DIMITY

A cotton cloth of a thick texture, and generally striped or otherwise ornamented in the loom; it is chiefly used for articles of female dre , and for bed furniture or window curtains, and is very rarely dyed. DIMYARIAS, Dimyarice. (Gr. 5/?, twice, (jt-vocv, a muscle.) All those bivalves or conch if ers are so called which hare two distinct and separate adductor muscles, and consequently two corresponding muscular impre ions on each valve. [s. 359]