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Didascalic. [R.]

Didactic; preceptive. [R.] Prior.

To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] Quarles.

A cheat. [Colloq.] Jeremy Diddler, a character in a play by James Kenney, entitled "Raising the wind." The name is applied to any needy, tricky, constant borrower; a confidence man.

The subclass of Mammalia which includes the marsupials. See Marsupialia.

Of or relating to the Didelphia. -- n.

Having the uterus double; of or pertaining to the Didelphia.

Same as Didelphic.

Didelphic.

Same as Didelphic.

which includes the opossums, of which there are many species. See Opossum. [Written also Didelphis.] See Illustration in Appendix. Cuvier.

Like or pertaining to the genus Didus, or the dodo.

A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper. To cut a dido, to play a trick; to cut a caper; -- perhaps so called from the trick of Dido, who having bought so much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a citadel.

The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area. Tait.

A two-drachma piece; an ancient Greek silver coin, worth nearly forty cents.

, the 2d pers. sing. imp. of Do.

Diduction; separation into distinct parts. Bacon.

The act of drawing apart; separation.

See Didymium.

A rare metallic substance usually associated with the metal cerium; -- hence its name. It was formerly supposed to be an element, but has since been found to consist of two simpler elementary substances, neodymium and praseodymium. See Neodymium, and Praseodymium.