Difficultate (v. t.) To render difficult; to difficilitate.
Difficultly (adv.) With difficulty.
Difficultness (n.) Difficulty.
Difficulties (pl. ) of Difficulty
Difficulty (n.) The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
Difficulty (n.) Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.
Difficulty (n.) A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
Difficulty (n.) Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
Diffide (v. i.) To be distrustful.
Diffidence (n.) The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others.
Diffidence (n.) Distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of self-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness.
Diffidency (n.) See Diffidence.
Diffident (a.) Wanting confidence in others; distrustful.
Diffident (a.) Wanting confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.
Diffidently (adv.) In a diffident manner.
Diffind (v. t.) To split.
Diffine (v. t.) To define.
Diffinitive (a.) Definitive; determinate; final.
Diffission (n.) Act of cleaving or splitting.
Difflation (n.) A blowing apart or away.
Diffluence (n.) Alt. of Diffluency
Diffluency (n.) A flowing off on all sides; fluidity.
Diffluent (a.) Flowing apart or off; dissolving; not fixed.
Difform (a.) Irregular in form; -- opposed to uniform; anomalous; hence, unlike; dissimilar; as, to difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; difform leaves.
Difformity (n.) Irregularity of form; diversity of form; want of uniformity.
Diffracted (imp. & p. p.) of Diffract
Diffracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diffract
Diffract (v. t.) To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a/ rays of light.
Diffraction (n.) The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.
Diffractive (a.) That produces diffraction.
Diffranchise () Alt. of Diffranchisement
Diffranchisement () See Disfranchise, Disfranchisement.
Diffusate (n.) Material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane.
Diffused (imp. & p. p.) of Diffuse
Diffusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diffuse
Diffuse (v. t.) To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.
Diffuse (v. i.) To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
Diffuse (a.) Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.
Diffused (a.) Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse.
Diffusely (adv.) In a diffuse manner.
Diffuseness (n.) The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.
Diffuser (n.) One who, or that which, diffuses.
Diffusibility (n.) The quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured or spread out.
Diffusible (a.) Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.
Diffusible (a.) Capable of passing through animal membranes by osmosis.
Diffusibleness (n.) Diffusibility.
Diffusion (n.) The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.
Diffusion (n.) The act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate.
Diffusive (a.) Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse.
Diffusively (adv.) In a diffusive manner.
Diffusiveness (n.) The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.
Diffusivity (n.) Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.
Dug (imp. & p. p.) of Dig
Digged () of Dig
Digging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dig
Dig (v. t.) To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
Dig (v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
Dig (v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
Dig (v. t.) To thrust; to poke.
Dig (v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
Dig (v. i.) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
Dig (v. i.) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
Dig (n.) A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
Dig (v. t.) A plodding and laborious student.
Digamist (n.) One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.
Digamma (n.) A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse.
Digammate (a.) Alt. of Digammated
Digammated (a.) Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek /.
Digamous (a.) Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.
Digamy (n.) Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy.
Digastric (a.) Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.
Digastric (a.) Pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves.
Digenea (n. pl.) A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.
Digenesis (n.) The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.
Digenous (a.) Sexually reproductive.
Digerent () Digesting.
Digested (imp. & p. p.) of Digest
Digesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Digest
Digest (v. t.) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
Digest (v. t.) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
Digest (v. t.) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
Digest (v. t.) To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
Digest (v. t.) Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
Digest (v. t.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
Digest (v. t.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
Digest (v. t.) To ripen; to mature.
Digest (v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
Digest (v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
Digest (v. i.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
Digest (v. t.) That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
Digest (v. t.) A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.
Digestedly (adv.) In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.
Digester (n.) One who digests.
Digester (n.) A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.
Digester (n.) A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them.
Digestibility (n.) The quality of being digestible.
Digestible (a.) Capable of being digested.
Digestibleness (n.) The quality of being digestible; digestibility.
Digestion (n.) The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
Digestion (n.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.