A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.

A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.

Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.

Translucently.

Relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses.

Diacoustic.

The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.

Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.

A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

Having the power to increase perspiration.

An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph.

A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.

Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves.

of or pertaining to diaphysis.

An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.

Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic. A gentle diaphoretic.

Pertaining to a diapophysis.

The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons.

Pertaining to a diary; daily.

One who keeps a diary.

A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.

Producing diarrhea, or a purging.

Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations.

A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation.

lasting for one day; as, a diary fever.

Lit., /Dispersion./ -- applied collectively: (a) To those Jews who, after the Exile, were scattered through the Old World, and afterwards to Jewish Christians living among heathen. Cf. James i. 1. (b) By extension, to Christians isolated from their own communion, as among the Moravians to those living, usually as missionaries, outside of the parent congregation.

A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

A soluble enzyme, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, diastase; as, diastasic ferment.

A forcible separation of bones without fracture.

Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.

Intervening space; interval. An interval.

A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.

A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis.

The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.

Of or pertaining to diastole.

See under Intercolumniation.

The interval of a fourth.

Freely permeable by radiant heat.

The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous.

The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat.

Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; -- opposed to athermanous.

Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances.

An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat-conducting power of liquids.

Same as Diathermal.

Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.

Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease.

One of the Diatomace/, a family of minute unicellular Alg/ having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillari/, but this word is not in general use.

consisting of or containing diatoms or their fossils; as, diatomaceous earth (used as a component of dynamite).

Containing two atoms. Having two replaceable atoms or radicals.

a class of marine and freshwater eukaryotic algae comprising the diatoms.

Having a single, distinct, diagonal cleavage; -- said of crystals.

Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.

In a diatonic manner.

A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic.

One who makes a diatribe or diatribes.

An extinct eocene bird from New Mexico, larger than the ostrich.

Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth.

One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.

Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.

The property or condition of being dibasic.

A dibble.

To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting.

One who, or that which, dibbles, or makes holes in the ground for seed.

a foot of two short (unstressed-unstressed) syllables.

a cephalopod having two gills; a member of the Dibranchiata.

comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish).

An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.

Having two gills. One of the Dibranchiata.

A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East.

A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the alkane series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane.

Talkative; pert; saucy.

Pertness; sauciness.

Having two atoms or equivalents of calcium to the molecule.

Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl groups or radicals; as, oxalic acid is the simplest dicarbonic acid. In the latter sense, synonymous with dicarboxylic; as, succinic acid is a dicarboxylic acid.

A functionary in ancient Athens resembling closely to the modern juryman.

A court of justice; judgment hall.

To cut into small cubes; as, to slice and dice carrots.

A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.

A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis).

Having two heads on one body; double-headed.

A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester.

To ditch.

Capable of subdividing spontaneously.

Having two coverings, a calyx and a corolla.

Same as Bichloride.

Manifesting dichogamy.

The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.

One who dichotomizes.

To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.

Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem.

A cutting in two; a division.

Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.

Same as Dichroscope.

The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.

Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.

Dichroic.

A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.

Having or exhibiting two colors.

The state of being dichromatic.

Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three.

Dichroic.

An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.

Pertaining to the dichroscope, or to observations with it.

An ornamenting in squares or cubes.

The American black-throated bunting (Spiza Americana).

The devil.

To negotiate a dicker; to barter.

Any small bird; as, adults talking to children sometimes call small birds dickeybirds.

A small 3rd seat in the back of an old-fashioned 2-seat car.

A small 3rd seat in the back of an old-fashioned 2-seat car.

A genus of tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Cyatheaceae.

A family of plants comprising the tree ferns; it includes the genera Dicksonia; Cibotium; Culcita; and Thyrsopteris.

See dickey.

A false detachable shirt front or bosom.

same as dickie-seat.

same as dickeybird.