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Babbitt Metal :: Babbitt metal () A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction..

Abirritate :: Abirritate (v. t.) To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate.

Remain :: Remain (v. i.) To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last..

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets..

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To diminish; to lessen or lower.

Fine :: Fine (a.) To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually..

Rabbate :: Rabbate (v. t.) To abate or diminish.

Decreasing :: Decreasing (a.) Becoming less and less; diminishing.

Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc..

Dwindle :: Dwindle (v. i.) To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.

Spoliator :: Spoliative (a.) Serving to take away, diminish, or rob; esp. (Med.), serving to diminish sensibily the amount of blood in the body; as, spoliative bloodletting..

Light :: Light (superl.) Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished; as, light coin..

Extenuation :: Extenuation (n.) The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment..

Chip :: Chip (v. t.) To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew..

Evection :: Evection () An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1¡ 20'..

Aslake :: Aslake (v. t. & i.) To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish.

Stegnotic :: Stegnotic (a.) Tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions or discharges generally..

Rediminish :: Rediminish (v. t.) To diminish again.

Fluent :: Fluent (n.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral..

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