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efiance; challenge. Childish, unworthy dares Are not enought to part our powers. Chapman. Sextus Pompeius Hath given the dare to Cæsar. Shak.

cibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.

One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.

Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects.

The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.

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

To have sexual intercourse with. [Obs.] Chaucer.

oth 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 forms. Darwin.

Characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic.

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

Having the sexes in applied to plants in 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.

One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.

aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian.

A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.

To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.

. Hills afford prospects, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex. Ray. She went by dale, and she went by down. Tennyson.

A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.

To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [R.]

To have sexual intercourse with. Milton. To enjoy one's self, to feel pleasure; to be happy.

Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.