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Deep-sea; as, a dipsey line; a dipsy lead. [Sailor's Cant]

t; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.

Consisting of two syllabas, a dissyllabic foot in poetry. B. Jons

A formi

To form into two syllables. Ogilvie.

To form into two syllables; to dyssyllabify.

A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.

Not having symmetry; asymmetrical; unsymmetrical.

Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.

Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference. [R.]

To unyoke; to free from a yoke; to disjoin. [Poetic] R. Browning.

Having twelve syllables.

A word consisting of twelve syllables.

Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.

An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless. " Drossy gold." Dryden. "Drossy rhymes." Donne. -- Dross"i*ness, n.

Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." Shak. Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Lowell.

Covered with a large number of minute crystals.

A Russian religious sect founded about the middle of the 18th century at Kharkov. They believe that Christ was wholly human, but that his soul reappears from time to time in mortals. They accept the Ten Commandments and the "useful" portions of the Bible, but deny the need of rulers, priests, or churches, and have no c…

Dycrasia. Sin is a cause of dycrasies and distempers. Jer. Taylor.