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Dilation
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
Delay. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation. Mrs. Browning. At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. Tennyson. A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. Dickens.