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By excess the sweetest comforts will be dissweetened, grow sour and loathsome.-Bp. Richardson.

DISSYLLABIC, dis-sil-lab'ik, a. Consisting of two syllables.

DISSYLLABLE, dis-sil'la-bl, s. (dissyllabos, Gr.) A

word consisting of two syllables.

DISTAFF, dis'taf, s. (distaf, Sax.) The staff of a spinning-wheel, to which a bunch of flax or tow is tied, and from which the thread is drawn; figuratively, a woman, or the female sex.

See my royal master murder'd,

His crown usurp'd, a distaff on the throne.

Dryden.

DISTAIN, dis-tane', v. a. (deteindre, Fr.) To stain; to tinge with any different colour from the natural or proper one; to discolour; to blot; to sully; to defile; to tarnish.

DISTANCE, dis'tans, s. (French.) An interval or space between two objects; the length of the shortest line which intervenes between two things that are separate; remoteness of place; a suitable space, or such remoteness as is common or becoming; a space marked on the course where horses ran; space of time; any indefinite length of time, past or future, intervening between two periods or events; ideal space or separation; contrariety; opposition; the remoteness which respect requires -hence respect; reserve; coldness; alienation of heart; remoteness in succession or relation, as the distance between a descendant and his ancestor. In Music, the interval between two notes;-v. a. to place remote; to throw off from the view; to leave behind in a race; to win the race by a great superiority; to leave at a great distance behind. DISTANT, dis'tant, a. (distans, Lat.) Separate; having an intervening space of any indefinite extent; remote in place; remote in time past or future; indefinitely, remote in natural connection or consanguinity; remote in nature; not allied; not agreeing with, or in conformity to; remote in view; faint; not very likely to be realized; remote in connection; slight; indirect; not easily seen or understood; shy, implying haughtiness, coldness of affection, indifference, or disrespect; reserved.

DISTANTLY, dis'tant-le, ad. Remotely; at a distance; with reserve.

DISTASIS, dis-tas ́is, 8. (dis, and stasis, stability, Gr.) A genus of Composite plants: Suborder, Tubuliforæ.

DISTASTE, dis-taste', s. Aversion of the taste; dislike of food or drink; disrelish; disgust, or a slight degree of it; dislike; uneasiness; displeasure; abenation of affection;-v. a. to disrelish; to dislike; to loathe; to vex; to displease; to sour; to offend; to disgust.-Seldom used in the last five senses.

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DISTASTEFULNESS-DISTER.

sant or disgusting to the taste; displeasing; malevolent.

DISTASTEFULNESS, dis-taste'fül-nes, s. Disagreeableness; dislike.

DISTASTIVE, dis-taseʼtiv, s. That which occasions aversion or disgust.

DISTEMPER, dis-tem'pur, s. An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts; disease; malady; indisposition; any morbid state of an animal body, or of any part of it; a state in which the animal economy is deranged, or imperfectly carried on; want of due temperature, applied to climate ;-(the last sense is the literal meaning of the word, but now obsolete ;)

Countries under the tropic of a distemper uninhabitable. -Raleigh.

bad constitution of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; political disorder; tumult; uneasiness; ill humour, or bad temper; want of due balance of parts, or opposite qualities and principles; depravity of inclination.-Obsolete in the last two senses.

I was not forgetful of those sparks which some men's distempers formerly studied to kindle in parliament.King Charles.

In Painting, the mixing of colours with something besides oil and water;-v. a. to disease; to disorder; to derange the functions of the body or mind; to disturb; to ruffle; to deprive of temper or moderation; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant. DISTEMPERANCE, dis-tem'pur-ans, s. Distempera

ture.

DISTEMPERATE, dis-tem'pur-ate, a. Immoderate. Seldom used.

Bad

DISTEMPERATURE, dis-tem'pur-a-ture, s. temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; a noxious state; violent tumultuousness; outrageousness; perturbation of mind; confusion; commixture of contrarieties; loss of regularity; disorder; slight illness; indisDISTEMPERED, dis-tem'purd, a. position. Diseased in body,

or disordered in mind; disturbed; ruffled; immoderate; prejudiced; perverted; disaffected. DISTEND, dis-tend', v. a. (distendo, Lat.) To stretch or spread in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge; DISTENIA, dis-te'ne-a, s. (dis, and tenon, the neck, to expand; to swell; to spread apart; to divaricate. Gr.) A genus of Coleopterous insects: Family, DISTENSIBILITY, dis-ten-se-bil'e-te, s. The quality Longicornes. DISTENSIBLE, dis-ten'se-bl, a. or capacity of being distensible.

distended or dilated. DISTENSION, dis-ten'shun, s.

Capable of being

The act of distend

DISTENTION, ing; the act of stretching in breadth

or in all directions; the state of being distended; breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended; an opening, spreading, or divarication. DISTENT, dis-tent', a. Spread;

The effusive south Warms the wide air, and o'er the void of heaven Breathes the big clouds with vernal showers distent. -Thomson.

-8. the space through which anything is spread; breadth.-Obsolete.

DISTER, dis-ter', v. a. (dis, and terra, land, Lat.) To banish from a country.-Obsolete.

terminated.-Howell. They (the Jews) were all suddenly disterred and ex

DISTERMINATE-DISTINCTION.

DISTERMINATE, dis-ter'me-nate, a. (disterminatus, Lat.) Divided; separated by bounds.-Obsolete. DISTERMINATION, dis-ter-me-na'shun, s. Division; separation.

DISTHRONE, dis-throne', I v. a. To dethrone.
DISTHRONIZE, dis-thro-nize', -Obsolete.

By his death he it recovered;
But Peridure and Vigent him disthronized.—

Spenser.

a. (dis, and stichos, a row, Gr.) In Botany, or branches, in two op

DISTHENE.-See Cyanite. DISTICH, dis'tik, s. A couplet; a couple of verses or poetic lines, making complete sense; an epigram of two verses. DISTICH, dis'tik, DISTICHOUS, dis'te-kus, producing leaves, flowers, posite rows. DISTICHIA, dis-tik'e-a, s. (dis, and stichos, a row, Gr.) A genus of plants: Order, Juncaceæ. DISTICHIASES, dis-te-ki'a-sis, s. (dis, and stichos, a row, Gr.) In Pathology, a double row of eyelashes, the innermost of which irritates and inflames the eyeball.

DISTICHMUS, dis-tik'mus, s. (dis, and stichos, a row, Gr.) A genus of plants: Order, Cyperacex. DISTICHOCERA, dis-te-kos'e-ra, s. (distichos, double rowed, and keras, a horn, Gr.) A genus of Coleopterous insects: Family, Longicornes. DISTICOPHORA, dis-te-kot'o-ra, s. (distichos, double rowed, and phoreo, I bear, Gr.) A genus of corals: Family, Corticati.

DISTIL, dis-til', v. n. (dističio, Lat.) To drop; to fall in drops; to flow gently, or in a small stream; to use a still; to practise the act of distillation; -v. a. to let fall in drops; to throw down in drops; to extract by heat; to separate spirit or essential oils from liquor by heat or evaporation; to extract spirit from, by evaporation and condensation; to extract the pure part of a fluid; to dissolve or melt. DISTILLABLE, dis-til'la-bl, a. That may be distilled; fit for distillation. DISTILLATION, dis-til-la'shun, s. (distillatio, Lat.) A chemical process for applying heat to certain substances in covered vessels of a particular form, in order to separate their more volatile constituents into vapour; and for condensing them immediately by cold into the liquid state in a distinct vessel, called a refrigerator.

DISTILLATORY, dis-tilla-tur-e, a. Belonging to distillation; used in distillation.

DISTILLER, dis-til'lur, s. One who distils; one whose occupation is to extract spirit by evaporation and condensation.

DISTILLERY, dis-til'lur-e, s. The act or art of distilling; the building and works where distilling is carried on.

DISTILMENT, dis-til'ment, s. That which is drawn by distillation.

DISTINCT, dis-tingkt', a. (distinctus, Lat.) Having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign, or by a note or mark; different; separate; not the same in number or kind; separate in place; not conjunct; so sept.ated as not to be confounded with any other thing; clear; not confused; spotted; variegated;-v. a. to distinguish.-Obsolete as a verb.

There can no wight distinct it so,

That he dare sale a word thereto.-Chaucer.

DISTINCTION, dis-tingk'shun, s. (distinctio, Lat.)

DISTINCTIVE-DISTORT.

The act of separating or distinguishing; a note or mark of difference; difference made; a separation or disagreement in kind or qualities, by which one thing is known from another; difference regarded; preference or neglect in comparison with something else; discrimination; eminence; superiority; elevation of rank in society, or elevation of character; honourable estimation; that which confers eminence or superiority; office, rank, or public favour; discernment; judgment.

DISTINCTIVE, dis-tingk'tiv, a. That marks distinction or difference; having the power to distinguish and discern.-Seldom used in the last sense. DISTINCTIVELY, dis-tingk'tiv-le, ad. With distinction; plainly.

DISTINCTLY, dis-tingkt'le, ad. Separately; with distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing with another; clearly; plainly.

DISTINCTNESS, dis-tingkt'nes, s. Nice observation of the difference between different things; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things; clearness; precision. DISTINGUISH, dis-ting'gwish, v. a. (distinguo, Lat.) To ascertain and indicate difference by some external mark; to separate one thing from another by some mark or quality; to know or ascertain difference; to separate or divide by any mark or quality which constitutes difference; to discern critically; to judge; to separate from others by some mark of honour or preference; to make eminent or known;-v. n. to make a distinction; to find or show the difference. DISTINGUISHABLE, dis-ting'gwish-a-bl, a. Capable of being distinguished; that may be separated, known, or made known; worthy of note or special regard.

DISTINGUISHED, dis-ting'gwisht, a. Separated from others by superior extraordinary qualities; eminent; transcendant; noted; famous; celebrated; extraordinary. DISTINGUISHER, dis-ting'gwish-ur, s. He or that which distinguishes, or that separates one thing from another by marks of diversity; one who discerns accurately the difference of things; a nice or judicibus observer. DISTINGUISHING, dis-ting'gwish-ing, a. Constituting difference or distinction from everything else; peculiar.

Dis

DISTINGUISHINGLY, dis-ting'gwish-ing-le, ad.
With distinction; with some mark of preference.
DISTINGUISHMENT, dis-ting'gwish-ment, s.
tinction; observation of difference.
DISTITLE, dis-ti'tl, v. a. To deprive of right.-
Obsolete.

That were the next way to distille myself of honour. -Ben Jonson.

DISTOMA, dis'to-ma, s. (dis, and stoma, a mouth, Gr.) A genus of intestinal worms, furnished with two suckers or organs of adhesion, the anterior one being the true mouth; the posterior is situated on the ventral aspect of the body, a little behind the mouth.

DISTORT, dis-tawrt', v. a. (distortus, Lat.) To twist out of the natural or regular shape; to force or put out of the true posture or direction; to wrest from the true meauing; to pervert ;a. distorted.-Seldom used as an adjective.

Her face was ugly, and her mouth distort. —

Spenser.

DISTORTER-DISTRESS.

DISTORTER, dis-tawr'tur, 8.

That which distorts. Distortor oris, a muscle which distorts the mouth

in rage, grinning, &c. DISTORTION, dis-tawr'shun, s. (distortio, Lat.) The act of distorting or wresting; a twisting out of regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; the state of being twisted out of shape; deviation from natural shape or position; crookedness; grimace; a perversion of the true meaning of

words. DISTRACT, dis-trakt', v. a. (dis, and tractus, drawn,'| Lat.) To draw apart; to pull in different directions, and separate; to divide; to separate; to throw into confusion; to turn or draw from any object; to divert from any point towards another point, or towards various other objects; to draw towards different objects; to fill with different considerations; to perplex; to confound; to harass; to disorder the reason; to derange the regular operations of intellect; to render raving or furious; a. mad. Obsolete as an adjective.

Alone she being left, the spoil of love and death,
In labour of her grief outrageously distract.—

Drayton. DISTRACTED, dis-trak'ted, a. Deranged; disordered in intellect; raving; furious; mad; frantic. DISTRACTEDLY, dis-trak'ted-le, ad. Madly; furiously; wildly.

DISTRACTEDNESS, dis-trak'ted-nes, s. The state of being distracted; madness.

DISTRACTER, dis-trak'tur, s. That which distracts, perplexes, or confounds.

DISTRACTILE, dis-trak'tile, s. In Botany, a connective which divides into two unequal portions, one supporting a cell, and the other not. DISTRACTION, dis-trak'shun, s. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation; confusion from a multiplicity of objects crowding on the mind, and calling the attention different ways; perturbation of mind; perplexity; confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; madness; a state of disordered reason; franticness; furiousness; folly in the extreme, or amounting to insanity. DISTRACTIVE, dis-trak ́tiv, a. Causing perplexity. DISTRAIN, dis-trane', v. a. (distringo, Lat.) To seize for debt; to take a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the possession of the injured party, to satisfy a demand, or compel the performance of a duty; to rend; to tear;(obsolete in the last two senses;)—v. n. to make a seizure of goods. DISTRAINABLE, dis-tra'na-bl, a. That is liable to be taken for distress.

DISTRESSEDNESS-DISTRINGAS.

with calamity; to make miserable; to compel by pain or suffering.

DISTRESSEDNESS, dis-tres'ed-nes, s. A state of being greatly pained.

DISTRESSFUL, dis-tres'ful, a. Inflicting or bringing distress; indicating distress; proceeding from pain or anguish; calamitous; attended with poverty. DISTRESSFULLY, dis-tres'fül-le, ad. In a painful

manner.

DISTRESSING, dis-tres'ing, a. Harassing; afflicting; tormenting; painful. DISTRIBUTABLE, dis-trib'u-ta-bl, a. That may be distributed; that may be assigned in portions. DISTRIBUTE, dis-trib'ute, v. a. (distribuo, Lat.) To divide among two or more; to deal; to give or bestow in parts or portions; to dispense; to administer; to divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to give in charity. In Letterpress Printing, to separate types, and place them in their proper cells in the cases. DISTRIBUTER, dis-trib'u-tur, s. One who divides or deals out in parts; one who bestows in portions; a dispenser.

DISTRIBUTION, dis-tre-bu'shun, s. (distributio, Lat.) The act of distributing or dealing out to others; the act of giving in charity; a bestowing in parts; dispensation; administration to numbers; a rendering to individuals; the act of separating into distinct parts or classes; the division and disposition of the parts of anything. In Architecture, the dividing and disposing of the several parts of the building, according to some plan, or to the rules of the art. In Rhetoric, a division and enumeration of the several qualities of a subject. In Letterpress Printing, the taking a form apart; the separating of the types, and placing each letter in its proper cell in the cases. Distribution of electricity, the densities of the electrical fluid in different bodies, placed so as to act electrically upon one another, or in different parts of the same body, when the latter has been subject to the electrical influence of another body.

DISTRIBUTIVE, dis-trib'u-tiv, a That distributes; that divides and assigns in portions; that deals to each his proper share; that assigns the various species of a general term; that separates or divides;-s. in Grammar, a word that divides or distributes.

DISTRIBUTIVELY, dis-trib'u-tiv-le, ad. By distribution; singly; not collectively.

DISTRIBUTIVENESS, dis-trib'u-tiv-nes, s. Desire of distributing.

DISTRAINER, dis-tra'nur, s. One who seizes goods DISTRICT, dis'trikt, s. A limited extent of coun

for debt or service.

DISTRAINT, dis-traynt', s.

Seizure.-Obsolete.

DISTREAM, dis-treme', v. n. To spread or flow over: used chiefly in poetry.

Still as the village caught the waving sound,
A swelling tear distreamed from every eye.-
Shenstone.

DISTRESS, dis-tres', s. (detresse, Fr.) The act of distraining; the taking of any personal chattel from a wrong-doer, to answer a demand, or procure satisfaction for a wrong committed; the thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction; extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; affliction; calamity; misery; a state of danger; v. a. to pain; to afflict with pain or anguish; to afflict greatly; to harass: to oppress

try; a circuit within which power, right, or authority may be exercised, and to which it is restrained; a word applicable to any portion of land or country, or to any part of a city or town, which is defined by law or agreement; a region; a territory within given lines; a country; a portion of territory without very definite limits;— v. a. to divide into districts or limited portions of territory. District court, a court which has cognizance of certain causes within a district defined by law. District judge, the judge of a district court. District school, a school within a certain district of a town. DISTRICTION, dis-trik'shun, s. Seldom used. DISTRINGAS, dis-tring'gas, s. In Law, a writ com

Sudden display.

DISTRUST-DISUNITE.

DISUNITER-DITHYROCARIS.

manding the sheriff to distrain a person for debt, DISUNITER, dis-u-ni'tur, s. That which disjoins.

or for his appearance at a certain day. DISTRUST, dis-trust', v. a. To doubt or suspect the truth, fidelity, firmness, or sincerity of; not to confide in or rely on; to doubt; to suspect not to be real, true, sincere, or firm;-s. doubt or suspicion of reality or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; discredit; loss of confidence. DISTRUSTFUL, dis-trust'ful, a. Apt to distrust; suspicious; not confident; diffident; modest. DISTRUSTFULLY, dis-trust'ful-le, ad. In a distrustful manner; with doubt or suspicion. DISTRUSTFULNESS, dis-trust'ful-nes, s. The state of being distrustful; want of confidence. DISTRUSTLESS, dis-trust'les, a. Free from distrust or suspicion.

DISTUNE, dis-tune', v. a. To put out of tune; to
disorder. Obsolete.

When all distan'd sit waiting for their dear.-
Sir H. Wotton.

DISTURE, dis-turb', v. a. (disturbar, Span. dis-
turbare, Ital.) To stir; to move; to discom-
pose; to excite from a state of rest or tranquillity:
to move or agitate; to disquiet; to excite uneasi-
ness or a slight degree of anger in the mind; to
move the passions; to ruffle; to move from any
regular course or operation; to interrupt regular
order; to make irregular; to interrupt; to hinder;
to incommode; to turn off from any direction;-
(unusual in the last sense ;)

And disturb

His inmost counsels from their destin'd aim.

Milton.

-s. confusion; disorder.-Obsolete as a substantive.

Instant without disturb they took alarm, And onward move embattl'd.-Milton. DISTURBANCE, dis-tur'bans, s. A stirring or excitement; any disquiet or interruption of peace; interruption of a settled state of things; disorder; tumult; emotion of the mind; agitation; excitement of passion; perturbation; confusion; disorder of thoughts. In Law, the hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right. DISTURBER, dis-tur'bur, s. One who disturbs or disquiets; a violator of peace; one who causes tumults or disorders; that which excites passion or agitation; that which causes perturbation. In Law, one that interrupts or incommodes another in the peaceable enjoyment of his right. DISTURN, dis-turn', . a. To turn aside.-Obsolete. He glad was to disturn that furious stream Of war on us, that else had swallowed them.Daniel. DISTYLIS, dis'til-lis, s. (dis, and stylos, a style, Gr. in reference to the style being bipartite.) A genus of annual hairy plants, with solitary, axillary yellow flowers-natives of New Holland: Order, Goodeniaceæ.

DISUNIFORM, dis-u'ne-fawrm, a. Not uniform. DISUNION, dis-une'yun, s. Separation; disjunction, or a state of not being united. It sometimes denotes a breach of concord and its effect; contention.

DISUNIONIST, dis-une'yun-ist, s. A person opposed

to union.

DISUNITE, dis-u-nite', v. a. To separate; to disjoin; to part;-v. n. to part; to fall asunder; to become separate.

DISUNITY, dis-u'ne-te, s. A state of separation.
DISUSAGE, dis-u'zaje, s.

Gradual cessation of use

or custom; neglect of use, exercise, or practice. DISUSE, dis-use', s. Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; cessation of custom; disuetude. DISUSE, dis-uze', v. a. To cease to use; to neglect or omit to practise; to disaccustom. DISVALUATION, dis-val-u-a'shun, 8. disreputation.

Disesteem;

DISVALUE, dis-val'u, v. a. To undervalue; to dis-
e-teem; s. disesteem; disregard.
DISVELOP, dis-vel'lop, r. a.
To develop.
DISVOUCH, dis-vowtsh', v. a.

tradict.

To discredit; to con

To direct by previous

DISWARN, dis-wawrn', v. a.
notice. Seldom used.
DISWITTED, dis-wit'ted, a. Deprived of the wits;
mad; distracted.-Obsolete.

To wean; to deprive of

As she had been diswitted.-Drayton.
DISWONT, dis-wunt', v. a.
wonted usage.
DISWORSHIP, dis-wur'ship, s. Cause of disgrace.
DISYNAPHIA, di-se-na'fe-a, s. (dis, and synaphe,
conjunction, Gr.) A genus of Composite plants:
Suborder, Tubuliflora.

DIT, dit, s. A ditty: a poem; a tune.-Obsolete.
No bird but did her shrill notes sweetly sing;
No song but did contain a lovely dit.-Spenser.
-v. a. (dyttan, Sax.) to close up.-Obsolete.
Your brains grow low, your bellies swell up high,
Foul sluggish fat dits up your dulled eye.-More.
DITASSA, di-tas'sa, s. (dis, and tasso, I dispose, Gr.
in reference to the double corona.) A genus of
twining shrubs-natives of Brazil: Order, Ascle-
piadaceæ.

DITATION, de-ta'shun, &. (ditatus, Lat.) The act
of making rich.-Obsolete.

Those eastern worshippers intended rather homage than ditation; the blessed Virgin comes in the form of poverty.-Bp. Hall.

DITAXIS, di-taks'is, s. (dittos, double, and aron, axis, Gr.) A genus of plants: Order, Euphorbiaceæ.

DITCH, ditsh, 8. (dic, Sax.) A trench in the earth
made by digging; any long hollow receptacle of
water; v. n. to dig or make a ditch or ditches;
-v. a. to dig a ditch or ditches in; to surround
with a ditch.

DITCH-DELIVERED, ditsh-de-liv'urd, a.
forth in a ditch.

Brought

Finger of birth-strangled babe,
Ditch-delivered by a drab.-Shaks.
DITCHER, ditsh'ur, s. One who digs ditches.
DITETRAHEDRAL, di-tet-tra-he'dral, a. In Crys-
talography, having the form of a tetrahedral prism
with dihedral summits.
DITHREA, dith're-a, s. (dithyros, having two valves,
Gr.) A genus of Cruciferous plants: Suborder,
Pleurorhizeæ.

DITHYRAMB, dith'e-ram, Is. (dithyrambos,
DITHYRAMBUS, dith-e-ram'bus, Gr.) In ancient

Poetry, a hymn in honour of Bacchus, full of
transport and poetical rage.

DITHYRAMBIC, dith-e-ram'bik, 8. A song in honour of Bacchus, in which the wildness of intoxication is imitated; any poem written in wild, enthusiastic strains;-a. wild; enthusiastic. DITHYROCARIS, dith-e-ro-ka'ris, s. (ditkyros, twovalved, and karis, a shrimp, Gr.) A name given

DITHYRUS-DIUTURNAL.

by Dr. Scouller of Dublin to a genus of fossil Crustaceans found in the counties of Tyrone and Derry. DITHYRUS, dith'e-rus, s. (dithyros, two-valved, Gr.) In Conchology, a synonyme of conchifer or bi

valve.

DITIOLA, de-ti'o-la, s. (dittos, double, and ioula, down, Gr. from the pubescence of the velum.) A genus of Fungi: Tribe, Hymenomycetes. DITION, dish'un, s. (ditio, Lat.) Rule; power; government; dominion.

DITONE, di'tone, s. (dis, twice, and tonos, tone, Gr.) In Music, an interval comprehending two tones; the proportion of the sounds that form the ditone is 45, and that of the semiditone, 5: 6. DITRICHIUM, di-trik'e-am, s. (dis, and trichion, hair, Gr.) A genus of Composite plants: Suborder, Tubuliflora.

DITRICHOTOMOUus, di-tre-kot'o-mus, a.

Divided into twos or threes; having the stems continually dividing into double or treble ramifications: the term is sometimes applied to a panicle of flowers. DITRIGLYPH, dit-tri'glif, s. (dis, and treis, three, glupho, I carve, Gr.) In the Doric order of Architecture, an arrangement of intercolumniations, by which two triglyphs are obtained in the frieze between the triglyphs that stand over the columns.

DITRUPA, dit-roo'pa, s. (dis, and trupao, I bore with an suger, Gr.) A genus of Annelides, with a free tubular shell open at both ends; the branchiæ are twenty-two in number, and occur in two sets, feathered with a single row of cilia. The shells resemble Dentalium, but the animal is more allied to Serpula.

DITTANY, dit'ta-ne, s. The Labiate plant Origanum dictamus of Linnæus, but now classed with two other species in the genus Amaracus: Order, La

miaceæ.

DITTED, dit'ted, a. Sung; adapted to music. DITTO, dit'to. Contracted into Do. in books of accounts; it is the Italian detto, from dictum, dictus, said, Lat. It denotes said, aforesaid, or the same thing; an abbreviation used to save repetition. DITTY, dit'te, s. A song; a sonnet, or a little poem to be sung;-v. n. to sing; to warble a little tune. DIURESIS, di-u-re'sis, s. (diouresis, Gr.) Diabetes, an excessive flow of urine.

DIURETIC, di-u-ret'ik, a. (diouretikos, Gr.) Having the power to provoke urine; tending to provoke discharges of urine;-8. a medicine that provokes urine, or increases its discharges. DIURIS, di-u'ris, s. (dis, and eurin, sweet-scented, Gr.) A genus of plants: Order, Orchidaceæ. DIURNAL, di-ur'nal, a. (diurnus, Lat.) Relating to a day; pertaining to the daytime; daily; happening every day; performed in a day; performed in twenty-four hours. In Medicine, an epithet of diseases, whose exacerbations are in the daytime;-s. a daybook; a journal. DIURNALIST, di-ur'nal-ist, s. A journalist.-Ob

solete.

DIURNALLY, di-ur'nal-le, ad. Daily; every day. DIURNI, di-ur'ne, s. (diurnus, Lat.) A name given by Cuvier, Blainville, &c. to a section of the Acciptres, or birds of prey; and, by Lamarck, to a family of Lepidopterous insects, from the circumstance of their flying chiefly during the day. DIUTURNAL, di-u-turnal, a. Lasting; being of long continuance.

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DIUTURNITY-DIVERGINGLY.

DIUTURNITY, di-u-tur'ne-te, s. (diuturnitas, Lat.)
Length of time; long duration.
DIVAGATION, di-va-ga'shun, s. (divagor, Lat.) A
going astray.

DIVAN, de-van', s. (Turkish.) The audience chamber of the vizier, or supreme judicial tribunal in Turkey, &c. The divan of the caliphs was a court for the relief of petitioners, over which the caliph presided in person. The word was used anciently for a muster-roll; also, among the Persians, for a collection of poems, as the Divan of Sadi, the Divan of Halfiz, &c. In Turkey, the term at present is applied to any hall or saloon used for the reception of company; but, by way of eminence, to that of the vizier or supreme council. DIVARICATE, di-var'e-kate, v. n. (divaricatus, Lat.) To open; to fork; to part into two branches;v. a. to divide into two branches;-a. in Botany, turning off from anything irregularly, and almost at a right angle.

DIVARICATION, di-var-e-ka'shun, s. A parting; a forking; a separation into two branches; a crossing or intersection of fibres at different angles. DIVE, dive, v. n. (dyfan, Sax.) To descend or plunge into water, as an animal, head first; to thrust the body into water or other liquor, or if already in water, to plunge deeper; to go deep into any subject-as, to dive into the nature of things, into arts or science; to plunge into any business or condition, so as to be thoroughly engaged in it; to sink; to penetrate;-v. a. to explore by diving.

The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame.-Denham. DIVEL, de-vel', v. a. (divello, Lat.) To pull; to

sever.

DIVELLENT, de-vel'lent, a. (divellens, Lat.) Drawing asunder; separating. DIVELLICATE, de-velle-kate, v. a. To pull in pieces.

DIVER, di'vur, s. One who dives; one who plunges head first into water; one who sinks by effort, as a diver in the pearl fishery; one who goes deep into a subject, or enters deep into study. In Ornithology, the name given to several species of the aquatic genus Colymbus.

DIVERB, di'verb, s. A proverb.-Obsolete.

England is a paradise for women, a hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, a hell for women-as the diverb goes.-Burton.

DIVERBERATION, di-ver-ber-a'shun, s. (diverbero, Lat.) A sounding through.

DIVERGE, de-verj', v. n. (divergo, Lat.) To tend from one point, and recede from each other; to shoot, extend, or proceed from a point in different directions, or not in parallel lines. DIVERGEMENT, de-verj'ment, s. DIVERGENCE, de-ver'jens, s. rious parts from a common History, the condition of two lines or organs emanating and branching from a common point

or centre.

Act of diverging. The tendency to vacentre. In Natural

DIVERGENT, de-ver'jent, a. Departing or receding from each other, as lines which proceed from the Divergent same point; opposed to convergent. rays, in Optics, are those which, going from a point of the visible object, are dispersed, and continually depart one from another in proportion as they are reinoved from the object. DIVERGINGLY, de-ver'jing-le, ad. In a diverging

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