Dĕf'er-ent1, a.
a. [Lat. deferens, p. pr. of deferre. See DEFER, v. t.] Serving to carry or convey; bearing. [Rare.] “Bodies deferent.” Bacon.
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Deferent
Dĕf'er-ent2, n.
n. 1. That which carries or conveys. “Though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds.” Bacon.
Sense 2. (Ptolemaic Astron.) An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery the center of a planetary epicycle was supposed to move round. “The mechanism of an eccentric deferent.” Whewell.