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p; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident. Let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee. Judges xiii. 15.

mind reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness. He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. Emerson.

An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton.

A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy. [Eng.]

iled egg, sliced into halves and with the yolk removed and replaced with a paste, usually made from the yolk and mayonnaise, seasoned with salt and/or spices such as paprika.

One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.

A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.

A sirup made of poppies.

A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.

A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.

Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.

Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together. [Obs.]

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

A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.

e that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth. [Obs.]

agnifying device enabling the ordinary mouthpiece to be dispensed with. Much use has been made of it for overhearing, or for recording, conversations for the purpose of obtaining evidence for use in litigation.

A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool. Cutting die (Mech.), a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather, cloth, paper,…

function of a variable to the increment of the variable itself, when these increments 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…

nd Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects. Sir W. Jones. They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. Burke.

, the angular space contained between planes which intersect. It is measured by the angle made by any two lines at right angles to the two planes.