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Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles.

Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens.

Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

Belonging to declension. Declensional and syntactical forms. M. Arnold.

A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use. [Written also demain.] Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill. Ancient demesne. (Eng. Law) See under Ancient.

A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.

A volatile, pungent, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H10, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series.

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.

A plant with netveined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenæ, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceæ, Smilaceæ, Trilliaceæ, etc.

Like or belonging to the Dicyemata. -- n.

Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong. -- Diph*thon"gal*ly, adv.

Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.

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

Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training. Those canons . . . were only disciplinary. Bp. Ferne. The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial. Buckminster.

To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.

Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency. [Obs.] "Dispositive holiness." Jer. Taylor.

Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.

Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to Ant: nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.

Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." Paley.

A sailor belonging to a dogger.