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Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.

. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like.

Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.

Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth. [Obs.]

Like or belonging to the Dicyemata. -- n.

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

o a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed. To fast like one that takes diet. Shak. Diet kitchen, a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve. Dig for it more than for hid treasures. Job iii. 21. I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke xvi. 3.

Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation. -- Dig"i*tate*ly, adv.

Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.

Parted like the fingers.

To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. [Obs.] Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.

A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.

A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.

Somewhat like a dilettante.

Like or pertaining to the Dimya. -- n.

A blow; a stroke. [Obs.] "Mortal dint." Milton. "Like thunder's dint." Fairfax.

Like or pertaining to the genus Diodon. -- n.

d mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries.

The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.