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Diaphote
- - An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph.
Diapnoic
- - Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic. -- n. A gentle diaphoretic.
Diascope
- unknown - an optical projector for displaying transparencies
Diaspora
- noun - refugee population
- the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
- the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time
- the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
Diaspore
- - A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
Diastole
- noun - the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood
Drag Out
- verb - last unnecessarily long
- proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours"
Dragbolt
- - A coupling pin. See under Coupling.
Dragoons
- noun - a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
- compel by coercion, threats, or crude means; "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone"
- physically force
- subjugate by imposing troops
Dragrope
- unknown - A rope used for pulling military equipment