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mns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or the like. Distyle in antis, having columns between two antæ. See Anta.

A breach of concord and its effect; alienation. Such a disunion between the two houses as might much clouClarendon.

A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play. Smart.

To cause separation; to disunite. A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Bancroft.

of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast. Chaucer. I will put a division between my people and thy people. Ex. viii. 23.

general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes (Geol.), planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.

the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet.

A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; as, the doab between the Ganges and the Jumna. [India] Am. Cyc.

The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.

A Linnæan class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.

A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part of the summer.…

In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.

A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n.,

acs, denotes Sunday, or the Lord's day (dies Domini). The first seven letters of the alphabet are used for this purpose, the same letter standing for Sunday during a whole year (except in leap year, when the letter is changed at the end of February). After twenty-eight years the same letters return in the same order. T…

im that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion. Dan. iv. 34. To choose between dominion or slavery. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

s of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay.

ble-quick. -- Double window, a window having two sets of glazed sashes with an air space between them.

eads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.

ain issue or event. We . . . have sustained one day in doubtful fight. Milton. The strife between the two principles had been long, fierce, and doubtful. Macaulay.

read), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. Dovetail molding (Arch.), a molding of any convex section arranged in a sort of zigzag, like a series of dovetails. -- Dovetail saw (Carp.), a saw used…