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- English Word Dipper Definition A small grebe; the dabchick.
- English Word Dipper Definition The buffel duck.
- English Word Dipper Definition The water ouzel (Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe.
- English Word Dipper Definition The American dipper or ouzel (Cinclus Mexicanus).
- English Word Dipping Definition of Dip
- English Word Dipping Definition The act or process of immersing.
- English Word Dipping Definition The act of inclining downward.
- English Word Dipping Definition The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
- English Word Dipping Definition The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
- English Word Dipping Definition The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.
- English Word Diprismatic Definition Doubly prismatic.
- English Word Dipropargyl Definition 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.
- English Word Dipropyl Definition One of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. See Hexane.
- English Word Diprotodon Definition 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.
- English Word Dipsas Definition A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.
- English Word Dipsas Definition A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.
- English Word Dipsetic Definition Tending to produce thirst.
- English Word Dipsomania Definition A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.
- English Word Dipsomaniac Definition One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.
- English Word Dipsomaniacal Definition Of or pertaining to dipsomania.
- English Word Dipsosis Definition Excessive thirst produced by disease.
- English Word Dipt Definition of Dip
- English Word Diptera Definition 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.
- English Word Dipteral Definition Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.
- English Word Dipteral Definition Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple.
- English Word Dipteran Definition An insect of the order Diptera.
- English Word Dipterocarpus Definition 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.
- English Word Dipterous Definition Having two wings, as certain insects; belonging to the order Diptera.
- English Word Dipterous Definition Having two wings; two-winged.
- English Word Dipterygian Definition Having two dorsal fins; -- said of certain fishes.