any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Dillenia grown for their foliage and nodding magnolialike flowers which are followed by fruit that is used in curries and jellies and preserves.

a natural family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems, including the genera Dillenia and Hibbertia.

a group of families of more or less advanced trees and shrubs and herbs having either polypetalous or gamopetalous corollas and often with ovules attached to the walls of the ovary; it contains 69 families including Ericaceae and Cruciferae and Malvaceae; it is sometimes classified as a superorder.

A darling; a favorite.

A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve.

something remarkable, highly unusual, or exceptionally effective; as, a dilly of a movie; when I make a mistake, it's a dilly.

To loiter or trifle; to waste time.

Ambiguous; of double meaning.

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

Clear; lucid.

To elucidate.

The act of making clear.

That which dilutes.

Diluted; thin; weak.

Reduced in strength; thin; weak.

The quality or state of being dilute.

One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.

The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted.

Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.

One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge.

Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin.

To run as a flood.

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

To grow dim.

Having dim sight; lacking perception.

mentally retarded; relatively slow in mental function.

A bower; a dingle.

A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.

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.

Pertaining to dimension.

Having dimensions.

Without dimensions; having no appreciable or noteworthy extent.

Dimension.

Without dimensions; marking dimensions or the limits.

A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi. A division of the Hemiptera, including the aphids.

One of the Dimera.

Composed of, or having, two parts of each kind.

Having two poetical measures or meters. A verse of two meters.

Ethane; -- sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. See Ethane.

Same as Tetragonal.

A fight; contest.

To divide into two equal parts.

The act of dimidiating or halving; the state of being dimidiate.

To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.

Capable of being diminished or lessened.

One who, or that which, diminishes anything.

In a manner to diminish.

Diminution.

In a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo; -- expressed on the staff by Dim., or Dimin., or the sign.

Lessening.

Indicating or causing diminution.

Small; diminished; diminutive.

Diminutively.

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.

Indicating diminution; diminutive. A diminutive.

Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.

In a diminutive manner.

The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.

See Dimmish.

Leave to depart; a dismissing.

To dismiss, let go, or release.

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.

In a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.

Somewhat dim; as, dimmish eyes.

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

Having the property of dimorphism; dimorphous.

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.

Characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic.

To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions.

The state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions.

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

An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

Like or pertaining to the Dimya. One of the Dimya.

Same as Dimyarian.

To sound with a din; a ding.

A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.

A petty money of accounts of Persia; 100 dinars consituted a rial.

See Diarchy.

To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.

One who dines.

One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company.

Revolving on an axis.

A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.

The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.

a small boat propelled by oars or sails, used in the East Indies, in sheltered waters.

In a dingy manner.

Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.

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

In a dangling manner.

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.

A spendthrift.

Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.

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.

from Dine, a.

a large room at a college or university, used especially for dining.

a room used for dining. In a residence, it usually contains a dining table and some furniture, such as a buffet or sideboard, for storing tableware and dining utensils.

Trim; neat.

an Asian person, especially a Vietnamese; -- used contemptuously, considered disparaging and offensive.

a Nilotic language.

small and insignificant; shabby or unimpressive; as, he drove to work in a dinky old Volkswagen; we stayed in a dinky little hotel.

A wether sheep between one and two years old.

The principal meal of the day, eaten in some countries about midday, but in others (especially in the U. S. and in large cities) at a later hour.

Having no dinner; as, the naughty child was sent to bed dinnerless.

Of or pertaining to dinner.

the time when people eat dinner, usually the time for the evening meal.

A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.

a small order of primitive ungulates of the Paleocene and Eocene.

and order of plankton, in some classifications it is considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista; in others it is included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta. Its members usually have two flagella, one of which extends from its center.

a member of the Dinoflagellata, chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella. The dinoflagellates form a chief constituent of plankton.

A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa.

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.

One of the Dinosauria.

A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable for a pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.

Same as Dioxide.

Full of din.

To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent.

Enumeration.

A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.

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

One who belongs to a diocese.