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DESICCATOR n. 2 definitions
One who, or that which, desiccates.
DESICCATORY a.
Desiccative.
DIAPOPHYSICAL a.
Pertaining to a diapophysis.
DIASTASIC a.
Pertaining to, or consisting of, diastase; as, diastasic ferment.
DIBASIC a.
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.
DIBASICITY n.
The property or condition of being dibasic.
DOGSICK a.
Sick as a dog sometimes is very sick. [Colloq.]
DROPSICAL a. 2 definitions
Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient.
DROPSICALNESS n.
State of being dropsical.
DYSGENESIC a.
Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another. Darwin.
EMULSIC a.
Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid. Hoblyn.
EXSICCANT a. 2 definitions
An exsiccant medicine.
EXSICCATE v.
To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.
EXSICCATION n.
The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness. Sir T. Browne.
EXSICCATIVE a.
Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.
EXSICCATOR n.
An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid.
EXTRAPHYSICAL a.
Not subject to physical laws or methods.
EXTRINSIC a. 2 definitions
contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic. The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial culture. I. Taylor.
EXTRINSICAL a.
Extrinsic. -- Ex*trin"sic*al*ly(#), adv.
EXTRINSICALITY; EXTRINSICALNESS n.
The state or quality of being extrinsic.
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