DIASTALTIC
DIASTALTIC, adjective [Gr., dilating.] Dilated; noble; bold; an epithet given by the Greeks to certain intervals in music, as the major third, major sixth and major seventh.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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DIASTEM
DIASTEM, noun [Gr.] In music, a simple interval.
DIASTOLE
DIASTOLE, DIASTOLY, noun [Gr., to set or send from.]
DIASTOLY
DIASTOLE, DIASTOLY noun [Gr., to set or send from.]1. Among physicians, a dilation of the heart, auricles and arteries; opposed to systole or contraction.2. In grammar, the exte...
DIASTYLE
DIASTYLE, noun [Gr.] An edifice in which three diameters of the columns are allowed for intercolumniations.
DIATESSARON
DIATESSARON, noun [Gr., four.] Among musicians, a concord or harmonic interval, composed of a greater tone, a lesser tone, and one greater semitone. Its proportion is as 4 to 3,...
DIATONIC
DIATONIC, adjective [Gr., by or through, sound.] Ascending or descending, as in sound, or from sound to sound. This epithet is given to a scale or gammut, to intervals of a cert...
DIATRIBE
DIATRIBE, noun [Gr.] A continued discourse or disputation.
DIAZEUTIC
DIAZEUTIC, adjective [Gr., to disjoin.] A diazeutic tone, in ancient Greek music, disjoined two fourths, one on each side of it, and which, being joined to either, made a fifth....
DIBBLE
DIBBLE, noun [probably from the root of top, tip, a point, and denoting a little sharp point; or allied to dip, to thrust in.] A pointed instrument, used in gardening and agricu...
DIBSTONE
DIBSTONE, noun A little stone which children throw at another stone.
DICACITY
DICACITY, noun [Latin] Pertness. [Little used.]
DICAST
DICAST, noun [Gr., to judge; justice.] In ancient Greece, an officer answering nearly to our juryman.
DICE
DICE, nounplural of die; also, a game with diceDICE, verb intransitive To play with dice
DICE-BOX
DICE-BOX, noun A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.
DICE-MAKER
DICE-MAKER, noun A maker of dice.
DICER
DICER, noun A player at dice.
DICHOTOMIZE
DICHOTOMIZE, verb transitive [See the next word.] To cut into two parts; to divide into pairs.
DICHOTOMOUS
DICHOTOMOUS, adjective [Gr., doubly, by pairs; to cut.] In botany, regularly dividing by pairs from top to bottom; as a dichotomous stem.
DICHOTOMOUS-CORYMB
DICHOTOMOUS-CORYMBED, a. Composed of corymbs, in which the pedicles divide and subdivide by pairs.
DICHOTOMY
DICHOTOMY, noun [Gr., a division into two parts; to cut.]1. Division or distribution of ideas by pairs. [Little used.]2. In astronomy, that phase of the moon in which it appears...
DICHROIT
DICHROIT, noun [See Iolite.]
DICING-HOUSE
DICING-HOUSE, noun A house where dice is played; a gaming house. [Little used.]
DICKER
DICKER, noun [Gr., ten. Latin] In old authors, the number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; but applied to other things, as a dicker gloves, etc. [I believe n...
DICOCCOUS
DICOCCOUS, adjective [Gr., Latin, a grain.] Two-grained; consisting of two cohering grains or cells, with one seed in each; as a dicoccous capsule.
DICOTYLEDON
DICOTYLEDON, noun [Gr., two; a cavity.] A plant whose seeds divide into two lobes in germinating.
DICOTYLEDONOUS
DICOTYLEDONOUS, adjective Having two lobes. A dicotyledonous plant is one whose seeds have two lobes, and consequently rise with two seminal leaves.