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being a minor seventh, and G sharp being a Diminutiveness(di-minūt-iv-nes), n. Small- and in smiling, and hence regarded as a sign semitone less than the minor interval.- ness; littleness; want of bulk; want of of good-humour, happiness, or merriment. Diminished subject, in music, a subject in- dignity.

Smiles troduced with notes half or quarter the Dimish (dim'ish), a. Same as Dimmish.

Such as hang on Hebe's cheek value of those in which they were originally Dimissiont (di-mi'shon), n. Leave to de

And love to live in dimple sleek Milton. enunciated. -- Diminished triad, in music, part.

2. A slight depression or indentation on any the chord consisting of two thirds on the Dimissory(di-mis'so-ri), a. [L. L. dimissorius. surface. subtonic, as B, D, F, in the key of C.

(See DISMISS.] 1. Sending away; dismissing Dimple (dim'pl), v.i. pret. & pp. dimpled; Diminisher (di-min'ish-ér), n.

He who or to another jurisdiction. -2. Granting leave ppr. dimpling. To form dimples; to sink that which diminishes.

to depart. --Letter dimissory, a letter given into depressions or little inequalities. As Diminishingly (di-min'ish-ing-li), adv. In by a bishop to a candidate for holy orders, shallow streams run dimpling all the way.' a manner to lessen reputation.

having a title in his diocese, directed to Pope. I never heard him censure, or so much as speak some other bishop, and giving leave for the Dimple (dim'pl), v.t. To mark with dimples. diminishingly of any one who was absent. Locke. bearer to be ordained by him.

Dimpled (dim'pld), a. Set with dimples; Diminishing-stuff (di-min'ish-ing-stuf), n. Dimitt (di-mit'), v.t. [L. dimitto, to send having cheeks marked by dimples. In ship-building, planks wrought under the different ways, to let go. See DISMISS.) To

On each side her wales of a ship, diminishing gradually till permit to go; to grant; to farm; to let.

Stood pretty dimpled boys like smiling Cupids.

Shak. they come to the thickness of the bottom Dimity (di’mi-ti), n. [It. dimito; L.L. dimitplank

um, from Gr. dimitos, of double thread -as Dimplement (dim'pl- ment), n. State of Diminishment (di-min'ish-ment), n.

being marked with dimples or gentle depresDi- a noun, dimity-di for dis, twice, and mitos, minution. Cheke. a thread.

sions. (Rare or poetical. ]

Another etymology refers it to Diminuendo (dim-in'ū-en"do). [It.) In Damietta.) A stout cotton fabric ornamented

I dared to rest, or wander,--like a rest,musie, an instruction to the performer to in the loom by raised stripes or fancy figures;

And view the ground's most gentle dimplement,

(As if God's finger touched, but did not press, lessen the volume of sound from loud to it is rarely dyed, but usually employed In making England!) E. B. Browning soft, usually marked thus > white for bed and bed-room furniture.

Full of dimples or Diminuent (di - min'ū-ent), a. Lessening. Dimly (dim'li), adv. (See DIM.] 1. In a dim Dimply (dim'pli), a.

smail depressions. The dimply flood.' J. (Rare or obsolete. ) or obscure manner; with imperfect sight.

Warton. The comparative degree in such kind of expres

2. Not brightly or clearly; with a faint

light. sions being usually taken for a diminuent term.

Dimyaria (di-mi-ā'ri-a), n. [Gr. di for dis,
Bp. Sanderson.
Their temples dimly shone.

Dryden.

twice, and mys, a muscle.! A general name Diminute (di'min-út), a. Small. * Prices Dimmish (dim'ish), a.

for those bivalves whose shells are closed by

1. Somewhat dim; made diminute. Jer. Taylor.

two adductor muscles, distinct and widely obscure. -2. Somewhat dim-sighted. Diminutelyt (di'min-út-li), adv. In a di.

removed from each other, as in the mussel.

My eyes are somewhat dimmisk grown. Swift minute manner; in a manner which lessens.

The two muscular attachments are always

Somewhat dim. Yon visible on the inside of the shell.
An execration only; but that too. elliptically and Dimmy (dim'i), a.
dimanutely uttered.

Sir P. Sidney.
dimmy clouds.
Bp. Sanderson.

Dimyary (di'mi-a-ri), n. A bivalve mollusc Dimness (dim'nes), n. 1. Dulness of sight; which closes its shell by means of two abDiminution (di-min-ū’shon), n. (L dimin.

as, the dimness of the eyes.-2. State of ductor muscles. utio (deminutio), a lessening, from diminuo (deminuo), to lessen by taking something

being dim or obscure; want of clearness: Dimyary (di'mi-a-ri), a. Pertaining or be

applied to the medium through which any. longing to the Dimyaria. from-de, and minuo, to lessen, from minus, less.] 1. The act of diminishing or lessenthing is seen.

Din (din), n. [A. Sax. dym, dyne, noise, ing; a making smaller: opposed to augmen

With such thick dimness ... filled the air.

thunder; eorth-dyne, an earthquake. Cog.

Cowper. Icel. dynr, din, dynja, to resound; from the tation; as, the diminution of size, of wealth,

3. Want of distinctness; faintness: applied same root as Skr. dhran, to sound.) Noise; of power, of safety.-2. The state of becom

to the object looked at; as, the dimness of a a loud sound; particularly, a rattling, clating or appearing less: opposed to increase;

view or of a colour.-4. Want of brightness; tering, or rumbling sound, long continued; as, the diminution of the apparent diameter

as, the dimne 88 of gold or silver.-5. Want as, the din of arms; the din of war. • The of a receding body; the diminution of the

of clear apprehension; vagueness; dulness; dust, and din, and steam of town.' Tenvelocity of a projectile.-3. Discredit; loss as, dimness of memory.

nyson. of dignity; degradation,

Answerable to this dimness of their perception, The guests are met, the feast is set,-Nor thinks it diminution to be rank'd was the whole systenı and body of their religion.

May'st hear the merry din.

Coleridge. In military honour next. Philip.

Dr. H. Alore. 4. Deprivation of dignity; a lessening of -Darkness, Obscurity, Dimness. See DARK

Din (din), v. t. pret. & pp. dinned; ppr. dinning.

To strike with continued or confused sound; estimation

NESS.
Make me wise by the truth, for my own soul's sal.
Di molto (dē mol'to). (It.) In music, very;

to stun with noise; to harass with clamour. vation, and I shall not regard the world's opinion or as, largo di molto, very much largo.

Din your ears with hungry cries.' Otway.

"This hath been often dinned in my ears. diminution of me. Bp. Gauden. Dimorphic (di-mór'fik), a. Having two dis

Swift. 5. In music, the imitation of or reply to a tinct forms; dimorphous. subject in notes of half the length or value

Dinarchy (din'är-ki), n. An erroneous form

A large proportion of the trees of temperate of Diarchy. of those of the subject itself.--6. In lau, an climates bear only flowers thus dimorphic.

Nat, Hist, Ra,

Dindle (din'dl), n. A local name for the omission in the record, or in some point of the proceedings, which is certified in a writ Dimorphism (di-mor'fizm), n. [Gr. di for

common and corn sow-thistles, as also for

hawk-weed. of error on the part of either plaintiff or dis, twice, and morphe, form.] 1. În crystal. defendant.-7. In her. the defacing of some the property of assuming two incompatible

Dine (din), v.i. pret. & pr. dined; ppr. dinparticular point in the escutcheon.-8. In forms; the property of crystallizing in two

ing. (Fr. diner, 0. F. disner, Pr. disnar, arch. the gradual decrease in the diameter distinct forms not derivable from each

L.L. disnare, the origin of which is very of the shaft of a column from the base to other. Thus, sulphur assumes one form

doubtful, but which probably arose from dethe capital See ENTASIS. -SYN. Decrease, when crystallizing at a high temperature,

cænare, a verb hypothetically formed from lessening, reduction, abridgment, abate- and another wholly different when becom

L. de, and cana, dinner or supper. By the ment, deduction. ing solid at the ordinary temperature.

shifting of the accent decanare would be. Diminutive (di-minút-iv), a. [Fr. diminu- Hence the same chemical substance may

come décenare, then desnare and disnare. tif ; It. diminuitivo.

This is the view taken by Diez, and supSee DIMINUTION. ] form two or more distinct species. Thus, 1. Small; little; narrow; contracted; as, a carbon in one form is the diamond, in an

ported by Scheler and Pott. Littré, Mahn, diminutive race of men or other animals; a other graphite, &c.--2. In bot. the condition

and others, derive it from disjejunare, from diminutire thought. -2. Having the power when analogous organs of plants of the same

L. prefix dis, and jejunare, to fast (whence of diminishing or lessening; that abridges species appear under two very dissimilar déjeuner). Some derive it from L. desinere,

forms. or decreases; tending to diminish. 'Diminu

to leave off-the hour of dinner implying tire of liberty' Shaftesbury.

In the oak, beech, chestnut, and pine, for example,

the cessation of labour.) To eat the chief Diminutive (di-min'ūt-iv), n. 1.7 Anything this dimorphism is extremne. In the stamen-bearing

meal of the day; to take dinner. flowers, we find no rudiment of a pistil-in the pistil. The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, of very small size. bearing, no rudiment of a stamen. Nat. Hist. Rev.

And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine. Pope. Ah, how the poor world is pestered with such

3. In zool. difference of form between memwaterfies, diminutives of nature. Shak.

--To dine out, to take dinner elsewhere bers of the same species, as when the females than at one's own residence. - To dine 2.1 Anything of very small value; a small

vary according to the season, or the males coin.

with Duke Humphrey, to be dinnerless; a Most monster-like, be shown are constantly unlike the females.

phrase said to have originated from the For poor'st diminuites, for doits. Shak. Dimorphism has been observed by Kolliker in circumstance that a part of the public

the Pennatulidze (Octocoralla). Each compound 3. In old med. anything that diminishes or

walks in Old St. Paul's, London, was called organism, or polypary, presents two different kinds abates. of polypes-one of which is tentaculiferous and

Duke Humphrey's Walk (being near his Diet, diminutives, alteratives, cordials, correctors, provided with sexual organs, while the other has tomb), and that those who could not pay as before.

Burton. neither tentacles nor any sexual apparatus. Huxley. for a dinner at a tavern were accustomed 4. In gram. a word formed from another Dimorphous (di-mor'fus), a. 1. In crystal

to promenade here in the hope of meeting word, usually an appellative or generic a term applied to a substance whose crystals an acquaintance, and getting an invitation term, to express a little thing of the kind; occur in two distinct forms. Thus, the to dine. The phrase, however, may be conAs, in Latin, lapillus, a little stone, from crystals of sulphate of nickel, if deposited nected with the report that Duke Humlapis; cellula, a little cell, from cella, a cell; from an acid solution, are square prisms;

phrey, son of Henry IV., was starved to in French, maisonnette, a little house, from but if from a neutral solution, they are

death. maison, a house; in English, manikin, a right rhombic prisms. ---2. In bot. and zool. Dine (din), v.t. pret. & pp. dined; ppr. dinlittle man, from man; rivulet, which is a characterized by dimorphism.

ing. To give a dinner to; to furnish with double diminutive, being from L. rivulus, a Dimple (dim'pl), n. (Probably a diminu- the principal meal; to afford convenience diminutive of rivus, a river, with the Eng- tive form from an intens. of dip or deep. for dining; as, the landlord dined a hundred lish diminutive termination-et. “Baby- Comp. G. dümpel, tümpel, a pool.] 1. A small men. isms and dear diminutives.' Tennyson. natural depression in the cheek or other

A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Diminutively (di-min'út-iv-li), adv. In a

Sir IV. Scott, part of the face, as the chin; a slight inter- Armstrong and his merry men. diminutive manner; in a manner to lessen; ruption to the uniform rounded flow of the Dine (din), n. Dinner - time; mid-day. as, to speak diminutirely of another. facial lines, appearing especially in youth (Scotch.)

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Dink (dingk), v.t. (See above.) To dress; weight. By the natives of New Zealand
From morning sun till dine, Burns,
to adorn. Sir W. Scott. (Scotch.)

they are called moa. It is supposed proDiner-out (din'er-out), n. One who is in Dinmont (din'mont), n. A wether between bable that they became extinct in the seven

the habit of dining from home, and in com- one and two years old, or that has not yet teenth or eighteenth century, as traditions pany; one who receives and accepts many been twice shorn. (Scotch )

are still current among the natives coninvitations to dinner. 'A liberal landlord, Dinna (din'na). Do not. (Scotch. ]

cerning them. graceful diner-out.' E. B. Browning. Dinner (din'nér), n. [Fr. diner. See DINE]' Dinosauria (ui-no-sa'ri-a), n. See DEINODinetical † (ci-net'ik-al), a. (Gr. dineo, to 1. The principal meal of the day, in which

SAURIA whirl round, from dine, a whirl.) Whirling

respect it may be said to correspond with Dinothere (di'no-ther), n. Same as Dinoround; turning on an axis; spinning Sir the deipnon of the Greeks and the cæna of

therium. T. Browne.

the Romans, both these meals being of the Dinotherium (di-no-the'ri-um), n. (Gr. Dinette (dē-net'), n. [Dim. of Fr. diner,

most elaborate kind and taken in the even- deinos, terrible, and therion, wild beast.) A dinner.) A sort of preliminary dinner about ing. In medieval and modern Europe the 2 o'clock; a luncheon. See extract under

common practice, down to the middle of DINNER

the last century, was to take this meal about Ding (iting), v.t. pret. and pp. dung or dinged.

mid-day. Since that time the hour of dinner (A. Sax. dencgan, Icel. dengia, Sw. danga, has been gradually put back till it has to knock, to beat. Probably of onomato.

reached from six to eight in the evening poetic origin.] 1. To throw or dash with vio

among the wealthier classes. lence. To ding the book a colt's distance

The Court dinner-hour, in the reign of George III.. from him.' Milton. [Rare. )-2. (O. E. and was at the Hanoverian hour of four o'clock During Scotch.) (a) To dash; to pound; to break. the reign of George IV, it gradually crept up to six

o'clock, and finally became steady at the Indian To see his poor auld mither's pot Thus durg in staves.

Burns.

hour of seven, and so remained until the reign of Her

Most gracious Majesty, when the formal Court din. (b) To prove too much for; to beat; to pose; ner hour became eight o'clock. These innovations to nonplus. on the national hours of meals did not meet the ap.

Dinotherium restored. proval of the medical faculty, and in consequence a But a' your doings to rehearse.

dinelle at two o'clock was prescribed. This has ever Wad ding a Lawland tongue or Erse. Burns.

genus of extinct gigantic mammals occur

since been the favourite Court meal, being in reality Ding (ding), v.i. 1. To bluster; to bounce. a substantial hot repast, which has exploded the old.

ring in the strata of the tertiary formanon. fashioned luncheon of cold viands. The Queen.

The remains have been found most abunHe huffs and dings, because we will not spend the little we have left, to get him the title of Lord Strut. 2. An entertainment; a feast.

dantly at Epplesheim in Hesse Darmstadt,

but fragments occur also in several parts of Arbuthnot. Behold, I have prepared my dinner. Mat. xxii, 4.

France, Bavaria, and Austria. The largest 2. To sound, as a bell; to ring. W. Irving.- Dinner (din'nér), v.i. To take dinner; to species hitherto discovered (D. giganteuin) 3. In Scotch, (a) to descend; to fall: used as dine. (Scotch.]

is calculated to have attained the length of in the phrase 'It's dingin' on,' which is ap

Sae far I sprachled up the brae,

18 feet. It had a proboscis and two tusks plied to a fall of rain, hail, or snow. () To

I dinner'd wi' a lord.

Burs.

placed at the anterior extremity of the lower be defeated; to be gainsaid; to be over

Dinner-hour (din'ner-our), n. The hour at jaw, and curved downwards somewhat after turned.

which dinner is taken; the hour spent in But facts are chiels that winna ding

the manner of those in the upper jaw of the And downa be disputed.

Burns.
dining. See DINNER.

walrus. The zoological position of the DinoDinnerless (din'nėr-les), a. Having no din- therium (of which there seem to be several Ding-dong (ding'dong). The sound of bells,

ner. ‘Lusty mowers labouring dinnerless.' species) is that of a proboscidean allied to or any similar sound of continuous strokes. Tennyson.

the elephant. The skull, molar teeth, and -To go at or to it ding-dong, to fight in right

Dinnerly (din' nėr-li), a. Of or pertaining scapular bone are the only portions yet disearnest to dinner. Copley.

covered Kaup regards it as intermediate His courage was flush'd, he'd venture a brush, Dinner-table (din'nėr-tá-bl), n. A table at between the mastodons and tapirs, and terAnd thus they went to it ding dong. Old ballad. which dinner is taken.

restrial, while Blainville and Pictet regard Dinghy, Dingey (ding'gi), n. A boat varying Dinner-time (din'nėr-tim), n. The usual it as allied to the sea-cows, and inhabiting in size in different localities; the dinghies of time of dining

the embouchure of great rivers, and uprootBombay are 12 to 20 feet long, 5 to 7 feet Dinnle (din'nl), n. (Freq. and dim, of din, ing the marsh and aquatic plants which conbroad, and about 2 feet deep, with a rak- noise.) A tremulous motion, especially stituted its food with its tusks. ing mast, and navigated by three or four with reverberation; a vibration; a thrill. Dinoxide (din-oks'id), n. Same as Dioxide. men. The dinghies of Cutch are 30 to 50 (Scotch.]

Dinsome (din'sum), a. Full of din; giving feet long, and 20 to 100 tons burden;

Ane aye thinks at the first dinnle o' the sentence, forth a loud sound; noisy. “The dinsome built of jungle and teak wood, and have a they hae heart aneugh to die rather than bide out

toun.'

Burns. (Scotch.) crew of twelve to twenty men. The dinghies for Sax weeks, but they aye bide the sax weeks out

for a' that.

Sir W. Scott.

Block and studdie ring and reel of Calcutta are small passage-boats for the

Wi din some clamour. Burns. poorer classes, rarely used with a sail; they Dinnle (din'nl), v.i. To shake with a tremuare not painted, but merely rubbed with lous motion, accompanied by a correspond. Dint (dint), n. (Probably an imitative word. nut-oil, which imparts to them a sombre ing sound; to reverberate; to thrill; to vib

A. Sax. dynt, a blow, 0. E. and Se. dunt, Icel. colour. This name is now also applied to a rate. (Scotch.]

dymt, a stroke. Akin to din and ding. See ship's small-boat.

DENT.) 1. A blow; a stroke.
Spelled also Dhingy, The chief piper of ..: Mac-Ivor was peram.
Dingy.
bulating the court before the door of his chieftain's

That mortal dini,
Dinginess (din'ji-nes), n. The quality of

quarters, and, as Mrs. Flockhart was pleased to ob.

Save he who reigns above, none can resist. Milton. serve, 'garring the vera stane and lime wa's dinne being dingy; a dusky or dark hue; brown

2. The mark made by a blow; a cavity or wi' his screeching.'

Sir W, Scott. ness.

impression made by a blow or by pressure Dinornis, Deinornis (di-nor'nis), n. [Gr. Dingle (ding'gl), n. [Apparently a form of

on a substance; a dent. deinos, terrible, and ornis, a bird,] A genus dimble and dimple.) A narrow dale or valley of extinct cursorial birds, of a gigantic size,

His hands had made a dint.

Dryden. between hills; a small secluded and em

which formerly inhabited New Zealand. - By dint of, by the force or power of; by bowered valley. 'Dingle, or bushy dell.'

The species (of which five have been recog- means of; as, to win by dint of arms, by dint Milton.

nized) resembled in general form the ostrich, of war, by dint of argument or importunity. Dingle-dangle (dingʻgl-dang'gl), adv. Loosebut were of a much larger size. The largest

And now by dint of fingers and of eyes, · Boughs hanging ly; in a dangling manner.

And words repeated after her, he took dingle-dangle over the edge of the dell'

A lesson in her tongue.

Byron.
Warton.
Dingo (ding'go), n. The Australian dog

Dint (dint), v.t. To make a mark or depres

sion on or in, as by a blow or by pressure; (Canis Dingo), of a wolf-like appearance,

to dent. Spenser. and extremely fierce. The ears are short

Dintless (dint'les), a. Without a dint. and erect, the tail rather bushy, and the hair is of a reddish-dun colour. It is very

(Lichen and mosses). meek creatures! the first

mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its destructive to the flocks, killing more than

dintless rocks.

Ruskin. it eats; so it is systematically destroyed. It is supposed to be an importation, but whence

Dinumeration (di-nū’mér-ā"shon), 11. The is uncertain.

act of numbering singly. (Rare.) Dingthriftt (ding'thrift), n. A spendthrift.

Diocesan (di-os'es-an or di’ö-sēs-an), a. (See Wilt thou, therefore, a drunkard be,

DIOCESE.] Pertaining to a diocese. -- DioA dingthrift and a knave? Drant.

cesan courts, the consistorial or consistory

courts. See CONSISTORY. Dingy, (din'ji), a. (Probably from dung. ] Soiled; sullied; of a dark colour; brown;

Diocesan (di-os'es-an or di'ö-sēs-an), n. A dusky; dun.

bishop as related to his own diocese; one

in possession of a diocese, and having the Even the Postboy and the Postman, which seem to have been the best conducted and the most prosper

ecclesiastical jurisdiction over it. ous, were wretchedly, printed on scraps of dingy

Diocese (di'ö-sés), 16. (Gr. dioikēsis, admini'paper, such as would not now be thought good

stration, a province or jurisdiction -dia, enough for street ballads. Macaulay.

and oikēsis, residence, from oikeõ, to dwell, Dining-room (din'ing-röm), n. A room for

oikos, a house.) 1.1 A district or division of a family or for company to dine or take

a country; a province. their principal meals in; a place for public Dinornis (pelvic and leg bones and outline of body). Wild boars are no rarity in this diocese, which the dining; a room for entertainments.

Moors hunt and kill in a manly pastime. Dink (dingk), a. (A nasalized form akin to must have stood at least 14 feet in height,

L. Addison dight, deck. See DECK, DIGHT.) Neatly and probably more; several of its bones are 2. The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdicdressed; trim; tidy; pert; contemptuous. at least twice the size of those of the ostrich; tion; an ecclesiastical division of a kingdom (Scotch.]

but the body seems to have been more or state, subject to the authority of a bishop My lady's dink, my lady's drest,

bulky in proportion, and the tarsus was Every diocese is divided into archdeaconThe flower and fancy o' the west. Burns.

shorter and stouter, in order to sustain its ries, each archdeaconry (nominally) into

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rural deaneries (see DEAN), and every dean- a term applied to the cup-like cavity of the ployed in measuring the altitude of distant ery into parishes.

hand, formed by bending the metacarpal objects, and for taking levels. Diocesenert (di'ő-sēs-ner), n. One who be- bone of the little finger.

Dioptric, Dioptrical (di-op'trik, di-op'triklongs to a diocese. 'Parishioners or diocese- Dioicous, Dioic (di-oi’kus, di'oik), a. Dice- al), a. (Gr. dioptrikos, from dia, through, ners. Bacon. cious (which see).

and the root op, to see.] 1. Affording a Diocess (di'o-ses), n. Same as Diocese. Diomedea (di-o'mē-dē”a), n. A genus of medium for the sight; assisting the sight in Dioctahedral (di-ok'ta-hē"dral), a. (Gr. birds of the Cuvierian order Longipennes, the view of distant objects. prefix di, dis, twice, and E. octahedral.] In having a straight bill, the upper mandible View the asperities of the moon through a dioptrick crystal. having the form of an octahedral hooked at the extremity, and the lower one glass, and venture at the proportion of her hills by prism with tetrahedral summits. truncated, including the various species of their shadows.

Dr. H. More. Diodia (di-o'di-a), n. (Gr. diodos, a passage

albatross.

2. Pertaining to dioptrics, or the science of through- di for dia, through, along, and Dion (di'on), n. A genus of plants, nat. order refracted light.-Dioptric system, in lighthodos, a way, many of the species growing by Cicadaceæ. The seeds of D. edule, a Mexi

houses, the mode of lighting in which the the waysides.) A genus of decumbent herbs, can plant, yield a kind of arrow-root. illumination is produced by a central lamp, nat. order Rubiaceæ, natives of the warmer Dionæa (di-ā-nē'a), n. [From Dionē, one of the rays from which are transmitted through regions of America and Africa. The species the names of Venus.) A genus of plants, a combination of lenses surrounding it. are rather pretty trailing shrubs, with small nat. order Dros

Called also the Refracting System. white flowers. eracere. Only

Dioptrics (di-op'triks), n. That part of optics Diodon (di'ö-don), n. [Gr. di, dis, twice, and one species is

which treats of the refractions of light passodous, odontos, a tooth.) A Linnæan genus known, D. mus

ing through different mediums, as through of teleostean fishes now giving its name cipula (Venus'

air, water, or glass, and especially through to a family, Diodontidæ (Gymnodontes of fly-trap), a na

lenses. The term is now not much used by Cuvier), of the order Plectognathi, so called tive of the sandy

scientific writers, the phenomena to which because their jaws are not divided, and savannas of Car

it refers being treated under the general only exhibit one piece of bony substance olina and Flori

head of refraction (which see). See also above and another below, so that the crea- da. It has a

LENS, LIGHT, OPTICS. ture appears only to have two teeth. They are rosette of root

Diorama (di-ā-rä'ma), n. [Gr. dia, and horall natives of warm climates and live on crus- leaves, from

ama, a view, from horao, to see.) 1. A mode which rises a na

of painting and of scenic exhibition invented ked scape bear

by Messrs. Daguerre and Bouton. It proing a corymb of

duces a far greater degree of optical illusion largish white

than the panorama, and is suitable as well flowers. The

for architectural and interior views as for leaves have a

landscape. The peculiar and almost magidilated petiole

cal effect of the diorama arises in a conand a slightly

siderable measure from the contrivance stalked 2-lobed

employed in exhibiting the painting, which lamina, with

is viewed through a large aperture or prothree short stiff

scenium, partly by reflected and partly by bristles on each Venus' Fly-trap (Dionea

transmitted light, and light and shade are Diodon Hystrix.

lobe. The bris

muscipula).

produced by coloured screens or blinds. tles are remark

2. A building in which dioramic paintings taceans and sea-weeds, for the trituration ably irritable, and when touched by a fly or are exhibited. of which their mouth is admirably adapted. other insect the lobes of the leaf suddenly Dioramic (di-ā-ram'ik), a. Pertaining to Several of them, especially of the genera close on and capture the insect. It is said diorama. Diodon and Tetraodon, are remarkable for to digest the food thus captured by means Diorism (di'ā-rizm), n. (Gr. diorismos, a disthe array of spiny points which they bear on of a fluid which dissolves it exactly like tinction, from diorizó, to draw a boundary their skin, and for the power they have of ordinary gastric juice.

through-di for dia, through, and horos, a inflating the belly, which then gives them Dionysos, Dionysus (di-ā-ni'sos, dī-ā-ni'

boundary.) Distinction; definition. (Rare.) the appearance of the bristly husk of a sus), n. In Greek myth. the youthful, beauti- Dioristic, Dioristical (di-ā-ristik, dī--ris', chestnut; hence the French call them orbes ful, effeminate god of wine, called also

tik-al), a. Distinguishing; defining. [Rare.] épineux. For the same reason they have Bakchos by the Greeks, and Bacchus by the Dioristically (dī-ā-rist'ik-al-li), adv. In a been designated Porcupine Fish, Sea-hedge- Romans. See BACCHUS.

distinguishing manner. [Rare.) hogs, and Prickly Globe-fish. This family Diophantine (di-ā-fan'tin), a. of or per- Diorite (di'o-rīt), n. [Gr. diorizó, to draw a includes the sun-fish. taining to Diophantus of Alexandria, the

boundary through, to separate-the stone Diodontidæ (di-o-dont'i-dē), n. pl. A family first Greek writer on algebra, who flour

being formed of distinct portions. See of fishes. See DIODON. ished, according to some about the middle

DIORISM.) A tough crystalline trap-rock, of Diccia (di-e'shi-a), n. [Gr. di, dis, double, of the fourth century, according to others

a whitish colour, speckled with black or and oikos, house.) The twenty-second class about the end of the sixth.-Diophantine greenish black. It consists of hornblende of plants in the artificial system of Linnæus. analysis, that branch of algebra which treats

and a triclinic felspar albite or oligoclase. of indeterminate questions, of which the

It may be either metamorphic or volcanic following are examples:-To find two whole

in origin. numbers the sum of whose squares is a Diorthosis (di-or-tho'sis), n. [Gr., from diorsquare. To find three commensurable num

thoő, to make straight-di for dia, through, bers such that the sum of the squares of two

and orthos, straight.) A surgical operation of them shall be equal to the square of the

by which crooked or distorted limbs are third

restored to their proper shape. Diopside (di-op'sīd), n. [Gr. diopsis, a view Diorthotic (di-or-thot'ik), a. [Gr. diorthotithrough-di for dia, through, and opsis, a kos, corrective. See DIORTHOSIS.) Relating view.] A rare mineral, a variety or sub

to the emendation or correction of ancient species of augite, occurring in prismatic

texts. crystals, of a vitreous lustre, and of a pale

No sooner had Scaliger placed himself by common green, or a greenish or yellowish white.

consent at the head of textual criticism, than he took A variety with four-sided prisms has been leave for ever of diorthotic criticism, called mussite, from Mussa in Piedmont.

Lond. Quart. Rev. It resembles sahlite. It is a monosilicate Dioscorea (di-os-ko'rē-a), n. (After P. Diosof lime and magnesia.

corides, the Greek physician.] The genus of Diopsis (di-op'sis), n. [Gr. di, dis, double, plants, nat. order Dioscoreaceæ, which furDiccia. - Male and Female Plants of Vallis- and ops, eye.) 1. A genus of dipterous nish the tropical esculents called yams. neria spiralis. insects, family

They are perennial feshy-rooted, or tuberMuscidæ, the

ous diæcious plants, with annual twining It comprehends such genera as have male members of

stems, and loose clusters of small green or stamen-bearing flowers on one plant, and which are

re

flowers. The species are found in Asia and female or pistil-bearing flowers on another, markable for the

America, and the roots or tubers of D. alata, as willows. immense pro

D. aculeata, D. Batatas, and D. sativa, are Diccious, Diccian (di-e'shus, dī-7'shi-an),a. longation of the

important articles of food in tropical cli1. In bot. having stamens on one plant and sides of the

mates, and are eaten as the potato is with pistils on another. The willow, the poplar, head, the head

See YAM. &c., are diecious.-2. In zool. noting those appearing as if

Dioscoreaceæ (di-os-ko'rē-ā"sē-ė), n. A nat. animals in which the sexes are distinct; it were furnish

order of endogenous plants, with alternate, that is, in which the germ-cell or ovum is ed with two long

reticulate-veined leaves, belonging to Lindproduced by one individual (female), and horns, each hav

ley's Dictyogens. They have tuberous rootthe sperm-cell, or spermatozoid, by another ing a knot at its

Diopsis.

stocks and twining stems. The flowers are (male). Opposed to monoecious. apex. All the

small and unisexual. There are six genera Dicciousness (di-è'shus-nes), n. The state known species are from the tropical parts with about 100 species. The acrid and poisonor quality of being diæcious. Darwin. of the Old World.-2. A genus of turbella- ous root-stocks or yams are nutritious when Diccism (di-7'sizm). Same as Diæciousness. rian worms.

cooked. Black bryony is the only British Sachs.

Dioptase (dí-op'tas), n. [Fr., from Gr. di for representative. Diogenes-crab (di-oj'en-ez-krab), n. A spe- dia, through, and optazó, from optomai, to Diosma (di-oz'ma), n. [Gr. dios, divine, and cies of Cenobita, somewhat like our hermit- see.) Emerald copper ore, silicate

of copper, osmē, odour, from ozo, to smell.) A genus crab, found in the West Indies; so called a translucent mineral, occurring crystal- of rutaceous plants inhabiting Southern from its selecting a shell for its residence, lized in six-sided prisms.

Africa. They have alternate or opposite as the Cynic philosopher did his tub. Diopter, Dioptra (di-op'ter, di-op'tra), n. simple leaves, strongly marked with dots of Diogenes-cup (di-oj'en-ez-kup), n. In anat. [See DIOPTRIC.) An instrument once em- transparent oil, and diffusing a powerful

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odour when bruised. Some species are cul- inclination or angle at which strata slope or two successive sets of teeth-a deciduous tivated for their white or pinkish flowers. dip downwards into the earth.

This angle or milk set, and a permanent set as distinDiospyros (di-os’pi-ros), n. [Gr. dios, divine, is measured from the plane of the horizon guished from the monophyodonts, which and pyros, wheat-lit celestial food.) A

develop only one set. The majority of mamlarge genus of trees or shrubs, natives of

mals are diphyodonts, though the number the warmer regions of the world, nat. order

of teeth replaced may vary; thus, in man, Ebenacere. The trees of this genus supply

twenty teeth of the adult are preceded by ebony wood. That from Ceylon is the wood

a milk set, while in the hare the anterior of D. Ebenum; from India, of D. melan

incisors are not so preceded, but the posoxylon and D. Ebenaster; and that from

terior smaller incisors replace an earlier Mauritius D. reticulata. The D. Lotos is

pair. the Indian date-plum. It is by some sup

Diphyozooid (di'fi-o-zö"oid), n. (Gr. di, dis, posed to have been the lotus-tree of the Geological Dip. dd, Direction or Angle of Dip. twice, phyö, to produce, zoon, an animal, ancients, whose fruit was said to produce

and eidos, resemblance.) One of the deoblivion.

or level. The opposite of dip is the term tached reproductive portions of adult memDiota (di-o'ta), n. [L., from Gr. diotos, hay- rise, and either may be used according to bers of that order of oceanic Hydrozoa ing two handles-di, dis, twice, and ous, the position of the observer; thus, a bed of named Calycophoridæ. Diphyozooids swim otos, an ear, a handle.) In anc. sculp. a sort coal which has a dip to the south when spoken about by means of their calyx. of vase with two handles, used for wine. of from the surface, will have a rise to the Diplacanthus (dip-la-kan'thus), n. [Gr. Dioxide (di-oks'id), n. (Prefix di, dis, twice, north when spoken of from the bottom of diploos, double, and akantha, a spine.) A and oxide.) An oxide consisting of one atom the mine. The term strike is often used in genus of fossil ganoid fishes occurring in of a metal and two atoms of oxygen.

connection with dip, being the line or direc- the old red sandstone, characterized by Dip (dip), v.t. pret. & pp. dipped or dipt; tion at right angles to the

dip. See STRIKE. very small scales, a heterocercal tail, and ppr. dipping. [A. Sax. dippan, dyppan, to If a stratum or bed of rock, instead of being quite

two dorsal fins, which, like the other fins, dip. Cog. Fris. dippe, D. doopen, G. taufen, level, be inclined to one side, it is said to dip; the were armed with a strong spine in front. to dip, to baptize; A. Sax. dépan, to dip or point of the compass to which it is inclined is said to Dipleidoscope (di-pli'do-sköp), n. (Gr. baptize, dúfan, to dive, deop, deep: E. deep, be the point of dip, and the degree of deviation from

diploos, double, eidos, appearance, and dive.] 1. To plunge or immerse for a mo

a level or horizontal line is called the amount of dip.

Lyell

skopeo, to see.) An instrument for indicatment or short time in water or other liquid; Dipaschal (di-pas’kal), a. (Gr. di, dis, twice,

ing the passage of the sun or a star over the to put into a fluid and withdraw. and E. paschal.] Including two passovers.

meridian, by the coincidence of two images The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. Lev.iv. 6. Dipchick (dip'chik), n. A small bird that of the object, the one formed by single and So fishes rising from the main, dives. See DABCHICK.

the other by double reflection. It consists Can soar with moistend wings on high; Dipetalous (di-pet'al-us), a. (Gr. di for dir,

of an equilateral hollow prism, two of whose The moisture dry'd they sink again, And dip their wings again to fly.

sides are silvered on the inside so as to be Swift.

twice, and petalon, a leaf or petal.] Having
two flower-leaves or petals; two-petaled.

mirrors, while the third is formed of glass. 2. To take or bale out, as with a ladle or Di petto (de pet'to). [It, lit. from the

The prism is adjusted so that one of the other vessel; as, to dip water from a boiler: breast.] În music, with the natural voice,

silvered sides shall be exactly in the plane often with out; as, to dip out water. - 3. To as opposed to falsetto.

of the meridian, and the transparent side plunge, as into a difficulty or dangerous Diphda (dif'da), n. (Ar.) The star ß of the

towards the object. So long as the object undertaking; to engage. constellation Cetus.

has not reached the meridian, the image He was a little dipt in the rebellion of the commons. Diphtheria (dif-thē'ri-a), n. (Gr. diphthera,

produced by that portion of the rays reDryden. 4. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. a membrane.) An epidemic inflammatory

Hected directly from the glass surface, and disease of the air-passages, and especially

that produced by the rays transmitted 'Live on the use, and never dip thy lands. of the throat, characterized by the forma

through the glass to the silvered side and Dryden.-5. To moist; to wet."[Rare.). 'A cold, shuddering dew dips me all o'er.' tion of a false membrane. It is most com

reflected from it to the other, and thence mon in the crowded districts of large cities,

through the glass, are not coincident, but Milton.-6. To baptize by immersion. Fuller. Dip (dip), v.i. 1. To plunge into a liquid and and is attributed to the action of putrid

they gradually approach, as the sun or star effluvia on the fauces, especially the foul air approaches the meridian, until they exactly quickly emerge; to dive partially or to a of sewers and cess-pools. It frequently

coincide at the instant the centre of the small depth. Unharmed the water-fowl may din proves fatal.

object is on the meridian; when an eye In the Volsinian mere.

stationed at the side of the prism and lookMacaulay.

Diphtheritic (dif-the-rit'ik), a. Connected 2. To penetrate; to pierce. The vulture with, relating to, or formed by diphtheria.

ing to the transparent side sees only one

object. dipping in Prometheus' side.' Granville.

A diphtheritic deposit.' West. 3. To engage in a desultory way; to concern

Diphthong (dif'thong or dip'thong), n. [Gr. Diploe (diplő-e), n. [Gr. diploos, double.) diphthongos-di, dis, twice, and phthongos,

In anat. the soft medullary substance or one self; as, to dip into the funds. ---4. To

sound; L. diphthongus.) A coalition or union porous part existing between the plates of look cursorily; to read passages here and of two vowels pronounced in one syllable.

the skull. there; as, to dip into a volume of history.

In uttering a proper diphthong both vowels Diplogenic (dip-lo-jen'ik), a. [Gr. diploos, We dipt in all

are pronounced; the sound is not simple, but double, and gennaõ, to produce.) ProducThat treats of whatsoever is. Tennyson,

the two sounds are so blended as to be con- ing two substances; partaking of the nature 5. To make use of a ladle or similar utensil; sidered as forming one syllable, as in joy,

of two bodies. hence, to make a random selection.

noise, bound, out. --Improper diphthong, a Diplograpsus (dip-lo-grap'sus), n. (Gr. Suppose union of two or more vowels in the same

diploos, double, and grapsus, a modern I dipped among the worst and Staius chose. Dryden. syllable, only one of them being sounded,

form standing for graptolite.]' A genus of 6. To incline downward; to sink, as below as ea in breach, eo in people, ai in rain,

Graptolitidæ, in which the cells are arthe horizon; as, the magnetic needle dipe. eau in beau.

ranged back to back on each of a common The sun's rim dips, the stars rush out. Coleridge. Diphthongal (dif-thong'gal or dip-thong'- axis, as are the barbs on the shaft of a fea

ther. 7. In geol. to incline downwards; to slope.

gal), a. Belonging to a diphthong; consist

ing of two vowel sounds pronounced in one Diploma (di-plo'ma), n.. (Gr. diploma, a Dip (dip), n. 1. Inclination downward; a syllable.

paper folded double, a license by a person sloping; a direction below a horizontal line; Diphthongally, (dif-thong/gal-li or dip

in authority, from diploő, to double or fold.) depression.--2. A candle made by dipping thong'gal-li), adv. In a diphthongal manner.

Anciently, a letter or other composition the wick in tallow: opposed to mould. Diphthongation (dif-thong-ga'shon or dip

written on paper or parchment and folded; It is a solitary purser's dip, as they are termed at thong-gå'shon), n. "In philol. the formation afterwards, any letter, literary monument, sea, emitting but feeble rays.

Marryat.
of a diphthong; specifically, in the develop-

or public document; now, a letter or writing, 3. Immersion in any liquid; a plunge; a ment of language, the conversion of a

usually under seal and signed by competent bath; as, the dip of oars; a dip in the sea. simple vowel, as a, e, in the root of a word, authority, conferring some power, privilege, ---Dip of the needle, the angle which the into a diphthong by affixing another vowel,

or honour, as that given to graduates of colmagnetic needle, freely poised on its centre as i; thus, Gr. root phan, stem phạin, verb

leges on their receiving the usual degrees, of gravity, and symmetrically formed in phaino; Gr. root tan, weakened form ten,

to physicians who are licensed to practise both its arms, makes with the plane of the stem tein, verb teino; Gr. root da, stem dai,

their profession, and the like. horizon. It is more scientifically termed verb daio.

Thus it (the state) may, by proper examinations, the inclination of the needle. -- Dip or de- Diphycerc, Diphycercal (di'fi-serk, di-fi- ascertain the qualifications to practise medicine or pression of the horisérk'al), a. (Gr. diphyès, of a double nature,

law; and upon those who come up to the prescribed

mark of fitness it may confer diplomas, or authorities zon, the angle con- I

0 and kerkos, the tail.] A term applied to those to practise. ... The granting of diplomas by uni. tained by two

fishes whose vertebral column extends into versities or other learned bodies proceeds on the supstraight lines drawn the upper lobe of the tail. The tail may be

position that the public require some assistance to from the observer's D equally lobed (homocercal) as in the salmon,

their judgment in the choice of professional services,

and that such an official scrutiny into the qualifica. eye, the one to a unequally (heterocercal) as in the shark.

tions of practitioners is a useful security against the point in the visible

Diphyes, Diphydæ (di'n-ez, di'n-dē), n. pl. imposture or incompetency of mere pretenders to horizon, and the [Gr. diphyēs, of double nature.) A genus and

skill.

Sir G. C. Lewis. other parallel to the

family of coelenterate animals, order Caly- Diploma (di-plo'ma), v.t. To furnish with a horizon, the eye of

cophoride, characterized by the combina- diploma; to fortify by a diploma. the observer being Dip of the Horizon. tion of many individuals or zoöids on a Doggeries never so diplomaed, bepuffed, gassupposed to be elecommon body, from which one or two swim- lighted, continue doggeries.

Carlyle. vated above the level of the sea. Hence ming discs are developed. The genera are Diplomacy (di-plo'ma-si), n. 1. The science the greater the elevation of the observer's oceanic.

or art of conducting negotiations, arranging eye, the greater the dip of the horizon. Diphyllous (di-fil'us), a. (Gr. di, dis, twice, treaties, &c., between nations; the branch In the fig. o represents the earth's centre, and phyllon, a leaf.) In bot. having two of knowledge which deals with the relations E the observer's eye, E A its height above leaves, as a calyx, &c.

of independent states to one another; the the level of the sea, B and D points in Diphyodont (di'k-o-dont), n. [Gr. diphyës, agency or management of envoys accredited the visible horizon, H = 0 a horizontal double-di, dis, twice, and phyö, to pro- to a foreign court; the forms of international line; the angle BEO Or DEH the dip of the duce—and odous, odontos, tooth.) One of negotiations. The tactics of practised horizon. - The dip of strata, in geol. the that group of the mammalia which possess diplomacy.' Sparks.-2. A diplomatic body;

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the whole body oi ministers at a foreign Dipnoi (dip'noi), 11. pl. (Gr. di for dis, twice, nitric acid.-5. The process of colouring court.

and pnoe, breath.) An order of fishes, in- jewellery by dipping, thus covering it with The foreign ministers were ordered to attend at cluding only the singular mud-fishes (Le- a thin coating of fine metal. this investiture of the directory; for so they call the pidosiren), important as exhibiting the tran- Dipping-needle (dip'ing-nē-ai), n. An inmanagers of their burlesque government. The sition between fishes and the amphibia. strument for showing the direction of one diplomacy, who were a sort of envoys, were quite awe struck with 'the pride, pomp, and circumstance

Formerly Lepidosiren was reckoned the of the components of the earth's magnetism. of this majestic senate.

Burke.

lowest of the amphibia, now it constitutes Its axis is at right angles to its length, and 3. Dexterity or skill in managing negotia

the highest order of fishes. The body is passes as exactly as possible through the tions of any kind; artful management with

fish-like in shape, covered with small horny centre of gravity, about which it moves in a the view of securing advantages; tact.

scales of a cycloid character; the pectoral vertical plane. When a needle thus mounted Diplomat, Diplomate (diplo-mat, diplo

and ventral fins are represented by two is placed anywhere not in the magnetic måt), n. A diplomatist.

pairs of long filiform organs; the heart has equator, it dips or points downward; and,

two auricles and one ventricle, and the re- if the vertical plane in which it moves Unless the diplomats of Europe are strangely misinformed, general political differences have not come,

spiratory organs are twofold, consisting of coincides with the magnetic meridian, the and are not likely to come, just at present under dis.

ordinary gills opening externally, and of position which it assumes shows at once cussion.

Sat. Rev. true lungs-formed by the modified swim- the direction of the magnetic force. The Diplomate (di-plở mặt), p.t. To invest with

ming-bladder-communicating with the intersection of two or more directions, a title or privilege by a diploma. (Rare.]

cesophagus by means of an air-duct or found by making the experiment at differ

trachea, whence the name. They are also ent places, indicates the place of the magHe was diplomated doctor of divinity in 1660. called Protopteri.

netic pole. A. Wood, Diplomatial (dip-lo-ma'shi-al), a. Diplo

Dipodidæ (di-pod'i-dē), nt. pl. (Genus Dipus Diprismatic (di-priz-mat’ik), a. [Prefix di matic. (Rare.)

(which see), and Gr. eidos, resemblance.) for dis, twice, and prismatic.) i. Doubly

The jerboas, a family of rodents, mainly Diplomatic, Diplomatical (dip-lo-matik,

prismatic.-2. In crystal. having cleavages characterized by the disproportionate length dip-lo-mat'ik-al), a. 1. Pertaining to di

parallel to the sides of a four-sided vertical of the hind-limbs as compared with the fore- prism, and at the same time to a horizontal plomas; privileged.—2. Pertaining to diplo

limbs. The tail is long and hairy. The prism. macy; hence, artful; skilful in gaining one's ends; as, the diplomatic body; a diplomatic

jerboas are of small size, live in troops, and Diprotodon (di-prot'o-don), n. [Gr. di for

inhabit Russia, North Africa, and North character: diplomatic management. —3. Re

dis, twice, protos, first, and odous, odontos, America. The best known members of the tooth.] Anextinct gigantic marsupial mamlating to diplomatics, or the art of deciphering old written characters and abbrevia

family are the common jerboa (Dipus ægyp- mal, characterized by two large upper in

ticus), the jumping-hare (Pedetes capensis) cisor teeth; it is found in the pleistocene or tions, especially those employed in ancient

of South Africa, and the jumping-mouse recent beds of Australia. It allied to the diplomas. Diplomatic science, the knowledge of which will Dipody (dip'o-di), n. [Gr. di for dis, twice,

(Meriones hudsonicus) of North America. kangaroo, but is much larger, the head of a enable us to form a proper judgment of the age and

specimen in the British Museum measuring authenticity of manuscripts, Chords, records, and

and pous, podos, foot.) In pros. two metri- 3 feet in length. other monuments of antiquity.

Astle. cal feet included in one measure, or a series Dipsaceæ, Dipsacaceæ (dip-sā'sē-ē, dip-sa

of two feet. Diplomatic (dip-lo-mat'ik), n. A minister,

ka'sē-ē), n. pl. [Gr. dipsao, to thirst, from

the bases of the leaves of some of the species official agent, or envoy to a foreign court;'à Dippel's Oil (dip'pelz oil), n. An animal oil, diplomatist.

originally prepared by Dippel, an apothecary Diplomatically (dip-lo-mat'ik-al-li), adv.

of the seventeenth century, by the destrucAccording to the rules or art of diplomacy;

tive distillation of animal matter, especially artfully.

of albuminous and gelatinous substances. Diplomatics (dip-lo-mat’iks), n. The science

It was considered a valuable therapeutic of diplomas or of ancient writings, literary

agent, as an antispasmodic and stimulant of and public documents, letters, decrees,

the vascular and nervous systems. In large charters, codicils, &c., which has for its ob.

doses it is a powerful poison. It is now no ject to decipher old writings, to ascertain

longer used in medicine.

1. One that dips; he or their authenticity, their date, signatures, Dipper (dip'er), n. &c.; paleography

that which dips.-2. A vessel used to dip Diplomatism (di-plo'mat-izm), n. Diplo

water or other liquor; a ladle. [United

States. 13. One of a sect of American Bapmacy. Diplomatist (di-plo'mat-ist), n.

A person

tists, called also Dunkers, Tunkers, and skilled in diplomacy; a diplomat.

Tumblers. They have the name of Dip

pers from their employing immersion in The talents and accomplishments of a diplomatist are widely different from those whích qualify a poli.

baptism. See TUNKER. – 4. The popular tician to lead the House of Commons in agitated

name, in the United States, of the seven times.

Macaulay. principal stars in the Great Bear, so called Diplopia, Diplopy (di-plo'pi-a, dip'lo-pi), 1.

from their being arranged in the form of (Gr. diploos, double, and ops, the eye.) A

a dipper or ladle.-5. A genus of birds disease of the eye, in which the patient sees

(Cinclus) belonging to the dentirostral Fuller's Teasel (Dipsacus Fullonum). an object double or even triple. division of the great order Passeres, and

a, Scale of the receptacle. 6, Corolla. Diplopod (diplo-pod), .n. One of the Diplo.

to the thrush family (Merulidæ) in that poda or Chilognatha. order. The dipper has received a great

forming a cavity which contains water ready Diplopoda (di-plop'o-da), n. pl. [Gr. diploos, many popular names; thus, in England

to quench thirst.) A nat. order of exogenous double, and pous, podos, a foot.] One of the it is called the water-ouzel, the Penrith

plants with monopetalous flowers, nearly two divisions of the Myriapoda, synonymous ouzel, the water-crake, and by a variety

allied to Compositæ, but having the anthers with Chilognatha. of other names; in Scotland the water-pyet,

quite free. None of the species are of any Diploptera (di-plop'ter-a), n. pl. [Gr. diploos,

importance except the common teasel (Dipdouble, and pteron, a wing.) A group of

sacus Fullonum), whose prickly flower-heads aculeate hymenopterous insects, having the

are employed in woollen factories to raise a upper wings folded longitudinally when at

nap on cloth. rest, as in the hornet, &c. This division

Dipsas (dips'as), n. (Gr.) 1. A serpent whose forms three families, Eumenidæ, Masaridæ,

bíte was said to produce a mortal thirst. and Vespidæ. See WASP.

Milton.-2. A genus of Asiatic and tropical Diplopterus (di-plop'tėr-us), n. [Gr. diploos,

American non-venomous serpents of the double, and pteron, a wing or fin.) A genus

family Colubridæ, of very elongated, and in of fossil ganoid fishes, of four species, be

some cases of a very attenuated form. longing to the old red sandstone. The tail

3. A name given by Dr. Leach to a genus of is heterocercal, the dorsal fins are two, and

fresh-water bivalves, intermediate between the scales perforated with small foramina.

Unio and Anodonta. Diplostemonous (dip-lo-stē'mon-us), a.

Dipsomania (dip-so-ma'ni-a), n. [Gr. dipsao, (Gr. diploos, double, and stēmón, a thread

to thirst, and mania, madness.) The name of warp.] In bot. having twice as many

given to that condition to which habitual stamens as petals.

drunkards of a nervous and sanguine temDiplotaxis (dip-lo-taks'is), n. [Gr. diploos,

perament are liable to reduce themselves, double, and taxis, arrangement.) A genus

Dipper (Cinclus aquaticus).

and in which they manifest an uncontrolof plants, nat, order Cruciferæ, consisting

lable craving for stimulants. In severe of twenty species of herbs, natives of the the water-craw, &c. It has received the cases the moral powers are so weakened, northern temperate regions of the old world. name dipper from its usual action, when and the mind so enfeebled, that the dipsoThey have pinnatifid leaves, yellow flowers, sitting, of bending down the head, and flirt- maniac is incapable of resisting the morbid a compressed pod and sub-convex valves, ing up the tail at the same time.

impulse, which is also usually attended by with the seeds oblong or oval, arranged in Dipping (dip'ing), n. 1. The act of plunging ennui, irritability, painful sense of sinking two rows. There are two British species, or immersing.

at the epigastrium, and restlessness. The D. tenuifolia and D. muralis, the former a That which is dyed with many dippings, is in grain, desire to appease this instinctive craving is, fetid plant with large yellow flowers, and

and can very hardly be washed out. Fer. Taylor. at last, imperative. When gratified, the growing on old walls.

2. The act of inclining toward the earth; in- patient becomes violent, maniacal, and danDiplozoon (dip-lo-zö'on), n. [Gr. diploos, clination downward; as, the dipping of the gerous to himself and to those around him. double, and zoon, an animal.] A parasitic needle.-3. The act of baptizing by the im- He continues to swallow the intoxicating trematode worm which infests the gills of mersion of the whole body in water.-4. The fluids as long as he can procure them, or as the bream, and which appears to be formed process of brightening ornamental brass- long as he has the power of doing so, until of two distinct bodies united in the middle, work, usually by first pickling' it in dilute the paroxysm terminates. Dipsomania is and resembling an X or St. Andrew's cross, nitric acid, next scouring it with sand and regarded by some as occurring likewise as two sexually mature individuals being thus water, and afterwards plunging it for an a primary disease, the craving for drink united.

instant only in a bath consisting of pure being the accompaniment of moral perver

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