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One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.

seeking or search; manifested want; desire to posses; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand. In 1678 came forth a second edition [Pilgrim's Progress] with additions; and the demand became immense. Macaulay.

The belief in demons or false gods. The established theology of the heathen world . . . rested upon the basis of demonism. Farmer.

One admitted to residence in a foreign country. Ye gods, Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. Dryden.

A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.

To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse.

One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent.

lace where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records.

A place of deposit storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse. The islands of Guernsey and Jersey are at present the great depots of this kingdom. Brit Critic (1794).

escend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior.

; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend. The rain descended, and the floods came. Matt. vii. 25. We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.

fully detained. Writ of detinue (Law), one that lies against him who wrongfully detains goods or chattels delivered to him, or in possession, to recover the thing itself, or its value and damages, from the detainer. It is now in a great measure superseded by other remedies.

Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator. Blackstone.

adlong stream Devolves its winding waters to the main. Akenside. Devolved his rounded periods. Tennyson.

An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.

An order of worms parasitic in cephalopods. They are remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. The embryo exists in two forms.

differ; to make different; to mark as different; to distinguish. Thou mayest difference gods from men. Chapman. Kings, in receiving justice and undergoing trial, are not differenced from the meanest subject. Milton. So completely differenced by their separate and individual characters that we at once acknowledge them…

cting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.

An order of myriapods having two pairs of legs on each segment; the Chilognatha.

dience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar.