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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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DEPOLARIZATION n.
The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition. Depolarization of light (Opt.), a change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had b…
DEPOLARIZE v. 2 definitions
To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.
DEPOLARIZER n.
A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.
DIDASCALAR a.
Didascalic. [R.]
DIPOLAR a.
Having two poles, as a magnetic bar.
DISSIMILAR a.
Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features. This part very dissimilar to any other. Boyle.
DISSIMILARITY n.
Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms. Sir W. Jones.
DISSIMILARLY adv.
In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
DIVERTICULAR a.
Pertaining to a diverticulum.
DOLLAR n. 4 definitions
The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money values. Chop dollar. See under 9th Chop. -- Dollar fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the United States coast (Stromateus triacanthus), having a flat, roundish form and a bright silvery luster; -- called also butterfish, and Lafayette. See…
DOLLARDEE n.
A species of sunfish (Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream.
DULLARD n. 2 definitions
A stupid person; a dunce. Shak. -- a.
EAST-INSULAR a.
Relating to the Eastern Islands; East Indian. [R.] Ogilvie.
ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY n.
The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
ELECTRO-CAPILLARY a.
Pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity.
ELECTRO-MUSCULAR a.
Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
ELECTRO-POLAR a.
Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.
ELOCULAR a.
Having but one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition.
ENAMELAR a.
Consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy. [R.] Craig.
ENCOLLAR v.
To furnish or surround with a collar. [R.]
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