Dalmania
(||Dal*ma"ni*a) n. [From Dalman, the geologist.] (Paleon.) A genus of trilobites, of many
species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.
Dalmanites
(||Dal`ma*ni"tes) n. Same as Dalmania.
Dalmatian
(Dal*ma"tian) a. Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.
Dalmatian dog (Zoöl.),
a carriage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a
white ground; the coach dog.
Dalmatica
(Dal*mat"i*ca) n., Dalmatic
(Dal*mat"ic) n. [LL. dalmatica: cf. F. dalmatique.]
1. (R. C. Ch.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by
bishops at pontifical Mass; — imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.
2. A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.
Dal segno
(||Dal` se"gno) [It., from the sign.] (Mus.) A direction to go back to the sign and repeat from
thence to the close. See Segno.
Daltonian
(Dal*to"ni*an) n. One afflicted with color blindness.
Daltonism
(Dal"ton*ism) n. Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It
has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity. Nichol.