Diffusive
(Dif*fu"sive) a. [Cf. F. diffusif.] Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every
way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse. "A plentiful and diffusive perfume."
Hare.
Diffusively
(Dif*fu"sive*ly), adv. In a diffusive manner.
Diffusiveness
(Dif*fu"sive*ness), n. The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion.
Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.
The fault that I find with a modern legend, it its diffusiveness.
Addison. Diffusivity
(Dif`fu*siv"i*ty) n. Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized
by spreading through a conducting medium.
Dig
(Dig) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dug (dug) or Digged (digd); p. pr. & vb. n. Digging. — Digged is archaic.]
[OE. diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen (see Dike, Ditch); cf. Dan. dige to dig, dige a
ditch; or akin to E. 1st dag. &radic67.]
1. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a
spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
Be first to dig the ground.
Dryden. 2. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a
well.
4. To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.]
You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look,
mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls.
Robynson To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. — To dig from, out
of, out, or up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to
dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging
potatoes. — To dig in, to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.
Dig
(Dig), v. i.
1. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
Dig for it more than for hid treasures.
Job iii. 21.
I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed.
Luke xvi. 3. 2. (Mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
3. To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously. [Cant, U.S.]
Dig
(Dig), n.
1. A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4. [Colloq.]
2. A plodding and laborious student. [Cant, U.S.]
