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A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.

f small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough- haired and the smooth-haired.

A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tëgmînê, E. mer"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.]

A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.

In Scott's "Guy Mannering", a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers.

d became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm. Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins.

A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc.

Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.

is. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same…

pace which can not be seen or defended from behind the parapet. -- Dead block, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car. -- Dead calm (Naut.), no wind at all. -- Dead center, or Dead point (Mach.), either of two points in the orbit of a crank, at which the…

ngs are at a deadlock. London Times. The Board is much more likely to be at a deadlock of two to two. The Century.

Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.

An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36º.

A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about two cents.

sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.

Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other; as, a decussated period.

ng; to subtract; -- often with from or out of. Deduct what is but vanity, or dress. Pope. Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops. Bp. Burnet. We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy. Norris.

ferring. The deduction of one language from another. Johnson. This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction. J. R. Seely.

The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.

To delineate. [Obs.] These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.