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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8d1il-de-bd2uf \[d8][d1]il`-de-b[d2]uf"\, n.; pl. {[d1]ils-de-b[d2]uf}. [F., lit., eye of an ox.] (Arch.) A circular or oval window; -- generally used of architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. A famous room in the palace of Versailles bears this name, from the oval window opening into it. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8d1il-de-perdrix \[d8][d1]il`-de-per`drix"\, a. [F., lit., eye of a partridge.] 1. (Ornamental Art) Characterized by, or decorated with, small round points, spots, or rings; as, [d2]il-de-perdrix pattern. 2. Having a brownish red color; -- used esp. of light-colored red wine. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Latibulum \[d8]La*tib"u*lum\, n.; pl. {Latibula}. [L.] A concealed hiding place; a burrow; a lair; a hole. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Lautverschiebung \[d8]Laut"ver*schie`bung\, n.; pl. {-schiebungen}. [G.; laut sound + verschiebung shifting.] (Philol.) (a) The regular changes which the primitive Indo-European stops, or mute consonants, underwent in the Teutonic languages, probably as early as the 3d century b. c., often called the {first Lautverschiebung}, {sound shifting}, or {consonant shifting}. (b) A somewhat similar set of changes taking place in the High German dialects (less fully in modern literary German) from the 6th to the 8th century, known as the {second Lautverschiebung}, the result of which form the striking differences between High German and The Low German Languages. The statement of these changes is commonly regarded as forming part of Grimm's law, because included in it as originally framed. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Lithofracteur \[d8]Lith`o*frac"teur\, n. [F., fr. li`qos stone + L. frangere, fractum, to break.] An explosive compound of nitroglycerin. See {Nitroglycerin}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Lotophagi \[d8]Lo*toph"a*gi\, n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. [?]; [?] the lotus + [?] to eat.] (Class. Myth.) A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See {Lotus} (b), and {Lotus-eater}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Deletive \Del"e*tive\, a. Adapted to destroy or obliterate. [R.] --Evelyn. | |
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Delitable \De*lit"a*ble\, a. Delightful; delectable. [Obs.] | |
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Deltafication \Del`ta*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Delta + L. facere to make.] The formation of a delta or of deltas. [R.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Deludable \De*lud"a*ble\, a. Capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on; gullible. --Sir T. Browne. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dilatability \Di*la`ta*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. dilatabilit[82].] The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to {contractibility}. --Ray. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dilatable \Di*lat"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. dilatable.] Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to {contractible}; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat. | |
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Dilative \Di*lat"ive\, a. Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive. --Coleridge. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Deltaville, VA Zip code(s): 23043 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Delta-Prolog A {Prolog} extension with {AND-parallelism}, {don't-know nondeterminism} and interprocess communication using {synchronous event goal}s and {distributed backtracking}. ["Delta-Prolog: A Distributed Logic Programming Language", L.M. Pereira et al, Intl Conf 5th Gen Comp Sys, Nov 1984]. |