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To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.

on of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract. These districts which between the tropics lie. Blackstone. Congressional district. See under Congressional. -- District attorney, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. -- District court, a subordinate municipal, state, or United Sta…

ns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or the like. Distyle in antis, having columns between two antæ. See Anta.

A breach of concord and its effect; alienation. Such a disunion between the two houses as might much clouClarendon.

A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play. Smart.

To cause separation; to disunite. A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Bancroft.

f condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast. Chaucer. I will put a division between my people and thy people. Ex. viii. 23.

general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes (Geol.), planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.

A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; as, the doab between the Ganges and the Jumna. [India] Am. Cyc.

The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.

A Linnæan class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.

A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part of the summer.…

In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.

A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n.,

m that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion. Dan. iv. 34. To choose between dominion or slavery. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay.

le-quick. -- Double window, a window having two sets of glazed sashes with an air space between them.

ads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.

in issue or event. We . . . have sustained one day in doubtful fight. Milton. The strife between the two principles had been long, fierce, and doubtful. Macaulay.

ead), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. Dovetail molding (Arch.), a molding of any convex section arranged in a sort of zigzag, like a series of dovetails. -- Dovetail saw (Carp.), a saw used…