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Dimension lumber, Dimension scantling, or Dimension stock (Carp.), lumber for building, etc., cut to the sizes usually in demand, or to special sizes as ordered. -- Dimension stone, stone delivered from the quarry rough, but brought to such sizes as are requisite for cutting to dimensions given.

Di*men"sion*al (?), a. Pertaining to dimension.

Di*men"sioned (?), a. Having dimensions. [R.]

Di*men"sion*less (?), a. Without dimensions; having no appreciable or noteworthy extent. Milton.

Di*men"si*ty (?), n. Dimension. [R.] Howell.

Di*men"sive (?), a. Without dimensions; marking dimensions or the limits.

Who can draw the soul's dimensive lines?

Sir J. Davies.

||Dim"e*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. di- = di`s- twice + &?; part.] (Zoöl.) (a) A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi. (b) A division of the Hemiptera, including the aphids.

Dim"er*an (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Dimera.

Dim"er*ous (?), a. [Gr. di- = di`s- twice + &?; part.] Composed of, or having, two parts of each kind.

A dimerous flower has two sepals, two petals, two stamens, and two pistils.

Dim"e*ter (?), a. [L. dimeter, Gr. &?;; di- = di`s- twice + &?; measure.] Having two poetical measures or meters. -- n. A verse of two meters.

Di*meth"yl (?), n. [Pref. di- + methyl.] (Chem.) Ethane; -- sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. See Ethane.

Di*met"ric (?), a. [See Dimeter, a.] (Crystallog.) Same as Tetragonal. Dana.

Dim`i*ca"tion (?), n. [L. dimicatio, fr. dimicare to fight.] A fight; contest. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Di*mid"i*ate (?), a. [L. dimidiatus, p. p. of dimidiare to halve, fr. dimidius half. See Demi-.] 1. Divided into two equal parts; reduced to half in shape or form.

2. (Biol.) (a) Consisting of only one half of what the normal condition requires; having the appearance of lacking one half; as, a dimidiate leaf, which has only one side developed. (b) Having the organs of one side, or half, different in function from the corresponding organs on the other side; as, dimidiate hermaphroditism.

Di*mid"i*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dimidiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dimidiating.] 1. To divide into two equal parts. [Obs.] Cockeram.

2. (Her.) To represent the half of; to halve.

Di*mid`i*a"tion (?), n. [L. dimidiatio.] The act of dimidiating or halving; the state of being dimidiate.

Di*min"ish (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diminished (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Diminishing.] [Pref. di- (= L. dis- ) + minish: cf. L. diminuere, F. diminuer, OE. diminuen. See Dis-, and Minish.] 1. To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

Not diminish, but rather increase, the debt.

Barrow.

2. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.

This doth nothing diminish their opinion.

Robynson (More's Utopia).

I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.