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A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.

e of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products.

A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.

The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities. Thus, since the unit of velocity varies directly as the unit of length and inversely as the unit of time, the dimensions of velocity are said to be length ÷ time; the dimension…

a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men. A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. Sir W. Scott.

ve, you feel The dint of pity. Shak. It was by dint of passing strength That he moved the massy stone at length. Sir W. Scott.

To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass.

To misbecome. [Obs.] Massinger.

te; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.

disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger.

duke himself, I dare not say distempered, But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing. Massinger.

The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section. Communities and divisions of men. Addison.

ivisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes (Geol.), planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.

A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.

A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.

The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle.

A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

One who associates with drabs; a wencher. Massinger.