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Dexter – Diaphoretics

Dexter

in heraldry the right; situated on the right; as the dexter side of a shield is that opposite the left hand of the spectator.

Dexter

HENRY an American news agent; born in West Cambridge, Mass., March 14, 1813. He was educated in the common schools, and, after obtaining employment in various publishing houses, started for himself in 1842 as a news agent. In 1864 he organized the American News Co. He died July 11, 1910.

Diabase

a fine-grained, compact, crystalline-granular rock, tough and heavy.

Diabase Aphanite

a very finegrained or compact variety of quartzdiabase, in which the constituents are not to be recognized without the aid of the lens or the microscope.

Diabolo

a game played by spinning a top and catching it by means of a cord fastened on two sticks. The game originated in China, became popular in France in the beginning of the 18th century, and later spread into England.

It was revived in 1907, and for a time the game was again the rage all through the Continent.

Diachylum

or DIACHYLON, formerly a plaster made of the juices of several plants; now a plaster made by boiling hydrated oxide of lead with olive oil. It is used for curing ulcers.

Diallage

a silico-magnesian mineral of a lamellar or foliated structure. Its sub-species are green diallage, hypersthene, and bronzite. The metalloidal sub-species is called schillerstein, or or schiller spar. It forms diallage rock, and enters into serpentine.

Dialling

the art of making sundials; also the art and practice of minesurveying, in which the theodolite, magnetic needle, etc., are employed.

Diamagnetism

the moving of bodies such as iron, when placed in a 1 DIAMOND Geraes. It is the center of a rich diamond district; has manufactures of cotton and goldware, and is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop. Pop. 13,000.

Dianthus

a genus of Caryophyl laceæ , sub-order Sileneæ,

Diaper

a kind of textile fabric much used for towels and napkins, and formed either of linen or cotton, or a mixture of the two, on the surface of which a flowered or figured pattern is produced by a peculiar mode of twilling.

Diaphoretics

agents used in med ical practice for producing a greater de gree of perspiration than is natural, but less than in sweating. The Turkish bath and a large part of hydropathic treatment, diluent drinks, etc., are employed for this purpose.