English Dictionary: day lily | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Alalia \[d8]A*la"li*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] priv. + [?] a talking; cf. [?] speechless.] (Med.) Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Alula \[d8]Al"u*la\, n. [NL., dim. of L. ala a wing.] (Zo[94]l.) A false or bastard wing. See under {Bastard}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Deloul \[d8]De*loul"\ (d[asl]*l[oomac]l"), n. [Prob. of Arabic or Bedouin origin.] (Zo[94]l.) A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; -- called also {herire}, and {maharik}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Ulula \[d8]Ul"u*la\, n. [L., a screech owl.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of owls including the great gray owl ({Ulula cinerea}) of Arctic America, and other similar species. See Illust. of {Owl}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Day lily \Day" lil`y\ (l[icr]l`[ycr]). (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants ({Hemerocallis}) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers. (b) A genus of plants ({Funkia}) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Delilah \De*li"lah\, n. The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (--Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress. Other Delilahs on a smaller scale Burns met with during his Dumfries sojourn. --J. C. Shairp. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Diallel \Di"al*lel\, a. [Gr. [?] crossing.] Meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel; -- opposed to {parallel}. [Obs.] --Ash. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Diallyl \Di*al"lyl\, n. (Chem.) A volatile, pungent, liquid hydrocarbon, {C6H10}, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dulwilly \Dul"wil*ly\, n. [Prob. imitative.] (Zo[94]l.) The ring plover. [Prov. Eng.] | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Delilah languishing, a Philistine woman who dwelt in the valley of Sorek (Judg. 16:4-20). She was bribed by the "lords of the Philistines" to obtain from Samson the secret of his strength and the means of overcoming it (Judg. 16:4-18). She tried on three occasions to obtain from him this secret in vain. On the fourth occasion she wrung it from him. She made him sleep upon her knees, and then called the man who was waiting to help her; who "cut off the seven locks of his head," and so his "strength went from him." (See {SAMSON}.) | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Delilah, poor; small; head of hair |