spended on the 20th of March for
violent language addressed to Mr Chamberlain. He married in 1895
Elizabeth (d. 1907), daughter of Lord justice J. C. Mathew.

DILUVIUM (Lat. for "deluge," from _diluere_, to wash away), a term in
geology for superficial deposits formed by flood-like operations of
water, and so contrasted with alluvium (q.v.) or alluvial deposits
formed by slow and steady aqueous agencies. The term was formerly given
to the "boulder clay" deposits, supposed to have been caused by the
Noachian deluge.

DIME (from the Lat. _decima_, a tenth, through the O. Fr. _disme_), the
tenth part, the tithe paid as church dues, or as tribute to a temporal
power. In this sense it is obsolete, but is found in Wycliffe's
translation of the Bible--"He gave him dymes of alle thingis" (Gen. xiv.
20). A dime is a silver coin of the United States, in value 10 cents
(English equivalent about 5d.) or one-tenth of a dollar; hence
"dime-novel," a cheap sensational novel, a "penny dreadful"; also
"dime-museum."

DIMENSION (from Lat. _dimensio_, a measuring), in geometry, a magnitude
measured in a specified direction, i.e. length, breadth and thickness;
thus a line has only length and is said to be of one dimension, a
surface has length and breadth, and has two dimensions, a solid has
length, breadth and thickness, and has three dimensions. This concept is
extended to algebra: since a line, surface and solid are represented by
linear, quadratic and cubic equations, and are of one, two and three
dimensions; a biquadratic equation has its highest terms of four
dimensions, and, in general, an equation in any number of variables
which has the greatest sum of the indices of any term equal to n is said
to have n dimensions. The "fourth dimension" is a type of non-Euclidean
geometry, in which it is conceived that a "solid" has one dimension more
than the solids of experience. For the dimensions of units see UNITS,
DIMENSIONS OF.

DIMITY, derived from the Gr. [Greek: dimitos] "double thread," through
the Ital. _dimito_, "a kind of course linzie-wolzie" (Florio, 1611); a
cloth commonly employed for bed upholstery and curtains, and usually
white, though sometimes a pattern is printed on it in colours. It is
stout in texture, and woven in raised patterns.

DINAJPUR, a town (with a population in 1901 of 13,430) and district of
British India, in the Rajshahi division of Eastern Bengal and Assam. The
earthquake