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c office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention, and, loosely, to the nomination effected, as in the case of candidates for president or s…

ends, and insulated by a glass handle. It is employed for discharging a Leyden jar or an electrical battery. See Discharger.

One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.

f Plato; the disciples of our Savior. The disciples, or The twelve disciples, the twelve selected companions of Jesus; -- also called the apostles. -- Disciples of Christ. See Christian, n., 3, and Campbellite.

ion; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Nichol.

lish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike. Although my will distaste what it elected. Shak.

An apparatus for distributing an electric current, either to various points in rotation, as in some motors, or along two or more lines in parallel, as in a distributing system.

of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. The Constitution of the…

tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. [Slang]

An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.

A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted. Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year. Marshal…

w from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select. Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples. Holwell.

The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)

To select by the drawing of lots. Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn. Freeman.

he use of a liquid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy; -- called also Zamboni's , from the names of the two earliest constructors of it. -- Dry pipe (Steam Engine), a pipe which conducts dry steam from a boiler. -- Dry plate (Photog.), a glass plate…

d by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.

istinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and possessed of opposite chemical or electrical affinities.

ology. As natural science has become more dynamic, so has history. Prof. Shedd. Dynamical electricity. See under Electricity.

A dynamo-electric machine.

rry before ordination and to keep their wives afterward, but not to marry a second time, selects its bishops from the monastic clergy only, recognizes the offices of bishop, priest, and deacon as the three necessary degrees of orders, venerates relics and icons, and has an elaborate ritual.