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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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DIFFERENTIAL a. 7 definitions

Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate. For whom he produced differential favors. Motley.

DIFFERENTIALLY adv.

In the way of differentiation.

DIFFERENTIATE v. 4 definitions

To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to specialize; to desynonymize. The word then was differentiated into the two forms then and than. Earle. Two or more of the forms assumed by the same original word become d…

DIFFERENTIATION n. 4 definitions

The act of differentiating. Further investigation of the Sanskrit may lead to differentiation of the meaning of such of these roots as are real roots. J. Peile.

DIFFERENTIATOR n.

One who, or that which, differentiates.

DIFFERENTLY adv.

In a different manner; variously.

DIFFERINGLY adv.

In a differing or different manner. Boyle.

A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards. Ure.

DOLORIFEROUS a.

Producing pain. Whitaker.

Bearing gifts. [R.]

Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous.

DUFFER n. 2 definitions

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat. [Slang, Eng.] Halliwell.

EFFERENT a. 3 definitions

Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent.

Like a wild beast; fierce. [Obs.]

EFFERVESCE v. 2 definitions

To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.

EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY n.

t of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.

EFFERVESCENT a.

Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas

EFFERVESCIBLE a.

Capable of effervescing.

EFFERVESCIVE a.

Tending to produce effervescence. "An effervescive force." Hickok.