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To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur.

mixture of two volumes of hydrogen with one volume of oxygen, which explodes with a loud report upon ignition. -- Detonating powder, any powder or solid substance, as fulminate of mercury, which when struck, explodes with violence and a loud report. -- Detonating primer, a primer exploded by a fuse; -- used to explo…

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

To take credit or reputation from; to defame. That calumnious critic . . . Detracting what laboriously we do. Drayton.

The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny.

amage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc. I can repair That detriment, if such it be. Milton.

The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind. [Jesus] being forty days tempted of the devil. Luke iv. 2. That old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. Rev. xii. 9.

, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side. Dexter chief, or Dexter point (Her.), a point in the dexter upper corner of the shield, being in the dexter extremity of the chief, as A in the cut. -- Dexter base, a point in the dext…

To ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil. [R.] Farindon.

Represented or formed by depressions in the general surface; as, diaglyphic sculpture or engraving; -- opposed to anaglyphic.

A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato.

is, which tends to take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet.

Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

Having two replaceable atoms or radicals.

Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.

A form of phonographic recorder and reproducer adapted for use in dictation, as in business.

One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.

To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or…

Evil name; bad reputation; defamation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek . Andrews.