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Leaping or skipping about. [Obs.] I shot at it [a bird], but it was so desultory that I missed my aim. Gilbert White.

hipbuilding), built by forming the outer skin of two layers of planking, making angles of about 45º with the keel, in opposite directions. -- Diagonal cleavage. See under Cleavage. -- Diagonal molding (Arch.), a chevron or zigzag molding. -- Diagonal rib. (Arch.) See Cross-springer. -- Diagonal scale, a scale which…

The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.

crops. -- Diogenes' tub, the tub which the philosopher Diogenes is said to have carried about with him as his house, in which he lived.

An extinct Quaternary marsupial from Australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; -- so named because of its two large front teeth. See Illustration in Appendix.

A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it

with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about

er with. [Obs.] I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it. Evelyn.

rive of an edge; to blunt; to dull. Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart. Tennyson.

hange 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.

A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.

es; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint and edifice. Some half-ruined wall Disjointed and about to fall. Longfellow.

To strive or contend about; to contest. To dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards. Prescott.

A wandering about or going astray; digression. Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation. Thackeray.

To place; to put. [Obs.] Tale of a Usurer (about 1330).

An apparatus resembling a Jacquard for weaving small figures (usually about 12 - 16 threads, seldom more than 36 - 40 threads).

A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money. Shak.

The Coryphæna hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphænoid.

Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. Shenstone.

rd of the survey of most of the lands of England, made by order of William the Conqueror, about 1086. It consists of two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. [Written also Doomsday Book.]