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A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine. Knight.

from Dance. Dancing girl, one of the women in the East Indies whose profession is to dance in the temples, or for the amusement of spectators. There are various classes of dancing girls. -- Dancing master, a teacher of dancing. -- Dancing school, a school or place where dancing is taught.

One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler. " Danglers at toilets." Burke.

The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash. [R.] It lends a luster . . . A large dare to our great enterprise. Shak.

To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.

A walking abroad; a promenading. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

of a needy man of letters. Macaulay. Deplorable is the degradation of our nature. South. Moments there frequently must be, when a sidegradation of his state. Blair.

A kind of fabric for women's dresses.

Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps. Literary demimonde, writers of the lowest kind.

ess; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury. In the desperation of the moment, the officers even tried to cut their way through with their swords. W. Irving.

ed at last. Burke. Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. Pope.

ne with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper. Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. See Paramagnetic. Diamagnetic attraction. See under Attraction.

The science which treats of diamagnetic phenomena, and of the properties of diamagnetic bodies.

e muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.

The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat. Nichol.

m 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.

One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge. Lyell.

A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors.