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A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is of an inSydenham.

lified form of the hieratic character; -- called also epistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Enchorial.

A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.

e. [A Scotticism] Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference. State Trials(1606).

esiccating agent, as sulphuric acid or calcium chloride, above which is suspended the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture.

thæ), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.

Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation. A trial which would have demanded of him a most heroic faith and the detachment of a saint. J. H. Newman.

Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.

hield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side. Dexter chief, or Dexter point (Her.), a point in the dexter upper corner of the shield, being in the dexter extremity of the chief, as A in the cut. -- Dexter base, a point in the…

nt vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters; as, coöperate, aërial.

The material subjected to dialysis.

A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.

Dictatorial. [Obs.]

Dogmatical; overbearing; dictatorial. Milton.

ight be of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time the materials of a dictionary. Johnson.

hou mayest difference gods from men. Chapman. Kings, in receiving justice and undergoing trial, are not differenced from the meanest subject. Milton. So completely differenced by their separate and individual characters that we at once acknowledge them as distinct persons. Sir W. Scott.

Material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane.

One who, or that which, digs. Digger wasp (Zoöl.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.

olicy 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.

ions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings. Diogenes' crab (Zoöl.), a species of terrestrial hermit crabs (Cenobita Diogenes), abundant in the West Indies and often destructive to crops. -- Diogenes' tub, the tub which the philosopher Diogenes is said to have carried about with him as his house, in which he lived.…