Vocabulary : Diacatholicon to Diacoustic
Diacatholicon : A universal remedy; -- name formerly to a purgative electuary.Diacaustic : Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic. ;; That which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery. ;; A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.
Diachylon : Alt. of Diachylum
Diachylum : A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.
Diacid : Divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid.
