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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Dī'ar-chy, n. p. 369A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons.Di-ā'ri-al or Di-ā'ri-an, a. p. 369Pertaining to a diary; daily.Dī'a-rist, n. p. 369One who keeps a diary.Di'ar-rhē'ā or Di'ar-rho'ā, n. p. 369(Med.) A morbidly frequent evacuation of the intestines; a relax; a flux.Dī'ar-rhēt'ie or Dī'ar-rhæt'ie, a. p. 369(Med.) Producing diarrhea, or a purging.Dī'ar-thrō'di-al, a. p. 369(Anat.) Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations. Dunglison.Dī'ar-thrō'sis, n. p. 369(Anat.) The connection of two bones admitting of motion between them, as at the articulations.Dī'a-ry, n. p. 369An account made day by day of the events or transactions of the day; a journal; a register of daily occurrences; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather.Dī'a-ry, a. p. 369Lasting for one day; as, a diary fever. [Obs.] Bacon.Dī'a-schĭz'mā, n. p. 369(Anc. Mus.) The difference between the comma and enharmonic diesis, commonly called the lesser comma.Dī'as-pōre, n. p. 369(Min.) A mineral consisting of alumina and water. It occurs in lamellar masses and prismatic crystals, with a bright, pearly cleavage, having a whitish, grayish, or greenish color, and characterized…Dī'as-tāl'tic, a. p. 369(Anc. Mus.) Dilated or extended; — said of certain intervals, as the major third, minor sixth, and major seventh.Dī'as-tāse, n. p. 369(Chem.) A substance, containing nitrogen, generated during the germination of grain for the brewery, and tending to accelerate the formation of sugar during fermentation.Dī-ās'ta-sīs, n. p. 369A forcible separation of bones without fracture. Dunglison.Dī'as-tem, n. p. 369Intervening space; interval. 2. (Anc. Mus.) A simple interval, as opposed to a compound one.Dī-ăs'to-le, n. p. 369(Med.) A dilatation of the heart, auricles, and arteries; — opposed to systole, or contraction. 2. (Gram.) The extension of a syllable; a figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.Dī'a-style, n. p. 369(Arch.) An edifice in which three diameters of the columns are allowed for each intercolumniation. Harris.Dī'a-syrm, n. p. 369(Rhet.) A figure of speech expressing mockery and contempt, or by which reproof is conveyed in an ironical manner. [Obs.]Dī'a-tēs'sa-rōn, n. p. 370(Anc. Mus.) The concord or harmonic interval, composed of a greater tone, a lesser tone, and one greater semitone; — now called a fourth. Moore. 2. (Theol.) A harmony of the four Gospels.Dī'a-thēr'mal, a. p. 370Freely permeable by radiant heat.Dī'a-thēr'man-cy or Dī'a-thēr'ma-nē'i-ty, n. p. 370The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous. Melloni.Dī'a-thēr'ma-nism, n. p. 370The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat. Nichol.Dī'a-thēr'ma-noŭs, a. p. 370Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal.Dī'a-thēr'mic, a. p. 370Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. Melloni.Dī'a-thēr'moŭs, a. p. 370Same as DIATHERMANOUS.Dī-ăth'e-sĭs, n. p. 370(Med.) Bodily condition or constitution, especially that which predisposes to a particular disease.Dī'a-tōm, n. p. 370(Nat. Hist.) One of the Diatomaceæ, a family of silicious animalcules now regarded as belonging to the vegetable kingdom.Dī/a-tŏm'ic, a. p. 370Consisting of two atoms.Dī-ăt’o-moŭs, a. p. 370(Min.) Having a single, distinct, diagonal cleavage; — said of crystals. Mohs.Dī'a-tōn'ic, a. p. 370(Mus.) Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first. Diatonic scale (Mus.), a scale consisting of eight sounds with seven intervals, of which two are…Di'a-tōn'ic-al-ly, adv. p. 370In a diatonic manner.Dī'a-tribe, n. p. 370A continued discourse or disputation; especially, an invective harangue; a strain of reviling or reproach.Dī-ăt'ri-bīst, n. p. 370The author of a diatribe; one who makes diatribes.Dī'a-zeū'tic, a. p. 370(Anc. Mus.) Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth. [Obs.]Dib, v. i. p. 370To dip or dibble; — a term in angling.Dib'ber or Dib'ble, n. p. 370A pointed hand instrument, used in gardening and agriculture, to make holes for planting seeds, &c.Dib'ble, v. t. p. 370To plant with a dibble; to make holes in with a dibble for planting seeds, &c. Dibble. 2. To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble. The clayey soil around it was dibbled thick at the…Dĭb’ble, v. i. p. 370To dib; to dip as in angling. See Dib.Dib'bler, n. p. 370One who, or that which, dibbles or makes holes in the ground for seed.Di-bŏth'ri-an, n. p. 370(Entom.) One of a certain division of tape worms, which includes those having not more than two pits on the head. Brande.Dī-brăn'chi-ate, n. p. 370(Zoöl.) One of an order of cephalopods, which includes those with two gills, three distinct hearts, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and with solid cephalic arms, not exceeding ten in number…Dībs, n. p. 370A sweet preparation or treacle of grape-juice, much used in the East. Johnston.Dib'stōne, n. p. 370A little stone thrown at another stone, in a certain game played by children.Di-cā'cious, a. p. 370Talkative; pert; saucy. [Obs.]Dī-căç'i-ty, n. p. 370Pertness; sauciness. [Obs.]Dī'cast, n. p. 370A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman.Dī'çe, n. p. 370pl. of die. A game. See DIE, No. 1.Dīce, v. i. p. 370To play with dice. I . . . diced not above seven times a week. Shak.Dice'-bŏx, n. p. 370A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.Dice'-cōal, n. p. 370A kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande.Di-cĕph'a-lous, a. p. 370Having two heads on one body.Di'cer, n. p. 370A player at dice. “As false as dicers’ oaths.” Shak.Dich, v. p. 370May it do;—a word peculiar to Shakespeare, and supposed to be a corruption of dit for do it.Di-chōt'ōr-sēs, n. p. 370Spontaneous subdivision. Dana.Di-chās'tic, a. p. 370Capable of subdividing spontaneously. Dana.Di'chla-myd'e-oŭs, a. p. 370(Bot.) Having two coverings, a calyx and a corol. Linnæus.Di-chōt'o-mist, n. p. 370One who dichotomizes.Di-chŏt'/o-mīze, v. t. p. 370To cut into two parts; to divide into pairs; to halve; to bisect. [Rare.] 2. (Astron.) To exhibit as a half-disk or semicircle. [[The moon] was dichotomized.] Whewell.Di-chōt'o-mize, v. i. p. 370To separate or divide into two parts, or into pairs. R. Owen.Di-chŏt'o-moŭs, a. p. 370(Bot.) Regularly dividing by pairs, from top to bottom; as, a dichotomous stem. Martyn.