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I . . . diced not above seven times a week.

Shak.

2. To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

Dice"box` (?), n. A box from which dice are thrown in gaming. Thackeray.

||Di*cen"tra (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. di- = di`s- twice + &?; spur.] (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis). [Corruptly written dielytra.]

Di*ceph"a*lous (?), a. [Gr. &?;; di- = di`s- twice + &?; head.] Having two heads on one body; double-headed.

Di"cer (?), n. A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester.

As false as dicers' oaths.

Shak.

Dich (?), v. i. To ditch. [Obs.]

Di*chas"tic (?), a. [Gr. &?; to part asunder, fr. &?; in two, asunder, fr. di`s- twice.] (Biol.) Capable of subdividing spontaneously.

Di`chla*myd"e*ous (?), a. [Gr. di- = di`s- twice + &?;, &?;, a cloak.] (Bot.) Having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla.

Di*chlo"ride (?), n. [Pref. di- + chloride.] (Chem.) Same as Bichloride.

Di*chog"a*mous (?), a. (Bot.) Manifesting dichogamy.

Di*chog"a*my (?), n. [Gr. &?; in two, asunder + &?; marriage.] (Bot.) The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.

Di*chot"o*mist (?), n. One who dichotomizes. Bacon.

Di*chot"o*mize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dichotomized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dichotomizing (?).] [See Dichotomous.] 1. To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect. [R.]

The apostolical benediction dichotomizes all good things into grace and peace.

Bp. Hall.

2. (Astron.) To exhibit as a half disk. See Dichotomy, 3. "[The moon] was dichotomized." Whewell.

Di*chot"o*mize, v. i. To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.

Di*chot"o*mous (?), a. [L. dichotomos, Gr. &?;; &?; in two, asunder + diate`mnein to cut.] Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem. -- Di*chot"o*mous*ly, adv.

Di*chot"o*my (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?;: cf. F. dichotomie. See Dichotomous.] 1. A cutting in two; a division.

A general breach or dichotomy with their church.

Sir T. Browne.

2. Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.

3. (Astron.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.

4. (Biol.) Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.