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The act of detonizing; detonation.

To explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate.

Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first. Diatonic scale (Mus.), a scale consisting of eight sounds with seven intervals, of which two are semitones and five are whole tones; a modern major or minor scale, as distinguished from the chromatic scale.

In a diatonic manner.

A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones. Locke.

The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).

Hound's-tongue.

The stone forming a threshold.

Deceit; duplicity. Now cometh the sin of double-tongue, such as speak fair before folk and wickedly behind. Chaucer.

clarations on the same subject; deceitful. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued. 1 Tim. iii. 8.

A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.

A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.…

A drip, when made of stone. See Drip, 2.

Constructed of uncemented stone. "Dry-stone walls." Sir W. Scott.

Any picture printed in two shades of the same color, as duotypes and duographs are usually printed.

An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice. Meissner.

A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.

A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.

A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.

Relating to electrotonus; as, the electrotonic condition of a nerve.