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Causing desolation. [R.] Bp. Hall.

A blowing apart or away. [Obs.] Bailey.

The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to contractibility. Ray.

Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.

Prolixity; diffuse discourse. [Obs.] "What needeth greater dilatation" Chaucer.

A muscle which dilates any part; a dilator.

; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.

Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.

In a dilated manner. Feltham.

One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.

The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation. Mrs. Browning. At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. Tennyson. A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. Dickens.

Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive. Coleridge.

An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.

A muscle that dilates any part.

With delay; tardily.

The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.

be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.

To sunder; to separate, as joints. -- Dis`ar*tic`u*la"tion, n.

One who disarticulates and prepares skeletons.

To subject to disassimilation.