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Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate. The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from its original import. J. Edwards. Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she. R. Browning.

Different; distinct. [Obs.] Shak.

Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; - - said of a leaf.

Divided; dividual. [R.] He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge.

Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory instinct." Cowley.

The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section. Communities and divisions of men. Addison.

sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct. Alas! his brain was dizzy. Drayton.

A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.

consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar.

Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.

ble carbonate of sodium and potassium, NaKCO3.6H2O. (b) A molecular combination of two distinct salts, as common alum, which consists of the sulphate of aluminium, and the sulphate of potassium or ammonium. -- Double shuffle, a low, noisy dance. -- Double standard (Polit. Econ.), a double standard of monetary values;…

rration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct. W. H. Wollaston.

by heat. -- On draught, so as to be drawn from the wood (as a cask, barrel, etc.) in distinction from being bottled; as, ale on draught. -- Sheer draught. See under Sheer.

A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.

A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America.

e Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps.

To tincture with something offensive or injurious. Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws. Milton.

ommercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.

d; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction; as: