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A child's game, played with dib bones.

Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.

The property or condition of being dibasic.

A dibble. Halliwell.

To dib or dip frequently, as in angling. Walton.

One who, or that which, dibbles, or makes holes in the ground for seed.

An order of cephalopods which includes 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.

One of the Dibranchiata.

A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East. Johnston.

A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones. Locke.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the marsh-gas series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane.

Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.

Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. Ure.

The quantity of being addible; capability of addition. Locke.

Capable of being added. "Addible numbers." Locke.

Capable of being ascended; climbable.

The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.

Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.

The quality of being audible.

So as to be heard.