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having the property of turning the plane of polarized light to the right; as, dextrotartaric acid.

Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.

ther forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned. In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard En…

Adorned with diamonds; diamondized. Emerson.

"[The moon] was dichotomized." Whewell.

elf; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve. The diffident maidens, Folding their hands in prayer. Longfellow.

good to worlds and ages infinite. Milton. We find this knowledge diffused among all civilized nations. Whewell.

Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.

e fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation. -- Dig"i*tate*ly, adv.

Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings. To do one's diligence, give diligence, use diligence, to exert one's self; to make interested and earnest endeavor. And each of them doth all his diligence To do unto the fes…

shing stile (Arch.), a stile which is narrower in one part than in another, as in many glazed doors.

Characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic.

A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.

o change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel. "The diphthongized long vowels." H. Sweet.

Characterized by tact and shrewdness; dexterous; artful; as, diplomatic management.

A style of dress prevalent at the time of the French Directory, characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes.

Characterized by direption. [R.] Encyc. Dict.

tate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both…

Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton.

Finding out or ascertaining something previously unknown or unrecognized; as, Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. A brilliant career of discovery and conquest. Prescott. We speak of the "invention" of printing, the discovery of America. Trench.