Definition of Dipsos

1. dipso [n] - See also: dipso

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipsos

dips
dipsades
dipsas
dipsesis
dipsetic
dipso
dipsogen
dipsology
dipsomania
dipsomaniac
dipsomaniacal
dipsomaniacs
dipsomanias
dipsos (current term)
dipsosis
dipsotherapy
dipsticks
dipswitch
dipt
dipteral
dipteran
dipterans
dipteras
diptericin
dipterist
dipterists
dipterocarp

Literary usage of Dipsos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"What a quiet life shall dipsos and I lead when we can neither bite nor scratch ! You may see, youths, how age provides for peace. Dar. [Aside. ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1901)
"dipsos (part).—Typical, very long-bodied and long-tailed Tree-Snakes, with a vertical pupil. The median or vertebral row of smooth scales is enlarged ..."

3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868)
"It must therefore stand as dipsos discoidea, Lea, with the synonym of Anodonta tennis, Gray ; шy date being 1833, and Dr. Gray's 1834. ..."

4. The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge: A by Montague Rhodes James, Roger Gale (1901)
"dipsos.' 103. Lizard, 4.legged: long ears. 104. Another (stellio). 105. Horned serpent coming out of its skin. 106. Spiders (5), blue and red, ..."

5. The Progress of the Intellect: As Exemplified in the Religious Development by Robert William Mackay (1850)
"... against advancing years; and the serpent (the dipsos) still suffers the ass's thirst, and communicates it with its bite*. The narrative of the fall ..."

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