DIP 
vior, of one leaf. Receptacle chaffy. Seed-crown cup- 
aped. 
D. fullonum, = Manured Teafel, is the moft important 
{pecies, on account of its ufe in dreffing woollen clot 
Hence it is elicd Carduus Aaa ed or Fuller’s Thiftle 
See ’s Icones v. 2. 17, arde’s Herbal 1167. 
(Dipfacus fativus.) The eee are Gaited at the bafe, and 
ferrated cales of the receptacle reflexed or hooked, 
whence its ufe in preference to D. /ylveflris, Engl. Bot. 
#.1032, whofe {cales are ftraight and much f{-fter. This laft 
grows wild in many parts of England, the former is {carcely 
found but in acultivated ftate. Tor its culture and ufe, fee 
EASEL. 
Dirsacus, in Medicine, according to fome, is the fame 
aith a diabetes 
DIPSAS, n Zoology, a fort of ferpent, the biting of 
ba has oe aid : ag ch athirft as proves mortal ; 
ence it is called dipfas, Greek fignifies thinfy 
re Latin it is called Tala, a vail Mofes {peaks of it 
Dent. viii. ‘1 
The Hcbrew word geimaon anfwere very well to the 
Greek dipfas, and expreffzs the thirft occafioned by the 
biting of this ferpent. Some by the Hebrew tzimaon un- 
derftand a defart or dry place. The dipfas in the Linnean 
yftem is a fpecies of ‘Coluber r; the green coluber, with ten 
white lines of — t, al the cerulean Surinam ferpent 
of Seba. See 
TERA, in eae, a fixth order in ies Lin- 
nean Syftem. The infcG&s of this order 
y are known 
having two ha with a clavated poifer under nn as iH 
the common houfe fly (mufea domeftica) which is ee this 
kind.’ See ans ee LOGY. 
DIPTERE, or Direreron, inthe Ancient Architedure, 
atemple furrounded with a double row of columns, which 
form a fort of porticos, called wings, o 
The uly is Greek, formed from ds, twice 3 and wrtegoy, 
gala, w 
ahh ee 
2. (Coum 
{ma; Gertn. t. 93. e Couma- 
added, by Schreber, Traralea of 
blet, t. Clafs and 
order, indie Decandria. Nat. Ord, Papilionacee, Linn. 
Leguminofe, J 
Gen. Ch. a Perianth top-fhaped, of one leaf; its two 
upper fegments oblong, concave, {preading like wings; 
the lower one {mall, entire or pana Cor. Papiliona- 
ceous. Standard longeft, obovate, ere&, with inflexed 
en fais ns, aa 
e two plants 
d fruati ification, that it is truly 
ee lip of th 
the lower lip of tl 
different’ fections of Juffieu’s arial Pp- 450 
ff. 7 Calyx with its two upper fale dicted, 
{preading like wings. Gene all conne&ted. Legume 
baa of two valves and one a Seed folitary. 
a. D. edorata, Willd. Sp. Pl v 3 gio, “ Leaves 
DIP 
alternate. Clufter terminal”? Of this an account has al- 
ready been given under the article Coumsrowuna. e 
feeds are now frequently fold in the tobacconilts’ fhops of 
London, by the name o eans, and are ufed to 
give a flavourto fnuff. Their fcent is like that of new 
hay, or the dried herb Woodruff, /perula rales 
0 
Gertner having only feen a haif ripe fruit, in which ftate 
appears ufually to be gathered fer a perfume, miltook it for 
a drupa, but Aublet, who faw it growing, exprefsly de- 
fribes it asa Jegume of two valves, 
. D. off. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. gto. 
Mill Did. v. 2. (Taralea eppofitifolia ; Aubl. Guian. 
745. t. 29 ‘ Leaves oppofite. Flowers panicled.” 
AN native. of the vaft forefts of Guiana, about nt rivers, 
Mart. 
of eure or five pairs 
Panictes terminal, large, Tpdnaces in an oe manner. 
Flowers violet-coloured, exhaling a pleafant scat which is 
perceptibie at a confiderable oe 
DIPTOTES, from Ss wtwros, Of aimrrtw, cado, in 
Sosa a kind of ieoesar ee having only two cafes ; 
were nthe n of the confuls, oiker criragitrtey 
mong ihe ennane : and of bifhops, and defunct as we 
furviving brethren, among the Chn 
The word diptycha is formed from the Greek Sirruxove 
of eek and that Las omrvéy a mafculine noun, derived 
from wruccw, a fies plait. From iss future wrvée, is 
firft 
An ingenious author see this name to have been 
tee that were 
given them to ha a les em the b 
rolled, called volumina. and Boo 
t is certain there were mre pee in de Gieck em: 
pire, as well as facred ones in the Greek church. on 
former were the ec: or regifter, wherein the nam 
of the magiftrates were entered ; in which fenfe diptycha is e 
term in the Greek chancery. 
Diprycua, facred. ‘The word is plural; diptycha being 
a double catalogue, in one whereof were written the names 
of the living, and in the other ae? a the dead, which 
were to be rehearfed during the meet with 
fomething not unlike the facred cana of the Greeks, in 
the canon of the mafs, according to hae Latin ufage ; where 
the people are enjoined to pray e for the living, and 
once for the dead; feveral faints sd ee in different 
times, &c. 
Inthefe diptycha were entered the names of bifhops, whe 
ad governed their flocks aright ; and thefe were never ex- 
f the fame, unlefs they were convicted of 
ed the names of the patriarchs, popes, ‘and 
prefided over he largeit churches, nee were 
the other were written the names o fe who died in 
peace and communion of the ne "The deacon fed to 
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