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o naturally leads to it, that cruelty has become associated with despot and tyrant. C. J. Smith.

al sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds. Atterbury. He [Goldsmith] knew nothing accurately; his reading had been desultory. Macaulay.

ired in quality; to degenerate. Under such conditions, the mind rapidly deteriorates. Goldsmith.

of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy. Goldsmith.

waste. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done. Goldsmith.

Capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light; as, diactinic media.

d by Rousseau, in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power. Nichol.

In the manner or nature of a dialogue. Goldsmith.

Having power to transmit light; transparent; diaphanous.

An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph. Fallows.

The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous. Melloni.

Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; - - opposed to athermanous.

The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.

Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor. separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body.

through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced.

tervention of other working parts. Direct-acting steam engine, one in which motion is transmitted to the crank without the intervention of a beam or lever; -- also called direct-action steam engine. -- Direct-acting steam pump, one in which the steam piston rod is directly connected with the pump rod; -- also called d…

he substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience. C. J. Smith.

To manifest without design; to show. The youth discovered a taste for sculpture. C. J. Smith.

of depriving of an endowment or endowments. [The] disendowment of the Irish Church. G. B. Smith.

To enervate; to weaken. [R.] Sydney Smith.