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The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix.

One who marries the second time.

The writer of Deuteronomy.

One who dichotomizes. Bacon.

One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist. Hammond.

See Dimmish.

Leave to depart; a dismissing. [Obs.] Barrow.

Sending away; dismissing to another jurisdiction; granting leave to depart. Letters dimissory (Eccl.), letters given by a bishop dismissing a person who is removing into another diocese, and recommending him for reception there. Hook.

Somewhat dim; as, dimmish eyes. "Dimmy clouds." Sir P. Sidney.

To deprive of a commission or trust. [R.] Laud.

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.

Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

Giving dismission.

The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force.

ho would resolve matter into centers of force may be said to constitute the school of dynamists. Ward (Dyn. Sociol. ).

h frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste. "Economists even to parsimony." Burke.

Egoism. [R.] A. Baxter.

That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.

s at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter. Buzzing emissaries fill the ears Of listening crowds with jealousies and fears. Dryden.