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Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, esp. of water. Arbuthnot.

; 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.

Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.

One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge. Lyell.

Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin. Buckland.

To run as a flood. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.

A shutting off; exclusion. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

A thrower of the discus.

The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. Lowell.

To disenchant; to free from illusion. "The bitter disillusionizing experience of postnuptial life." W. Black.

The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.

A friction clutch in which the gripping surfaces are disks or more or less resemble disks.

To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. Burke.

The quality of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, and converted into a fluid.

e of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid. Woodward.