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The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution. Bacon.

Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth. Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring. Shak…

ed in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.

A cupola formed on a large scale.

A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.

Performed; executed; finished.

Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.

ntry of its specie. Sinking waters, the firm land to drain, Filled the capacious deep and formed the main. Roscommon.

ropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid. The emperor . . . performed his part with much dramatic effect. Motley.

am of his youth. There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. Pope. It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose. J. C. Shairp.

A triple alliance; specif., the alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy, formed in 1882.

An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.

A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [Written also dun.] Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley.…

a telescope for measuring accurately the diameter of the image of the object glass there formed; which measurement, compared with the actual diameter of the glass, gives the magnifying power.

A resinous substance formed in the decomposition of cholic acid of bile; -- so called because it is difficult to solve.

An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice. Meissner.

With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.

The operation performed with an écraseur.

The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm.