X-Ray, continuous-wave and pulsed n.m.r., and dielectric relaxation studies show the hydrate of 1,4-dioxane (D) to be a normal clathrate hydrate of von Stackelberg's structure II with composition D·∼17H2O. The reorientation rate of the relatively large D molecule is slower and the effective activation energy(l.6 kcal/mol) larger than for other guest molecules previously studied in hydrates of the same structure. Weak dielectric absorption associated with reorientation of nondipolar D molecules is attributed mainly to the induction of a total dipole moment of ∼0.2 D in the 28 water molecules of the large structure II cage by two equal and opposed dipoles in the chair form of D.