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A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts.

s who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Pope. Diana monkey (Zoöl.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of West Africa (Cercopithecus Diana).

The art of imitating

Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves.

Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations.

A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation.

The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.

Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave.

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

The art or science of teaching.

To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. His heart died within, and he became as a stone. 1 Sam. xxv. 37. The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca. Tatler.

That part of the medical or hygienic art which relates to diet or food; rules for diet. To suppose that the whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes. H. Spencer.

A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple.

aid, What honor and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this Esth. vi. 3. Reuben, thou art my firstborn, . . . the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power. Gen. xlix. 3.

Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.

A red crystalline nitrogenous substance or artificial production, which by reduction passes directly to indigo.

A dilettante. Though few art lovers can be connoisseurs, many are dilettants. Fairholt.

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.

The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.

The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.