DIc 
to town in large goat-fkins, and retailed in fmall quanti- 
ties in the bazars. This is fuppofed b 
to be the ho entio 
Neither common honey nor palm-boney, he fays, (Crit. 
Rem. p. 135.) could ce been confidered as a rare gift to 
a acne of Egypt, where palms and bees were fo abun- 
dant ; whereas ratfin-honey, or a fyrup made out of the 
grapes, which ae not grow in Egypt, might be deemed 
even a ae prefent. 
in Last a coy for accounts, by the number of 
tallies, Cuca: or no 
DICACITAS, in | Oa, the name given by Cicero 
(De Saale teh 1. ii. c. 54.) to that kind wit ufually 
lies in a fin entance or word, and w e term 
** concife a or jelting.’”’? The other bind | he calls cavillatio, 
which is confined within no certain limits, aa yaaa 5 in our 
language, may be called ‘ continue 
A, in Ancient Geog ngrapty, @ a pik oe Thrace, i in a 
territory of the Biftonians, and near the Biftonide Mar 
It was alfo named Diceopolis. Allo, a town of Gr sea on 
the See gulf.— Alfo, an epifcopal town of Africa, in 
Bizaciu 
DICEARCHA, a place in Italy, fo called by the 
Greeks, and named by the Latins Puteo/i, which fee. 
DICDICA, a iy of Africa Propria, according to the 
Itinerary of ate 
» among sien, certain cubical pieces of bone 
or ivory, marked with dots on each of their faces, from one 
De) 
fo 
to fix, accord ber of thei 
Sharpers have feveral ways of falfifying dice: 1. by ftic 
ing a hog’s briftle fo as e them run high 
r low as they e3 2. by drilling and loading them 
8 ea y 
with quickfilver ; which trick is difcovered by holding them 
ently between two diagonal corners; when, if falfe, the 
heavy fide will turn always downwar ds ; 3 3. by filing them. 
But all thefe methods fall far fhort of the arts of the dice- 
makers, fome of whom are fo dextrous, that fharping game- 
fters will give any money for fuch dice. Dice are faid to 
have been invented by Palamedes at ie liege of Troy, for 
ue amufement of the officers and fo 
ice pay a large Ramp-duty, ae are prohibited to be 
imported. 
Dicz Marle, in Hufbandry. See Marve. 
DICEA weary in Biography, a tollower of Ariftotle, 
asa native of Meffenias, and acquired diftinGion by his 
philofophical difputations, and hiftorical writings. Cicero 
ueft. 1. i. c. 10.) fpeaks of him as a learned and 
eloquent writer. His tenets were that there is no fuch thing 
as mind, or foul, gone in man or beaft ; that the principle, 
e and ad, is equally diffufed 
was an eminent geographer, and 
aps great oe 2 imeature the height of mountains, and 
onftruét ac apie 7 = Plin. 1. ii, c. 65. 
Fabre, Bib. eae 
DICERA, in Bony ie dus and xegas, alluding to the 
two horns of the anthers,) a genus of Forfter’s, referred by 
Linnzus the younger to Lleocarpus. See Evmocarpus 
cera. 
“DICERATION, in the Writers of Medicine, a name 
given to acollyrium mentioned by Celfus, and thus named 
from x:gas, a horn, burnt hartfhorn being a principle ingre- 
dient in tt. 
DICHONDRA, in Botany, (from &s, and xovdeos, @ 
£*an, on account of the form of the capfule, refembling two 
DIC 
grains or berries.) Forft. io Pl. 20. t. 20. 
; 54. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. 1353. a 12 
Clafs and Order, ai ‘rio _Digynia. Nar On Dole 
wvuli, to which ow removed by Juffieu binfelf fon 
his Sele a nied he had ar placed 
n.Ch. Gal. Perianth inferior, in te deep, regular, 
giaeie many-ribbed, fomewhat f{preading fegments. Cor, 
of one petal, wheel-fhaped, regular, in five deep lanceolate 
egments, as long as the calyx; with a very fhort tube, 
am. Filaments five, awl-fhaped, equal, fhorter than the 
corolla, and inferted into its tube; anthers ovate, blunt, of 
i obes. Pi. Germen fuperior, double, hairy; ftyles 
two, as long as the ftamens, awl-fhaped, divaricated, origt« 
meld os to rom the inner fide of each 
Schreb, 176. 
o, accompanied b 
gto 
Corolla inferior, 
fules pe See _ 
(Sib. 
thorpia ae ae ; Linn. Su pp. 228.) is sitecmed by Dr. 
Smith the only fpecies, It was fent by Mutis to Linnzus 
from New Granada, and was found by Commerfon at 
uenos Ayres, and the ifland of Mauritius. It is alfo 
known to grow in Jamaica, Peru, and New Zealand. The 
ems are proftrate, creeping, flender, branched, round, and 
leafy. Leaves alternate, on long filky ftalks, upright, kid- 
-fhaped, more or lefs emarginate, entire th, or 
3 more or lefs filky beneath, aaa marked 
with radiating ribs. Flower- cn _ mottly folitary, 
il fhorter than ‘lowers very 
{mall, a little drooping, one, pene oenally hairy, in- 
ternally fmooth. Fruit much larger than the flowers. 
When very filky and filvery in the afpe& of its pee ‘ 
the D. fericea of — » Willd. p. Pl, ve Ie 
there Dr to be 
The Jamaica v 
the more curio urope. 
Donn, it was int Peale ere in 1786, 
flowering ir the fe in July. 
DICHORAUS, in Pie. the foot of a Latin verfe 
confilting of four fyllables; of which the firft is long, the 
next fhort, the third eS and the laft fhort. It is a dou- 
ble choreus, as comprébaré. 
DICHOTO 
and is perennial, 
ufually 
Eee Os A ar i a 
and many a its allies, on in Chlora sefolcia, Engl. Bot 
60. lea for 
aves are formed in a 
, bifedion, a term uled by aft 
that phafis, or appearance of the moon, wherein fhe is bi- 
fected, or fhews juft half her difk, or — or when fhe is: 
in the beginning of her firft and laft 
The word is Greek, formed of dyer, I biped, or cut 
into two ; of dis, tewice, and teva, 
e time of the moon’s dichotomy i is of coniderabe ufe 
in fixing the fun’s diftance from the earth: and it w 
ciently nee by ohare for this purpofe. 
to under en his method > doi ing ies we have only to 
nfider that the <i fes h are produced by the 
different eacous of its digetaced beniete with- ene 
