‖n. [ It.; superl. of alto. ] (Mus.) The part or notes situated above F in alt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being assimilable. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Assimilated p. pr. & vb. n. Assimilating ] [ L. assimilatus, p. p. of assimilare; ad + similare to make like, similis like. See Similar, Assemble, Assimilate. ] 1. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes
Assimilate all objects. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To liken; to compa&unr_;e. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons. Merivale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become similar or like something else. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aliment easily assimilated or turned into blood. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am a foreign material, and cannot assimilate with the church of England. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. tending to or characterized by or causing assimilation (being absorbed into or incorporated).
Syn. -- assimilative, assimilatory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. assimilatio: cf. F. assimilation. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term assimilation has been limited by some to the final process by which the nutritive matter of the blood is converted into the substance of the tissues and organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. LL. assimilativus, F. assimilatif. ] Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. assimulatus, p. p. of assimulare, equiv. to assimilare. See Assimilate, v. t. ] 1. To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To assimilate. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. assimulatio, equiv. to assimilatio. ] Assimilation. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. casimir, prob. of the same origin as E. cashmere. Cf. Kerseymere. ] A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments. [ Written also kerseymere. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. centesimus the hundredth, fr. centum a hundred: cf. F. centésimal. ] Hundredth. -- n. A hundredth part. [ 1913 Webster ]

The neglect of a few centesimals. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. centesimore to take out or select every hundredth, fr. centesimus hundredth. ] (Mil.) The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.

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n.; pl. -mi [ It. & Sp. ] A copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a centime. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Cf. F. consimilitude. See Similitude. ] Common resemblance. [ Obs. ] Aubrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Crassament. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. densus dense + -meter: cf. F. densimètre. ] An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity or density of a substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Physiol.) To subject to disassimilation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) The decomposition of complex substances, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism; -- now more commonly called catabolism. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The breaking down of already existing chemical compounds into simpler ones, sometimes called disassimilation. Martin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disassimilative processes constitute a marked feature in the life of animal cells. McKendrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + imbitter. Cf. Disembitter. ] To free from bitterness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park. [ R. ] Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from warmth of passion or feeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make worse; -- the opposite of improve. [ R. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow worse; to deteriorate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth; specific features which are worse than former features; disimprovements in the new Windows operating system. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. [ Pref. dis- + similar: cf. F. dissimilaire. ] Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features. [ 1913 Webster ]

This part very dissimilar to any other. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. [ 1913 Webster ]

With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render dissimilar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of making dissimilar. H. Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dissimile, neut. of dissimilis unlike. ] (Rhet.) Comparison or illustration by contraries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dissimilitudo, fr. dissimilis: cf. F. dissimilitude. ] 1. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rhet.) A comparison by contrast; a dissimile. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dissimulatus, p. p. of dissimulare. See Dissemble. ] Feigning; simulating; pretending. [ Obs. ] Henryson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To dissemble; to feign; to pretend. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive.
Syn. -- dissembling, dissimulative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. dissimulatio: cf. F. dissimulation. ] The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who dissimulates; a dissembler. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ F. dissimuler. See Dissimulate. ] To dissemble. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dissembler. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. dissimuleur. ] A dissembler. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dorsum + meson. ] (Anat.) See Meson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. for measuring doses of .
Syn. -- dosemeter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ NL. dosis dose + -meter. ] a device for measuring doses of radiation, especially ionizing radiation such as X-rays, gamma rays, or ionizing particles. [ PJC ]

n. a dosimeter cosisting of a radiation-sensitive material, such as film, worn in a small package on a person's clothing, to record the accumulated radiation exposure of the person over a period of time; -- used to monitor the exposure of individuals, such as workers in a nuclear power plant, to ionizing radiation. [ PJC ]

n. [ NL. dosis dose + -metry. ] (Med.) Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules. -- Do`si*met"ric a. -- Do*sim"e*trist n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a large genus of annual or perennial herbs of the Old World and North America; some are grown for their flowers and some for their attractive evergreen leaves.
Syn. -- genus Erysimum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Facsimiles [ L. fac simile make like; or an abbreviation of factum simile made like; facere to make + similes like. See Fact, and Simile. ] 1. A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Telecommunications) A method for reproducing documents, drawing, or other planar image at a remote location by converting the document into coded electronic signals at one point, transmitting data via telephone line or radio signals to the remote point, and converting the signals back into a likeness of the original image. The device used at each end to convert the image to and from electronic signals was originally called Facsimile telegraph, then telefax machine, and now more commonly fax machine. The same process, using the same data transmission protocols, is now performed not only by devices dedicated exclusively to the telefax process, but also by computers and combined copying/scanning/telefax machines. Also called telefax or fax. [ PJC ]

Facsimile telegraph, a telegraphic apparatus reproducing messages in autograph; a fax machine. [ 1913 Webster+ PJC ]

v. t. To make a facsimile of. [ 1913 Webster ]