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of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.

ribing; also that which is dictated. It affords security against the dictation of laws. Paley.

leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenæ, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceæ, Smilaceæ, Trilliaceæ, etc.

ferent or unlike; to set at variance. [R.] But something 'ts that differs thee and me. Cowley.

s; differential duties; a differential rate. For whom he produced differential favors. Motley.

To acquire a distinct and separate character. Huxley.

To split. [Obs.] Bailey.

Act of cleaving or splitting. [R.] Bailey.

A blowing apart or away. [Obs.] Bailey.

Flowing apart or off; dissolving; not fixed. [R.] Bailey.

Digesting. [Obs.] Bailey.

aid of actions or measures. Alva, as usual, brought his dilatory policy to bear upon hiMotley. Dilatory plea (Law), a plea designed to create delay in the trial of a cause, generally founded upon some matter not connected with the merits of the case.

A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.

Of or pertaining to dinner. [R.] The dinnerly officer. Copley.

Two metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure. Hadley. Trochaic, iambic, and anapestic verses . . . are measured by dipodies. W. W. Goodwin.

To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges. Mozley & W.

One who arbitrates or decides. [R.] Cowley.

To tear in pieces; to rend. [R.] Stukeley.

of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. H. Spencer.

or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.