Dicky (n.) A false shirt front or bosom.
Dicky (n.) A gentleman's shirt collar.
Diclinic (a.) Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization.
Diclinous (a.) Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers.
Dicoccous (a.) Composed of two coherent, one-seeded carpels; as, a dicoccous capsule.
Dicotyledon (n.) A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.
Dicotyledonous (a.) Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.
Dicrotal (a.) Alt. of Dicrotous
Dicrotous (a.) Dicrotic.
Dicrotic (a.) Of or pertaining to dicrotism; as, a dicrotic pulse.
Dicrotic (a.) Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave.
Dicrotism (n.) A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.
Dicta (n. pl.) See Dictum.
Dictamen (n.) A dictation or dictate.
Dictamnus (n.) A suffrutescent, D. Fraxinella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable.
Dictated (imp. & p. p.) of Dictate
Dictating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dictate
Dictate (v. t.) To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis.
Dictate (v. t.) To say; to utter; to communicate authoritatively; to deliver (a command) to a subordinate; to declare with authority; to impose; as, to dictate the terms of a treaty; a general dictates orders to his troops.
Dictate (v. i.) To speak as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on).
Dictate (v. i.) To compose literary works; to tell what shall be written or said by another.
Dictate (v. t.) 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.
Dictation (n.) The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.
Dictation (n.) The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
Dictator (n.) One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
Dictator (n.) One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.
Dictatorial (a.) Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute.
Dictatorial (a.) Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner.
Dictatorian (a.) Dictatorial.
Dictatorship (n.) The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.
Dictatory (a.) Dogmatical; overbearing; dictatorial.
Dictatress (n.) A woman who dictates or commands.
Dictatrix (n.) A dictatress.
Dictature (n.) Office of a dictator; dictatorship.
Diction (n.) 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.
Dictionalrian (n.) A lexicographer.
Dictionaries (pl. ) of Dictionary
Dictionary (n.) A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
Dictionary (n.) Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary.
Dicta (pl. ) of Dictum
Dictums (pl. ) of Dictum
Dictum (n.) An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.
Dictum (n.) A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
Dictum (n.) The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
Dictum (n.) An arbitrament or award.
Dictyogen (n.) A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc.
Dicyanide (n.) A compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen groups or radicals; -- called also bicyanide.
Dicyemata (n. pl.) An order of worms parasitic in cephalopods. They are remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. The embryo exists in two forms.
Dicyemid (a.) Like or belonging to the Dicyemata.
Dicyemid (n.) One of the Dicyemata.
Dicynodont (n.) 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.
Did () imp. of Do.
Didactic (a.) Alt. of Didactical
Didactical (a.) Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays.
Didactic (n.) A treatise on teaching or education.
Didactically (adv.) In a didactic manner.
Didacticism (n.) The didactic method or system.
Didacticity (n.) Aptitude for teaching.
Didactics (n.) The art or science of teaching.
Didactyl (n.) An animal having only two digits.
Didactylous (a.) Having only two digits; two-toed.
Didal (n.) A kind of triangular spade.
Didapper (n.) See Dabchick.
Didascalar (a.) Didascalic.
Didascalic (a.) Didactic; preceptive.
Diddle (v. i.) To totter, as a child in walking.
Diddle (v. t.) To cheat or overreach.
Diddler (n.) A cheat.
Didelphia (n. pl.) The subclass of Mammalia which includes the marsupials. See Marsupialia.
Didelphian (a.) Of or relating to the Didelphia.
Didelphian (n.) One of the Didelphia.
Didelphic (a.) Having the uterus double; of or pertaining to the Didelphia.
Didelphid (a.) Same as Didelphic.
Didelphid (n.) A marsupial animal.
Didelphous (a.) Didelphic.
Didelphyc (a.) Same as Didelphic.
Didelphous (n.) 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.
Didine (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Didus, or the dodo.
Didos (pl. ) of Dido
Dido (n.) A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
Didonia (n.) The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area.
Didrachm (n.) Alt. of Didrachma
Didrachma (n.) A two-drachma piece; an ancient Greek silver coin, worth nearly forty cents.
Didst () the 2d pers. sing. imp. of Do.
Diducement (n.) Diduction; separation into distinct parts.
Diduction (n.) The act of drawing apart; separation.
Didym (n.) See Didymium.
Didymium (n.) A rare metallic substance usually associated with the metal cerium; -- hence its name. It was formerly supposed to be an element, but has since been found to consist of two simpler elementary substances, neodymium and praseodymium. See Neodymium, and Praseodymium.
Didymous (a.) Growing in pairs or twins.
Didynamia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
Didynamian (a.) Didynamous.
Didynamous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
Died (imp. & p. p.) of Die
Dying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Die
Die (v. i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
Die (v. i.) To suffer death; to lose life.
Die (v. i.) To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
Die (v. i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
Die (v. i.) To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
Die (v. i.) To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.