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A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H20, of the ethylene series, regarded as a polymeric form of amylene.

Having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla.

The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.

A cutting in two; a division. A general breach or dichotomy with their church. Sir T. Browne.

Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy. [R.]

Somewhat dim; as, dimmish eyes. "Dimmy clouds." Sir P. Sidney.

An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

Like or pertaining to the Dimya. -- n.

Same as Dimyarian.

Up, or ahead, as many holes as remain to be played; -- said of a player or side.

ding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Tennyson.

A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.

Troubled; muddy. [Obs.] Bacon.

Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.

Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws. Cockeram.

household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. Himself busy in charge of the household economies. Froude.

Abounding with elms. The simple spire and elmy grange. T. Warton.

The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.

A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydidæ.

A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh- water tortoises and terrapins.