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A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.

, and invested with unlimited power. Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language. Macaulay.

A burden in popular songs. [Obs.] Delicate burthens of dildos and fadings. Shak.

An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.

s finger in the blood. Lev. iv. 6. [Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny deep. Pope. While the prime swallow dips his wing. Tennyson.

. The Dipper (Astron.), the seven principal stars in the constellation of the Great Bear; popularly so called from their arrangement in the form of a dipper; -- called also Charles's Wain. See Ursa Major, under Ursa.

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.

The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention, and, loosely, to the nomination effe…

ection. Shak. All nature is but art, unknown to thee;direction, which thou canst not see. Pope.

bank, insurance company, or railroad company. What made directors cheat in South-Sea year Pope.

Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. The creature's at his dirty work again. Pope.

Disagreement. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

scordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel. Who shall decide, when doctors disagree Pope.

To disembark. Pope.

ing rock, and slope, and forest brown! Byron. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose. Pope.

disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up. Or discomposed the headdress of a prude. Pope.

Addison. Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope. The sea is silent, the sea is discreet. Longfellow.

To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber. [Archaic] Pope.

ng anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn. How my soul is moved with just disdain! Pope.

introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. Madison. Disease germ. See under Germ.