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One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

An opponent; an enemy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.

A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse.

A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts ofchlorophyll.

To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold. Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak. God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. Milton.

The act of delaying; postponement. [R.] My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.

t; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion. I once again Defy thee to the trial of mortal fight. Milton. I defy the enemies of our constitution to show the contrary. Burke.

State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b2c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown…

One who testifies or deposes; a deponent.

ound screw by which a motion is produced equal to the difference of the motions of the component screws. -- Differential thermometer, a thermometer usually with a U-shaped tube terminating in two air bulbs, and containing a colored liquid, used for indicating the difference between the temperatures to which the two bu…

To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass.

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation. Dissolutions of ancient amities. Shak.

Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble. -- Dis*solv"a*ble*ness, n. Though everything which is compacted be in its own nature dissolvable. Cudworth. Such things as are not dissolvable by the moisture of the tongue. Sir I. Newton.

One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.

al equation; a quadratic equation; an algebraic equation; a transcendental equation; an exponential equation; a logarithmic equation; a differential equation, etc.

to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.

he lowest melting point which it is possible to obtain by the combination of the given components.

The principle or process of forming from given components the eutectic alloy, or alloy of maximum fusibility.