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1,814 words match “BON”

DIPPEL'S OIL n.
See Bone oil, under Bone.
DISCARNATE a.
Stripped of flesh. [Obs.] "Discarnate bones." Glanvill.
DISCOVERT a.
Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
DISENSLAVE v.
To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South.
DISENTHRALLMENT n.
Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment. [Written also disenthralment.]
DISJOINT v.
ut of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving. Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame Prior.
DISLOCATE v.
To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the ar…
DISMARRY v.
To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.
DISTAL a. 2 definitions
Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle; -- opposed to proximal.
DITOLYL n.
A white, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C14H14, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene.
DIVIDE v.
e ayes dividing from the noes. The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals. Gibbon.
DIVISION n.
state of being so divided; separation. I was overlooked in the division of the spoil. Gibbon.
DIVORCE n.
s is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. "from the bond of matrimony."
DOBELL'S SOLUTION n.
An aqueous solution of carbolic acid, borax, sodium bicarbonate, and glycerin, used as a spray in diseases of the nose and throat.
DOCOGLOSSA n.
ropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.
DODECANE n.
Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.
DOLLY VARDEN n.
tiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons.
DOLOMITE n.
A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia 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.
DOMINO n.
A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched h…
DOPPLERITE n.
A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.
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