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Distaff
- adjective - characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"
- the sphere of work by women
- the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning
Distain
- - To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry.
Distant
- adjective - far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship ; "a distant cousin"; "a remote relative"; "a distant likeness"; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics"
- located far away spatially; "distant lands"; "remote stars"
- remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"
- separate or apart in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future"
- separated in space or coming from or going to a distance; "distant villages"; "the sound of distant traffic"; "a distant sound"; "a distant telephone call"
Distend
- verb - become wider; "His pupils were dilated"
- cause to expand as it by internal pressure; "The gas distended the animal's body"
- swell from or as if from internal pressure; "The distended bellies of the starving cows"
Distich
- noun - A pair of verse lines, couplet
- two items of the same kind
Distill
- verb - extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
- give off (a liquid); "The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound"
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water"
- undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"
- undergo the process of distillation
Distils
- verb - extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
- give off (a liquid); "The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound"
- undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"
- undergo the process of distillation
Distoma
- - A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2.