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The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.

Diplomacy. [R.]

A person employed in, or skilled in, diplomacy; a diplomat. In ability, Avaux had no superior among the numerous able diplomatics whom his country then possessed. Macaulay.

The act or state of seeing double.

One of the Diplopoda.

An order of myriapods having two pairs of legs on each segment; the Chilognatha.

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

The condition of being diplostemonous.

A group of spiders having only two lunglike organs. [Written also Dipneumones.]

A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix.

uded in one measure. Hadley. Trochaic, iambic, and anapestic verses . . . are measured by dipodies. W. W. Goodwin.

Having two poles, as a magnetic bar.

See Bone oil, under Bone.

One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.

The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.

Doubly prismatic.

Though isomeric with benzine, it is very different in its chemical relations. Called also dipropinyl.

One of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. See Hexane.

An extinct Quaternary marsupial from Australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; -- so named because of its two large front teeth. See Illustration in Appendix.

A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst. Milton.