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<hw>Di`a*pa"son</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., fr. Gr. <?/ (<ets>i</ets>. <ets>e</ets>., <?/ <?/ <?/ the concord of the first and last notes, the octave); <?/ through + <?/, gen. pl. of <?/ all: cf. F. <ets>diapason</ets>. Cf. <er>Panacea</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Gr. Mus.)</fld> <def>The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony.</def>

<blockquote>The fair music that all creatures made . . . In perfect <b>diapason</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The entire compass of tones.</def>

<blockquote>Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The <b>diapason</b> closing full in man. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; <as>as, the French normal <ex>diapason</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as <i>open diapason</i>, <i>stopped diapason</i>, <i>double diapason</i>, and the like.</def>

<h1>Diapedesis</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*pe*de"sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ a leaping or oozing through, fr. <?/ to leap through; <?/ through + <?/ to leap.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.</def>

<h1>Diapente</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*pen"te</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., fr. Gr. <?/ a fifth; <?/ through + <?/ five: cf. F. <ets>diapente</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Anc. Mus.)</fld> <def>The interval of the fifth.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A composition of five ingredients.</def>

<h1>Diaper</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di"a*per</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>diaspre</ets>, <ets>diapre</ets>, <ets>diaspe</ets>, sort of figured cloth, It. <ets>diaspro</ets> jasper, <ets>diaspo</ets> figured cloth, from L.<ets>jaspis</ets> a green-colored precious stone. See <er>Jasper</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Fine Arts)</fld> <def>Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.</def>

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<p><b>3.</b> <def>A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc.</def>

<blockquote>Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . . Another bear the ewer, the third a <b>diaper</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>An infant's breechcloth.</def>

<h1>Diaper</h1> <Xpage=407>

<hw>Di"a*per</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving.</def> "<i>Diapered</i> light."

<i>H. Van Laun.</i>

<blockquote>Engarlanded and <b>diapered</b> With in wrought flowers. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To put a diaper on (a child).</def>