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 maxill/) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larv/ (called maggots) being usually without feet.

Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.

An insect of the order Diptera.

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.

Having two wings, as certain insects; belonging to the order Diptera.

Having two dorsal fins; -- said of certain fishes.

a genus of tropical American trees which produce a black seed called the tonka bean.

A noun which has only two cases.

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

Containing two stones or nutlets.

A polymeric form of pyridine, C10H10N2, obtained as a colorless oil by the action of sodium on pyridine.

A crystalline nitrogenous base, C10H8N2, obtained by the reduction of pyridine.

The emission and diffusion of rays of light.

Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.

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.

Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.

Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo.

having a specified direction; often used in combination; as, goal-directed.

One who directs; a director.

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.

of or pertaining to direction (definition 2).

the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive to signal arriving from one direction than from another.

purposeless. Opposite of purposeful.

Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.

the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive to sounds coming from one direction than from another.

In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.

The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.

The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.

Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive.

The condition or office of a director; directorate.

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 woman who directs.

A directress.

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

In a dire manner.

To separate by force; to tear apart.

A tearing apart; violent separation.

Terribleness; horror; woefulness.

The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away.

Characterized by direption.

With plundering violence; by violent injustice.

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

Funereal; moaning.

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.

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

Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.

The practice or inclination to direct (activities) by a central authority; as, the linguistic dirigisme of prescriptivists clashes with the modern tendency toward acceptance of multiculturalism. See also dirigiste.

Directed by a central authority; as, a dirigiste economy; with respect to economics, opposed to free-market. See also dirigisme.

Absolute.

To darken.

Darkness.

To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate.

To make foul of filthy; to dirty.

costing much less than standard price; as, the store went out of business and sold their remaining stock for dirt-cheap prices.

In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.

The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.

the act of soiling something.

The god Pluto, god of the underworld; also called Dis Pater.

to treat in a disrespectful manner; to insult, disparage or belittle.

any orchid of the genus Disa, a genus of beautiful orchids with dark green leaves and usually hooded flowers; -- they are much prized as emblematic flowers in their native regions.

State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.

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.

injured so as to be unable to function; as, disabled veterans.

Deprivation of ability; incapacity.

causing or having caused disability; rendering disabled; as, disabling injury.

To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right; -- often used with of; as, to disabuse one of his illusions.

To put to inconvenience; to incommode.

A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited.

Disagreement.

Not accordant.

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

To free from acid.

To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown.

To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar.

Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance.

A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein.

To deprive of ornaments.

To draw back, or cause to draw back.

To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to.

Injurious; 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.

Misfortune; mishap.

Unprosperous; unfortunate.

To advise against; to dissuade from.

To alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness.

Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal.

State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike.

Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected.

To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted.

The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.

The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.

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

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

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.

Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.

The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.

In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.

Disagreement.

The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.

One who disagrees.

To alienate from allegiance.

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

Not allowable; not to be suffered.

The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.

To part, as an alliance; to sunder.

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

Not angelical.

To deprive of life.

Privation of life.

To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of.

To annul completely; to render void or of no effect.

One who disannuls.

Complete annulment.

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

To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked.

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.