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Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act. In attitude stern and defiant. Longfellow. -- De*fi"ant*ly, adv. -- De*fi"ant*ness, n.

Rare; excellent; costly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ss; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment. And to those dainty limbs which Nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy Milton.

(of Parliament). Motley. Delirium tremens (. Etym: [L., trembling delirium] (Med.), a violent delirium induced by the excessive and prolonged use of intoxicating liquors. -- Traumatic delirium (Med.), a variety of delirium following injury.

Ambiguous; mysterious. "If he is silent or delphic." New York Times.

To divide in order to share; to apportion. [Obs.] And here is gold, and that full great plentee, That shall departed been among us three. Chaucer.

The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent. [Obs.] N. Bacon.

To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. Ex. xxxiv. 13.

to view. To develop a curved surface on a place (Geom.), to produce on the plane an equivalent surface, as if by rolling the curved surface so that all parts shall successively touch the plane.

The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning.

denoting two atoms, radicals, groups, or equivalents, as the case may be. See Bi-,

Divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid.

Having two atoms or equivalents of calcium to the molecule.

A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.

spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse. "A plentiful and diffusive perfume." Hare.

To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. [Obs.] Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.

ndations; a levee. Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. Longfellow.

characterizing a term. The term dimensions forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent to degree with the ordinal; thus, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree.

To dash; to throw violently. [Obs.] To ding the book a coit's distance from him. Milton.

An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide. [Obs.] Carbon dioxide. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.