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k or name; distinctive title; appellation. The usual designation of the days of the week. Whewell.

"[The moon] was dichotomized." Whewell.

Grimaldi (1665), and referred by him to a property of light which he called diffraction. Whewell. Diffraction grating. (Optics) See under Grating. -- Diffraction spectrum. (Optics) See under Spectrum.

s and ages infinite. Milton. We find this knowledge diffused among all civilized nations. Whewell.

dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished. The dim magnificence of poetry. Whewell. How is the gold become dim! Lam. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth.

Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell.

onal neglect; omission of notice; want of attention; slight. The disregard of experience. Whewell.

held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine. The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity. Whewell.

A unit of measure for dynamical effect or work; a foot pound. See Foot pound. Whewell.

; as, the effect of luxury. The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause. Whewell.

Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; -- applied to the equinoctial line. Whewell.

The libration of the moon. Whewell.

n the human soul. Sir. M. Hale. The principles which art involves, science alone evolves. Whewell. Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above. J. C. Shairp.

strange arts." Stirling. This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. Whewell.

Beyond or outside of the tropics. Whewell.

axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. -- Fundamental chord (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. -- Fundamental colors, red, g…

ffect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The futility of this mode of philosophizing. Whewell.

rpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell.

Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow; prismatic; as, the iridal colors. Whewell.

as by the adjective "moral" we denote that which has reference to the doctrine of duties. Whewell.