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Show with which the gardeners make holes for DICTATOR. n. / Diarnorz'rick. adj. [Saopnmin®] Su dorifick ; promoting a diaphorefis o perfpiration ; caufing fweat A diaphoretick medicine, or a fudorifick, i fomething that will provoke fieating Watts Diaphoreticks, or promoters of perfpiration, hel the organs of digeftion, becaufe the attenuation o tl"le aliment makes it perfpirable Priaruracm 1. The midrif cavity of th 2. Any divifio a hollow body DI D1I DI Arbutbnat n. /. [Mddeaypa. which divides the uppe body from the lower or partition which divide 1. A magiftrate of Rome made Wi planting Through cunning, with dibble, rake, mattock and fpade By line and by level trim garden is made Tuffer's Hufbdm{ry Dr'sstone. #. f. A little fton children throw at another ftone whic 1 have feen little girls exercife whole hour to gether, and take abundance of pains, to be exper Locke at dibflones a bout one fixth of an inch in diameter, hollow, an parted into numerous cells by means of diaphragms thick fet throughout the whole length of the body Woodward on Foffils throw, that you do not caft any given fet of face with four cubical dice; becaufe there are fo man feveral combinations of the fix faces of four dice DIARRHOE'A 2. /. [dapfoin. round A flux o the belly, whereby a perfon frequentl goes to ftool, and is cured either b purging off thecaufe, or reftringing th bowels Ruingy During his diarrkeea 1 healed up the fontanels Wifeman DiarrBOE TICK. ad). [from dicirbza. Promoting the flux of the belly; folutive; purgative Millet is diarrbeetick difeafes of the kidneys cleanfing Di'arvy.n.[ [diarium, Lat. of the tranfalions an fervations of every day ob a journal In fea-voyages, where there is nothing to b fe:n but fky and fea, men make diaries; but, i land-travel, wherein fo much is to be obferved they omit it Bacon I go on in' my intended diary 70 Dice. w. » {fro game with dice the noun. Bentley 'T I was as virtuoufly given as a gentleman nee to be; virtuous enough; fwore little; diced no Shake[ps Henry 1V above feven times a week ‘What would you fay, fhould you fee the fparkle ufeful i Arbutbnot an now, after you have caft all the trials but one, it i ftill as much odds at the laft remaining time, as i Di'ce-EoX. . /. [dice and box.] 'The bo from which the dice are thrown Anaccoun accidents It is above a hundred to 6ne againft any particula was at the firft Tatler fhaking her elbow for a whole night together, an thumping the table with a dice-box 2 Addif. Guard Di‘cer. n /. [from dice. dice ; a gamefier A playe a They-make marriage vow As falfe as dicers' oaths Shakefpeare's Hamlet Dicn This word feems corrupted fro dit for do it Rich men fin, and I eat root Much gooddich thy good heart, Apemantus.Sh.Tim Dia'sToLE. 7. /. [Siarorn. Dicuo'romy. n /. [dxoropuia.] Diftribu1. A figure in rhetorick, by which a fhort | tion of ideas by pairs Some perfons have difturbed the order of nature fyliable is made long and abufed their readers by an affectation of dicho 2. The dilation of the heart tomies, trichotomies, fevens, twelves, &c The fyftole feems to refemble the forcible bending of a {pring, and the diaffole its flying out agai to its natural ftate Ray on the Creation Dia'styre. [da, and #in@-, a pillar.] fort of edifice, where the pillars ftand a {uc a diftanc fro on another tha three diameters of their thickne(s ar allowed for intercolumniation. Harris of one greater tone, one lefler, and on greater femitone; its proportion bein Itis called [of dwréy®. in mufi Th ordi nary fort of mufick which proceeds b differen tones eithe in afcendin o defcending It contains only the tw greater and lefler tones, and the greate {emi-tone Tone [of an &iy A fmal fpade Funius. a pointed inftrumen Dicra'rion Kind diftators made S whe Their vanquifh'd foes f;'ee citiz:::)t;;;{%:fig%,a Julius with honour tam'd Romc*S'brei' -:(I" ,gn;,:, 2. One invefted with abfolute authoris Unanimous they all commit the car And management of this main enterpriz To him, their great difator 3. One whof Mifu credit or authority mble him to dire& the conduét or opinion o others Noris it a fmall power it gives one man over an other, to have the authority to be the ditator o principles, and teacher of unqueftionable truths Tha riches honours and outward fplcndf\f: thould fet up perfons for difZators to all the reft o mankind, is a moft fhameful invafion of the righ of our underftanding Wattl Dicraro'riatL. adj. [from diftator.] Ay thoritative ; confident ; dogmatical ; o verbearing A young academick often dwells upon a journal or an obfervator that treats of trade and politick in a diffatorial ftile, and is lavifh in the praife o the author Wafl? Dicra'rorsure. . /. [from ditator,] 1. The office of ditator This is the folemneft title they can confer unde the princedom, being indeed a kind of diflmpgfi'l 2. Authority ; infolent confidence. ottom This is that perpetual dicatorfip which is ex ercifed by Lucretius, though often in the wrong Dryden Dri'craTuRrE. n [ [diflatura, Lat.] Th office of a diftator; diatorfhip. Did Di'crioN n f [didtion, Fr. difto, Lat. Style ; language ; expreflion There appears inevery part of his diftion, orexpreffion, a kind of noble and bold purity. Dryder Di'crionarvy. n. f. [difionarium, Lat. A book containing the words of an language in alphabetical order, wit explanations of their meaning; a lexicon a vocabulary a word-book Some have delivered the polity of fpirits, an left an account that they ftand'in awe of charms fpells, and conjurations; that they are afraid o letters and characters, notes and dafhes, whic.h‘,fe'- together, do fignify nothing; and not only in'th diétionary of man, but in the fubtler vecabulary o Brown's Pulgar Erroars Satan Is it fuch a fault to tranflate fimulacra images I fee what a good thing it is to have a good catho Stilling flet lick ditionary o An army, or a parliament, is a collectio men; a diffionary, or nomenclature, is a colletio « Watts of words 1. The preterite of do Thou canft not fay I did it Shakefpeare What did that greatnefs in a woman's {nind‘? 11l lodg'd, and weak to act what it defign'd. Dry Di'cratTe. n [ [difatum, Lat.] Rule or 2. The fign of the preter-imperfect tenie maxim delivered with authority ; pre- | or perfedt d a b fi n n a l o pe hi di e W {cription ; prefeript Dryden nd: X credit what the Grecian diffates fay And Samian founds o'er Scota's hills convey. Prior Then let this dicate of my loye prevail. Pope's Od Dr'esvre. »n /. [from dipfel, Dutch, a fhar dabble Whatfoever is dicfated to us by God himfelf, o by men who are divinely infpired, muft be belicve - with full affurance Watts found by thofe who fervilely confine themfelves t the dicZates of others Locke They allowed to this diazrutick tone, whic is our La, M, the proportion of nine to eight, being the unalterable difference of the fifth an fourth Harris w}th abfolute authority Dib. of do. [18, Saxon. in the realms above Thofe right helps of art, which will fcarce b from A to B fro and not nobler My wonder diftates is the dome of Jove. Pope's Od i3; and which, being joined to either made a fifth This i3, in our mufick Skinmer The fpoils of elephants the roofs inlay Such yops.] In the ancient Greek mufick, difjoined twe-fourths, one on each' fid» o point And ftudded amber darts a golden ray Harris Dirazz'uric . mation, importing, as it {eems, muc the {fame with the Jewi/; but I kno Di'ckER of Leather. n.[. [dicra, low Lat. ‘Ten hides Dig ' 7o DICTATE. @. a. [di&, Lat.] T deliver toanother with authority ; to declare with confidence cal compofition, a perfe&t fourth. Harr Diaro'~vick kind of adverbial excla Where had you this pretty weathercock ? ~- I cannot tell what the dickens his name is m hufband had him of Sh. Merry Wives of Windf ‘What a dickens does he mean by a trivial fum But ha'n't you found it, Sir Congr. 0/d Bach An interval in mufick, compofe as four to three not whence derived DiaTE ssErON. 7 /. [of e, and vévoeca four. Let th nature of the {ubjeét, confidered together with th defign which you have in view, always determin the number of parts into which you divide it, Patts Drckens of exigence and diftrefs, anq invafte But patx:iots fell, ere the didatr rofe Dica'ciry. ». [. [dicacitas, Lat.] PertDi& nefs ; faucinefs DICE: . /. The plural of die. See Dik It confifis of a fafciculus of bodies [Lat n f. [from difate. Th act or pradtice of diltating or prefcrib ing Didt Or rail at arts he did not unelerfi' . It is fometimes ufed emphatically; aS, c f m h v l l a r 1 4i r _. _@ '] afi [M j a l Dipa‘cric eP n v g e i p c Dipa'cTicK e p i e p i c d d cepts: a that gives rules for fome art; Georgicks Th |