DIA 
“DIATRAETA, a word ufed by Pliny, and other of the 
. ancient Romans, to exprefs a fort of cups and vafes which 
were of great Hoe and only feen at the tables of the great. 
They were aap cid and colourlefs, and cut into various 
forms, and were 
of the deeds 
and the ee of 
afterwards they were made ae ae 
greatly in their a ice and value. T cients were very 
nice in their diltinQions sith feveral kinds of ery ftal. They 
- termed the pureft and fineft of ail acentatum, the others, 
- which were fubjed to blemifhes and foulneffes of feveral kinds, 
. they called by names expreflive of them here was nothing 
they fo much feared in the pieces they feleéted for this work, 
as what they called an over-hardnefs, that is, a brittlenefs, 
which mad 
er 
of ufin 
. Cleareft maffes; for the siete ee thofe a beft, which 
had fome of thofe flaws which we call hairs i 
they thought the suai pieces “of cryfta!, a 
they caflly eons among the ftrokes of their wok, Sce 
NuBes a 
DIATRAGACANTH, in Pharmacy, an obfolete aa 
paration with gum tragacanth and cther emollients, It i 
now fuperfeced by the pulvis tragacanthe compofit 
DLATRIBE, from vena, Lf delay, denotes a eormaned 
@ifcourfe, 
DIATYPOSIS, Ataturects, in Rhetoric, the lively de- 
{cription of a thing, fetting it, as it vere he eyes 
f the audience. ‘Thus Cicero, vii. im pfe inflam 
oe {celere, & furore, in forum 
toto ex ore crudelitas eminebat, 
DIAUGOPHRAGMIA, in Natur al Hiftory, a genus of 
feptarie, whofe fepta are ot fpar, with an admixture of cryital, 
which being cau ite alfo mixed among the cnaeronte tali, 
renders the who ig 
Of thi 
an Sculls ; 
igophragmium, with brownifh yellow 
par tition he brownith yellow diaugopbragmium, with 
whitith cis 3. ‘The blucith white diangophragmium, 
-with ftraw-coloured partitions. Vide Hiil, Hitt. oe ff. p. 522. 
DIAULION, from 3:2, and avaos, a flute n Antiquity, 
a defignation given to a performance on the naa ltage 
with the flute alon 
DIAUL ROMI, Aravrodgopor, from dsavros, and dpojsos, 
thofe racers who abe round the meta 
their courfe at t 
arrived at the meta, pare t t out again forthe career. 
TAULOS, from cis, twice, and avan, flation, the name 
a particular lind of tout-race, wherein the racers 
returned to the p'-ce from whence they ftarted, and were 
i. This was added to the other games in 
‘the ryth olympiad. 
uLos is ufed to fignify a diftance of two ftadia, 
which was the length of the courfe in the race of this name. 
DIAVOLO, in ered an Pues in the Gree.an 
Archie lago. at. 
DIA ARTHOMOMEN, i an »_Bingroply, a iin 
Port ngucte aly aaa who c $a ae ioe as the dif- 
coverer of the Cape of Goo cna ed 
‘by king ne IL. of Portugal, in at erry dife ovéries on 
eha 
the coa:t of Africa, and in 1486 d traced nearly a thou- 
ny s of new country, and after encountering violent 
ercapeds, and lofing the company of the viGualling veffel 
5S 
which attended him, he came in fight of the Cape, that 
the very brighteit and. 
DIB 
terminates Africa; but the ftate of his ar and the ie 
ward difpofition of 2 crew, tae m to return wit 
going round it. name on aceon of the aac 
which he had undergone’ in aie! voyage, ** Cabo Tormentofo,” 
or the “ Sto Cape’? He returned to Lifbon in Dee 
cember 1487, ane a bie report the soucteieg forefaw that 
the courfe to the Indies was now eertainly pointed out, and 
he desominated the newly-difcovered point ** Cabo del 
Bueno Efperanza,” or the ** Cape of Good Hope.” Ro- 
bertfon’s America, 
oe els in Mufie, oe the interval of 
the major tone 8-== 104 2 4+ 2 
DIAZEUXIS iS, a yo eek mal a which implies 
divifisn, feparation, disjundi 
The, note which partes wo cae was thus ae 
in the ancient mufic, an added t sya » formed a 
diapente. It is the tone ma ajor 0 of t acre ns‘ in ve 
ratio of eiyht to nine, and which is in offeeh the d:ffcrence 
between the qth and sth of a kev. 
The diazeuxis, in the Greek mine, was between the mefe, 
and paramefe: that is to fay, between the highelt note of 
the fecond tetrachord, and the lowelt of the third; or 
pag hia the note fynnemenon,and eke para nefe hyperbo'zon ; 
r between the 3d and 4th tetrachord, according tot 
plies where the yer happens 5 for it is impradlic a 
at the fame time in mologous ftrings of the 
two ao ds, between which fle diazeuxis lies, form a 
5th; whereas, they for th when conjoined. 
TA M, in ye Geography, a a of Cappa- 
docia, in which was fituated the town ot dima 
DIB, in Ichthyology, a variety of the er Ramak, 
which fee. 
DIBBI, or Dark Lake, a lake of Africa, at the 
of two days journey beyond the town of Jenne; 12 cro 
which, from weft to eaft, os canoes are faid to lofe fight 
of iand for an entire day. om this lake the river run 
feveral ftreams, forming two ae branches, which join o 
Kabra, one ee journey fouth of 'Tombuétoo, and the port 
of that city or town 
Bi in Agriculture, the name of an implement or 
tool made ufe of for the purpofe of making holes in the 
ig for fecting grain, plants, and other forts of crops in 
which are planted in rows. ey are formed of different 
materials, and in differen 
t 
is 
for grain they are moltly fhod with iron 
ee have likewife a fort of ftep for fetting the foot upon, 
in uling them. n employed, they are thruft into 
ground to a depth fuitable to the crop which is to be put 
by them, and holes thus formed, into which the feeds, ries 
or plants, are put by the hand 
Dissre E, in Gardening, a fort of tool which is made ufe 
a fifteen inches in oe gradually 
taper ng to points at the lower ends; render them 
ore complete, they are often fhod on a on focket of 
iron, feven or eight inches in length, made tapering to the 
oint. Dibbies thus fhod are found to make the holes more 
eafily, in a more clean manner, and with greater expedition, 
than thofe which are wholly of wood, which are apt to clog 
with the earth, and retard the bufnels of a 
ans, po- 
hole 
m3 while the narrow 
aes ones, by making the holes deeper -than are necef. 
6 far 
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