dwarfling 
When the Drnirfliivi did pen-cine me, . . . 
Skijit In- ^uulic into a corner. 
.Si//r. ,,V.T, Tin- Woodman's Hear. 
dwarfy (dwar'fi), a. [< du-arf + -yl.] Small ; 
dwarfish. 
Though I am squint-eyed, lame, bald, dimrfy, &<-., >. I 
these det'oi-nutiei arc joy*. 
Wntfrliontf, Apol. for Learning (1653), p. 65. 
dwaum, n. See diralm. 
dwell (dwel), v. ; pret. and pp. dwelled, more 
usually dwelt, ppr. duTlling. [< ME. dicr/li n 
(pi-rt. iliri'lli-i/i 1 , dirrli'de, dirrldf, dinildi; dinette, 
ilirilt), intr. linger, remain, stay, abide, dwell, 
also err, tr. mislead; < AS. (it) diretlun (pret. 
direaldi.:), tr., mislead, deceive, hinder, pre- 
vent; (ft) dwelian (also in comp. gedwclian and 
ddwelian) (prot. ilin-li-de, tlwelode), tr. mislead, 
deceive, intr. err, wander; (<) dwelian (pret. 
ihrrlnili'), intr., r<>m:iin, dwell (riirc in tliis 
sense) ; (d) dwolian, rarely dwalian, comp. ge- 
dwolian, intr., err, wander; = D. dwalen, err, = 
MLG. dtcelcn, dwalen, err, be foolish, LG. dwa- 
len, intr. err, tr. mislead, cheat, = OS. bi-dwelian, 
hinder, delay, = OHG. twaljan, twellan, MHG. 
tiri'llcn, twelen, tr. hinder, delay, intr. linger, 
wait, = Icel. dvelja, intr. wait, tarry, tr. delay, 
defer, refl. dveljask, stay, make a stay, = Sw. 
dviiljas, intr., dwell, = Dan. dvtelc, intr., linger, 
loiter; all secondary verbs, more or less mix- 
ed in forms and senses, and with numerous 
derivatives, ult. from the strong verb repre- 
sented by AS. 'dwelan (pret. "dwal, *dwol, pp. 
gedwolen), mislead, cause to err (pp. as adj., 
perverse, erring), = OS. for-dwelan, neglect, = 
OHG. ar-twelan, become dull, stupid, or lifeless, 
ga-twelan, stop, sleep (not in Goth, except as 
in deriv. dwals, stupid, foolish, etc.: see dull 1 )-. 
prob. from a root repr. by Skt. -\/ dhvar, bend 
or make crooked. See dwale, dull 1 , dolt.] I. 
in trans. 1. To linger; delay; continue; stay; 
remain. 
I ne dar no leng dwelle her, 
For Ihc was sent as Messager. 
King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 48. 
Series, ich haue wonder 
Where my doujter to-day dwelles thus longe. 
William o/ I'alenie (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1989. 
Yat qwat broyer or syster be ded of yis gylde, ye aldyr- 
man and alle ye gylde breyeryn and systers schullyn be 
redl to here hym to ye chyrche, and otfyrryn as it aforne 
seyde, and dwelle yer tylle ye messe be don.and be beryid. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.X p. 88. 
Go, and let 
The old men of the city, ere they die, 
Kiss thee, the matrons dwell about thy neck. 
li. Jonson, Catiline, v. 6. 
2. To abide as a permanent resident; reside; 
have abode or habitation permanently or for 
some time. 
In that Desert duellyn manye of Arrabyenes. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. S3. 
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the 
tent* of Shem. Gen. ix. 27. 
Nor till her lay was ended could I move, 
But wish'd to dwell for ever in the grove. 
Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 1. 135. 
And Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign 
O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. 
Bryant, The Ages. 
3f. To live; be; exist: without reference to 
place. 
There was dwellynge somtyme a ryche man, and it is 
not longe si then, and men clept him Qatholonabes ; and he 
was tulle of Cauteles. .Mandeville, Travels, p. 277. 
To dwell on or upon, (a) To keep the attention fixed 
on ; regard with attention or interest. 
They stand at a distance dwelling on his looks and lan- 
guage, tlxed in amazement. Budktninnter. 
The mind must abide and dwellupon things, or be always 
a stranger to the inside of them. South. 
Do you not, for Instance, dwell on the thought of wealth 
and splendour till you covet these temporal blessings? 
J. II. Sewinan, Parochial Sermons, i. 89. 
Then Lancelot lifted his large eyes ; they duvlt 
Deep-tranced OH hers. Tennyson, Balin and Balan. 
(fi) To continue on ; occupy a long time with ; speak or 
write about at great length or with great fullness : as, to 
on a note in music ; to dwell upon a subject. 
But I shall not <iin{( ti;)o>i speculations so abstracted as 
this. Stetle, Spectator, No. 19. 
I must not duvll on that defeat of fame. 
Tennyson, Guinevere. 
To dwell under one's vine and fig-tree, to live In 
one's own home ; enjoy the possession of a home in one's 
own right. 1 Ki. iv. 25. =Syn. 2. Abide, Sojourn, Can- 
htlMM, etc. SIT ,iliide>. 
Il.t trans. 1. To inhabit. 
We sometimes 
Who dwell this wild, constraint by want, come forth, 
To town or village. MHInn, P. R,, 1. 331. 
2. To place as an inhabitant ; plant. 
The promise of the lather. who shall ilirrU 
Jlis Spirit within them. Milton, P. L., xii. 4S7. 
1807 
dwell (dwcl), a. [< flirt II, r.] In jirintiiitj, the 
brief continuation of pressure in the taking of 
an impression on a hand-press or an Adams 
press, supposed to set or fasten the ink more 
hrmly in tne paper. 
dweller (dwd't'-r), n. [< ME. dwellere, < diri-lt- 
en, dwell: see dwell, p.] An inhabitant ; a resi- 
dent of some continuance in a place. 
And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem. 
Act* i. 19. 
Dweller in yon dungeon dark. 
/.'"//'., Ode on Mrs. Oswald. 
Dweller on the threshold, in occultism an imaginary 
being or spirit, of frightful aspect and malicious charac- 
ter, supposed to be encountered on the threshold of one's 
studies in psychic science, as a kind of Cerberus guarding 
the realm of spirit Ilulwer. 
dwelling (dwel'ing), . [< ME. dwelling, diall- 
ing, delay, continuance, an abode, verbal n. of 
dteellen, dwell.] If. Delay. Chaucer. 2f. Con- 
tinuance; stay; sojourn. 
Therefore euery man bithinke him weel 
How litil while Is his dwellynge. 
Hymn* to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 94. 
3. Habitation; residence; abode; lodgment. 
Ne no wighte male, by my clothing, 
Wete with what folke is my dwelling. 
Horn, of the lliine. 
Thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. 
Dan. iv. 32. 
The condition of that fardel, the place of your dwelling, 
your names? Shall., W. T., Iv. 3. 
4. A place of residence or abode ; an abiding- 
place; specifically, a house for residence; a 
dwelling-house. 
Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. 
There was a neat white dwelling on the hill, which we took 
to be the parsonage. 11. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 350. 
dwelling-house (dwel'ing-hous), n. A house 
occupied or intended to be occupied as a resi- 
dence. 
One Messuage or DweMinge-house. called the Viccaredge 
house. Record Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire, I. 13. 
dwelling-place (dwel'ing-plas), n. [< ME. 
dwellynge place.'} A place of residence; an 
abiding-place. 
Thei . . . hav not here a dwellynge place for evere. 
Wyclif, Select Works (ed. Arnold), HI. 197. 
There, where seynt Kateryne was buryed, is nouther 
chin-lie no < 'hapelie, ne other duellynge place. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 62. 
The Church of Christ hath been hereby made, not " a 
den of thieves," but in a manner the very dwelling -place 
of foul spirits. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, vll. 24. 
This wretched Inn, where we scarce stay to bait, 
We call our Dwelling-place. 
Cowley, Pindaric Odes, xll. 1. 
dwelt (dwelt). Preterit and past participle of 
dwell. 
dwindle (dwin'dl), u. i. ; pret. and pp. dwindled, 
ppr. dwindling. [Freq. (for *dwinle) of ME. 
dwinen, waste away, dwine : seedieine.] 1. To 
diminish ; become less ; shrink ; waste or con- 
sume away: with by or from before the cause, 
and to, in, or into before the effect or result: as, 
the body dwindles by pining or consumption; 
an estate dwindles from waste ; an object dwin- 
dles in size as it recedes from view ; from its 
constant exposure, the regiment dwindled to a 
skeleton. 
Weary sev'n nights, nine times nine, 
Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine. 
Shak., Macbeth, 1. 3. 
By a natural and constant transfer, the one [estate] had 
been extended ; the other had dwindled to nothing. 
Macaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist. 
In the common Triton of our ponds, the external lungs 
or brauchitc dwindle awav when the internal lungs have 
grown to maturity. H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 458. 
2. To degenerate ; sink ; fall away in quality. 
Religious societies . . . arc said to have dwindled into 
factious clubs. Swift. 
The flattery of his friends began to dwindle Into simple 
approbation. Goldsmith, Vicar, ill. 
= Syn. 1. Diminish, etc. (see decrease); attenuate, become 
attenuated, decline, fall off, fall away. 
dwindle! (dwin'dl), n. [< dwindle, v.] Grad- 
ual decline or decrease ; a wasting away ; de- 
generacy; decline. 
However inferior to the heroes who were born In better 
ages, he might still be great among his contemporaries, 
with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle 
of posterity. Johnson, Milton. 
dwindlement (dwin'dl-ment), H. [< dwindle 
+ -ment.] A dwindled state or condition ; de- 
creased size, strength, ((.. 
It was with a sensation of dreadful dwindlement that 
poor Vincent crossed the street again to his lonely alnxle. 
Mrs. Oliphani. Salem rhapel, i. 
dwine (dwin), r. i.; pret. and pp. dwined, ppr. 
[E. dial, and Sc., < ME. dwinen, < 
dyaster 
AS. dtriiiini, pine iiw.-iv. dwindle, = MD. dtey- 
iii n = L(i. dirini'ii = led. drum, ilriim, ilnim 
= Sw. tviita, pine away, languish ; cf. Dan. 
trim; whine, whimper. Hence dwindle.'] To 
pine; decline, especially by sickness; fade or 
waste: usually with mcny. 
UuelfulU sehe dwined a-wi/-- bothe dayes A nijtes. 
William, of Palerne (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 678. 
Ml loue euere wexlnge be, 
80 that y Hem r> ,/. 
/;. nuns In I'lV-mi, ete. (K. K. T. S.), p. 27. 
He Just dinned au-ttit. and we hadn't taken but one 
whale In-fore our captain died, and first mate took th 
command. Met. (Jattell, Sylvia's Lovers, Ix. 
dwt. A contraction of pennywrigh t, d. standing 
for Latin denarius, a penny, and wt. for weight. 
dyad (di'ad), n. and a. [< LL. dyas (dyad-), < 
Gr. rfwlf (ivai-), the number two, < <5i'-o = E. 
two, q. v.] I. H. 1. Two units treated as one ; 
a pair; a couple. 
A point answers to a monad, and a line to a dyad, and 
a superficies to a triad. 
Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 376. 
2. In i-li' in., an elementary substance each of 
whose atoms, in combining with other atoms 
or molecules, is equivalent in saturating power 
to two atoms of hydrogen. For example, oxygen is 
a dyad as seen in the compound HpO (water), where one 
atom of oxygen combines with and saturates two atoms 
of hydrogen. 
3. In morpnology, a secondary unit of organi- 
zation, resulting from individuation or integra- 
tion of an aggregate of monads. See monad. 
4. In math., an expression signifying the oper- 
ation of multiplying internally by one vector 
and then by another Pythagorean dyad, the 
number two considered as an essence or constituent of 
being. 
II. a. Same as dyadic. 
dyad-deme (di'ad-dem), n. A colony or aggre- 
gate of undifferentiated dyads. See monad- 
deme. 
A secondary unit or dyad, this rising through dyad- 
demei into a triad. Encyc. Brit., XVI. 843. 
dyadic (di-ad'ik), a. and n. [< dyad + -'<:.] 
I. a. 1. Pertaining or relating to the number 
two, or to a dyad; consisting of two parts or 
elements: as, a dyadic metal. 2. In Gr. pros. : 
(a) Comprisingtwo different rhythms ormeters: 
as, a dyadic epiploce. (6) Consisting of peri- 
copes, or groups of systems each of which con- 
tains two unlike systems: as, a dyadic poem. 
Dyadic arithmetic. Same as binary arithmetic (which 
see, under binary). Dyadic dlsyntheme, any combina- 
tion of dyads, with or without repetition, in which each 
element occurs twice and no oftener. Dyadic 8JTO- 
theme, a similar combination in which each element oc- 
curs only once. 
Also dyad, duadic. 
II. n. 1. In math., a sum of dyads. Seerfynrf. 
2. The science of reckoning with a system of 
numerals in which the ratio of values of succes- 
sive places is two Complete dyadic. See complete. 
Conjugate dyadlcs. See conjugate. Cyclic dyadic, 
a dyadic which may be expressed to any desired degree of 
approximation as a root of a unity or universal idemfac- 
tor. Linear dyadic, a dyadic reducible to a dyad. 
Planar dyadic, a dyadic which can be reduced to the sum 
of two dyads. Shearing dyadic, a dyadic expressing a 
simple or complex shear. unlplanar dyadic, a planar 
dyadic In which the plane of the antecedent* coincides 
with that of the consequents. 
Dyak (di'ak), . One of a native race inhab- 
iting Borneo, the largest island of the Malay 
archipelago. The Dyaks are numerically the leading 
people of the island, and are usually believed to be its 
aborigines. Also Daynk, Dayakker. 
dyakis-dodecahedron (di'a-kis-do'dek-a-he'- 
dron), n. [< Gr. 6vdmc, twice, + ioieieAef/>ov, a 
dodecahedron: see dodecahedron.'] Same as 
diploid. 
The dyalritdodrcahedron, bounded by twenty-four tra- 
pezoids with two sides equal, has twelve short, twelve 
long, and twenty-four intermediate edges. 
Kncj/c. Brit., XVI. 355. 
dyarchy (di'iir-ki), n. ; pi. dyarchies (-Hz). [< 
Gr. dmpxia, dyarchy, < oi-o, two, + apxeiv, rule, 
govern.] A government by two ; a diarchy. 
Also duarchy. 
The name Diarchy, given by Dr. Mommsen to the Con- 
stitution of Augustus, Is not yet sufficiently justified. 
The Academy, Feb. 25, 1888, p. 128. 
Dyas (di'as), n. [NL. use of LL. dyas, the 
number two : see dyad.'] In geol., a name some- 
times applied to the Permian system, from its 
being divided into two principal groups. Com- 
pare Trias. See Perm in n. 
Dyassic (di-as'ik), a. Pertaining or belonging 
to the Dyas or Permian. 
dyaster (di-as'ter), n. [NT,., < Gr. rfi'*, = E. 
two. 4- i\mi/i> = E. star.~\ The double-star fig- 
ure occurring in or resulting from caryocinesis. 
Also spelled diuster. 
