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Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly. Dimorphism is the condition of the appearance of the same species under two dissimilar form…

A wether sheep between one and two years old. [Scot.]

r visible horizon below the true or natural horizon; the angle at the eye of an observer between a horizontal line and a tangent drawn from the eye to the surface of the ocean. -- Dip of the needle, or Magnetic dip, the angle formed, in a vertical plane, by a freely suspended magnetic needle, or the line of magnetic f…

The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull.

The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.

To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood. More than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand their left. Jonah iv. 11.

n instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.

s wound." Milton. Discontinuous function (Math.), a function which for certain values or between certain values of the variable does not vary continuously as the variable increases. The discontinuity may, for example, consist of an abrupt change in the value of the function, or an abrupt change in its law of variation,…

e of vesture of youth and age, men and women. Sir T. Elyot. There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies. G. S. Faber.

In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm.

distinguish accurately; as, in judging of evidence, we should be careful to discriminate between probability and slight presumption.

ng, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences. To make an anxious discrimination between the miracle absolute and providential. Trench.

uality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color. The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures. I. Taylor. The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause any uneasiness. Maca…

The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance. On account of the dispart, the line of aim or line of metal, which is in a plane passing through the axis of the gun, always makes a small angle with the axis. Eng. Cys.

Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy. [R.] Many discrepancies and some dispathies between us. Southey.

parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery.

One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral.

Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity. Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images. Stillingfleet.

The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place. Every particle attracts every other with a force . . . inversely proportioned to the square of the distance. Sir I. Newton.

The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from others; exercise of discernment; discrimination. To take away therefore that error, which confusion breedeth, distinction is requisite. Hooker.