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A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group.

Relating to diphtheria; diphtheritic.

Pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.

To disburden; to relieve of a load. [Archaic]

To become unsheathed. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite.

Having two thecæ, cells, or compartments.

The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism.

One who holds the doctrine of ditheism; a dualist. Cudworth.

Pertaining to ditheism; dualistic.

A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America.

Impairment of any of the senses, esp. of touch.

Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.

Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.

Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.

The eelpout.

The deification of self. [R.]

Eighteenth. [Obs.]

One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one. Lepidus flatters both, Of both is flattered; but he neither loves, Nor either cares for him. Shak. Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three. Bacon. There have been three talkers in Grea…

The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.