Part 3112

<h1>Dika</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Di"ka</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Native West African name.]</ety> <def>A kind of food, made from the almondlike seeds of the <spn>Irvingia Barteri</spn>, much used by natives of the west coast of Africa; -- called also <altname>dika bread</altname>.</def>

<h1>Dike</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Dike</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>dic</ets>, <ets>dike</ets>, <ets>diche</ets>, ditch, AS. <ets>d<?/c</ets> dike, ditch; akin to D. <ets>dijk</ets> dike, G. <ets>deich</ets>, and prob. <ets>teich</ets> pond, Icel. <ets>d<?/ki</ets> dike, ditch, Dan. <ets>dige</ets>; perh. akin to Gr. <?/ (for <?/) wall, and even E. <ets>dough</ets>; or perh. to Gr. <?/ pool, marsh. Cf. <er>Ditch</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.</def>

<blockquote>Little channels or <b>dikes</b> cut to every bed. <i>Ray.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.</def>

<blockquote><b>Dikes</b> that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. <i>Longfellow.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A wall of turf or stone.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.</def>

<h1>Dike</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Dike</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Diked</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Diking</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>diken</ets>, <ets>dichen</ets>, AS. <ets>d\'c6cian</ets> to dike. See <er>Dike</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To drain by a dike or ditch.</def>

<h1>Dike</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Dike</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To work as a ditcher; to dig.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>He would thresh and thereto <b>dike</b> and delve. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Diker</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Dik"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A ditcher.</def>

<i>Piers Plowman.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<h1>Dilacerate</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Di*lac"er*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dilacerated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dilacerating</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>dilaceratus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>dilacerare</ets> to tear apart; <ets>di- = dis-</ets> + <ets>lacerare</ets> to tear.]</ety> <def>To rend asunder; to tear to pieces.</def>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Dilaceration</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Di*lac`er*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dilaceratio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>dilac\'82ration</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of rending asunder.</def>

<i>Arbuthnot.</i>