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leaders of certain bands of Italian military adventurers who, during the fourteenth century, were ready to serve any party, and often practised warfare on their own account, purely for the sake of plunder; a mercenary soldier; also, a brigand. Hallam.

Conduct (kon'dukt), n. A tax levied by Charles I. for the purpose of paying the travelling expenses of his soldiers. He who takes up armes for cote and conduct and his four nobles of Danegelt.' Milton. Called also Conduct-money. See COAT in Supp. Confab (kon-fab'), v.i. To confabulate; to chat.

Mrs. Thrale and I were dressing, and as usual confabbing. Miss Burney. Confection (kon-fek'shon), n. [add] The art or act of confecting or compounding different substances into one preparation; as, the confection of sweetmeats. Confectionary (kon-fek'shon-a-ri), n. [add] A room in which confections are kept. 'The keys of the stores, of the confectionary, of the wine vaults.' Richardson. Conflagrate (kon-fla'grät), v. t. To burn up; to consume with fire. Conflagrating the poor man himself into ashes and caput mortuum.' Carlyle.

Congredient (kon-gre'di-ent), n. A component part; an element which, along with others, forms a compound. Sterne. Conjury (kon'ju-ri), n. The acts or art of a conjurer; magic; legerdemain. Motley. Consequent, a. [add.]-Consequent points, in magnetism, intermediate poles, caused when either from some peculiarity in the structure of a bar, or from some irregularity in the magnetizing process, a reversal of the direction of magnetization occurs in some part or parts of the length, whereby the magnet will have not only a pole at each end, but also a pole at each point where the reversal occurs. Consequential (kon-se-kwen'shal), n. An inference; a deduction; a conclusion. 'Observations out of the Lord Clarendon's History, and some consequentials.' Roger North. Constate (kon'stat), v. t. [Fr. constater, to verify; L. constare, constatum, to be established or evident -con, together, and stare, to stand.] To verify; to prove; to establish. [Recent and rare.]

Contabescence. [add.] In bot. a peculiar condition of the anthers of certain plants, in which they are shrivelled up or become brown and tough, and contain no good pollen, thus resembling the anthers of the most sterile hybrids. Darwin. Contagium (kon-ta'ji-um), n. [See CONTAGION.] In med. that which carries the infectious element in diseases from one person to another.

Supposing the contagium of every communicable disease to consist of minute organized particles susceptible of undergoing almost unlimited multiplication when introduced into a suitable medium, &c. Academy. Contemplant (kon-tem'plant), a. Given to contemplation; meditative. Contemplant spirits. Coleridge. Conterminant (kon-ter'min-ant), a. Coming to an end at the same time; conterminate. Lamb.

Conticent (kon'ti-sent), a. [L. conticens, conticentis, ppr. of conticeo-con, together, and taceo, to be silent.] Silent; hushed; quiet: said of a number of persons or the like.

The servants have left the room, the guests sit conticent. Thackeray.

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It has a lining consisting in most cases of finely ground hard sandstone mixed with fire-clay powder, and made into a paste with water. Also written Convertor.

Bessemer Converter.

Convive (kon'viv), n. [Fr. convive, L. conviva, a guest, a table companion.] A boon companion. Fraser's Mag.

Convulsible (kon-vuls'i-bl), a. Capable of being convulsed; subject to convulsion. Emerson.

Cookery, n. [add.] A delicacy; a dainty.
Cookeries were provided in order to tempt his
palate.
Roger North.

Cool, a. [add.] Used in speaking of a sum of money, generally a large sum, by way of emphasizing the amount. [Colloq.]

I would pit her for a cool hundred. Smollett A cool four thousand.. I never discovered from whom Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four thousand pounds, but it appeared to make the sum of money more to him, and he had a manifest relish in insisting on its being cool. Dickens Cool, vt. [add]-To cool one's coppers, to allay the thirst or parched sensation caused by excessive drinking of intoxicating liquors. Something to cool his coppers. T. Hughes.

[Slang.]

Copresence (ko-prez'ens), n. The state or condition of being present along with others; associated presence. 'The copresence of other laws. Emerson.

Copular (kop'u-lér), a. In gram. and logic, of or relating to a copula. Co-radicate (ko-rad'i-kat), a. [L. prefix co, and radix, radicis, a root.] In philol. of the same root with. Skeat.

Coral, n. [add.] The unimpregnated eggs in the lobster, so called from being of a bright red colour.

Coreless (körles), a. Wanting a core; without pith; weak; debilitated.

I am gone in years, my Liege, am very old, Coreless and sapless. Sir H. Taylor. Cormophyte (kor'mo-fit), n. [Gr. kormos, a trunk, and phyton, a plant.] In bot. a general term applied to all vascular plants and to the higher cellular plants in which roots and leaves are distinguishable. Called also Phyllophyte. Ency. Brit. Cormus, n. [add] Also, same as Polypidom. Corner, n. [add.] A clique or party formed for the purpose of obtaining possession of the whole or greater part of a particular stock or other species of property, and thus creating a demand for it at high prices. Corner (kor'nér), v.t. [add.] To create a scarcity of, as of a particular stock or the like, after having obtained command of the supply. See above noun.

Conto (kon'to), n. A Portuguese money of account in which large sums are calculated; value 1,000,000 reis, or £222, 48. 5d. sterling. Contumacity (kon-tu-mas'i-ti), n. Same as Contumacy. Carlyle. Contusive (kon-tu'ziv), a. Apt to cause contusion; bruising. Shield from contusive rocks her tender limbs.' Antijacobin. Converter, n. [add.] An iron retort of a somewhat globular shape with a large neck, used in the Bessemer process of steelmaking, molten iron being exposed in it to a blast of air, the oxygen of which burns out the carbon and some other ingredients of the iron; the requisite amount of carbon being then introduced by the addition of molten spiegeleisen or other variety of iron rich in carbon, and the result being a variety of steel. The converter is supported on trunnions, so that it may swing freely.

cornu, a horn, and facio, to make.] The growth or formation of horn. Southey. Coronis (ko-ro'nis), n. [Gr. koronis.] 1. The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end generally. [Rare.] The coronis of this matter is thus: some bad ones in this family were punish'd strictly, all rebuked, not all amended. Bp. Hacket.

2. In Greek gram. a sign of contraction (') placed over a syllable. Corpusculous (kor-pus'ku-lus), a. Same as Corpuscular. Prof. Tyndall. Correlatable (ko-re-lat'a-bl), a. Capable of being correlated; assignable to correlation. Cose (kōz), n. Anything snug, comfortable, or cosey; specifically, a snug conversation. Written also Coze. They might have a comfortable coze.' Miss Austen.

Cose (köz), v.i. To be snug, comfortable, or cosey

The sailors cose round the fire with wife and child. Kingsley

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Coseismal (kō-sis'mal), n. [Prefix co, and Gr. seismos, an earthquake.] The curve formed by the points at which the waveshell of an earthquake reaches the surface; the line along which an earthquake is simultaneously felt. Used also adjectively, as a coseismal line. The coseismal zone of maximum disturbance.' R. Mallet. Cosmic, a. [add.] Of or pertaining to cosmism; as, the cosmic philosophy.

Cosmism (koz'mizm), n. That system of philosophy based on the doctrine of evolution enunciated by Mr. Herbert Spencer and his school; a phase of positivism. Cosmocrat (koz'mo-krat), n. [Gr. kosmos, the universe, and krateo, to rule.] Ruler of the universe or of the world: in the extract applied to the devil.

You will not think, great Cosmocrat ! That I spend my time in fooling; Many irons, my Sire, have we in the fire. And I must leave none of them cooling. Southey. Cosmotheism (koz-mo-the'izm), n (Gr. kosmos, the universe, and Theos, God] Same as Pantheism.

Cotyligerous (kot-i-lij'èr-us), a. Furnished Couchmate (kouch'mat), n. One who lies with cotyles. in the same couch or bed with another; a bed-fellow; a bed-mate; hence, a husband or wife. Browning.

Counterstand (koun'tér-stand), n. The act of resisting or making a stand against; opposition; resistance. Longfellow. Courtierism (kört'i-ér-izm), n. The practices and behaviour of a courtier. The perked-up courtierism and pretentious nullity of many here. Carlyle. Courtledge (kört'lej), n. Same as Curtilage. A rambling courtledge of barns and walls.' Kingsley.

Cousinry (kuz'n-ri), n. Cousins collectively; relatives; kindred.

Of the numerous and now mostly forgettable cour inry we specify farther only the Mashams of Otes in Essex. Cariyle.

Cousinship (kuz'n-ship), n. The state of being cousins; relationship; cousinhood. George Eliot.

Covenanted (kuv'en-ant-ed), a. Holding a position, situation, or the like under a covenant.-Covenanted civil service, that branch of the Indian civil service whose members enter a special department after being sent out from Britain, and are entitled to regular promotion and a pension after serving a specified number of years, and who cannot resign without permission. See UNCOVE

NANTED.

Cover (kuv'èr), v.i. To lay a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet. Shak. 'To cover courtly for a king. Greene. Crabsidle (krab'sid-1), v.i. To go or move side foremost like a crab. Others crabsid ling along. Southey.

Crack (krak), n. A lie; a fib. A damned confounded crack.' Goldsmith. (Old slang.] Crackle (krak'l), n. A small crack; specifically applied to a particular kind of chinaware, or to the mode of ornamenting it. See CRACKLIN.

Cracklin (krak'lin), n. A species of chinaware which is ornamented by a net-work of small cracks in all directions. The ware receives the minute cracks in the kiln with the effect that the glaze or enamel which is afterwards applied appears to be cracked

all over.

Cradle-babe (krå dl-bab), n. An infant lying in a cradle. Mild and gentle as the cradle-babe. Shak.

Cradle-clothes (kra'dl-kloTHz), n. Clothes worn by a child in the cradle; swaddlingclothes.

O that it could be proved That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged In cradle-clothes our children where they lay. Cradle-walk (kra'dl-wak), n. A walk or avenue arched over with trees.

Shak

The garden is just as Sir John Germain brought it from Holland; pyramidal yews, treillages, and square cradle-walks with windows clipped in them. H Walpole Craniotomy (kra-ni-ot'o-mi), n. [Gr. kra nion, the skull, and tome, a cutting] In obstetrics, an operation in which the fetal head is opened when it presents an obstacle to delivery.

Crank, [add] Some strange action caused by a twist of judgment; a caprice; a whim; a crotchet; a vagary. Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks. Carlyle. Crayon, n. [add.] One of the carbon points in an electric lamp.

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Crayon-board (krå'on-bōrd), n. A fine kind of card-board for drawing on with

crayons.

Craze, v.i. [add.] To crack; to split.

This homogeneity (of hard china body, in porce. lain manufacture) prevents any crazing, but the process is one of much hazard. Eng. Ency.

Cream, v.t. and i. [add.] To add cream to, as tea or coffee.

He sugared, and creamed, and drank, and thought, and spoke not. Miss Edgeworth. Creature, n. [add.] Intoxicating drink, especially whisky. [Humorous.]

The confusion of Babel was a parcel of drunkards, who fell out among themselves when they had taken a cup of the creature. Tom Brown.

Creep (krēp), n. The act or process of moving slowly and insensibly. A gathering creep.' J. R. Lowell.-On the creep, moving slowly and insensibly; creeping. Comes a dark day on the creep, and comes the hour unexpected.' David Masson.

Creepie (kre'pi), n. A low stool.

[Provin

cial English and Scotch. ] Called also Creepiestool and Creepie-chair, and in Scotland sometimes denoting the stool of repentance. "When I mount the creepie-chair.' Burns. 'Three-legged creepie-stools.' Mrs. Gaskell. Some of ye might find her a creepie to rest her foot. C. Reade.

Creepy (krē'pi), a. Chilled and crawling, as with fear.

One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. Browning. Crenelet (kren'el-et), n. Same as Crenelle. 'The sloping crenelets of the higher towers. C. Reade.

Crib, n. [add.] 1. A situation; place or office; as, a snug crib. [Slang.]-2. A house, shop, warehouse, or the like. [Thieves' slang.]

-To crack a crib. See under CRACK. Cricket (krik'et), v.i. To engage in the game of cricket.

They boated and they cricketed; they talk'd

At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. Tennyson. Criniparous (kri-nip'a-rus), a. [L. crinis, hair, and pario, to produce.] Hair-producing. A criniparous or hair-producing quality. Antijacobin.

Critickin (kri'tik-kin), n. A small or inferior critic. Critics, critickins, and criticasters (for these are of all degrees).' Southey. Croaky (krok'i), a. Having or uttering a croak or low harsh sound; hoarse. 'His voice was croaky and shrill.' Carlyle. Cross-bones (kros'bōnz), n. pl. A symbol of death, consisting of two human thigh or arm bones, placed crosswise, and often found on old monuments, &c., generally in conjunction with a skull.

Cross-buttock (kros'but-ok), n. A peculiar throw practised by wrestlers; hence, an unexpected fling down or repulse. Many cross-buttocks did I sustain.' Smollett. Cross-hatching (kros-hach'ing), n. A term in engraving applied to lines, whether straight, sloping, or curved, which cross each other regularly to increase or modify depth of shadow.

Cross-reference (kros-ref'èr-ens), n. A reference from one part of a book to another where something incidentally mentioned is treated of, or where there is some account of the same or an allied subject as that which is under notice at the place where the cross-reference is. Crotcheteer (kroch-et-ēr), n. One who fixes the mind too exclusively on one subject; one given to some favourite theory, crotchet, or hobby.

Nobody of the slightest pretensions to influence is safe from the solicitous canvassing and silent pressure of social crotcheteers. Fortnightly Rev.

Crotchetiness (kroch'et-i-nes), n. The state or quality of being crotchety; the character of a crotcheteer. Grote.

Crown-head (kroun'hed), n. In draughts, the row of squares next to each player. See DRAUGHTS.

Cry (kri), v.i.

To be in the act of giving birth to a child: sometimes followed by out. Shak. Crying-out (kri'ing-out), n. The confinement of a woman; labour. Aunt Nell, who, by the way, was at the crying-out.' Richard

son.

Cryptonym (krip'tō-nim), n. [Gr. kryptos, concealed, and onoma, a name.] A private, secret, or hidden name; a name which one bears in some society or brotherhood. J. R. Lowell. Cubiculum (kū bik'ū-lum), n. [L., a bed

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chamber, from cubo, to lie.] A burial chamber in the Catacombs often for a single family, having round its walls the loculi or compartments for the reception of dead bodies. The name was also applied to a chapel attached to a basilica or other church.

Cue-ball (kü'bal), a. Corruption of Skewbald. A gentleman on a cue-ball horse. R. D. Blackmore. [Provincial English.] Culottic (k-lot'ik), a. Having breeches; hence, pertaining to the respectable classes of society: opposed to Sansculottic (which see).

Young Patriotism, Culottic and Sansculottic, rushes forward. Carlyle.

The principles,

Culottism (ku-lot'izm), n. rule, or influence of the more respectable classes of society. Carlyle. See SANSCULOTTISM.

Culturable (kul'tūr-a-bl), n. Capable of becoming cultured or refined.

Cultus (kult'us), n. [L.] 1. Same as Cult. Helps.-2. The moral or æsthetic state or condition of a certain time or place. Cumæan (ku-mē'an), a. Of or pertaining to Cuma, an ancient city on the coast of Campania, and the earliest of all the Greek settlements in Italy; as, the cave of the Cumaan sibyl.

Curable, a. [add.] Capable of curing. A curable vertue against all diseases.' Sandys. Curacy, n. [add.] The state, condition, or office of a guardian; guardianship. By way of curacy and protectorship.' Roger North.

Curricle (ku'ri-kl), v.i. To drive in a curricle or as in a curricle.

Who is this that comes curricling through the level yellow sunlight? Carlyle.

Curtain, n. [add.] An ensign or flag. Shak. Cuscus-grass (kus'kus-gras), n. A peculiar kind of Indian grass (Andropogon muricatus) used for screens and blinds. Called also Khus. See TATTIE. Cushion-star (kush'on-stär), n. See GONI

ASTER.

Cushite (kush'it), a. [From Cush, the son of Ham.] Of or pertaining to a branch of the Hamite family which spread along tracts extending from the higher Nile to the Euphrates and Tigris, or to their language. Used also substantively.

Cut-away (kut'a-wa), n. A coat, the skirts of which are rounded or cut away so that they do not hang down as in a frock-coat. A green cut-away with brass buttons.' T. Hughes. Used also adjectively. 'A brown cut-away coat.' Thackeray. Cutcha (kuch'a), n. In Hindustan, a weak kind of lime used in inferior buildings; hence, used adjectively in the sense of temporary; makeshift; inferior: in contradistinction to pucka, which implies stability or superiority.

Cuteness (kūt'nes), n. The quality of being cute; sharpness; smartness; acuteness. Who could have thought so innocent a face could cover so much cuteness) Goldsmith.

Cydippe (si-dip'pē), n.

A genus of cœlenterate animals belonging to the order Ctenophora, and allied to the genus Beroe. One member of the genus (C. pileus) is a very beautiful object, and is common in the seas round Britain. The body is globular in shape and adorned with eight bands of cilia serving as its means of locomotion and presenting brilliant rainbow hues. From the body are pendent two long filaments, to which are attached numerous shorter threads, and these appendages can be protruded and retracted at will.

Cymbocephalic (sim'bō-se-fal”ik), a. [Gr. kymbos, a cup or bowl, and kephale, the skull] Shaped like a bowl or cup; round: said of the skull.

Cypher-tunnel† (si'fêr-tun-nel), n. A mock chimney; a chimney built merely for outward show. The device of cypher-tunnels or mock chimneys merely for uniformity of building. Fuller.

Cytode (si'tōd), n. In physiol. a name given by Haeckel to a kind of non-nucleated cell containing protoplasm to distinguish it from the cell proper which has a nucleus. Nineteenth Century.

Czech (chech), n. The name applied to a member of the most westerly branch of the great Slavonic family of races. They have their headquarters in Bohemia, where they arrived in the second half of the sixth century. Their language (also called Czech) is closely allied to the Polish. Written also Csech, Tsech.

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Dabber (dab ́êr), n. One who or that which dabs; specifically, (a) in printing, a ball formed of an elastic material and fitted with a handle, formerly used for inking a form of type. (b) In engr, a silk-covered elastic ball used for spreading etching ground upon steel or copper plates. (c) In stereotyping. a hard hair brush used in the papier-maché process for dabbing the back of the damp paper, and so driving it into the interstices of the type.

Dacian (da'shi-an), a. Pertaining or belonging to the Daci, an ancient barbarous people, whose territory extended over parts of the modern Hungary, Roumania, Transylvania, and neighbouring regions. Dæmonic (de-mon'ik), a. (Gr. daimon, a divinity.] Pertaining to or proceeding from a supernatural being or from supernatural enthusiasm.

He may even show sudden impulses which have a false air of dæmonic strength, because they seemed inexplicable. George Eliot. Daintify (dan'ti-fi), v.t. [E. dainty, and L. facio, to make.] To make dainty; to weaken by over refinement.

My father charges me to give you his kindest love, and not to daintify his affection into respects or com pliments. Miss Burney. Daïra (da'ir-a), n. The private estates of the Khedive of Egypt.

Danglement (dang'gl-ment), n. The act of dangling. 'The very suspension and danglement of any puddings whatsoever right over his ingle-nook.' Ld. Lytton. Danite (dan'it), n. [From Dan. See Gen. xlix. 16.] A member of a secret society among the Mormons, who, it is believed, took an oath to support the authority and execute the commands of the leaders of the sect at all hazards. Many massacres and robberies committed during the early history of Utah are ascribed to the Danites. Dantesque (dan-tesk'), a. Pertaining or relating to Dante Alighieri, the Italian poet; resembling or characteristic of Dante's manner or style; more especially, characterized by sublimity and gloominess, like his pictures of the Inferno. Dantzic-beer (dant'sik-běr). See BLACKBEER.

Darapti (da-rap'ti), n. In logic, a mnemonic word, designating a syllogism of the third figure, comprising a universal affirmative major premiss, a particular affirmative minor premiss, and a particular affirmative conclusion.

Dardan, Dardanian (där'dan, där-da'ni-an), a. Of or pertaining to the Dardani or Trojans, a people mentioned in the Iliad, to Dardania, their territory, or to Dardanus, the founder of the race, and ancestor of Priam of Troy; Trojan. Also used substantively. Darii (da'ri-i), n. In logic, a mnemonic word to express a syllogism of the first figure, comprising a universal affirmative major premiss, a particular affirmative minor premiss, and a particular affirmative conclusion.

Daring-glass (daring-glas), n. A mirror used for daring larks. Bp. Gauden. Dartle (dartl), v.t. A frequentative form of dart. My star that dartles the red and the blue. Browning.

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Darweesh (dar'wesh), n. Same as Dervis. Dash-and-dọt (dash'and - dot), a. sisting of dashes and dots; as, the dashand-dot alphabet. See MORSE. Cowardice; Dastardice (das' térd - is), n. dastardliness. Upbraided with ingratitude, dastardice.' Richardson. Datisi (da-ti'si), n. In logic, a mnemonic word expressing a syllogism of the third figure, comprising a universal affirmative major premiss, a particular affirmative minor premiss, and a particular affirmative conclusion.

Davenport (dā'vn-pōrt), n. Same as Devonport.

Day, n. [add] Credit: a distant day being fixed for payment.

Faith, then, I'll pray you, 'cause he is my neighbour, To take a hundred pound, and give him day. B. Jonson, Dayshine (da'shin), n. Daylight.

Wherefore waits the madman there Naked in open dayshine!

Tennyson.

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Deacon (de'kon), v.t. To read out, as a line of a psalm or hymn, before singing it. See LINE, v. t.

Dead-file (ded'fil), n. A file whose cuts are so close and fine that its operations are practically noiseless.

Dead-point (ded'point), n. Same as Dead

centre.

Dearticulation (de-är-tik'u-la" shon), n. Same as Abarticulation.

Deathiness (deth'i-nes), n. The quality of producing death; an atmosphere of death. [Rare.]

Look! it burns clear; but with the air around

Its dead ingredients mingle deathiness. Southey. Deathy (deth'i), a. Pertaining to or characteristic of death. [Rare.]

Southey.

The cheeks were deathy dark. Decalcomania (dé-kal'kō-ma"ni-a), n. [Fr. decalcomanie, from decalquer, to countertrace, and Gr. mania, madness.] The art or process of transferring pictures to marble. porcelain, glass, wood, and the like. It consists usually in simply gumming a coloured lithograph or woodcut to the object and then removing the paper by aid of warm water, the coloured parts remaining fixed. Decarburize, Decarburization (de-kär'bū-riz, de-karbü-riz-á"shon). Same as Decarbonize, Decarbonization."

Decemberly (de-sem'ber-li), a. Resembling December; hence, chilly, gloomy, and cheerless. The many bleak and decemberly nights of a seven years' widowhood.' Sterne. Decentish (de'sent-ish), a.

Somewhat decent; of a fairly good kind or quality; passable. [Colloq.]

You'll take our potluck, and we've decentish wine. R. H. Barham.

Deck-hand (dek'hand), n. A person engaged on board a ship, but whose duties are confined to the deck, he being unfit for the work of a seaman properly so called. Deconcentrate (de-kon-sen 'trat), v.i. [Prefix de, priv., and concentrate.] To spread or scatter from a point or centre; to break up or dismiss from concentration, as bodies of troops. Times newspaper. Decuman, Decumane (dek'u-man, dek'ümán), a. [L. decumanus, decimanus, of or pertaining to the tenth, from decem, ten.] Tenth; hence, from the ancient notion that every tenth wave was the largest in a series, large; immense. 'Overwhelmed and quite sunk by such decumane billowes.' Bp. Gauden. Sometimes substantively used for the tenth or largest wave. The baffled decuman. J. R. Lowell.

Deedily (ded'i-li), adv. In a deedy manner; actively busily: industriously. 'Frank Churchill at a table near her most deedily occupied about her spectacles.' Miss Austen. [Rare.]

Defiantness (de-fi'ant-nes), n. The state or quality of being deflant; defiance.

He answered, not raising his voice, but speaking with quiet defiantness. George Eliot.

Delirifacient (de-lir'i-fa"shi-ent), a. deliro, to rave, and facio, faciens, to make.] Tending to produce delirium. Delirifacient (de-lir'i-fa"shi-ent), n. med. a substance which tends to produce delirium.

In

Deliverance, n. [add.] Decision; judgment authoritatively pronounced; as, to give a deliverance in a controversy. Demark (de-märk'), v. t. Same as Demarcate. Demicircle (de-mi-sér'kl), n. An instrument for measuring or indicating angles, sometimes used as a substitute for the theodolite. It consists essentially of a graduated scale of half a circle and a movable rule pivoted on the centre so as to sweep the graduated arc. E. H. Knight. Demography (de-mog'ra-fi), n. [Gr. demos, people, and graphe, a writing.] That branch of anthropology which treats of the

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statistics of health and disease, of the physical, intellectual, physiological, and economical aspects of births, marriages, and mortality.

Demurral (dé-mér al), n. Hesitation in proceeding or decision; demur. Southey. Denunciant (de-nun'si-ant), a. Ready or prone to denounce; denunciative.

Of all which things a poor Legislative Assembly and Patriot France is informed by denunciant Friend, by triumphant Foe. Carlyle. Dephosphorization (de-fos'for-iz-a"shon), n. The act or process of depriving of or freeing from phosphorus. Depressant (de-pres'ant), n. In med. a remedial agent which represses the circulation of the blood and the contractility of the heart.

Depressiveness (de-pres'iv-nes), n. The state or quality of being depressive; depression. Ill health and its concomitant depressiveness. Carlyle. Deputable (dep'u-ta-bl), a.

Capable of

being or fit to be deputed. A man deputable to the London Parliament.' Carlyle. Derivate (der'iv-at), a. Derived. 'Putting trust in Him from whom the rights of kings are derivate.' Sir H. Taylor. Dermalgia (dér-mal'ji-a), n. [Gr. derma, skin, and algos, pain] A painful condition of the skin arising from nervous disease; neuralgia of the skin.

Dermopathic (der-mo-path'ik), a. Relating to surgical treatment of the skin.-Dermopathic instrument. Same as Acupuncturator. Derringer (der'in-jér), n. [After the inventor, an American gunsmith.] A short-barrelled pistol of large calibre, very effective at a short range. A recent form of the weapon is made with a single barrel, breach-loading action, weighing in all about 8 ounces, and Desmognatha (des-mog'na-thē), n. pl. [Gr. carrying a -ounce ball. desmos, a band, and gnathos, a jaw.] In Huxley's classification of birds, in which the main characters are drawn from the osseous structure, a sub-order of Carinatæ, having the vomer abortive or small; the maxillo-palatines united across the middle line, either directly or by means of ossifications in the nasal septum. It includes a great number of grallatorial and natatorial birds, the accipitrine or raptorial, the scansorial, most of the fissirostral groups, and all the Syndactyli.

Despatch-box (des-pach'boks), n.

A box

or case for carrying despatches; a box for containing despatches or other papers and other conveniences while travelling. Despotist (des'pot-ist), n. One who supports or who is in favour of despotism.

I must become as thorough a despotist and imperialist as Strafford himself. Kingsley

Despotocracy (des-po-tok'ra-si), n. [Gr. despotes, a master, and kratos, strength, power.] Despotic rule or government; despotism.

Despotocracy, the worst institution of the middle ages, the leprosy of society, came over the water; the slave survived the priest, the noble the king. Theodore Parker.

Dessert-spoon (de-zért'spön), n. A spoon intermediate in size between a table-spoon and a tea-spoon, and used in eating dessert. Detergence, Detergency (de-térjens, deter'jen-si), n. The state or quality of being detergent; cleansing or purging power.

Bath water possesses that milkiness, deter gency, and middling heat, so friendly adapted to weakened animal constitutions. Defoe.

Determinist (de-tér'min-ist), n. One who supports or favours determinism. Detestability (de-test'a-bil"i-ti), n. The state or quality of being detestable; detestableness. Carlyle.

Detrain (de-tran'), v.t. [Prefix de, priv., and train.] To remove from a railway train; to cause to leave a train: said especially of bodies of men; as, to detrain troops. [Of recent introduction.]

Detrain (dē-tran'), v. i. To quit a railway train; as, the volunteers detrained quickly and fell into line.

Deuterogenic (du'tér-o-jen"ik), a. [Gr. deuteros, second, and genos, birth, race.] Of secondary origin; specifically, in geol. a termi applied to those rocks which have been derived from the protogenic rocks by mechanical action. Deutoplastic (du-to-plas'tik), a. Pertaining to or composed of deutoplasm. Devastator (de-vas-ta'tér), n. One who or that which devastates or lays waste. Emer

son.

DIDUNCULUS

Diactinic (di-ak-tin'ik),a. (Gr. dia, through, and aktis, aktinos, a ray.] Capable of transmitting the actinic or chemical rays of the

sun.

Diaglyph (di'a-glif), n. A sculptured or engraved production in which the figures are sunk below the general surface; an intaglio.

Diagram (di'a-gram), v.t. To draw or put into the form of a diagram; to make a diagram of.

They are matters which refuse to be theoremed and diagramed, which Logic ought to know she cannot speak of. Carlyle Diaheliotropic (di-a-heli-o-tropik), n (Gr. dia, through, helios, the sun, and trope, a turning.] In bot. turning transversely to the light, as the stem or other organs of a plant; pertaining to diaheliotropism. Darwin. Diaheliotropism (di-a-he'li-ot"rop-izm), n. In bot. the disposition or tendency of a plant or of the organs of a plant to assume a more or less transverse position to the light. Darwin.

Diallelous (di-allel-us), a. [Gr. dia, through, allelon, one another.] In logic, a term ap plied to the fallacy of reasoning or defining in a circle, that is, the proving of one position by assuming one identical with it, or defining two things each by the other. Diamantiferous (di'a-man-tif"èr-us), a. [Fr. diamant, a diamond, and L. fero, to bear or produce.] Yielding or bearing diamonds; diamond producing. [The Academy is quoting from a correspondent of the North China Herald.]

Men with thick straw shoes go on walking about in the diamantiferous sands of the valley. Academy. Diamesogamous (di'a-me-sog" a-mus), a. [Gr. dia, through, mesos, middle, and games, marriage.] In bot. a term applied to those lower orders of plants which require an intermediate agent to produce fertilization. Diamonded, p. and a. [add] Furnished or adorned with diamonds. Emerson Diamondiferous (di'a-mon-dif"èr-us), a. Same as Diamantiferous.

One of the latest creations of pretentious sciolism which I have noticed is diamondifereus, a term applied to certain tracts of country in South Africa Adamantiferous, etymologically correct, would never answer; but all except pedants or affectationists would be satisfied with diamond-producing.

Fitzedward Hall.

Diaphanie (di-af'an-i). [Fr., from Gr. dia, through, and phaino, to show.] The art or process of fixing transparent pictures on glass, by means of gum or the like, for the purpose of giving it the appearance of Diapnoic (di-ap-no'ik), a. (Gr. dia, through, stained glass. and pneo, to blow or breathe.] In med producing a very slight, insensible perspiration; gently diaphoretic.

Diapnoic (di-ap-no'ik), n. A remedial agent which produces a very slight, insensible perspiration; a mild diaphoretic.

Diapyetic (di'a-pi-et'ik),a. (Gr.dia, through, and pyon, pus, matter.] Producing suppuration; suppurative.

Diapyetic (di'a-pi-et"ik), n. A medicine Didunculus (di-dung'ku-lus), n. (Dim of which produces suppuration; a suppurative. Didus, the generic name for the dodo.] A genus of rasorial birds of the pigeon section (Columbacei), and comprising only the one species, D. strigirostris of the Navigator

DIE-AWAY

mandible, the lower mandible being cleft into three distinct teeth near its tip. Called also Gnathodon and Tooth-billed Pigeon. Die-away (di'a-wa), a. Seeming as if about to die or expire; languishing; drooping. 'A soft, sweet, die-away voice.' Miss Edgeworth. "Those die-away Italian airs.' Kingsley.

Dietarian (dī-e-tā'ri-an), n. One who adheres to a certain or prescribed diet; one who considers the regulation of the course of food as of the extremest importance for the preservation of health; a dietetist. Digit, n. [add] This word is often used scientifically to signify toe, as well as finger, when speaking of animals, and in this sense it is coextensive with the Latin digitus. Digital (di'ji-tal), n. 1. A finger; a digit. Beauish brigands who wear. rings upon unwashed digitals. Ld. Lytton. [Rare.]-2. One of the keys of instruments of the organ or piano class. Diker (dik'er), n. 1. One who digs a dike or trench.-2. One who builds a dike, wall, or stone fence.

paste

Dilemmatic (di-lem-matʼik), a. In logic, same as Hypothetico-disjunctive (which see in Supp.)

Dimaris (dim'a-ris), n. In logic, a mnemonic word denoting a syllogism of the fourth figure, comprising a particular affirmative major premiss, a universal affirmative minor premiss, and a particular affirmative conclusion.

Dimpsy (dimp'si), n. A preserve made with apples and pears cut into small pieces. Ding (ding), v. t. To keep constantly repeating; to impress on one by persistent reiteration with reference to the monotonous jingle of a bell.

If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself; not keep dinging it, dinging it into one so. Goldsmith. Diphtheritis (dif-thér-i'tis), n. [Gr. diph thera, a skin.] A name given to a class of diseases which are characterized by a tendency to the formation of false membranes, and affect the dermoid tissue, as the mucous membranes and even the skin. Dunglison. Diphthongization (dif' thong-iz-a"shon or dip'thong-iz-a"shon), n. Same as Diphthongation. Sweet.

Diphthongize (dif'thong-iz or dip'thong-iz), v.t. To form, as a vowel, into a diphthong; thus the u of many Old English or AngloSaxon words has been diphthongized into ow in modern English, as in the word now. Diplomatize (di-plo'ma-tiz), v.t. To confer a diploma upon. Thackeray. Diptych, n. [add.] A design or representation, as a painting or carved work, on two folding compartments or tablets, similar in style to the triptych (which see). Direct-action (di-rekt'ak-shon), a. A term applied to a steam-engine in which the piston-rod or cross-head is connected directly by a rod with the crank, dispensing with walking-beams and side-levers. Directive, a. [add.] Capable of being 'Swords directed, managed, or handled.

and bows directive by the limbs.' Shak. Dirgeful (dérj'ful), a. Lamenting; wailing: moaning. 'Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge.

Dis (dis), n. A name sometimes given to the
god Pluto, the god of the lower world.
O Proserpina,

For the flowers now that frighted thou let'st fall
From Dis's wagon!
Shak.

Dis (dis), n. Festuca patula, a kind of grass which grows in Tripoli and Tunis, and is largely imported for paper-making. Disamis (dis'a-mis), n.

In logic, a mnemonic word denoting a syllogism of the third figure, comprising a particular affirmative major premiss, a universal affirmative minor premiss, and a particular affirmative conclusion.

Disattune (dis-at-tūn'), v.t. To put out of tune or harmony. Ld. Lytton. Discage (dis-kāj'), v. t. To take or put out of

a cage.

The

Until she let me fly discaged to sweep In ever-highering eagle-circles up. Tennyson. Discernable (diz-zérn'a-bl), a. Same as Discernible. Jer. Taylor. Discommunity (dis-com-mū'ni-ti), n. state of not having possessions, relationships, characteristics, or properties in common; want of common properties, qualities, or characteristics.

Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of deDarwin.

scent.

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Discorporate, a. [add.] Divested of the body; disembodied.

Instead of the seven corporate selfish spirits, we have the four and twenty millions of discorporate selfish. Carlyle. Disenshroud (dis-en-shroud), v.t. To take from or divest of a shroud or like covering; to unveil. The disenshrouded statue.' Browning.

Disentail (dis-en-tal'), v.t. To free from being entailed; to break the entail of; as, to disentail an estate.

Disentail (dis-en-tál′), n. The act or operation of disentailing or breaking the entail of an estate.

Disfame (dis-fâm'), n. Evil fame; bad reputation; infamy.

And what is fame in life but half disfame,
And counterchanged with darkness? Tennyson.

Dishallow (dis-hal'lō), v. t. To make unholy; to desecrate; to profane.

Tennyson.

Ye that so dishallow the holy sleep. Your sleep is death. Dishero (dis-he'rō), v. t. To deprive of the character of a hero; to degrade from the reputation of a hero; to make unheroic or commonplace. Carlyle.

Disillusion (dis-il-lü'zhon), n. The act or process of disillusionizing or disenchanting; the state of being disillusionized or disenchanted; disenchantment. The sorrow of disillusion.' J. R. Lowell.

Disimprison (dis-im-pri'zon), v. t. To discharge from prison; to set at liberty; to free from confinement.

French Revolution means here the open, violent rebellion and victory of disimprisoned anarchy Carlyle. against corrupt, worn-out authority. Disindividualize (dis-in'di-vid”ū-al-īz), v.t. To destroy or change the individuality or peculiar character of; to deprive of special characteristics. 'Amanner not indeed wholly disindividualized; a tone, a glance, a gesture. . . still recalled little Polly.' Charlotte Bronte.

One

Disintegrator (dis-in'te-grat-ér), n. who or that which disintegrates; specifically, a machine for pulverizing, crushing, or breaking up various sorts of materials. A common form used for breaking up ores, rock, artificial manures, oil-cake, and for mixing mortar, &c., as well as for grinding corn, is a mill consisting essentially of a number of beaters projecting from the faces of two parallel discs revolving in opposite directions at a high speed.

Disinvigorate (dis-in-vi'gor-at), v.t. To deprive of vigour; to weaken; to relax. This soft, and warm, and disinvigorating climate.' Sydney Smith.

Dismal (diz'mal), n. 1. A gloomy, melancholy person. Swift.-2. pl. Mourning garments.

As my lady is decked out in her dismals, perhaps she may take a fancy to faint. Foote.

3. pl. A fit of melancholy.

He comes, and seems entirely wrapt up in the dismals: what can be the matter now? Foote. Disman, v. t. [add.] To deprive of men; to destroy the full-grown male population of.

No nation in the world is so abounding in the men who will dare something for honour or liberty as to be able to bear to lose in one month between twenty and thirty thousand men, seized from out of her most stirring and courageous citizens. It could not be but that what remained of France when she had been thus stricken should for years seem to languish and be of a poor spirit. This is why I have chosen to say that France was dismanned.

Kinglake.

Dismember, v.t. [add.] To deprive of the qualifications, privileges, functions, or office of a member of a society or body; to put an end to the membership of.

In

Since I have dismembered myself, it is incredible how cool I am to all politics. Walpole. Displenish-sale (dis - plen'ish-sāl), n. Scotland, a sale by auction of the stock, implements, &c., of a farm. Dispope (dis-pop), v. t. To deprive of the papal dignity or office. Tennyson. Disprince (dis-prins'), v. t. To deprive of the dignity, office, or appearance of a prince. All in one rag, disprinced from head to heel.' Tennyson. Disrespectability (dis-re-spekt'a-bil"i-ti),

n.

The state or quality of being disrespectable that which is disreputable; blackguardism.

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worthy of respect; not respectable; also, unworthy of much consideration or esteem.

It requires a man to be some disrespectable, ridicu lous Boswell before he can write a tolerable life. Carlyle.

Disseverment (dis-sev'èr-ment), n. The act of dissevering; disseverance. "The disseverment of bone and vein.' Charlotte Bronte.

Dissimilation (dis-si'mi-la"shon), n. The act or process of rendering dissimilar or different; specifically, in philol. the change of a sound to another and a different sound when otherwise two similar sounds would come together or very close to each other, as in L. alienus for aliinus, It. pelegrino, from L. peregrinus. Dissimulator (dis-si'mu-lā"tér), n. who dissimulates or dissembles; a dissembler.

One

Dissimulator as I was to others, I was like a guilty child before the woman I loved. Ld. Lytton. Dissociation, n. [add.] In chem. the decomposition of a compound substance into its primary elements by heat or by mechanical pressure.

Wherever heat-rays are intercepted they are transformed into some other form of vibratory energy, and the dissociation of compound vapours into their prim ary elements is one of the results of this change of form. Edin. Rev.

Dissociative (dis-so'shi-at-iv), a. Tending to dissociate; specifically, in chem, resolving or reducing a compound to its primary ele

Distanceless (dis'tans-les), a. Preventing from having a distant or extensive view; dull; gloomy. A silent, dim, distanceless, rotting day. Kingsley.

Distastet (dis-tast'), v.i. To be distasteful, nauseous, or displeasing. 'Poisons, which at the first are scarce found to distaste."' Shak

Distillation. [add.]- Fractional distillation, in chem. the separating of one volatile substance from another by keeping the mixture at that temperature at which the most volatile will pass over into the condenser.

Disturnpike (dis-térn'pik), v.t.

To free from turnpikes; to remove turnpikes or toll-bars from so as to give free traffic or passage on; as, disturnpiked roads. Disutilize (dis-u'til-iz), v.t. To turn from a useful purpose; to render useless. Annulled the gift, disutilized the grace.' Browning. Ditty-bag (dit'ti-bag), n. A small bag used by sailors for holding needles, thread, and other small necessaries or odds and ends. Divisiveness (di-viz'iv-nes), n. The state or quality of being divisive; tending to split up or separate into units.

So invincible is man's tendency to unite, with all the invincible divisiveness he has. Carlyle. Do-all (do'al), n. A servant, official, or dependant who does all sorts of work; a factotum. Fuller.

Doating-piece † (dōt'ing-pēs), n. A person or thing doatingly loved; a darling. Richardson.

Dobbie (dob'i), n. A kind of spirit or hobgoblin akin to the Scotch Brownie. Sir W. Scott. [Northern English.] Dochter (doch'ter), n. Daughter. [Scotch.] Dodders (dod'érz), n. Same as Malis. Doddy-pole, Doddy-poll (dod'di-põl), n. A stupid, silly fellow; a numskull. Doddypoles and dunderheads.' Sterne. Dog-looked (dogʻlökt), a.

dog look.

Having a hangA wretched kind of a dog-looked fellow.' Sir R. L'Estrange. Dog-man (dogʻman), n. One who deals in dogs' meat.

And filch the dog-man's meat To feed the offspring of God. Mrs. Browning. A lump; a mass. R. Dollop (dol'lop), n. D. Blackmore. [Colloq.] Dolly, n. [add] A primitive form of apparatus for clothes-washing, consisting of a wooden disc furnished with from three to five rounded legs with rounded ends, and a handle with a cross-piece rising from the centre. The dolly is jerked rapidly round in different directions in a tub or box containing water and the clothes to be washed.

Dolly (dolli), n. [Dim. of doll.] A sweetheart; a mistress; a paramour; a doxy. [Old slang.]

Drink, and dance, and pipe, and play.
Kisse our dollies night and day.

Herrick.

DOLPHIN-STRIKER

Dolphin-striker (dol'fin - strik - ér), n.
Naut. same as Martingale, 2.
Domesticate (do-mes'tik-at), v.i. To live
at home; to lead a quiet home-life; to be-
come a member of a family circle.

I would rather
see her married to some
honest and tender-hearted man, whose love might
induce him to domesticate with her, and to live
peaceably and pleasingly within his family circle, than
to see her mated with a prince of the blood.
Henry Brooke.
Domesticize (dō-mes'ti-siz), v.t. To render
domestic; to domesticate. Southey.
Dominie, n. [add.] In the sense of school-
master this word is also met with in old
English authors. The dainty dominie, the
schoolmaster.' Beau. & Fl.
Done, pp. [add.] Completely exhausted;
extremely fatigued; tired out; done up: in
this sense sometimes followed by for.

Not so the Holland fleet, who, tired and done, Stretched on their decks like weary oxen lie. Dryden. She is rather done for this morning, and must not go so far without help. "Miss Austen.

Donnish (don'ish), a. Pertaining to or characteristic of a don of a university. 'Donnish books.' George Eliot. Do-nothing (do'nu- thing), a. Doing no work; idle; indolent. Any do-nothing canon there at the abbey.' Kingsley. Do-nothingness (do-nu'thing - nes), n. Idleness; indolence. A situation of similar affluence and do-nothingness.' Miss Austen. Doon (dön), n. A Cingalese name for Doona zeylanica, nat. order Dipterocarpaceæ, a large tree inhabiting Ceylon. The timber is much used for building. It also yields a resin which is made into varnish. Doré-bullion (dō'rá-bul-yon), n. [Fr. doré, gilt, dorer, to gild or plate, from L. deaurure, to gild-de, from, and aurum, gold.] Bullion containing a certain quantity of gold alloyed with base metal.

Dorian, a. [add.]- Dorian mode, strictly speaking, music in the Dorian mode is written on a scale having its semitones between the second and third and the sixth and seventh notes of the scale instead of between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth as in what is now called the natural or normal scale. In other words, the second note of the normal scale acquires something of the dignity, force, or position of a tonic, and upon it the melodies of the Dorian mode close.

Dottle (dot'l), n. [A dim. corresponding to dot, the meaning connecting it more closely with D. dot, a small bundle of wool, &c.; Sw. dott, a little heap.] A small rounded lump or mass; especially, the tobacco remaining in the bottom of a pipe after smoking, and which is often put on the top of fresh tobacco when refilling. [Scotch.]

A snuffer-tray containing scraps of half-smoked tobacco, 'pipe dottles, as he called them, which were carefully resmoked over and over again till nothing but ash was left. Kingsley.

Double-cone (dub'l-kōn), n. In arch. a Norman ornament consisting of two cones joined base to base (or apex to apex), a series of these forming the enrichment of a moulding.

Double-shot (dub'l-shot), v. t. To load, as a cannon, with double the usual weight of shot for the purpose of increasing the destructive power. This practice is not adopted with the heavier and more perfect guns of the pre

sent day.

Doulocracy (dou-lok'ra-si), n. Same as Dulocracy.

Dove-plant (duv'plant), n. An orchidaceous plant (Peristeria elata) of Central America, so called from the resemblance of the column of the flower to a dove hovering with expanded wings, somewhat like the conventional dove seen in artistic representations of the Holy Ghost. The plant has large, striated, green, pseudo-bulbs, bearing three to five lanceolate, strongly-ribbed, and plicate leaves. The upper part of the flowerstem is occupied by a spike of almost globose, very sweet-scented flowers of a creamy-white, dotted with lilac on the base of the lip. Down, adv. [add.] Paid or handed over in ready money; as, he purchased the estate for £10,000 down and £20,000 payable within three years.

Downbeard (doun'berd), n. The downy or winged seed of the thistle.

It is frightful to think how every idle volume flies abroad like an idle globular downbeard, embryo of new millions. Carlyle.

Downcome (doun'kum), n.

A tumbling or

A different sin downweighs them to the bottom.
Long fellow.
Full weight;
Attributing due and downweight to every
man's gifts." Bp. Hacket.
Dozen, n. [add.] Long dozen; devil's
dozen. Same as Baker's Dozen. See under
BAKER.
Same as

Downweight (doun'wat), n.

Draconian (drå - kō'ni - an), a.
Draconic.
Dragsman, n. [add.] The driver of a drag.
He had a word for the hostler... and a bow for
the dragsman.
Thackeray.

Dramaturgic (dra-ma-tér'jik), a. Pertain
ing to dramaturgy; histrionic; theatrical;
hence, unreal. Some form (of worship), it
is to be hoped, not grown dramaturgic to
us, but still awfully symbolic for us.' Car-
lyle.
Dramaturgist (dra-ma-ter'jist), n. One
who is skilled in dramaturgy; one who
composes a drama and superintends its
representation.

How silent now; all departed, all clean gone! The World-Dramaturgist has written, 'Exeunt. Carlyle. Draw, n. [add.] 1. Among sportsmen, the act of forcing a fox from his cover, a badger from his hole, &c.; the place where a fox is drawn.-2. Something designed to draw a person out to make him reveal his intentions or what he desires to conceal or keep back, or the like; a feeler. [Slang.]

This was what in modern days is called a draw. It was a guess put boldly forth as fact to elicit by the young man's answer whether he had been there lately or not. C. Reade.

Drawing, n. [add.] A picture or representation made with a pencil, pen, crayon, &c. Drawings are classifiable under the names of pencil, pen, chalk, sepia, or water-colour drawings from the materials used for their execution, and also into geometrical or linear and mechanical drawings, in which instruments, such as compasses, rulers, scales, are used, and free-hand drawings, in which no instrument is used to guide the hand.

Dress-circle (dres'sêr-kl), n. A portion of a theatre, concert-room, or other place of entertainment set apart for spectators or an audience in evening dress. Drift, n. [add.] In South Africa, a ford; as, Rorke's Drift.

Drive, n. [add] 1. A strong or sweeping blow or impulsion. --2. A matrix formed by a steel punch or die.

Dromeognatha (dro-me-og na-the), n. pl. [Gr. dromaios, swift, and gnathos, jaw.] In Prof. Huxley's classification of birds, a suborder of the Carinata (or birds having the sternum with a keel), including but one family, the Tinamidæ or tinamous. (See TINAMOU.) In this sub-order the bones of the upper jaw or skull are like what they are in the struthious or swift-footed birds, as the ostrich. Droop (drop), n. The act of drooping or of falling or hanging down; a drooping position or state; as, the droop of the eye, of a veil, or the like. Drop-light (drop'līt), n. A contrivance for bringing down an artificial light into such a position as may be most convenient for reading, working, &c., as, for example, a stand for a gas-burner to be placed on a table, and connected by an elastic tube with the gas-pipe. E. H. Knight. Drop-ripe (drop'rip), a. So ripe as to be ready to drop from the tree. The fruit was now drop-ripe we may say, and fell by a shake. Carlyle. Drum-head, n. [add.] A variety of cabbage having a large, rounded, or flattened head.

The room where a drum or crowded evening party was held. Fielding. See DRUM, 8. Duchn, Dukhn (dụchn), n. A kind of millet (Pennisetum typhoideum or Holcus spi catus), many varieties of which are cultivated in Egypt, and to some extent in Spain, as a grain plant. It is also used in the preparation of a kind of beer.

Duelsome (dü'el-sum), a. Inclined or given to duelling; eager or ready to fight duels. [Rare.]

Incorrigibly duelsome on his own account, he is for others the most acute and peaceable counsellor in the world. Thackeray. Duettino (du-et-te'no), n. [It] In music, a short duet or composition for two voices or instruments.

Dully (dul'i), a. Somewhat dull.

Far off she seemed to hear the dully sound Of human footsteps fall. Tennyson. Durmast (der'mast), n.

A species of oak (Quercus sessiliflora, or according to some Q. pubescens) so closely allied to the common oak (Q. Robur) as to be reckoned by some botanists only a variety of it. Its wood is, however, darker, heavier, and more elastic, less easy to split, not so easy to break, yet the least difficult to bend. It is highly valued, therefore, by the builder and the cabinet-maker.

Dust-ball (dust'bal), n. A disease in horses in which a ball sometimes as hard as iron is formed in the intestinal canal owing to overfeeding with corn and barley dust. Its presence is indicated by a haggard countenance, a distressed eye, a distended belly, and hurried respiration. Dwindlement (dwin'dl-ment), n. The act or state of dwindling, shrinking, or diminishing. Mrs. Oliphant. Dyad (di'ad), a. Same as Dyadic. Dyas (di'as), n. [Gr., the number two, something composed of two parts.] In geol a term sometimes applied to the Permian system from its being divided into two principal groups.

Dyingness (di'ing-nes), n. A languishing look; a die-away appearance.

Tenderness becomes me best, a sort of dyingness.
Congres

Dynamo-electric (di-nam'o-e-lektrik), 4. Producing force by means of electricity; as, a dynamo-electric machine; also produced by electric force. See ELECTRIC in Supp. Dysepulotic (dis'ep-u-lot"ik), a. (Gr. prefix dys, and E. epulotic.] In surg. not readily Dyslogy (dis'lo-ji), n. Dispraise: opposite or easily healing or cicatrizing, as a wound. of eulogy.

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