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The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive. Development theory (Biol.), the doctrine that animals and plants possess the power of passing by slow and successive stages from a lower to a higher state of organization, a…

Power of devising; invention; contrivance. I must have instruments of my own device. Landor.

evotion; 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.

a lock provided with one or more plates having numbers or letters upon them. These plates must be adjusted in a certain determined way before the lock can be operated. -- Dial plate, the plane or disk of a dial or timepiece on which lines and figures for indicating the time are placed.

Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony. The fair music that all creatures made . . . In perfect diapason. Milton.

The muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.

ent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first. Diatonic scale (Mus.), a scale consisting of eight sounds with seven intervals, of which two are semitones and five are whole tones; a modern major or minor scale, as distinguished from the chromatic scale.

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.]

of a treaty; a general dictates orders to his troops. Whatsoever is dictated to us by God must be believed. Watts.

for cutting out articles from leather, cloth, paper, etc. -- The die is cast, the hazard must be run; the step is taken, and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken.

To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.

Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.

A muscle which dilates any part; a dilator.

A muscle that dilates any part.

mateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.

An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.

An extinct Quaternary marsupial from Australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; -- so named because of its two large front teeth. See Illustration in Appendix.

A character, thus [ Moore (Encyc. of Music).