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Develop

DEVELOP, verb transitive

1. To uncover; to unfold; to lay open; to disclose or make known something concealed or withheld from notice.

The General began to develop the plan of his operations.

These serve to develop its tenets.

2. To unravel; to unfold what is intricate; as, to develop a plot.

Developed

DEVELOPED, participle passive Unfolded; laid open; unraveled.

DEVELOPING, participle present tense Unfolding; disclosing; unraveling.

Development

DEVELOPMENT, noun

1. An unfolding; the discovering of something secret or withheld from the knowledge of others; disclosure; full exhibition.

2. The unraveling of a plot.

Devest

DEVEST, verb transitive [Latin , a vest, a garment. Generally written divest.]

1. To strip; to deprive of clothing or arms; to take off.

2. To deprive; to take away; as, to devest a man or nation of rights. [See Divest.]

3. To free from; to disengage.

4. In law, to alienate, as title or right.

DEVEST, verb intransitive In law, to be lost or alienated, as a title or an estate.

[This word is generally written divest, except in the latter and legal sense.]

Devested

DEVESTED, participle passive Stripped of clothes; deprived; freed from; alienated or lost, as title.

Devesting

DEVESTING, participle present tense Stripping of clothes; depriving; freeing from ; alienating.

Devex

DEVEX, adjective [Latin] Bending down. [Not in use.]

Devexity

DEVEXITY, noun [Latin , to carry.] A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward.

Deviate

DEVIATE, verb intransitive [Latin , way.]

1. To turn aside or wander from the common or right way, course or line, either in a literal or figurative sense; as, to deviate from the common track or path, or from a true course.

There nature deviates, and here wanders will.

2. To stray from the path of duty; to wander, in a moral sense; to err; to sin.

Deviation

DEVIATION, noun

1. A wandering or turning aside from the right way, course or line.

2. Variation from a common or established rule, or from analogy.

3. A wandering from the path of duty; want of conformity to the rules prescribed by God; error; sin; obliquity of conduct.

4. In commerce, the voluntary departure of a ship, without necessity, from the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured. This discharges the underwriters from their responsibility.

Device

DEVICE, noun [Latin]

1. That which is formed by design, or invented; scheme; artificial contrivance; stratagem; project; sometimes in a good sense; more generally in a bad sense, as artifices are usually employed for bad purposes.

In a good sense:

His device is against Babylon, to destroy it. Psalms 21:11.

In a bad sense:

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Psalms 21:11.

They imagined a mischievous device Psalms 21:11.

2. An emblem intended to represent a family, person, action or quality, with a suitable motto; used in painting, sculpture and heraldry. It consists in a metaphorical similitude between the things representing and represented, as the figure of a plow representing agriculture.

Knights-errant used to distinguish themselves by devices on their shields.

3. Invention; genius; faculty of devising; as a man of noble device

4. A spectacle or show.

Deviceful

DEVICEFUL, adjective Full of devices; inventive.

Devicefully

DEVICEFULLY, adverb In a manner curiously contrived.

Devil

DEVIL, noun Devl. [Latin , to calumniate.]

1. In the Christian theology, an evil spirit or being; a fallen angel, expelled from heaven for rebellion against God; the chief of the apostate angels; the implacable enemy and tempter of the human race. In the New Testament, the word is frequently and erroneously used for demon.

2. A very wicked person, and in ludicrous language, an great evil. In profane language, it is an expletive expressing wonder, vexation, etc.

3. An idol, or false god. Leviticus 17:7. 2 Chronicles 11:15.

Deviling

DEVILING, noun A young devil. [Not in use.]

Devilish

DEVILISH, adjective

1. Partaking of the qualities of the devil; diabolical; very evil and mischievous; malicious; as a devilish scheme; devilish wickedness.

2. Having communication with the devil; pertaining to the devil.

3. Excessive; enormous; in a vulgar and ludicrous sense; as a devilish cheat.

Devilishly

DEVILISHLY, adverb

1. In a manner suiting the devil; diabolically; wickedly.

2. Greatly; excessively; in a vulgar sense.

Devilishness

DEVILISHNESS, noun The qualities of the devil.

Devilism

DEVILISM, noun The state of devils. [Not used.]

Devilize

DEVILIZE, verb transitive To place among devils. [Not used.]

Devilkin

DEVILKIN, noun A little devil.

Devilship

DEVILSHIP, noun The character of a devil.

Devious

DEVIOUS, adjective [Latin , way.]

1. Out of the common way or track; as a devious course.

2. Wandering; roving; rambling.

To bless the wildly devious morning walk.

3. Erring; going astray from rectitude or the divine precepts.

One devious step at first may lead into a course of habitual vice.

Devirginate

DEVIRGINATE, verb transitive [Low Latin ] To deflour.

Devisable

DEVISABLE, adjective s as z. [See the Verb.]

1. That may be bequeathed or given by will.

2. That can be invented or contrived.

Devise

DEVISE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin]

1. To invent; to contrive; to form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to excogitate; to strike out by thought; to plan; to scheme; to project; as, to devise an engine or machine; to devise a new mode of writing; to devise a plan of defense; to devise arguments.

To devise curious works in gold and silver. Exodus 35:32.

In a bad sense:

DEVISE not evil against thy neighbor. Proverbs 3:29.

2. To give or bequeath by will, as land or other real estate.

DEVISE, verb intransitive To consider; to contrive; to lay a plan; to form a scheme.

DEVISE how you will use him, when he comes.

Formerly followed by of; as, let us devise of ease.

DEVISE, noun

1. Primarily, a dividing or division; hence, the act of bequeathing by will; the act of giving or distributing real estate by a testator.

2. A will or testament.

3. A share of estate bequeathed.

DEVISE, noun Contrivance; scheme invented.

Devised

DEVISED, participle passive Given by will; bequeathed; contrived.

Devisee

DEVISEE, noun The person to whom a devise is made; one to whom real estate is bequeathed.

Deviser

DEVISER, noun One who contrives or invents; a contriver; an inventor.

Devising

DEVISING, participle present tense

1. Contriving; inventing; forming a scheme or plan.

2. Giving by will; bequeathing.

Devisor

DEVISOR, noun One who gives by will; one who bequeaths lands or tenements.

Devitable

DEVITABLE, adjective Avoidable. [Not in use.]

Devitation

DEVITATION, noun An escaping. [Not in use.]

Devocation

DEVOCATION, noun [Latin] A calling away; seduction. [Not in use.]

Devoid

DEVOID, adjective [See Void.]

1. Void; empty; vacant; applied to place.

2. Destitute; not possessing; as devoid of understanding.

3. Free from; as devoid of fear or shame.

Devoir

DEVOIR, noun [Latin , to owe.] Primarily, service or duty. Hence, an act of civility or respect; respectful notice due to another; as, we paid our devoirs to the queen, or to the ladies.

Devolution

DEVOLUTION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of rolling down; as the devolution of earth into a valley.

2. Removal from one person to another; a passing or falling upon a successor.

Devolve

DEVOLVE, verb transitive devolv. [Latin , to roll.]

1. To roll down; to pour or flow with windings.

Through splendid kingdoms he devolves his maze.

2. To move from one person to another; to deliver over, or from one possessor to a successor.

The king devolved the care and disposition of affairs on the duke or Ormond.

DEVOLVE, verb intransitive devolv. Literally, to roll down; hence, to pass from one to another; to fall by succession from one possessor to his successor. In the absence of the commander in chief, the command devolved on the next officer in rank. On the death of the prince, the crown devolved on his eldest son.

Devolved

DEVOLVED, participle passive Rolled down; passed over to another.

Devolving

DEVOLVING, participle present tense Rolling down; falling to a successor.

Devotary

DEVOTARY, noun A votary. [Not in use.]

Devote

DEVOTE, verb transitive [Latin , to vow.]

1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart ro dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate.

No devoted thing that a man shall devote to the Lord--shall be sold or redeemed. Every thing devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. Leviticus 27:28.

2. To give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention wholly or chiefly; to attach; as, to devote ones self to science; to devote ourselves to our friends, or to their interest or pleasure.

3. To give up; to resign; as, aliens were devoted to rapine; the city was devoted to the flames.

4. To doom; to consign over; as, to devote one to destruction.

5. To execrate; to doom to evil.

DEVOTE, adjective Devoted.

DEVOTE, noun A devotee.

Devoted

DEVOTED, participle passive Appropriated by vow; solemnly set apart or dedicated; consecrated; addicted; given up; doomed; consigned.

Devotedness

DEVOTEDNESS, noun The state of being devoted or given; addictedness; as devotedness to religion.

Devotee

DEVOTEE, noun One who is wholly devoted; particularly, one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.

Devotement

DEVOTEMENT, noun

1. Devotedness; devotion.

2. Vowed dedication.

Devoter

DEVOTER, noun One that devotes; also, a worshiper.

Devoting

DEVOTING, participle present tense Giving or appropriating by vow; solemnly setting apart or dedicating; consecrating; giving wholly; addicting; dooming; consigning.

Devotion

DEVOTION, noun

1. The state of being dedicated, consecrated, or solemnly set apart for a particular purpose.

2. A solemn attention to the Supreme Being in worship; a yielding of the heart and affections to God, with reverence, faith and piety, in religious duties, particularly in prayer and meditation; devoutness.

3. External worship; acts of religion; performance of religious duties.

As I passed by and beheld your devotions. Acts 17:23.

4. Prayer to the Supreme Being. A Christian will be regular in his morning and evening devotions.

5. An act of reverence, respect or ceremony.

6. Ardent love or affection; attachment manifested by constant attention; as, the duke was distinguished by his devotion to the king, and to the interest of the nation.

7. Earnestness; ardor; eagerness.

He seeks their hate with greater devotion than they can render it him.

8. Disposal; power of disposing of; state of dependence.

Arundel castle would keep that rich corner of the country at his majestys devotion

Devotional

DEVOTIONAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to devotion; used in devotion; as a devotional posture; devotional exercises.

2. Suited to devotion; as a devotional frame of mind.

Devotionalist

DEVOTIONALIST, DEVOTIONIST, noun A person given to devotion; or one superstitiously or formally devout.

Devotionist

DEVOTIONALIST, DEVOTIONIST noun A person given to devotion; or one superstitiously or formally devout.

Devoto

DEVOTO, noun A devotee. [Not in use.]

Devotor

DEVOTOR, noun One who reverences or worships.

Devour

DEVOUR, verb transitive [Latin , to eat.]

1. To eat up; to eat with greediness; to eat ravenously, as a beast of prey, or as a hungry man.

We will say, some evil beast hath devoured him. Genesis 37:20.

In the morning, he shall devour the prey. Genesis 49:27.

2. To destroy; to consume with rapidity and violence.

I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad. Amos 1:4.

Famine and pestilence shall devour him. Ezekiel 7:15.

3. To destroy; to annihilate; to consume.

He seemed in swiftness to devour the way.

4. To waste; to consume; to spend in dissipation and riot.

As soon as this thy son had come, who hath devoured thy living with harlots. Luke 15:30.

5. To consume wealth and substance by fraud, oppression, or illegal exactions.

Ye devour widows houses. Matthew 23:14.

6. To destroy spiritually; to ruin the soul.

Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour 1 Peter 5:8.

7. To slay.

The sword shall devour the young lions. Nahum 2.

8. To enjoy with avidity.

Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, devour her oer and oer with vast delight.

Devoured

DEVOURED, participle passive Eaten; swallowed with greediness; consumed; destroyed; wasted; slain.

Devourer

DEVOURER, noun One who devours; he or that which eats, consumes or destroys; he that preys on.

Devouring

DEVOURING, participle present tense Eating greedily; consuming; wasting; destroying; annihilating.

Devouringly

DEVOURINGLY, adverb In a devouring manner.

Devout

DEVOUT, adjective [Latin See Devote.]

1. Yielding a solemn and reverential attention to God in religious exercises, particularly in prayer.

We must be constant and devout in the worship of God.

2. Pious; devoted to religion; religious.

Simeon was a just man and devout Luke 2:25.

DEVOUT men carried Stephen to his burial. Acts 8:2.

3. Expressing devotion or piety; as, with eyes devout

4. Sincere; solemn; earnest; as, you have my devout wishes for your safety.

DEVOUT, noun A devotee. [Not used.]

Devoutless

DEVOUTLESS, adjective Destitute of devotion.

Devoutlessness

DEVOUTLESSNESS, noun Want of devotion.

Devoutly

DEVOUTLY, adverb

1. With solemn attention and reverence to God; with ardent devotion.

He was devoutly engaged in prayer.

2. Piously; religiously; with pious thoughts; as, he viewed the cross devoutly

3. Sincerely; solemnly; earnestly; as, a consummation devoutly to be wished.

Devoutness

DEVOUTNESS, noun The quality or state of being devout.

Devow

DEVOW, verb transitive To give up. [Not in use.]

Dew

DEW, noun [G. To thaw.] The water or moisture collected or deposited on or near the surface of the earth, during the night, by the escape of the heat which held the water in solution.

DEW, verb intransitive To wet with dew; to moisten.

Dew-Berry

DEW-BERRY, noun The fruit of a species of brier or bramble, that creeps along the ground, of the genus Rubus.

Dew-Bespangled

DEW-BESPANGLED, adjective Spangled with dew-drops.

Dew-Besprent

DEW-BESPRENT, adjective Sprinkled with dew.

Dew-Besprinkled

DEW-BESPRINKLED, adjective Sprinkled with dew.

Dew-Drop

DEW-DROP, noun A drop of dew, which sparkles at sunrise; a spangle of dew.

Dew-Dropping

DEW-DROPPING, adjective Wetting as with dew.

Dew-Impearled

DEW-IMPEARLED, adjective [See Pearl.] Covered with dew-drops, like pearls.

Dew-Lap

DEW-LAP, noun [dew and lap, to lick.]

1. The flesh that hangs from the throat of oxen, which laps or licks the dew in grazing.

2. In Shakespeare, a lip flaccid with age.

Dew-Lapt

DEW-LAPT, adjective Furnished with a dew-lap.

Dew-Worm

DEW-WORM, noun A worm, called otherwise earth-worm, a species of Lumbricus, which lives just under the surface of the ground. It is of a pale red color, and does no injury to plants.

Dewbent

DEWBENT, adjective Bent by the dew.

Dewed

DEWED, participle passive Moistened with dew.

Dewing

DEWING, participle present tense Wetting or moistening the dew.

Dewy

DEWY, adjective

1. Partaking of dew; like dew; as dewy mist.

2. Moist with dew; as dewy fields.

His dewy locks distilled Ambrosia.

Dexter

DEXTER, adjective [Latin , Gr.] Right, as opposed to left; a term used in heraldry, to denote the right side of a shield or coat of arms; as, bend-dexter; dexter-point.

Dexterity

DEXTERITY, noun [Latin , right, fit, prompt.]

1. Readiness of limbs; adroitness; activity; expertness; skill; that readiness in performing an action, which proceeds from experience or practice, united with activity or quick motion. We say, a man handles an instrument, or eludes a thrust, with dexterity

2. Readiness of mind or mental faculties, as in contrivance, or inventing means to accomplish a purpose; promptness in devising expedients; quickness and skill in managing or conducting a scheme of operations. We say, a negotiation is conducted with dexterity

Dextral

DEXTRAL, adjective Right, as opposed to left.

Dextrality

DEXTRALITY, noun The state of being on the right side.

Dextrorsal

DEXTRORSAL, adjective Rising from right to left, as a spiral line or helix.

Dextrous

DEXTROUS, adjective

1. Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active in manual employment; adroit; as a dextrous hand; a dextrous workman.

2. Ready in the use of the mental faculties; prompt in contrivance and management; expert; quick at inventing expedients; as a dextrous manager.

3. Skillful; artful; done with dexterity; as dextrous management.

Dextrously

DEXTROUSLY, adverb With dexterity; expertly; skillfully; artfully; adroitly; promptly.

Dextrousness

DEXTROUSNESS, noun Dexterity; adroitness.

Dey

DEY, noun The title of the governor or sovereign of Algiers, under the protection of the Grand Seignior.

Di

DI, a prefix, a contraction of dis, denotes from, separation or negation, or two.

Dia

DIA, Greek, a prefix, denotes through.

Diabase

DIABASE, noun Another name of greenstone.

Diabaterial

DIABATERIAL, adjective [Gr.] Border-passing.

Diabetes

DIABETES, noun [Gr., to pass through; to go or pass.] A long continued increased quantity of urine; an excessive and morbid discharge of urine.

Diabetic

DIABETIC, adjective Pertaining to diabetes.

Diabolic

DIABOLIC, DIABOLICAL, adjective [Latin , the devil.] Devilish; pertaining to the devil; hence, extremely malicious; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; partaking of any quality ascribed to the devil; as a diabolical temper; a diabolical scheme or action.

Diabolical

DIABOLIC, DIABOLICAL adjective [Latin , the devil.] Devilish; pertaining to the devil; hence, extremely malicious; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; partaking of any quality ascribed to the devil; as a DIABOLICAL temper; a DIABOLICAL scheme or action.

Diabolically

DIABOLICALLY, adverb In a diabolical manner; very wickedly; nefariously.

Diabolicalness

DIABOLICALNESS, noun The qualities of the devil.

Diabolism

DIABOLISM, noun

1. The actions of the devil.

2. Possession by the devil.

Diacaustic

DIACAUSTIC, adjective [G., to burn or inflame.] Belonging to curves formed by refraction.

Diachylon

DIACHYLON, noun [Gr.] An emollient plaster.

Diaconal

DIACONAL, adjective [Latin] Pertaining to a deacon.

Diacoustic

DIACOUSTIC, adjective [Gr., to hear.] Pertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds.

Diacoustics

DIACOUSTICS, noun The science or doctrine of refracted sounds; the consideration of the properties of sound refracted by passing through different mediums; called also diaphonics.

Diacritical

DIACRITICAL, adjective [Gr., to separate.] That separates or distinguishes; distinctive; as a diacritical point or mark.

The short vowel is never signified by any diacritical mark.

Diadelph

DIADELPH, noun [Gr., twice; a brother.] In botany, a plant whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.

Diadelphian

DIADELPHIAN, adjective Having its stamens united into two bodies by their filaments.

Diadem

DIADEM, noun [Gr., to gird; to bind. Latin ]

1. Anciently, a head-band or fillet worn by kings as a badge or royalty. It was made of silk, linen or wool, and tied round the temples and forehead, the ends being tied behind and let fall on the neck. It was usually white and plain; sometimes embroidered with gold, or set with pearls and precious stones.

2. In modern usage, the mark or badge of royalty, worn on the head; a crown; and figuratively, empire; supreme power.

3. A distinguished or principal ornament.

A diadem of beauty. Isaiah 28:5.

Diademed

DIADEMED, adjective Adorned with a diadem; crowned; ornamented.

Diadrom

DIADROM, noun [Gr., a running about; to run.] A course or passing; a vibration; the time in which the vibration of a pendulum is performed.

Diagnostic

DIAGNOSTIC, adjective [Gr., to know.] Distinguishing; characteristic; indicating the nature of a disease.

DIAGNOSTIC, noun The sign or symptom by which a disease is known or distinguished from others. Diagnostics are of two kinds; the adjunct, or such as are common to several diseases; and the pathognomonic, which always attend the disease, and distinguish it from all others.

Diagonal

DIAGONAL, adjective [Gr. A corner.]

1. In geometry, extending from one angle to another of a quadrilateral figure, and dividing it into two equal parts.

2. Being in an angular direction.

DIAGONAL, noun A right line drawn from angle to angle of a quadrilateral figure, as a square or parallelogram, and dividing it into two equal parts. It is sometimes called the diameter, and sometimes the diametral.

Diagonally

DIAGONALLY, adverb In a diagonal direction.

Diagram

DIAGRAM, noun [Gr., to write.] In geometry, a figure, draught or scheme delineated for the purpose of demonstrating the properties of any figure, as a square, triangle, circle, etc. Anciently, a musical scale.

Diagraphic

DIAGRAPHIC, DIAGRAPHICAL, adjective [Gr., to describe.] Descriptive.

Diagraphical

DIAGRAPHIC, DIAGRAPHICAL adjective [Gr., to describe.] Descriptive.

Dial

DIAL, noun An instrument for measuring time, by the aid of the sun; being a plate or plain surface, on which lines are drawn in such a manner, that the shadow of a wire, or of the upper edge of another plane, erected perpendicularly on the former, may show the true time of the day. The edge of the plane, which shows the time, is called the stile of the dial and this must be parallel to the axis of the earth. The line on which this plane is erected, is called the substile; and the angle included between the substile and stile, is called the elevation or highth of the stile. A dial may be horizontal, vertical, or inclining.

Dial-Plate

DIAL-PLATE, noun The plate of a dial on which the lines are drawn, to show the hour or time of the day.

Dialect

DIALECT, noun [Gr.]

1. The form or idiom of a language, peculiar to a province, or to a kingdom or state; consisting chiefly in differences of orthography or pronunciation. The Greek language is remarkable for four dialects, the Attic, Iionic, Doric and Eolic. A dialect is the branch of a parent language, with such local alterations as time, accident and revolutions may have introduced among descendants of the same stock or family, living in separate or remote situations. But in regard to a large portion of words, many languages, which are considered as distinct, are really dialects of one common language.

2. Language; speech, or manner of speaking.

Dialectical

DIALECTICAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to a dialect, or dialects; not radical.

2. Logical; argumental.

Dialectically

DIALECTICALLY, adverb In the manner of dialect.

Dialectician

DIALECTICIAN, noun A logician; a reasoner.

Dialectics

DIALECTICS, noun That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning.

Dialing

DIALING, noun The art of constructing dials, or of drawing dials on a plane. The sciateric science, or knowledge of showing the time by shadows.

Dialist

DIALIST, noun A constructor of dials; one skilled in dialing.

Diallage

DIALLAGE, noun [Gr., difference, alluding to the difference of luster between its natural joints.] A mineral, the smaragdite of Saussure, of a lamellar or foliated structure. Its subspecies are green diallage metalloidal diallage and bronzite. The metalloidal subspecies is called schillersteing, or shiller spar.

Dialogism

DIALOGISM, noun A feigned speech between two or more.

Dialogist

DIALOGIST, noun [See Dialogue.] A speaker in a dialogue; also, a writer of dialogues.

Dialogistic

DIALOGISTIC, adjective Having the form of a dialogue.

Dialogistically

DIALOGISTICALLY, adverb In the manner of dialogue.

Dialogize

DIALOGIZE, verb intransitive [See Dialogue.] To discourse in dialogue.

Dialogue

DIALOGUE, noun Dialog. [Gr., to dispute; to speak.]

1. A conversation or conference between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conversation in theatrical performances; also, an exercise in colleges and schools, in which two or more persons carry on a discourse.

2. A written conversation, or a composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing on some topic; as the dialogues of Cicero de Oratore, and de Natura Deorum.

DIALOGUE, verb intransitive To discourse together; to confer. [Not used.]

Dialogue-Writer

DIALOGUE-WRITER, noun A writer of dialogues or feigned conversations.

Dialysis

DIALYSIS, noun [Gr., to dissolve.]

1. A mark in writing or printing, consisting of two points placed over one of two vowels, to dissolve a diphthong, or to show that the two vowels are to be separated in pronunciation; as, aer, mosaic.

2. In medicine, debility; also, a solution of continuity.

Diamantine

DIAMANTINE, for adamantine. [Not in use.]

Diameter

DIAMETER, noun [Gr., measure through.]

1. A right line passing through the center of a circle or other curvilinear figure, terminated by the circumference, and dividing the figure into two equal parts.

2. A right line passing through the center of a piece of timber, a rock or other object, from one side to the other; as the diameter of a tree, or of a stone.

Diametral

DIAMETRAL, adjective Diametrical, which see.

Diametrally

DIAMETRALLY, adverb Diametrically.

Diametrical

DIAMETRICAL, adjective

1. Describing a diameter.

2. Observing the direction of a diameter; direct; as diametrical opposition.

Diametrically

DIAMETRICALLY, adverb In a diametrical direction; directly; as diametrically opposite.

Diamond

DIAMOND, noun Dimond. [Latin , Gr. See Adamant.]

1. A mineral, gem or precious stone, of the most valuable kind, remarkable for its hardness, as it scratches all other minerals. When pure, the diamond is usually clear and transparent, but it is sometimes colored. In its rough state, it is commonly in the form of a roundish pebble, or of octahedral crystals. It consists of carbon, and when heated to 14 degrees Wedgewood, and exposed to a current of air, it is gradually, but completely combustible. When pure and transparent, it is said to be of the first water.

2. A very small printing letter.

3. A figure, otherwise called a rhombus.

DIAMOND, adjective Resembling a diamond as a diamond color; or consisting of diamonds, as a diamond chain.

Diamond-Mine

DIAMOND-MINE, noun A mine in which diamonds are found.

Diamonded

DIAMONDED, adjective Having the figure of an oblique angled parallelogram, or rhombus.

Diander

DIANDER, noun [Gr., twice; a male.] In botany, a plant having two stamens.

Diandrian

DIANDRIAN, adjective Having two stamens.

Diapase

DIAPASON, DIAPASE noun [Gr., through all.]

Diapasm

DIAPASM, noun [Gr., to sprinkle.] A perfume.

Diapason

DIAPASON, DIAPASE, noun [Gr., through all.]

1. In music, the octave or interval which includes all the tones.

2. Among musical instrument-makers, a rule or scale by which they adjust the pipes of organs, the holes of flutes, etc., in due proportion for expressing the several tones and semitones.

DIAPASON-diapente, a compound consonance in a triple ratio, as 3 to 9, consisting of 9 tones and a semitone, or 19 semitones; a twelfth.

DIAPASON-diatessaron, a compound concord, founded on the proportion of 8 to 3, consisting of eight tones and a semitone.

DIAPASON-ditone, a compound concord, whose terms are as 10 to 4, or 5 to 2.

DIAPASON-semiditone, a compound concord, whose terms are in the proportion of 12 to 5.

Diapente

DIAPENTE, noun [Gr., five.]

1. A fifth; an interval making the second of the concords, and with the diatessaron, an octave.

2. In medicine, a composition of five ingredients.

Diaper

DIAPER, noun Figured linen cloth; a cloth wove in flowers or figures; much used for towels or napkins. Hence, a towel or napkin.

DIAPER, verb transitive To variegate or diversify, as cloth, with figures; to flower.

DIAPER, verb intransitive To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.

If you diaper on folds.

Diaphaned

DIAPHANED, adjective Transparent. [Little used.]

Diaphaneity

DIAPHANEITY, noun [Gr., to shine through; to shine.] The power of transmitting light; transparency; pellucidness.

Diaphanic

DIAPHANIC, adjective [Gr. See supra.] Having power to transmit light; transparent.

Diaphanous

DIAPHANOUS, adjective [See supra.] Having power to transmit rays of light, as glass; pellucid; transparent; clear.

Diaphoresis

DIAPHORESIS, noun [Gr., to carry through; to carry.] Augmented perspiration; or an elimination of the humors of the body through the pores of the skin.

Diaphoretic

DIAPHORETIC, adjective [supra.] Having the power to increase perspiration; sudorific; sweating.

DIAPHORETIC, noun A medicine which promotes perspiration; a sudorific. Diaphoretics differ from sudorifics; the former only increase the insensible perspiration; the latter excite the sensible discharge called sweat.

Diaphragm

DIAPHRAGM, noun Diafram. [Gr., to break off, to defend.]

1. In anatomy, the midriff, a muscle separating the chest or thorax from the abdomen or lower belly.

2. A partition or dividing substance.

Diaporesis

DIAPORESIS, noun [Gr., to doubt.] In rhetoric, doubt; hesitation.

Diaresis

DIARESIS, DIARESY, noun [Gr., a division; to take away.] The dissolution of a diphthong; the mark placed over one of two vowels, denoting that they are to be pronounced separately, as distinct letters.

Diaresy

DIARESIS, DIARESY noun [Gr., a division; to take away.] The dissolution of a diphthong; the mark placed over one of two vowels, denoting that they are to be pronounced separately, as distinct letters.

Diarian

DIARIAN, adjective [See Diary.] Pertaining to a diary; daily.

Diarist

DIARIST, noun One who keeps a diary.

Diarrhea

DIARRHEA, noun [Gr., to flow through; to flow.] Purging or flux; a frequent and copious evacuation of excrement by stool.

Diarrhetic

DIARRHETIC, adjective Promoting evacuation by stool; purgative.

Diary

DIARY, noun [Latin , a day.] An account of daily events or transactions; a journal; a register of daily occurrences or observations; as a diary of the weather. A diary fever is a fever of one day.

Diaschism

DIASCHISM, noun [Gr., a piece cut off; to cut off.] In music, the difference between the comma and enharmonic diesis, commonly called the lesser comma.

Diaspore

DIASPORE, noun [Gr., to disperse.] A mineral occurring in lamellar concretions, of a pearly gray color, and infusible. A small fragment, placed in the flame of a candle, almost instantly decrepitates, and is dispersed; whence its name. It is a mineral little known.

Diastaltic

DIASTALTIC, adjective [Gr., dilating.] Dilated; noble; bold; an epithet given by the Greeks to certain intervals in music, as the major third, major sixth and major seventh.

Diastem

DIASTEM, noun [Gr.] In music, a simple interval.

Diastole

DIASTOLE, DIASTOLY, noun [Gr., to set or send from.]

Diastoly

DIASTOLE, DIASTOLY noun [Gr., to set or send from.]

1. Among physicians, a dilation of the heart, auricles and arteries; opposed to systole or contraction.

2. In grammar, the extension of a syllable; or a figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.

Diastyle

DIASTYLE, noun [Gr.] An edifice in which three diameters of the columns are allowed for intercolumniations.

Diatessaron

DIATESSARON, noun [Gr., four.] Among musicians, a concord or harmonic interval, composed of a greater tone, a lesser tone, and one greater semitone. Its proportion is as 4 to 3, and it is called a perfect fourth.

Diatonic

DIATONIC, adjective [Gr., by or through, sound.] Ascending or descending, as in sound, or from sound to sound. This epithet is given to a scale or gammut, to intervals of a certain kind, or to music composed of these intervals; as a diatonic series; a diatonic interval; diatonic melody or harmony. It is applied to ordinary music, containing only the two greater and lesser tones, and the greater semitone.

Diatribe

DIATRIBE, noun [Gr.] A continued discourse or disputation.

Diazeutic

DIAZEUTIC, adjective [Gr., to disjoin.] A diazeutic tone, in ancient Greek music, disjoined two fourths, one on each side of it, and which, being joined to either, made a fifth. This is, in our music, from A to B.

Dibble

DIBBLE, noun [probably from the root of top, tip, a point, and denoting a little sharp point; or allied to dip, to thrust in.] A pointed instrument, used in gardening and agriculture, to make holes for planting seeds, etc.

DIBBLE, verb transitive To plant with a dibble; or to make holes for planting seeds, etc.

DIBBLE, verb intransitive To dibble or dip; a term in angling.

Dibstone

DIBSTONE, noun A little stone which children throw at another stone.

Dicacity

DICACITY, noun [Latin] Pertness. [Little used.]

Dicast

DICAST, noun [Gr., to judge; justice.] In ancient Greece, an officer answering nearly to our juryman.

Dice

DICE, noun plural of die; also, a game with dice

DICE, verb intransitive To play with dice

Dice-Box

DICE-BOX, noun A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.

Dice-Maker

DICE-MAKER, noun A maker of dice.

Dicer

DICER, noun A player at dice.

Dichotomize

DICHOTOMIZE, verb transitive [See the next word.] To cut into two parts; to divide into pairs.

Dichotomous

DICHOTOMOUS, adjective [Gr., doubly, by pairs; to cut.] In botany, regularly dividing by pairs from top to bottom; as a dichotomous stem.

Dichotomous-Corymb

DICHOTOMOUS-CORYMBED, a. Composed of corymbs, in which the pedicles divide and subdivide by pairs.

Dichotomy

DICHOTOMY, noun [Gr., a division into two parts; to cut.]

1. Division or distribution of ideas by pairs. [Little used.]

2. In astronomy, that phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.

Dichroit

DICHROIT, noun [See Iolite.]

Dicing-House

DICING-HOUSE, noun A house where dice is played; a gaming house. [Little used.]

Dicker

DICKER, noun [Gr., ten. Latin ] In old authors, the number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; but applied to other things, as a dicker gloves, etc. [I believe not used in America.]

Dicoccous

DICOCCOUS, adjective [Gr., Latin , a grain.] Two-grained; consisting of two cohering grains or cells, with one seed in each; as a dicoccous capsule.

Dicotyledon

DICOTYLEDON, noun [Gr., two; a cavity.] A plant whose seeds divide into two lobes in germinating.

Dicotyledonous

DICOTYLEDONOUS, adjective Having two lobes. A dicotyledonous plant is one whose seeds have two lobes, and consequently rise with two seminal leaves.

Dictate

DICTATE, verb transitive [Latin , to speak.]

1. To tell with authority; to deliver, as an order, command, or direction; as, what God has dictated, it is our duty to believe.

2. To order or instruct what is to be said or written; as, a general dictates orders to his troops.

3. To suggest; to admonish; to direct by impulse on the mind. We say, the spirit of God dictated the messages of the prophets to Israel. Conscience often dictates to men the rules by which they are to govern their conduct.

DICTATE, noun

1. An order delivered; a command.

2. A rule, maxim or precept, delivered with authority.

I credit what the Grecian dictates say.

3. Suggestion; rule or direction suggested to the mind; as the dictates of reason or conscience.

Dictated

DICTATED, participle passive Delivered with authority; ordered; directed; suggested.

Dictating

DICTATING, participle present tense Uttering or delivering with authority; instructing what to say or write; ordering; suggesting to the mind.

Dictation

DICTATION, noun The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing.

It affords security against the dictation of laws.

Dictator

DICTATOR, noun [Latin]

1. One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims for the direction of others.

2. One invested with absolute authority. In ancient Rome, a magistrate, created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power. He remained in office six months.

Dictatorial

DICTATORIAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to a dictator; absolute; unlimited; uncontrollable.

2. Imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, the officer assumed a dictatorial tone.

Dictatorship

DICTATORSHIP, noun

1. The office of a dictator; the term of a dictators office.

2. Authority; imperiousness; dogmatism.

Dictatory

DICTATORY, adjective Overbearing; dogmatical.

Dictature

DICTATURE, noun

1. The office of a dictator; dictatorship.

2. Absolute authority; the power that dictates.

Diction

DICTION, noun [Latin , to speak.] Expression of ideas by words; style; manner of expression.

Dictionary

DICTIONARY, noun [Latin , a word, or a speaking.] A book containing the words of a language arranged in alphabetical order, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon.

Did

DID, pret of do, contracted from doed. I did thou didst, he did; we did you or ye did they did

Have ye not read what David did when he was hungry? Matthew 12:3.

The proper signification is, made, executed, performed; but it is used also to express the state of health.

And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the womens house, to know how Esther did Esther 2:4.

DID is used as the sign of the past tense of verbs, particularly in interrogative and negative sentences; as, did he command you to go? He did not command me. It is also used to express emphasis; as, I did love him beyond measure.

Didactic

DIDACTIC, DIDACTICAL, adjective [Gr., to teach.] Adapted to teach; preceptive; containing doctrines, precepts, principles or rules; intended to instruct; as a didactic poem or essay.

Didactical

DIDACTIC, DIDACTICAL adjective [Gr., to teach.] Adapted to teach; preceptive; containing doctrines, precepts, principles or rules; intended to instruct; as a didactic poem or essay.

Didactically

DIDACTICALLY, adverb In a didactic manner; in a form to teach.

Didapper

DIDAPPER, noun [from dip.] A bird that dives into the water, a species of Colymbus.

Didascalic

DIDASCALIC, adjective [Gr., to teach.] Didactic; preceptive; giving precepts. [Little used.]

Didder

DIDDER, verb intransitive To totter, as a child in walking.

Diddle

DIDDLE, verb intransitive To totter, as a child in walking.

Didecahedral

DIDECAHEDRAL, adjective [di and decahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of a dodecahedral prism with hexahedral summits.

Didodecahedral

DIDODECAHEDRAL, adjective [di and dodecahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of a dodecahedral prism with hexahedral summits.

Didrachma

DIDRACHMA, noun [Gr.] A piece of money, the fourth of an ounce of silver.

Diduction

DIDUCTION, noun [Latin , to draw.] Separation by withdrawing one part from the other.

Didynam

DIDYNAM, noun [Gr., power.] In botany, a plant of four stamens, disposed in two pairs, one being shorter than the other.

Didynamian

DIDYNAMIAN, adjective Containing four stamens, disposed in pairs, one shorter than the other.

Die

DIE, verb intransitive [See Day.]

1. To be deprived of respiration, of the circulation of blood, and other bodily functions, and rendered incapable of resuscitation, as animals, either by natural decay, by disease, or by violence; to cease to live; to expire; to decease; to perish; and with respect to man, to depart from this world.

All the first born in the land of Egypt shall die Exodus 11:5.

The fish that is in the river shall die Exodus 7:18.

This word is followed by of or by. Men die of disease; of a fever; of sickness; of a fall; of grief. They die by the sword; by famine; by pestilence; by violence; by sickness; by disease. In some cases, custom has established the use of the one, to the exclusion of the other; but in many cases, either by or of may be used at the pleasure of the writer or speaker. The use of for, he died for thirst, is not elegant nor common.

2. To be punished with death; to lose life for a crime, or for the sake of another.

I will relieve my master, if I die for it. Christ died for the ungodly. Romans 5:7.

Christ died for our sins. 1 Corinthians 15:22.

3. To come to an end; to cease; to be lost; to perish or come to nothing; as, let the secret die in your own breast.

4. To sink; to faint.

His heart died withing him, and he became as a stone. 1 Samuel 25:1.

5. To languish with pleasure or tenderness; followed by away.

To sounds of heavenly harps she dies away.

6. To languish with affection.

The young men acknowledged that they died for Rebecca.

7. To recede as sound, and become less distinct; to become less and less; or to vanish from the sight, or disappear gradually. Sound or color dies away.

8. To lose vegetable life; to wither; to perish; as plants or seeds. Plants die for want of water. Some plants die annually.

9. To become vapid or spiritless, as liquors; mostly used in the participle; as the cider or beer is dead.

10. In theology, to perish everlastingly; to suffer divine wrath and punishment in the future world.

11. To become indifferent to, or to cease to be under the power of; as, to die to sin.

12. To endure great danger and distress.

I die daily. 1 Corinthians 15:22.

To die away, to decrease gradually; to cease to blow; as, the wind dies away.

DIE, noun plural dice.

1. A small cube, marked on its faces with numbers from one to six, used in gaming, by being thrown from a box.

He ventured his all on the cast of a die

2. Any cubic body; a flat tablet.

3. Hazard; chance.

Such is the die of war.

DIE, noun plural Dies. A stamp used in coining money, in founderies, etc.

Diecian

DIECIAN, noun [Gr., two; house.] In botany, one of a class of plants, whose male and female flowers are on different plants of the same species.

Dier

DIER. [See Dyer.]

Diesis

DIESIS, noun [Gr., a division.] In music, the division of a tone, less than a semitone; or an interval consisting of a less or imperfect semitone.