A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration.

To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate.

Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect.

The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered.

One who causes dilapidation.

The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to contractibility.

Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.

Prolixity; diffuse discourse.

A muscle which dilates any part; a dilator.

Extensive; expanded.

Expanded; enlarged.

In a dilated manner.

One who, or that which, dilates, expands, or enlarges.

The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.

Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive.

An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.

One who, or that which, widens or expands.

With delay; tardily.

The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.

Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.

a device shaped like an erect penis, used by some women for sexual stimulation.

A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Cereus Swartzii).

Love; choice.

An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses.

A dilettante.

An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.

Somewhat like a dilettante.

The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.

Dilettanteish.

Same as Dilettanteism.

A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

Diligence; care; persevering endeavor.

Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.

In a diligent manner; not carelessly; not negligently; with industry or assiduity.

To still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

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.

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.

Sending away; dismissing to another jurisdiction; granting leave to depart.

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.