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taining to diabetes; as, diabetic or diabetical treatment. Quian. Diabetic sugar. (Chem.) Same as Dextrose.

o points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, â, ä, o, ô, etc. "Diacritical points." Sir W. Jones. A glance at this typography will reveal great difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way of both printer and writer. A. J. Ellis.…

than could be conveniently marked on a plain scale. -- Diagonal stratification. (Geol.) Same as Cross bedding, under Cross, a.

Same as Dialectics. Plato placed his dialectic above all sciences. Liddell & Scott.

Same as Asyndeton.

Same as Columbium. [Obs.]

Same as Diapason. [Obs.] A tuneful diapase of pleasures. Spenser.

Same as Diaper, n.,

Same as Diathermal.

Same as Bichloride.

Same as Dichroscope.

Same as Didelphic.

Same as Didelphic.

The same as Dihedral.

Same as Diæresis.

he difference between the innocent and the guilty Differencies of administration, but the same Lord. 1 Cor. xii. 5.

Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison.

ft. -- Differential duties (Polit. Econ.), duties which are not imposed equally upon the same products imported from different countries. -- Differential galvanometer (Elec.), a galvanometer having two coils or circuits, usually equal, through which currents passing in opposite directions are measured by the differen…

entiated into the two forms then and than. Earle. Two or more of the forms assumed by the same original word become differentiated in signification. Dr. Murray.

Sexually reproductive. Digenous reproduction. (Biol.) Same as Digenesis.