Dipper (n.) The buffel duck.
Dipper (n.) The water ouzel (Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe.
Dipper (n.) The American dipper or ouzel (Cinclus Mexicanus).
Dipping (n.) The act or process of immersing.
Dipping (n.) The act of inclining downward.
Dipping (n.) The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
Dipping (n.) The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
Dipping (n.) The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.
Diprismatic (a.) Doubly prismatic.
Dipropargyl (n.) A pungent, mobile, volatile liquid, C6H6, produced artificially from certain allyl derivatives. Though isomeric with benzine, it is very different in its chemical relations. Called also dipropinyl.
Dipropyl (n.) One of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. See Hexane.
Diprotodon (n.) An extinct Quaternary marsupial from Australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; -- so named because of its two large front teeth. See Illustration in Appendix.
Dipsas (n.) A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.
Dipsas (n.) A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.
Dipsetic (a.) Tending to produce thirst.
Dipsomania (n.) A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.
Dipsomaniac (n.) One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.
Dipsomaniacal (a.) Of or pertaining to dipsomania.
Dipsosis (n.) Excessive thirst produced by disease.
Diptera (n. pl.) An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs (mandibles and maxillae) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvae (called maggots) being usually without feet.
Dipteral (a.) Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.
Dipteral (a.) Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple.
Dipteran (n.) An insect of the order Diptera.
Dipterocarpus (n.) A genus of trees found in the East Indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. The fruit has two long wings.
Dipterous (a.) Having two wings, as certain insects; belonging to the order Diptera.
Dipterous (a.) Having two wings; two-winged.
Dipterygian (a.) Having two dorsal fins; -- said of certain fishes.
Diptote (n.) A noun which has only two cases.
Diptych (n.) Anything consisting of two leaves.
Diptych (n.) A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
Diptych (n.) A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.
Diptych (n.) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.
Dipyre (n.) A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent.
Dipyrenous (a.) Containing two stones or nutlets.
Dipyridine (n.) A polymeric form of pyridine, C10H10N2, obtained as a colorless oil by the action of sodium on pyridine.
Dipyridil (n.) A crystalline nitrogenous base, C10H8N2, obtained by the reduction of pyridine.
Diradiation (n.) The emission and diffusion of rays of light.
Dire (superl.) Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
Dire (superl.) Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
Direct (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
Direct (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
Direct (a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
Direct (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
Direct (a.) 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.
Directed (imp. & p. p.) of Direct
Directing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Direct
Direct (v. t.) 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.
Direct (v. t.) 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.
Direct (v. t.) 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.
Direct (v. t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
Direct (v. t.) 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.
Direct (v. i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
Direct (n.) 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.
Direct-acting (a.) Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.
Directer (n.) One who directs; a director.
Direction (n.) The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.
Direction (n.) That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.
Direction (n.) The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter.
Direction (n.) The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction.
Direction (n.) The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.
Direction (n.) The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.
Directive (a.) Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.
Directive (a.) Able to be directed; manageable.
Directly (adv.) In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
Directly (adv.) In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.
Directly (adv.) Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
Directly (adv.) Exactly; just.
Directly (adv.) Straightforwardly; honestly.
Directly (adv.) Manifestly; openly.
Directly (adv.) Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately.
Directly (adv.) Immediately after; as soon as.
Directness (n.) The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.
Director (n.) One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.
Director (n.) One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company.
Director (n.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.
Director (n.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.
Directorate (n.) The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
Directorial (a.) Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive.
Directorial (a.) Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3.
Directorship (n.) The condition or office of a director; directorate.
Directory (a.) Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
Directories (pl. ) of Directory
Directory (n.) A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.
Directory (n.) A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.
Directory (n.) A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.
Directory (n.) Direction; guide.
Directress (n.) A woman who directs.
Directrixes (pl. ) of Directrix
Directrix (n.) A directress.
Directrix (n.) A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface.
Directrix (n.) A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.
Direful (a.) Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.
Direly (adv.) In a dire manner.
Dirempt (a.) Divided; separated.
Dirempt (v. t.) To separate by force; to tear apart.
Diremption (n.) A tearing apart; violent separation.
Direness (n.) Terribleness; horror; woefulness.
Direption (n.) The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away.
Direptitious (a.) Characterized by direption.
Direptitiously (adv.) With plundering violence; by violent injustice.