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om one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor. The devolution of the crown through a . . . channel known and conformable to old constitutional requisitions. De Quincey.

n the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness. Sir T. Browne.

d band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general. "The regal diadem." Milton.

achromatic telescope in which the colored dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.…

A diameter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A box from which dice are thrown in gaming. Thackeray.

A cutting in two; a division. A general breach or dichotomy with their church. Sir T. Browne.

aces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.

Irregularity of form; diversity of form; want of uniformity. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To finger; as, to digitize a pen. [R.] Sir T. Browne. computers to convert (information, a signal, an image) into a form expressible in binary notation

m. [Obs.] Sciences concluding from dignities, and principles known by themselves. Sir T. Browne.

Distinguishing mark; diagnostic. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne.

The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation. Mrs. Browning. At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. Tennyson. A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. Dickens.

mpled, or marked with gentle depressions. [R.] The ground's most gentle dimplement. Mrs. Browning.

Revolving on an axis. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

ave introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.

Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. "Scraps of dingy paper." Macaulay.

Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium. R. Brown.

Meanness; sordidness. Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy. Melmoth.