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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Di'a-noi-äl'o-gy, n.p. 369The science of the dianœtic faculties, and their operations. Sir W. Hamilton.
  2. Di'a-pāse, n.p. 369The same as DIAPASON. [Obs.] “A tuneful diapase of pleasures.” Spenser.
  3. Di'a-pāsm, n.p. 369Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together. [Obs.] B. Jon.
  4. Dī'a-pā'son, n.p. 369(Gr. Mus.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale. 2. Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony. The fair music that all creatures made . . . In perfect…
  5. Di'a-pĕnʹte, n.p. 369(Anc. Mus.) The interval of the fifth. 2. (Med.) A composition of five ingredients.
  6. Di'a-per, n.p. 369Figured linen cloth; a cloth woven in flowers or figures, much used for towels, napkins, &c. 2. A towel or napkin; an infant's breech-cloth. Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . . Another bear…
  7. Di'a-per, v. t.p. 369To variegate or diversify with figures, as cloth; to flower. “Diapered with unwrought flowers.” Tennyson. 2. To put a diaper on, as a child.
  8. Di'a-per, v. i.p. 369To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. “If you diaper on folds.” Peacham.
  9. Dī'a-per-ing, n.p. 369(Paint. & Her.) A small, delicate pattern introduced to relieve the eye in broad spaces of one color.
  10. Dĭ'a-phāne, n.p. 369(Physiol.) An investing, cortical membrane of a sac or cell. Dana.
  11. Dī'a-phaned, a.p. 369Transparent. [Rare.]
  12. Dĭ'a-pha-nē'ty, n.p. 369The quality of being diaphanous; power of transmitting light; transparency; pellucidness.
  13. Dī'a-pha'n'ie, a.p. 369Having power to transmit light; transparent. Raleigh.
  14. Dī'a-pha-nôm'e-ter, n.p. 369An instrument for measuring the transparency of the air. Nichol.
  15. Di-ăph'a-noŭs, a.p. 369Having power to transmit rays of light, as glass; pellucid; transparent; clear. A crystal river, Diaphanous, because it travels slowly. Wordsworth.
  16. Di-ăph'a-nōus-ly, adv.p. 369Transparently; so as to allow light to pass through.
  17. Dī'a-phōn'ies, n. sing.p. 369The doctrine of refracted sound. [See Note under MATHEMATICS.]
  18. Dī'a-pho-rē'sis, n.p. 369(Med.) Augmentation of the insensible perspiration or sweat; evacuation through the pores of the skin.
  19. Di'a-pho-rē'tic or Di'a-pho-rē'tic-al, a.p. 369Having the power to increase perspiration.
  20. Di'a-pho-rē'tic, n.p. 369(Med.) A medicine which promotes insensible perspiration. ☞ Diaphoretics differ from sudorifics; the former only increase the insensible perspiration, the latter excite the sensible discharge called…
  21. Dĭ'a-phrāgm, n.p. 369A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it. 2. (Anat.) The muscle separating the chest or thorax from the abdomen or lower belly; the midriff. 3. (Conch.) A straight…
  22. Dī'a-phrag-māt'ic, a.p. 369Pertaining to the diaphragm.
  23. Dī'a-plās'tīe, n.p. 369(Med.) A medicine suitable to be used for the treatment of fractured or dislocated limbs.
  24. Dī'ap-o-phŷs'ie-al, a.p. 369Pertaining to a diapophysis.
  25. Dī'a-pōph'y-sēs, n.p. 369See VERTEBRA.
  26. Dī'a-po-rē'sis, n.p. 369(RHET.) The expression of doubt as to the order in which to take up several subjects; doubt; hesitation.
  27. Dī'ar-chy, n.p. 369A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons.
  28. Di-ā'ri-al or Di-ā'ri-an, a.p. 369Pertaining to a diary; daily.
  29. Dī'a-rist, n.p. 369One who keeps a diary.
  30. Di'ar-rhē'ā or Di'ar-rho'ā, n.p. 369(Med.) A morbidly frequent evacuation of the intestines; a relax; a flux.
  31. Dī'ar-rhēt'ie or Dī'ar-rhæt'ie, a.p. 369(Med.) Producing diarrhea, or a purging.
  32. Dī'ar-thrō'di-al, a.p. 369(Anat.) Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations. Dunglison.
  33. Dī'ar-thrō'sis, n.p. 369(Anat.) The connection of two bones admitting of motion between them, as at the articulations.
  34. Dī'a-ry, n.p. 369An account made day by day of the events or transactions of the day; a journal; a register of daily occurrences; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather.
  35. Dī'a-ry, a.p. 369Lasting for one day; as, a diary fever. [Obs.] Bacon.
  36. Dī'a-schĭz'mā, n.p. 369(Anc. Mus.) The difference between the comma and enharmonic diesis, commonly called the lesser comma.
  37. Dī'as-pōre, n.p. 369(Min.) A mineral consisting of alumina and water. It occurs in lamellar masses and prismatic crystals, with a bright, pearly cleavage, having a whitish, grayish, or greenish color, and characterized…
  38. Dī'as-tāl'tic, a.p. 369(Anc. Mus.) Dilated or extended; — said of certain intervals, as the major third, minor sixth, and major seventh.
  39. Dī'as-tāse, n.p. 369(Chem.) A substance, containing nitrogen, generated during the germination of grain for the brewery, and tending to accelerate the formation of sugar during fermentation.
  40. Dī-ās'ta-sīs, n.p. 369A forcible separation of bones without fracture. Dunglison.
  41. Dī'as-tem, n.p. 369Intervening space; interval. 2. (Anc. Mus.) A simple interval, as opposed to a compound one.
  42. Dī-ăs'to-le, n.p. 369(Med.) A dilatation of the heart, auricles, and arteries; — opposed to systole, or contraction. 2. (Gram.) The extension of a syllable; a figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.
  43. Dī'a-style, n.p. 369(Arch.) An edifice in which three diameters of the columns are allowed for each intercolumniation. Harris.
  44. Dī'a-syrm, n.p. 369(Rhet.) A figure of speech expressing mockery and contempt, or by which reproof is conveyed in an ironical manner. [Obs.]
  45. Dī'a-tēs'sa-rōn, n.p. 370(Anc. Mus.) The concord or harmonic interval, composed of a greater tone, a lesser tone, and one greater semitone; — now called a fourth. Moore. 2. (Theol.) A harmony of the four Gospels.
  46. Dī'a-thēr'mal, a.p. 370Freely permeable by radiant heat.
  47. Dī'a-thēr'man-cy or Dī'a-thēr'ma-nē'i-ty, n.p. 370The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous. Melloni.
  48. Dī'a-thēr'ma-nism, n.p. 370The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat. Nichol.
  49. Dī'a-thēr'ma-noŭs, a.p. 370Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal.
  50. Dī'a-thēr'mic, a.p. 370Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. Melloni.
  51. Dī'a-thēr'moŭs, a.p. 370Same as DIATHERMANOUS.
  52. Dī-ăth'e-sĭs, n.p. 370(Med.) Bodily condition or constitution, especially that which predisposes to a particular disease.
  53. Dī'a-tōm, n.p. 370(Nat. Hist.) One of the Diatomaceæ, a family of silicious animalcules now regarded as belonging to the vegetable kingdom.
  54. Dī/a-tŏm'ic, a.p. 370Consisting of two atoms.
  55. Dī-ăt’o-moŭs, a.p. 370(Min.) Having a single, distinct, diagonal cleavage; — said of crystals. Mohs.
  56. Dī'a-tōn'ic, a.p. 370(Mus.) Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first. Diatonic scale (Mus.), a scale consisting of eight sounds with seven intervals, of which two are…
  57. Di'a-tōn'ic-al-ly, adv.p. 370In a diatonic manner.
  58. Dī'a-tribe, n.p. 370A continued discourse or disputation; especially, an invective harangue; a strain of reviling or reproach.
  59. Dī-ăt'ri-bīst, n.p. 370The author of a diatribe; one who makes diatribes.
  60. Dī'a-zeū'tic, a.p. 370(Anc. Mus.) 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. [Obs.]