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evelops year by year. Nor poets enough to understand That life develops from within. Mrs. Browning.

on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness. Sir T. Browne.

A diameter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

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

Irregularity of form; diversity of form; want of uniformity. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To finger; as, to digitize a pen. [R.] Sir T. Browne. computers to convert (information, a signal, an image) into a form expressible in binary notation

im. [Obs.] Sciences concluding from dignities, and principles known by themselves. Sir T. Browne.

Distinguishing mark; diagnostic. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne.

The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation. Mrs. Browning. At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. Tennyson. A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. Dickens.

impled, or marked with gentle depressions. [R.] The ground's most gentle dimplement. Mrs. Browning.

Revolving on an axis. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.

Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. "Scraps of dingy paper." Macaulay.

Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium. R. Brown.

Privation of life. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

o discuss. [R.] One dissertates, he is candid; Two must discept, -- has distinguished. R. Browning.

reveal. How softly on the Spanish shore she plays, Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown! Byron. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose. Pope.

To leave out of account; to take no notice of. [R.] Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's). Sir W. Hamilton.