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the tail of a fish. W. Smith. This day a solemn feast the people hold To Dagon, their sea idol. Milton. They brought it into the house of Dagon. 1 Sam. v. 2.

A modification of the kaleidoscope; -- used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs.

rity; a guard; a protection. War would arise in defense of the right. Tennyson. God, the widow's champion and defense. Shak.

To injure in purity of character; to corrupt. Defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt. Ezek. xx. 7.

A gift or offering to God. [Obs.] Wherein that blessed widow's deodate was laid up. Hooker.

by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.

A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king.

A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol. [Written also dewata.]

Any compound containing two amido groups united with one or more acid or negative radicals, -- as distinguished from a diamine. Cf. Amido acid, under Amido, and Acid amide, under Amide.

A compound containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals, -- as contrasted with a diamide.

A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix.

onds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

ct or change by liquor; to intoxicate. I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship. Spectator.

To slander. [Obs.] Legend of Dido.

A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.

Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. Milton. It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has been done into modern English. Macaulay.

See Lepidosiren.

A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease. Blount. Burrill.

That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband. Blackstone.

The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right.