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The quality or capacity of being distensible. [R.]

Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.

all marks. Used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition. A spacious table in the center, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners. Dickens.

The quality or capacity of being diversifiable. Earle.

graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker.

ut to death. (See 7.) [Obs.] -- To do up. (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] Chaucer. (b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up. (c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.] (d) To starch and iron. "A rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch." Hawthorne. -- To do way, to put away; to lay aside.…

A void space left in tillage. [Prov. Eng.] Dole beer, beer bestowed as alms. [Obs.] -- Dole bread, bread bestowed as alms. [Obs.] -- Dole meadow, a meadow in which several persons have a common right or share.

A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.

sia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar.

s Double-quick. -- Double window, a window having two sets of glazed sashes with an air space between them.

Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.

(Paleon.) The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace.

Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon. [Obs.] "Dracontic month." Crabb.

s, to drain a country of its specie. Sinking waters, the firm land to drain, Filled the capacious deep and formed the main. Roscommon.

Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction. The Hertfordshire wheel plow . . . is of the easiest draught. Mortimer.

A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.

A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.

A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.

A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.

Drupaceous.