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Same as Didelphic.

h 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.

The same as Dihedral.

Same as Diæresis.

he difference between the innocent and the guilty Differencies of administration, but the same Lord. 1 Cor. xii. 5.

Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison.

ft. -- Differential duties (Polit. Econ.), duties which are not imposed equally upon the same products imported from different countries. -- Differential galvanometer (Elec.), a galvanometer having two coils or circuits, usually equal, through which currents passing in opposite directions are measured by the differen…

entiated into the two forms then and than. Earle. Two or more of the forms assumed by the same original word become differentiated in signification. Dr. Murray.

Sexually reproductive. Digenous reproduction. (Biol.) Same as Digenesis.

Same as Dilettanteism. F. Harrison.

Same as Tetragonal. Dana.

A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin. Babyisms and dear diminutives. Tennyson.

Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly. Dimorphism is the condition of the appearance of the same species under two dissimilar form…

Crystallizing under two forms fundamentally different, while having the same chemical composition.

Same as Dimyarian.

Same as Dioxide.

n which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monoecious.

A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong.

Pertaining to the sending of two messages in the same direction at the same time. Diplex and contraplex are the two varieties of duplex.

writing, as one for producing embossed writing for the blind and ordinary writing at the same time. -- Dip`lo*graph"ic*al (#), a. -- Dip*log"ra*phy (#), n.