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A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig. ("The term and vehicle common about 1825." Latham.)

ers. Dental formula (Zoöl.), a brief notation used by zoölogists to denote the number and kind of teeth of a mammal. -- Dental surgeon, a dentist.

A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.

A kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball.

A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort. A difference . . . between them and another description of public creditors. A. Hamilton. The plates were all of the meanest description. Macaulay.

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

A kind of painting. See Distemper.

The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind. [Jesus] being forty days tempted of the devil. Luke iv. 2. That old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. Rev. xii. 9.

A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive.

Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species.

A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.

The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.

n, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like.

ng or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n. Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C.

A kind of triangular spade. [Obs.]

Of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten.

contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different shapes; different degrees of excellence. Men are as different from each other, as the regions in which they are born are different. Dryden.

The supposed act or tendency in being of every kind, whether organic or inorganic, to assume or produce a more complex structure or functions.

A kind of food, made from the almondlike seeds of the Irvingia Barteri, much used by natives of the west coast of Africa; -- called also dika bread.

A kind of stagecoach. "The Derby dilly." J. H. Frere.