One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.

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.

The property or condition of being dibasic.

A dibble.

To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting.

One who, or that which, dibbles, or makes holes in the ground for seed.

a foot of two short (unstressed-unstressed) syllables.

a cephalopod having two gills; a member of the Dibranchiata.

comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish).

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.

Having two gills. One of the Dibranchiata.

A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East.

A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the alkane series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane.

Talkative; pert; saucy.

Pertness; sauciness.

Having two atoms or equivalents of calcium to the molecule.

Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl groups or radicals; as, oxalic acid is the simplest dicarbonic acid. In the latter sense, synonymous with dicarboxylic; as, succinic acid is a dicarboxylic acid.

A functionary in ancient Athens resembling closely to the modern juryman.

A court of justice; judgment hall.

To cut into small cubes; as, to slice and dice carrots.

A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.

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 (Dicentra spectabilis).

Having two heads on one body; double-headed.

A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester.

To ditch.

Capable of subdividing spontaneously.

Having two coverings, a calyx and a corolla.

Same as Bichloride.

Manifesting 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.

One who dichotomizes.

To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.

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

A cutting in two; a division.

Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.

Same as Dichroscope.

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.

Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.

Dichroic.

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

Having or exhibiting two colors.

The state of being dichromatic.

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

Dichroic.

An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.

Pertaining to the dichroscope, or to observations with it.

An ornamenting in squares or cubes.

The American black-throated bunting (Spiza Americana).

The devil.

To negotiate a dicker; to barter.

Any small bird; as, adults talking to children sometimes call small birds dickeybirds.

A small 3rd seat in the back of an old-fashioned 2-seat car.

A small 3rd seat in the back of an old-fashioned 2-seat car.

A genus of tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Cyatheaceae.

A family of plants comprising the tree ferns; it includes the genera Dicksonia; Cibotium; Culcita; and Thyrsopteris.

See dickey.

A false detachable shirt front or bosom.

same as dickie-seat.

same as dickeybird.

Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers.

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

same as dicotyledon.

same as dicotyledon.

A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

a class of plants comprising those seed plants that produce an embryo with two cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae.

same as Dicotyledonae.

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

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.

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

Dicrotic.

See Dictum.

A dictation or dictate.

A suffrutescent herb, Dictamnus Fraxinella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable.

A form of phonographic recorder and reproducer adapted for use in dictation, as in business.

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.

The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.

One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.

Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute.

Dictatorial.

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

Dogmatical; overbearing; dictatorial.

A woman who dictates or commands.

A dictatress.

Office of a dictator; dictatorship.

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.

A lexicographer.

A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.

A telephonic instrument for office or other similar use, having a sound-magnifying device enabling the ordinary mouthpiece to be dispensed with. Much use has been made of it for overhearing, or for recording, conversations for the purpose of obtaining evidence for use in litigation.

any slime mold of the genus Dictostylium.

An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.

A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogen/, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreace/, Smilace/, Trilliace/, etc.

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

An order of worms parasitic in cephalopods. They are remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. The embryo exists in two forms.

Like or belonging to the Dicyemata. One of the Dicyemata.

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.

imp. of Do.

A treatise on teaching or education.

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

In a didactic manner.

The didactic method or system.

Aptitude for teaching.

The art or science of teaching.

An animal having only two digits.

Having only two digits; two-toed.

A kind of triangular spade.

See Dabchick.

Didascalic.

Didactic; preceptive.

To cheat or overreach.

A cheat.

The subclass of Mammalia which includes the marsupials. See Marsupialia.

Of or relating to the Didelphia. One of the Didelphia.

Having the uterus double; of or pertaining to the Didelphia.

A marsupial animal.

Didelphic.

Same as 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.

Like or pertaining to the genus Didus, or the dodo.

A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.