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Dy

the chemical symbol for dysprosium, a rare earth element of atomic number 66.

Dyad

Having a valence or combining power of two; capable of being substituted for, combined with, or replaced by, two atoms of hydrogen; as, oxygen and calcium are dyad elements. See Valence.

Dyadic

Pertaining to the number two; of two parts or elements.

Dyaks

The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo. They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices.

Dyas

A name applied in Germany to the Permian formation, there consisting of two principal groups.

Dyaus

the Hindu god of the sky.

dybbuk

the wandering soul of a dead person, or a demon, that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior. It may be exorcised by religious rites.

Dye

Same as Die, a lot.

dyed

colored or impregnated with dye.

dyed-in-the-wool

thoroughly imbued; thoroughgoing; uncompromising; complete; unmitigated; through-and-through.

Dyehouse

A building in which dyeing is carried on.

Dyeing

The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.

Dyer

One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like.

dyer's-broom dyer's broom

small Eurasian shrub (Genista tinctoria) having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and U.S.; sometimes grown as an ornamental.

Dyewood

Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.

Dying

The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.

Dyingly

In a dying manner; as if at the point of death.

Dyingness

The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment.

Dyke

See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.

Dynactinometer

An instrument for measuring the intensity of the photogenic (light-producing) rays, and computing the power of object glasses.

Dynam

A unit of measure for dynamical effect or work; a foot pound. See Foot pound.

dynamic RAM

a type of random access memory using circuits that require periodic refresh cycles in order to retain the stored information. Contrasted to static ram, which maintains the memory state as long as the power is still applied.

Dynamical Dynamic

Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force.

Dynamically

In accordance with the principles of dynamics or moving forces.

Dynamics

That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of bodies (Kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.

Dynamism

The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force.

Dynamist

One who accounts for material phenomena by a theory of dynamics.

Dynamitard

A political dynamiter. [A form found in some newspapers.]

Dynamite

An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.

Dynamiter

One who uses dynamite; esp., one who uses it for the destruction of life and property.

Dynamiting

Destroying by dynamite, for political ends.

Dynamo

A dynamo-electric machine.

Dynamo-electric

Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.

Dynamograph

A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power.

Dynamometer

An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery.

Dynamometry

The art or process of measuring forces doing work.

Dynast

A ruler; a governor; a prince.

Dynastic

Of or relating to a dynasty or line of kings.

Dynastidan

One of a group of gigantic, horned beetles, including Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (Dynastus Hercules) of tropical America, which grow to be six inches in length.

Dynasty

Sovereignty; lordship; dominion.

Dyne

The unit of force, in the C. G. S. (Centimeter Gram Second) system of physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram for a second, generates a velocity of a centimeter per second.

Dyscrasia

An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.

Dyscrasite

A mineral consisting of antimony and silver.

Dysentery

A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

dysfunctional

impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ.

Dysgenesic

Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another.

Dysgenesis

A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form of homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.

dysgenics

the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced.

dyskinesia

an abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements.

dyslectic

Suffering from dyslexia; having impaired ability to comprehend written words; a condition usually associated with a neurologic disorder.

dyslexia

Any of various reading disorders caused by a damaged or congenitally faulty structure within the central nervous system, and causing an impairment of the ability to interpret spatial relationships or to integrate auditory and visual information. A common example is when letter sequences are interpreted as inverted in order, as in bat/tab.

Dyslogistic

Unfavorable; not commendatory; -- opposed to eulogistic.

Dysluite

A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite.

Dyslysin

A resinous substance formed in the decomposition of cholic acid of bile; -- so called because it is difficult to solve.

Dysnomy

Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.

Dysodile

An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.

Dyspeptone

An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice.

Dysphoria

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

Dyspnoic

Affected with shortness of breath; relating to dyspn/a.

Dysprosium

An element of the rare earth-group. Symbol Dy; at. wt., 162.5.

Dysteleology

The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism.

Dystocia

Difficult delivery pr parturition.

Dysuric

Pertaining to, or afflicted with, dysury.

Dzeron Dzeren

The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Tibet, and China.

Dziggetai

The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Tibet (Asinus hemionus).

E-la

Originally, the highest note in the scale of Guido; hence, proverbially, any extravagant saying.

e-mail email E-mail

to send (an e-mail message) to someone; as, I emailed the article to the editor; she emailed me her report.

E'en

A contraction for even. See Even.

E'er

A contraction for ever. See Ever.

Ea

the Akkadian god of wisdom; son of Apsu and father of Marduk; counterpart of the Sumerian Enki.

Each

Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you.

Eacles

a genus of moths including the imperial moth (Eacles imperialis).

Eagerness

The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.

Eagle

Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Hali/etus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysa/tus); the imperial eagle of Europe (Aquila mogilnik or Aquila imperialis); the American bald eagle (Hali/etus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (Hali/etus albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle.

Eagle-winged

Having the wings of an eagle; swift, or soaring high, like an eagle.

Eaglestone

A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; a/tites.

Eaglet

A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle.

Eaglewood

A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.

Eagre

A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore or tidal bore. See Bore.

Ean

To bring forth, as young; to yean.

Eanling

A lamb just brought forth; a yeanling.

Ear

To plow or till; to cultivate.

Ear-minded

Thinking chiefly or most readily through, or in terms related to, the sense of hearing; specif., thinking words as spoken, as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental peculiarity; -- opposed to eye-minded.

Ear-shell

any of various large edible marine gastropod mollusks of the genus Haliotis, having a flattened ear-shaped shell with a pearly interior; -- called also sea-ear. See Abalone.

Ear-splitting

Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.

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