| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| diacid | adjective | Divalent; — said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid. |
| diadem | noun | Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general., Regal power; sovereignty; empire; — considered as symbolized by the crown., An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center., To adorn with a diadem; to crown. |
| dialed | imp. & past participle | of Dial |
| diaper | noun | Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2., Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced., A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc., An infant’s breechcloth., To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving., To put a diaper on (a child)., To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. |
| diatom | noun | One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use., A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle. |
| diazo- | A combining form (also used adjectively), meaning pertaining to, or derived from, a series of compounds containing a radical of two nitrogen atoms, united usually to an aromatic radical; as, diazo-benzene, C6H5.N2.OH. | |
| dibber | noun | A dibble. |
| dibble | verb i. | A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds., To dib or dip frequently, as in angling., To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting., To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble. |
| dicast | noun | A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman. |
| dicing | present participle & vb. noun | of Dice, An ornamenting in squares or cubes., Gambling with dice. |
| dicker | noun | The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves., A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker., To negotiate a dicker; to barter. |
| dickey | noun | Alt. of Dicky |
| dictum | noun | An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm., A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it., The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it., An arbitrament or award. |
| diddle | verb i. | To totter, as a child in walking., To cheat or overreach. |
| didine | adjective | Like or pertaining to the genus Didus, or the dodo. |
| dieses | plural | of Diesis |
| diesis | noun | A small interval, less than any in actual practice, but used in the mathematical calculation of intervals., The mark /; — called also double dagger. |
| dieted | imp. & past participle | of Diet |
| dieter | noun | One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules. |
| dietic | adjective | Dietetic. |
| differ | verb i. | To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; — with from., To be of unlike or opposite opinion; to disagree in sentiment; — often with from or with., To have a difference, cause of variance, or quarrel; to dispute; to contend., To cause to be different or unlike; to set at variance. |
| digged | of Dig | |
| digamy | noun | Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy. |
| digest | verb t. | To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc., To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme., To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend., To appropriate for strengthening and comfort., Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook., To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations., To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound., To ripen; to mature., To quiet or abate, as anger or grief., To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill., To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer., That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles, A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn’s Digest; the United States Digest. |
| digger | noun | One who, or that which, digs. |
| digram | noun | A digraph. |
| diiamb | noun | A diiambus. |
| diking | present participle & vb. noun | of Dike |
| dilate | verb t. | To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; — opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat., To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely., To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions., To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; — with on or upon., Extensive; expanded. |
| dilogy | noun | An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense. |
| dilute | verb t. | To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing., To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken., To become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily., Diluted; thin; weak. |
| dimmed | imp. & past participle | of Dim |
| dimble | noun | A bower; a dingle. |
| dimera | noun pl. | A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi., A division of the Hemiptera, including the aphids. |
| dimish | adjective | See Dimmish. |
| dimity | noun | A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women’s under-garments. It is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors. |
| dimple | noun | A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin., A slight indentation on any surface., To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities., To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions. |
| dimply | adjective | Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool. |
| dinned | imp. & past participle | of Din |
| dining | present participle & vb. noun | of Dine, from Dine, a. |
| dinged | imp. & past participle | of Ding |
| dingey | noun | Alt. of Dinghy |
| dinghy | noun | A kind of boat used in the East Indies., A ship’s smallest boat. |
| dingle | noun | A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley. |
| dinner | noun | The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour., An entertainment; a feast. |
| dinted | imp. & past participle | of Dint |
| diodon | noun | A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs., A genus of whales. |
| dipped | imp. & past participle | of Dip |
| diploe | noun | The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull. |
| dipnoi | noun pl. | A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix. |
| dipody | noun | Two metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure. |
| dipper | noun | One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle., A small grebe; the dabchick., The buffel duck., The water ouzel (Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe., The American dipper or ouzel (Cinclus Mexicanus). |
| dipsas | noun | A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst., A genus of harmless colubrine snakes. |
| dipyre | noun | A mineral of the scapolite group; — so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent. |
| direct | adjective | Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means., Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken., Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous., In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line., In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; — said of the motion of a celestial body., To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance., To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road., To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army., To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go., To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter., To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide., A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation. |
| direly | adverb | In a dire manner. |
| dirige | noun | A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge. |
| dirked | imp. & past participle | of Dirk |
| disard | noun | See Dizzard. |
| disarm | verb t. | To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless., To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man’s wrath. |
| disbar | verb t. | To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such. |
| disbud | verb | To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree. |
| discal | adjective | Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells. |
| discus | noun | A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill., The exercise with the discus., A disk. See Disk. |
| disert | adjective | Eloquent. |
| dished | imp. & past participle | of Dish |
| dismal | adjective | Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky., Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place. |
| disman | verb t. | To unman. |
| dismaw | verb t. | To eject from the maw; to disgorge. |
| dismay | verb i. | To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify., To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet., To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay., Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation., Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. |
| disorb | verb t. | To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere. |
| disord | noun | Disorder. |
| disown | verb t. | To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one’s self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one’s self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings., To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny. |
| dispel | verb t. | To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions. |
| disple | verb t. | To discipline; to correct. |
| disray | variant | of Disarray. |
| distad | adverb | Toward a distal part; on the distal side of; distally. |
| distal | adjective | Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle, Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone. |
| dister | verb t. | To banish or drive from a country. |
| distil | verb t. & i. | See Distill. |
| disuse | verb t. | To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of., To disaccustom; — with to or from; as, disused to toil., Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse. |
| dition | noun | Dominion; rule. |
| ditone | noun | The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone). |
| dittos | plural | of Ditto |
| diurna | noun pl. | A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; — so called because they fly only in the daytime. |
| divast | adjective | Devastated; laid waste. |
| diving | present participle & vb. noun | of Dive, That dives or is used or diving. |
| diverb | noun | A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb. |
| divers | adjective | Different in kind or species; diverse., Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally. |
| divert | verb t. | To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course., To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor., To turn aside; to digress. |
| divest | verb t. | To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; — opposed to invest., Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one’s self of prejudices, passions, etc., See Devest. |
| divide | verb t. | To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts., To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns., To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share., To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance., To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question., To subject to arithmetical division., To separate into species; — said of a genus or generic term., To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant., To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations., To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder., To cause separation; to disunite., To break friendship; to fall out., To have a share; to partake., To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes., A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed. |
| divine | adjective | Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will., Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments., Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship., Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods., Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies., Presageful; foreboding; prescient., Relating to divinity or theology., One skilled in divinity; a theologian., A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman., To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture., To foretell; to predict; to presage., To render divine; to deify., To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications., To have or feel a presage or foreboding., To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly. |