a term used by astronomers for that phase or appearance of the moon, wherein she is bisected, or shows just half her disk. In this situation the moon is said to be in a quadrature aspect, or to be in her quadrature.

DICHER, in old writers, denotes the quantity of ten hides of skins whereof 20 made a last; also 10 pair of gloves, ten bars of iron, and the like, are sometimes expressed by the term dicker.