the root with a diminutive force.] To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to
become degenerate; to fall away.
Weary sennights nine times nine
Shall he dwindle, peak and pine.
Shak.
Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions,
are said to have dwindled into factious clubs.
Swift. Dwindle
(Dwin"dle), v. t.
1. To make less; to bring low.
Our drooping days are dwindled down to naught.
Thomson. 2. To break; to disperse. [R.] Clarendon.
Dwindle
(Dwin"dle), n. The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy. [R.] Johnson.
Dwindlement
(Dwin"dle*ment) n. The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. [R.] Mrs. Oliphant.
Dwine
(Dwine) v. i. [See Dwindle.] To waste away; to pine; to languish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Gower.
Dyad
(Dy"ad) n. [L. dyas, dyadis, the number two. Gr. : cf. F. dyade. See two, and cf. Duad.]
1. Two units treated as one; a couple; a pair.
2. (Chem.) An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.
Dyad
(Dy"ad), a. (Chem.) Having a valence or combining power of two; capable of being substituted
for, combined with, or replaced by, two atoms of hydrogen; as, oxygen and calcium are dyad elements.
See Valence.
Dyadic
(Dy*ad"ic) a. [Gr. fr. two.] Pertaining to the number two; of two parts or elements.
Dyadic arithmetic, the same as binary arithmetic.
Dyaks
(Dy"aks) n. pl.; sing. Dyak. (Ethnol.) The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo.
They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices.
Dyas
(||Dy"as) n. [L. dyas the number two.] (Geol.) A name applied in Germany to the Permian formation,
there consisting of two principal groups.
Dye
(Dye) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dyed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dyeing.] [OE. deyan, dyen, AS. deágian.] To
stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs.
Cloth to be dyed of divers colors.
Trench.
The soul is dyed by its thoughts.
Lubbock. To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly.
He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool.
Hawthorne. Syn. — See Stain.
Dye
(Dye), n.
