Definition of "diachylon" []

• Alternative form of diachylum. (noun)

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• "The American replied in a similar playful ferocity — the two warriors made a little tournament for us there on the plains before Jaffa, in the which diachylon, being a little worsted, challenged his adversary to a race, and fled away on his grey, the"
• "Damascus cloth flapping over his head, and his nose ornamented with diachylon."
• "When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe, which he delivered at his adversary in guise of a jereed, and galloped round and round, and in and out, and there and back again, as in a play of war."