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- English Word Ditty Definition A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung.
- English Word Ditty Definition To sing; to warble a little tune.
- English Word Ditty-bag Definition A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife.
- English Word Ditty-box Definition A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc.
- English Word Diureide Definition One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide.
- English Word Diuresis Definition Free excretion of urine.
- English Word Diuretic Definition Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine.
- English Word Diuretic Definition A medicine with diuretic properties.
- English Word Diuretical Definition Diuretic.
- English Word Diureticalness Definition The quality of being diuretical; diuretic property.
- English Word Diurna Definition A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.
- English Word Diurnal Definition Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.
- English Word Diurnal Definition Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.
- English Word Diurnal Definition Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.
- English Word Diurnal Definition Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects.
- English Word Diurnal Definition A daybook; a journal.
- English Word Diurnal Definition A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.
- English Word Diurnal Definition A diurnal bird or insect.
- English Word Diurnalist Definition A journalist.
- English Word Diurnally Definition Daily; every day.
- English Word Diurnalness Definition The quality of being diurnal.
- English Word Diurnation Definition Continuance during the day.
- English Word Diurnation Definition The condition of sleeping or becoming dormant by day, as is the case of the bats.
- English Word Diuturnal Definition Of long continuance; lasting.
- English Word Diuturnity Definition Long duration; lastingness.
- English Word Divagation Definition A wandering about or going astray; digression.
- English Word Divalent Definition Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.
- English Word Divan Definition A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz.
- English Word Divan Definition In Turkey and other Oriental countries: A council of state; a royal court. Also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly.
- English Word Divan Definition A chief officer of state.