Definition of dial

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Dial (n.) An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical..

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Serosity :: Serosity (n.) A thin watery animal fluid, as synovial fluid and pericardial fluid..
Arthrodial :: Arthrodial (a.) Alt. of Arthrodi.
Cardialgla :: Cardialgla (n.) Alt. of Cardialg.
Allodial :: Allodial (a.) Anything held allodially.
Horography :: Horography (n.) The art of constructing instruments for making the hours, as clocks, watches, and dials..
Langue D''oil :: Langue d'oil () The dialect formerly spoken north of the Loire (in which the word for yes was oil, F. oui)..
Paradoxides :: Paradoxides (n.) A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.
Dialectal :: Dialectal (a.) Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant..
Cockneyism :: Cockneyism (n.) The characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney..
Node :: Node (n.) A hole in the gnomon of a dial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc..
Subsulphate :: Substyle (n.) A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style..
Perradial :: Perradial (a.) Situated around the radii, or radial tubes, of a radiate..
Scallop :: Scallop (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2..
Udal :: Udal (a.) Allodial; -- a term used in Finland, Shetland, and Orkney. See Allodial..
Radiale :: Radiale (n.) Radial plates in the calyx of a crinoid.
Mediostapedial :: Mediostapedial (n.) The mediostapedial part of the columella.
Scottish :: Scottish (a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect..
Primordiate :: Primordiate (a.) Primordial.
Acupuncture :: Acupuncture (n.) The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.
Dialectology :: Dialectology (n.) That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects.
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