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Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest; as, devout wishes for one's welfare. The devout, devoutly religious persons, those who are sincerely pious.

Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left. Dextral shell (Zoöl.), a spiral shell the whorls of which turn from left right, or like the hands of a watch when the apex of the spire is toward the eye of the observer.

A calcareous plate which divides the cavity of certain shells into two parts.

One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.

th a dibble. The clayey soil around it was dibbled thick at the time by the tiny hoofs of sheep. H. Miller.

to die with horror at the thought. To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. Macaulay. She will die from want of care. Tennyson.

to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of. She diets him with fasting every day. Spenser.

To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn. [Archaic] "She gan the house to dight." Chaucer. Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice. Fairfax. The clouds in thousand liveries dight. Milton.

om the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude. Holland. In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. Locke.

To strike; to thump; to pound. [Obs.] Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves. Piers Plowman.

A wether sheep between one and two years old. [Scot.]

The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.

Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately. "Will she go now to bed' Directly.'" Shak.

be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.

To take off the dress of; to unrobe. So, as she bade, the witch they disarrayed. Spenser.

influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. [Obs.] The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton.

To divorce. [Obs.] And therefore . . . she ought to be disbanded. Milton.

A genus of Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle.

To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover. The shells being broken, . . . the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty. Woodward.

Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus. Discoid flower (Bot.), a compound flower, consisting of tubular florets only, as a tansy, lacking the rays which are seen in the daisy and sunflower.