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- English Word Diatessaron Definition The interval of a fourth.
- English Word Diatessaron Definition A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament.
- English Word Diatessaron Definition An electuary compounded of four medicines.
- English Word Diathermal Definition Freely permeable by radiant heat.
- English Word Diathermancy Definition Alt. of Diathermaneity
- English Word Diathermaneity Definition The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous.
- English Word Diathermanism Definition The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat.
- English Word Diathermanous Definition Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; -- opposed to athermanous.
- English Word Diathermic Definition Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances.
- English Word Diathermometer Definition An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat-conducting power of liquids.
- English Word Diathermous Definition Same as Diathermal.
- English Word Diathesis Definition Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.
- English Word Diathetic Definition Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease.
- English Word Diatom Definition One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use.
- English Word Diatom Definition A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle.
- English Word Diatomic Definition Containing two atoms.
- English Word Diatomic Definition Having two replaceable atoms or radicals.
- English Word Diatomous Definition Having a single, distinct, diagonal cleavage; -- said of crystals.
- English Word Diatonic Definition Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.
- English Word Diatonically Definition In a diatonic manner.
- English Word Diatribe Definition A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic.
- English Word Diatribist Definition One who makes a diatribe or diatribes.
- English Word Diatryma Definition An extinct eocene bird from New Mexico, larger than the ostrich.
- English Word Diazeuctic Definition Alt. of Diazeutic
- English Word Diazeutic Definition 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.
- English Word Diazo- Definition A combining form (also used adjectively), meaning pertaining to, or derived from, a series of compounds containing a radical of two nitrogen atoms, united usually to an aromatic radical; as, diazo-benzene, C6H5.N2.OH.
- English Word Diazotize Definition To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.
- English Word Dib Definition To dip.
- English Word Dib Definition One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.
- English Word Dib Definition A child's game, played with dib bones.