Dwarf wall

( Arch. ) A low wall of le height than the story of a building. Dwell, v . n . [ Imp . and pp . DWELLED, usually DWELT.] [Icel. dvel , dvelia , to abide; Old A. S. biduellan , to stay; Mid. High Ger. twellan , to tarry.] To abide in any country as a permanent resident; to live in a place; to have an habitation for some time or permanence; to inhabit; to reside; to sojourn; to stay; to be domiciled. "There dwelt all that's good, and all that 's fair."- Waller . To dwell on or upon , to be fixed in attention; to continue long; to hang on with fondne ; to be absorbed with; to detain to tediousne ; as, to dwell upon the merits of a thing in conversation. IMG:content-0694.png:[graphic] College and Profe or of Divinity. D.'s principal work, published since his death, as several of his other works, is his Theology Explained and Defended (5 vols., 1818.) D. was not a great or original thinker; but his mind was fertile in the production of respectable ideas, which, though sufficiently commonplace, were yet pleasing, both in themselves, and from the important nature of the subjects to which they referred. Among his other writings may be mentioned, The Conquest of Canaan, an Epic Poem (1785); Travels in N. E. and New York (1821), reckoned by Southey the most important of his writings; and two vols. of Sermons (1828). D. 1817. Dwight, in Arkansas, a village of Pope co., on Illinois Bayou, about 9 m. S.W. of Dover. Dwight, in Illinois, a post-township of Livings ton co., about 37 m. S.S.W. of Joliet. Dwight, in Michigan, a township of Huron coun Dwi'na, or DVINA, (NORTHERN,) ariver of Ru ia, formed in the south of the prov. of Vologda by the junction of the two streams Such on a and Juy. It flows N. for about 50 m., and receives the Vytchegda from the E. At this point the D. becomes navigable, and here it alters its direction, and proceeds N.W. toward the Gulf of Archangel, into which it flows, having been joined on the right by the Pinega, and on the left by the Waga, and having traversed a course of about 700 miles. The basin of the D. comprehends an area of 123,900 square miles. Its average width is from 500 to 600 feet. The waters of the D. , the largest river that falls into the White Sea, are abundantly supplied with fish. Ve els of more than 14 feet draught cannot enter the D. , on account of the shoals at its mouth. - For SOUTHERN DWINA, see DUNA. Dwindle, v . n . [Formed from A. S. dwinan , to pine.] To become le by degrees; to diminish; to shrink; to fall away gradually; to degenerate; as, dwindled to next to nothing. -n. Decaying powers; a shrinking; degeneracy. Dwine, v.n. Meaning e entially the same as DWINDLE, q. v. Dwt., a contraction for penny - weight.