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Having twelve similar faces; as, a dihexagonal prism.

id of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.

butterfly. Dimorphism is the condition of the appearance of the same species under two dissimilar forms. Darwin.

A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.

e direction as the inducing current, produced by stopping or removing the latter; also, a similar current produced by removal of a magnet.

s, or relationship. Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent. Darwin.

The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety. There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth and age, men and women. Sir T. Elyot. There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies. G. S. Faber.

Unequal; dissimilar; separate. Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them. Coleridge.

To render dissimilar.

The act of making dissimilar. H. Sweet.

Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity. Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images. Stillingfleet.

rcise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.

Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate. The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from its original import. J. Edwards. Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she. R. Browning.

A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money. Shak.

The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.

hich may be of assistance in judging of their chances of winning future races; sometimes, similar information concerning other sports. [Sporting Slang]

A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position.

A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.

ce consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.

In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.