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olume, weight, intensify, etc.; as, the determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air.

To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. [Eng.] London Graphic.

ly by the senses. Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er with vast delight. Dryden.

Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner. "The golden dew of sleep." Shak.

having the property of turning the plane of polarized light to the right; as, dextrotartaric acid.

A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.

Capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light; as, diactinic media.

f leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.

with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving. "Diapered light." H. Van Laun. Engarlanded and diapered With in wrought flowers. Tennyson.

Having power to transmit light; transparent; diaphanous.

Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear. Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous. Landor.

hich is generally circular, used in instruments to cut off marginal portions of a beam of light, as at the focus of a telescope.

Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic. -- n.

The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.

; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty Differencies of administration, but the same Lord. 1 Cor. xii. 5.

s are made indefinitely small. -- Differential coupling, a form of slip coupling used in light machinery to regulate at pleasure the velocity of the connected shaft. -- Differential duties (Polit. Econ.), duties which are not imposed equally upon the same products imported from different countries. -- Differential g…

The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars. Remarked by Grimaldi (1665), and referred by him to a property of light which he calle…

aken. Lest these colors should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light. Sir I. Newton.

A king among his courtiers, who dims all his attendants. Dryden. Now set the sun, and twilight dimmed the ways. Cowper.

A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin. Milton. The dimple of her chin. Prior.