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nt, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H10, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series.

A plant with netveined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenæ, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceæ, Smilaceæ, Trilliaceæ, etc.

In a differing or different manner. Boyle.

Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer. A diffuse and various knowledge of divine and human things. Milton.

tate of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity. The fault that I find with a modern legend, it its diffusiveness. Addison.

A Linnæan order of plants having two styles.

Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.

Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation. Carlyle.

To elucidate. [Obs.] Boyle.

The act of making clear. [Obs.] Boyle.

ixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore.

A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.

To advise against; to dissuade from. [R.] Boyle.

To strip of bark; to bark. [R.] Boyle.

sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness that disbelief in great men. Carlyle.

; to discriminate; to distinguish. To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. Boyle. A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone. Robynson (More's Utopia).

To part; to divide. [Obs.] Boyle.

Discordance; disagreement of parts. [Obs.] Boyle.

Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.

The quality of being discoverable. [R.] Carlyle.