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DIGLYPH

Volume 8 · 127 words · 1860 Edition

in *Architecture*, a kind of imperfect triglyph, console, or the like, with two channels or engravings, either circular or angular.

**Digne** (the ancient *Dina* or *Dinia*), a town of France, capital of the department of Basses-Alpes, and of a cognominal arrondissement, is situated at the foot of the Alps, on the left bank of the Bleone, 55 miles N.E. of Aix. Pop. (1851) 4119. The streets are generally narrow, crooked, and filthy, and the houses mean. The principal buildings are the cathedral and bishop's palace. Digne is the seat of courts of primary instance, assize, and commerce, a communal college, agricultural society; and has a public library, tanneries, and some trade in cattle and agricultural and garden produce. In the vicinity are saline springs in some repute.