Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DI'A-DEM-ED, a.

Adorned with a diadem; crowned; ornamented. – Pope.

DI'A-DROM, n. [Gr. διαδρομη, a running about; διαδρομεω; δια and τρεχω, to run.]

A course or passing; a vibration; the time in which the vibration of a pendulum is performed. – Locke.

DI-AER'E-SIS, n. [DI-æR'E-SIS. See DIERESIS.]

DI-AG-NO'SIS, n. [Gr. διαγνωσις.]

The distinctive or discriminating knowledge of any thing, but especially of a disease.

DI-AG-NOS'TIC, a. [Gr. διαγνωςικος; διαγινωσκω; δια and γινωσκω, to know.]

Distinguishing; characteristic; indicating the nature of a disease.

DI-AG-NOS'TIC, n.

The sign or symptom by which a disease is known or distinguished from others. Diagnostics are of two kinds; the adjunct, or such as are common to several diseases; and the pathognomonic, which always attend the disease, and distinguish it from all others. – Encyc.

DI-AG'O-NAL, a. [Gr. διαγωνιος; δια and γραφω, a corner.]

1. In geometry, extending from one angle to another of a quadrilateral figure, and dividing it into two equal parts.
2. Being in an angular direction.

DI-AG'O-NAL, n.

A right line drawn from angle to angle of a quadrilateral figure, as a square or parallelogram, and dividing it into two equal parts. It is sometimes called the diameter, and sometimes the diametral. – Encyc.

DI-AG'O-NAL-LY, adv.

In a diagonal direction.

DI-AG'O-NOUS, a.

In botany, having four corners.

DI'A-GRAM, n. [Gr. διαγραμμα; δια and γραφω, to write.]

In geometry, a figure, draught or scheme delineated for the purpose of demonstrating the properties of any figure, as a square, triangle, circle, &c. Anciently, a musical scale.

DI'A-GRAPH, n. [Gr. δια and γραφω.]

A recently invented instrument used in perspective.

DI-A-GRAPH'IC, or DI-A-GRAPH'IC-AL, a. [Gr. δια and γραφω, to describe.]

Descriptive.

DI'AL, n. [Ir. diail; probably from day, dies.]

An instrument for measuring time, by the aid of the sun; being a plate or plain surface, on which lines are drawn in such a manner, that the shadow of a wire, or of the upper edge of another plane, erected perpendicularly on the former, may show the true time of the day. The edge of the plane which shows the time, is called the stile of the dial, and this must be parallel to the axis of the earth. The line on which this plane is erected, is called the substile; and the angle included between the substile and stile, is called the elevation or highth of the stile. A dial may be horizontal, vertical or inclining. – Encyc.

DI'A-LECT, n. [Gr. διαλεκτος; δια and λεγω, to speak; It. dialetto; Fr. dialecte; Sp. dialecto.]

1. The form or idiom of a language, peculiar to a province, or to a kingdom or state; consisting chiefly in differences of orthography or pronunciation. The Greek language is remarkable for four dialects, the Attic, Ionic, Doric, and Eolic. A dialect is the branch of a parent language, with such local alterations as time, accident, and revolutions may have introduced among descendants of the same stock or family, living in separate or remote situations. But in regard to a large portion of words, many languages, which are considered as distinct, are really dialects of one common language.
2. Language; speech, or manner of speaking. – South.

DI-A-LEC'TIC-AL, a.

1. Pertaining to a dialect, or dialects; not radical.
2. Logical; argumental. – Boyle.

DI-A-LEC'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

In the manner of a dialect.

DI-A-LEC-TI'CIAN, n.

A logician; a reasoner.

DI-A-LEC'TICS, n.

That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning. – Encyc.

DI-A-LEC'TOR, n.

One learned in dialectics.

DI-AL'ING, n.

The art of constructing dials, or of drawing dials on a plane. The sciateric science, or knowledge of showing the time by shadows. – Johnson. Encyc.

DI'AL-IST, n.

A constructer of dials; one skilled in dialing.

DI'AL-LAGE, n. [Gr. διαλλαγη, difference, alluding to the difference of luster between its natural joints.]

A mineral, the smaragdite of Saussure, of a lamellar or foliated structure. Its subspecies are green diallage, metalloidal diallage, and bronzite. – Cleaveland. The metalioidal subspecies is called schillerstein, or shiller spar.

DI-AL'O-GISM, n.

A feigned speech between two or more. – Fulke.

DI-AL'O-GIST, n. [See Dialogue.]

A speaker in a dialogue; also, a writer of dialogues. – Johnson.