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ecious manner. Dioeciously hermaphrodite (Bot.), having flowers structurally perfect, but practically dioecious, -- those on one plant producing no pollen, and those on another no ovules.

The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.

The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff. [U.S.] Dipping needle, a magnetic needle suspended at its center of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or inclination.

nding to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way. Hooker. The precepts directive of our practice in relation to God. Barrow.

The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action.

To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth. Shak. Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before i…

To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.

To practice the art of distillation. Shak.

To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.

One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner. [R.] Burton.

To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11.

The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of facts pertaining to physiology.

One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. Shak.

One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.

The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires.

To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity. Milton.

One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.

The practice of drinking drams.

To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures. "Skill in drawing." Locke.