Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIP'TER, or DIP'TER-A
DIP'TER, or DIP'TER-A, n. [Gr. δις and πτερον, a wing.]
The dipters are an order of insects having only two wings, and two poisers, as the house-fly. – Encyc.
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