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1,586 words match “TOG”

DETERMINE v.
nted a pernicious doctrine or published an ill book must know that his life determine not together. South. Estates may determine on future contingencies. Blackstone.
DEVELOPER n.
A reagent by the action of which the latent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed and visible.
DEVELOPMENT n.
olding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state. A new development of imagination, taste, and poetry. Channing.
DEVOTION n.
ated; an object of devotion. [R.] Churches and altars, priests and all devotions, Tumbled together into rude chaos. Beau. & Fl. Days of devotion. See under Day.
DIAGONIAL a.
st all atonement; both diagonal contraries, as much allowing one another as day and night together in one hemisphere. Milton.
DIAPASM n.
Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together. [Obs.]
DIAPHANOTYPE n.
A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.
DICTAGRAPH n.
Var. of Dictograph.
DIGEST v.
educe to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc. Joining them together and digesting them into order. Blair. We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. Shak.
DIODON n.
A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. fishes, and sea hedgehogs.
DIPODY n.
Two metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure. Hadley. Trochaic, iambic, and anapestic verses . . . are measured by dipodies. W. W. Goodwin.
DISCIPLINE v.
nd systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill. Ill armed, and worse disciplined. Clarendon. His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature. Macaulay.
DISFORMITY n.
scordance or diversity of form; unlikeness in form. Uniformity or disformity in comparing together the respective figures of bodies. S. Clarke.
DISPROPORTION v.
legs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part. Shak. A degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory. Prescott.
DISTINCT a.
rowth or otherwise; -- with from. The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct. Clarendon.
DISTRACTION n.
erturbation of mind; despair. The distraction of the children, who saw both their parents together, would have melted the hardest heart. Tatler.
DO v.
ake over; to perform a second time. (b) To cover; to spread; to smear. "Boats . . . sewed together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin." De Foe. -- To do to death, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.] -- To do up. (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] Chaucer. (b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up. (c) To…
DOUBLE a. 3 definitions
Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled. [Let] The swan, on still St. Mary's lake, Float double, swan and shadow. Wordsworth.
DOUBLE-RIPPER n.
A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other. [Local, U. S.]
DOUBLETHREADED a.
Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
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