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DIVARICATION, n. 1. A parting; a forking; a separation into two branches. 2. A c...
DIVARICATING, ppr. Parting into two branches.
DIVARICATED, pp. Parted into two branches.
DIVARICATE, v.i. [L., to straddle.] To open; to fork; to part into two branches....
DIVAN, n. 1. Among the Turks and other orientals, a court of justice, or a counc...
DIUTURNITY, n. [L., of long continuance.] Length of time; long duration.
DIUTURNAL, a. Lasting; being of long continuance.
DIURNALLY, adv. Daily; every day.
DIURNALIST, n. A journalist. [Not in use.]
DIURNAL, a. [L., daily.] 1. Relating to a day; pertaining to the daytime; as diu...
DIURETIC, a. [Gr., urinam reddo; urine.] Having the power to provoke urine; tend...
DITTY, n. [L.] A song; a sonnet or a little poem to be sung. And to the warblign...
DITTO, contracted into do, in books of accounts, is the Italian detto, from L. I...
DITTIED, a. [See Ditty .] Sung; adapted to music. He, with his soft pipe, and sm...
DITTANY, n. [L., Gr.] The white dittany is a plant of the genus Dictamnus. Its l...
DITTANDER, n. Pepper-wort, Lepidium, a genus of plants of many species. The comm...