dayflower

[Eng. day, and flower.] Bot.: A popular name for a genus of plants, the Commelyna. lāy-fly, s. [Eng. day, and fly.] Entom.: A popular name for insects belonging to the genus Ephemera. [EPHEMERIDÆ.] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-1847.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1848.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1849.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1850.png:[blocks in formation] "As pleasures in this vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade." 1. Lit .: An overpowering or dazzling light. 2. Fig .: Meretricious show or display. dăz-zled, pa . par . or a. [DAZZLE.] dăz-zle-ment, s. "It beat back the sight with a dazzlement ."-Donne: Hist . of the Septuagint (1633), p. 55. †dăz-zler, s. [Eng. dazzl (e); -er.] One who or a thing which dazzles by brilliancy or splendor. dăz-zling, pr . par ., a. & 8. [DAZZLE.] IMG:content-1851.png:[blocks in formation] C. As subst. The act of overpowering or con- founding by exce of light, splendor, or brilliancy, (Lit. & fig .) [Eng. dazzling ; -ly.] dăz-zling-lř, *dazelingly, *dazzelingly, adv . 1. In a dazzling manner; so as to dazzle. 2. In a dazzled or confused manner; as though dbk. A contraction for drawback (q. v.). d-block, s . Naut .: A block bolted to the ship's side in the channels, to reeve the lifts through. D. D. An abbreviation for Div in it at is Doctor = Doctor of Divinity. de, pref . [Lat. or Fr.] A prefix largely used in English, and representing generally the Lat. de down from, away from; but sometimes representing the Latin dis apart, through the O. Fr. des ; Fr. dé- . Sometimes its force is intensitive, as in declare , dea-con-hood, s. [Eng. deacon , and hood .] 1. The same as DEACONSHIP (q. v.). 2. A number of deacons taken collectively. dea-con (pron. dēkn), *deakne, *dec on, *de- coun, *dekene, *dekyn, *diakne, s. [A. S. deacon , diacon; Dut, diaken ; Sw. & Dan. diaconus ; Ger. diakonus ; Fr. diacre ; Prov. diacre , diaque ; Sp., pt. iv., p. 188. Port., & Ital. diacono ; Lat. diaconus , all from Gr. diakonos (as subst.) (1) a servant, a waiting-man, office, dignity, or ministry of a deacon. †dēa-con-rỹ, s . The office or dignity of a deacon. ". the deacons of all those churches should make up a common deaconry ."-Good win: Works, vol. iv., IMG:content-1852.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1853.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1854.png:[blocks in formation] "Being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, ."- Rom . iv. 19. †(7) Without natural force, power, or efficacy; as, A dead fire. Shakesp.: Two Gent. of Ver ., ii. 6. (10) Dull, frigid; wanting in animation or spirit. "How cold and dead does a prayer appear, that is com- posed in the most elegant forms of speech, Add is on . IMG:content-1855.png:[ocr errors] (11) Not presenting the resemblance of life or spirit; dull, flat. I must touch the same features over again, and change the dead coloring of the whole."-Dryden. (12) Dull, heavy; not sharp or clear. called dead-work or tut-work, and the proceeds are deads or attle, to be got rid of as economically as po ible, by sending up to the surface, or filling up the gunnies and goafs of old workings. ( Knight .) C. As adv.: Completely, quite, entirely; as in dead -drunk, dead -beat, dead -ripe, dead - against, . dead account, s. Bank .: An account standing in the name of a per- son deceased. IMG:content-1856.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1857.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1858.png:[blocks in formation] Hor.: An escapement also known as the escape- ment of repose, invented by Graham about 1700, and intended to isolate the going works more completely from the pendulum. The seconds-hand in the dead beat stands still after each drop, whereas in the recoil escapement there is a back-lash to the train. in this escapement are curved concentrically with The working surfaces of the pallets of the anchor the axis of oscillation of the anchor. When a pal- let escapes from one tooth and allows a partial rotation of the scape-wheel, a tooth on the opposite side is arrested by the other pallet, but without giving any back-lash to the wheel, which would cause a recoil to the train of gearing. The term dead-beat is to contradistinguish it from the recoil escapement, in which the working faces are curved eccentrically in relation to their axis of oscillation so as to offer a slight impediment to the motion of both check and impulse, but in the dead-beat one is simply check and the other gives a slight impulse at the moment of escaping. The impulse given to the pallet is communicated to the pendulum, to overcome the friction on the pendulum bearing and the resistance of the air, and thereby keep beats of the pendulum isochronous. The cylinder or horizontal escapement is a dead-beat escapement for watches, and was also invented by Graham. ( Knight .) IMG:content-1859.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1860.png:[blocks in formation] tion to the live-head or head-stock at the other end of the sheers, which contains the live-spindle. 4. Naut .: A block of wood used as an anchor- buoy . ( Knight .) IMG:content-1861.png:[blocks in formation] cuted. To pull the dead-horse: To do work which has been paid for before it is finished. ( Slang .) dead-house, s. A room or place in which dead bodies are kept; a mortuary. dead-killing, a. Fatal, mortal. "Here with a cockatrice' dead - killing eye." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece, 540.