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DIES MARCHII

Volume 7 · 81 words · 1823 Edition

was the day of congress or meeting of the English and Scots, annually appointed to be held on the marches or borders, in order to adjust all differences between them.

DIESIS in Music, is the division of a tone less than a semitone; or an interval consisting of a less or imperfect semitone.

Diesis is the smallest and softest change or inflexion of the voice imaginable; it is called a joint, expressed thus X, by a St Andrew's cross or salter.