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To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.

To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.

Sacred. [R.] To take her from austerer check of parents, To make her his by most devoutful rights. Marston.

To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis. [Written also dialyse.]

Prepared by diffusion through an animal membrane; as, dialyzed iron.

A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.

Transparent or translucent. [R.]

The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness.

Having power to transmit light; transparent; diaphanous.

An instrument for measuring the transparency of the air.

A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.

Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear. Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous. Landor.

ommunion, as among the Moravians to those living, usually as missionaries, outside of the parent congregation.

ibed. To fast like one that takes diet. Shak. Diet kitchen, a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.

passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.

To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn. [Archaic] "She gan the house to dight." Chaucer. Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice. Fairfax. The clouds in thousand liveries dight. Milton.

To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.

hich a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced.

An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is…