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, Diana. [Poetic]

hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Pope. Diana monkey (Zoöl.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of West Africa (Cercopithecus Diana).

A Linnæan class of plants having two stamens.

Diandrous.

Of or pertaining to the class Diandria; having two stamens.

Same as Columbium. [Obs.]

Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products. I would employ . . . dianoetic to denote the operation of the discursive, elaborative, or comparative faculty. Sir W. Hamilton.

The science of the dianoetic faculties, and their operations. Sir W. Hamilton.

A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.

Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. "Acadian farmers." Longfellow. -- n.

Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. -- Ac*ca"di*an, n., Ac"cad, n. Sayce.

A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.

Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.)

Of or pertaining to the family Aphidæ. -- n.

A precipitation of silver, in a beautiful arborescent form.

Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.

One of the Ascidioidea, or in a more general sense, one of the Tunicata. Also as an adj.

Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea. -- n.

An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.

Of or pertaining to Barbados. -- n.