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vable. Cudworth. Such things as are not dissolvable by the moisture of the tongue. Sir I. Newton.

ery other with a force . . . inversely proportioned to the square of the distance. Sir I. Newton.

f complex solid substances, so that the ultimate constituents are separated or evolved in new compounds, -- usually requiring a high degree of heat; as, the destructive distillation of soft coal or of wood. -- Dry distillation, the distillation of substances by themselves, or without the addition of water or of other…

; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft.

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

s, equivalent to a subkingdom. Cell division (Biol.), a method of cell increase, in which new 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 cel…

illingness to be taught; tractableness. The humble docility of little children is, in the New Testament, represented as a necessary preparative to the reception of the Christian faith. Beattie.

the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.

A doctrinaire. J. H. Newman.

To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New England] J. Pickering.

A penalty or fine for neglect. [Local, New England]

A pannier, or basket. To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers. Beau. & Fl.

man Catholics; -- done from the Latin Vulgate by English scholars resident in France. The New Testament portion was published at Rheims, A. D. 1582, the Old Testament at Douai, A. D. 1609-10. Various revised editions have since been published. [Written also Doway Bible. Called also the Rheims and Douay version.]…

the senior member of a body or group; as, the doyen of French physicians. "This doyen of newspapers." A. R. Colquhoun.

To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body. J. H. Newman.

s on water. The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. New Your Times.

To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call. A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. Pope.

learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt. I never knew this town without dunces of figure. Swift.

Continuance; duration. See Endurance. [Archaic] Of how short durance was this new-made state! Dryden.

To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs. Cloth to be dyed of divers colors. Trench. The soul is dyed by its thoughts. Lubbock. To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool (Fig.), to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue…