Diamond (n.) One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.
Diamond (n.) A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.
Diamond (n.) The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.
Diamond (n.) The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.
Diamond (a.) Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.
Diamond-back (n.) The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).
Diamonded (a.) Having figures like a diamond or lozenge.
Diamonded (a.) Adorned with diamonds; diamondized.
Diamondize (v. t.) To set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich.
Diamond-shaped (a.) Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
Diamylene (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H20, of the ethylene series, regarded as a polymeric form of amylene.
Dian (a.) Diana.
Diana (n.) The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis.
Diandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having two stamens.
Diandrian (a.) Diandrous.
Diandrous (n.) Of or pertaining to the class Diandria; having two stamens.
Dianium (n.) Same as Columbium.
Dianoetic (a.) Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products.
Dianoialogy (n.) The science of the dianoetic faculties, and their operations.
Dianthus (n.) A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.
Diapase (n.) Same as Diapason.
Diapasm (n.) Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together.
Diapason (n.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale.
Diapason (n.) Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony.
Diapason (n.) The entire compass of tones.
Diapason (n.) A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason.
Diapason (n.) One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like.
Diapedesis (n.) The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.
Diapente (n.) The interval of the fifth.
Diapente (n.) A composition of five ingredients.
Diaper (n.) Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.
Diaper (n.) Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
Diaper (n.) A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc.
Diaper (n.) An infant's breechcloth.
Diaper (v. t.) To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving.
Diaper (v. t.) To put a diaper on (a child).
Diaper (v. i.) To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
Diapering (n.) Same as Diaper, n., 2.
Diaphane (n.) A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.
Diaphaned (a.) Transparent or translucent.
Diaphaneity (n.) The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness.
Diaphanic (a.) Having power to transmit light; transparent; diaphanous.
Diaphanie (n.) The art of imitating //ined glass with translucent paper.
Diaphanometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the transparency of the air.
Diaphanoscope (n.) A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.
Diaphanotype (n.) A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.
Diaphanous (a.) Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.
Diaphanously (adv.) Translucently.
Diaphemetric (a.) Relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses.
Diaphonic (a.) Alt. of Diaphonical
Diaphonical (a.) Diacoustic.
Diaphonics (n.) The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
Diaphoresis (n.) Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.
Diaphoretic (a.) Alt. of Diaphoretical
Diaphoretical (a.) Having the power to increase perspiration.
Diaphoretic (n.) A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.
Diaphote (n.) An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph.
Diaphragm (n.) A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.
Diaphragm (n.) The muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.
Diaphragm (n.) A calcareous plate which divides the cavity of certain shells into two parts.
Diaphragm (n.) A plate with an opening, which is generally circular, used in instruments to cut off marginal portions of a beam of light, as at the focus of a telescope.
Diaphragm (n.) A partition in any compartment, for various purposes.
Diaphragmatic (a.) Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves.
Diaphysis (n.) An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.
Diaphysis (n.) The shaft, or main part, of a bone, which is first ossified.
Diapnoic (a.) Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic.
Diapnoic (n.) A gentle diaphoretic.
Diapophysical (a.) Pertaining to a diapophysis.
Diapophysis (n.) The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
Diarchy (n.) A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons.
Diarial (a.) Alt. of Diarian
Diarian (a.) Pertaining to a diary; daily.
Diarist (n.) One who keeps a diary.
Diarrhea (n.) Alt. of Diarrhoea
Diarrhoea (n.) A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.
Diarrheal (a.) Alt. of Diarrhoeal
Diarrhoeal (a.) Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.
Diarrhetic (a.) Alt. of Diarrhoetic
Diarrhoetic (a.) Producing diarrhea, or a purging.
Diarthrodial (a.) Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations.
Diarthrosis (n.) A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation.
Diaries (pl. ) of Diary
Diary (n.) A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.
Diary (a.) lasting for one day; as, a diary fever.
Diaspore (n.) A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
Diastase (n.) A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.
Diastasic (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, diastase; as, diastasic ferment.
Diastasis (n.) A forcible of bones without fracture.
Diastatic (a.) Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.
Diastem (n.) Intervening space; interval.
Diastem (n.) An interval.
Diastema (n.) A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.
Diaster (n.) A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis.
Diastole (n.) The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.
Diastole (n.) A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.
Diastolic (a.) Of or pertaining to diastole.
Diastyle (n.) See under Intercolumniation.
Diatessaron (n.) The interval of a fourth.
Diatessaron (n.) A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament.
Diatessaron (n.) An electuary compounded of four medicines.