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An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat- conducting power of liquids.

Same as Diathermal.

One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke (1637).

A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.

A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group.

Relating to diphtheria; diphtheritic.

Pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.

Incoherent. [R.]

The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion. Bp. Hall.

To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance. [Obs.] Spenser.

The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

One who puts another out of his inheritance.

One who, or that which, washes dishes.

Same as Disherison. Bacon.

To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity! South.

The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.

One who dispatches.

One who, or that which, distinguishes or separates one thing from another by marks of diversity. Sir T. Browne.

One who digs ditches.

The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.