TERMS STARTING WITH
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.
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.
digerati "jargon" (Or "digirati". By analogy with "literati" - people knowledgeable about literature) People knowledgeable about computers, "computer literate". [Newsweek, March 1995?]. (1995-05-07)
digerati ::: (jargon) (Or digirati. By analogy with literati - people knowledgeable about literature) People knowledgeable about computers, computer literate.[Newsweek, March 1995?]. (1995-05-07)
digerent ::: --> Digesting.
digest ::: A periodical collection of messages which have been posted to a newsgroup or mailing list. A digest is prepared by a moderator who selects articles from the group or list, formats them and adds a contents list. The digest is then either mailed to an alternative mailing list or posted to an alternative newsgroup.Some news readers and electronic mail programs provide commands to undigestify a digest, i.e. to split it up into individual articles which may then be read and saved or discarded separately.
digest A periodical collection of messages which have been posted to a {newsgroup} or {mailing list}. A digest is prepared by a {moderator} who selects articles from the group or list, formats them and adds a contents list. The digest is then either mailed to an alternative {mailing list} or posted to an alternative newsgroup. Some {news readers} and {electronic mail} programs provide commands to "undigestify" a digest, i.e. to split it up into individual articles which may then be read and saved or discarded separately.
digested ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Digest
digestedly ::: adv. --> In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.
digester ::: n. --> One who digests.
A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.
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.
digesting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Digest
digestion ::: n. --> The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.
Generation of pus; suppuration.
digestive ::: a. --> Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments. ::: n. --> That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.
digestor ::: n. --> See Digester.
digesture ::: n. --> Digestion.
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.
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.
To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to
diggable ::: a. --> Capable of being dug.
digged ::: --> of Dig
digger ::: n. --> One who, or that which, digs.
diggers ::: n. pl. --> A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
digging ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Dig ::: n. --> The act or the place of excavating.
Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.
Region; locality.
dighted ::: --> of Dight
dighter ::: n. --> One who dights.
dight ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Dight ::: v. t. --> To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn.
To have sexual intercourse with.
dighting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Dight
digirati {digerati}
digitain ::: n. --> Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties.
A supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the essential ingredient of the extracts. It is a white, crystalline substance, and is regarded as a glucoside.
digital ::: a. --> Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.
digital audio ::: (multimedia, file format) A sequence of discrete samples taken from a continuous sound (audio) waveform. Tens of thousands of samples are taken each encoding of each sample including the number of bits used. The encoding may be linear, logarithmic or mu-law.Digital audio is typically created by taking 16-bit samples over a spectrum of 44.1 thousand cycles per second (kHz), this means that CD quality sound requires 1.4 million bits of data per second. Digital telephone systems use lower sample rates.Filename extension: .au (Unix), .snd (MS-DOS, MS Windows).See also Audio IFF, MP3, wav.Usenet newsgroups: alt.binaries.sounds.*.A FAQ on audio file formats is available. (1999-07-30)
digital audio "multimedia, file format" A sequence of discrete samples taken from a continuous sound ({audio}) waveform. Tens of thousands of samples are taken each second. Each sample represents the intensity of the sound pressure wave at that instant. Apart from the sampling frequency, the other parameter is the digital encoding of each sample including the number of {bits} used. The encoding may be linear, logarithmic or {mu-law}. Digital audio is typically created by taking 16-bit samples over a spectrum of 44.1 thousand cycles per second (kHz), this means that CD quality sound requires 1.4 million bits of data per second. Digital telephone systems use lower sample rates. {Filename extension}: .au ({Unix}), .snd ({MS-DOS}, {MS Windows}). See also {Audio IFF}, {MP3}, {wav}. {Usenet} newsgroups: alt.binaries.sounds.*. A {FAQ} on audio file formats is available. {Part 1 (ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/audio/AudioFormats.part1)}, {Part 2 (ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/audio/AudioFormats.part2)}. (1999-07-30)
digital camera "graphics, hardware" A camera that captures and stores still images as {digital} data instead of on photographic film. The first digital cameras became available in the early 1990s[?]. [Which and when was the first?] (2000-08-10)
digital camera ::: (graphics, hardware) A camera that captures and stores still images as digital data instead of on photographic film.The first digital cameras became available in the early 1990s[?].[Which and when was the first?](2000-08-10)
digital carrier ::: (hardware, communications) A medium which can carry digital signals; broadly equivalent to the physical layer of the OSI seven layer model of can include direct current (DC), whereas broadband carriers are modulated by various methods into frequency bands which do not include DC.Sometimes a modem (modulator/demodulator) or codec (coder/decoder) combines several channels on one transmission path. The combining of channels is called division multiplexing (FDM) and codecs with time division multiplexing (TDM) though this grouping of concepts is somewhat arbitrary.If the medium of a carrier is copper telephone wire, the circuit may be called T1, T3, etc. as these designations originally described such.T1 carriers used a restored polar line coding scheme which allowed a baseband signal to be transported as broadband and restored to baseband at the receiver. T1 is not used in this sense today, and indeed it is often confused with the DS1 signal carried. (1996-03-31)
digital carrier "hardware, communications" A medium which can carry {digital} signals; broadly equivalent to the {physical layer} of the {OSI} seven layer model of networks. Carriers can be described as {baseband} or {broadband}. A baseband carrier can include direct current (DC), whereas broadband carriers are modulated by various methods into frequency bands which do not include DC. Sometimes a {modem} (modulator/demodulator) or {codec} (coder/decoder) combines several channels on one transmission path. The combining of channels is called {multiplexing}, and their separation is called demultiplexing, independent of whether a modem or codec bank is used. Modems can be associated with {frequency division multiplexing} (FDM) and codecs with {time division multiplexing} (TDM) though this grouping of concepts is somewhat arbitrary. If the medium of a carrier is copper telephone wire, the circuit may be called {T1}, {T3}, etc. as these designations originally described such. T1 carriers used a restored polar line coding scheme which allowed a baseband signal to be transported as broadband and restored to baseband at the receiver. T1 is not used in this sense today, and indeed it is often confused with the {DS1} signal carried. (1996-03-31)
digital certificate "communications, security" An {attachment} to an {electronic mail} message used for security purposes, e.g. to verify that a user sending a message is who he or she claims to be, and to provide the receiver with the means to encode a reply. An individual wishing to send an encrypted message applies for a digital certificate from a {certificate authority} (CA). The CA issues an encrypted digital certificate containing the applicant's {public key} and a variety of other identification information. The CA makes its own public key readily available on the {Internet}. The recipient of an encrypted message uses the CA's public key to decode the digital certificate attached to the message, verifies it as issued by the CA and then obtains the sender's public key and identification information held within the certificate. (2006-05-27)
digital certificate ::: (communications, security) An attachment to an electronic mail message used for security purposes, e.g. to verify that a user sending a message is who he or she claims to be, and to provide the receiver with the means to encode a reply.An individual wishing to send an encrypted message applies for a digital certificate from a certificate authority (CA). The CA issues an encrypted identification information. The CA makes its own public key readily available on the Internet.The recipient of an encrypted message uses the CA's public key to decode the digital certificate attached to the message, verifies it as issued by the CA and then obtains the sender's public key and identification information held within the certificate.(2006-05-27)
digital computer "computer" A {computer} that represents numbers and other data using discrete internal states, in contrast to the continuously varying quantities used in an {analog computer}. Some of the fundamental ideas behind the digital computer were proposed by {Alan Turing} between 1936 and 1938. The design of the {Atanasoff-Berry Computer} (1937-1942) included some of the important implementation details but the first digital computer to successfully run real programs was the {Z3} (1941). {ENIAC} (1943-1946) was the first electronic digital computer but was only programmable by manual rewiring or switches. (2003-10-01)
digital computer ::: (computer) A computer that represents numbers and other data using discrete internal states, in contrast to the continuously varying quantities used in an analog computer.Some of the fundamental ideas behind the digital computer were proposed by Alan Turing between 1936 and 1938. The design of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (1943-1946) was the first electronic digital computer but was only programmable by manual rewiring or switches.(2003-10-01)
digital dashboard "software" A personalised desktop {portal} that focuses on {business intelligence} and {knowledge management}. {Microsoft}'s version has a launch screen including stock quotes, voice mail and e-mail messages, a calendar, a weather forecast, traffic information, access to news feeds, customer and sales data, and Internet conferences. A digital dashboard might previously have been thought of as an executive information system. In the future, digital dashboards could be available on {personal digital assistants} and mobile phones. ["Gates pitches 'digital dashboards' to bevy of top CEOs", Bob Trott, pub. InfoWorld Electric, 1999-05-19]. (1999-09-14)
digital dashboard ::: (software) A personalised desktop portal that focuses on business intelligence and knowledge management.Microsoft's version has a launch screen including stock quotes, voice mail and e-mail messages, a calendar, a weather forecast, traffic information, access to system. In the future, digital dashboards could be available on personal digital assistants and cellular phones.[Gates pitches 'digital dashboards' to bevy of top CEOs, Bob Trott, pub. InfoWorld Electric, 1999-05-19]. (1999-09-14)
digital "data" A description of {data} which is stored or transmitted as a sequence of discrete symbols from a finite set, most commonly this means {binary} data represented using electronic or electromagnetic signals. The opposite is {analogue}. (1998-10-28)
digital ::: (data) A description of data which is stored or transmitted as a sequence of discrete symbols from a finite set, most commonly this means binary data represented using electronic or electromagnetic signals.The opposite is analogue. (1998-10-28)
digital electronics ::: (electronics) The implementation of two-valued logic using electronic logic gates such as and gates, or gates and flip-flops. In such circuits the for false and +5V for true. Similarly, numbers are normally represented in binary using two different voltages to represented zero and one.Digital electronics contrasts with analogue electronics which represents continuously varying quantities like sound pressure using continuously varying voltages.Digital electronics is the foundation of modern computers and digital communications. Massively complex digital logic circuits with millions of gates can now be built onto a single integrated circuit such as a microprocessor and these circuits can perform millions of operations per second.(2006-01-14)
digital electronics "electronics" The implementation of {two-valued logic} using electronic {logic gates} such as {and gates}, {or gates} and {flip-flops}. In such circuits the logical values true and false are represented by two different {voltages}, e.g. 0V for false and +5V for true. Similarly, numbers are normally represented in {binary} using two different voltages to represented zero and one. Digital electronics contrasts with {analogue} electronics which represents continuously varying quantities like sound pressure using continuously varying voltages. Digital electronics is the foundation of modern computers and {digital communications}. Massively complex digital logic circuits with millions of gates can now be built onto a single {integrated circuit} such as a {microprocessor} and these circuits can perform millions of operations per second. (2006-01-14)
digital envelope "cryptography" {(http://rsa.com/rsalabs/faq/html/2-2-4.html)}. [Summary?] (1999-03-16)
digital envelope ::: (cryptography) .[Summary?] (1999-03-16)
digitalis ::: n. --> A genus of plants including the foxglove.
The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.
digital logic {two-valued logic}
digital root: The value of an integer modulo 9. The class="d-title" name is used mosting in its use in the verification system called casting out nines.
digital service unit {data service unit}
digital signature "cryptography" Extra data appended to a message which identifies and authenticates the sender and message data using {public-key encryption}. The sender uses a {one-way hash function} to generate a hash-code of about 32 bits from the message data. He then encrypts the hash-code with his private key. The receiver recomputes the hash-code from the data and decrypts the received hash with the sender's public key. If the two hash-codes are equal, the receiver can be sure that data has not been corrupted and that it came from the given sender. (1995-02-07)
digital signature ::: (cryptography) Extra data appended to a message which identifies and authenticates the sender and message data using public-key encryption.The sender uses a one-way hash function to generate a hash-code of about 32 bits from the message data. He then encrypts the hash-code with his private key. The with the sender's public key. If the two hash-codes are equal, the receiver can be sure that data has not been corrupted and that it came from the given sender. (1995-02-07)
digital signatures {digital signature}
digit ::: An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation. See also VAX, VMS, PDP-10, TOPS-10, DEChead, double DECkers, field circus.[Jargon File]
digit An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation. See also {VAX}, {VMS}, {PDP-10}, {TOPS-10}, {DEChead}, {double DECkers}, {field circus}. [{Jargon File}]
digitated ::: a. --> Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.
digitate ::: v. t. --> To point out as with the finger. ::: a. --> Alt. of Digitated
digitation ::: n. --> A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.
digitiform ::: a. --> Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.
digitigrade ::: a. --> Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade. ::: n. --> An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot.
digitipartite ::: a. --> Parted like the fingers.
digitize ::: v. t. --> To finger; as, to digitize a pen.
digit ::: n. --> One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.
A finger&
digitorium ::: n. --> A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.
digit span: a test of short-term memory, whereby participants are presented with a series of digits and asked to repeat them. Average digit span is 7 +/- 2.
digit: Symbols which are the components in a positional number system.
digitule ::: n. --> A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.
digladiate ::: v. i. --> To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently.
digladiation ::: n. --> Act of digladiating.
diglottism ::: n. --> Bilingualism.
diglyph ::: n. --> A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.
dignation ::: n. --> The act of thinking worthy; honor.
digne ::: a. --> Worthy; honorable; deserving.
Suitable; adequate; fit.
Haughty; disdainful.
dignification ::: n. --> The act of dignifying; exaltation.
dignified ::: a. --> Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge. ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Dignify
dignifying ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Dignify
dignify ::: v. t. --> To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
dignitaries ::: pl. --> of Dignitary
dignitary ::: n. --> One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.
dignities ::: pl. --> of Dignity
dignity ::: n. --> The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.
Elevation; grandeur.
Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.
Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of //en, manner, style, etc.
dignotion ::: n. --> Distinguishing mark; diagnostic.
digonous ::: a. --> Having two angles.
digram ::: n. --> A digraph.
digraph: A directed graph in graph theory, where each edge of a graph is associated with a direction - i.e. one of the two vertices adjacent to the edge towards which the edge is considered to point.
digraphic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a digraph.
digraph ::: n. --> Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.
digressed ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Digress
digressing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Digress
digressional ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
digression ::: n. --> The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.
A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense.
The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets.
digressive ::: a. --> Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression.
digressively ::: adv. --> By way of digression.
digress ::: v. i. --> To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. ::: n.
digue ::: n. --> A bank; a dike.
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.
To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
To thrust; to poke.
A plodding and laborious student.
digynian ::: a. --> Alt. of Digynous
digynia ::: n. --> A Linnaean order of plants having two styles.
digynous ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.
Digambara likewise applies to adepts and high chelas because of their ability to project the percipient consciousness to a distance employing the power which in Tibet is called hpho-wa. They are then mystically considered to be free of all physical trappings, clothed with the sky or atmosphere and wandering in it free and at will. See also KHECHARA
Digambara: Naked; clad with the quarters.
Digambara (Sanskrit) Digambara [from diś a quarter or region of the heavens + ambara sky, atmosphere; also clothes, apparel] Sky-clothed, clothed with the elements; often applied to Siva, but likewise to advanced adepts or ascetics. Customarily Orientalists render it “without clothes,” i.e., naked, applying the term to Siva in his character of an ascetic. But while the word, especially among the Jains, has come to have the significance of a naked mendicant, when applied to Siva, the third aspect of the Hindu Trimurti who permeates all things in all directions, it means “clothed with the sky.”
Digex {Digital Express Group, Inc.}
DigiCash ::: (company) A company, started in April 1990, which aims to develop and license products to support electronic payment methods including chip card, software only, and hybrid.Ecash is their trial form of software-only electronic money. . (1995-04-10)
DigiCash "company" A company, started in April 1990, which aims to develop and license products to support electronic payment methods including {chip card}, software only, and hybrid. {Ecash} is their trial form of software-only electronic money. {(http://digicash.com/home.html)}. (1995-04-10)
Digicom ::: , , . .[Description?]
Digicom {(ftp://ftp.whnet.com/pub/wolfgang)}, {(ftp://softmodem.whnet.com/pub/wolfgang)}, {(ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/wolfgang)}. {(http://ftp.whnet.com/wolfgang/)}. [Description?]
Digital Audio Tape "storage, music" (DAT) A format for storing music on magnetic tape, developed in the mid-1980s by {Sony} and {Philips}. As digital music was popularized by {compact discs}, the need for a digital recording format for the consumer existed. The problem is that digital music contains over 5 megabytes of data per minute before error correction and supplementary information. Before DAT, the only way to record digitally was to use a video or a reel-to-reel recorder. DAT uses a rotary-head (or "helical scan") format, where the read/write head spins diagonally across the tape like a video cassette recorder. Thus the proper name is "R-DAT", where "R" for rotary distinguishes it from "S-DAT", a stationary design that did not make it out of the laboratories. Studio reel-to-reel decks are able to use stationary heads because they can have wider tape and faster tape speeds, but for the desired small medium of DAT the rotary-head compromise was made despite the potential problems with more moving parts. Most DAT recorders appear to be a cross between a typical analog cassette deck and a {compact disc} player. In addition to the music, one can record subcode information such as the number of the track (so one can jump between songs in a certain order) or absolute time (counted from the beginning of the tape). The tape speed is much faster than a regular deck (one can rewind 30 minutes of music in 10-25 seconds), though not quite as fast as a compact disc player. DAT decks have both analog and digital inputs and outputs. DAT tapes have only one recordable side and can be as long 120 minutes. DAT defines the following recording modes with the following performance specifications... 2 channel 48KHz Sample rate, 16-bit linear encoding 120 min max. Frequency Response 2-22KHz (+-0.5dB) SN = 93 dB DR = 93 dB 2 channel 44.1Khz Sample rate, 16-bit linear encoding 120 min max Frequency Response 2-22KHz (+-0.5dB) SN = 93 dB DR = 93 dB 2 channel 32KHz Sample Rate, 12-bit non-linear encoding 240 min max Frequency Response 2-14.5KHz (+-0.5dB) SN = 92 dB DR = 92 dB 4 channel 32KHz (not supported by any deck) DAT is also used for recording computer data. Most computer DAT recorders use DDS format which is the same as audio DAT but they usually have completely different connectors and it is not always possible to read tapes from one system on the other. Computer tapes can be used in audio machines but are usually more expensive. You can record for two minutes on each metre of tape. (1995-02-09)
Digital Audio Tape ::: (storage, music) (DAT) A format for storing music on magnetic tape, developed in the mid-1980s by Sony and Philips. As digital music was popularized minute before error correction and supplementary information. Before DAT, the only way to record digitally was to use a video or a reel-to-reel recorder.DAT uses a rotary-head (or helical scan) format, where the read/write head spins diagonally across the tape like a video cassette recorder. Thus the proper rotary-head compromise was made despite the potential problems with more moving parts.Most DAT recorders appear to be a cross between a typical analog cassette deck and a compact disc player. In addition to the music, one can record subcode music in 10-25 seconds), though not quite as fast as a compact disc player. DAT decks have both analog and digital inputs and outputs.DAT tapes have only one recordable side and can be as long 120 minutes.DAT defines the following recording modes with the following performance specifications... 2 channel 48KHz Sample rate, 16-bit linear encoding120 min max. audio machines but are usually more expensive. You can record for two minutes on each metre of tape. (1995-02-09)
Digital "company" Common abbreviation for {Digital Equipment Corporation}. (1995-12-18)
Digital Control System ::: (system) (DCS) A digital computer used for real-time control of a dynamic system, usually in an industrial environment, possibly as part of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.A DCS samples feedback from the system under control and modifies the control signals in an attempt to achieve some desired behaviour.Analysis of such digital-analogue feedback systems can involve mathematical methods such as difference equations, Laplace transforms, z transfer functions, state space models and state transition matrices.(2004-08-22)
Digital Control System "systems" (DCS) A {digital computer} used for {real-time} control of a {dynamic system}, usually in an industrial environment, possibly as part of a {Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition} (SCADA) system. A DCS samples {feedback} from the system under control and modifies the control signals in an attempt to achieve some desired behaviour. Analysis of such digital-analogue feedback systems can involve mathematical methods such as {difference equations}, {Laplace transforms}, {z transfer functions}, {state space models} and {state transition matrices}. (2004-08-22)
Digital currency - an internet based form of currency or medium of exchange (i.e., distinct from physical, such as banknotes and coins) that exhibits properties similar to physical currencies, however, allows for instantaneous transactions and borderless transfer-of-ownership.
Digital Data Service "communications" (DDS) The class of service offered by telecommunications companies for transmitting digital data as opposed to voice. (1995-02-28)
Digital Data Service ::: (communications) (DDS) The class of service offered by telecommunications companies for transmitting digital data as opposed to voice. (1995-02-28)
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications "communications, standard" (DECT, formerly ".. European ..") A {standard} developed by the {European Telecommunication Standard Institute} from 1988, governing pan-European {digital mobile telephony}. DECT covers wireless {PBXs}, {telepoint}, residential {cordless telephones}, wireless access to the {public switched telephone network}, Closed User Groups (CUGs), {Local Area Networks}, and wireless {local loop}. DECT defines only the radio connection between two points and can be used for remote access to public and private networks. Other mobility standards, such as {GSM}, {TACS}, and {DCS 1800} add the necessary switching, signaling, and management functions that are not specified by DECT. The DECT Common Interface radio standard is a {multicarrier} {time division multiple access}, {time division duplex} (MC-TDMA-TDD) radio transmission technique using ten {radio frequency} channels from 1880 to 1930 MHz, each divided into 24 time slots of 10ms, and twelve {full-duplex} accesses per {carrier}, for a total of 120 possible combinations. A DECT base station (an RFP, Radio Fixed Part) can transmit all 12 possible accesses (time slots) simultaneously by using different frequencies or using only one frequency. All signaling information is transmitted from the RFP within a multiframe (16 frames). {Voice} signals are digitally encoded into a 32 kbit/s signal using {Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation}. The {handover} process is requested autonomously by the portable terminal and the Radio Fixed Parts, according to the carrier signal levels. A "Generic Access Profile" defines a minimum set of requirements for the support of speech telephony. {(http://italtel.it/catalog/data/inglese/capc_5.htm)}. (1999-04-13)
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications ::: (communications, standard) (DECT, formerly .. European ..) A standard developed by the European Telecommunication Standard Institute from 1988, switched telephone network, Closed User Groups (CUGs), Local Area Networks, and wireless local loop.DECT defines only the radio connection between two points and can be used for remote access to public and private networks. Other mobility standards, such as GSM, TACS, and DCS 1800 add the necessary switching, signaling, and management functions that are not specified by DECT.The DECT Common Interface radio standard is a multicarrier time division multiple access, time division duplex (MC-TDMA-TDD) radio transmission technique time slots of 10ms, and twelve full-duplex accesses per carrier, for a total of 120 possible combinations.A DECT base station (an RFP, Radio Fixed Part) can transmit all 12 possible accesses (time slots) simultaneously by using different frequencies or using a multiframe (16 frames). Voice signals are digitally encoded into a 32 kbit/s signal using Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation.The handover process is requested autonomously by the portable terminal and the Radio Fixed Parts, according to the carrier signal levels. A Generic Access Profile defines a minimum set of requirements for the support of speech telephony. . (1999-04-13)
Digital Equipment Computer Users Society ::: (body, DEC) (DECUS) A world wide organisation of Information Technology professionals interested in the products, services, and technologies of Digital information, advocacy programs, and opportunities for informal disclosure and interaction with professional colleagues of like interest.Address: 334 South Street, SHR3-1/T25, Shrewsbury, MA 01545-4195, USA.Telephone: +1 (800) DECUS55. (1995-02-08)
Digital Equipment Computer Users Society "body" (DECUS) A world-wide organisation of {Information Technology} professionals interested in the products, services, and technologies of {Digital Equipment Corporation} and related vendors. Membership in the US chapter is free and provides participants with the means to enhance their professional development, forums for technical training, mechanisms for obtaining up-to-date information, advocacy programs and opportunities for informal disclosure and interaction with professional colleagues of like interest. {DECUS Home (http://www.decus.org/)}. (2014-08-26)
Digital Equipment Corporation ::: (company) (DEC) A computer manufacturer and software vendor.Before the killer micro revolution of the late 1980s, hackerdom was closely symbiotic with DEC's pioneering time-sharing machines. The first of the group of PDP-10, PDP-20, PDP-11 and VAX were all foci of large and important hackerdoms, and DEC machines long dominated the ARPANET and Internet machine population.The first PC from DEC was a CP/M computer called Rainbow, announced in 1981-82.DEC was the technological leader of the minicomputer era (roughly 1967 to 1987), but its failure to embrace microcomputers and Unix early cost it heavily in affection even among many hackers too young to have grown up on DEC machines. The contrast with IBM is instructive.Quarterly sales $3923M, profits -$1746M (Aug 1994).DEC was taken over by Compaq Computer Corporation in 1998. . (1999-06-03)
Digital Equipment Corporation "company, hardware" (DEC) A computer manufacturer and software vendor. Before the {killer micro} revolution of the late 1980s, hackerdom was closely symbiotic with DEC's pioneering {time-sharing} machines. The first of the group of hacker cultures nucleated around the {PDP-1} (see {TMRC}). Subsequently, the {PDP-6}, {PDP-10}, {PDP-20}, {PDP-11} and {VAX} were all foci of large and important hackerdoms and DEC machines long dominated the {ARPANET} and {Internet} machine population. The first PC from DEC was a {CP/M} computer called {Rainbow}, announced in 1981-82. DEC was the technological leader of the minicomputer era (roughly 1967 to 1987), but its failure to embrace {microcomputers} and {Unix} early cost it heavily in profits and prestige after {silicon} got cheap. However, the {microprocessor} design tradition owes a heavy debt to the {PDP-11} {instruction set}, and every one of the major general-purpose microcomputer {operating systems} so far (CP/M, {MS-DOS}, {Unix}, {OS/2}) were either genetically descended from a DEC OS, or incubated on DEC {hardware} or both. Accordingly, DEC is still regarded with a certain wry affection even among many hackers too young to have grown up on DEC machines. The contrast with {IBM} is instructive. Quarterly sales $3923M, profits -$1746M (Aug 1994). DEC was taken over by {Compaq Computer Corporation} in 1998. In 2002 Compaq was in turn acquired by {Hewlett-Packard} who sold off parts of Digital Equipment Corporation to {Intel} and absorbed the rest. The Digital logo is no longer used. (2012-07-29)
Digital Equipment Corporation Network "networking" (DECNET) {Ethernet} software used on {DEC} computers such as the {Vax}. [More details?] (1999-06-03)
Digital Equipment Corporation Network ::: (networking) (DECNET) Ethernet software used on DEC computers such as the Vax.[More details?] (1999-06-03)
Digital European Cordless Telecommunications {Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications}
Digital Express Group, Inc. ::: (Digex) The largest Internet provider in the Washington metropolitan area with POPs in Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, New York and California. . (1994-10-25)
Digital Express Group, Inc. (Digex) The largest {Internet provider} in the Washington metropolitan area with {POPs} in Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, New York and California. {(http://digex.net)}. (1994-10-25)
Digital health - the use of digital technologies such as wireless sensors, smartphones, social networks, etc. combined with personal health and genetic information to improve the efficiency of healthcare, and make medicine more personalized and precise.
Digital immortality - (or "virtual immortality", or "immortality in silico") is storing a person's personality in a more durable media, i.e., a computer, and allowing it to communicate with people in the future. See /r/Digital_Immortality
Digital Lempel Ziv 1 "algorithm" (DLZ1) A {Lempel-Ziv compression} {algorithm} which maps variable length input strings to variable length output symbols. During compression, the algorithm builds a dictionary of strings which is accessed by means of a {hash table}. Compression occurs when input data matches a string in the table and is replaced with the output symbol. DLZ1 is used on {Digital Linear Tape}. (1997-04-05)
Digital Lempel Ziv 1 ::: (algorithm) (DLZ1) A Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm which maps variable length input strings to variable length output symbols. During compression, the table. Compression occurs when input data matches a string in the table and is replaced with the output symbol.DLZ1 is used on Digital Linear Tape. (1997-04-05)
Digital Library Initiative A project to research digital libraries which aims to provide real collections to real users (high school students, University researchers and students, users in public libraries). The project is sponsored jointly by three US federal funding agencies, led by the National Science Foundation. The {University of Michigan}, one of the six sites selected in 1994 to collaborate, will provide collections on earth and space sciences. The project, known there as the University of Michigan Digital Library Project (UMDL), is a large, multi-year project headed by Daniel Atkins, Dean of the School of Information and Library Studies. {UMDL (http://http2.sils.umich.edu/UMDL/HomePage.html)}. (1995-02-23)
Digital Library Initiative ::: A project to research digital libraries which aims to provide real collections to real users (high school students, University researchers and students, users in public libraries). The project is sponsored jointly by three US federal funding agencies, led by the National Science Foundation.The University of Michigan, one of the six sites selected in 1994 to collaborate, will provide collections on earth and space sciences. The project, large, multi-year project headed by Daniel Atkins, Dean of the School of Information and Library Studies. . (1995-02-23)
Digital Linear Tape "storage" (DLT) A kind of {magnetic tape} drive originally developed by {DEC} and now marketed by {Quantum}. DLT drives implement the {Digital Lempel Ziv 1} (DLZ1) {compression} {algorithm} in a combination of {hardware} and {firmware}. They use a popular chip by {Stac} (now {hi/fn}) to do the string searching. Counting, sorting and {Huffman coding} are done in firmware (with hardware support for the Huffman algorithm?). In April 1997 DLT drives can transfer 5 {megabytes} per second and can store 35 {gigabytes} on a single cartridge. Compression might roughly double these figures. (1997-04-05)
Digital Linear Tape ::: (storage) (DLT) A kind of magnetic tape drive originally developed by DEC and now marketed by Quantum.DLT drives implement the Digital Lempel Ziv 1 (DLZ1) compression algorithm in a combination of hardware and firmware. They use a popular chip by Stac (now hi/fn) to do the string searching. Counting, sorting and Huffman encoding are done in firmware (with hardware support for the Huffman algorithm?).In April 1997 DLT drives can transfer 5 megabytes per second and can store 35 gigabytes on a single cartridge. Compression might roughly double these figures. (1997-04-05)
Digital Multimeter "electronics" (DMM) A peice of test equipment used for measuring voltage, current, resistance, and possibly other electircal quantities and displaying the value in number form. (1997-02-12)
Digital Multimeter ::: (electronics) (DMM) A peice of test equipment used for measuring voltage, current, resistance, and possibly other electircal quantities and displaying the value in number form. (1997-02-12)
Digital native - a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and therefore familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age.
Digital Radio Mondiale ::: (communications) (DRM) A form of monaural digital broadcast using carrier frequencies below 30 MHz. DRM uses MPEG-4 AAC Main Profile and SBR at data rates of 16-25 kbps. .(2001-12-20)
Digital Radio Mondiale "communications" (DRM) A form of {monaural} digital broadcast using {carrier} frequencies below 30 MHz. DRM uses {MPEG-4 AAC Main Profile} and {SBR} at data rates of 16-25 kbps. {(http://drm.org/)}. (2001-12-20)
Digital Research "company" The company which developed {CP/M}, the {operating system} used on many of the first generation 8-bit {microprocessor}-based {personal computers}. Digital Research also produced {DR-DOS}. Address: Santa Cruz, CA, USA. (1998-03-17)
Digital Research ::: (company) The company which developed CP/M, the operating system used on many of the first generation 8-bit microprocessor-based personal computers. Digital Research also produced DR-DOS.Address: Santa Cruz, CA, USA. (1998-03-17)
Digital Rights Management ::: (legal) (DRM) Any technology used to limit the use of software, music, movies or other digital data. This generally relies on some interaction between a region code. If this does not match the player's region code, the player will refuse to play the disc.(2006-02-02)
Digital Rights Management "legal" (DRM) Any technology used to limit the use of {software}, music, movies or other digital data. This generally relies on some interaction between the media and the system that plays it. For example, video {DVDs} usually include a {region code}. If this does not match the player's region code, the player will refuse to play the disc. (2006-02-02)
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or {image}) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). (1994-12-07)
Digital Signal Processing ::: (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). (1994-12-07)
Digital Signal Processing Language ::: (language) (DSPL) A C-derived DSP language.[The Programming Language DSPL, A. Schwarte & H. Hanselmann, Proc PCIM 90, 1990]. (1994-12-01)
Digital Signal Processing Language "language" (DSPL) A {C}-derived {DSP} language. ["The Programming Language DSPL", A. Schwarte & H. Hanselmann, Proc PCIM 90, 1990]. (1994-12-01)
Digital Signature Standard ::: (cryptography, standard) The NIST's standard for digital signatures (authenticating both a message and the signer) that was first announced in 1991. considered very strong - comparable to RSA. It is estimated that DSS's 1024-bit keys would take 1.4E16 MIPS-years to crack. (1995-11-16)
Digital Signature Standard "cryptography, standard" The {NIST}'s {standard} for {digital signatures} (authenticating both a message and the signer) that was first announced in 1991. It is based on an {algorithm} using {discrete logarithms}, which is a variant of the {Elgamal algorithm} with Schnorr's improvements. DSS's security is currently considered very strong - comparable to {RSA}. It is estimated that DSS's 1024-bit keys would take 1.4E16 {MIPS}-years to crack. (1995-11-16)
Digital Simulation Language "language" (DSL) Extensions to {Fortran} to simulate {analog computer} functions. Version DSL/90 ran on the {IBM 7090}. ["DSL/90 - A Digital Simulation Program for Continuous System Modelling", Proc SJCC 28, AFIPS, Spring 1966]. [Sammet 1969, p 632]. (1996-10-13)
Digital Simulation Language ::: (language) (DSL) Extensions to Fortran to simulate analog computer functions. Version DSL/90 ran on the IBM 7090.[DSL/90 - A Digital Simulation Program for Continuous System Modelling, Proc SJCC 28, AFIPS, Spring 1966].[Sammet 1969, p 632]. (1996-10-13)
Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data "communications" (DSVD) A technique supported by some {modems} for multiplexing compressed speech with digital data for transmission over a normal telephone line. DSVD isn't standardised yet, so generally you have to have the same make of modem at both ends for it to work. [How does it work? Which modems? References?] (1997-06-05)
Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data ::: (communications) (DSVD) A technique supported by some modems for multiplexing compressed speech with digital data for transmission over a normal telephone line.DSVD isn't standardised yet, so generally you have to have the same make of modem at both ends for it to work.[How does it work? Which modems? References?] (1997-06-05)
DIGITAL Standard MUMPS (DSM) {DEC}'s version of {MUMPS}. (1995-01-10)
DIGITAL Standard MUMPS ::: (DSM) DEC's version of MUMPS. (1995-01-10)
Digital Subscriber Line Access Module "networking, hardware" (DSLAM, or Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) The generic term for the {Central Office} (CO) equipment where x{DSL} lines are terminated. The multiple {DSL} signals may be {multiplexed} onto a {wideband} channel such as {ATM}. (2000-04-05)
Digital Subscriber Line Access Module ::: (networking, hardware) (DSLAM, or Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) The generic term for the Central Office (CO) equipment where xDSL lines are terminated. The multiple DSL signals may be multiplexed onto a wideband channel such as ATM.(2000-04-05)
Digital Subscriber Line "communications, protocol" (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of {digital} {telecommunications} {protocols} designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing {copper} telephone lines between end-users and telephone companies. When two conventional {modems} are connected through the telephone system ({PSTN}), it treats the communication the same as voice conversations. This has the advantage that there is no investment required from the telephone company (telco) but the disadvantage is that the {bandwidth} available for the communication is the same as that available for voice conversations, usually 64 kb/s ({DS0}) at most. The {twisted-pair} copper cables into individual homes or offices can usually carry significantly more than 64 kb/s but the telco needs to handle the signal as digital rather than analog. There are many implementation of the basic scheme, differing in the communication {protocol} used and providing varying {service levels}. The {throughput} of the communication can be anything from about 128 kb/s to over 8 Mb/s, the communication can be either symmetric or asymmetric (i.e. the available bandwidth may or may not be the same {upstream} and {downstream}). Equipment prices and service fees also vary considerably. The first technology based on DSL was {ISDN}, although ISDN is not often recognised as such nowadays. Since then a large number of other protocols have been developed, collectively referred to as xDSL, including {HDSL}, {SDSL}, {ADSL}, and {VDSL}. As yet none of these have reached very wide deployment but wider deployment is expected for 1998-1999. {(http://cyberventure.com/~cedpa/databus-issues/v38n1/xdsl.html)}. {2Wire DSL provider lookup (http://2Wire.com/)}. ["Data Cooks, But Will Vendors Get Burned?", "Supercomm Spotlight On ADSL" & "Lucent Sells Paradine", Wilson & Carol, Inter@ctive Week Vol. 3
Digital Subscriber Line ::: (communications, protocol) (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and telephone companies.When two conventional modems are connected through the telephone system (PSTN), it treats the communication the same as voice conversations. This has the offices can usually carry significantly more than 64 kb/s but the telco needs to handle the signal as digital rather than analog.There are many implementation of the basic scheme, differing in the communication protocol used and providing varying service levels. The throughput bandwidth may or may not be the same upstream and downstream). Equipment prices and service fees also vary considerably.The first technology based on DSL was ISDN, although ISDN is not often recognised as such nowadays. Since then a large number of other protocols have and VDSL. As yet none of these have reached very wide deployment but wider deployment is expected for 1998-1999. . .[Data Cooks, But Will Vendors Get Burned?, Supercomm Spotlight On ADSL & Lucent Sells Paradine, Wilson & Carol, Week Vol. 3
Digital Subscriber Loop {Digital Subscriber Line}
Digital Switched Network "communications" (DSN) The completely digital version of the {PSTN}. (1997-07-18)
Digital Switched Network ::: (communications) (DSN) The completely digital version of the PSTN. (1997-07-18)
Digital to Analog Converter "electronics" (DAC) A device which takes a digital value and outputs a voltage which is proportional to the input value. Typical uses include digital generation of audio signals or conversion of a {bitmap image} to a signal to drive a {CRT}. (1998-02-15)
Digital to Analog Converter ::: (electronics) (DAC) A device which takes a digital value and outputs a voltage which is proportional to the input value.Typical uses include digital generation of audio signals or conversion of a bitmap image to a signal to drive a CRT. (1998-02-15)
Digital Versatile Disc "storage" (DVD, formerly "Digital Video Disc") An optical storage medium with improved capacity and bandwidth compared with the {Compact Disc}. DVD, like CD, was initally marketed for entertainment and later for computer users. [When was it first available?] A DVD can hold a full-length film with up to 133 minutes of high quality video, in {MPEG-2} format, and audio. The first DVD drives for computers were read-only drives ("DVD-ROM"). These can store 4.7 GBytes - over seven times the storage capacity of CD-ROM. DVD-ROM drives read existing {CD-ROMs} and music CDs and are compatible with installed sound and video boards. Additionally, the DVD-ROM drive can read DVD films and modern computers can decode them in software in {real-time}. The DVD video standard was announced in November 1995. Matshusita did much of the early development but Philips made the first DVD player, which appeared in Japan in November 1996. In May 2004, Sony released the first dual-layer drive, which increased the disc capacity to 8.5 GB. Double-sided, dual-layer discs will eventually increase the capacity to 17 GB. Write-once DVD-R ("recordable") drives record a 3.9GB DVD-R disc that can be read on a DVD-ROM drive. Pioneer released the first DVD-R drive on 1997-09-29. By March 1997, {Hitachi} had released a rewritable DVD-RAM drive (by false analogy with {random-access memory}). DVD-RAM drives read and write to a 2.6 GB DVD-RAM disc, read and write-once to a 3.9GB DVD-R disc, and read a 4.7 GB or 8.5 GB DVD-ROM. Later, DVD-RAM discs could be read on DVD-R and DVD-ROM drives. {Background (http://tacmar.com/dvd_background.htm)}. {RCA home (http://imagematrix.com/DVD/home.html)}. (2006-01-07)
Digital Versatile Disc ::: (storage) (DVD, formerly Digital Video Disc) An optical storage medium with improved capacity and bandwidth compared with the Compact Disc. DVD, like CD, was initally marketed for entertainment and later for computer users. [When was it first available?]A DVD can hold a full-length film with up to 133 minutes of high quality video, in MPEG-2 format, and audio.The first DVD drives for computers were read-only drives (DVD-ROM). These can store 4.7 GBytes - over seven times the storage capacity of CD-ROM. DVD-ROM sound and video boards. Additionally, the DVD-ROM drive can read DVD films and modern computers can decode them in software in real-time.The DVD video standard was announced in November 1995. Matshusita did much of the early development but Philips made the first DVD player, which appeared in which increased the disc capacity to 8.5 GB. Double-sided, dual-layer discs will eventually increase the capacity to 17 GB.Write-once DVD-R (recordable) drives record a 3.9GB DVD-R disc that can be read on a DVD-ROM drive. Pioneer released the first DVD-R drive on 1997-09-29.By March 1997, Hitachi had released a rewritable DVD-RAM drive (by false analogy with random access memory). DVD-RAM drives read and write to a 2.6 GB DVD-RAM disc, read and write-once to a 3.9GB DVD-R disc, and read a 4.7 GB or 8.5 GB DVD-ROM. Later, DVD-RAM discs could be read on DVD-R and DVD-ROM drives. .(2006-01-07)
Digital Versatile Disk Random Access Memory ::: (storage) (DVD-RAM) Rewritable DVD media that is recordable on both sides, giving up to 9.6GB of storage. A drive can record to disk and read from case goes into the drive. The former can sometimes be read by regular DVD drives; the latter obviously cannot. .(2005-01-26)
Digital Versatile Disk Random Access Memory "storage" (DVD-RAM) Rewritable {DVD} media that is recordable on both sides, giving up to 9.6{GB} of storage. A drive can record to disk and read from it at the same time, so the term {full duplex} is often used. There are two general types of media: traditional discrete disk in DVD or Jewel case, and one in a permanent case like a large floppy; the disk remains in the case, and the case goes into the drive. The former can sometimes be read by regular DVD drives; the latter obviously cannot. {Technical details, somewhat dated, at burnworld.com (http://burnworld.com/dvd/primer/dvdram.htm)}. (2005-01-26)
Digital Video Disc {Digital Versatile Disc}
Digital Web: The metaphysical aspect of the Internet, generally considered alive. Also called netspace and Webspace.
Dignāga. [alt. Dinnāga] (T. Phyogs glang; C. Chenna; J. Jinna; K. Chinna 陳那) (c. 480-c. 540). Indian monk regarded as the formalizer of Buddhist logic (NYĀYA; HETUVIDYĀ). Dignāga was an influential innovator in Buddhist inferential reasoning or logical syllogisms (PRAYOGA; SĀDHANA), an important feature of Indian philosophy more broadly, which occupies a crucial place in later Indian and Tibetan philosophical analysis. The Indian Nyāya (Logic) school advocated that there were five necessary stages in syllogistic reasoning: (1) probandum or proposition (PRATIJNĀ), "The mountain is on fire"; (2) reason (HETU), "because there is smoke," (3) analogy (udāharana), "Whatever is smoky is on fire, like a stove, but unlike a lake"; (4) application (upanāya), "Since this mountain is smoky, it is on fire"; (5) conclusion (nigamana), "The mountain is on fire." Using the same example, Dignāga by contrast reduced the syllogism down to only three essential steps: (1) probandum or proposition (PAKsA), "the mountain is on fire"; (2) reason (hetu), "because there is smoke"; (3) exemplification (dṛstānta), "whatever is smoky is on fire, like a stove," and "whatever is not on fire is not smoky, like a lake," or, more simply, "like a stove, unlike a lake." Dignāga is also the first scholiast to incorporate into Buddhism the Vaisesika position that there are only two valid means of knowledge (PRAMĀnA): direct perception (PRATYAKsA, which also includes for Buddhists the subcategory of YOGIPRATYAKsA) and inference (ANUMĀNA). Dignāga's major works include his PRAMĀnASAMUCCAYA ("Compendium on Valid Means of Knowledge"), ĀLAMBANAPARĪKsĀ ("Investigation of the Object"), and Nyāyamukha ("Primer on Logic"), which is available only in Chinese translation. See also DHARMAKĪRTI.
Dignāga
Dignity: In astrological terminology, a condition of placement wherein a planet’s influence is strengthened; conditions of placement in which the planet’s influence is weakened are termed debilities. (Dignities and debilities are of two varieties: essential and accidental.)
Digvijaya: Conquest of the quarters (world), either military or cultural.
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abbacy ::: n. --> The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.
abdicate ::: v. t. --> To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.
To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc.
To reject; to cast off.
To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
abdication ::: n. --> The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.
adight ::: p. p. --> of Adight ::: v. t. --> To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress.
abligurition ::: n. --> Prodigal expense for food.
abomasus ::: n. --> The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.
aboriginal ::: a. --> First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America.
Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood. ::: n. --> An original inhabitant of any land; one of the
accede ::: v. i. --> To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.
To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.
To become a party by associating one&
adansonia ::: n. --> A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.
admiration ::: n. --> Wonder; astonishment.
Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.
Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy.
advancement ::: v. t. --> The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.
An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5.
Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.
Settlement on a wife, or jointure.
aeruginous ::: a. --> Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper.
aerugo ::: n. --> The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris.
agastric ::: a. --> Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.
alderman ::: n. --> A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity.
One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.
amazon stone ::: n. --> A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.
ambreic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.
amorpha ::: n. --> A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo.
amphopeptone ::: n. --> A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.
ancientry ::: n. --> Antiquity; what is ancient.
Old age; also, old people.
Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth.
anilic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic; -- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo.
aniline ::: n. --> An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made. ::: a.
anil ::: n. --> A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.
animal ::: n. --> An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.
One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.
antialbumid ::: n. --> A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.
antipeptone ::: n. --> A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.
antithesis ::: n. --> An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."
The second of two clauses forming an antithesis.
Opposition; contrast.
antonomasia ::: n. --> The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.
apepsy ::: n. --> Defective digestion, indigestion.
apostleship ::: n. --> The office or dignity of an apostle.
apostolate ::: n. --> The dignity, office, or mission, of an apostle; apostleship.
The dignity or office of the pope, as the holder of the apostolic see.
apotheosize ::: v. t. --> To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.
archbishop ::: n. --> A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.
archdeacon ::: n. --> In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority.
archenteron ::: n. --> The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.
archiepiscopacy ::: n. --> That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.
The state or dignity of an archbishop.
archiepiscopality ::: n. --> The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy.
archmarshal ::: n. --> The grand marshal of the old German empire, a dignity that to the Elector of Saxony.
arian ::: a. & n. --> See Aryan. ::: a. --> Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings.
arms ::: n. --> Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.
The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science.
Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon.
The ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son.
The legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot.
arrogance ::: n. --> The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.
artificial ::: a. --> Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
Artful; cunning; crafty.
Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses.
artiodactyla ::: n. pl. --> One of the divisions of the ungulate animals. The functional toes of the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; -- opposed to Perissodactyla.
assessor ::: v. --> One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors.
One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office.
One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation.
assimilation ::: n. --> The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.
The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.
athanor ::: n. --> A digesting furnace, formerly used by alchemists. It was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat.
august ::: a. --> Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority.
The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
augustness ::: n. --> The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.
authorship ::: n. --> The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.
Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.
autochthonous ::: a. --> Aboriginal; indigenous; native.
autocratship ::: n. --> The office or dignity of an autocrat.
badigeon ::: n. --> A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.
bald ::: a. --> Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.
Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.
Undisguised.
Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean.
Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.
Destitute of the natural covering.
baobab ::: n. --> A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.
bare ::: a. --> Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
With head uncovered; bareheaded.
Without anything to cover up or conceal one&
baronage ::: n. --> The whole body of barons or peers.
The dignity or rank of a baron.
The land which gives title to a baron.
baronet ::: n. --> A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.
barony ::: n. --> The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.
In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.
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.
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
digestedly ::: adv. --> In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.
digester ::: n. --> One who digests.
A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.
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.
digesting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Digest
digestion ::: n. --> The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.
Generation of pus; suppuration.
digestive ::: a. --> Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments. ::: n. --> That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.
digestor ::: n. --> See Digester.
digesture ::: n. --> Digestion.
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.
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.
To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to
diggable ::: a. --> Capable of being dug.
digged ::: --> of Dig
digger ::: n. --> One who, or that which, digs.
diggers ::: n. pl. --> A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
digging ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Dig ::: n. --> The act or the place of excavating.
Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.
Region; locality.
dighted ::: --> of Dight
dighter ::: n. --> One who dights.
dight ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Dight ::: v. t. --> To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn.
To have sexual intercourse with.
dighting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Dight
digitain ::: n. --> Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties.
A supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the essential ingredient of the extracts. It is a white, crystalline substance, and is regarded as a glucoside.
digital ::: a. --> Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.
digitalis ::: n. --> A genus of plants including the foxglove.
The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.
digitated ::: a. --> Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.
digitate ::: v. t. --> To point out as with the finger. ::: a. --> Alt. of Digitated
digitation ::: n. --> A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.
digitiform ::: a. --> Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.
digitigrade ::: a. --> Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade. ::: n. --> An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot.
digitipartite ::: a. --> Parted like the fingers.
digitize ::: v. t. --> To finger; as, to digitize a pen.
digit ::: n. --> One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.
A finger&
digitorium ::: n. --> A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.
digitule ::: n. --> A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.
digladiate ::: v. i. --> To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently.
digladiation ::: n. --> Act of digladiating.
diglottism ::: n. --> Bilingualism.
diglyph ::: n. --> A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.
dignation ::: n. --> The act of thinking worthy; honor.
digne ::: a. --> Worthy; honorable; deserving.
Suitable; adequate; fit.
Haughty; disdainful.
dignification ::: n. --> The act of dignifying; exaltation.
dignified ::: a. --> Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge. ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Dignify
dignifying ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Dignify
dignify ::: v. t. --> To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
dignitaries ::: pl. --> of Dignitary
dignitary ::: n. --> One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.
dignities ::: pl. --> of Dignity
dignity ::: n. --> The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.
Elevation; grandeur.
Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.
Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of //en, manner, style, etc.
dignotion ::: n. --> Distinguishing mark; diagnostic.
digonous ::: a. --> Having two angles.
digram ::: n. --> A digraph.
digraphic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a digraph.
digraph ::: n. --> Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.
digressed ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Digress
digressing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Digress
digressional ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
digression ::: n. --> The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.
A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense.
The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets.
digressive ::: a. --> Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression.
digressively ::: adv. --> By way of digression.
digress ::: v. i. --> To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. ::: n.
digue ::: n. --> A bank; a dike.
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.
To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
To thrust; to poke.
A plodding and laborious student.
digynian ::: a. --> Alt. of Digynous
digynia ::: n. --> A Linnaean order of plants having two styles.
digynous ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.
beastly ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.
Abominable; as, beastly weather.
bedighted ::: --> of Bedight
bedight ::: p. p. --> of Bedight ::: v. t. --> To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn.
becket ::: n. --> A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.
A spade for digging turf.
before ::: prep. --> In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.
Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that.
An advance of; farther onward, in place or time.
Prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or worth; rather than.
beggarly ::: a. --> In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
Produced or occasioned by beggary. ::: adv. --> In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.
beglerbeg ::: n. --> The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.
begod ::: v. t. --> To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.
behind ::: a. --> On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill.
Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death.
Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement.
below ::: prep. --> Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.
Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality.
Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath. ::: adv.
bench ::: 1. A long seat usually made of wood, for two or more persons. 2. A seat occupied by a person in an official capacity, esp. a judge. 3. Such a seat as a symbol of the office and dignity of an individual judge or the judiciary.
beneath ::: prep. --> Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.
Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens.
Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming.
benedight ::: a. --> Blessed.
bestial ::: a. --> Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual. ::: n. --> A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial.
beyond ::: prep. --> On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than.
At a place or time not yet reached; before.
Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one&
bidigitate ::: a. --> Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.
bile ::: n. --> A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.
Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one&
biventral ::: a. --> Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.
blasphemy ::: n. --> An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.
Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification.
bluing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Blue ::: n. --> The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.
Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.
bombast ::: n. --> Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. ::: a.
brevet ::: n. --> A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].
A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer. ::: v. t. --> To confer rank upon by brevet.
butterwort ::: n. --> A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.
cacogastric ::: a. --> Troubled with bad digestion.
caliphate ::: n. --> The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.
calumba ::: n. --> The root of a plant (Jateorrhiza Calumba, and probably Cocculus palmatus), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic.
canonry ::: n. pl. --> A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.
cap ::: n. --> A covering for the head
One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys
One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants
One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.
The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
A respectful uncovering of the head.
The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill
cardigan jacket ::: --> A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves.
cardialgy ::: n. --> A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.
cardinalate ::: n. --> The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal.
cardinalship ::: n. --> The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal
cariccio ::: n. --> A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice.
A caprice; a freak; a fancy.
car ::: n. --> A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.
A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad.
A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity.
The stars also called Charles&
ceroon ::: n. --> A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.
chalkcutter ::: n. --> A man who digs chalk.
chantiers ::: Jhumur: “It is a building site where you dig the foundations. There is a lot of building. In order to build up you have to dig down. It is like building a world.”
chieftainship ::: n. --> The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.
chivalry ::: n. --> A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.
The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.
A tenure of lands by knight&
cholera ::: n. --> One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera.
chylifaction ::: n. --> The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
chyme ::: n. --> The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.
chymification ::: n. --> The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.
coction ::: n. --> Act of boiling.
Digestion.
The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
code ::: n. --> A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.
codex ::: n. --> A book; a manuscript.
A collection or digest of laws; a code.
An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament.
A collection of canons.
collier ::: n. --> One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
A vessel employed in the coal trade.
colon ::: n. --> That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.]
A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.
condign ::: a. --> Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit.
Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime.
condignity ::: n. --> Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence.
condignly ::: adv. --> According to merit.
condignness ::: n. --> Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness.
concoction ::: n. --> A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.
The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.
The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination.
Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition.
concoctive ::: a. --> Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive.
concoct ::: v. t. --> To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.
To purify or refine chemically.
To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.
To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.
condescend ::: v. i. --> To stoop or descend; to let one&
condescension ::: n. --> The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one&
considerableness ::: n. --> Worthiness of consideration; dignity; value; size; amount.
consular ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a consul; performing the duties of a consul; as, consular power; consular dignity; consular officers.
coordination ::: n. --> The act of coordinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coordination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coordination of functions.
The state of being coordinate, or of equal rank, dignity, power, etc.
countess ::: n. --> The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.
court ::: 1. An extent of open ground partially or completely enclosed by walls or buildings; a courtyard. 2. The place of residence of a sovereign or dignitary; a royal mansion or palace. courts, courtyard, courtyard"s.
courtliness ::: n. --> The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.
court ::: n. --> An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.
The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
covellite ::: n. --> A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.
crudeness ::: n. --> A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.
crude ::: superl. --> In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.
Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.
Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.
Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
crudity ::: n. --> The condition of being crude; rawness.
That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form.
dactyl ::: n. --> A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.
A finger or toe; a digit.
The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
dais ::: n. --> The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.
A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.
A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity.
dammara ::: n. --> An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine.
A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia; -- called also Agathis. There are several species.
dean ::: n. --> A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
debase ::: a. --> To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.
decoctible ::: a. --> Capable of being boiled or digested.
decoct ::: v. t. --> To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.
To prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation; to digest; to concoct.
To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling.
degrade ::: v. t. --> To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.
To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man.
To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and
delver ::: n. --> One who digs, as with a spade.
delve ::: v. t. --> To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. ::: v. i. --> To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.
deposition ::: n. --> The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.
The act of bringing before the mind; presentation.
The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.
That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter.
deprivation ::: n. --> The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
deprive ::: v. t. --> To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
desultory ::: a. --> Leaping or skipping about.
Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds.
Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark.
dethrone ::: v. t. --> To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.
deviate ::: v. i. --> To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary. ::: v. t. --> To cause to deviate.
didactyl ::: n. --> An animal having only two digits.
didactylous ::: a. --> Having only two digits; two-toed.
diisatogen ::: n. --> A red crystalline nitrogenous substance or artificial production, which by reduction passes directly to indigo.
dike ::: n. --> A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
A wall of turf or stone.
A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata. ::: v. t.
diminish ::: v. t. --> To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
To take away; to subtract.
diminution ::: n. --> The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase.
The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement.
Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record.
In counterpoint, the imitation of, or reply to, a
diphthong ::: n. --> A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- called a proper diphthong.
A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong. ::: v. t.
discursive ::: a. --> Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
disgestion ::: n. --> Digestion.
disgest ::: v. t. --> To digest.
disglorify ::: v. t. --> To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity.
dishonorer ::: n. --> One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity.
dishonor ::: n. --> Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.
The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. ::: v. t. --> To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity, or as unworthy in the sight of
disingenuous ::: a. --> Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
disinter ::: v. t. --> To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
disparagement ::: n. --> Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation.
Injurious comparison with an inferior; a depreciating or dishonoring opinion or insinuation; diminution of value; dishonor; indignity; reproach; disgrace; detraction; -- commonly with to.
displace ::: v. t. --> To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.
To crowd out; to take the place of.
To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.
To dislodge; to drive away; to banish.
displeasure ::: n. --> The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor; indignation.
That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offense; injury.
State of disgrace or disfavor; disfavor.
ditcher ::: n. --> One who digs ditches.
ditch ::: n. --> A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.
Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth. ::: v. t.
dite ::: v. t. --> To prepare for action or use; to make ready; to dight.
divagation ::: n. --> A wandering about or going astray; digression.
docket ::: n. --> A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label.
An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.
dogate ::: n. --> The office or dignity of a doge.
doggerel ::: a. --> Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes. ::: n. --> A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.
dom ::: n. --> A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.
In Portugal and Brazil, the title given to a member of the higher classes.
dubbed ::: invested with any name, character, dignity, or title; styled; named; called.
dub ::: v. t. --> To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.
To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.
To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;
To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.
To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
dug ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Dig
of Dig. ::: n. --> A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast.
dukedom ::: n. --> The territory of a duke.
The title or dignity of a duke.
duodenal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion.
duodenum ::: n. --> The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
duumvirate ::: n. --> The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.
dyspepsy ::: --> A kind of indigestion; a state of the stomach in which its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases, or, if others are present, they are of minor importance. Its symptoms are loss of appetite, nausea, heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of weight or fullness in the stomach, etc.
earldom ::: n. --> The jurisdiction of an earl; the territorial possessions of an earl.
The status, title, or dignity of an earl.
earl marshal ::: --> An officer of state in England who marshals and orders all great ceremonials, takes cognizance of matters relating to honor, arms, and pedigree, and directs the proclamation of peace and war. The court of chivalry was formerly under his jurisdiction, and he is still the head of the herald&
ecbole ::: n. --> A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.
effodient ::: a. --> Digging up.
effossion ::: n. --> A digging out or up.
effuse ::: a. --> Poured out freely; profuse.
Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
Spreading loosely, especially on one side; as, an effuse inflorescence.
Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells. ::: n.
egest ::: v. t. --> To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.
elastin ::: n. --> A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin.
electorality ::: n. --> The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate.
electorate ::: n. --> The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire.
The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them.
elixation ::: n. --> A seething; digestion.
emeer ::: n. --> Same as Emir.
An Arabian military commander, independent chieftain, or ruler of a province; also, an honorary title given to the descendants of Mohammed, in the line of his daughter Fatima; among the Turks, likewise, a title of dignity, given to certain high officials.
emperor ::: n. --> The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; -- a title of dignity superior to that of king; as, the emperor of Germany or of Austria; the emperor or Czar of Russia.
ennoblement ::: n. --> The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility.
That which ennobles; excellence; dignity.
ennoble ::: v. t. --> To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify.
To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.
enterocoele ::: n. --> A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo.
enthrone ::: v. t. --> To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity.
To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.
entitle ::: v. t. --> To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "Honorable."
To give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer&
epic ::: adj. 1. An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero. 2. Resembling or suggesting such poetry. 3. Heroic; majestic; impressively great. 4. Of unusually great size or extent. n. 5. An epic poem. 6. Any composition resembling an epic. epics.
episcopate ::: n. --> A bishopric; the office and dignity of a bishop.
The collective body of bishops.
The time of a bishop&
episode ::: n. --> A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.
eruginous ::: a. --> Partaking of the substance or nature of copper, or of the rust copper; resembling the trust of copper or verdigris; aeruginous.
esophagus ::: n. --> That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
esquire ::: n. --> Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire. ::: v. t. --> To wait on as an esquire or attendant in public; to
estate ::: n. --> Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
A person of high rank.
A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.
The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the
estatly ::: a. --> Stately; dignified.
eupepsy ::: n. --> Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia.
eupeptic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to good digestion; easy of digestion; having a good digestion; as, eupeptic food; an eupeptic man.
exalted ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Exalt ::: a. --> Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified; sublime.
exalter ::: n. --> One who exalts or raises to dignity.
exalt ::: v. t. --> To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.
To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.
To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.
To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.
exauthoration ::: n. --> Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration.
excavate ::: v. t. --> To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.
To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.
To dig out and remove, as earth.
excavation ::: n. --> The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
excellency ::: n. --> Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.
A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes.
excursion ::: --> A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.
A wandering from a subject; digression.
Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]
excursus ::: n. --> A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.
exhume ::: v. t. --> To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
expiation ::: n. --> The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.
The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.
An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen.
extravagance ::: n. --> A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.
The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands.
extravagant ::: a. --> Wandering beyond one&
eysell ::: n. --> Same as Eisel. F () F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma /, which probably had the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoenician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pe`nte; E. wolf, L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos; E. fox, vixen ; fragile, break; fruit,
farabout ::: n. --> A going out of the way; a digression.
fibrin ::: n. --> A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.
The white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin.
fingered ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Finger ::: a. --> Having fingers.
Having leaflets like fingers; digitate.
Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note.
finger ::: n. --> One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.
Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.
The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in
flytrap ::: n. --> A trap for catching flies.
A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus&
fodient ::: a. --> Fitted for, or pertaining to, digging. ::: n. --> One of the Fodientia.
foremost ::: a. --> First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.
fossorial ::: a. --> Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.
fossorious ::: a. --> Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.
foxglove ::: n. --> Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis.
fustian ::: n. --> A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,&
galapee tree ::: --> The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.
gargantuan ::: a. --> Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.
gastrovascular ::: a. --> Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of c/lenterates.
gavot ::: n. --> A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over.
genealogy ::: n. --> An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.
Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.
gentility ::: n. --> Good extraction; dignity of birth.
The quality or qualities appropriate to those who are well born, as self-respect, dignity, courage, courtesy, politeness of manner, a graceful and easy mien and behavior, etc.; good breeding.
The class in society who are, or are expected to be, genteel; the gentry.
Paganism; heathenism.
gout ::: n. --> A drop; a clot or coagulation.
A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints, after which it may attack the greater articulations. It is attended with various sympathetic phenomena, particularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc.
grandeur ::: n. --> The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action.
grand ::: superl. --> Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.
Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception.
gravedigger ::: n. --> A digger of graves.
See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t.
gravity ::: a. --> The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead.
Sobriety of character or demeanor.
Importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense.
The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation.
grub ::: v. i. --> To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.
To drudge; to do menial work. ::: v. t. --> To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.
hallux ::: n. --> The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds.
handsome ::: superl. --> Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons.
Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity; comely; -- expressing more than pretty, and less than beautiful; as, a handsome man or woman; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse.
Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and
hatchment ::: n. --> A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement.
A sword or other mark of the profession of arms; in general, a mark of dignity.
headship ::: n. --> Authority or dignity; chief place.
helleborein ::: n. --> A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin.
hemialbumose ::: n. --> An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin.
hemipeptone ::: n. --> A product of the gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter.
hepato-pancreas ::: n. --> A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.
herdbook ::: n. --> A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of choice breeds of cattle; -- also called herd record, or herd register.
high-priesthood ::: n. --> The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.
hoe ::: n. --> A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish. ::: v. t.
homeborn ::: a. --> Native; indigenous; not foreign.
Of or pertaining to the home or family.
honesty ::: a. --> Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.
The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
Chastity; modesty.
Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more
honor ::: n. --> Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.
That which rightfully attracts esteem, respect, or consideration; self-respect; dignity; courage; fidelity; especially, excellence of character; high moral worth; virtue; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity.
hornbook ::: n. --> The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord&
imparidigitate ::: a. --> Having an odd number of fingers or toes, either one, three, or five, as in the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, etc.
impoverish ::: v. t. --> To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.
inanition ::: n. --> The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.
indigeen ::: n. --> Same as Indigene.
indigence ::: n. --> The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence.
indigence ::: poverty; need; destitution.
indigency ::: n. --> Indigence.
indigene ::: n. --> One born in a country; an aboriginal animal or plant; an autochthon.
indigenous ::: a. --> Native; produced, growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported.
Native; inherent; innate.
indigent ::: a. --> Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of.
Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.
indigent ::: deficient in what is requisite; poor; impoverished.
indigently ::: adv. --> In an indigent manner.
indigest ::: a. --> Crude; unformed; unorganized; undigested. ::: n. --> Something indigested.
indigested ::: a. --> Not digested; undigested.
Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; not methodical; crude; as, an indigested array of facts.
Not in a state suitable for healing; -- said of wounds.
Not ripened or suppurated; -- said of an abscess or its contents.
Not softened by heat, hot water, or steam.