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An expressed wish; a request; petition. And slowly was my mother brought To yield consent to my desire. Tennyson.

lem (Math.), a problem which admits of a limited number of solutions. -- Determinate quantities, Determinate equations (Math.), those that are finite in the number of values or solutions, that is, in which the conditions of the problem or equation determine the number.

One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot. While Father Le Blanc was very devout he was not a devotee. A. S. Hardy.

Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.

ssemination; circulation; dispersion. A diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition. Burke.

e; to weaken. Lest these colors should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light. Sir I. Newton.

its of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities. Thus, since the unit of velocity varies directly as the unit of length and inversely as the unit of time, the dimensions of velocity are said to be length ÷ time; the dimensions of work are mass × (length)2 ÷ (time)2; the…

d in my ears. Swift. To din into, to fix in the mind of another by frequent and noisy repetitions. Sir W. Scott.

To cause to sound or ring. To ding (anything) in one's ears, to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.

eciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; -- opposed to monophyodont. -- n.

are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. J. Adams.

tion (Math.), the operation of assigning different reasonable values to the arbitrary quantities and interpreting the result. Math. Dict.

or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place. This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. Hakluyt. They loudly laughed To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. Dryden.

To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.

A separating tissue; a partition; a septum.

("), or small marks. Used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition. A spacious table in the center, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners. Dickens.

To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns. Let it divide the waters from the waters. Gen. i. 6.

That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

nd done often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal verb. "To live and die is all we have to do." Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries, the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without to) of the verb represented. "When beauty lived and died…