dadaism
         n 1: a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that
               flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on
               irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty
               [syn: {dada}, {dadaism}]

English Dictionary: dodging	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
data communication n electronic transmission of information that has been encoded digitally (as for storage and processing by computers) Synonym(s): digital communication, data communication
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data conversion n conversion from one way of encoding data to another way
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data converter n converter for changing information from one code to another
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dead center n the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque Synonym(s): dead center, dead centre
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dead centre n the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque Synonym(s): dead center, dead centre
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death camas n any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers; all are poisonous Synonym(s): death camas, zigadene
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death camp n a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed
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death chamber n instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals Synonym(s): gas chamber, death chamber
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death knell n an omen of death or destruction a bell rung to announce a death Synonym(s): death knell, death bell
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detachment n avoiding emotional involvement [syn: withdrawal, detachment] the act of releasing from an attachment or connection Synonym(s): detachment, disengagement the state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel" Synonym(s): insulation, insularity, insularism, detachment a small unit of troops of special composition coming apart Synonym(s): separation, breakup, detachment
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detachment of the retina n visual impairment resulting from the retina becoming separated from the choroid in the back of the eye; treated by photocoagulation Synonym(s): retinal detachment, detachment of the retina, detached retina
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Deutsche Mark n formerly the basic unit of money in Germany [syn: mark, German mark, Deutsche Mark, Deutschmark]
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Deutschmark n formerly the basic unit of money in Germany [syn: mark, German mark, Deutsche Mark, Deutschmark]
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Dewey decimal classification n a system used by libraries to classify nonfictional publications into subject categories; the subject is indicated by a three-digit numeral and further specification is given by numerals following a decimal point; publications are shelved by number Synonym(s): Dewey decimal classification, Dewey decimal system, decimal system of classification
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Dewey decimal system n a system used by libraries to classify nonfictional publications into subject categories; the subject is indicated by a three-digit numeral and further specification is given by numerals following a decimal point; publications are shelved by number Synonym(s): Dewey decimal classification, Dewey decimal system, decimal system of classification
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Dhodhekanisos n a group of islands in the southeast Aegean Sea [syn: Dodecanese, Dhodhekanisos]
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dideoxyinosine n an antiviral drug used to combat HIV infection [syn: dideoxyinosine, ddI, DDI, didanosine]
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dietician n a specialist in the study of nutrition [syn: dietician, dietitian, nutritionist]
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ditchmoss n submerged freshwater perennials [syn: Elodea, {genus Elodea}, pondweed, ditchmoss]
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Dodecanese n a group of islands in the southeast Aegean Sea [syn: Dodecanese, Dhodhekanisos]
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dodecanoic acid n a crystalline fatty acid occurring as glycerides in natural fats and oils (especially coconut oil and palm-kernel oil) Synonym(s): lauric acid, dodecanoic acid
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Dodgem n a small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged Synonym(s): bumper car, Dodgem
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dodging n nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive" Synonym(s): evasion, escape, dodging a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery Synonym(s): dodge, dodging, scheme deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening Synonym(s): avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodging
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Dodgson n English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Synonym(s): Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Dodgson, Reverend Dodgson, Charles Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
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dot com n a company that operates its business primarily on the internet using a URL that ends in `.com' Synonym(s): dot-com, dot com, dot com company
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dot com company n a company that operates its business primarily on the internet using a URL that ends in `.com' Synonym(s): dot-com, dot com, dot com company
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dot-com adj of or relating to an internet company; "a dot-com outfit in San Francisco" n a company that operates its business primarily on the internet using a URL that ends in `.com' Synonym(s): dot-com, dot com, dot com company
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dudgeon n a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon') Synonym(s): dudgeon, high dudgeon
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duodecimal adj based on twelve; "the duodecimal number system" n one part in twelve equal parts [syn: one-twelfth, twelfth, twelfth part, duodecimal]
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duodecimal digit n a digit from 0 to 11 in duodecimal notation
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duodecimal notation n any notation that uses 12 different characters
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duodecimal number system n a positional system of numeration that uses duodecimal digits and a radix of twelve Synonym(s): duodecimal number system, duodecimal system
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duodecimal system n a positional system of numeration that uses duodecimal digits and a radix of twelve Synonym(s): duodecimal number system, duodecimal system
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Dutch monetary unit n monetary unit in the Netherlands
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Dutch uncle n a counselor who admonishes frankly and sternly
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Dutchman n a native or inhabitant of Holland [syn: Netherlander, Dutchman, Hollander]
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Dutchman's breeches n delicate spring-flowering plant of the eastern United States having white flowers with double spurs Synonym(s): Dutchman's breeches, Dicentra cucullaria
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Dutchman's-pipe n hardy deciduous vine having large leaves and flowers with the calyx tube curved like the bowl of a pipe Synonym(s): Dutchman's-pipe, pipe vine, Aristolochia macrophylla, Aristolochia durior
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Autogenesis \[d8]Au`to*gen"e*sis\, n. [Auto- + genesis.]       (Biol.)       Spontaneous generation.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Autokinesis \[d8]Au`to*ki*ne"sis\, n. [NL.; auto- + Gr. [?]       motion.] (Physiol.)       Spontaneous or voluntary movement; movement due to an       internal cause.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Dodecandria \[d8]Do`de*can"dri*a\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?]       twelve + [?], [?], man, male.] (Bot.)       A Linn[91]an class of plants including all that have any       number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Od2cium \[d8]O*[d2]"ci*um\, n.; pl. {O[d2]cia}. [NL., fr. Gr.       w,'o`n an egg + [?] a house.] (Zo[94]l.)       One of the special zooids, or cells, of Bryozoa, destined to       receive and develop ova; an ovicell. See {Bryozoa}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Otozoum \[d8]O`to*zo"um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], a fabled giant       + [?] an animal.] (Paleon.)       An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs,       known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Datiscin \Da*tis"cin\, n. (Chem.)       A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp       ({Datisca cannabina}).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dead \Dead\ (d[ecr]d), a. [OE. ded, dead, deed, AS. de[a0]d;       akin to OS. d[omac]d, D. dood, G. todt, tot, Icel. dau[edh]r,       Sw. & Dan. d[94]d, Goth. daubs; prop. p. p. of an old verb       meaning to die. See {Die}, and cf. {Death}.]       1. Deprived of life; -- opposed to {alive} and {living};             reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of             motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their             functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. [bd]The queen, my             lord, is dead.[b8] --Shak.                         The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger.                                                                               --Arbuthnot.                         Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living.                                                                               --Shak.          2. Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.          3. Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of             life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.          4. Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead             calm; a dead load or weight.          5. So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a             dead floor.          6. Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead             capital; dead stock in trade.          7. Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye;             dead fire; dead color, etc.          8. Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead             wall. [bd]The ground is a dead flat.[b8] --C. Reade.          9. Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot;             a dead certainty.                         I had them a dead bargain.                  --Goldsmith.          10. Bringing death; deadly. --Shak.          11. Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith;             dead works. [bd]Dead in trespasses.[b8] --Eph. ii. 1.          12. (Paint.)             (a) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has                   been applied purposely to have this effect.             (b) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color,                   as compared with crimson.          13. (Law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of             the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one             banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.          14. (Mach.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead             spindle of a lathe, etc. See {Spindle}.          {Dead ahead} (Naut.), directly ahead; -- said of a ship or             any object, esp. of the wind when blowing from that point             toward which a vessel would go.          {Dead angle} (Mil.), an angle or space which can not be seen             or defended from behind the parapet.          {Dead block}, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to             serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car.          {Dead calm} (Naut.), no wind at all.          {Dead center}, [or] {Dead point} (Mach.), either of two             points in the orbit of a crank, at which the crank and             connecting rod lie a straight line. It corresponds to the             end of a stroke; as, A and B are dead centers of the crank             mechanism in which the crank C drives, or is driven by,             the lever L.          {Dead color} (Paint.), a color which has no gloss upon it.          {Dead coloring} (Oil paint.), the layer of colors, the             preparation for what is to follow. In modern painting this             is usually in monochrome.          {Dead door} (Shipbuilding), a storm shutter fitted to the             outside of the quarter-gallery door.          {Dead flat} (Naut.), the widest or midship frame.          {Dead freight} (Mar. Law), a sum of money paid by a person             who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full             cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity.             --Abbott.          {Dead ground} (Mining), the portion of a vein in which there             is no ore.          {Dead hand}, a hand that can not alienate, as of a person             civilly dead. [bd]Serfs held in dead hand.[b8] --Morley.             See {Mortmain}.          {Dead head} (Naut.), a rough block of wood used as an anchor             buoy.          {Dead heat}, a heat or course between two or more race             horses, boats, etc., in which they come out exactly equal,             so that neither wins.          {Dead horse}, an expression applied to a debt for wages paid             in advance. [Law]          {Dead language}, a language which is no longer spoken or in             common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as             the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Center \Cen"ter\, n. [F. centre, fr. L. centrum, fr. round which       a circle is described, fr. [?] to prick, goad.]       1. A point equally distant from the extremities of a line,             figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of             a circle; the middle point or place.          2. The middle or central portion of anything.          3. A principal or important point of concentration; the             nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they             tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a             center of attaction.          4. The earth. [Obs.] --Shak.          5. Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who             support the existing government. They sit in the middle of             the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer,             between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the             right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced             republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See {Right},             and {Left}.          6. (Arch.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of             a vault or arch are supported in position until the work             becomes self-supporting.          7. (Mech.)             (a) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc.,                   upon which the work is held, and about which it                   revolves.             (b) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a                   shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center,                   on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.          Note: In a lathe the          {live center} is in the spindle of the head stock; the          {dead center} is on the tail stock.          {Planer centers} are stocks carrying centers, when the object             to be planed must be turned on its axis.          {Center of an army}, the body or troops occupying the place             in the line between the wings.          {Center of a} {curve [or] surface} (Geom.)             (a) A point such that every line drawn through the point                   and terminated by the curve or surface is bisected at                   the point.             (b) The fixed point of reference in polar co[94]rdinates.                   See {Co[94]rdinates}.          {Center of curvature of a curve} (Geom.), the center of that             circle which has at any given point of the curve closer             contact with the curve than has any other circle whatever.             See {Circle}.          {Center of a fleet}, the division or column between the van             and rear, or between the weather division and the lee.          {Center of gravity} (Mech.), that point of a body about which             all its parts can be balanced, or which being supported,             the whole body will remain at rest, though acted upon by             gravity.          {Center of gyration} (Mech.), that point in a rotating body             at which the whole mass might be concentrated             (theoretically) without altering the resistance of the             intertia of the body to angular acceleration or             retardation.          {Center of inertia} (Mech.), the center of gravity of a body             or system of bodies.          {Center of motion}, the point which remains at rest, while             all the other parts of a body move round it.          {Center of oscillation}, the point at which, if the whole             matter of a suspended body were collected, the time of             oscillation would be the same as it is in the actual form             and state of the body.          {Center of percussion}, that point in a body moving about a             fixed axis at which it may strike an obstacle without             communicating a shock to the axis.          {Center of pressure} (Hydros.), that point in a surface             pressed by a fluid, at which, if a force equal to the             whole pressure and in the same line be applied in a             contrary direction, it will balance or counteract the             whole pressure of the fluid.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dead \Dead\ (d[ecr]d), a. [OE. ded, dead, deed, AS. de[a0]d;       akin to OS. d[omac]d, D. dood, G. todt, tot, Icel. dau[edh]r,       Sw. & Dan. d[94]d, Goth. daubs; prop. p. p. of an old verb       meaning to die. See {Die}, and cf. {Death}.]       1. Deprived of life; -- opposed to {alive} and {living};             reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of             motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their             functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. [bd]The queen, my             lord, is dead.[b8] --Shak.                         The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger.                                                                               --Arbuthnot.                         Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living.                                                                               --Shak.          2. Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.          3. Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of             life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.          4. Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead             calm; a dead load or weight.          5. So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a             dead floor.          6. Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead             capital; dead stock in trade.          7. Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye;             dead fire; dead color, etc.          8. Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead             wall. [bd]The ground is a dead flat.[b8] --C. Reade.          9. Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot;             a dead certainty.                         I had them a dead bargain.                  --Goldsmith.          10. Bringing death; deadly. --Shak.          11. Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith;             dead works. [bd]Dead in trespasses.[b8] --Eph. ii. 1.          12. (Paint.)             (a) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has                   been applied purposely to have this effect.             (b) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color,                   as compared with crimson.          13. (Law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of             the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one             banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.          14. (Mach.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead             spindle of a lathe, etc. See {Spindle}.          {Dead ahead} (Naut.), directly ahead; -- said of a ship or             any object, esp. of the wind when blowing from that point             toward which a vessel would go.          {Dead angle} (Mil.), an angle or space which can not be seen             or defended from behind the parapet.          {Dead block}, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to             serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car.          {Dead calm} (Naut.), no wind at all.          {Dead center}, [or] {Dead point} (Mach.), either of two             points in the orbit of a crank, at which the crank and             connecting rod lie a straight line. It corresponds to the             end of a stroke; as, A and B are dead centers of the crank             mechanism in which the crank C drives, or is driven by,             the lever L.          {Dead color} (Paint.), a color which has no gloss upon it.          {Dead coloring} (Oil paint.), the layer of colors, the             preparation for what is to follow. In modern painting this             is usually in monochrome.          {Dead door} (Shipbuilding), a storm shutter fitted to the             outside of the quarter-gallery door.          {Dead flat} (Naut.), the widest or midship frame.          {Dead freight} (Mar. Law), a sum of money paid by a person             who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full             cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity.             --Abbott.          {Dead ground} (Mining), the portion of a vein in which there             is no ore.          {Dead hand}, a hand that can not alienate, as of a person             civilly dead. [bd]Serfs held in dead hand.[b8] --Morley.             See {Mortmain}.          {Dead head} (Naut.), a rough block of wood used as an anchor             buoy.          {Dead heat}, a heat or course between two or more race             horses, boats, etc., in which they come out exactly equal,             so that neither wins.          {Dead horse}, an expression applied to a debt for wages paid             in advance. [Law]          {Dead language}, a language which is no longer spoken or in             common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as             the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Center \Cen"ter\, n. [F. centre, fr. L. centrum, fr. round which       a circle is described, fr. [?] to prick, goad.]       1. A point equally distant from the extremities of a line,             figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of             a circle; the middle point or place.          2. The middle or central portion of anything.          3. A principal or important point of concentration; the             nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they             tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a             center of attaction.          4. The earth. [Obs.] --Shak.          5. Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who             support the existing government. They sit in the middle of             the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer,             between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the             right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced             republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See {Right},             and {Left}.          6. (Arch.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of             a vault or arch are supported in position until the work             becomes self-supporting.          7. (Mech.)             (a) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc.,                   upon which the work is held, and about which it                   revolves.             (b) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a                   shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center,                   on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.          Note: In a lathe the          {live center} is in the spindle of the head stock; the          {dead center} is on the tail stock.          {Planer centers} are stocks carrying centers, when the object             to be planed must be turned on its axis.          {Center of an army}, the body or troops occupying the place             in the line between the wings.          {Center of a} {curve [or] surface} (Geom.)             (a) A point such that every line drawn through the point                   and terminated by the curve or surface is bisected at                   the point.             (b) The fixed point of reference in polar co[94]rdinates.                   See {Co[94]rdinates}.          {Center of curvature of a curve} (Geom.), the center of that             circle which has at any given point of the curve closer             contact with the curve than has any other circle whatever.             See {Circle}.          {Center of a fleet}, the division or column between the van             and rear, or between the weather division and the lee.          {Center of gravity} (Mech.), that point of a body about which             all its parts can be balanced, or which being supported,             the whole body will remain at rest, though acted upon by             gravity.          {Center of gyration} (Mech.), that point in a rotating body             at which the whole mass might be concentrated             (theoretically) without altering the resistance of the             intertia of the body to angular acceleration or             retardation.          {Center of inertia} (Mech.), the center of gravity of a body             or system of bodies.          {Center of motion}, the point which remains at rest, while             all the other parts of a body move round it.          {Center of oscillation}, the point at which, if the whole             matter of a suspended body were collected, the time of             oscillation would be the same as it is in the actual form             and state of the body.          {Center of percussion}, that point in a body moving about a             fixed axis at which it may strike an obstacle without             communicating a shock to the axis.          {Center of pressure} (Hydros.), that point in a surface             pressed by a fluid, at which, if a force equal to the             whole pressure and in the same line be applied in a             contrary direction, it will balance or counteract the             whole pressure of the fluid.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{Dead plate} (Mach.), a solid covering over a part of a fire             grate, to prevent the entrance of air through that part.                      {Dead pledge}, a mortgage. See {Mortgage}.          {Dead point}. (Mach.) See {Dead center}.          {Dead reckoning} (Naut.), the method of determining the place             of a ship from a record kept of the courses sailed as             given by compass, and the distance made on each course as             found by log, with allowance for leeway, etc., without the             aid of celestial observations.          {Dead rise}, the transverse upward curvature of a vessel's             floor.          {Dead rising}, an elliptical line drawn on the sheer plan to             determine the sweep of the floorheads throughout the             ship's length.          {Dead-Sea apple}. See under {Apple}.          {Dead set}. See under {Set}.          {Dead shot}.             (a) An unerring marksman.             (b) A shot certain to be made.          {Dead smooth}, the finest cut made; -- said of files.          {Dead wall} (Arch.), a blank wall unbroken by windows or             other openings.          {Dead water} (Naut.), the eddy water closing in under a             ship's stern when sailing.          {Dead weight}.             (a) A heavy or oppressive burden. --Dryden.             (b) (Shipping) A ship's lading, when it consists of heavy                   goods; or, the heaviest part of a ship's cargo.             (c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live                   weight being the load. --Knight.          {Dead wind} (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the             ship's course.          {To be dead}, to die. [Obs.]                         I deme thee, thou must algate be dead. --Chaucer.          Syn: Inanimate; deceased; extinct. See {Lifeless}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Death \Death\, n. [OE. deth, dea[?], AS. de[a0][?]; akin to OS.       d[?][?], D. dood, G. tod, Icel. dau[?]i, Sw. & Dan. d[94]d,       Goth. daupus; from a verb meaning to die. See {Die}, v. i.,       and cf. {Dead}.]       1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of             resuscitation, either in animals or plants.          Note: Local death is going on at times and in all parts of                the living body, in which individual cells and elements                are being cast off and replaced by new; a process                essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death                of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and                death of the tissues. By the former is implied the                absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the                circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter                the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the                ultimate structural constituents of the body. When                death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the                death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until                after a considerable interval. --Huxley.          2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the             death of memory.                         The death of a language can not be exactly compared                      with the death of a plant.                  --J. Peile.          3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.                         A death that I abhor.                        --Shak.                         Let me die the death of the righteous. --Num. xxiii.                                                                               10.          4. Cause of loss of life.                         Swiftly flies the feathered death.      --Dryden.                         He caught his death the last county sessions.                                                                               --Addison.          5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally             represented as a skeleton with a scythe.                         Death! great proprietor of all.         --Young.                         And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name                      that at on him was Death.                  --Rev. vi. 8.          6. Danger of death. [bd]In deaths oft.[b8] --2 Cor. xi. 23.          7. Murder; murderous character.                         Not to suffer a man of death to live. --Bacon.          8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life.                         To be [?][?][?][?][?][?][?] m[?][?][?][?][?] is                      death.                                                --Rom. viii.                                                                               6.          9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.                         It was death to them to think of entertaining such                      doctrines.                                          --Atterbury.                         And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto                      death.                                                --Judg. xvi.                                                                               16.          Note: Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of                a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to                death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or                death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc.          {Black death}. See {Black death}, in the Vocabulary.          {Civil death}, the separation of a man from civil society, or             the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as             by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm,             entering a monastery, etc. --Blackstone.          {Death adder}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) A kind of viper found in South Africa ({Acanthophis                   tortor}); -- so called from the virulence of its                   venom.             (b) A venomous Australian snake of the family                   {Elapid[91]}, of several species, as the                   {Hoplocephalus superbus} and {Acanthopis antarctica}.                            {Death bell}, a bell that announces a death.                         The death bell thrice was heard to ring. --Mickle.          {Death candle}, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the             superstitious as presaging death.          {Death damp}, a cold sweat at the coming on of death.          {Death fire}, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode             death.                         And round about in reel and rout, The death fires                      danced at night.                                 --Coleridge.          {Death grapple}, a grapple or struggle for life.          {Death in life}, a condition but little removed from death; a             living death. [Poetic] [bd]Lay lingering out a five years'             death in life.[b8] --Tennyson.          {Death knell}, a stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a             death.          {Death rate}, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths             to the population.                         At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than                      in rural districts.                           --Darwin.          {Death rattle}, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a             dying person.          {Death's door}, the boundary of life; the partition dividing             life from death.          {Death stroke}, a stroke causing death.          {Death throe}, the spasm of death.          {Death token}, the signal of approaching death.          {Death warrant}.             (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the                   execution of a criminal.             (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy.                            {Death wound}.             (a) A fatal wound or injury.             (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak.          {Spiritual death} (Scripture), the corruption and perversion             of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God.          {The gates of death}, the grave.                         Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? --Job                                                                               xxxviii. 17.          {The second death}, condemnation to eternal separation from             God. --Rev. ii. 11.          {To be the death of}, to be the cause of death to; to make             die. [bd]It was one who should be the death of both his             parents.[b8] --Milton.          Syn: {Death}, {Decease}, {Demise}, {Departure}, {Release}.          Usage: Death applies to the termination of every form of                   existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words                   only to the human race. Decease is the term used in                   law for the removal of a human being out of life in                   the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly                   confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes                   used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise                   of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly                   terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death                   is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a                   friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a                   deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow.
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Death \Death\, n. [OE. deth, dea[?], AS. de[a0][?]; akin to OS.       d[?][?], D. dood, G. tod, Icel. dau[?]i, Sw. & Dan. d[94]d,       Goth. daupus; from a verb meaning to die. See {Die}, v. i.,       and cf. {Dead}.]       1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of             resuscitation, either in animals or plants.          Note: Local death is going on at times and in all parts of                the living body, in which individual cells and elements                are being cast off and replaced by new; a process                essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death                of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and                death of the tissues. By the former is implied the                absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the                circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter                the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the                ultimate structural constituents of the body. When                death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the                death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until                after a considerable interval. --Huxley.          2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the             death of memory.                         The death of a language can not be exactly compared                      with the death of a plant.                  --J. Peile.          3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.                         A death that I abhor.                        --Shak.                         Let me die the death of the righteous. --Num. xxiii.                                                                               10.          4. Cause of loss of life.                         Swiftly flies the feathered death.      --Dryden.                         He caught his death the last county sessions.                                                                               --Addison.          5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally             represented as a skeleton with a scythe.                         Death! great proprietor of all.         --Young.                         And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name                      that at on him was Death.                  --Rev. vi. 8.          6. Danger of death. [bd]In deaths oft.[b8] --2 Cor. xi. 23.          7. Murder; murderous character.                         Not to suffer a man of death to live. --Bacon.          8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life.                         To be [?][?][?][?][?][?][?] m[?][?][?][?][?] is                      death.                                                --Rom. viii.                                                                               6.          9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.                         It was death to them to think of entertaining such                      doctrines.                                          --Atterbury.                         And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto                      death.                                                --Judg. xvi.                                                                               16.          Note: Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of                a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to                death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or                death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc.          {Black death}. See {Black death}, in the Vocabulary.          {Civil death}, the separation of a man from civil society, or             the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as             by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm,             entering a monastery, etc. --Blackstone.          {Death adder}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) A kind of viper found in South Africa ({Acanthophis                   tortor}); -- so called from the virulence of its                   venom.             (b) A venomous Australian snake of the family                   {Elapid[91]}, of several species, as the                   {Hoplocephalus superbus} and {Acanthopis antarctica}.                            {Death bell}, a bell that announces a death.                         The death bell thrice was heard to ring. --Mickle.          {Death candle}, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the             superstitious as presaging death.          {Death damp}, a cold sweat at the coming on of death.          {Death fire}, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode             death.                         And round about in reel and rout, The death fires                      danced at night.                                 --Coleridge.          {Death grapple}, a grapple or struggle for life.          {Death in life}, a condition but little removed from death; a             living death. [Poetic] [bd]Lay lingering out a five years'             death in life.[b8] --Tennyson.          {Death knell}, a stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a             death.          {Death rate}, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths             to the population.                         At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than                      in rural districts.                           --Darwin.          {Death rattle}, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a             dying person.          {Death's door}, the boundary of life; the partition dividing             life from death.          {Death stroke}, a stroke causing death.          {Death throe}, the spasm of death.          {Death token}, the signal of approaching death.          {Death warrant}.             (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the                   execution of a criminal.             (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy.                            {Death wound}.             (a) A fatal wound or injury.             (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak.          {Spiritual death} (Scripture), the corruption and perversion             of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God.          {The gates of death}, the grave.                         Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? --Job                                                                               xxxviii. 17.          {The second death}, condemnation to eternal separation from             God. --Rev. ii. 11.          {To be the death of}, to be the cause of death to; to make             die. [bd]It was one who should be the death of both his             parents.[b8] --Milton.          Syn: {Death}, {Decease}, {Demise}, {Departure}, {Release}.          Usage: Death applies to the termination of every form of                   existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words                   only to the human race. Decease is the term used in                   law for the removal of a human being out of life in                   the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly                   confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes                   used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise                   of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly                   terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death                   is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a                   friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a                   deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow.
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Deathsman \Deaths"man\, n.       An executioner; a headsman or hangman. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Deducement \De*duce"ment\, n.       Inference; deduction; thing deduced. [R.] --Dryden.
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Deduce \De*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deduced}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Deducing}.] [L. deducere; de- + ducere to lead, draw. See       {Duke}, and cf. {Deduct}.]       1. To lead forth. [A Latinism]                         He should hither deduce a colony.      --Selden.          2. To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part             from the whole. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.          3. To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain             or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a             truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to             infer; -- with from or out of.                         O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the                      dire nation in its early times?         --Pope.                         Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing                      unknown truths from principles already known.                                                                               --Locke.                         See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which                      deduces your descent from kings and conquerors.                                                                               --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.
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Detach \De*tach"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Detached}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Detaching}.] [F. d[82]tacher (cf. It. distaccare,       staccare); pref. d[82] (L. dis) + the root found also in E.       attach. See {Attach}, and cf. {Staccato}.]       1. To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the             opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous             root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or             from a party.          2. To separate for a special object or use; -- used             especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from             a fleet, or a company from a regiment.          Syn: To separate; disunite; disengage; sever; disjoin;                withdraw; draw off. See {Detail}.
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Detachment \De*tach"ment\, n. [Cf. F. d[82]tachement.]       1. The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being             detached.          2. That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or             part of a fleet sent from the main body on special             service.                         Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments.                                                                               --Bancroft.          3. Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.                         A trial which would have demanded of him a most                      heroic faith and the detachment of a saint. --J. H.                                                                               Newman.
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Did2cian \Di*[d2]"cian\, Did2cious \Di*[d2]"cious\, a. (Biol.)       Having the sexes in two separate individuals; -- applied to       plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual       and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to       animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and       the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to {mon[d2]cious}.
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Diducement \Di*duce"ment\, n.       Diduction; separation into distinct parts. --Bacon.
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Dodo \Do"do\, n.; pl. {Dodoes}. [Said to be fr. Pg. doudo silly,       foolish (cf. {Booby}); this is fr. Prov. E. dold, the same       word as E. dolt.] (Zo[94]l.)       A large, extinct bird ({Didus ineptus}), formerly inhabiting       the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings,       like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; --       called also {dronte}. It was related to the pigeons.
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Ditch \Ditch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ditched}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Ditching}.]       1. To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or             ditches; as, to ditch moist land.          2. To surround with a ditch. --Shak.          3. To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and             turned on its side.
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Ditheism \Di"the*ism\, n. [Pref. di- + theism: cf. F.       dith[82]isme.]       The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods       or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good       and one evil; dualism.
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Dodecandrian \Do`de*can"dri*an\, Dodecandrous \Do`de*can"drous\,       a. (Bot.)       Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens,       or from twelve to nineteen.
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Dodecandrian \Do`de*can"dri*an\, Dodecandrous \Do`de*can"drous\,       a. (Bot.)       Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens,       or from twelve to nineteen.
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Dodecane \Do"de*cane\, n. [Gr. [?] twelve.] (Chem.)       Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, {C12H26}, of       the paraffin series.
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Dodge \Dodge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dodged}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Dodging}.] [Of uncertain origin: cf. dodder, v., daddle,       dade, or dog, v. t.]       1. To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile;             to shift place by a sudden start. --Milton.          2. To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to             use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.                         Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity.                                                                               --Milton.
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Dodkin \Dod"kin\, n. [D. duitken, dim. of duit. See {Doit}, and       cf. {Doitkin}.]       A doit; a small coin. --Shelton.
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Doitkin \Doit"kin\, n.       A very small coin; a doit.
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Dudgeon \Dudg"eon\, n.       1. The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were             made. --Gerarde (1597).          2. The haft of a dagger. --Shak.          3. A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger. --Hudibras.
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Dudgeon \Dudg"eon\, n. [W. dygen anger, grudge.]       Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.                   I drink it to thee in dudgeon and hostility.                   Sir T. Scott.
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Dudgeon \Dudg"eon\, a.       Homely; rude; coarse. [Obs.]                   By my troth, though I am plain and dudgeon, I would not                be an ass.                                             --Beau. & Fl.
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Duodecennial \Du`o*de*cen"ni*al\, a. [L. duodecennis; duodecim       twelve + annus year.]       Consisting of twelve years. [R.] --Ash.
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Duodecimal \Du`o*dec"i*mal\, a. [L. duodecim twelve. See       {Dozen}.]       Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale       of twelves. -- {Du`o*dec"i*mal*ly}, adv.
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Duodecimal \Du`o*dec"i*mal\, n.       1. A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch.          2. pl. (Arch.) A system of numbers, whose denominations rise             in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system             is used chiefly by artificers in computing the superficial             and solid contents of their work.
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Unit \U"nit\, n. [Abbrev. from unity.]       1. A single thing or person.          2. (Arith.) The least whole number; one.                         Units are the integral parts of any large number.                                                                               --I. Watts.          3. A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of             twenty shillings. --Camden.          4. Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time,             heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for             other amounts or quantities of the same kind.          5. (Math.) A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded             as an undivided whole.          {Abstract unit}, the unit of numeration; one taken in the             abstract; the number represented by 1. The term is used in             distinction from concrete, or determinate, unit, that is,             a unit in which the kind of thing is expressed; a unit of             measure or value; as 1 foot, 1 dollar, 1 pound, and the             like.          {Complex unit} (Theory of Numbers), an imaginary number of             the form a + broot{-1}, when a^{2} + b^{2} = 1.          {Duodecimal unit}, a unit in the scale of numbers increasing             or decreasing by twelves.          {Fractional unit}, the unit of a fraction; the reciprocal of             the denominator; thus, [frac14] is the unit of the             fraction [frac34].          {Integral unit}, the unit of integral numbers, or 1.          {Physical unit}, a value or magnitude conventionally adopted             as a unit or standard in physical measurements. The             various physical units are usually based on given units of             length, mass, and time, and on the density or other             properties of some substance, for example, water. See             {Dyne}, {Erg}, {Farad}, {Ohm}, {Poundal}, etc.          {Unit deme} (Biol.), a unit of the inferior order or orders             of individuality.          {Unit jar} (Elec.), a small, insulated Leyden jar, placed             between the electrical machine and a larger jar or             battery, so as to announce, by its repeated discharges,             the amount of electricity passed into the larger jar.          {Unit of heat} (Physics), a determinate quantity of heat             adopted as a unit of measure; a thermal unit (see under             {Thermal}). Water is the substance generally employed, the             unit being one gram or one pound, and the temperature             interval one degree of the Centigrade or Fahrenheit scale.             When referred to the gram, it is called the gram degree.             The British unit of heat, or thermal unit, used by             engineers in England and in the United States, is the             quantity of heat necessary to raise one pound of pure             water at and near its temperature of greatest density             (39.1[deg] Fahr.) through one degree of the Fahrenheit             scale. --Rankine.          {Unit of illumination}, the light of a sperm candle burning             120 grains per hour. Standard gas, burning at the rate of             five cubic feet per hour, must have an illuminating power             equal to that of fourteen such candles.          {Unit of measure} (as of length, surface, volume, dry             measure, liquid measure, money, weight, time, and the             like), in general, a determinate quantity or magnitude of             the kind designated, taken as a standard of comparison for             others of the same kind, in assigning to them numerical             values, as 1 foot, 1 yard, 1 mile, 1 square foot, 1 square             yard, 1 cubic foot, 1 peck, 1 bushel, 1 gallon, 1 cent, 1             ounce, 1 pound, 1 hour, and the like; more specifically,             the fundamental unit adopted in any system of weights,             measures, or money, by which its several denominations are             regulated, and which is itself defined by comparison with             some known magnitude, either natural or empirical, as, in             the United States, the dollar for money, the pound             avoirdupois for weight, the yard for length, the gallon of             8.3389 pounds avoirdupois of water at 39.8[deg] Fahr.             (about 231 cubic inches) for liquid measure, etc.; in             Great Britain, the pound sterling, the pound troy, the             yard, or [frac1x108719] part of the length of a second's             pendulum at London, the gallon of 277.274 cubic inches,             etc.; in the metric system, the meter, the liter, the             gram, etc.          {Unit of power}. (Mach.) See {Horse power}.          {Unit of resistance}. (Elec.) See {Resistance}, n., 4, and             {Ohm}.          {Unit of work} (Physics), the amount of work done by a unit             force acting through a unit distance, or the amount             required to lift a unit weight through a unit distance             against gravitation. See {Erg}, {Foot Pound},             {Kilogrammeter}.          {Unit stress} (Mech. Physics), stress per unit of area;             intensity of stress. It is expressed in ounces, pounds,             tons, etc., per square inch, square foot, or square yard,             etc., or in atmospheres, or inches of mercury or water, or             the like.
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Duodecimal \Du`o*dec"i*mal\, a. [L. duodecim twelve. See       {Dozen}.]       Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale       of twelves. -- {Du`o*dec"i*mal*ly}, adv.
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Duodecimfid \Du`o*dec"im*fid\, a. [L. duodecim twelve + findere       to cleave.]       Divided into twelve parts.
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Duodecimo \Du`o*dec"i*mo\, a. [L. in duodecimo in twelfth, fr.       duodecimus twelfth, fr. duodecim twelve. See {Dozen}.]       Having twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a duodecimo from, book,       leaf, size, etc.
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Duodecimo \Du*o*dec"i*mo\, n.; pl. {Duodecimos}.       A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into       twelve leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a       size of a book; -- usually written 12mo or 12[deg].
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Duodecimo \Du*o*dec"i*mo\, n.; pl. {Duodecimos}.       A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into       twelve leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a       size of a book; -- usually written 12mo or 12[deg].
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Tombac \Tom"bac\, n. [Pg. tambaca,tambaque, fr. Malay tamb[be]ga       copper; cf. Skr. t[be]mraka; cf. F. tombac.] (Metal.)       An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing       about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also {German, [or]       Dutch, brass}. It is very malleable and ductile, and when       beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called {Dutch metal}.       The addition of arsenic makes {white tombac}. [Written also       {tombak}, and {tambac}.]
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touto. The English have applied the name especially to the    Germanic people living nearest them, the Hollanders. Cf.    {Derrick}, {Teutonic}.]       Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.          {Dutch auction}. See under {Auction}.          {Dutch cheese}, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim             milk.          {Dutch clinker}, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is             yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape.          {Dutch clover} (Bot.), common white clover ({Trifolium             repens}), the seed of which was largely imported into             England from Holland.          {Dutch concert}, a so-called concert in which all the singers             sing at the same time different songs. [Slang]          {Dutch courage}, the courage of partial intoxication. [Slang]             --Marryat.          {Dutch door}, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so             arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened,             while the upper part remains open.          {Dutch foil}, {Dutch leaf}, [or] {Dutch gold}, a kind of             brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets,             used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also             {Dutch mineral}, {Dutch metal}, {brass foil}, and {bronze             leaf}.          {Dutch liquid} (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid,             {C2H4Cl2}, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal             odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or             olefiant gas; -- called also {Dutch oil}. It is so called             because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four             Hollandish chemists. See {Ethylene}, and {Olefiant}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
touto. The English have applied the name especially to the    Germanic people living nearest them, the Hollanders. Cf.    {Derrick}, {Teutonic}.]       Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.          {Dutch auction}. See under {Auction}.          {Dutch cheese}, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim             milk.          {Dutch clinker}, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is             yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape.          {Dutch clover} (Bot.), common white clover ({Trifolium             repens}), the seed of which was largely imported into             England from Holland.          {Dutch concert}, a so-called concert in which all the singers             sing at the same time different songs. [Slang]          {Dutch courage}, the courage of partial intoxication. [Slang]             --Marryat.          {Dutch door}, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so             arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened,             while the upper part remains open.          {Dutch foil}, {Dutch leaf}, [or] {Dutch gold}, a kind of             brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets,             used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also             {Dutch mineral}, {Dutch metal}, {brass foil}, and {bronze             leaf}.          {Dutch liquid} (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid,             {C2H4Cl2}, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal             odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or             olefiant gas; -- called also {Dutch oil}. It is so called             because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four             Hollandish chemists. See {Ethylene}, and {Olefiant}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. {Sweeter}; superl. {Sweetest}.] [OE.       swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[c7]te; akin to OFries. sw[c7]te,       OS. sw[d3]ti, D. zoet, G. s[81]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[91]tr,       s[d2]tr, Sw. s[94]t, Dan. s[94]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for       suadvis, Gr. [?], Skr. sv[be]du sweet, svad, sv[be]d, to       sweeten. [fb]175. Cf. {Assuage}, {Suave}, {Suasion}.]       1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;             saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet             beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.          2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a             sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.                         The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.                                                                               --Longfellow.          3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the             sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet             voice; a sweet singer.                         To make his English sweet upon his tongue.                                                                               --Chaucer.                         A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne.          4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;             as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.                         Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods,                      and plains.                                       --Milton.          5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon.          6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:             (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.             (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,                   sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.          7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;             winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.                         Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?                                                                               --Job xxxviii.                                                                               31.                         Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one                      established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold.          Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining                compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,                sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.          {Sweet alyssum}. (Bot.) See {Alyssum}.          {Sweet apple}. (Bot.)             (a) Any apple of sweet flavor.             (b) See {Sweet-top}.          {Sweet bay}. (Bot.)             (a) The laurel ({laurus nobilis}).             (b) Swamp sassafras.          {Sweet calabash} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Passiflora}             ({P. maliformis}) growing in the West Indies, and             producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.                      {Sweet cicely}. (Bot.)             (a) Either of the North American plants of the                   umbelliferous genus {Osmorrhiza} having aromatic roots                   and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray.             (b) A plant of the genus {Myrrhis} ({M. odorata}) growing                   in England.          {Sweet calamus}, [or] {Sweet cane}. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet             flag}, below.          {Sweet Cistus} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Cistus Ladanum})             from which the gum ladanum is obtained.          {Sweet clover}. (Bot.) See {Melilot}.          {Sweet coltsfoot} (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites             sagittata}) found in Western North America.          {Sweet corn} (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste.             See the Note under {Corn}.          {Sweet fern} (Bot.), a small North American shrub             ({Comptonia, [or] Myrica, asplenifolia}) having             sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.                      {Sweet flag} (Bot.), an endogenous plant ({Acorus Calamus})             having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent             aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and             America. See {Calamus}, 2.          {Sweet gale} (Bot.), a shrub ({Myrica Gale}) having bitter             fragrant leaves; -- also called {sweet willow}, and {Dutch             myrtle}. See 5th {Gale}.          {Sweet grass} (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.          {Sweet gum} (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar             styraciflua}). See {Liquidambar}.          {Sweet herbs}, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary             purposes.          {Sweet John} (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William.          {Sweet leaf} (Bot.), horse sugar. See under {Horse}.          {Sweet marjoram}. (Bot.) See {Marjoram}.          {Sweet marten} (Zo[94]l.), the pine marten.          {Sweet maudlin} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea             Ageratum}) allied to milfoil.          {Sweet oil}, olive oil.          {Sweet pea}. (Bot.) See under {Pea}.          {Sweet potato}. (Bot.) See under {Potato}.          {Sweet rush} (Bot.), sweet flag.          {Sweet spirits of niter} (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous             ether}, under {Spirit}.          {Sweet sultan} (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea             moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({C. odorata}); --             called also {sultan flower}.          {Sweet tooth}, an especial fondness for sweet things or for             sweetmeats. [Colloq.]          {Sweet William}.             (a) (Bot.) A species of pink ({Dianthus barbatus}) of many                   varieties.             (b) (Zo[94]l.) The willow warbler.             (c) (Zo[94]l.) The European goldfinch; -- called also                   {sweet Billy}. [Prov. Eng.]          {Sweet willow} (Bot.), sweet gale.          {Sweet wine}. See {Dry wine}, under {Dry}.          {To be sweet on}, to have a particular fondness for, or             special interest in, as a young man for a young woman.             [Colloq.] --Thackeray.          Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dutchman \Dutch"man\, n.; pl. {Dutchmen}.       A native, or one of the people, of Holland.          {Dutchman's breeches} (Bot.), a perennial American herb             ({Dicentra cucullaria}), with peculiar double-spurred             flowers. See Illust. of {Dicentra}.          {Dutchman's laudanum} (Bot.), a West Indian passion flower             ({Passiflora Murucuja}); also, its fruit.          {Dutchman's pipe} (Bot.), an American twining shrub             ({Aristolochia Sipho}). Its flowers have their calyx tubes             curved like a tobacco pipe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dutchman \Dutch"man\, n.; pl. {Dutchmen}.       A native, or one of the people, of Holland.          {Dutchman's breeches} (Bot.), a perennial American herb             ({Dicentra cucullaria}), with peculiar double-spurred             flowers. See Illust. of {Dicentra}.          {Dutchman's laudanum} (Bot.), a West Indian passion flower             ({Passiflora Murucuja}); also, its fruit.          {Dutchman's pipe} (Bot.), an American twining shrub             ({Aristolochia Sipho}). Its flowers have their calyx tubes             curved like a tobacco pipe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Laudanum \Lau"da*num\, n. [Orig. the same wort as ladanum,       ladbdanum: cf. F. laudanum, It. laudano, ladano. See       {Ladanum}.]       Tincture of opium, used for various medical purposes.          Note: A fluid ounce of American laudanum should contain the                soluble matter of one tenth of an ounce avoirdupois of                powdered opium with equal parts of alcohol and water.                English laudanum should have ten grains less of opium                in the fluid ounce. --U. S. Disp.          {Dutchman's laudanum} (Bot.) See under {Dutchman}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dutchman \Dutch"man\, n.; pl. {Dutchmen}.       A native, or one of the people, of Holland.          {Dutchman's breeches} (Bot.), a perennial American herb             ({Dicentra cucullaria}), with peculiar double-spurred             flowers. See Illust. of {Dicentra}.          {Dutchman's laudanum} (Bot.), a West Indian passion flower             ({Passiflora Murucuja}); also, its fruit.          {Dutchman's pipe} (Bot.), an American twining shrub             ({Aristolochia Sipho}). Its flowers have their calyx tubes             curved like a tobacco pipe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dutchman \Dutch"man\, n.; pl. {Dutchmen}.       A native, or one of the people, of Holland.          {Dutchman's breeches} (Bot.), a perennial American herb             ({Dicentra cucullaria}), with peculiar double-spurred             flowers. See Illust. of {Dicentra}.          {Dutchman's laudanum} (Bot.), a West Indian passion flower             ({Passiflora Murucuja}); also, its fruit.          {Dutchman's pipe} (Bot.), an American twining shrub             ({Aristolochia Sipho}). Its flowers have their calyx tubes             curved like a tobacco pipe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dutchman \Dutch"man\, n.; pl. {Dutchmen}.       A native, or one of the people, of Holland.          {Dutchman's breeches} (Bot.), a perennial American herb             ({Dicentra cucullaria}), with peculiar double-spurred             flowers. See Illust. of {Dicentra}.          {Dutchman's laudanum} (Bot.), a West Indian passion flower             ({Passiflora Murucuja}); also, its fruit.          {Dutchman's pipe} (Bot.), an American twining shrub             ({Aristolochia Sipho}). Its flowers have their calyx tubes             curved like a tobacco pipe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Duteous \Du"te*ous\, a. [From {Duty}.]       1. Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a             superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed;             obedient; as, a duteous son or daughter.          2. Subservient; obsequious.                         Duteous to the vices of thy mistress. --Shak.             -- {Du"te*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Du"te*ous*ness}, n.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Dade County, FL (county, FIPS 25)       Location: 25.60640 N, 80.50212 W       Population (1990): 1937094 (771288 housing units)       Area: 5036.2 sq km (land), 1256.5 sq km (water)    Dade County, GA (county, FIPS 83)       Location: 34.85462 N, 85.50471 W       Population (1990): 13147 (4998 housing units)       Area: 450.5 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)    Dade County, MO (county, FIPS 57)       Location: 37.42970 N, 93.85347 W       Population (1990): 7449 (3543 housing units)       Area: 1270.1 sq km (land), 41.3 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
De Witt County, IL (county, FIPS 39)       Location: 40.16962 N, 88.90469 W       Population (1990): 16516 (6942 housing units)       Area: 1029.8 sq km (land), 19.6 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
DeWitt County, TX (county, FIPS 123)       Location: 29.08091 N, 97.35505 W       Population (1990): 18840 (8568 housing units)       Area: 2355.0 sq km (land), 3.3 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Dodson, LA (village, FIPS 21170)       Location: 32.07917 N, 92.65816 W       Population (1990): 350 (160 housing units)       Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 71422    Dodson, MT (town, FIPS 21025)       Location: 48.39541 N, 108.24520 W       Population (1990): 137 (73 housing units)       Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 59524    Dodson, TX (town, FIPS 20716)       Location: 34.76499 N, 100.01954 W       Population (1990): 113 (56 housing units)       Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 79230
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
data channel          A channel (on a {BRI} or {PRI} line) used to       carry control information, to set up connections on the       associated {bearer channels}.   The name wasn't too bad back       when users were sending voice (not data) over the {bearer       channels}, but in 1997 it's quite a misnomer.          (1997-03-10)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Data Communication Equipment          (DCE) The devices and connections       of a communications network that connect the communication       circuit between the data source and destination (the {Data       Terminal Equipment} or DTE).   A {modem} is the most common       kind of DCE.          Before data can be transmited over a modem, the DTR (Data       Terminal Ready) signal must be active.   DTR tells the DCE that       the DTE is ready to transmit and receive data.          DCE and DTE are usually connected by an {EIA-232} {serial       line}.   It is necessary to distinguish these two types of       device because their connectors must be wired differently if a       "straight-through" cable (pin 1 to pin 1, pin 2 to pin 2 etc.)       is to be used.   DCE should have a female connector and should       transmit on pin two and receive on pin three.   It is a curious       fact that many {modem}s are "DTE" according to the original       standard.          (1995-02-28)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Data Communications Equipment          {Data Communication Equipment}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
data compression          {compression}.   Probably to distinguish it from       (electronic) {signal compression}.          (1995-04-02)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Data General          A US computer manufacturer.   Responsible for the       {Nova} {minicomputer}.          Quarterly sales $284M, profits -$12M (Aug 1994).          (1994-09-26)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Data General mN601          {Data General MicroNova 601}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Datacom          A {DBMS} from {Computer Associates International}.          (1994-12-06)