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at or course between two or more race horses, boats, etc., in which they come out exactly equal, so that neither wins. -- Dead horse, an expression applied to a debt for wages paid in advance. [Law] -- Dead language, a language which is no longer spoken or in common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as t…

any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.

A weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois.

A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons.

A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.

A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.

A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.

A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.

One of a decillion equal parts.

A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about two cents.

A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.

The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.

The quantity by which a variable is diminished. Equal decrement of life. (a) The decrease of life in a group of persons in which the assumed law of mortality is such that of a given large number of persons, all being now of the same age, an equal number shall die each consecutive year. (b) The decrease of life in a gro…

A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.

still practiced by barbarians who believe that the good and evil forces of nature are of equal power. -- Printer's devil, the youngest apprentice in a printing office, who runs on errands, does dirty work (as washing the ink rollers and sweeping), etc. "Without fearing the printer's devil or the sheriff's officer." M…

on of different substances in solution, as crystalloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes.

A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.

ewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.

A Linnæan class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.

Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.