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The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk.

Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm.

A disulphide. [Obs.]

A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of oxygen united with some other element or radical; -- usually called dioxide, or less frequently, binoxide.

A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated.

To devolve. [Obs.] Foxe.

The act of rolling down. [R.] The devolution of earth down upon the valleys. Woodward.

Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious. A devout man, and one that feared God. Acts x. 2. We must be constant and devout in the worship of God. Rogers.

Sacred. [R.] To take her from austerer check of parents, To make her his by most devoutful rights. Marston.

Destitute of devotion. -- De*vout"less*ly, adv. -- De*vout"less*ness, n.

In a devout and reverent manner; with devout emotions; piously. Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly. Shak.

Quality or state of being devout.

Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth. [Obs.]

bon, C8H18, of the marsh-gas series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane.

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

Reduced in strength; thin; weak. -- Di*lut"ed*ly, adv.

The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.

One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.

The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted. Arbuthnot.

Indicating or causing diminution. Earle.