DIP 
bd are to remain. 
mps, borders,'and other parts of fhrubberies, being fuf- 
ficients bea when . vere growth to refilt the effe &s 
of fro this climat 
“SA 
OS Porrus,a port of aie fea of Laconia, 
fituated at the bottom of the port, in which is found Epi- 
daurus Limera. 
DIOSTETWYI, in Geog: apy a town of Silefia, in the 
province of Oels; three miles S.S.W. of Mittelwalden 
DIOU, a os of es in nt province of Chorafan 3 
270 miles N. of Hera 
OXTA, oie in a ic, a name fometimes given by 
the ancients to the diapen 
of the Horizon.. Se ee DEPRESSION. 
Dip, in Mining, or piteh, Gguites the greatelt inclination 
of a ftratum to the orizon ; the He ion of this is ee 
at right angles to the courfe, ftretch, drift or a a 
that direGiion in which a level line - ht be n 
ratum. The ae dip of the ftrata in | eee 
is — the are aa they are level ina 
N.E. and S.W. jireStion, a t s more than n probable, 
that a {trata of the aici “land did occup 
not more than 1 in 79 or 
ZEA, in Ancient Gregraply, afmail town of Arcadia, 
in that part called Mcena 
DI A, in Bota on (‘rom 3s, — and Qaxa, a 
legume.) Loureiro Cochinch. 453. Clafs and order, Dia- 
dalphia Decandria Nat. Ord. Papilionacce, Linn, Legumi~ 
nofe, ple 
Cal. Perianth five-cleft, gibbons, era 
its fone acute, the lower one lon gel A Papilio- 
naceous, Standa:d roundish, fomewhat tri eaguer notche dis 
afcending; wings o ovate, fhorter than the Randard; keel of t 
petals, lunate, a bea to the ftandard, with long lender 
claws. Stam. Ti nts 10, unitcd in two parcels, five in 
each ; anthers ae incumben Pift. Germens two, - 
long, a ae ftraizht ; kyle of each awl-fhaped. long 
than the ens; ftigmas thickifh. Peric. Legumes ae 
competed. | {tr raight, | pointed, oe 
itriated, {moath, unequal in fize. See 
E . Legumes two. ne ; 
- cochincinenfi. Lour. Cochinch. 454: (Solulus arbor, 
eee mph. Amb. eee 
ah fee el cultivated in 
Cochinchina, and called in 
phung. 
9! 
128. A tre 
8 - eS 
an odd one, the Larue 
{-flile, oppofite or alter- 
pairs, axillary, fieledisweecd. 
hi eiro’s account, who quotes Hedy/arum Vo. 
phyla, now 0 Pear ms Py Hes Linn. Sytt. 
2, aga Synon e ol is 
ae with large pike (en Gilkey ies 
aalaee as given above, is truly  onderful if ee. but 
h 
Rumphiu 
tribe, as far as we have an ge. onym, 
aoa aa ey or more | erbacly ibe deletiotion of ion ro, 
~ be erro 
‘DIPHRI, ih ieee Geography, a town of pene © 
Steph. Byz. 
They have a good effe& in the large 
DIB 
DIPHRYGES, or Dirrys, in the Ancient Pharmacy, 
the f{coria or calx of me Sie one gathered im the furnace, 
when the metal waa run o 
ae word is formed from ‘the Greek ds, twice, and Guey emmy 
to 
Di PHTHERA, SiGSeax, among the Ancients, a garment, 
made of {kins, and worn only by fhepherds and country 
labourers. 
DIPHTHONG, EsPBoylos, i in Bie ace a eure vowel, 
eho, 
o 
j 3 as s (1) the L tin ae, or @3 
2, or @; (2) the Greek as, a (3) the Englith ait, au, &e. 
See VoweL, ae SYLLABLE 
€ yale is Greek, at is compounded of dic, twice, and 
QSoylos found. 
Ae anfwers to ai, the proper ; and 2, the improper diph+ 
thong of the — e.g. Asians, Aeneas 3 oPoigo, Finda 
&c. And, onthe contrary, the Romans, when th ey had 
occafion to divide = ae, changed it into the Greek ai; ¢. go 
“ for aulz, 
i, by om is “made a Latin diphthong, as in aio, Caius, 
But in ais, and ait, i manifellly belongs to the latter 
fyllab! e; and che Greek write not yas og, but yo s0g 3 whence it 
feems plain that az, in the Latin tongue, is not a diphthong, 
as in the Greek. 
The Latins pronounced the two vowels in their ee 
thongs much as we do, with a oe that thet 
were not heard equally, but the 
than the other; though the divifion was made with all the 
licacy imaginable; among u he Latin diph- | 
thongs are loit in the eae ; their @ and @ are only 
a, 0a, &e. ee wrote 
with two hea are pronounced as fimple 8. 
In Englith French, and divers other language ie may 
Gifting vith diphthongs with neers to the eye, from diph~ 
thongs vee regard to thee 
A dip g wah regar he eye is formed of t 
vowels, inetng in the hay (yliable, whether the particle 
found of each them be heard in the pronunciation, 
whether the ont of one o rowned ; or, lattly, 
rhether a new found, different from either of them, -refult 
from both. In the two latter cafes, it is with {ume impros 
ety that ] them diphthongs: the firft only are 
aoe , are either 
thee: “ok in ‘the fame fyllable, 
two fousds in the pronunciation 
On this latt ents "dighthongs, me regard to the ear, 
are ith die with regard to the e 
inthhougs, with regard both te the eye and ear, 
aie proper diph Ae are ai, asin fair ; rsa in aaa ee, 
in bleed; of, 1n void 5 ood : and 0 ou, in 
e-a, as in Geor Je; et, OF EW, 
like wu, m Deuteronimy - - ike €, as ci ag “feld: ; ei, like a, 
in feign ; or bke C n deceit ; ca, asin cloak, doats oe, asin 
; Ne in gue/s.; and wi, as in guile, recruit. 
YES; ote $5 2 Que, to generate, in’ Natural 
