*a"ro-os*cu"ro\, n. [It., clear dark.] (a) The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color. (b) The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. {Clair-obscur}. | |
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d8Chiaroscuro \[d8]Chia`ro*scu"ro\, d8Chiaro-oscuro \[d8]Chi*a"ro-os*cu"ro\, n. [It., clear dark.] (a) The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color. (b) The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. {Clair-obscur}. | |
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d8Chiragra \[d8]Chi*ra"gra\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?]; [?] hand + [?] seizure.] (Med.) Gout in the hand. | |
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d8Choragus \[d8]Cho*ra"gus\, n.; pl. {Choragi}. [L., fr. Gr. [?], [?]; [?] chorus + [?] to lead.] (Gr. Antiq.) A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens. | |
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d8Choreus \[d8]Cho*re"us\, Choree \Cho*ree"\, n. [L. choreus, Gr. [?], prop. an adj. meaning belonging to a chorus; cf. F. chor[82]e.] (Anc. Pros.) (a) a trochee. (b) A tribrach. | |
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d8Chorisis \[d8]Cho"ri*sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] separation.] (Bot.) The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts. Note: In collateral chorisis the parts are side by side. -- In parallel or median chorisis they are one in front of another. | |
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d8Chrysopa \[d8]Chrys*o"pa\, n. [NL., from Gr. chryso`s gold + [?], [?], eye, face.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of neuropterous insects. See {Lacewing}. | |
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d8Chrysoprasus \[d8]Chry*sop"ra*sus\, n. [L.] See {Chrysoprase}. --Rev. xxi. 20. | |
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d8Churrus \[d8]Chur"rus\, n. [Hind. charas.] A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp. | |
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d8Cierge \[d8]Cierge\, n. [F., fr. L. cera wax.] A wax candle used in religous rites. | |
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d8Circar \[d8]Cir*car"\, n. [See {Sircar}.] A district, or part of a province. See {Sircar}. [India] | |
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d8Cirrhosis \[d8]Cir*rho"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] orange-colored: cf. F. cirrhose. So called from the yellowish appearance which the diseased liver often presents when cut.] (Med.) A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ. | |
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d8Cirrostomi \[d8]Cir`ros"to*mi\, n. pl. [NL., fr. E. cirrus + Gr. [?] mouth.] (Zo[94]l.) The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See {Amphioxus}. | |
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d8Cirrus \[d8]Cir"rus\, n.; pl. {Cirri}. [L., lock, curl, ringlet.] [Also written {cirrhus}.] 1. (Bot.) A tendril or clasper. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri. (b) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See {Annelida}, and {Polych[91]ta}. Note: In some of the inferior animals the cirri aid in locomotion; in others they are used in feeding; in the Annelida they are mostly organs of touch. Some cirri are branchial in function. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca. 4. (Meteor.) See under {Cloud}. | |
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d8Corozo \[d8]Co*ro"zo\ d8Corosso \[d8]Co*ros"so\ (k?-r?"th? [or] -s?), n. [Cf. Sp. cerozo a kind of palm tree.] The name in Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See {Ivory nut}. | |
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d8Corozo \[d8]Co*ro"zo\ d8Corosso \[d8]Co*ros"so\ (k?-r?"th? [or] -s?), n. [Cf. Sp. cerozo a kind of palm tree.] The name in Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See {Ivory nut}. | |
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d8Corregidor \[d8]Cor*reg"i*dor\ (k?r-r?j"?-d?r; Sp. k?r-r?`h?-d?r"), n. [Sp., orig., a corrector.] The chief magistrate of a Spanish town. | |
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d8Corrigendum \[d8]Cor`ri*gen"dum\ (k?r`r?-j?n"d?m), n.; pl. {Corrigenda} (-d[?]). [L.] A fault or error to be corrected. | |
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d8Coryza \[d8]Co*ry"za\ (k?-r?"z?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?][?][?][?] catarh.] (Med.) Nasal catarrh. | |
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d8Cracovienne \[d8]Cra*co`vi*enne"\ (kr?-k?`v?-?n"), n. [F., fr. Cracow, the city.] (Mus.) A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time. | |
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d8Craspedota \[d8]Cras`pe*do"ta\ (kr?s`p?-d?"t?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?][?][?][?] to be bordered or edged.] (Zo[94]l.) The hydroid or naked-eyed medus[91]. See {Hydroidea}. | |
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Crassament \Cras"sa*ment\ (kr?s"s?-ment), d8Crassamentum \[d8]Cras`sa*men"tum\ (-m?n"t?m), n. [L. crassamentum, fr. crassare to make thick. See {Crass}, a.] A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood. | |
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d8Cregraveche \[d8]Cr[egrave]che\ (kr[asl]sh), n. [F.] A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work. | |
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d8Creux \[d8]Creux\ (kr?), n. [F., adj., hollow, n., a hollow.] Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design. | |
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d8Criosphinx \[d8]Cri"o*sphinx`\ (kr[imac]"[osl]*sf[icr][nsm]ks`), n. [Gr. krio`s ram + sfi`gx sphinx.] A sphinx with the head of a ram. | |
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d8Crissum \[d8]Cris"sum\ (kr?s"s?m),, n.; pl. {Crissa} (-s[?]). [NL.; cf. L. crisso to move the haunches.] (Zo[94]l.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts. | |
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d8Crocodilia \[d8]Croc`o*dil"i*a\ (-d?l"?-?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. crocodilus crocodile.] (Zo[94]l.) An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds. | |
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d8Croissante \[d8]Crois`san`te"\ (krw?`s?n`t?"), a. [F. croissant, adj. & n., crescent.] (Her.) Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated. | |
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d8Croquante \[d8]Cro`quante"\, n. [F.] A brittle cake or other crisp pastry. | |
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d8Cro-quette \[d8]Cro-quette"\ (kr?-k?t"), n. [F., fr. croquer to crunch.] (Cookery) A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, or other ingredients, highly seasoned, and fried. | |
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d8Crossopterygii \[d8]Cros*sop`te*ryg"i*i\ (kr?s-s?p`t?-r?j?-?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?][?][?] tassels, a fringe + [?][?][?][?][?], dim. of [?][?][?][?] wing, fin.] (Zo[94]l.) An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir ({Polypterus}). See {Brachioganoidei}. | |
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d8Croustade \[d8]Crou`stade"\ (kr??`st?d"), n. [F., fr. cro[?]te a crust, OF. crouste.] (Cookery) Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon. --Bishop. | |
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d8Crus \[d8]Crus\ (kr?s), n.; pl. {Crura} (kr[?]"r[?]). [L., the leg.] (Anat.) (a) That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank. (b) Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain. | |
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d8Crusta \[d8]Crus"ta\ (kr?s"t?), n. [L., shell, crust, inlaid work.] 1. A crust or shell. 2. A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object. | |
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d8Crustacea \[d8]Crus*ta"ce*a\ (kr?s-t?"sh?-?), n. pl. [Neut. pl. of NL. crustaceus pert. to the crust or shell, from L. crusta the hard surfsce of a body, rind, shell.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered. Note: The body usually consists of an anterior part, made up of the head and thorax combined, called the cephalothorax, and of a posterior jointed part called the abdomen, postabdomen, and (improperly) tail. They breathe by means of gills variously attached to some of the limbs or to the sides the body, according to the group. They are divisible into two subclasses, Entomostraca and Malacostraca, each of which includes several orders. | |
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d8Crux \[d8]Crux\ (kr[ucr]ks), n.; pl. E. {Cruxes} (-[ecr]z), L. {Cruces} (kr[udd]"s[emac]z). [L., cross, torture, trouble.] Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain. --Dr. Sheridan. The perpetual crux of New Testament chronologists. --Strauss. | |
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d8Crux ansata \[d8]Crux an*sa"ta\ [L., cross with a handle.] A cross in the shape of the ankh. | |
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d8Cruzado \[d8]Cru*za"do\ (kr?-z?"d?), n. A coin. See {Crusado}. | |
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d8Curcuma \[d8]Cur"cu*ma\ (k?r"k?-m?), n. [Cf. F., It., & Sp. curcuma; all fr. Ar. kurkum. Cf. {Turmeric}.] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the order {Scitamine[91]}, including the turmeric plant ({Curcuma longa}). {Curcuma paper}. (Chem.) See {Turmeric paper}, under {Turmeric}. | |
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d8Curioso \[d8]Cu`ri*o"so\ (k??`r?-?"z? [or] k?`r?-?"s?), n.; pl. {Curiosos} (-z[?]z or -s[?]z). [It. See {Curious}.] A virtuoso. | |
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d8Cursores \[d8]Cur*so"res\ (k?r-s?"rEz), n. pl. [L. cursor, pl. cursores, a runner.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratita[91]. (b) A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders. | |
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d8D82gras \[d8]D[82]`gras"\, Degras \Deg"ras\, n. [F.; cf. F. gras, a. & n., fat.] A semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for hides. | |
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d8Decrescendo \[d8]De`cres*cen"do\, a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.) With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign. | |
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d8Dyscrasia \[d8]Dys*cra"si*a\, n. [NL. dyscrasia, fr. Gr. [?]; [?] bad + [?] mixture, fr. [?] to mix: cf. F. dycrasie.] (Med.) An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors. | |
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d8Eosaurus \[d8]E`o*sau"rus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'hw`s dawn + say^ros lizard.] (Paleon.) An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles. | |
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d8Eucharis \[d8]Eu"cha*ris\, n. [NL., fr. L. eucharis agreeable, Gr. e'y`charis See {Eucharist}.] (Bot.) A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms. | |
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d8Ex91resis \[d8]Ex*[91]r"e*sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr.[?] a taking away.] (Surg.) In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body. | |
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d8Excursus \[d8]Ex*cur"sus\, n. [L., fr. excurrere, excursum. See {Excurrent}.] A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic. | |
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d8Exorhiza \[d8]Ex`o*rhi"za\ ([ecr]ks`[osl]*r[imac]"z[adot]), n.; pl. {Exorhiz[91]} (-z[emac]). [NL. fr. Gr. 'e`xw outside + 'ri`za root.] (Bot.) A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule. --Gray. | |
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d8Garcinia \[d8]Gar*cin"i*a\, n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of plants, including the mangosteen tree ({Garcinia Mangostana}), found in the islands of the Indian Archipelago; -- so called in honor of Dr. Garcin. | |
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d8Gargoulette \[d8]Gar`gou*lette"\, n. [F.] A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet. --Mollett. | |
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d8Garookuh \[d8]Ga*roo"kuh\, n. A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf. | |
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d8Georgium Sidus \[d8]Geor"gi*um Si`dus\ [NL., the star of George (III. of England).] (Astron.) The planet Uranus, so named by its discoverer, Sir W. Herschel. | |
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d8Gerocomia \[d8]Ger`o*co"mi*a\, n. [NL.] See {Gerocomy}. | |
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d8Goracco \[d8]Go*rac"co\, n. A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India. | |
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d8Gorgerin \[d8]Gor`ge*rin"\, n. [F., fr. gorge neck.] (Arch.) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also {neck of the capital}, and {hypotrachelium}. See Illust. of {Column}. | |
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d8Gorgonacea \[d8]Gor`go*na"ce*a\ (g[ocir]r`g[osl]*n[amac]"sh[esl]*[adot]), n. pl. [NL.] (Zo[94]l.) See {Gorgoniacea}. | |
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d8Gorgoneion \[d8]Gor`go*ne"ion\ (g[ocir]r`g[osl]*n[emac]"y[ocr]n), n.; pl. {Gorgoneia}. [NL., fr. Gr. Gorgo`neios, equiv. to Gorgei^os belonging to a Gorgon.] (Arch.) A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head. --Elmes. | |
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d8Gorgonia \[d8]Gor*go"ni*a\ (g[ocir]r*g[omac]"n[icr]*[adot]), n. [L., a coral which hardens in the air.] (Zo[94]l.) 1. A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan ({Gorgonia flabellum}), sea plume ({G. setosa}), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis. 2. Any slender branched gorgonian. | |
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d8Gorgoniacea \[d8]Gor*go`ni*a"ce*a\, n. pl. [NL. See {Gorgonia}.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c[oe]nenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated. Note: The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony (composed of calcium carbonate), as in the red coral of commerce, or it may be in alternating horny and stony joints, as in Isis. See {Alcyonaria}, {Anthozoa}, {C[oe]nenchyma}. | |
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d8Gorgonzola \[d8]Gor`gon*zo"la\, n. [It.] A kind of Italian pressed milk cheese; -- so called from a village near Milan. | |
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d8Grauwacke \[d8]Grau"wack*e\, n. [G.] Graywacke. | |
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d8Grazioso \[d8]Gra"zi*o"so\, adv. [It., adj. See {Gracious}.] (Mus.) Gracefully; smoothly; elegantly. | |
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d8Grecque \[d8]Grecque\ (gr[ecr]k), n. [F.] An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, esp. a fret or meander. | |
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d8Gregarin91 \\"d8Greg`a*ri"n\"91\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gregarina the typical genus, fr. L. gregarius. See {Gregarious}.] (Zo[94]l.) An order of Protozoa, allied to the Rhizopoda, and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc. When adult, they have a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are am[d2]biform; -- called also {Gregarinida}, and {Gregarinaria}. | |
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d8Gregarinida \\"d8Greg`a*rin"i*da\ Gregarin[91]. | |
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d8Gris \[d8]Gris\, a. [OF. & F., fr. LL. griseus; of German origin; cf. MHG. gris, G. greis, hoary. Cf. {Grizzle}.] Gray. [R.] --Chaucer. | |
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d8Grisaille \[d8]Gri"saille`\, n. [F., from gris gray.] 1. (Fine Arts) Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass. 2. A kind of French fancy dress goods. --Knight. | |
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d8Grisette \[d8]Gri*sette"\, n. [F., fr. grisette a gray woolen cloth, fr. gris gray. Grisettes were so called because they wore gray gowns made of this stuff. See {Gars}.] A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. --Sterne. | |
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d8Gros \[d8]Gros\, n. [F. See {Gross}.] A heavy silk with a dull finish; as, gros de Naples; gros de Tours. | |
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d8Groschen \[d8]Grosch"en\, n. [G.] A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire. | |
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d8Grossularia \[d8]Gros`su*la"ria\, n. [NL. See {Grossular}.] (Min.) Same as {Grossular}. | |
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d8Grysbok \[d8]Grys"bok\n. [D. grijs gray + bok buck.] (Zo[94]l.) A small South African antelope ({Neotragus melanotis}). It is speckled with gray and chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn. | |
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d8Gyracanthus \[d8]Gyr`a*can"thus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr, [?] round + [?] spine.] (Paleon.) A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferous strata; -- so named from their round, sculptured spines. | |
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d8Gyrus \[d8]Gy"rus\, n.; pl. {Gyri}. [L. See {Gyre}, n.] A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See {Brain}. | |
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d8Karakul \[d8]Ka`ra*kul"\, n. [Russ. karakul' curly fleece of Bokhara and Khiva sheep.] Astrakhan, esp. in fine grades. Cf. {Caracul}. | |
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d8Karyokinesis \[d8]Kar"y*o*ki*ne`sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] a nut, kernel + [?] to move.] (Biol.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to {karyostenosis}. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also {mitosis}. See {Cell development}, under {Cell}. | |
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d8Karyostenosis \[d8]Kar`y*o*ste*no"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] a nut, kernel + [?] a being straitened.] (Biol.) Direct cell division (in which there is first a simple division of the nucleus, without any changes in its structure, followed by division of the protoplasm of the karyostenotic mode of nuclear division. | |
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d8Korrigum \[d8]Kor"ri*gum\, n. [Native name.] (Zo[94]l.) A West African antelope ({Damalis Senegalensis}), allied to the sassaby. It is reddish gray, with a black face, and a black stripe on the outside of the legs above the knees. | |
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d8Kriegsspiel \[d8]Kriegs"spiel`\, n. [G., fr. krieg war + spiel play.] A game of war, played for practice, on maps. --Farrow. | |
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d8Krishna \[d8]Krish"na\, n. [Skr. k[rsdot]sh[nsdot]a.] (Hindoo Myth.) The most popular of the Hindoo divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu. | |
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d8Kuro-Siwo \[d8]Ku"ro-Siwo\, n. [Jap. kuroshio; kuro black + shio tide.] See {Japan Current}, above. | |
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d8Kursaal \[d8]Kur"saal`\, n.[G.] A public hall or room, for the use of visitors at watering places and health resorts in Germany. | |
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d8Quercus \[d8]Quer"cus\, n. [L., an oak.] (Bot.) A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See {Oak}. | |
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d8S82rac \[d8]S[82]`rac"\, n. [F. (in the Alps), orig., a kind of solid cheese.] A pinnacle of ice among the crevasses of a glacier; also, one of the blocks into which a glacier breaks on a steep grade. | |
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d8Saraswati \[d8]Sa`ras*wa"ti\, n. [Skr. Sarasvat[c6].] (Hind. Myth.) The sakti or wife of Brahma; the Hindoo goddess of learning, music, and poetry. | |
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d8Sarcelle \[d8]Sar`celle"\, n. [F., fr. L. querquedula.] (Zo[94]l.) The old squaw, or long-tailed duck. | |
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d8Sarcina \[d8]Sar*ci"na\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] of flesh, fr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh.] (Biol.) A genus of bacteria found in various organic fluids, especially in those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. The individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group. {Sarcina form} (Biol.), the tetrad form seen in the division of a dumb-bell group of micrococci into four; -- applied particularly to bacteria. See {micrococcus}. | |
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d8Sarcobasis \[d8]Sar*cob"a*sis\, n.; pl. {Sarcobases}. [NL., fr. Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + [?] base.] (Bot.) A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows. | |
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Sarcoderm \Sar"co*derm\, d8sarcoderma \[d8]sar`co*der"ma\, n. [NL. sarcoderma. See {Sarco-}, and {Derm}.] (Bot.) (a) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments. (b) A sarcocarp. | |
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d8Sarcoma \[d8]Sar*co"ma\, n.; pl. L. {Sarcomata} (# [or] #), E. {sarcomas}. [NL., from Gr. [?], from sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh.] (Med.) A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance. | |
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d8Sarcophaga \[d8]Sar*coph"a*ga\, n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. See {Sarcophagus}.] (Zo[94]l.) A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums. | |
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d8Sarcophaga \[d8]Sar*coph"a*ga\, n. [NL., fem. sing. See {Sarcophagus}.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of Diptera, including the flesh flies. | |
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d8Sarcoptes \[d8]Sar*cop"tes\, n. [NL., from Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + ko`ptein to cut.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of parasitic mites including the itch mites. | |
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d8Sarcorhamphi \[d8]Sar`co*rham"phi\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + [?] beak.] (Zo[94]l.) A division of raptorial birds comprising the vultures. | |
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d8Sarcoseptum \[d8]Sar`co*sep"tum\, n.; pl. {Sarcosepta}. [Sarco- + septum.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the mesenteries of an anthozoan. | |
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d8Sarcosis \[d8]Sar*co"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], fr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh.] (Med.) (a) Abnormal formation of flesh. (b) Sarcoma. | |
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d8Sargassum \[d8]Sar*gas"sum\, n. [NL.] A genus of alg[91] including the gulf weed. | |
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d8Sargo \[d8]Sar"go\, n. [Sp. sargo, L. sargus a kind of fish.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of sparoid fishes belonging to {Sargus}, {Pomadasys}, and related genera; -- called also {sar}, and {saragu}. | |
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d8Sarigue \[d8]Sa*rigue"\, n. [F., from Braz. [87]arigueia, [87]arigueira.] (Zo[94]l.) A small South American opossum ({Didelphys opossum}), having four white spots on the face. | |
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d8Sarracenia \[d8]Sar`ra*ce"ni*a\, n. [NL. So named after a Dr. Sarrazin of Quebec.] (Bot.) A genus of American perennial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant. Note: They have hollow pitcher-shaped or tubular leaves, and solitary flowers with an umbrella-shaped style. {Sarracenia purpurea}, the sidesaddle flower, is common at the North; {S. flava}, {rubra}, {Drummondii}, {variolaris}, and {psittacina} are Southern species. All are insectivorous, catching and drowning insects in their curious leaves. See {Illust}. of Sidesaddle flower, under {Sidesaddle}. | |
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d8Scarus \[d8]Sca"rus\, n. [L. See {Scar} a kind of fish.] (Zo[94]l.) A Mediterranean food fish ({Sparisoma scarus}) of excellent quality and highly valued by the Romans; -- called also {parrot fish}. | |
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d8Scherzando \[d8]Scher*zan"do\, adv. [It.] (Mus.) In a playful or sportive manner. | |
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d8Scherzo \[d8]Scher"zo\, n. [It.] (Mus.) A playful, humorous movement, commonly in 3-4 measure, which often takes the place of the old minuet and trio in a sonata or a symphony. | |
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d8Sciurus \[d8]Sci*u"rus\, n. [L., a squirrel, Gr. [?]. See {Squirrel}.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of rodents comprising the common squirrels. | |
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d8Sericterium \[d8]Ser`ic*te"ri*um\, n. [See {Sericeous}.] (Zo[94]l.) A silk gland, as in the silkworms. | |
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d8Siriasis \[d8]Si*ri"a*sis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?][?][?], fr. [?][?][?] the Dog Star, properly, scorching.] (Med.) (a) A sunstroke. (b) The act of exposing to a sun bath. [Obs.] Cf. {Insolation}. | |
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d8Sorex \[d8]So"rex\, n. [L., a shrew.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of small Insectivora, including the common shrews. | |
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d8Sorosis \[d8]So*ro"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] a heap.] (Bot.) A fleshy fruit formed by the consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries, etc., as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple. | |
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d8Sors \[d8]Sors\, n.; pl. {Sortes}. [L.] A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots. {Sortes Homeric[91]} [or] {Virgilian[91]} [L., Homeric or Virgilian lots], a form of divination anciently practiced, which consisted in taking the first passage on which the eye fell, upon opening a volume of Homer or Virgil, or a passage drawn from an urn which several were deposited, as indicating future events, or the proper course to be pursued. In later times the Bible was used for the same purpose by Christians. | |
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d8Sorus \[d8]So"rus\, n.; pl. {Sori}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] a heap.] (Bot.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns. | |
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d8Sursum corda \[d8]Sur"sum cor"da\ [L. sursum upward + corda hearts.] (Eccl.) In the Eucharist, the versicles immediately before the preface, inviting the people to join in the service by [bd]lifting up the heart[b8] to God. | |
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d8Thesaurus \[d8]The*sau"rus\, n.; pl. {Thesauri}. [L. See {Treasure}.] A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia. | |
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d8Xyris \[d8]Xy"ris\, n. [L., a kind of Iris, Gr. [?], fr. [?] a razor.] (Bot.) A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States. | |
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Dagger \Dag"ger\ (-g[etil]r), n. [Cf. OE. daggen to pierce, F. daguer. See {Dag} a dagger.] 1. A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. {Poniard}, {Stiletto}, {Bowie knife}, {Dirk}, {Misericorde}, {Anlace}. 2. (Print.) A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [[dagger]]. It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also {obelisk}. {Dagger moth} (Zo[94]l.), any moth of the genus {Apatalea}. The larv[91] are often destructive to the foliage of fruit trees, etc. {Dagger of lath}, the wooden weapon given to the Vice in the old Moralities. --Shak. {Double dagger}, a mark of reference [[Dagger]] which comes next in order after the dagger. {To look, [or] speak}, {daggers}, to look or speak fiercely or reproachfully. | |
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Quoll \Quoll\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A marsupial of Australia ({Dasyurus macrurus}), about the size of a cat. | |
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Devil \Dev"il\, n. [AS. de[a2]fol, de[a2]ful; akin to G. [?]eufel, Goth. diaba[a3]lus; all fr. L. diabolus the devil, Gr. [?] the devil, the slanderer, fr. [?] to slander, calumniate, orig., to throw across; [?] across + [?] to throw, let fall, fall; cf. Skr. gal to fall. Cf. {Diabolic}.] 1. The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind. [Jesus] being forty days tempted of the devil. --Luke iv. 2. That old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. --Rev. xii. 9. 2. An evil spirit; a demon. A dumb man possessed with a devil. --Matt. ix. 32. 3. A very wicked person; hence, any great evil. [bd]That devil Glendower.[b8] [bd]The devil drunkenness.[b8] --Shak. Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? --John vi. 70. 4. An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation. [Low] The devil a puritan that he is, . . . but a timepleaser. --Shak. The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. --Pope. 5. (Cookery) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper. Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron. --Sir W. Scott. 6. (Manuf.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc. {Blue devils}. See under {Blue}. {Cartesian devil}. See under {Cartesian}. {Devil bird} (Zo[94]l.), one of two or more South African drongo shrikes ({Edolius retifer}, and {E. remifer}), believed by the natives to be connected with sorcery. {Devil may care}, reckless, defiant of authority; -- used adjectively. --Longfellow. {Devil's apron} (Bot.), the large kelp ({Laminaria saccharina}, and {L. longicruris}) of the Atlantic ocean, having a blackish, leathery expansion, shaped somewhat like an apron. {Devil's coachhorse}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The black rove beetle ({Ocypus olens}). [Eng.] (b) A large, predacious, hemipterous insect ({Prionotus cristatus}); the wheel bug. [U.S.] {Devil's darning-needle}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Darn}, v. t. {Devil's fingers}, {Devil's hand} (Zo[94]l.), the common British starfish ({Asterias rubens}); -- also applied to a sponge with stout branches. [Prov. Eng., Irish & Scot.] {Devil's riding-horse} (Zo[94]l.), the American mantis ({Mantis Carolina}). {The Devil's tattoo}, a drumming with the fingers or feet. [bd]Jack played the Devil's tattoo on the door with his boot heels.[b8] --F. Hardman (Blackw. Mag.). {Devil worship}, worship of the power of evil; -- still practiced by barbarians who believe that the good and evil forces of nature are of equal power. {Printer's devil}, the youngest apprentice in a printing office, who runs on errands, does dirty work (as washing the ink rollers and sweeping), etc. [bd]Without fearing the printer's devil or the sheriff's officer.[b8] --Macaulay. {Tasmanian devil} (Zo[94]l.), a very savage carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania ({Dasyurus, [or] Diabolus, ursinus}). {To play devil with}, to molest extremely; to ruin. [Low] | |
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{Anniversary day}. See {Anniversary}, n. {Astronomical day}, a period equal to the mean solar day, but beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day, as that most used by astronomers. {Born days}. See under {Born}. {Canicular days}. See {Dog day}. {Civil day}, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight. {Day blindness}. (Med.) See {Nyctalopia}. {Day by day}, or {Day after day}, daily; every day; continually; without intermission of a day. See under {By}. [bd]Day by day we magnify thee.[b8] --Book of Common Prayer. {Days in bank} (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return of writs and the appearance of parties; -- so called because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench, or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. --Burrill. {Day in court}, a day for the appearance of parties in a suit. {Days of devotion} (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. --Shipley. {Days of grace}. See {Grace}. {Days of obligation} (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. --Shipley. {Day owl}, (Zo[94]l.), an owl that flies by day. See {Hawk owl}. {Day rule} (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished) allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go beyond the prison limits for a single day. {Day school}, one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in distinction from a boarding school. {Day sight}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}. {Day's work} (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon. {From day to day}, as time passes; in the course of time; as, he improves from day to day. {Jewish day}, the time between sunset and sunset. {Mean solar day} (Astron.), the mean or average of all the apparent solar days of the year. {One day}, {One of these days}, at an uncertain time, usually of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later. [bd]Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.[b8] --Shak. {Only from day to day}, without certainty of continuance; temporarily. --Bacon. {Sidereal day}, the interval between two successive transits of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time. {To win the day}, to gain the victory, to be successful. --S. Butler. {Week day}, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day. {Working day}. (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction from Sundays and legal holidays. (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom, during which a workman, hired at a stated price per day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay. | |
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Dechristianize \De*chris"tian*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dechristianized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dechristianizing}.] To turn from, or divest of, Christianity. | |
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Dechristianize \De*chris"tian*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dechristianized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dechristianizing}.] To turn from, or divest of, Christianity. | |
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Dechristianize \De*chris"tian*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dechristianized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dechristianizing}.] To turn from, or divest of, Christianity. | |
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Decorous \De*co"rous\ (?; 277), a. [L. dec[omac]rus, fr. decor comeliness, beauty; akin to decere. See {Decent}, and cf. {Decorum}.] Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge. A decorous pretext the war. --Motley. -- {De*co"rous*ly}, adv. -- {De*co"rous*ness}, n. | |
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Decorous \De*co"rous\ (?; 277), a. [L. dec[omac]rus, fr. decor comeliness, beauty; akin to decere. See {Decent}, and cf. {Decorum}.] Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge. A decorous pretext the war. --Motley. -- {De*co"rous*ly}, adv. -- {De*co"rous*ness}, n. | |
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Decorous \De*co"rous\ (?; 277), a. [L. dec[omac]rus, fr. decor comeliness, beauty; akin to decere. See {Decent}, and cf. {Decorum}.] Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge. A decorous pretext the war. --Motley. -- {De*co"rous*ly}, adv. -- {De*co"rous*ness}, n. | |
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Decrease \De*crease"\, v. t. To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means. That might decrease their present store. --Prior. | |
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Decrease \De*crease"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Decreased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Decreasing}.] [OE. decrecen, fr. OF. decreistre, F. d[82]cro[8c]tre, or from the OF. noun (see {Decrease}, n.), fr. L. decrescere to grow less; de + crescere to grow. See {Crescent}, and cf. {Increase}.] To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December. He must increase, but I must decrease. --John iii. 30. Syn: To {Decrease}, {Diminish}. Usage: Things usually decrease or fall off by degrees, and from within, or through some cause which is imperceptible; as, the flood decreases; the cold decreases; their affection has decreased. Things commonly diminish by an influence from without, or one which is apparent; as, the army was diminished by disease; his property is diminishing through extravagance; their affection has diminished since their separation their separation. The turn of thought, however, is often such that these words may be interchanged. The olive leaf, which certainly them told The flood decreased. --Drayton. Crete's ample fields diminish to our eye; Before the Boreal blasts the vessels fly. --Pope. | |
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Decrease \De*crease"\, n. [OE. decrees, OF. decreis, fr. decreistre. See {Decrease}, v.] 1. A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength. 2. The wane of the moon. --Bacon. | |
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Decrease \De*crease"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Decreased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Decreasing}.] [OE. decrecen, fr. OF. decreistre, F. d[82]cro[8c]tre, or from the OF. noun (see {Decrease}, n.), fr. L. decrescere to grow less; de + crescere to grow. See {Crescent}, and cf. {Increase}.] To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December. He must increase, but I must decrease. --John iii. 30. Syn: To {Decrease}, {Diminish}. Usage: Things usually decrease or fall off by degrees, and from within, or through some cause which is imperceptible; as, the flood decreases; the cold decreases; their affection has decreased. Things commonly diminish by an influence from without, or one which is apparent; as, the army was diminished by disease; his property is diminishing through extravagance; their affection has diminished since their separation their separation. The turn of thought, however, is often such that these words may be interchanged. The olive leaf, which certainly them told The flood decreased. --Drayton. Crete's ample fields diminish to our eye; Before the Boreal blasts the vessels fly. --Pope. | |
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Decreaseless \De*crease"less\, a. Suffering no decrease. [R.] It [the river] flows and flows, and yet will flow, Volume decreaseless to the final hour. --A. Seward. | |
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Decrease \De*crease"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Decreased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Decreasing}.] [OE. decrecen, fr. OF. decreistre, F. d[82]cro[8c]tre, or from the OF. noun (see {Decrease}, n.), fr. L. decrescere to grow less; de + crescere to grow. See {Crescent}, and cf. {Increase}.] To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December. He must increase, but I must decrease. --John iii. 30. Syn: To {Decrease}, {Diminish}. Usage: Things usually decrease or fall off by degrees, and from within, or through some cause which is imperceptible; as, the flood decreases; the cold decreases; their affection has decreased. Things commonly diminish by an influence from without, or one which is apparent; as, the army was diminished by disease; his property is diminishing through extravagance; their affection has diminished since their separation their separation. The turn of thought, however, is often such that these words may be interchanged. The olive leaf, which certainly them told The flood decreased. --Drayton. Crete's ample fields diminish to our eye; Before the Boreal blasts the vessels fly. --Pope. | |
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Decreasing \De*creas"ing\, a. Becoming less and less; diminishing. -- {De*creas"ing*ly}, adv. {Decreasing series} (Math.), a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term. | |
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Decreasing \De*creas"ing\, a. Becoming less and less; diminishing. -- {De*creas"ing*ly}, adv. {Decreasing series} (Math.), a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term. | |
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Decreasing \De*creas"ing\, a. Becoming less and less; diminishing. -- {De*creas"ing*ly}, adv. {Decreasing series} (Math.), a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term. | |
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Decrescent \De*cres"cent\, a. [L. decrescens, p. pr. of decrescere. See {Decrease}.] Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon. | |
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Decrescent \De*cres"cent\, n. (Her.) A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister. --Cussans. | |
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Decrustation \De`crus*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. OF. d[82]crustation.] The removal of a crust. | |
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Decury \Dec"u*ry\, n.; pl. {Decuries}. [L. decuria, fr. decem ten.] A set or squad of ten men under a decurion. --Sir W. Raleigh. | |
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Decursion \De*cur"sion\, n. [L. decursio, fr. decurrere. See {Decurrent}.] A flowing; also, a hostile incursion. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale. | |
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Decursive \De*cur"sive\, a. [Cf. F. d[82]cursif. See {Decurrent}.] Running down; decurrent. | |
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Decursively \De*cur"sive*ly\, adv. In a decursive manner. {Decursively pinnate} (Bot.), having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole; -- said of a leaf. | |
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Decursively \De*cur"sive*ly\, adv. In a decursive manner. {Decursively pinnate} (Bot.), having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole; -- said of a leaf. | |
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d8D82gras \[d8]D[82]`gras"\, Degras \Deg"ras\, n. [F.; cf. F. gras, a. & n., fat.] A semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for hides. | |
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Degrease \De*grease"\, v. t. To remove grease or fatty matter from, as wool or silk. | |
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Desirous \De*sir"ous\, a. [F. d[82]sireux, OF. desiros, fr. desir. See {Desire}, n.] Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous. Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him. --John xvi. 19. Be not desirous of his dainties. --Prov. xxiii. 3. | |
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Desirously \De*sir"ous*ly\, adv. With desire; eagerly. | |
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Desirousness \De*sir"ous*ness\, n. The state of being desirous. | |
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Deskwork \Desk"work`\, n. Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer. --Tennyson. | |
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Diazo- \Di*az"o-\ [Pref. di- + azo-] (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively), meaning pertaining to, or derived from, a series of compounds containing a radical of two nitrogen atoms, united usually to an aromatic radical; as, diazo-benzene, {C6H5.N2.OH}. Note: Diazo compounds are in general unstable, but are of great importance in recent organic chemistry. They are obtained by a partial reduction of the salts of certain amido compounds. {Diazo reactions} (Chem.), a series of reactions whereby diazo compounds are employed in substitution. These reactions are of great importance in organic chemistry. | |
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Dichroic \Di*chro"ic\, a. [See {Dichroism}.] Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal. | |
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Dichroiscope \Di*chro"i*scope\, n. Same as {Dichroscope}. | |
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Dichroism \Di"chro*ism\, n. [Gr. [?] two-colored; di- = di`s- twice + [?] color.] (Opt.) The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes. | |
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Dichroous \Di"chro*ous\, a. Dichroic. | |
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Dichroscope \Di"chro*scope\, n. [Gr. di- = di`s- twice + [?] color + [?] to view.] An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals. | |
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Dichroscopic \Di`chro*scop"ic\, a. Pertaining to the dichroscope, or to observations with it. | |
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Wasp \Wasp\, n. [OE. waspe, AS. w[91]ps, w[91]fs; akin to D. wesp, G. wespe, OHG. wafsa, wefsa, Lith. vapsa gadfly, Russ. osa wasp, L. vespa, and perhaps to E. weave.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus {Vespa}, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called {yellow jackets}. Note: The social wasps make a complex series of combs, of a substance like stiff paper, often of large size, and protect them by a paperlike covering. The larv[91] are reared in the cells of the combs, and eat insects and insect larv[91] brought to them by the adults, but the latter feed mainly on the honey and pollen of flowers, and on the sweet juices of fruit. See Illust. in Appendix. {Digger wasp}, any one of numerous species of solitary wasps that make their nests in burrows which they dig in the ground, as the sand wasps. See {Sand wasp}, under {Sand}. {Mud wasp}. See under {Mud}. {Potter wasp}. See under {Potter}. {Wasp fly}, a species of fly resembling a wasp, but without a sting. | |
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Digger \Dig"ger\, n. One who, or that which, digs. {Digger wasp} (Zo[94]l.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera. | |
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Diggers \Dig"gers\, n. pl.; sing. {Digger}. (Ethnol.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food. | |
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Digress \Di*gress"\, n. Digression. [Obs.] --Fuller. | |
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Digress \Di*gress"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Digressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Digressing}.] [L. digressus, p. p. of digredi to go apart, to deviate; di- = dis- + gradi to step, walk. See {Grade}.] 1. To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude. --Holland. In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. --Locke. 2. To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. [R.] Thy abundant goodness shall excuse This deadly blot on thy digressing son. --Shak. | |
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Digress \Di*gress"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Digressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Digressing}.] [L. digressus, p. p. of digredi to go apart, to deviate; di- = dis- + gradi to step, walk. See {Grade}.] 1. To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude. --Holland. In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. --Locke. 2. To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. [R.] Thy abundant goodness shall excuse This deadly blot on thy digressing son. --Shak. | |
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Digress \Di*gress"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Digressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Digressing}.] [L. digressus, p. p. of digredi to go apart, to deviate; di- = dis- + gradi to step, walk. See {Grade}.] 1. To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude. --Holland. In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. --Locke. 2. To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. [R.] Thy abundant goodness shall excuse This deadly blot on thy digressing son. --Shak. | |
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Digression \Di*gres"sion\, n. [L. digressio: cf. F. digression.] 1. The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject. The digressions I can not excuse otherwise, than by the confidence that no man will read them. --Sir W. Temple. 2. A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense. [R.] Then my digression is so vile, so base, That it will live engraven in my face. --Shak. 3. (Anat.) The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets. [R.] | |
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Digressional \Di*gres"sion*al\, a. Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject. --T. Warton. | |
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Digressive \Di*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. digressif.] Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression. --Johnson. | |
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Digressively \Di*gress"ive*ly\, adv. By way of digression. | |
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Discharge \Dis*charge"\, v. t. (Textile Dyeing & Printing) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process; as, to discharge the color from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark ground. | |
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Discharge \Dis*charge"\, n. (Elec.) The equalization of a difference of electric potential between two points. The character of the discharge is mostly determined by the nature of the medium through which it takes place, the amount of the difference of potential, and the form of the terminal conductors on which the difference exists. The discharge may be alternating, continuous, brush, connective, disruptive, glow, oscillatory, stratified, etc. | |
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Discharge \Dis*charge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discharged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discharging}.] [OE. deschargen, dischargen, OF. deschargier, F. d[82]charger; pref. des- (L. dis) + chargier, F. charger. See {Charge}.] 1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. --Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. --H. Spencer. 3. To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. Discharged of business, void of strife. --Dryden. In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty. --L'Estrange. 4. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. Discharge the common sort With pay and thanks. --Shak. Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see. --Milton. 5. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner. 6. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo. 7. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. They do discharge their shot of courtesy. --Shak. 8. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. We say such an order was [bd]discharged on appeal.[b8] --Mozley & W. The order for Daly's attendance was discharged. --Macaulay. 9. To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part. Had I a hundred tongues, a wit so large As could their hundred offices discharge. --Dryden. 10. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. [Obs.] If he had The present money to discharge the Jew. --Shak. 11. To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath. 12. To prohibit; to forbid. [Scot. Obs.] --Sir W. Scott. {Discharging arch} (Arch.), an arch over a door, window, or other opening, to distribute the pressure of the wall above. See Illust. of {Lintel}. {Discharging piece}, {Discharging strut} (Arch.), a piece set to carry thrust or weight to a solid point of support. {Discharging rod} (Elec.), a bent wire, with knobs at both ends, and insulated by a glass handle. It is employed for discharging a Leyden jar or an electrical battery. See {Discharger}. Syn: See {Deliver}. | |
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Discharge \Dis*charge"\, v. i. To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely. The cloud, if it were oily or fatty, would not discharge. --Bacon. | |
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Discharge \Dis*charge"\, n. [Cf. F. d[82]charge. See {Discharge}, v. t.] 1. The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo. 2. Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery. 3. Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor. 4. Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty. Indefatigable in the discharge of business. --Motley. Nothing can absolve us from the discharge of those duties. --L'Estrange. 5. Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer. 6. Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner. 7. The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal. Too secure of our discharge From penalty. --Milton. 8. That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document. Death, who sets all free, Hath paid his ransom now and full discharge. --Milton. 9. A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe. The hemorrhage being stopped, the next occurrence is a thin serous discharge. --S. Sharp. | |
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Discharge \Dis*charge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discharged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discharging}.] [OE. deschargen, dischargen, OF. deschargier, F. d[82]charger; pref. des- (L. dis) + chargier, F. charger. See {Charge}.] 1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. --Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. --H. Spencer. 3. To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. Discharged of business, void of strife. --Dryden. In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty. --L'Estrange. 4. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. Discharge the common sort With pay and thanks. --Shak. Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see. --Milton. 5. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner. 6. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo. 7. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. They do discharge their shot of courtesy. --Shak. 8. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. We say such an order was [bd]discharged on appeal.[b8] --Mozley & W. The order for Daly's attendance was discharged. --Macaulay. 9. To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part. Had I a hundred tongues, a wit so large As could their hundred offices discharge. --Dryden. 10. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. [Obs.] If he had The present money to discharge the Jew. --Shak. 11. To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath. 12. To prohibit; to forbid. [Scot. Obs.] --Sir W. Scott. {Discharging arch} (Arch.), an arch over a door, window, or other opening, to distribute the pressure of the wall above. See Illust. of {Lintel}. {Discharging piece}, {Discharging strut} (Arch.), a piece set to carry thrust or weight to a solid point of support. {Discharging rod} (Elec.), a bent wire, with knobs at both ends, and insulated by a glass handle. It is employed for discharging a Leyden jar or an electrical battery. See {Discharger}. Syn: See {Deliver}. | |
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Discharger \Dis*char"ger\, n. One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod. | |
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Discharge \Dis*charge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discharged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discharging}.] [OE. deschargen, dischargen, OF. deschargier, F. d[82]charger; pref. des- (L. dis) + chargier, F. charger. See {Charge}.] 1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. --Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. --H. Spencer. 3. To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. Discharged of business, void of strife. --Dryden. In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty. --L'Estrange. 4. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. Discharge the common sort With pay and thanks. --Shak. Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see. --Milton. 5. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner. 6. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo. 7. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. They do discharge their shot of courtesy. --Shak. 8. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. We say such an order was [bd]discharged on appeal.[b8] --Mozley & W. The order for Daly's attendance was discharged. --Macaulay. 9. To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part. Had I a hundred tongues, a wit so large As could their hundred offices discharge. --Dryden. 10. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. [Obs.] If he had The present money to discharge the Jew. --Shak. 11. To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath. 12. To prohibit; to forbid. [Scot. Obs.] --Sir W. Scott. {Discharging arch} (Arch.), an arch over a door, window, or other opening, to distribute the pressure of the wall above. See Illust. of {Lintel}. {Discharging piece}, {Discharging strut} (Arch.), a piece set to carry thrust or weight to a solid point of support. {Discharging rod} (Elec.), a bent wire, with knobs at both ends, and insulated by a glass handle. It is employed for discharging a Leyden jar or an electrical battery. See {Discharger}. Syn: See {Deliver}. | |
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Discharge \Dis*charge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discharged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discharging}.] [OE. deschargen, dischargen, OF. deschargier, F. d[82]charger; pref. des- (L. dis) + chargier, F. charger. See {Charge}.] 1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. --Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. --H. Spencer. 3. To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. Discharged of business, void of strife. --Dryden. In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty. --L'Estrange. 4. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. Discharge the common sort With pay and thanks. --Shak. Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see. --Milton. 5. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner. 6. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo. 7. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. They do discharge their shot of courtesy. --Shak. 8. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. We say such an order was [bd]discharged on appeal.[b8] --Mozley & W. The order for Daly's attendance was discharged. --Macaulay. 9. To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part. Had I a hundred tongues, a wit so large As could their hundred offices discharge. --Dryden. 10. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. [Obs.] If he had The present money to discharge the Jew. --Shak. 11. To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath. 12. To prohibit; to forbid. [Scot. Obs.] --Sir W. Scott. {Discharging arch} (Arch.), an arch over a door, window, or other opening, to distribute the pressure of the wall above. See Illust. of {Lintel}. {Discharging piece}, {Discharging strut} (Arch.), a piece set to carry thrust or weight to a solid point of support. {Discharging rod} (Elec.), a bent wire, with knobs at both ends, and insulated by a glass handle. It is employed for discharging a Leyden jar or an electrical battery. See {Discharger}. Syn: See {Deliver}. | |
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Discharge \Dis*charge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discharged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discharging}.] [OE. deschargen, dischargen, OF. deschargier, F. d[82]charger; pref. des- (L. dis) + chargier, F. charger. See {Charge}.] 1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. --Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. --H. Spencer. 3. To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. Discharged of business, void of strife. --Dryden. In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty. --L'Estrange. 4. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. Discharge the common sort With pay and thanks. --Shak. Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see. --Milton. 5. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner. 6. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo. 7. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. They do discharge their shot of courtesy. --Shak. 8. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. We say such an order was [bd]discharged on appeal.[b8] --Mozley & W. The order for Daly's attendance was discharged. --Macaulay. 9. To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part. Had I a hundred tongues, a wit so large As could their hundred offices discharge. --Dryden. 10. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. [Obs.] If he had The present money to discharge the Jew. --Shak. 11. To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath. 12. To prohibit; to forbid. [Scot. Obs.] --Sir W. Scott. {Discharging arch} (Arch.), an arch over a door, window, or other opening, to distribute the pressure of the wall above. See Illust. of {Lintel}. {Discharging piece}, {Discharging strut} (Arch.), a piece set to carry thrust or weight to a solid point of support. {Discharging rod} (Elec.), a bent wire, with knobs at both ends, and insulated by a glass handle. It is employed for discharging a Leyden jar or an electrical battery. See {Discharger}. Syn: See {Deliver}. | |
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Discharge \Dis*charge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discharged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discharging}.] [OE. deschargen, dischargen, OF. deschargier, F. d[82]charger; pref. des- (L. dis) + chargier, F. charger. See {Charge}.] 1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. --Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. --H. Spencer. 3. To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. Discharged of business, void of strife. --Dryden. In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty. --L'Estrange. 4. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. Discharge the common sort With pay and thanks. --Shak. Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see. --Milton. 5. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner. 6. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo. 7. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. They do discharge their shot of courtesy. --Shak. 8. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. We say such an order was [bd]discharged on appeal.[b8] --Mozley & W. The order for Daly's attendance was discharged. --Macaulay. 9. To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part. Had I a hundred tongues, a wit so large As could their hundred offices discharge. --Dryden. 10. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. [Obs.] If he had The present money to discharge the Jew. --Shak. 11. To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath. 12. To prohibit; to forbid. [Scot. Obs.] --Sir W. Scott. {Discharging arch} (Arch.), an arch over a door, window, or other opening, to distribute the pressure of the wall above. See Illust. of {Lintel}. {Discharging piece}, {Discharging strut} (Arch.), a piece set to carry thrust or weight to a solid point of support. {Discharging rod} (Elec.), a bent wire, with knobs at both ends, and insulated by a glass handle. It is employed for discharging a Leyden jar or an electrical battery. See {Discharger}. Syn: See {Deliver}. | |
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Discharge \Dis*charge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discharged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discharging}.] [OE. deschargen, dischargen, OF. deschargier, F. d[82]charger; pref. des- (L. dis) + chargier, F. charger. See {Charge}.] 1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. --Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. --H. Spencer. 3. To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. Discharged of business, void of strife. --Dryden. In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty. --L'Estrange. 4. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. Discharge the common sort With pay and thanks. --Shak. Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see. --Milton. 5. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner. 6. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo. 7. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. They do discharge their shot of courtesy. --Shak. 8. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. We say such an order was [bd]discharged on appeal.[b8] --Mozley & W. The order for Daly's attendance was discharged. --Macaulay. 9. To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part. Had I a hundred tongues, a wit so large As could their hundred offices discharge. --Dryden. 10. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. [Obs.] If he had The present money to discharge the Jew. --Shak. 11. To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath. 12. To prohibit; to forbid. [Scot. Obs.] --Sir W. Scott. {Discharging arch} (Arch.), an arch over a door, window, or other opening, to distribute the pressure of the wall above. See Illust. of {Lintel}. {Discharging piece}, {Discharging strut} (Arch.), a piece set to carry thrust or weight to a solid point of support. {Discharging rod} (Elec.), a bent wire, with knobs at both ends, and insulated by a glass handle. It is employed for discharging a Leyden jar or an electrical battery. See {Discharger}. Syn: See {Deliver}. | |
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Dischurch \Dis*church"\, v. t. To deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Discorrespondent \Dis*cor`re*spond"ent\, a. Incongruous. --W. Montagu. | |
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Discourage \Dis*cour"age\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discouraged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discouraging}.] [Pref. dis- + courage: cf. OF. descoragier, F. d[82]courager: pref. des- (L. dis-) + corage, F. courage. See {Courage}.] 1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. --Col. iii. 21. 2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts. Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade; disfavor. | |
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Discourage \Dis*cour"age\, n. Lack of courage; cowardliness. | |
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Discourageable \Dis*cour"age*a*ble\, a. Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Discourage \Dis*cour"age\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discouraged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discouraging}.] [Pref. dis- + courage: cf. OF. descoragier, F. d[82]courager: pref. des- (L. dis-) + corage, F. courage. See {Courage}.] 1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. --Col. iii. 21. 2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts. Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade; disfavor. | |
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Discouragement \Dis*cour"age*ment\, n. [Cf. OF. descouragement, F. d[82]couragement.] 1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement. [bd]Discouragements from vice.[b8] --Swift. | |
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Discourager \Dis*cour"a*ger\, n. One who discourages. The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. --Sir G. C. Lewis. | |
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Discourage \Dis*cour"age\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discouraged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discouraging}.] [Pref. dis- + courage: cf. OF. descoragier, F. d[82]courager: pref. des- (L. dis-) + corage, F. courage. See {Courage}.] 1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. --Col. iii. 21. 2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts. Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade; disfavor. | |
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Discouraging \Dis*cour"a*ging\, a. Causing or indicating discouragement. -- {Dis*cour"a*ging*ly}, adv. | |
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Discouraging \Dis*cour"a*ging\, a. Causing or indicating discouragement. -- {Dis*cour"a*ging*ly}, adv. | |
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Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. t. 1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.] The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book. --Foxe. 2. To utter or give forth; to speak. It will discourse most eloquent music. --Shak. 3. To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.] I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it. --Evelyn. | |
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Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Discoursed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discoursing}.] 1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. [Obs.] [bd]Have sense or can discourse.[b8] --Dryden. 2. To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse. Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. --Shak. 3. To relate something; to tell. --Shak. 4. To treat of something in writing and formally. | |
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Discourse \Dis*course"\, n. [L. discursus a running to and fro, discourse, fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + currere to run: cf. F. discours. See {Course}.] 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.] Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. --South. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. --Shak. 2. Conversation; talk. In their discourses after supper. --Shak. Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious discourse. --Locke. 3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing. Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse. --Shak. 4. Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty. 5. Dealing; transaction. [Obs.] Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how We got the victory. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Discoursed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discoursing}.] 1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. [Obs.] [bd]Have sense or can discourse.[b8] --Dryden. 2. To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse. Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. --Shak. 3. To relate something; to tell. --Shak. 4. To treat of something in writing and formally. | |
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Discourser \Dis*cours"er\, n. 1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. --Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Discoursed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discoursing}.] 1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. [Obs.] [bd]Have sense or can discourse.[b8] --Dryden. 2. To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse. Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. --Shak. 3. To relate something; to tell. --Shak. 4. To treat of something in writing and formally. | |
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Discoursive \Dis*cours"ive\, a. [See {Discursive}.] 1. Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. --Milton. 2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory. The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. --Dryden. 3. Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man. [R.] | |
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Discoursive \Dis*cours"ive\, n. The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason. [R.] --Feltham. | |
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Dyscrasy \Dys"cra*sy\, n.; pl. {Discrasies}. Dycrasia. Sin is a cause of dycrasies and distempers. --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Discruciate \Dis*cru"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discruciated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discruciating}.] [L. discruciatus, p. p. of discruciare. See {Cruciate}.] To torture; to excruciate. [Obs.] Discruciate a man in deep distress. --Herrick. | |
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Discruciate \Dis*cru"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discruciated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discruciating}.] [L. discruciatus, p. p. of discruciare. See {Cruciate}.] To torture; to excruciate. [Obs.] Discruciate a man in deep distress. --Herrick. | |
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Discruciate \Dis*cru"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discruciated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discruciating}.] [L. discruciatus, p. p. of discruciare. See {Cruciate}.] To torture; to excruciate. [Obs.] Discruciate a man in deep distress. --Herrick. | |
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Discursion \Dis*cur"sion\, n. [LL. discursio a running different ways. See {Discourse}.] The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. --Coleridge. | |
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Discursist \Dis*cur"sist\, n. A discourser. [Obs.] --L. Addison. | |
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Discursive \Dis*cur"sive\, a. [Cf. F. discursif. See {Discourse}, and cf. {Discoursive}.] 1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. [bd]Discursive notices.[b8] --De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. --Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. --Carlyle. 2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. --Milton. -- {Dis*cur"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*cur"sive*ness}, n. | |
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Discursive \Dis*cur"sive\, a. [Cf. F. discursif. See {Discourse}, and cf. {Discoursive}.] 1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. [bd]Discursive notices.[b8] --De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. --Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. --Carlyle. 2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. --Milton. -- {Dis*cur"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*cur"sive*ness}, n. | |
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Discursive \Dis*cur"sive\, a. [Cf. F. discursif. See {Discourse}, and cf. {Discoursive}.] 1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. [bd]Discursive notices.[b8] --De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. --Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. --Carlyle. 2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. --Milton. -- {Dis*cur"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*cur"sive*ness}, n. | |
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Discursory \Dis*cur`so*ry\, a. Argumentative; discursive; reasoning. [R.] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Discursus \Dis*cur"sus\, n. [L.] (Logic) Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning. | |
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Disgarrison \Dis*gar"ri*son\, v. t. To deprive of a garrison. --Hewyt. | |
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Disgorge \Dis*gorge"\, v. i. To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution. See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths Into the sea. --Milton. | |
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Disgorge \Dis*gorge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disgorged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disgorging}.] [F. d[82]gorger, earlier desgorger; pref. d[82]-, des- (L. dis-) + gorge. See {Gorge}.] 1. To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place. This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. --Hakluyt. They loudly laughed To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. --Dryden. 2. To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains. | |
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Disgorge \Dis*gorge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disgorged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disgorging}.] [F. d[82]gorger, earlier desgorger; pref. d[82]-, des- (L. dis-) + gorge. See {Gorge}.] 1. To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place. This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. --Hakluyt. They loudly laughed To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. --Dryden. 2. To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains. | |
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Disgorgement \Dis*gorge"ment\, n. [Cf. F. d[82]gorgement.] The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Disgorge \Dis*gorge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disgorged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disgorging}.] [F. d[82]gorger, earlier desgorger; pref. d[82]-, des- (L. dis-) + gorge. See {Gorge}.] 1. To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place. This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. --Hakluyt. They loudly laughed To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. --Dryden. 2. To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains. | |
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Disgrace \Dis*grace"\ (?; 277), n. [F. disgr[83]ce; pref. dis- (L. dis-) + gr[83]ce. See {Grace}.] 1. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. Macduff lives in disgrace. --Shak. 2. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy. To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor to disgrace's feet? --Shak. 3. That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being. 4. An act of unkindness; a disfavor. [Obs.] The interchange continually of favors and disgraces. --Bacon. Syn: Disfavor; disesteem; opprobrium; reproach; discredit; disparagement; dishonor; shame; infamy; ignominy; humiliation. | |
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Disgrace \Dis*grace"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disgraced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disgracing}.] [Cf. F. disgracier. See {Disgrace}, n.] 1. To put out favor; to dismiss with dishonor. Flatterers of the disgraced minister. --Macaulay. Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed. --J. Morley. 2. To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation. Shall heap with honors him they now disgrace. --Pope. His ignorance disgraced him. --Johnson. 3. To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace. --Spenser. Syn: To degrade; humble; humiliate; abase; disparage; defame; dishonor; debase. | |
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Disgrace \Dis*grace"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disgraced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disgracing}.] [Cf. F. disgracier. See {Disgrace}, n.] 1. To put out favor; to dismiss with dishonor. Flatterers of the disgraced minister. --Macaulay. Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed. --J. Morley. 2. To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation. Shall heap with honors him they now disgrace. --Pope. His ignorance disgraced him. --Johnson. 3. To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace. --Spenser. Syn: To degrade; humble; humiliate; abase; disparage; defame; dishonor; debase. | |
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Disgraceful \Dis*grace"ful\, a. Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. -- {Dis*grace"ful*fy}, adv. -- {Dis*grace"ful*ness}, n. The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. --B. Jonson. | |
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Disgraceful \Dis*grace"ful\, a. Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. -- {Dis*grace"ful*fy}, adv. -- {Dis*grace"ful*ness}, n. The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. --B. Jonson. | |
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Disgraceful \Dis*grace"ful\, a. Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. -- {Dis*grace"ful*fy}, adv. -- {Dis*grace"ful*ness}, n. The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. --B. Jonson. | |
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Disgracer \Dis*gra"cer\, n. One who disgraces. | |
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Disgrace \Dis*grace"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disgraced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disgracing}.] [Cf. F. disgracier. See {Disgrace}, n.] 1. To put out favor; to dismiss with dishonor. Flatterers of the disgraced minister. --Macaulay. Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed. --J. Morley. 2. To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation. Shall heap with honors him they now disgrace. --Pope. His ignorance disgraced him. --Johnson. 3. To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace. --Spenser. Syn: To degrade; humble; humiliate; abase; disparage; defame; dishonor; debase. | |
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Disgracious \Dis*gra"cious\, a. [Cf. F. disgracieux.] Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. --Shak. | |
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Disgracive \Dis*gra"cive\, a. Disgracing. [Obs.] --Feltham. | |
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Disgregate \Dis"gre*gate\, v. t. [L. disgregare; dis- + gregare to collect, fr. grex, gregis, flock or herd.] To disperse; to scatter; -- opposite of congregate. [Obs.] | |
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Disgregation \Dis`gre*ga"tion\, n. (Physiol.) The process of separation, or the condition of being separate, as of the molecules of a body. | |
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Disherison \Dis*her"i*son\, n. [See {Disherit}.] The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Dishorse \Dis*horse"\, v. t. To dismount. --Tennyson. | |
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Disorganization \Dis*or`gan*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. d[82]sorganisation. See {Disorganize}, v. t.] 1. The act of disorganizing; destruction of system. 2. The state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization of the body, or of government. The magazine of a pawnbroker in such total disorganization, that the owner can never lay his hands upon any one article at the moment he has occasion for it. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Disorganize \Dis*or"gan*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disorganized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disorganizing}.] [Pref. dis- + organize: cf. F. d[82]sorganiser.] To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange. Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church. --Eliot (1809). | |
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Disorganize \Dis*or"gan*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disorganized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disorganizing}.] [Pref. dis- + organize: cf. F. d[82]sorganiser.] To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange. Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church. --Eliot (1809). | |
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Disorganizer \Dis*or"gan*i`zer\, n. One who disorganizes or causes disorder and confusion. | |
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Disorganize \Dis*or"gan*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disorganized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disorganizing}.] [Pref. dis- + organize: cf. F. d[82]sorganiser.] To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange. Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church. --Eliot (1809). | |
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Disregard \Dis`re*gard"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disregarded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disregarding}.] Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. --Blackmore. | |
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Disregard \Dis`re*gard"\, n. The act of disregarding, or the state of being disregarded; intentional neglect; omission of notice; want of attention; slight. The disregard of experience. --Whewell. | |
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Disregard \Dis`re*gard"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disregarded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disregarding}.] Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. --Blackmore. | |
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Disregarder \Dis`re*gard"er\, n. One who disregards. | |
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Disregardful \Dis`re*gard"ful\, a. Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless. | |
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Disregardfully \Dis`re*gard"ful*ly\, adv. Negligently; heedlessly. | |
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Disregard \Dis`re*gard"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disregarded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disregarding}.] Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. --Blackmore. | |
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Disrespect \Dis`re*spect"\, n. Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. --Pope. | |
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Disrespect \Dis`re*spect"\, v. t. To show disrespect to. We have disrespected and slighted God. --Comber. | |
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Disrespectability \Dis`re*spect`a*bil"i*ty\, n. Want of respectability. --Thackeray. | |
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Disrespectable \Dis`re*spect"a*ble\, a. Not respectable; disreputable. --M. Arnold. | |
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Disrespecter \Dis`re*spect"er\, n. One who disrespects. | |
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Disrespectful \Dis`re*spect"ful\, a. Wanting in respect; manifesting disesteem or lack of respect; uncivil; as, disrespectful behavior. -- {Dis`re*spect"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis`re*spect"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Disrespectful \Dis`re*spect"ful\, a. Wanting in respect; manifesting disesteem or lack of respect; uncivil; as, disrespectful behavior. -- {Dis`re*spect"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis`re*spect"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Disrespectful \Dis`re*spect"ful\, a. Wanting in respect; manifesting disesteem or lack of respect; uncivil; as, disrespectful behavior. -- {Dis`re*spect"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis`re*spect"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Disrespective \Dis`re*spect"ive\, a. Showing want of respect; disrespectful. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Disworkmanship \Dis*work"man*ship\, n. Bad workmanship. [Obs.] --Heywood. | |
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Disworship \Dis*wor"ship\, v. t. To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy. [Obs.] --Sir T. More. | |
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Disworship \Dis*wor"ship\, n. A deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit. [Obs.] --Milton. | |
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Nipplewort \Nip"ple*wort`\, n. (Bot.) A yellow-flowered composite herb ({Lampsana communis}), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also {dock-cress}. | |
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Dock-cress \Dock"-cress`\, n. (Bot.) Nipplewort. | |
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Nipplewort \Nip"ple*wort`\, n. (Bot.) A yellow-flowered composite herb ({Lampsana communis}), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also {dock-cress}. | |
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Dock-cress \Dock"-cress`\, n. (Bot.) Nipplewort. | |
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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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dog-rose \Dog"-rose`\, n. (Bot.) A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dowagerism \Dow"a*ger*ism\, n. The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively. Mansions that have passed away into dowagerism. --Thackeray. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dyscrasite \Dys"cra*site\, n. [Gr. [?] bad + [?] compound.] (Min.) A mineral consisting of antimony and silver. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dyscrasy \Dys"cra*sy\, n.; pl. {Discrasies}. Dycrasia. Sin is a cause of dycrasies and distempers. --Jer. Taylor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dysuric \Dys*u"ric\, a. [Gr. [?]: cf. F. dysurique.] Pertaining to, or afflicted with, dysury. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Days Creek, OR Zip code(s): 97429 | |
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Degrasse, NY Zip code(s): 13684 | |
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Des Arc, AR (city, FIPS 18550) Location: 34.97568 N, 91.50517 W Population (1990): 2001 (848 housing units) Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72040 Des Arc, MO (village, FIPS 19198) Location: 37.28419 N, 90.63495 W Population (1990): 173 (85 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63636 | |
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
DEC Wars n. A 1983 {Usenet} posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called Unix WARS (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/unixwars.html); the two are often confused. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DEC Wars A 1983 {Usenet} posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
degrees of freedom specify the position and orientation of an object. Often used to classify {robot} arms. For example, an arm with six degrees of freedom could reach any position close enough and could orient it's end effector (grip or tool etc.) at any angle about the three perpendicular axes. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DOS requester redirection of printing and file accesses to a network {server}. It handles levels 3, 4 and 5 of the {Open Systems Interconnect} seven layer model. A DOS requester under {Novell NetWare} will interface to a {network card} driver with an {ODI} interface, and will be either a single executable (netx.exe) or a set of {VLM}s that are loaded on demand. In the {IBM}/{Microsoft} {LAN Manager}/{SMB} world, where the name {DOS redirector} is more common, there will be an {NDIS} interface driver and a net.exe executable. {NetWare Client 32 for DOS/Windows (http://developer.novell.com/research/appnotes/1996/may/01/)}. {(http://www.cad.strath.ac.uk/~davidm/projects/guide/requester.html)}. (1998-01-05) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Decrees of God "The decrees of God are his eternal, unchangeable, holy, wise, and sovereign purpose, comprehending at once all things that ever were or will be in their causes, conditions, successions, and relations, and determining their certain futurition. The several contents of this one eternal purpose are, because of the limitation of our faculties, necessarily conceived of by us in partial aspects, and in logical relations, and are therefore styled Decrees." The decree being the act of an infinite, absolute, eternal, unchangeable, and sovereign Person, comprehending a plan including all his works of all kinds, great and small, from the beginning of creation to an unending eternity; ends as well as means, causes as well as effects, conditions and instrumentalities as well as the events which depend upon them, must be incomprehensible by the finite intellect of man. The decrees are eternal (Acts 15:18; Eph. 1:4; 2 Thess. 2:13), unchangeable (Ps. 33:11; Isa. 46:9), and comprehend all things that come to pass (Eph. 1:11; Matt. 10:29, 30; Eph. 2:10; Acts 2:23; 4:27, 28; Ps. 17:13, 14). The decrees of God are (1) efficacious, as they respect those events he has determined to bring about by his own immediate agency; or (2) permissive, as they respect those events he has determined that free agents shall be permitted by him to effect. This doctrine ought to produce in our minds "humility, in view of the infinite greatness and sovereignty of God, and of the dependence of man; confidence and implicit reliance upon wisdom, rightenousness, goodness, and immutability of God's purpose." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Degrees, Song of song of steps, a title given to each of these fifteen psalms, 120-134 inclusive. The probable origin of this name is the circumstance that these psalms came to be sung by the people on the ascents or goings up to Jerusalem to attend the three great festivals (Deut. 16:16). They were well fitted for being sung by the way from their peculiar form, and from the sentiments they express. "They are characterized by brevity, by a key-word, by epanaphora [i.e, repetition], and by their epigrammatic style...More than half of them are cheerful, and all of them hopeful." They are sometimes called "Pilgrim Songs." Four of them were written by David, one (127) by Solomon, and the rest are anonymous. |