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obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished. The dim magnificence of poetry. Whewell. How is the gold become dim! Lam. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth…

Having dim sight; lacking perception. -- Dim"-sight`ed*ness, n.

A bower; a dingle. [Obs.] Drayton.

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.

easure in length and breadth, or in length, breadth, and thickness; extent; size; as, the dimensions of a room, or of a ship; the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom. Gentlemen of more than ordinary dimensions. W. Irving. Space of dimension, extension that has length but no breadth or thickness; a straight or curved lin…

Pertaining to dimension.

Having dimensions. [R.]

Without dimensions; having no appreciable or noteworthy extent. Milton.

Dimension. [R.] Howell.

Without dimensions; marking dimensions or the limits. Who can draw the soul's dimensive lines Sir J. Davies.

A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi.

One of the Dimera.

Composed of, or having, two parts of each kind.

Having two poetical measures or meters. -- n.

Ethane; -- sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. See Ethane.

Same as Tetragonal. Dana.

A fight; contest. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

f of what the normal condition requires; having the appearance of lacking one half; as, a dimidiate leaf, which has only one side developed.

The act of dimidiating or halving; the state of being dimidiate.

ny manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase. Not diminish, but rather increase, the debt. Barrow.