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A ditty; a song. [Obs.]

The act of making rich; enrichment. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.

One who digs ditches.

To prepare for action or use; to make ready; to dight. [Obs.] His hideous club aloft he dites. Spenser.

See Colophene.

Having two thecæ, cells, or compartments.

The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism.

One who holds the doctrine of ditheism; a dualist. Cudworth.

Pertaining to ditheism; dualistic.

Containing two equivalents of sulphur; as, dithionic acid. Dithionic acid (Chem.), an unstable substance, H2S2O6, known only in its solutions, and in certain well-defined salts.

A kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem written in a wild irregular strain. Bentley.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a dithyramb; wild and boisterous. "Dithyrambic sallies." Longfellow. -- n.

See Dithyramb.

Dominion; rule. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Under rule; subject; tributary. [Obs.] Chapman.

Having two kinds of young, as certain annelids.

A white, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C14H14, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene.

The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).

Divided into twos or threes.