Diked (imp. & p. p.) of Dike
Diking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dike
Dike (v. t.) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
Dike (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch.
Dike (v. i.) To work as a ditcher; to dig.
Diker (n.) A ditcher.
Diker (n.) One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime.
Dilacerated (imp. & p. p.) of Dilacerate
Dilacerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dilacerate
Dilacerate (v. t.) To rend asunder; to tear to pieces.
Dilaceration (n.) The act of rending asunder.
Dilaniate (v. t.) To rend in pieces; to tear.
Dilaniation (n.) A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration.
Dilapidated (imp. & p. p.) of Dilapidate
Dilapidating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dilapidate
Dilapidate (v. t.) To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building.
Dilapidate (v. t.) To impair by waste and abuse; to squander.
Dilapidate (v. i.) To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate.
Dilapidated (a.) Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect.
Dilapidation (n.) The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered.
Dilapidation (n.) Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention.
Dilapidation (n.) The pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay.
Dilapidator (n.) One who causes dilapidation.
Dilatability (n.) The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to contractibility.
Dilatable (a.) Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.
Dilatation (n.) Prolixity; diffuse discourse.
Dilatation (n.) The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al/ sides; the state of being dilated; dilation.
Dilatation (n.) A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.
Dilatator (n.) A muscle which dilates any part; a dilator.
Dilated (imp. & p. p.) of Dilate
Dilating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dilate
Dilate (v. 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.
Dilate (v. t.) To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.
Dilate (v. i.) To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
Dilate (v. i.) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.
Dilate (a.) Extensive; expanded.
Dilated (a.) Expanded; enlarged.
Dilated (a.) Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.
Dilated (a.) Having the margin wide and spreading.
Dilatedly (adv.) In a dilated manner.
Dilater (n.) One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.
Dilation (n.) Delay.
Dilation (n.) The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
Dilative (a.) Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive.
Dilatometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.
Dilator (n.) One who, or that which, widens or expands.
Dilator (n.) A muscle that dilates any part.
Dilator (n.) An instrument for expanding a part; as, a urethral dilator.
Dilatorily (adv.) With delay; tardily.
Dilatoriness (n.) The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.
Dilatory (a.) Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.
Dilatory (a.) Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish; -- said of actions or measures.
Dildo (n.) A burden in popular songs.
Dildo (n.) A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Cereus Swartzii).
Dilection (n.) Love; choice.
Dilemma (n.) An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses.
Dilemma (n.) A state of things in which evils or obstacles present themselves on every side, and it is difficult to determine what course to pursue; a vexatious alternative or predicament; a difficult choice or position.
Dilettant (a.) Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation.
Dilettant (n.) A dilettante.
Dilettanti (pl. ) of Dilettante
Dilettante (v. t.) An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.
Dilettanteish (a.) Somewhat like a dilettante.
Dilettanteism (n.) The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
Dilettantish (a.) Dilettanteish.
Dilettantism (n.) Same as Dilettanteism.
Diligence (n.) The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.
Diligence (n.) Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.
Diligence (n.) Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
Diligence (n.) A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.
Diligency (n.) Diligence; care; persevering endeavor.
Diligent (a.) Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.
Diligent (a.) Interestedly and perseveringly attentive; steady and earnest in application to a subject or pursuit; assiduous; industrious.
Diligently (adv.) In a diligent manner; not carelessly; not negligently; with industry or assiduity.
Dill (n.) An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dillseed.
Dill (a.) To still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.
Dilling (n.) A darling; a favorite.
Dilluing (n.) A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve.
Dilly (n.) A kind of stagecoach.
Dilly-dally (v. i.) To loiter or trifle; to waste time.
Dilogical (a.) Ambiguous; of double meaning.
Dilogies (pl. ) of Dilogy
Dilogy (n.) An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense.
Dilucid (a.) Clear; lucid.
Dilucidate (v. t.) To elucidate.
Dilucidation (n.) The act of making clear.
Diluent (a.) Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, esp. of water.
Diluent (n.) That which dilutes.
Diluent (n.) An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink.
Diluted (imp. & p. p.) of Dilute
Diluting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dilute
Dilute (v. t.) To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
Dilute (v. t.) To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken.
Dilute (v. i.) To become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily.
Dilute (a.) Diluted; thin; weak.
Diluted (a.) Reduced in strength; thin; weak.
Diluteness (n.) The quality or state of being dilute.
Diluter (n.) One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.
Dilution (n.) The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted.
Diluvial (a.) Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.
Diluvial (a.) Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.