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The removal or absence of color. Ferrand.

A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him. Brande.

Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.

of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power. [Obs.] By way of delegacy or grand commission. Sir W. Raleigh.

Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question. The grand articles of our belief are as demonstrable as geometry. Glanvill.

Drying; tending to dry. Ferrand. -- n. (Med.)

l power. -- Printer's devil, the youngest apprentice in a printing office, who runs on errands, does dirty work (as washing the ink rollers and sweeping), etc. "Without fearing the printer's devil or the sheriff's officer." Macaulay. -- Tasmanian devil (Zoöl.), a very savage carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania (Dasyuru…

r transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.

ith dice. See Die, n. Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C.

e diction of Chaucer's poems. His diction blazes up into a sudden explosion of prophetic grandeur. De Quincey.

Dietetic. [R.] Ferrand.

Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings. Shak.

An entertainment; a feast. A grand political dinner. Tennyson.

sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

as if at a distance; to make seem remote. His peculiar art of distancing an object to aggrandize his space. H. Miller.

to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; to distill alcoholic spirits from grain; to distill essential oils from flowers, etc.; to distill fresh water from sea water. "Distilling odors on me." Tennyson.

ther Oriental countries: A council of state; a royal court. Also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly. Pope.

A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities. [Univ. Cant] "The great dons of wit." Dryden.

As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison. Shak.

Anything driven at random. "Some log . . . a useless drift." Dryden.