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bject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.

A form of phonographic recorder and reproducer adapted for use in dictation, as in business.

; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate. For whom he produced differential favors. Motley.

The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as the…

That produces diffraction.

Sexually reproductive. Digenous reproduction. (Biol.) Same as Digenesis.

The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.

A red crystalline nitrogenous substance or artificial production, which by reduction passes directly to indigo.

or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings. To do one's diligence, give diligence, use diligence, to exert one's self; to make interested and earnest endeavor. And each of them doth all his diligence To do unto the festé reverence. Chaucer.…

Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.

leton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix.

and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monoecious.

.), having flowers structurally perfect, but practically dioecious, -- those on one plant producing no pollen, and those on another no ovules.

ght, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced.

n which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group.

Partaking of the nature of two bodies; producing two substances. Wright.

An instrument used for double writing, as one for producing embossed writing for the blind and ordinary writing at the same time. -- Dip`lo*graph"ic*al (#), a. -- Dip*log"ra*phy (#), n.

A pungent, mobile, volatile liquid, C6H6, produced artificially from certain allyl derivatives. Though isomeric with benzine, it is very different in its chemical relations. Called also dipropinyl.

A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst. Milton.

Tending to produce thirst. Wright.