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Free excretion of urine.

A medicine with diuretic properties. Diuretic salt (Med.), potassium acetate; -- so called because of its diuretic properties.

Diuretic. [Obs.] Boyle.

The quality of being diuretical; diuretic property.

The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

Divestiture. [Obs.]

The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. [R.] R. Park.

A dormitory. [Obs.] Bacon.

(Paleon.) The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace.

Guidance. [Obs.] South.

A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.

Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome. [R.] The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude. W. H. Russell.

Lasting. [Obs.] Spenser.

Not lasting. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.

Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty. The agreements . . . made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force. Burke.

One who subjects another to duress Bacon.

A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.

An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.

The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.