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to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Pope.

of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.

nguish. Thou mayest difference gods from men. Chapman. Kings, in receiving justice and undergoing trial, are not differenced from the meanest subject. Milton. So completely differenced by their separate and individual characters that we at once acknowledge them as distinct persons. Sir W. Scott.

To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.

r; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.

iness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of A letter written with singular energy and dignity of thought Macaulay.

The clergy or the people of a diocese. Strype.

sharp organs (mandibles and maxillæ) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvæ (called maggots) being usually without feet.

, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism. The breaking down of already existing chemical compounds into simpler ones, sometimes called disassimilation. Martin.

larm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. Josh. i. 9. What words be these What fears do you dismay Fairfax.

his fears. Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. Hazlitt.

ishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations. Swift. Dissipation of energy. Same as Degradation of energy, under Degradation.

The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.

The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction. A man of continual dissolution and thaw. Shak.

A kind of peppergrass (Lepidium latifolium).

To diverge; to be divaricate. Woodward.

A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.

A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge.

cells are formed by the division of the parent cell. In this process, the cell nucleus undergoes peculiar differentiations and changes, as shown in the figure (see also Karyokinesis). At the same time the protoplasm of the cell becomes gradually constricted by a furrow transverse to the long axis of the nuclear spindle…

ch. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.