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frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

cludes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.

The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves. [Obs.] A dicker of cowhides. Heywood.

tal functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. Ma…

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

-- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties. In days of difficulty and pressure. Tennyson.

Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.

ing two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.

One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.

ilated; expansion; dilatation. Mrs. Browning. At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. Tennyson. A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. Dickens.

Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive. Coleridge.

A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar. Dime novel, a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which is sold for a dime, or ten cents.

Tending to diminish. [R.] Diminutive of liberty. Shaftesbury.

rs Shak. He knew the battle's din afar. Sir W. Scott. The dust and din and steam of town. Tennyson.

The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.

an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. Dryden. Every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]. Tennyson.

wl] now dip their pinions in the briny deep. Pope. While the prime swallow dips his wing. Tennyson.

Tending to produce thirst. Wright.

t of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o. I do commit his youth To your direction. Shak. All nature is but art, unknown to thee;direction, which thou canst not see. Pope.

Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way. Hooker. The precepts directive of our practice in relation to God. Barrow.