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- English Word Directrix Definition A directress.
- English Word Directrix Definition A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface.
- English Word Directrix Definition A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.
- English Word Directrixes Definition of Directrix
- English Word Direful Definition Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.
- English Word Direly Definition In a dire manner.
- English Word Dirempt Definition Divided; separated.
- English Word Dirempt Definition To separate by force; to tear apart.
- English Word Diremption Definition A tearing apart; violent separation.
- English Word Direness Definition Terribleness; horror; woefulness.
- English Word Direption Definition The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away.
- English Word Direptitious Definition Characterized by direption.
- English Word Direptitiously Definition With plundering violence; by violent injustice.
- English Word Dirge Definition A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.
- English Word Dirgeful Definition Funereal; moaning.
- English Word Dirige Definition A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge.
- English Word Dirigent Definition Directing.
- English Word Dirigent Definition The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix.
- English Word Dirigible Definition Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.
- English Word Diriment Definition Absolute.
- English Word Dirk Definition A kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly much used by the Scottish Highlander.
- English Word Dirk Definition To stab with a dirk.
- English Word Dirk Definition Dark.
- English Word Dirk Definition To darken.
- English Word Dirked Definition of Dirk
- English Word Dirking Definition of Dirk
- English Word Dirkness Definition Darkness.
- English Word Dirl Definition To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate.
- English Word Dirt Definition Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.
- English Word Dirt Definition Meanness; sordidness.