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a.
Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.
v. t.
To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.
adv.
In a diffuse manner.
n.
One who, or that which, diffuses.
n.
A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
v. i.
To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
imp. & p. p.
of Diffuse
v. t.
To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.
a.
Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse.
a.
Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse; as, a voluminous writer.
v. t.
To discourse on; to handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely.
n.
The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.
n.
In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.
v. i.
To be diffused; to spread.
n.
A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.
n.
A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
n.
A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice; as, stenosis of the pylorus. It differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic.
n.
A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder.
a.
Having power to diffuse itself; diffusing itself.
v. t.
To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.
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