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A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid.

The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds. [Formerly written also cinnamule.]

A cornemuse. [Obs.]

The upper margin of a hoof; a coronet.

A Linnæan class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.

Didynamous.

Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.

To free from the captivity of love. Shelton.

A unit of measure for dynamical effect or work; a foot pound. See Foot pound. Whewell.

A dynamometer.

Pertaining to a dynameter.

Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force. Science, as well as history, has its past to show, -- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine. J. Martineau. The vowel is produced by phonetic, not by dynamic, causes. J. Peile.…

In accordance with the principles of dynamics or moving forces. J. Peile.

(kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.

The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force.

One who accounts for material phenomena by a theory of dynamics. Those who would resolve matter into centers of force may be said to constitute the school of dynamists. Ward (Dyn. Sociol. ).

A political dynamiter.

An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.

One who uses dynamite; esp., one who uses it for the destruction of life and property.

Destroying by dynamite, for political ends. Dynamiting is not the American way. The Century.