To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
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In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree.
Divination.
The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence.
One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.
A woman who divines.
That dives or is used or diving.
To render divine; to deify.
That divines; for divining.
In a divining manner.
A diviner.
The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead.
A making divine.
To invest with a divine character; to deify.
The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation.
A divisible substance.
The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.
That divides; pertaining to, making, or noting, a division; as, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police.
So as to be divisional.
Divisional.
One who divides or makes division.
Indicating division or distribution.
The number by which the dividend is divided.
To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.
Capable of being divorced.
having a marriage legally terminated and having not remarried.
A person divorced.
Incapable of being divorced or separated; free from divorce.
Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation.
The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce.
Divorceable.
Having power to divorce; tending to divorce.
A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel.
To divulge.
A divulger.
The act of divulging or publishing.
To become publicly known.
Tending to pull asunder, tear, or rend; distracting.
divide up among a group; distribute; -- often followed by up; as, divvy up the proceeds; divvy up the loot.
A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War.
a former political party in the US; formed in 1948 by Southern Democrats opposed to the candidacy of Harry S. Truman.
the 11 southern states that seceded from the U. S. in 1861.
To dress; to attire.
To make dizzy; to astonish; to puzzle.
A blockhead. [Obs.] [Written also dizard, and disard.]
In a dizzy manner or state.
Giddiness; a whirling sensation in the head; vertigo.
To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse.
same as disc jockey.
A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries. A game played with it.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average.
The capital city of Djibouti. Population (2000) = 395,000.
A native or inhabitant of Djibouti.
A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals. Same as djinni and Jinnee. See Jinnee, Jinn.
ten grams.
abbreviation for deoxyribonucleic acid; -- more commonly used than the full name. See also RNA.
an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of DNA from deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates. Cells contain several types of DNA polymerase, some of which are required for replication of DNA, and are indispensable for multipliation and division of cells.
any of numerous enzymes that catalyze the breakdown of DNA into oligonucleotides or mononucleotides.
Deed; act; fear.
To place; to put.
General manager; factotum.
performed or made by an end-user who is without professional training in the relevant techniques; as, their house was a do-it-yourself project. Contrasted with factory-made and professional.
a person who often makes objects typically made by professionals, or performs repairs typically performed by professionals, though not having professional training in the relevant art. The term is used mostly to refer to activities related to maintaining a home.
One who performs little though professing much.
A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.
person who does no work.
Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.
a movement in square-dancing in which two dancers move around each other in a back-to-back position, and return to their original places.
An abbreviation of Ditto.
Capable of being done.
Doing.
See Dote.
See Dabchick.
An old jaded horse.
An apparatus resembling a Jacquard for weaving small figures (usually about 12 - 16 threads, seldom more than 36 - 40 threads).
See Dabchick.
The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.
The European dace.
Serving to instruct; teaching.
Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.
Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docet/.
The doctrine of the Docet/.
Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius.
A foot of five syllables (usually / -- -/ -).
Easily taught or managed; teachable.
Aptness for being taught; teachableness; docility.
Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness.
The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of facts pertaining to physiology.
Proving by experiments or tests.
A treatise on the art of testing, as in assaying metals, etc.
Teachableness.
To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.
Nipplewort.
a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
A charge for the use of a dock.
a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers.
a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
a act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes or anchors.
A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.
An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.
See Docket.
A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man.
To practice physic.
Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor.
In the manner of a doctor.
To make (one) a doctor.
A female doctor.
Like a doctor or learned man.
Doctorate.
A female doctor.
Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine.
One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.
Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation.
A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines.
In a doctrinal manner or form; by way of teaching or positive direction.
A doctrinaire.
The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires.
Teaching; instruction.
a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event.
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