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Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts. Direct-acting steam engine, one in which motion is transmitted to the crank without the intervention of a beam or lever; -- also called direct-action steam engine. -- Direct-acting steam pump, one in which the steam piston rod…

One of the tree frogs.

A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

Having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

s. The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness and dissatisfaction. Addison.

Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing. To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as difficult for the Convention. A. Hamilton. -- Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness, n.…

To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin. A city . . . distracted from itself. Fuller.

Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.

Disjointedly; madly. Shak.

A state of being distracted; distraction. Bp. Hall.

One who, or that which, distracts away.

Distracting. [R.] Heywood.

Capable of being drawn aside or distracted.

Tending or serving to draw apart.

Tending or serving to distract.

The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet.

Distractive. [Obs.]

Causing perplexity; distracting. "Distractive thoughts." Bp. Hall.

Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.

An instrument for measuring the intensity of the photogenic (light-producing) rays, and computing the power of object glasses.