[Dharma], the name given to the law of Buddha, as distinct from the Sangha, which is the Church.
[Dharwar] (32), a town in the S. of the Bombay Presidency, a place of considerable trade in a district noted for its cotton growing.
[Dhwalagiri], one of the peaks of the Himalayas, the third highest, 26,826 ft. high.
[Diabetes], a disease characterised by an excessive discharge of urine, and accompanied with great thirst; there are two forms of this disease.
[Diab`lerets], a mountain of the Bernese Alps, between the Cantons de Vaud and de Valois.
[Diafoirus, Thomas], the name of two pedantic doctors, father and son, who figure in Molière's "Malade Imaginaire."
[Diagoras], a Greek philosopher, born in Melos, one of the Cyclades, 5th century B.C., surnamed the Atheist, on account of the scorn with which he treated the gods of the popular faith, from the rage of whose devotees he was obliged to seek safety by flight; died in Corinth.
[Dialectic], in the Hegelian philosophy the logic of thought, and, if of thought, the logic of being, of essential being.
[Dialogues of Plato], philosophical dialogues, in which Socrates figures as the principal interlocutor, although the doctrine expounded is rather Plato's than his master's; they discuss theology, psychology, ethics, æsthetics, politics, physics, and related subjects.
[Dialysis], the process of separating the crystalloid or poisonous ingredients in a substance from the colloid or harmless ingredients.