Dialogue
"Fourth Dialogue of Movements of Planets as They Pertain to Astrology" The Fourth Dialogue of the Movements of the Planets as They Pertain to Astrology is one of the famed "lost works" of Ajencis .

Dialogues
"Journals and Dialogues" Journals and Dialogues is the collected writings of Triamis the Great , greatest of the Ceneian Aspect-Emperors .

Excerpts

"Why must I conquer, you ask? War makes clear. Life or Death. Freedom or Bondage. War strikes the sediment from the water of life." "What is practicality but one moment betrayed for the next?" "...and my soldiers, they say, make idols of their swords. But does not the sword make certain? Does not the sword make plain? Does not the sword compel kindness from those who kneel in its shadow? I need no other god." "I returned from that campaign a far different man, or so my mother continuously complained. "Now only the dead," she would tell me, "can hope to match your gaze."" "If war does not kill the woman in us, it kills the man." "...conquered peoples live and die with the knowledge that survival does not suffer honor. They have chosen shame over the pyre, the slow flame for the quick." "A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity." "The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it."

Dinchases
Dinchases is a Captain of Attrempus and lifelong comrade-in-arms to Krijates Xinemus , slain at Iothiah .

Appearance

Dinchases has an X-shaped scar on his forehead.

Dinchases

Title(s): Captain
Aliases: Bloody Dinch
Lived: 4074 - 4111
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: Captain of Attrempus
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet

Dinchases

Title(s): Captain
Aliases: Bloody Dinch
Lived: 4074 - 4111
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: Captain of Attrempus
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet

Diremti
"Diremti brothers" Two of Sanumnis' Chorae bowmen.

Diremti brothers
Two of Sanumnis' Chorae bowmen.

Discourse
"Discourse on War" Discourse on War is a work by the famed philosopher Ajencis .

Excerpts

“Here we find further argument for Gotagga ’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?”

Discourse on War
Discourse on War is a work by the famed philosopher Ajencis .

Excerpts

“Here we find further argument for Gotagga ’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?”

Diurnal
The Day Lantern , also called the Diurnal , Sky Lantern or False Sun , is a sorcerous artifact, a fan of mirrors that reflects the Sun even in the deepest night. It is one of the Sublime Contrivances of the Artisan, Emilidis . Emilidis of Ishoriöl , greatest of the Nonmen sorcerer-artisans, created the Day Lantern during the war between Nihrimsul and Siöl that erupted in the aftermath of the Battle of Pir Pahal . Emilidis gifted the artifact to King Sin’niroiha of Nihrimsul, who used it to win an alliance with Ishoriöl. With the announcement of this alliance, King Cû’jara-Cinmoi sued for peace, declaring that a "King of Three Mansions may be brother to a King of two". The Day Lantern was then deployed as a weapon during the Cûno-Inchoroi Wars , used to pierce the darkest hiding places of the foe and to dismay Sranc , which preferred to fight in darkness. It’s last known carrier was Titirga , who carried it with him to his death in Viri at the hands of Shaeönanra and Aurang . The fate of the Day Lantern after this point is unknown.

Divine
"Book of Divine Acts" The Book of Divine Acts is the magnum opus of Memgowa , the famed Zeümi sage and philosopher. Though not as commonly read or copied as his Celestial Aphorisms , most scholars consider it a vastly superior work.

Excerpts

“If all human events possess purpose, then all human deeds possess purpose. And yet when men vie with men, the purpose of no man comes to fruition: the result always falls somewhere in between. The purpose of deeds, then, cannot derive from the purposes of men, because all men vie with all men. This means the deeds of men must be willed by something other than men. From this it follows that we are all slaves. Who then is our Master?” “The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods . The learned think the God by analogy to principles and so worshp Him in the form of Love or Truth. But the wise think the God not at all. They know that thought, which is finite, can only do violence to the God, who is infinite.” “In life, your soul is but the extension of your body, which reaches inwards until it finds its centre in spirit. In death, your body is but the extension of your soul, which reaches outward until it finds its circumference in flesh. In both instances, all things appear the same. Thus are the dead and the living confused.”

di
-
-a prefix, signifying twofold, double, twice
-denoting two atoms, radicals, groups, or equivalents, as the case may be. see bi
-, 2.
-a prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. before a vowel dia
-becomes di
-; as, diactinic; dielectric, etc.

di/////
-of disserve

di/planted
-of displant

dia
-
-alt. of di
-

diabase
-a basic, dark
-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron;
-- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. it includes part of what was early called greenstone.

diabaterial
-passing over the borders.

diabetes
-a disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal.

diabetic
-alt. of diabetical

diabetical
-pertaining to diabetes; as, diabetic or diabetical treatment.

diablerie
-alt. of diabley

diabley
-devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief.

diabolic
-alt. of diabolical

diabolical
-pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act.

diabolify
-to ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil.

diabolism
-character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.
-possession by the devil.

diabolize
-to render diabolical.

diacatholicon
-a universal remedy;
-- name formerly to a purgative electuary.

diacaustic
-pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. see caustic surface, under caustic.
-that which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery.
-a curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.

diachylon
-alt. of diachylum

diachylum
-a plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.

diacid
-divalent;
-- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. cf. dibasic, a., and biacid.

diacodium
-a sirup made of poppies.

diaconal
-of or pertaining to a deacon.

diaconate
-the office of a deacon; deaconship; also, a body or board of deacons.
-governed by deacons.

diacope
-tmesis.

diacoustic
-pertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds.

diacoustics
-that branch of natural philosophy which treats of the properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums;
-- called also diaphonics. see the note under acoustics.

diacritic
-alt. of diacritical

diacritical
-that separates or distinguishes;
-- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, /, a, /, /, etc.

diactinic
-capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light; as, diactinic media.

diadelphia
-a linnaean class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.

diadelphian
-alt. of diadelphous

diadelphous
-of or pertaining to the class diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens).

diadem
-originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general.
-regal power; sovereignty; empire;
-- considered as symbolized by the crown.
-an arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center.
-to adorn with a diadem; to crown.

diadrom
-a complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of a pendulum.

diaereses
-of dieresis

diaeresis
-alt. of dieresis

diaeretic
-caustic.

diageotropic
-relating to, or exhibiting, diageotropism.

diageotropism
-the tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth.

diaglyph
-an intaglio.

diaglyphic
-alt. of diaglyphtic

diaglyphtic
-represented or formed by depressions in the general surface; as, diaglyphic sculpture or engraving;
-- opposed to anaglyphic.

diagnose
-to ascertain by diagnosis; to diagnosticate. see diagnosticate.

diagnoses
-of diagnosis

diagnosis
-the art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at.
-scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species.
-critical perception or scrutiny; judgment based on such scrutiny; esp., perception of, or judgment concerning, motives and character.

diagnostic
-pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.
-the mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.

diagnosticate
-to make a diagnosis of; to recognize by its symptoms, as a disease.

diagnostics
-that part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs.

diagometer
-a sort of electroscope, invented by rousseau, in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power.

diagonal
-joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides.
-a right line drawn from one angle to another not adjacent, of a figure of four or more sides, and dividing it into two parts.
-a member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel.
-a diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.

diagonally
-in a diagonal direction.

diagonial
-diagonal; diametrical; hence; diametrically opposed.

diagram
-a figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.
-any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one.
-to put into the form of a diagram.

diagrammatic
-pertaining to, or of the nature of, a diagram; showing by diagram.

diagraph
-a drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale.

diagraphic
-alt. of diagraphical

diagraphical
-descriptive.

diagraphics
-the art or science of descriptive drawing; especially, the art or science of drawing by mechanical appliances and mathematical rule.

diaheliotropic
-relating or, or manifesting, diaheliotropism.

diaheliotropism
-a tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.

dial
-an instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. the style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical.
-the graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands.
-a miner's compass.
-to measure with a dial.
-to survey with a dial.

dialect
-means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
-the form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the ionic and attic were dialects of greece; the yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.

dialectal
-relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.

dialectic
-same as dialectics.
-alt. of dialectical

dialectical
-pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.
-pertaining to a dialect or to dialects.

dialectically
-in a dialectical manner.

dialectician
-one versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.

dialectics
-that branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.

dialectology
-that branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects.

dialector
-one skilled in dialectics.

dialed
-of dial

dialing
-of dial
-the art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials.
-a method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor.

dialist
-a maker of dials; one skilled in dialing.

diallage
-a figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point.
-a dark green or bronze
-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.

dialled
-of dial

diallel
-meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel;
-- opposed to parallel.

dialling
-of dial

diallyl
-a volatile, pungent, liquid hydrocarbon, c6h10, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series.

dialogical
-relating to a dialogue; dialogistical.

dialogically
-in the manner or nature of a dialogue.

dialogism
-an imaginary speech or discussion between two or more; dialogue.

dialogist
-a speaker in a dialogue.
-a writer of dialogues.

dialogistic
-alt. of dialogistical

dialogistical
-pertaining to a dialogue; having the form or nature of a dialogue.

dialogite
-native carbonate of manganese; rhodochrosite.

dialogize
-to discourse in dialogue.

dialogue
-a conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.
-a written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the dialogues of plato.
-to take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
-to express as in dialogue.

dialypetalous
-having separate petals; polypetalous.

dialyses
-of dialysis

dialysis
-diaeresis. see diaeresis, 1.
-same as asyndeton.
-debility.
-a solution of continuity; division; separation of parts.
-the separation of different substances in solution, as crystalloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes.

dialytic
-having the quality of unloosing or separating.

dialyzate
-the material subjected to dialysis.

dialyzation
-the act or process of dialysis.

dialyze
-to separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis.

dialyzed
-of dialyze
-prepared by diffusion through an animal membrane; as, dialyzed iron.

dialyzer
-the instrument or medium used to effect chemical dialysis.

dialyzing
-of dialyze

diamagnet
-a body having diamagnetic polarity.

diamagnetic
-pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. see paramagnetic.
-any substance, as bismuth, glass, phosphorous, etc., which in a field of magnetic force is differently affected from the ordinary magnetic bodies, as iron; that is, which tends to take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet.

diamagnetically
-in the manner of, or according to, diamagnetism.

diamagnetism
-the science which treats of diamagnetic phenomena, and of the properties of diamagnetic bodies.
-that form or condition of magnetic action which characterizes diamagnetics.

diamantiferous
-yielding diamonds.

diamantine
-adamantine.

diameter
-any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve.
-a diametral plane.
-the length of a straight line through the center of an object from side to side; width; thickness; as, the diameter of a tree or rock.
-the distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. see module.

diametral
-pertaining to a diameter; diametrical.
-a diameter.

diametrally
-diametrically.

diametric
-alt. of diametrical

diametrical
-of or pertaining to a diameter.
-as remote as possible, as if at the opposite end of a diameter; directly adverse.

diametrically
-in a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite.

diamide
-any compound containing two amido groups united with one or more acid or negative radicals,
-- as distinguished from a diamine. cf. amido acid, under amido, and acid amide, under amide.

diamido
-
-a prefix or combining form of diamine. [also used adjectively.]

diamine
-a compound containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals,
-- as contrasted with a diamide.

diamond
-a precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.
-a geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.
-one of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.
-a pointed projection, like a four
-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.
-the infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.
-the smallest kind of type in english printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.
-resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.

diamond
-back
-the salt
-marsh terrapin of the atlantic coast (malacoclemmys palustris).

diamond
-shaped
-shaped like a diamond or rhombus.

diamonded
-having figures like a diamond or lozenge.
-adorned with diamonds; diamondized.

diamondize
-to set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich.

diamylene
-a liquid hydrocarbon, c10h20, of the ethylene series, regarded as a polymeric form of amylene.

dian
-diana.

diana
-the daughter of jupiter and latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage;
-- identified with the greek goddess artemis.

diandria
-a linnaean class of plants having two stamens.

diandrian
-diandrous.

diandrous
-of or pertaining to the class diandria; having two stamens.

dianium
-same as columbium.

dianoetic
-pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products.

dianoialogy
-the science of the dianoetic faculties, and their operations.

dianthus
-a genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and sweet william.

diapase
-same as diapason.

diapasm
-powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together.

diapason
-the octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale.
-concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony.
-the entire compass of tones.
-a standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the french normal diapason.
-one of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. they are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like.

diapedesis
-the passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.

diapente
-the interval of the fifth.
-a composition of five ingredients.

diaper
-any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. see 2.
-surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
-a towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc.
-an infant's breechcloth.
-to ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving.
-to put a diaper on (a child).
-to draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.

diapering
-same as diaper, n., 2.

diaphane
-a woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.

diaphaned
-transparent or translucent.

diaphaneity
-the quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness.

diaphanic
-having power to transmit light; transparent; diaphanous.

diaphanie
-the art of imitating //ined glass with translucent paper.

diaphanometer
-an instrument for measuring the transparency of the air.

diaphanoscope
-a dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.

diaphanotype
-a colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.

diaphanous
-allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.

diaphanously
-translucently.

diaphemetric
-relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses.

diaphonic
-alt. of diaphonical

diaphonical
-diacoustic.

diaphonics
-the doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.

diaphoresis
-perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.

diaphoretic
-alt. of diaphoretical
-a medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

diaphoretical
-having the power to increase perspiration.

diaphote
-an instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph.

diaphragm
-a dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.
-the muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.
-a calcareous plate which divides the cavity of certain shells into two parts.
-a plate with an opening, which is generally circular, used in instruments to cut off marginal portions of a beam of light, as at the focus of a telescope.
-a partition in any compartment, for various purposes.

diaphragmatic
-pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves.

diaphysis
-an abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.
-the shaft, or main part, of a bone, which is first ossified.

diapnoic
-slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic.
-a gentle diaphoretic.

diapophysical
-pertaining to a diapophysis.

diapophysis
-the dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. see vertebra.

diarchy
-a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons.

diarial
-alt. of diarian

diarian
-pertaining to a diary; daily.

diaries
-of diary

diarist
-one who keeps a diary.

diarrhea
-alt. of diarrhoea

diarrheal
-alt. of diarrhoeal

diarrhetic
-alt. of diarrhoetic

diarrhoea
-a morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

diarrhoeal
-of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.

diarrhoetic
-producing diarrhea, or a purging.

diarthrodial
-relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations.

diarthrosis
-a form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. see articulation.

diary
-a register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.
-lasting for one day; as, a diary fever.

diaspore
-a hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster;
-- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

diastase
-a soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.

diastasic
-pertaining to, or consisting of, diastase; as, diastasic ferment.

diastasis
-a forcible of bones without fracture.

diastatic
-relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.

diastem
-intervening space; interval.
-an interval.

diastema
-a vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.

diaster
-a double star;
-- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. see karyokinesis.

diastole
-the rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries;
-- correlative to systole, or contraction.
-a figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.

diastolic
-of or pertaining to diastole.

diastyle
-see under intercolumniation.

diatessaron
-the interval of a fourth.
-a continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the new testament.
-an electuary compounded of four medicines.

diathermal
-freely permeable by radiant heat.

diathermancy
-alt. of diathermaneity

diathermaneity
-the property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous.

diathermanism
-the doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat.

diathermanous
-having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal;
-- opposed to athermanous.

diathermic
-affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances.

diathermometer
-an instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat
-conducting power of liquids.

diathermous
-same as diathermal.

diathesis
-bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.

diathetic
-pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease.

diatom
-one of the diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. by some authors diatoms are called bacillariae, but this word is not in general use.
-a particle or atom endowed with the vital principle.

diatomic
-containing two atoms.
-having two replaceable atoms or radicals.

diatomous
-having a single, distinct, diagonal cleavage;
-- said of crystals.

diatonic
-pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.

diatonically
-in a diatonic manner.

diatribe
-a prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic.

diatribist
-one who makes a diatribe or diatribes.

diatryma
-an extinct eocene bird from new mexico, larger than the ostrich.

diazeuctic
-alt. of diazeutic

diazeutic
-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.

diazo
-
-a combining form (also used adjectively), meaning pertaining to, or derived from, a series of compounds containing a radical of two nitrogen atoms, united usually to an aromatic radical; as, diazo
-benzene, c6h5.n2.oh.

diazotize
-to subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.

dib
-to dip.
-one of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.
-a child's game, played with dib bones.

dibasic
-having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic;
-- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. cf. diacid, bibasic.

dibasicity
-the property or condition of being dibasic.

dibber
-a dibble.

dibble
-a pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.
-to dib or dip frequently, as in angling.
-to plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting.
-to make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble.

dibbled
-of dibble

dibbler
-one who, or that which, dibbles, or makes holes in the ground for seed.

dibbling
-of dibble

dibranchiata
-an order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. see cephalopoda.

dibranchiate
-having two gills.
-one of the dibranchiata.

dibs
-a sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the east.

dibstone
-a pebble used in a child's game called dibstones.

dibutyl
-a liquid hydrocarbon, c8h18, of the marsh
-gas series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. cf. octane.

dicacious
-talkative; pert; saucy.

dicacity
-pertness; sauciness.

dicalcic
-having two atoms or equivalents of calcium to the molecule.

dicarbonic
-containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl or radicals; as, oxalic acid is a dicarbonic acid.

dicast
-a functionary in ancient athens answering nearly to the modern juryman.

dicastery
-a court of justice; judgment hall.

dice
-small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. see die, n.
-to play games with dice.
-to ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
-of die

dicebox
-a box from which dice are thrown in gaming.

diced
-of dice

dicentra
-a genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two
-spurred or heart
-shaped flowers, including the dutchman's breeches, and the more showy bleeding heart (d. spectabilis).

dicephalous
-having two heads on one body; double
-headed.

dicer
-a player at dice; a dice player; a gamester.

dich
-to ditch.

dichastic
-capable of subdividing spontaneously.

dichlamydeous
-having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla.

dichloride
-same as bichloride.

dichogamous
-manifesting dichogamy.

dichogamy
-the condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.

dichotomist
-one who dichotomizes.

dichotomize
-to cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.
-to exhibit as a half disk. see dichotomy, 3.
-to separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.

dichotomized
-of dichotomize

dichotomizing
-of dichotomize

dichotomous
-regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem.

dichotomy
-a cutting in two; a division.
-division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
-that phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
-successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.
-the place where a stem or vein is forked.
-division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.

dichroic
-having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.

dichroiscope
-same as dichroscope.

dichroism
-the property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.

dichroite
-iolite;
-- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. see iolite.

dichroitic
-dichroic.

dichromate
-a salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base;
-- called also bichromate.

dichromatic
-having or exhibiting two colors.
-having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects.

dichromatism
-the state of being dichromatic.

dichromic
-furnishing or giving two colors;
-- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three.

dichroous
-dichroic.

dichroscope
-an instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.

dichroscopic
-pertaining to the dichroscope, or to observations with it.

dicing
-of dice
-an ornamenting in squares or cubes.
-gambling with dice.

dickcissel
-the american black
-throated bunting (spiza americana).

dickens
-the devil.

dicker
-the number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves.
-a chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker.
-to negotiate a dicker; to barter.

dickey
-alt. of dicky

dicky
-a seat behind a carriage, for a servant.
-a false shirt front or bosom.
-a gentleman's shirt collar.

diclinic
-having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. see crystallization.

diclinous
-having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers.

dicoccous
-composed of two coherent, one
-seeded carpels; as, a dicoccous capsule.

dicotyledon
-a plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

dicotyledonous
-having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.

dicrotal
-alt. of dicrotous

dicrotic
-of or pertaining to dicrotism; as, a dicrotic pulse.
-of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave.

dicrotism
-a condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.

dicrotous
-dicrotic.

dicta
-see dictum.
-of dictum

dictamen
-a dictation or dictate.

dictamnus
-a suffrutescent, d. fraxinella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. the volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable.

dictate
-to tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis.
-to say; to utter; to communicate authoritatively; to deliver (a command) to a subordinate; to declare with authority; to impose; as, to dictate the terms of a treaty; a general dictates orders to his troops.
-to speak as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on).
-to compose literary works; to tell what shall be written or said by another.
-a statement delivered with authority; an order; a command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription; as, listen to the dictates of your conscience; the dictates of the gospel.

dictated
-of dictate

dictating
-of dictate

dictation
-the act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.
-the speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.

dictator
-one who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
-one invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.

dictatorial
-pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute.
-characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner.

dictatorian
-dictatorial.

dictatorship
-the office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.

dictatory
-dogmatical; overbearing; dictatorial.

dictatress
-a woman who dictates or commands.

dictatrix
-a dictatress.

dictature
-office of a dictator; dictatorship.

diction
-choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of chaucer's poems.

dictionalrian
-a lexicographer.

dictionaries
-of dictionary

dictionary
-a book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
-hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary.

dictum
-an authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.
-a judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
-the report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
-an arbitrament or award.

dictums
-of dictum

dictyogen
-a plant with net
-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class dictyogenae, proposed by lindley for the orders dioscoreaceae, smilaceae, trilliaceae, etc.

dicyanide
-a compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen groups or radicals;
-- called also bicyanide.

dicyemata
-an order of worms parasitic in cephalopods. they are remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. the embryo exists in two forms.

dicyemid
-like or belonging to the dicyemata.
-one of the dicyemata.

dicynodont
-one of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. their remains are found in triassic strata of south africa and india.

did
-imp. of do.

didactic
-alt. of didactical
-a treatise on teaching or education.

didactical
-fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays.

didactically
-in a didactic manner.

didacticism
-the didactic method or system.

didacticity
-aptitude for teaching.

didactics
-the art or science of teaching.

didactyl
-an animal having only two digits.

didactylous
-having only two digits; two
-toed.

didal
-a kind of triangular spade.

didapper
-see dabchick.

didascalar
-didascalic.

didascalic
-didactic; preceptive.

diddle
-to totter, as a child in walking.
-to cheat or overreach.

diddler
-a cheat.

didelphia
-the subclass of mammalia which includes the marsupials. see marsupialia.

didelphian
-of or relating to the didelphia.
-one of the didelphia.

didelphic
-having the uterus double; of or pertaining to the didelphia.

didelphid
-same as didelphic.
-a marsupial animal.

didelphous
-didelphic.
-formerly, any marsupial; but the term is now restricted to an american genus which includes the opossums, of which there are many species. see opossum. [written also didelphis.] see illustration in appendix.

didelphyc
-same as didelphic.

didine
-like or pertaining to the genus didus, or the dodo.

dido
-a shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.

didonia
-the curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area.

didos
-of dido

didrachm
-alt. of didrachma

didrachma
-a two
-drachma piece; an ancient greek silver coin, worth nearly forty cents.

didst
-the 2d pers. sing. imp. of do.

diducement
-diduction; separation into distinct parts.

diduction
-the act of drawing apart; separation.

didym
-see didymium.

didymium
-a rare metallic substance usually associated with the metal cerium;
-- hence its name. it was formerly supposed to be an element, but has since been found to consist of two simpler elementary substances, neodymium and praseodymium. see neodymium, and praseodymium.

didymous
-growing in pairs or twins.

didynamia
-a linnaean class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.

didynamian
-didynamous.

didynamous
-of or pertaining to the didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.

die
-of dice
-to pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish;
-- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
-to suffer death; to lose life.
-to perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
-to sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
-to become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
-to recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish;
-- often with out or away.
-to disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
-to become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
-a small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. see dice.
-any small cubical or square body.
-that which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
-that part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
-a metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.
-a perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.
-a hollow internally threaded screw
-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.

diecian
-alt. of diecious

diecious
-see dioecian, and dioecious.

died
-of die

diedral
-the same as dihedral.

diegesis
-a narrative or history; a recital or relation.

dielectric
-any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor. separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body.

dielytra
-see dicentra.

diencephalon
-the interbrain or thalamencephalon;
-- sometimes abbreviated to dien. see thalamencephalon.

diereses
-of dieresis

dieresis
-the separation or resolution of one syllable into two;
-- the opposite of synaeresis.
-a mark consisting of two dots [/], placed over the second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters; as, cooperate, aerial.
-same as diaeresis.

dies
-of die

dies irae
-day of wrath;
-- the name and beginning of a famous mediaeval latin hymn on the last judgment.

dies juridici
-of dies juridicus

dies juridicus
-a court day.

dies non
-a day on which courts are not held, as sunday or any legal holiday.

dieses
-of diesis

diesinker
-an engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc.

diesinking
-the process of engraving dies.

diesis
-a small interval, less than any in actual practice, but used in the mathematical calculation of intervals.
-the mark /;
-- called also double dagger.

diestock
-a stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.

diet
-course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
-a course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
-to cause to take food; to feed.
-to cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
-to eat; to take one's meals.
-to eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.
-a legislative or administrative assembly in germany, poland, and some other countries of europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the diet of worms, held in 1521.

dietarian
-one who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter.

dietaries
-of dietary

dietary
-pertaining to diet, or to the rules of diet.
-a rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc.

dieted
-of diet

dieter
-one who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.

dietetic
-alt. of dietetical

dietetical
-of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten.

dietetically
-in a dietetical manner.

dietetics
-that part of the medical or hygienic art which relates to diet or food; rules for diet.

dietetist
-a physician who applies the rules of dietetics to the cure of diseases.

diethylamine
-a colorless, volatile, alkaline liquid, nh(c2h5)2, having a strong fishy odor resembling that of herring or sardines. cf. methylamine.

dietic
-dietetic.

dietical
-dietetic.

dietine
-a subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.

dieting
-of diet

dietist
-alt. of dietitian

dietitian
-one skilled in dietetics.

diffame
-evil name; bad reputation; defamation.

diffarreation
-a form of divorce, among the ancient romans, in which a cake was used. see confarreation.

differ
-to be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished;
-- with from.
-to be of unlike or opposite opinion; to disagree in sentiment;
-- often with from or with.
-to have a difference, cause of variance, or quarrel; to dispute; to contend.
-to cause to be different or unlike; to set at variance.

differed
-of differ

difference
-the act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?
-disagreement in opinion; dissension; controversy; quarrel; hence, cause of dissension; matter in controversy.
-that by which one thing differs from another; that which distinguishes or causes to differ; mark of distinction; characteristic quality; specific attribute.
-choice; preference.
-an addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. see augmentation, and marks of cadency, under cadency.
-the quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
-the quantity by which one quantity differs from another, or the remainder left after subtracting the one from the other.
-to cause to differ; to make different; to mark as different; to distinguish.

differenced
-of difference

differencing
-of difference

different
-distinct; separate; not the same; other.
-of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different shapes; different degrees of excellence.

differentia
-the formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.

differentiae
-of differentia

differential
-relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate.
-of or pertaining to a differential, or to differentials.
-relating to differences of motion or leverage; producing effects by such differences; said of mechanism.
-an increment, usually an indefinitely small one, which is given to a variable quantity.
-a small difference in rates which competing railroad lines, in establishing a common tariff, allow one of their number to make, in order to get a fair share of the business. the lower rate is called a differential rate. differentials are also sometimes granted to cities.
-one of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other.
-a form of conductor used for dividing and distributing the current to a series of electric lamps so as to maintain equal action in all.

differentially
-in the way of differentiation.

differentiate
-to distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to specialize; to desynonymize.
-to express the specific difference of; to describe the properties of (a thing) whereby it is differenced from another of the same class; to discriminate.
-to obtain the differential, or differential coefficient, of; as, to differentiate an algebraic expression, or an equation.
-to acquire a distinct and separate character.

differentiation
-the act of differentiating.
-the act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.
-the gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.
-the supposed act or tendency in being of every kind, whether organic or inorganic, to assume or produce a more complex structure or functions.

differentiator
-one who, or that which, differentiates.

differently
-in a different manner; variously.

differing
-of differ

differingly
-in a differing or different manner.

difficile
-difficult; hard to manage; stubborn.

difficilitate
-to make difficult.

difficult
-hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
-hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.
-to render difficult; to impede; to perplex.

difficultate
-to render difficult; to difficilitate.

difficulties
-of difficulty

difficultly
-with difficulty.

difficultness
-difficulty.

difficulty
-the state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness;
-- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
-something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.
-a controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
-embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs;
-- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.

diffide
-to be distrustful.

diffidence
-the state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others.
-distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of self
-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness.

diffidency
-see diffidence.

diffident
-wanting confidence in others; distrustful.
-wanting confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self
-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.

diffidently
-in a diffident manner.

diffind
-to split.

diffine
-to define.

diffinitive
-definitive; determinate; final.

diffission
-act of cleaving or splitting.

difflation
-a blowing apart or away.

diffluence
-alt. of diffluency

diffluency
-a flowing off on all sides; fluidity.

diffluent
-flowing apart or off; dissolving; not fixed.

difform
-irregular in form;
-- opposed to uniform; anomalous; hence, unlike; dissimilar; as, to difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; difform leaves.

difformity
-irregularity of form; diversity of form; want of uniformity.

diffract
-to break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a/ rays of light.

diffracted
-of diffract

diffracting
-of diffract

diffraction
-the deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.

diffractive
-that produces diffraction.

diffranchise
-alt. of diffranchisement

diffranchisement
-see disfranchise, disfranchisement.

diffusate
-material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane.

diffuse
-to pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.
-to pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
-poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.

diffused
-of diffuse
-spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse.

diffusely
-in a diffuse manner.

diffuseness
-the quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.

diffuser
-one who, or that which, diffuses.

diffusibility
-the quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured or spread out.

diffusible
-capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.
-capable of passing through animal membranes by osmosis.

diffusibleness
-diffusibility.

diffusing
-of diffuse

diffusion
-the act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.
-the act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate.

diffusive
-having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse.

diffusively
-in a diffusive manner.

diffusiveness
-the quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. especially of style: diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.

diffusivity
-tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.

dig
-to turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
-to get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
-to hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
-to thrust; to poke.
-to work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
-to take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
-to work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
-a thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. see dig, v. t., 4.
-a plodding and laborious student.

digamist
-one who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.

digamma
-a letter (/, /) of the greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse.

digammate
-alt. of digammated

digammated
-having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the latin word vis is a digammated form of the greek /.

digamous
-pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.

digamy
-act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy.

digastric
-having two bellies; biventral;
-- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.
-pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves.

digenea
-a division of trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.

digenesis
-the faculty of multiplying in two ways;
-- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. see parthenogenesis.

digenous
-sexually reproductive.

digerent
-digesting.

digest
-to distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
-to separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
-to think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
-to appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
-hence: to bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
-to soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
-to dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
-to ripen; to mature.
-to quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
-to undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
-to suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
-that which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
-a compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. the term is applied in a general sense to the pandects of justinian (see pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, comyn's digest; the united states digest.

digested
-of digest

digestedly
-in a digested or well
-arranged manner; methodically.

digester
-one who digests.
-a medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.
-a strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them.

digestibility
-the quality of being digestible.

digestible
-capable of being digested.

digestibleness
-the quality of being digestible; digestibility.

digesting
-of digest

digestion
-the act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
-the conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.
-generation of pus; suppuration.

digestive
-pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
-that which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
-a substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.
-a tonic.

digestor
-see digester.

digesture
-digestion.

diggable
-capable of being dug.

digged
-of dig

digger
-one who, or that which, digs.

diggers
-a degraded tribe of california indians;
-- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.

digging
-of dig
-the act or the place of excavating.
-places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in california, australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.
-region; locality.

dight
-of dight
-to prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn.
-to have sexual intercourse with.

dighted
-of dight

dighter
-one who dights.

dighting
-of dight

digit
-one of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.
-a finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.
-one of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed;
-- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.
-one twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon;
-- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.
-to point at or out with the finger.

digitain
-any one of several extracts of foxglove (digitalis), as the "french extract," the "german extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties.
-a supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the essential ingredient of the extracts. it is a white, crystalline substance, and is regarded as a glucoside.

digital
-of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.

digitalis
-a genus of plants including the foxglove.
-the dried leaves of the purple foxglove (digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.

digitate
-to point out as with the finger.
-alt. of digitated

digitated
-having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. also, in general, characterized by digitation.

digitation
-a division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.

digitiform
-formed like a finger or fingers; finger
-shaped; as, a digitiform root.

digitigrade
-walking on the toes;
-- distinguished from plantigrade.
-an animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.;
-- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot.

digitipartite
-parted like the fingers.

digitize
-to finger; as, to digitize a pen.

digitorium
-a small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers;
-- called also dumb piano.

digitule
-a little finger or toe, or something resembling one.

digladiate
-to fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently.

digladiation
-act of digladiating.

diglottism
-bilingualism.

diglyph
-a projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.

dignation
-the act of thinking worthy; honor.

digne
-worthy; honorable; deserving.
-suitable; adequate; fit.
-haughty; disdainful.

dignification
-the act of dignifying; exaltation.

dignified
-marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.
-of dignify

dignify
-to invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.

dignifying
-of dignify

dignitaries
-of dignitary

dignitary
-one who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.

dignities
-of dignity

dignity
-the state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.
-elevation; grandeur.
-elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.
-quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness;
-- said of //en, manner, style, etc.
-one holding high rank; a dignitary.
-fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.

dignotion
-distinguishing mark; diagnostic.

digonous
-having two angles.

digram
-a digraph.

digraph
-two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.

digraphic
-of or pertaining to a digraph.

digress
-to step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
-to turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
-digression.

digressed
-of digress

digressing
-of digress

digression
-the act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.
-a turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense.
-the elongation, or angular distance from the sun;
-- said chiefly of the inferior planets.

digressional
-pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.

digressive
-departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression.

digressively
-by way of digression.

digue
-a bank; a dike.

digynia
-a linnaean order of plants having two styles.

digynian
-alt. of digynous

digynous
-of or pertaining to the digynia; having two styles.

dihedral
-having two plane faces; as, the dihedral summit of a crystal.

dihedron
-a figure with two sides or surfaces.

dihexagonal
-consisting of two hexagonal parts united; thus, a dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base.
-having twelve similar faces; as, a dihexagonal prism.

diiamb
-a diiambus.

diiambus
-a double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (/ / / /).

diiodide
-a compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine;
-- called also biniodide.

diisatogen
-a red crystalline nitrogenous substance or artificial production, which by reduction passes directly to indigo.

dijucating
-of dijudicate

dijudicant
-one who dijudicates.

dijudicate
-to make a judicial decision; to decide; to determine.

dijudicated
-of dijudicate

dijudication
-the act of dijudicating; judgment.

dika
-a kind of food, made from the almondlike seeds of the irvingia barteri, much used by natives of the west coast of africa;
-- called also dika bread.

dike
-a ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
-an embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
-a wall of turf or stone.
-a wall
-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
-to surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
-to drain by a dike or ditch.
-to work as a ditcher; to dig.

diked
-of dike

diker
-a ditcher.
-one who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime.

diking
-of dike

dilacerate
-to rend asunder; to tear to pieces.

dilacerated
-of dilacerate

dilacerating
-of dilacerate

dilaceration
-the act of rending asunder.

dilaniate
-to rend in pieces; to tear.

dilaniation
-a rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration.

dilapidate
-to bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of;
-- said of a building.
-to impair by waste and abuse; to squander.
-to get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate.

dilapidated
-of dilapidate
-decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect.

dilapidating
-of dilapidate

dilapidation
-the act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered.
-ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention.
-the pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay.

dilapidator
-one who causes dilapidation.

dilatability
-the quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion;
-- opposed to contractibility.

dilatable
-capable of expansion; that may be dilated;
-- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.

dilatation
-prolixity; diffuse discourse.
-the act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al/ sides; the state of being dilated; dilation.
-a dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.

dilatator
-a muscle which dilates any part; a dilator.

dilate
-to expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell;
-- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.
-to enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.
-to grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
-to speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge;
-- with on or upon.
-extensive; expanded.

dilated
-of dilate
-expanded; enlarged.
-widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.
-having the margin wide and spreading.

dilatedly
-in a dilated manner.

dilater
-one who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.

dilating
-of dilate

dilation
-delay.
-the act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.

dilative
-causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive.

dilatometer
-an instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.

dilator
-one who, or that which, widens or expands.
-a muscle that dilates any part.
-an instrument for expanding a part; as, a urethral dilator.

dilatorily
-with delay; tardily.

dilatoriness
-the quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.

dilatory
-inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.
-marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish;
-- said of actions or measures.

dildo
-a burden in popular songs.
-a columnar cactaceous plant of the west indies (cereus swartzii).

dilection
-love; choice.

dilemma
-an argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses.
-a state of things in which evils or obstacles present themselves on every side, and it is difficult to determine what course to pursue; a vexatious alternative or predicament; a difficult choice or position.

dilettant
-of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation.
-a dilettante.

dilettante
-an admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.

dilettanteish
-somewhat like a dilettante.

dilettanteism
-the state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.

dilettanti
-of dilettante

dilettantish
-dilettanteish.

dilettantism
-same as dilettanteism.

diligence
-the quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention;
-- the opposite of negligence.
-interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.
-process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
-a four
-wheeled public stagecoach, used in france.

diligency
-diligence; care; persevering endeavor.

diligent
-prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.
-interestedly and perseveringly attentive; steady and earnest in application to a subject or pursuit; assiduous; industrious.

diligently
-in a diligent manner; not carelessly; not negligently; with industry or assiduity.

dill
-an herb (peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children;
-- called also dillseed.
-to still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

dilling
-a darling; a favorite.

dilluing
-a process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve.

dilly
-a kind of stagecoach.

dilly
-dally
-to loiter or trifle; to waste time.

dilogical
-ambiguous; of double meaning.

dilogies
-of dilogy

dilogy
-an ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense.

dilucid
-clear; lucid.

dilucidate
-to elucidate.

dilucidation
-the act of making clear.

diluent
-diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, esp. of water.
-that which dilutes.
-an agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink.

dilute
-to make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
-to diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken.
-to become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily.
-diluted; thin; weak.

diluted
-of dilute
-reduced in strength; thin; weak.

diluteness
-the quality or state of being dilute.

diluter
-one who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.

diluting
-of dilute

dilution
-the act of diluting, or the state of being diluted.

diluvia
-of diluvium

diluvial
-of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of noah; diluvian.
-effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water;
-- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. the time of deposition has been called the diluvian epoch.

diluvialist
-one who explains geological phenomena by the noachian deluge.

diluvian
-of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin.

diluviate
-to run as a flood.

diluvium
-a deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.

diluviums
-of diluvium

dim
-not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.
-of obscure vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse.
-to render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse.
-to deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
-to grow dim.

dim
-sighted
-having dim sight; lacking perception.

dimble
-a bower; a dingle.

dime
-a silver coin of the united states, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.

dimension
-measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement;
-- usually, in the plural, measure in length and breadth, or in length, breadth, and thickness; extent; size; as, the dimensions of a room, or of a ship; the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom.
-extent; reach; scope; importance; as, a project of large dimensions.
-the degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension.
-a literal factor, as numbered in characterizing a term. the term dimensions forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent to degree with the ordinal; thus, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree.
-the manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities.

dimensional
-pertaining to dimension.

dimensioned
-having dimensions.

dimensionless
-without dimensions; having no appreciable or noteworthy extent.

dimensity
-dimension.

dimensive
-without dimensions; marking dimensions or the limits.

dimera
-a division of coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi.
-a division of the hemiptera, including the aphids.

dimeran
-one of the dimera.

dimerous
-composed of, or having, two parts of each kind.

dimeter
-having two poetical measures or meters.
-a verse of two meters.

dimethyl
-ethane;
-- sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. see ethane.

dimetric
-same as tetragonal.

dimication
-a fight; contest.

dimidiate
-divided into two equal parts; reduced to half in shape or form.
-consisting of only one half of what the normal condition requires; having the appearance of lacking one half; as, a dimidiate leaf, which has only one side developed.
-having the organs of one side, or half, different in function from the corresponding organs on the other side; as, dimidiate hermaphroditism.
-to divide into two equal parts.
-to represent the half of; to halve.

dimidiated
-of dimidiate

dimidiating
-of dimidiate

dimidiation
-the act of dimidiating or halving; the state of being dimidiate.

diminish
-to make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen;
-- opposed to augment or increase.
-to lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
-to make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
-to take away; to subtract.
-to become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.

diminishable
-capable of being diminished or lessened.

diminished
-of diminish

diminisher
-one who, or that which, diminishes anything.

diminishing
-of diminish

diminishingly
-in a manner to diminish.

diminishment
-diminution.

diminuendo
-in a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo;
-- expressed on the staff by dim., or dimin., or the sign.

diminuent
-lessening.

diminutal
-indicating or causing diminution.

diminute
-small; diminished; diminutive.

diminutely
-diminutively.

diminution
-the act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree;
-- opposed to augmentation or increase.
-the act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement.
-omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record.
-in counterpoint, the imitation of, or reply to, a subject, in notes of half the length or value of those the subject itself.

diminutival
-indicating diminution; diminutive.
-a diminutive.

diminutive
-below the average size; very small; little.
-expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
-tending to diminish.
-something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
-a derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin.

diminutively
-in a diminutive manner.

diminutiveness
-the quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.

dimish
-see dimmish.

dimission
-leave to depart; a dismissing.

dimissory
-sending away; dismissing to another jurisdiction; granting leave to depart.

dimit
-to dismiss, let go, or release.

dimity
-a cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under
-garments. it is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors.

dimly
-in a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.

dimmed
-of dim

dimming
-of dim

dimmish
-alt. of dimmy

dimmy
-somewhat dim; as, dimmish eyes.

dimness
-the state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.
-dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception.

dimorph
-either one of the two forms of a dimorphous substance; as, calcite and aragonite are dimorphs.

dimorphic
-having the property of dimorphism; dimorphous.

dimorphism
-difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly.
-crystallization in two independent forms of the same chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite.

dimorphous
-characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic.
-crystallizing under two forms fundamentally different, while having the same chemical composition.

dimple
-a slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin.
-a slight indentation on any surface.
-to form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
-to mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions.

dimpled
-of dimple

dimplement
-the state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions.

dimpling
-of dimple

dimply
-full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool.

dimya
-alt. of dimyaria

dimyaria
-an order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. see bivalve.

dimyarian
-like or pertaining to the dimya.
-one of the dimya.

dimyary
-same as dimyarian.

din
-loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.
-to strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to harass with clamor; as, to din the ears with cries.
-to utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding.
-to sound with a din; a ding.
-of do

dinaphthyl
-a colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, c20h14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.

dinar
-a petty money of accounts of persia.
-an ancient gold coin of the east.

dinarchy
-see diarchy.

dine
-to eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
-to give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
-to dine upon; to have to eat.

dined
-of dine

diner
-one who dines.

diner
-out
-one who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company.

dinetical
-revolving on an axis.

ding
-to dash; to throw violently.
-to cause to sound or ring.
-to strike; to thump; to pound.
-to sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
-to talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.
-a thump or stroke, especially of a bell.

dingdong
-the sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.
-an attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

dinged
-of ding

dingey
-alt. of dinghy

dinghy
-a kind of boat used in the east indies.
-a ship's smallest boat.

dingily
-in a dingy manner.

dinginess
-quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.

dinging
-of ding

dingle
-a narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.

dingle
-dangle
-in a dangling manner.

dingo
-a wild dog found in australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. it has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.

dingthrift
-a spendthrift.

dingy
-alt. of dinghy
-soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.

dinichthys
-a genus of large extinct devonian ganoid fishes. in some parts of ohio remains of the dinichthys are abundant, indicating animals twenty feet in length.

dining
-of dine
-from dine, a.

dink
-trim; neat.
-to deck;
-- often with out or up.

dinmont
-a wether sheep between one and two years old.

dinned
-of din

dinner
-the principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.
-an entertainment; a feast.

dinnerless
-having no dinner.

dinnerly
-of or pertaining to dinner.

dinning
-of din

dinoceras
-a genus of large extinct eocene mammals from wyoming;
-- called also uintatherium. see illustration in appendix.

dinornis
-a genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited new zealand. see moa.

dinosaur
-alt. of dinosaurian

dinosauria
-an order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. some walked on their three
-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so
-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five
-toed and quadrupedal. see illust. of compsognathus, also illustration of dinosaur in appendix.

dinosaurian
-one of the dinosauria.

dinothere
-alt. of dinotherium

dinotherium
-a large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of europe and asia. it is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.

dinoxide
-same as dioxide.

dinsome
-full of din.

dint
-a blow; a stroke.
-the mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
-force; power;
-- esp. in the phrase by dint of.
-to make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent.

dinted
-of dint

dinting
-of dint

dinumeration
-enumeration.

diocesan
-of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.
-a bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of new york.
-the clergy or the people of a diocese.

diocese
-the circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.

diocesener
-one who belongs to a diocese.

dioceses
-of diocese

diodon
-a genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. they are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs.
-a genus of whales.

diodont
-like or pertaining to the genus diodon.
-a fish of the genus diodon, or an allied genus.

dioecia
-a linnaean class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants.
-a subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. it includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries.

dioecian
-alt. of dioecious

dioecious
-having the sexes in two separate individuals;
-- applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another;
-- opposed to monoecious.

dioeciously
-in a dioecious manner.

dioeciousness
-the state or quality of being dioecious.

dioecism
-the condition of being dioecious.

diogenes
-a greek cynic philosopher (412?
-323 b. c.) who lived much in athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings.

dioicous
-see dioecious.

diomedea
-a genus of large sea birds, including the albatross. see albatross.

dionaea
-an insectivorous plant. see venus's flytrap.

dionysian
-relating to dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the dionysian, or christian, era.

diophantine
-originated or taught by diophantus, the greek writer on algebra.

diopside
-a crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.

dioptase
-a hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald
-green crystals.

diopter
-alt. of dioptra

dioptra
-an optical instrument, invented by hipparchus, for taking altitudes, leveling, etc.

dioptre
-a unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.

dioptric
-of or pertaining to the dioptre, or to the metric system of numbering glasses.
-a dioptre. see dioptre.
-alt. of dioptrical

dioptrical
-of or pertaining to dioptrics; assisting vision by means of the refraction of light; refractive; as, the dioptric system; a dioptric glass or telescope.

dioptrics
-the science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing from one medium into another, or through different mediums, as air, water, or glass, and esp. through different lenses;
-- distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light.

dioptry
-a dioptre.

diorama
-a mode of scenic representation, invented by daguerre and bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. by a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced.
-a building used for such an exhibition.

dioramic
-pertaining to a diorama.

diorism
-definition; logical direction.

dioristic
-distinguishing; distinctive; defining.

diorite
-an igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. it includes part of what was called greenstone.

dioritic
-containing diorite.

diorthotic
-relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective.

dioscorea
-a genus of plants. see yam.

diota
-a vase or drinking cup having two handles or ears.

dioxide
-an oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide.
-an oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide.

dioxindol
-a white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance obtained by the reduction of isatin. it is a member of the indol series;
-- hence its name.

dip
-to plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
-to immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
-to wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
-to plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
-to take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part;
-- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.
-to engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
-to immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
-to perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
-to pierce; to penetrate;
-- followed by in or into.
-to enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly;
-- followed by in or into.
-to incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
-to dip snuff.
-the action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
-inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
-a liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
-a dipped candle.

dipaschal
-including two passovers.

dipchick
-see dabchick.

dipetalous
-having two petals; two
-petaled.

diphenyl
-a white crystalline substance, c6h5.c6h5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. it consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.

diphtheria
-a very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. cf. group.

diphtherial
-alt. of diphtheric

diphtheric
-relating to diphtheria; diphtheritic.

diphtheritic
-pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.
-having characteristics resembling those of diphtheria; as, diphtheritic inflammation of the bladder.

diphthong
-a coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise;
-- called a proper diphthong.
-a vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people;
-- called an improper diphthong.
-to form or pronounce as a diphthong; diphthongize.

diphthongal
-relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.

diphthongalize
-to make into a diphthong; to pronounce as a diphthong.

diphthongation
-see diphthongization.

diphthongic
-of the nature of diphthong; diphthongal.

diphthongization
-the act of changing into a diphthong.

diphthongize
-to change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.

diphycercal
-having the tail fin divided into two equal parts by the notochord, or end of the vertebral column; protocercal. see protocercal.

diphygenic
-having two modes of embryonic development.

diphyllous
-having two leaves, as a calyx, etc.

diphyodont
-having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition;
-- opposed to monophyodont.
-an animal having two successive sets of teeth.

diphyozooid
-one of the free
-swimming sexual zooids of siphonophora.

diplanar
-of or pertaining to two planes.

dipleidoscope
-an instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. it consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian.

diploblastic
-characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.

diplocardiac
-having the heart completely divided or double, one side systemic, the other pulmonary.

diplococci
-of diplococcus

diplococcus
-a form of micrococcus in which cocci are united in a binary manner. see micrococcus.

diploe
-the soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull.

diploetic
-diploic.

diplogenic
-partaking of the nature of two bodies; producing two substances.

diploic
-of or pertaining to the diploe.

diploid
-a solid bounded by twenty
-four similar quadrilateral faces. it is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.

diploma
-a letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution.

diplomacy
-the art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.
-dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact.
-the body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body.

diplomas
-of diploma

diplomat
-alt. of diplomate

diplomate
-a diplomatist.
-to invest with a title o/ privilege by diploma.

diplomatial
-diplomatic.

diplomatic
-alt. of diplomatical
-a minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.
-the science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.

diplomatical
-pertaining to diplomacy; relating to the foreign ministers at a court, who are called the diplomatic body.
-characterized by tact and shrewdness; dexterous; artful; as, diplomatic management.
-pertaining to diplomatics; paleographic.

diplomatically
-according to the rules of diplomacy; in the manner of a diplomatist; artfully.

diplomatism
-diplomacy.

diplomatist
-a person employed in, or skilled in, diplomacy; a diplomat.

diplopia
-alt. of diplopy

diplopod
-one of the diplopoda.

diplopoda
-an order of myriapods having two pairs of legs on each segment; the chilognatha.

diplopy
-the act or state of seeing double.

diplostemonous
-having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium.

diplostemony
-the condition of being diplostemonous.

dipneumona
-a group of spiders having only two lunglike organs.

dipnoi
-a group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera ceratodus and lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the amphibia. the air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. see ceratodus, and illustration in appendix.

dipodies
-of dipody

dipody
-two metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.

dipolar
-having two poles, as a magnetic bar.

dipped
-of dip

dippel's oil
-see bone oil, under bone.

dipper
-one who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.
-a small grebe; the dabchick.
-the buffel duck.
-the water ouzel (cinolus aquaticus) of europe.
-the american dipper or ouzel (cinclus mexicanus).

dipping
-of dip
-the act or process of immersing.
-the act of inclining downward.
-the act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
-the process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
-the practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.

diprismatic
-doubly prismatic.

dipropargyl
-a pungent, mobile, volatile liquid, c6h6, produced artificially from certain allyl derivatives. though isomeric with benzine, it is very different in its chemical relations. called also dipropinyl.

dipropyl
-one of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. see hexane.

diprotodon
-an extinct quaternary marsupial from australia, about as large as the hippopotamus;
-- so named because of its two large front teeth. see illustration in appendix.

dipsas
-a serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.
-a genus of harmless colubrine snakes.

dipsetic
-tending to produce thirst.

dipsomania
-a morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.

dipsomaniac
-one who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.

dipsomaniacal
-of or pertaining to dipsomania.

dipsosis
-excessive thirst produced by disease.

dipt
-of dip

diptera
-an extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. they have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs (mandibles and maxillae) with which they pierce the skin of animals. they undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvae (called maggots) being usually without feet.

dipteral
-having two wings only; belonging to the order diptera.
-having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear;
-- said of a temple.

dipteran
-an insect of the order diptera.

dipterocarpus
-a genus of trees found in the east indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. the fruit has two long wings.

dipterous
-having two wings, as certain insects; belonging to the order diptera.
-having two wings; two
-winged.

dipterygian
-having two dorsal fins;
-- said of certain fishes.

diptote
-a noun which has only two cases.

diptych
-anything consisting of two leaves.
-a writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
-a picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. see triptych.
-a double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.

dipyre
-a mineral of the scapolite group;
-- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent.

dipyrenous
-containing two stones or nutlets.

dipyridil
-a crystalline nitrogenous base, c10h8n2, obtained by the reduction of pyridine.

dipyridine
-a polymeric form of pyridine, c10h10n2, obtained as a colorless oil by the action of sodium on pyridine.

diradiation
-the emission and diffusion of rays of light.

dire
-ill
-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
-evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.

direct
-straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
-straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
-immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
-in the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
-in the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde;
-- said of the motion of a celestial body.
-to arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.
-to point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left
-hand road.
-to determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.
-to point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
-to put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.
-to give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
-a character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.

direct
-acting
-acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.

directed
-of direct

directer
-one who directs; a director.

directing
-of direct

direction
-the act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.
-that which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.
-the name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter.
-the line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction.
-the body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.
-the pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis;
-- distinguished from elevation. the direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.

directive
-having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.
-able to be directed; manageable.

directly
-in a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
-in a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.
-without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
-exactly; just.
-straightforwardly; honestly.
-manifestly; openly.
-straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately.
-immediately after; as soon as.

directness
-the quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

director
-one who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.
-one of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company.
-a part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.
-a slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.

directorate
-the office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.

directorial
-having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive.
-pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the directory of france under the first republic. see directory, 3.

directories
-of directory

directorship
-the condition or office of a director; directorate.

directory
-containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
-a collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the directory used by the nonconformists instead of the prayer book.
-a book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.
-a body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in france under the first republic.
-direction; guide.

directress
-a woman who directs.

directrix
-a directress.
-a line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface.
-a straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.

directrixes
-of directrix

direful
-dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.

direly
-in a dire manner.

dirempt
-divided; separated.
-to separate by force; to tear apart.

diremption
-a tearing apart; violent separation.

direness
-terribleness; horror; woefulness.

direption
-the act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away.

direptitious
-characterized by direption.

direptitiously
-with plundering violence; by violent injustice.

dirge
-a piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.

dirgeful
-funereal; moaning.

dirige
-a service for the dead, in the roman catholic church, being the first antiphon of matins for the dead, of which dirige is the first word; a dirge.

dirigent
-directing.
-the line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix.

dirigible
-capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.

diriment
-absolute.

dirk
-a kind of dagger or poniard;
-- formerly much used by the scottish highlander.
-to stab with a dirk.
-dark.
-to darken.

dirked
-of dirk

dirking
-of dirk

dirkness
-darkness.

dirl
-to thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate.

dirt
-any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.
-meanness; sordidness.
-in placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
-to make foul of filthy; to dirty.

dirtied
-of dirty

dirtily
-in a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.

dirtiness
-the state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

dirty
-defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
-sullied; clouded;
-- applied to color.
-sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow.
-sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather.
-to foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.
-to tarnish; to sully; to scandalize;
-- said of reputation, character, etc.

dirtying
-of dirty

diruption
-disruption.

dis
-the god pluto.

dis
-
-.
-a prefix from the latin, whence f. des, or sometimes de
-, dis
-. the latin dis
-appears as di
-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif
-before f, and either dis
-or di
- before j. it is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, e. two. see two, and cf. bi
-, di
-, dia
-. dis
-denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. also intensive, as in dissever.
-a prefix from gr. di`s
- twice. see di
-.

disabilities
-of disability

disability
-state of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
-want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.

disable
-lacking ability; unable.
-to render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair.
-to deprive of legal right or qualification; to render legally incapable.
-to deprive of that which gives value or estimation; to declare lacking in competency; to disparage; to undervalue.

disabled
-of disable

disablement
-deprivation of ability; incapacity.

disabling
-of disable

disabuse
-to set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.

disabused
-of disabuse

disabusing
-of disabuse

disaccommodate
-to put to inconvenience; to incommode.

disaccommodation
-a state of being unaccommodated or unsuited.

disaccord
-to refuse to assent.
-disagreement.

disaccordant
-not accordant.

disaccustom
-to destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom.

disacidify
-to free from acid.

disacknowledge
-to refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown.

disacknowledged
-of disacknowledge

disacknowledging
-of disacknowledge

disacquaint
-to render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar.

disacquaintance
-neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance.

disacryl
-a white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein.

disadorn
-to deprive of ornaments.

disadvance
-to draw back, or cause to draw back.

disadvantage
-deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury.
-loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good.
-to injure the interest of; to be detrimental to.

disadvantageable
-injurious; disadvantageous.

disadvantageous
-attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial;
-- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense.

disadventure
-misfortune; mishap.

disadventurous
-unprosperous; unfortunate.

disadvise
-to advise against; to dissuade from.

disaffect
-to alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness.
-to disturb the functions of; to disorder.
-to lack affection for; to be alienated from, or indisposed toward; to dislike.

disaffected
-of disaffect
-alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal.

disaffecting
-of disaffect

disaffection
-state of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike.
-disorder; bad constitution.

disaffectionate
-not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected.

disaffirm
-to assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny;
-- said of that which has been asserted.
-to refuse to confirm; to annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal.

disaffirmance
-the act of disaffirming; denial; negation.
-overthrow or annulment by the decision of a superior tribunal; as, disaffirmance of judgment.

disaffirmation
-the act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.

disafforest
-to reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws.

disafforested
-of disafforest

disafforesting
-of disafforest

disageeing
-of disagree

disaggregate
-to destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass.

disaggregation
-the separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

disagree
-to fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.
-to differ in opinion; to hold discordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel.
-to be unsuited; to have unfitness; as, medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste.

disagreeable
-not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
-exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant.

disagreeableness
-the state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.

disagreeably
-in a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.

disagreeance
-disagreement.

disagreed
-of disagree

disagreement
-the state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.
-unsuitableness; unadaptedness.
-difference of opinion or sentiment.
-a falling out, or controversy; difference.

disagreer
-one who disagrees.

disalliege
-to alienate from allegiance.

disallow
-to refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

disallowable
-not allowable; not to be suffered.

disallowance
-the act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.

disallowed
-of disallow

disallowing
-of disallow

disally
-to part, as an alliance; to sunder.

disanchor
-to raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor.

disangelical
-not angelical.

disanimate
-to deprive of life.
-to deprive of spirit; to dishearten.

disanimated
-of disanimate

disanimating
-of disanimate

disanimation
-privation of life.
-the state of being disanimated or discouraged; depression of spirits.

disannex
-to disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of.

disannul
-to annul completely; to render void or of no effect.

disannuller
-one who disannuls.

disannulment
-complete annulment.

disanoint
-to invalidate the consecration of; as, to disanoint a king.

disapointed
-of disappoint

disapparel
-to disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked.

disappear
-to cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.
-to cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared.

disappearance
-the act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing.

disappeared
-of disappear

disappearing
-of disappear

disappendency
-a detachment or separation from a former connection.

disappendent
-freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected.

disappoint
-to defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil.
-to frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result.

disappointed
-defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.
-unprepared; unequipped.

disappointing
-of disappoint

disappointment
-the act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.
-that which disappoints.

disappreciate
-to undervalue; not to esteem.

disapprobation
-the act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure.

disapprobatory
-containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.

disappropriate
-severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.
-to release from individual ownership or possession.
-to sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation.

disappropriation
-the act of disappropriating.

disapproval
-disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.

disapprove
-to pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others.
-to refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court
-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief.

disapproved
-of disapprove

disapprover
-one who disapproves.

disapproving
-of disapprove

disapprovingly
-in a disapproving manner.

disard
-see dizzard.

disarm
-to deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
-to deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.

disarmament
-the act of disarming.

disarmature
-the act of divesting of armature.

disarmed
-deprived of arms.
-deprived of claws, and teeth or beaks.

disarmer
-one who disarms.

disarming
-of disarm
-of disarm

disarrange
-to unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.

disarranged
-of disarrange

disarrangement
-the act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder.

disarranging
-of disarrange

disarray
-to throw into disorder; to break the array of.
-to take off the dress of; to unrobe.
-want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.
-confused attire; undress.

disarrayed
-of disarray

disarraying
-of disarray

disarrayment
-disorder.

disarticulate
-to sunder; to separate, as joints.

disarticulator
-one who disarticulates and prepares skeletons.

disassent
-to dissent.
-dissent.

disassenter
-one who disassents; a dissenter.

disassiduity
-want of assiduity or care.

disassimilate
-to subject to disassimilation.

disassimilation
-the decomposition of complex substances, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy,
-- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism.

disassimilative
-having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation.

disassociate
-to disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate.

disassociated
-of disassociate

disassociating
-of disassociate

disaster
-an unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.
-an adverse or unfortunate event, esp. a sudden and extraordinary misfortune; a calamity; a serious mishap.
-to blast by the influence of a baleful star.
-to bring harm upon; to injure.

disasterly
-disastrously.

disastrous
-full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill
-boding.
-attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill
-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking.

disattire
-to unrobe; to undress.

disaugment
-to diminish.

disauthorize
-to deprive of credit or authority; to discredit.

disavaunce
-to retard; to repel; to do damage to.

disaventure
-misfortune.

disaventurous
-misadventurous; unfortunate.

disavouch
-to disavow.

disavow
-to refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.
-to deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.

disavowal
-the act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial.

disavowance
-disavowal.

disavowed
-of disavow

disavower
-one who disavows.

disavowing
-of disavow

disavowment
-disavowal.

disband
-to loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army.
-to divorce.
-to become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.

disbanded
-of disband

disbanding
-of disband

disbandment
-the act of disbanding.

disbar
-to expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.

disbark
-to disembark.
-to strip of bark; to bark.

disbarment
-act of disbarring.

disbarred
-of disbar

disbarring
-of disbar

disbase
-to debase or degrade.

disbecome
-to misbecome.

disbelief
-the act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief.

disbelieve
-not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.

disbelieved
-of disbelieve

disbeliever
-one who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. specifically, one who does not believe the christian religion.

disbelieving
-of disbelieve

disbench
-to drive from a bench or seat.
-to deprive (a bencher) of his privileges.

disbend
-to unbend.

disbind
-to unbind; to loosen.

disblame
-to clear from blame.

disbodied
-disembodied.

disboscation
-converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest.

disbowel
-to disembowel.

disbranch
-to divest of a branch or branches; to tear off.

disbud
-to deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.

disburden
-to rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve.
-to relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind.

disburgeon
-to strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud.

disburse
-to pay out; to expend;
-- usually from a public fund or treasury.

disbursed
-of disburse

disbursement
-the act of disbursing or paying out.
-that which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.

disburser
-one who disburses money.

disbursing
-of disburse

disburthen
-to disburden; to relieve of a load.

disburthened
-of disburthen

disburthening
-of disburthen

disc
-a flat round plate
-a circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. same as disk.

discage
-to uncage.

discal
-pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.

discalceate
-to pull off shoes or sandals from.

discalceated
-deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.

discalceation
-the act of pulling off the shoes or sandals.

discalced
-unshod; barefooted;
-- in distinction from calced.

discamp
-to drive from a camp.

discandy
-to melt; to dissolve; to thaw.

discant
-see descant, n.

discapacitate
-to deprive of capacity; to incapacitate.

discard
-to throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).
-to cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away.
-to put or thrust away; to reject.
-to make a discard.
-the act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.

discarded
-of discard

discarding
-of discard

discardure
-rejection; dismissal.

discarnate
-stripped of flesh.

discase
-to strip; to undress.

discede
-to yield or give up; to depart.

discept
-to debate; to discuss.

disceptation
-controversy; disputation; discussion.

disceptator
-one who arbitrates or decides.

discern
-to see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.
-to see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference.
-to see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.
-to make cognizance.

discernance
-discernment.

discerned
-of discern

discerner
-one who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong.

discernible
-capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding.

discernibleness
-the quality of being discernible.

discernibly
-in a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly.

discerning
-of discern
-acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp
-sighted.

discerningly
-in a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely.

discernment
-the act of discerning.
-the power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.

discerp
-to tear in pieces; to rend.
-to separate; to disunite.

discerpibility
-alt. of discerptibility

discerpible
-alt. of discerptible

discerptibility
-capability or liableness to be discerped.

discerptible
-capable of being discerped.

discerption
-the act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts.

discerptive
-tending to separate or disunite parts.

discession
-departure.

discharge
-to relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
-to free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms,
-- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a leyden jar.
-to of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
-to relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
-to release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.
-to put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo.
-to let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
-to set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
-to throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part.
-to send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
-to give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath.
-to prohibit; to forbid.
-to throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely.
-the act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo.
-firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery.
-act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor.
-act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty.
-release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer.
-legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner.
-the state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal.
-that which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document.
-a flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe.

discharged
-of discharge

discharger
-one who, or that which, discharges. specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.

discharging
-of discharge

dischevele
-disheveled.

dischurch
-to deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church.

disci
-of discus

discide
-to divide; to cleave in two.

disciferous
-bearing disks.

discifloral
-alt. of disciflorous

disciflorous
-bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle;
-- said of a subclass of plants. cf. calycifloral.

disciform
-discoid.

discina
-a genus of branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle.

discinct
-ungirded; loosely dressed.

discind
-to part; to divide.

disciple
-one who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of plato; the disciples of our savior.
-to teach; to train.
-to punish; to discipline.
-to make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles.

discipled
-of disciple

discipleship
-the state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.

discipless
-a female disciple.

disciplinable
-capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training.
-liable or deserving to be disciplined; subject to disciplinary punishment; as, a disciplinable offense.

disciplinableness
-the quality of being improvable by discipline.

disciplinal
-relating to discipline.

disciplinant
-a flagellant. see flagellant.

disciplinarian
-pertaining to discipline.
-one who disciplines; one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar.
-a puritan or presbyterian;
-- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline.

disciplinary
-pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training.

discipline
-the treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
-training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
-subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
-severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
-correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
-the subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
-the enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
-self
-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.
-a system of essential rules and duties; as, the romish or anglican discipline.
-to educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.
-to accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.
-to improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
-to inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

disciplined
-of discipline

discipliner
-one who disciplines.

discipling
-of disciple

disciplining
-of discipline

disclaim
-to renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.
-to deny, as a claim; to refuse.
-to relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.
-to disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share.

disclaimed
-of disclaim

disclaimer
-one who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
-a denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate.
-a public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like.

disclaiming
-of disclaim

disclamation
-a disavowing or disowning.

disclame
-to disclaim; to expel.

disclaunder
-to injure one's good name; to slander.

discloak
-to take off a cloak from; to uncloak.

disclose
-to unclose; to open;
-- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.
-to remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover.
-to lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal.
-to make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs.
-disclosure.

disclosed
-of disclose
-represented with wings expanded;
-- applied to doves and other birds not of prey.

discloser
-one who discloses.

disclosing
-of disclose

disclosure
-the act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.
-that which is disclosed or revealed.

discloud
-to clear from clouds.

disclout
-to divest of a clout.

disclusion
-a shutting off; exclusion.

discoast
-to depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated.

discoblastic
-applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.

discoboli
-of discobolus

discobolus
-a thrower of the discus.
-a statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it.

discodactyl
-one of the tree frogs.

discodactylia
-a division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

discodactylous
-having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

discoherent
-incoherent.

discoid
-having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus.
-anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell.

discoidal
-disk
-shaped; discoid.

discolith
-one of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. one of them measures about / of an inch in its longest diameter.

discolor
-to alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water.
-to alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon.

discolorate
-to discolor.

discoloration
-the act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance.
-a discolored spot; a stain.

discolored
-of discolor
-altered in color; /tained.
-variegated; of divers colors.

discoloring
-of discolor

discomfit
-to scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.
-to break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.
-discomfited; overthrown.
-rout; overthrow; discomfiture.

discomfited
-of discomfit

discomfiting
-of discomfit

discomfiture
-the act of discomfiting, or the state of being discomfited; rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection.

discomfort
-to discourage; to deject.
-to destroy or disturb the comfort of; to deprive o/ quiet enjoyment; to make uneasy; to pain; as, a smoky chimney discomforts a family.
-discouragement.
-want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow.

discomfortable
-causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad.
-destitute of comfort; uncomfortable.

discomforted
-of discomfort

discomforting
-of discomfort

discommend
-to mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove.
-to expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any one.

discommendable
-deserving, disapprobation or blame.

discommendation
-blame; censure; reproach.

discommender
-one who discommends; a dispraiser.

discommission
-to deprive of a commission or trust.

discommodate
-to discommode.

discommode
-to put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

discommoded
-of discommode

discommoding
-of discommode

discommodious
-inconvenient; troublesome; incommodious.

discommodity
-disadvantage; inconvenience.

discommon
-to deprive of the right of common.
-to deprive of privileges.
-to deprive of commonable quality, as lands, by inclosing or appropriating.

discommunity
-a lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship.

discompany
-to free from company; to dissociate.

discomplexion
-to change the complexion or hue of.

discompliance
-failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance.

discompose
-to disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.
-to throw into disorder; to ruffle; to destroy the composure or equanimity; to agitate.
-to put out of place or service; to discharge; to displace.

discomposed
-of discompose
-disordered; disturbed; disquieted.

discomposing
-of discompose

discomposition
-inconsistency; discordance.

discomposure
-the state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
-discordance; disagreement of parts.

discompt
-to discount. see discount.

disconcert
-to break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
-to confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash.
-want of concert; disagreement.

disconcerted
-of disconcert

disconcerting
-of disconcert

disconcertion
-the act of disconcerting, or state of being disconcerted; discomposure; perturbation.

disconducive
-not conductive; impeding; disadvantageous.

disconformable
-not conformable.

disconformity
-want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement.

discongruity
-incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness.

disconnect
-to dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse.

disconnected
-of disconnect

disconnecting
-of disconnect

disconnection
-the act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union.

disconsecrate
-to deprive of consecration or sacredness.

disconsolacy
-the state of being disconsolate.

disconsolate
-disconsolateness.
-destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent.
-inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights.

disconsolated
-disconsolate.

disconsolation
-dejection; grief.

discontent
-not content; discontented; dissatisfied.
-to deprive of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.
-want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet.
-a discontented person; a malcontent.

discontentation
-discontent.

discontented
-of discontent
-dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent.

discontentful
-full of discontent.

discontenting
-of discontent
-discontented.
-causing discontent; dissatisfying.

discontentive
-relating or tending to discontent.