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21 words match “DIVA”

about or going astray; digression. Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation. Thackeray.

Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.

DIVAN n. 6 definitions

A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz. [Persia]

DIVARICATE v. 5 definitions

To diverge; to be divaricate. Woodward.

DIVARICATELY adv.

With divarication.

DIVARICATION n. 3 definitions

A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.

One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.

Devastated; laid waste. [Obs.]

Wandering over the world. [R.]

To baskslide; to fall again. [Obs.]

RECIDIVATION n.

A falling back; a backsliding. Hammond.

A sofa or divan.

bon monoxide. It is almost the only definitely known compound in which carbon seems to be divalent. It is a product of the incomplete combustion of carbon, and is an abundant constituent of water gas. It is fatal to animal life, extinguishes combustion, and burns with a pale blue flame, forming carbon dioxide.…

Divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid.

An unsymmetrical, divalent, hydrocarbon radical, C2H4 metameric with ethylene but written thus, CH3.CH to distinguish it from the symmetrical ethylene, CH2.CH2. Its compounds are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also ethidene.

EXPERIENTIAL a.

ing to, experience. Coleridge. It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it is divan to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning. Sir. W. Hamiltion. -- Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ly, adv. DR. H. More.

A divalent, compound radical, CO.CH2, regarded as the essential radical of glycolic acid, and a large series of related compounds.

the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.

ence, also, a derivative of ammonia, in which two atoms of hydrogen have been replaced by divalent basic or acid radicals; -- frequently used as a combining form; as, succinimide.