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The act of delaying; postponement. [R.] My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.

form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.

phragm in a furnace, or a come in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).

send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.

Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac. "Demonic ambushes." Lowell.

One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics.

Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ness, n.

One who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy.

An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton.

tate of being devastated; a laying waste. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done. Goldsmith.

th the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper. Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron. Sir W. Scott.

The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. cæsius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries.

r equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.

Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.

or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.

A form of phonographic recorder and reproducer adapted for use in dictation, as in business.

A type of internal-combustion engine in which the air drawn in by the suction stroke is so highly compressed that the heat generated ignites the fuel (usually crude oil), the fuel being automatically sprayed into the cylinder under pressure. The Diesel engine has a very high thermal efficiency.