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Webster 1913 Edition
Deferent
Def′er-ent
,Adj.
Serving to carry; bearing.
[R.]
“Bodies deferent.” Bacon.
Def′er-ent
,Noun.
1.
That which carries or conveys.
Though air be the most favorable
deferent
of sounds. Bacon.
2.
(Ptolemaic Astron.)
An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body’s epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
Webster 1828 Edition
Deferent
DEFERENT
,Adj.
DEFERENT
, n.1.
That which carries or conveys. The deferent of a planet, is an imaginary circle or orb in the Ptolemaic system, that is supposed to carry about the body of the planet.2.
A vessel in the human body for the conveyance of fluids.