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<h1>Dilated</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Di*lat"ed</hw>, <tt>a.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Expanded; enlarged.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Having the margin wide and spreading.</def>

<h1>Dilatedly</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Di*lat"ed*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a dilated manner.</def>

<i>Feltham.</i>

<h1>Dilater</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Di*lat"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.</def>

<h1>Dilation</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Di*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dilatio</ets>. See <er>Dilatory</er>.]</ety> <def>Delay.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<h1>Dilation</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Di*la"tion</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <ets>dilate</ets>, v., cf. <er>Dilatation</er>, <er>Dilator</er>.]</ety> <def>The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.</def>

<i>Mrs. Browning.</i>

<blockquote>At first her eye with slow <b>dilation</b> rolled. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A gigantic <b>dilation</b> of the hateful figure. <i>Dickens.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dilative</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Di*lat"ive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive.</def>

<i>Coleridge.</i>

<h1>Dilatometer</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Dil`a*tom"e*ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Dilate</ets> + <ets>-meter</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.</def>

<h1>Dilator</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Di*lat"or</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Dilate</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, widens or expands.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>A muscle that dilates any part.</def>