Dizen

a. To over-dre ; to deck flauntingly; to bedizen. Diz'ful, or Dez'phoul, a town of Persia in Khuzistan, in a fine plain, on the Abzal, 28 m. W. by N. of Shuster. It po e es a magnificent bridge of 22 arches, built by command of Sapor, and is the chief mart of the prov. of Khuzistan. Pop . Estimated at about 15,000. Dizier, (St.,) (de-zeč'yā,) a town of France, dep. Haute Marne, on the Marne, 47 m. N.N.W. of Chaumont. Manuf. Cotton and iron. In 1814, Jan. 27, and March 27, Napoleon fought there two battles with the Allies, and defeated them with great lo . Pop . 10,170. Dizzine , n. State of being dizzy; vertigo; giddine in the head. Dizzy, a . [A.S. dysi, dyselic , dysg; D. duizelig .] Confused; giddy; having a sensation of whirling in the head, with instability of the limbs, or pronene to fall; vertiginous. Causing giddine ; as, looking down from a dizzy height. - Thoughtle ; heedle ; unreflecting; as, a dizzy romp. Djerrid, (jer'rid,) n. [Ar. jerid .] A Turkish lance, spear, or javelin. (Sometimes written jereed .) Djokjokarta, ( jok'jo - kart a ,) a Dutch residency of Java, near the centre of the S. coast of that island. It produces rice, coffee, and tobacco in abundance, and abounds in forests of teak-wood. Pup . 330,000.- The town of the same name as above, Lat. 7° 44′ S., Lon. 10° 24' E., is handsome, and is the seat of the Dutch resident governor and the native sultan. The latter has a female guard of horse and foot-soldiers. Pop . 90,000. Dmitrieff, (me-tre'ef,) IVAN, a Ru ian poet, B. 1760. He is the author of many popular songs, tales, and fables, and has done much towards the creation of a national Ru ian literature. His most celebrated work is Yermak , an epico-dramatic poem. D. in Moscow, 1837. Dnieper, (ne'per.) [Ru . Dniepr; anc. Danapris or Borysthenes. Next to the Volga, the largest river of European Ru ia. It rises in the govt. of Smolensk, and pursues a S. course past Sindensk (where it becomes navigable), Moghelev, Kiev, Ekaterinoslav, and Kherson, and unites with the Black Sea about 60 m. below the latter place, and above 1,230 m. from its source. Its principal affluents on the right are the Beres in a and Pripet; on the left, the Desna and Soola. Dniester, ( nēēster .) [Ru . Dniestr , anc. Danaster , or Tyras. A large river of S.E. Europe, rising in the Car path i an Mountains in Galicia, and which, after flowing N.N.E. and finally S.E., empties into the Black Sea between Ovidiopol and Akerman. Its chief affluents are the Stry, Botna, Reout, Podharca, and Sered. Total length, about 500 m. Do. An abbreviation for DItro, q. v.