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The act of rending asunder. Arbuthnot.

A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi.

One of the Dimera.

A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.

Enumeration. [Obs.] Bullokar.

An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs (mandibles and maxillæ) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvæ (called mag…

Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.

An insect of the order Diptera.

The quality of being discoverable. [R.] Carlyle.

Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.

To liberate from prison. [R.] Harvey.

The act of disserving; separation.

The act of disserving; disseverance. [Obs.]

Distemperature. [Obs.]

Immoderate. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Unduly. [Obs.]

Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. [Obs.]

To strike or sound through. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

A sounding through.

A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew. Gray.