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- English Word Dia- Definition Alt. of Di-
- English Word Diabase Definition A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.
- English Word Diabaterial Definition Passing over the borders.
- English Word Diabetes Definition A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal.
- English Word Diabetic Definition Alt. of Diabetical
- English Word Diabetical Definition Pertaining to diabetes; as, diabetic or diabetical treatment.
- English Word Diablerie Definition Alt. of Diabley
- English Word Diabley Definition Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief.
- English Word Diabolic Definition Alt. of Diabolical
- English Word Diabolical Definition Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act.
- English Word Diabolify Definition To ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil.
- English Word Diabolism Definition Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.
- English Word Diabolism Definition Possession by the devil.
- English Word Diabolize Definition To render diabolical.
- English Word Diacatholicon Definition A universal remedy; -- name formerly to a purgative electuary.
- English Word Diacaustic Definition Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic.
- English Word Diacaustic Definition That which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery.
- English Word Diacaustic Definition A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.
- English Word Diachylon Definition Alt. of Diachylum
- English Word Diachylum Definition A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.