Diminution, n. Decrease, lessening, decrement, reduction, abatement, contraction.
Diminutive, a. Little, small, dwarfish, tiny, puny, pygmy, pygmean, contracted, minute, of small size.
Dim-sighted, a. Dim-eyed, blear-eyed.
Din, n. Noise, uproar, racket, clamor, clangor, clashing, clash, crash, crashing, clatter, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly.
Dingle, n. Dale, dell, vale, valley, glen.
Dingy, a.
- 1. Dun, dusky, brown.
- 2. Soiled, sullied, smirched, dimmed, dulled, faded.
Dint, n.
- 1. Stroke, blow.
- 2. Dent, indentation.
- 3. Force, power. [Only in the phrase By dint of.]
Diocese, n. Bishopric, see, jurisdiction, charge (of a bishop).
Diocesan, n. Head of the diocese, reigning or ruling bishop.
Diodon, n. Globe-fish, puffer, sea-hedgehog, porcupine-fish, prickly globe-fish.
Dionæa, n. Venus’s fly-trap.
Dioxide, n. Sub-oxide.
Dip, v. a.
- 1. Immerse, plunge, douse, souse.
- 2. Take out (with a ladle, cup, etc.), ladle.
- 3. Baptize by immersion.
Dip, v. n.
- 1. Thrust a ladle (cup, etc., into a liquid).
- 2. Incline, tend downward.