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A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

made of it for overhearing, or for recording, conversations for the purpose of obtaining evidence for use in litigation.

hen, a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

Divided into two equal parts; reduced to half in shape or form.

Having the tail fin divided into two equal parts by the notochord, or end of the vertebral column; protocercal. See Protocercal.

Having the heart completely divided or double, one side systemic, the other pulmonary.

called respectively by their Latin names, oratio directa, and oratio obliqua. -- Direct evidence (Law), evidence which is positive or not inferential; -- opposed to circumstantial, or indirect, evidence. -- This distinction, however, is merely formal, since there is no direct evidence that is not circumstantial, or d…

Divided; separated. [Obs.] Stow.

ce to; to hold not to be true or actual. Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability or impossibility. J. S. Mill.

To divide; to cleave in two. [Obs.] Spenser.

To part; to divide. [Obs.] Boyle.

nued or continual proportion; as, 3:6::12:24. -- Discrete quantity, that which must be divided into units, as number, and is opposed to continued quantity, as duration, or extension.

To make a difference or distinction; to distinguish accurately; as, in judging of evidence, we should be careful to discriminate between probability and slight presumption.

arking differences. To make an anxious discrimination between the miracle absolute and providential. Trench.

king differences; discriminating. "Discriminative censure." J. Foster. "Discriminative Providence." Dr. H. More.

state of being disengaged. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. Transl. of Lavoisier. A disengagement from earthly trammels. Sir W. Jones.

To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic] Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. Spenser. The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. Emerson.

erically, of the acts and modes of his administration. To respect the dispensations of Providence. Burke.

Depression of spirits; discouragement. [R.] Procter, in evident distress and dispiritment, was waiting the slow conclusion of this. Carlyle.

A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers.