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Having power to transmit light; transparent; diaphanous.

The art of imitating

An instrument for measuring the transparency of the air.

A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.

A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.

ellucid; clear. Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous. Landor.

Translucently.

Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra. Diophantine analysis (Alg.), that branch of indeterminate analysis which has for its object the discovery of rational values that satisfy given equations containing squares or cubes; as, for example, to find values of x and y which make x2 + y2 an exact s…

To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells; to free from fascination or delusion. Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove. Dryden.

One who, or that which, disenchants.

The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted. Shelton.

Having two hands.

Elephantiasis. [Obs.] Holland.

upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.

Affected with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis.

n, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.

Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread. Elephantine epoch (Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the existence of large pachyderms. Mantell. -- Elephantine tortoise (Zoöl.), a huge land tortoise;…

Resembling an elephant in form or appearance.

zabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature. -- n.

To make run in a channel. "Its waters were enchanneled." Sir D. Brewster.