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The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.

ansfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into. They devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favorite. Burke. They devolved their whole authority into the hands of the council of sixty. Addison.

c., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according to the particular shape, Dewar bulb, Dewar tube, etc.

ns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery.

Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together. [Obs.]

The interbrain or thalamencephalon; -- sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon.

are of the business. The lower rate is called a differential rate. Differentials are also sometimes granted to cities.

, and also a fourth imaginary dimension. Space of five or six, or more dimensions is also sometimes assumed in mathematics.

Ethane; -- sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. See Ethane.

epending on the cycle of the sun, or 28 years, and the cycle of the moon, or 19 years; -- sometimes called the Greek paschal cycle, or Victorian period.

A prefix from the Latin, whence F. dés, or sometimes dé-, dis-. The Latin dis- appears as di- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif- before f, and either dis- or di- before j. It is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See Two, and cf. Bi-, Di-, Dia-. Dis- denotes separation, a parting from, as in dis…

To be unsuited; to have unfitness; as, medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste.

d metabolism. The breaking down of already existing chemical compounds into simpler ones, sometimes called disassimilation. Martin.

educt from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

fect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. Macaulay.

cted with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.

to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue. Those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious. Bp. Atterbury. Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms. Milton.

to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object. Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose To future good our past and present woes. Dryden. Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and…

spleasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton.

ives under water; - - called also water tiger. -- Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above. -- Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Sub…