# Dictionary

Topic: Descendant
Definition:
DESCENDANT, n.  Any person proceeding from an ancestor in any degree; issue; offspring, in the line of generation, ad infinitum.  We are all the descendants of Adam and Eve.


Topic: Descendibility
Definition:
DESCENDIBILITY, n.  The quality of being descendible, or capable of being trnasmitted from ancestors; as the descendibility of an estate or of a crown.


Topic: Descendible
Definition:
DESCENDIBLE, a.
1.  That may be descended, or passed down; as, the hill is descendible.
2.  That may descend from an ancestor to an heir; as a descendible estate.


Topic: Descension
Definition:
DESCENSION, n.
1.  The act of going downwards; descent; a falling or sinking; declension; degradation.
2.  In astronomy, right descension is an arch of the equinoctial, intercepted between the next equinoctial point and the intersection of the meridian, passing through the center of the object, at its setting, in a right sphere.
Oblique descension, is an arch of the equinoctial, intercepted between the next equinoctial point and the horizon, passing through the center of the object, at its setting, in an oblique sphere.
Oblique descension, is an arch of the equator which descends with the sun below the horizon of an oblique sphere.
Descension of a sign, is an arch of the equator, which sets with such a sign or part of the zodiac, or any planet in it.
Right descension of a sign, is an arch of the equator, which descends with the sign below the horizon of a right sphere; or the time the sign is setting in a right sphere.


Topic: Descent
Definition:
DESCENT, n.
1.  The act of descending; the act of passing from a higher to a lower place, by any form of motion, as by walking, riding, rolling, sliding, sinking or falling.
2.  Inclination downward; obliquity; slope; declivity; as the descent of a hill, or a roof.
3.  Progress downward; as the descent from higher to lower orders of beings.
4.  Fall from a higher to a lower state or station.
5.  A landing from ships; invasion of troops from the sea; as, to make a descent on Cuba.
6.  A passing from an ancestor to an heir; transmission by succession or inheritance, as the descent of an estate or a title from the father to the son.  Descent is lineal, when it proceeds directly from the father to the son, and from the son to the grandson; collateral, when it proceeds from a man to his brother, nephew or other collateral representative.
7.  A proceeding from an original or progenitor.  The Jews boast of their descent from Abraham.  Hence,
8.  Birth; extraction; lineage; as a noble descent.
9.  A generation; a single degree in the scale of genealogy; distance from the common ancestor.
No man is a thousand descents from Adam.
10.  Offspring; issue; descendants.
The care of our descent perplexes most.
11.  A rank in the scale of subordination.
12.  Lowest place.
13. In music, a passing from a note or sound to one more grave or less acute.


Topic: Describe
Definition:
DESCRIBE, v.t. [L. To write.]
1.  To delineate or mark the form or figure; as, to describe a circle by the compasses.
2.  To make or exhibit a figure by motion; as, a star describes a circle or an ellipsis in the heavens.
3.  To show or represent to others in words; to communicate the resemblance of a thing, by naming its nature, form or properties.  The poet describes the Trojan horse.  The historian describes the battle of Pharsalia.  The moralist describes the effects of corrupt manners.  The geographer describes countries and cities.
4.  To represent by signs.  A deaf and dumb man may describe a distant object.  Our passions may be described by external motions.
5.  To draw a plan; to represent by lines and other marks on paper, or other material; as, to describe the surface of the earth by a map or chart.
6.  To define laxly.


Topic: Describing
Definition:
DESCRIBING, ppr.  Representing the form or figure of, by lines or marks; communicating a view of, by words or signs, or by naming the nature and properties.


Topic: Description
Definition:
DESCRIPTION, n.
1.  The act of delineating, or representing the figure of any thing by a plan, to be presented to the eye.
2.  The figure or appearance of any thing delineated, or represented by visible lines, marks, colors, &c.; as the description of a country, or of Solomons temple.
3.  The act of representing a thing by words or by signs, or the passage containing such representation; a representation of names, nature of properties, that gives to another a view of the thing.  Homer abounds with beautiful and striking descriptions.
4.  A definition.  All definitions must be less perfect descriptions of a material thing, than a visible figure or delineation.
5.  The qualities expressed in a representation; as, a man of this description.  Hence,
6.  The persons having the qualities expressed; a class of persons to whom a description is applicable, or who are in a similar condition.
The secretary proceeds to examine, whether a difference ought to be permitted to remain between them and another description of public creditors.
Persons of different descriptions.


Topic: Descriptiv
Definition:
DESCRIPTIV,E, a.  Containing description; tending to describe; having the quality of representing; as a descriptive figure; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.


Topic: Descry
Definition:
DESCRY, v.t.
1.  To espy; to explore; to examine by observation.
The house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel.  Judges 1.
2.  To detect; to find out; to discover any thing concealed.
3.  To see; to behold; to have a sight of from a distance; as, the seamen descried land.
4.  To give notice of something suddenly discovered.
DESCRY, n.  Discovery; thing descovered.


Topic: Desecrate
Definition:
DESECRATE, v.t. [L.  To consecrate, from sacred.]
1.  To divert from a sacred purpose or appropriation; opposed to consecrate; as, to desecrate a donation to a church.
2.  To divest of a sacred character or office.
The clergy-cannot suffer corporal punishment, without being previously desecrated.


Topic: Desecrated
Definition:
DESECRATED, pp.  Diverted from a sacred purpose or appropriation; divested of a sacred character or office.


Topic: Desecrating
Definition:
DESECRATING, ppr.  Diverting from a purpose to which a thing is consecrated; divested of a sacred character or office.


Topic: Desecration
Definition:
DESECRATION, n.  The act of diverting from a sacred purpose or use to which a thing had been devoted; the act of diverting from a sacred character or office.


Topic: Desert
Definition:
DESERT, a.  S as z [L.  To sow, plant or scatter.]
1.  Literally, forsaken; hence, uninhabited; as a desert isle.  Hence, wild; untilled; waste; uncultivated; as a desert land or country.
2.  Void; emprty; unoccupied.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
DESERT, n.  An uninhabited tract of land; a region in its natural state; a wilderness; a solitude; particularly, a vast sandy plain, as the deserts of Arabia and Africa.  But the word may be applied to an uninhabited country covered with wood.
DESERT, v.t. [L. To forsake.]
1.  To forsake; to leave utterly; to abandon; to quit with a view not to return to; as, to desert a friend; to desert our country; to desert a cause.
2.  To leave, without permission, a military band, or a ship, in which one is enlisted; to forsake the service in which one is engaged, in violation of duty; as, to desert the army; to desert ones colors; to desert a ship.
DESERT, v.i.  To run away; to quit a service without permission; as, to desert from the army.
DESERT, n.
1.  A deserving; that which gives a right to reward or demands, or which renders liable to punishment; merit or demerit; that which entitles to a recompense of equal to the offense; good conferred, or evil done, which merits an equivalent return. A wise legislature will reward or punish men according to their deserts.
2.  That which is deserved; reward or punishment merited. In a future life, every man will receive his desert.


Topic: Deserter
Definition:
DESERTER, n.  A person who forsakes his cause, his post, or his party or friend; particularly, a soldier or seaman who quits the service without permission, and in violation of his engagement.


Topic: Desertion
Definition:
DESERTION, n.
 1.  The act of forsaking or abandoning, as a party, a friend, a country, an army or military band, or a ship; the act of quitting, with an intention not to return.
2.  The state of being forsaken by God; spiritual despondency.
The agonies of a soul under desertion.


Topic: Deserve
Definition:
DESERVE, v.t. [L. To serve.]
1. To merit; to be worthy of; applied to good or evil.
2.  To merit by labor or services; to have a just claim to an equivalent for good conferred. The laborer deserves his wages; he deserves the value of his services.
3.  To merit by good actions or qualities in general; to be worthy of, on account of excellence.  The virtuous man deserves esteem and commendation.  A work of value deserves praise.
4.  To be worthy of, in a bad sense; to merit by an evil act; as, to deserve blame or punishment.
God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.  Job 11.
DESERVE, v.i.  To merit; to be worthy of or deserving; as, he deserves well or ill of his neighbor.


Topic: Deservedly
Definition:
DESERVEDLY, adv.  Justly; according to desert, whether of good or evil.  A man may be deservedly praised, blamed or punished.


Topic: Deserving
Definition:
DESERVING, ppr.  
1.  Meriting; having a just claim to reward; justly meriting punishment.
2.  Worthy of reward or praise; meritorious; possessed of good qualities that entitle to approbation; as a deserving officer.
DESERVING, n.  The act of meriting; desert; merit.
If ye have done to him according to the deserving of his hands.  Judges 9.


Topic: Deshabille
Definition:
DESHABILLE or DESHABIL, n.  An undress; a loose morning dress; hence, any home dress; as, the lady is in deshabille. [It would be well to anglicize the orthography.]


Topic: Desiccate
Definition:
DESICCATE, v.t. [L. To dry.] to dry; to exhaust of moisture; to exhale or remove moisture from.
DESICCATE, v.i.  To become dry.


Topic: Desideratum
Definition:
DESIDERATUM, n. Plu. Desiderata. [L. To desire.]   That which is desired; that which is not possessed, but which is desirable; any perfection or improvement which is wanted. The longitude is a desideratum in navigation. A tribunal to settle national disputes without war is a great desideratum.


Topic: Design
Definition:
DESIGN, v.t.[L.  To seal or stamp, that is, to set or throw.]
1.  To delineate a form or figure by drawing the outline; to sketch; as in painting and other works of art.
2.  To plan; to form an outline or representation of any thing.  Hence,
3.  To project; to form in idea, as a scheme.  Hence,
4.  To purpose or intend; as, a man designs to write an essay, or to study law.
5.  To mark out by tokens.
6.  To intend to apply or appropriate; with for; as, we design this ground for a garden, and that for a park.  The word design may include an adapting or planning a thing for a purpose, or mere intention or scheme of the mind, which implies a plan.  The father designs his son for the profession of the law, or for the ministry.  It was formerly followed by to, but this use is now uncommon.
DESIGN, n. 
1.  A plan or representation of a thing by an outline; sketch; general view; first idea represented by visible lines; as in painting or architecture.
2.  A scheme or plan in the mind.  A wise man is distinguished by the judiciousness of his designs.
3.  Purpose; intention; aim; implying a scheme or plan in the mind.  It is my design to educate my son for the bar.
4.  The idea or scheme intended to be expressed by an artist; as the designs of medals.
5.  In manufactories, the figures with which workmen enrich their stuffs, copied from painting or draughts.
6.  In music, the invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.


Topic: Designate
Definition:
DESIGNATE, v.t.
1.  To mark out or show, so as to make known; to indicate by bisible lines, marks, description or something known and determinate; as, to designate the limits of a country; the limits are designated on the map; designate the spot where a star appears in the heavens; designate the place where our ancestors first landed.
2.  To point out; to distinguish from others by indication; as, to be able to designate every individual who was concerned in a riot.
3.  To appoint; to select or distinguish for a particular purpose; to assign; with for, as to designate an officer for the command of a station; or with to, as this captain was designated to that station.
DESIGNATE, a.  Appointed; marked out.


Topic: Designation
Definition:
DESIGNATION, n.
1.  The act of pointing or marking out by signs or objects; as the designation of an estate by boundaries.
2.  Indication; a showing or pointing; a distinguishing from others.
3. Appointment; direction; as, a claim to a throne grounded on the designation of a predecessor.
4.  Appointment; a selecting and appointing; assignment; as the designation of an officer to a particular command.
5.  Import; distinct application.
Finite and infinite are primarily attributed in their first designation to things which have parts.


Topic: Designator
Definition:
DESIGNATOR, n.  A Roman officer who assigned to each person his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.


Topic: Designedly
Definition:
DESIGNEDLY, adv.  By design; purposely; intentionally; opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.


Topic: Designer
Definition:
DESIGNER, n.
1.  One who designs, marks out or plans; one who frames a scheme or project; a contriver.
2.  One who plots; one who lays a scheme; in an ill sense.


Topic: Designing
Definition:
DESIGNING, ppr.
1.  Forming a design; plnning; delineating the outline; drawing figures on a plane.
2.  A.  In an ill sense, artful; insidious; intriguing; contriving schemes of mischief; hence, deceitful.  Designing men are always liable to suspicion.
DESIGNING, n.  The art of delineating objects.


Topic: Desirable
Definition:
DESIRABLE, a.
1.  Worthy of desire; that is to be wished for with sincerity or earnestness.  An easy address is a desirable accomplishment; real virtue is still more desirable.
2.  Pleasing; agreeable.
All of them desirable young men.  Ezek. 23.


Topic: Desire
Definition:
DESIRE, n.
1.  An emotion or excitement of the mind, directed to the attainment or possession of an object from which pleasure, sensual, intellectual or spiritual, is expected; a passion excited by the love of an object, or uneasiness at the want of it, and directed to its attainment or possession.  Desire is a wish to possess some gratification or source of happiness which is supposed to be obtainable.  A wish may exist for something that is or is not abtainable. Desire, when directed solely to sensual enjoyment, differs little from appetite.  In other languages, desire is expressed by longing or reaching toward, and when it is ardent or intense, it approaches to longing, but the word in English usually expresses less than longing.
We endeavored-to see your face with great desire.  1 Thess. 2.
Thou satisfiest the desires of every living thing.  Ps. 145.
Desire is that internal act, which, by influencing the will, makes us proceed to action.
2.  A prayer or request to obtain:
He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him.  Ps. 145.
3.  The object of desire; that which is desired. 
The desire of all nations shall come.  Hag. 2.
4.  Love; affection.
His desire is toward me.  Cant. 7.
5.  Appetite; lust.
Fulfilling the desires of the flesh.  Eph. 2.
DESIRE, v.t.
1.  To wish for the possession or enjoyment of, with a greater or less degree of earnestness; to covet.  It expresses less strength of affection than longing.
Neither shall any man desire thy land.  Ex. 34.
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts.  1 Cor. 14.
2.  To express a wish to obtain; to ask; to request; to petition.
Then she said, did I desire a son of my Lord?  2 Kings 4.
3.  To require.


Topic: Desirous
Definition:
DESIROUS, a.  Wishing for; wishing to obtain; coveting; solicitous to possess and enjoy.
Be not desirous of his dainties.  Prov. 23.
Jesus knew they were desirous to ask him.  John 16.


Topic: Desist
Definition:
DESIST, v.i. [L. To stand.]   To stop; to cease to act or proceed; to forbear; with from; as, he desisted from his purpose; let us desist.


Topic: Desk
Definition:
DESK, n.
1.  An inclining table for the use of writers and readers; usually made with a box or drawer underneath, and sometimes with a book-case above.
2.  The pulpit in a church, and figuratively the clerical profession. The man appears well in the desk.  He intends one son for the bar, and another for the desk.
DESK, v.t.  To shut up in a desk; to treasure.


Topic: Desmine
Definition:
DESMINE, n.  A mineral that crystalizes in little silken tufts, which accompany spinellane in the lava of extinct volcanoes on the banks of the Rhine.


Topic: Desolate
Definition:
DESOLATE, a.  
1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; desert; uninhabited; denoting either stripped of inhabitants, or never having been inhabitated; as a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness.
I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.  Jer. 9.
2.  Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as desolate altars; desolate towers.  Ezek.  Zeph.
3.  Solitary; without a companion; afflicted.
Tamar remained desolate in Absaloms house. 2 Sam. 13.
4.  Deserted of God; deprived of comfort.
My heart within me is desolate.  Ps. 143.


Topic: Desolation
Definition:
DESOLATION, n.
1.  The act of desolating destruction or expulsion of inhabitants; destruction; ruin; waste.
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation.  Matt. 12.
2.  A place deprived of inhabitants, or otherwise wasted, ravaged and ruined.
How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations.  Jer. 50.
3.  A desolate state; gloominess; sadness; destitution.
The abomination of desolation, Roman armies which ravaged and destroyed Jerusalem.  Matt. 24.


Topic: Despair
Definition:
DESPAIR, n.
1.  Hopelessness; a hopeless state; a destitution of hope or expectation.
We are perplexed, but not in despair.  2 Cor. 4.
All safety in despair of safety placed.
2.  That which causes despair; that of which there is no hope.
The mere despair of surgery, he cures.
3.  Loss of hope in the mercy of God.
DESPAIR, v.i. [L. To hope.] To be without hope; to hive up all hope or expectation; followed by of.
We despaired even of life.  2 Cor. 1.
Never despair of Gods blessings here, or of his reward hereafter.


Topic: Despairingly
Definition:
DESPAIRINGLY, adv.  In a despairing manner; in a manner indicating hopelessness; as, he speaks despairingly of the sick mans recovery.


Topic: Desperado
Definition:
DESPERADO, n.  A desperate fellow; a furious man; a madman; a person urged by furious passions; one fearless, or regardless of safety.


Topic: Desperate
Definition:
DESPERATE, a. [L.  To despair.]
1.  Without hope.
I am desperate of obtaining her.
2.  Without care of safety; rash; fearless of danger; as a desperate man. Hence, 
3.  Furious, as a man in despair.
4.  Hopeless; despaired of; lost beyond hope of recovery; irretrievable; irrecoverable; forlorn.  We speak of a desperate case of disease, desperate fortunes, a desperate situation or condition.
5.  In a popular sense, great in the extreme; as a desperate sot or fool.


Topic: Desperately
Definition:
DESPERATELY, adv.  
1.  In a desperate manner; as in despair; hence, furiously; with rage; madly; without regard to danger or safety; as, the troops fought desperately.
2.  In a popular sense, greatly; extremely; violently.
She fell desperately in love with him.


Topic: Desperation
Definition:
DESPERATION, n.
1.  A despairing; a giving up of hope; as desperation of success.
2.  Hopelessness; despair; as, the men were in a state of desperation. Hence,
3.  Fury; rage; disregard of safety or danger; as, the men fought with desperation; they were urged to desperation.


Topic: Despicable
Definition:
DESPICABLE, a. [Low L. To look down, to despise; to look.] That may be or deserves to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; applicable equally to persons and things; as a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.


Topic: Despise
Definition:
DESPISE, .v.t.
1.  To contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have the lowest opinion of.
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.  Prov. 1.
Else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.  Matt. 6.
2.  To abhor.


Topic: Despite
Definition:
DESPITE, n.
1.  Extreme malice; violent hatred; malignity; malice irritated or enraged; active malignity; angry hatred.
With all thy despite against the land of israel.  Ezek. 25.
2.  Defiance with contempt, or contempt of opposition.
He will rise to fame in despite of his enemies.


Topic: Despiteful
Definition:
DESPITEFUL, a.  Full of spite; malicious; malignant; as a despiteful enemy.
Hater of God, despiteful, proud, boasters.  Rom. 1.


Topic: Despitefully
Definition:
DESPITEFULLY, adv.  With despite; maliciously; contemptuously.
Pray for them that despitefully use you.  Matt. 5.


Topic: Despoil
Definition:
DESPOIL,v.t. [L. To spoil.]
1.  To strip; to take from by force; to rob; to deprive; followed by of; as, to despoil one of arms; to despoil of honors; to despoil of innocence.
2.  To strip or divest by any means.


Topic: Despond
Definition:
DESPOND, v.i.[L.  To promise; literally, to throw to or forward.]
1.  To be cast down; to be depressed or dejected in mind; to fail in spirits.
I should despair, or at least despond.
2.  To lose all courage, spirit or resolution; to sink by loss of hope.
Others depress their own mind, and despond at the first difficulty.
Note.  The distinction between despair and despond is well marked in the foregoing passage from Scott.  But although despair implies a total loss of hope, which despond does not, at least in every case, yet despondency is followed by the abandonment of effort, or cessation of action, and despair sometimes impelss to violent action, even to rage.


Topic: Despondency
Definition:
DESPONDENCY, n.  A sinking or dejection of spirits at the loss of hope; loss of courage at the failure of hope, or in deep affliction, or at the prospect of insurmountable difficulties.


Topic: Despondent
Definition:
DESPONDENT, a.  Losing courage at the loss of hope; sinking into dejection; depressed and inactive in despair.


Topic: Desponding
Definition:
DESPONDING, ppr.  Losing courage to act, in consequence of loss of hope, or of deep calamity, or of difficulties deemed insurmountable; sinking into dejection; despairing, with depression of spirits; despairingly.


Topic: Despot
Definition:
DESPOT, n.  An emperor, king or price invested with absolute power, or ruling without any control from men, constitution or laws.  Hence in a general sense, a tyrant.


Topic: Despotism
Definition:
DESPOTISM, n.
1.  Absolute power; authority unlimited and uncontrolled by men, constitution or laws, and depending alone on the will of the prince; as the despotism of a Turkish sultan.
2.  An arbitrary government, as that of Turkey and Persia.


Topic: Despumation
Definition:
DESPUMATION, n.  The act of throwing off excrementitious matter and forming a froth or scum on the surface of liquor; clarification; scumming.


Topic: Desquamation
Definition:
DESQUAMATION, n. [L. A scale.]   A scaling or exfoliation of bone; the separation of the cuticle in small scales.


Topic: Dessert
Definition:
DESSERT, n. A service of fruits and sweetmeats, at the close of an entertainment; the last course at the table, after the meat is removed.


Topic: Destination
Definition:
DESTINATION, n. 
1.  The act of destining, or appointing.
2.  The purpose for which any thing is intended or appointed; end or ultimate design.  Every animal is fitted for its destination.
3.  The place to which a thing is appointed, as the ship left her destination; but it is more usual to say, the place of her destination.


Topic: Destine
Definition:
DESTINE, v.t. [L.]
1.  To set, ordain or appoint to a use, purpose, state or place. We destine a son to the ministerial office; a house for a place of worship; a ship for the London trade or to Lisbon; and we are all destined to a future state of happiness or misery.


Topic: Destiny
Definition:
DESTINY, n.  
1.  State or condition appointed or predetermined; ultimate fate; as, men are solicitous to know their future destiny, which is however happily concealed from them.
2.  Invincible necessity; fate; a necessity or fixed order of things established by a divine decree, or by an indissoluble connection of causes and effects.
But who can turn the stream of destiny?
Destinies, the fates, or supposed powers which preside over himan life, spin it out, and determine it; called by the Latins, parcae.


Topic: Destitute
Definition:
DESTITUTE, a. [L.  To set. Literally, set from or away.]
1.  Not having or possessing; wanting; as destitute of virtue, or of peity; destitute of food and clothing. It differs from deprived, as it does not necessarily imply previous possession.
2.  Needy; abject; comfortless; friendless.
He will regard the prayer of the destitute.  Ps. 102.
DESTITUTE, n.  One who is without friends or comfort.
DESTITUTE, v.t. 
1.  To forsake.
2.  To deprive.


Topic: Destitution
Definition:
DESTITUTION, n.  Want; absence of a thing; a state in which something is wanted or not possessed; poverty.


Topic: Destroy
Definition:
DESTROY, v.t. [L. To pile, to build.]
1.  To demolish; to pull down; to separate the parts of an edifice, the union of which is necessary to constitute the thing; as, to destroy a house or temple; to destroy a fortification.
2.  To ruin; to annihilate a thing by demolishing or by burning; as, to destroy a city.
3.  To ruin; to bring to naught; to annihilate; as, to destroy a theory or scheme; to destroy a government; to destroy influence.
4.  To lay waste; to make desolate.
Go up against this land, and destroy it.  Is. 36.
5.  To kill; to slay; to extirpate; applied to men or other animals.
Ye shall destroy all this people.  Num. 32.
All the wicked will he destroy.  Ps. 145.
6.  To take away; to cause to cease; to put an end to; as, pain destroys happiness.
That the body of sin might be destroyed.  Rom 6.
7.  To kill; to eat; to devour; to consume.  Birds destroy insects.  Hawks destroy chickens.
8.  In general, to put an end to; to annihilate a thing or the form in which it exists.  An army is destroyed by slaughter, capture or dispersion; a forest, by the ax, or by fire; towns, by fire or inundation, &c.
9.  In chimistry, to resolve a body into its parts or elements.


Topic: Destroyer
Definition:
DESTROYER, n.  One who destroys, or lays waste; one who kills a man, or an animal, or who ruins a country, cities, &c.


Topic: Destroying
Definition:
DESTROYING, ppr.  Demolishing; laying waste; killing; annihilating; putting an end to.
DESTROYING, n.  Destruction.


Topic: Destruction
Definition:
DESTRUCTION, n.
1.  The act of destroying; demolition; a pulling down; subversion; ruin, by whatever means; as the destruction of buildings, or of towns.  Destruction consists in the annihilation of the form of any theing; that form of parts which constitues it what it is; as the destruction of grass or herbage by eating; of a forest, by cutting down the trees; or it denotes a total annihilation; as the destruction of a particular government; the destruction of happiness.
2.  Death; murder; slaughter; massacre.
There was a deadly destruction throughout all the city.  1 Sam. 5.
3.  Ruin.
Destruction and misery are in their ways.  Rom. 3.
4.  Eternal death. 
Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction.  Matt. 7.
5.  Cause of destruction; a consuming plague; a destroyer.
The destruction that wasteth at noon-day.  Ps. 91.


Topic: Destructive
Definition:
DESTRUCTIVE, a.  Causing destruction; having the quality of destroying; ruinous; mischievous; pernicious; with of or to; as a destructive fire or famine.  Intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.


Topic: Destructively
Definition:
DESTRUCTIVELY, adv.  With destruction; ruinously; mischievously; with power to destroy; as destructively lewd or intemperate.


Topic: Desudation
Definition:
DESUDATION, n. [L., to sweat.] A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, succeeded by an eruption of pustles, called heat-pimples.


Topic: Desuetude
Definition:
DESUETUDE, n. [L.] The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom or fashion. Habit is contracted by practice, and lost by desuetude. Words in every language are lost by desuetude.


Topic: Desultoriness
Definition:
DESULTORINESS, n. A desultory manner; unconnectedness; a passing from one thing to another without order or method.


Topic: Desultory
Definition:
DESULTORY, a. [L., to leap.]
1. Leaping; passing from one thing or subject to another, without order or natural connection; unconnected; immethodical; as a desultory conversation.
2. Coming suddenly; started at the moment; not proceeding from natural order or connection with what precedes; as a desultory thought.


Topic: Detach
Definition:
DETACH, v.t. [See Attach.]
1. To separate or disunite; to disengage; to part from; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from the interest of the minister, or from a party.
2. To separate men from their companies or regiments; to draw from companies or regiments, as a party of men, and send them on a particular service.
3. To select ships from a fleet and send them on a separate service.


Topic: Detached
Definition:
DETACHED, pp. 
1. Separated; parted from ; disunited; drawn and sent on a separate service.
2. a. Separate; as detached parcels or portions.


Topic: Detachment
Definition:
DETACHMENT, n. 
1. The act of detaching.
2. A body of troops, selected or taken from the main army, and employed on some special service or expedition.
3. A number of ships, taken from a fleet, and sent on a separate service.


Topic: Detail
Definition:
DETAIL, v.t. 
1. To relate, report or narrate in particulars; to recite the particulars of; to particularize; to relate minutely and distinctly; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.
2. To select, as an officer or soldier from a division, brigade, regiment or battalion.
DETAIL, n. 
1. A narration or report of particulars; a minute and particular account. He related the story in detail. He gave a detail of all the transactions.
2. A selecting of officer or soldiers from the rosters.


Topic: Detainer
Definition:
DETAINER, n. 
1. One who withholds what belongs to another; one who detains, stops or prevents from going.
2. In law, a holding or keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is anothers, though the original taking may be lawful.


Topic: Detain
Definition:
DETAIN, verb transitive [Latin , to hold. See Tenant.]

1. To keep back or from; to withhold; to keep what belongs to another. detain not the wages of the hireling.

2. To keep or restrain from proceeding, either going or coming; to stay or stop. We were detained by the rain.

Let us detain thee, till we have made ready a kid. Judges 13:15.

3. To hold in custody.


Topic: Detaining
Definition:
DETAINING, ppr. Withholding what belongs to another; holding back; restraining from going or coming; holding in custody.


Topic: Detect
Definition:
DETECT, v.t. [L., to cover.] Literally, to uncover; hence, to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect the ramifications and inosculations of the fine vessels. But this word is especially applied to the discovery of secret crimes and artifices. We detect a thief, or the crime of stealing. We detect the artifices of the man, or the man himself. We detect what is concealed, especially what is concealed by design.


Topic: Detection
Definition:
DETECTION, n. The act of detecting; discovery of a person or thing attempted to be concealed; as the detection of a thief or burglarian; the detection of fraud or forgery; the detection of artifice, device or a plot.
2. Discovery of any thing before hidden, or unknown.
The sea and rivers are instrumental to the detection of amber and other fossils, by washing away the earth that concealed them.


Topic: Detent
Definition:
DETENT, n. [L.] A stop in a clock, which by being lifted up or let down, locks and unlocks the clock in striking.


Topic: Detention
Definition:
DETENTION, n. [See Detain.]
1. The act of detaining; a withholding from another his right; a keeping what belongs to another, and ought to be restored.
2. Confinement; restraint; as detention in custody.
3. Delay from necessity; a detaining; as the detention of the mail by bad roads.


Topic: Deter
Definition:
DETER, v.t. [L., to frighten.] 
1. To discourage and stop by fear; to stop or prevent from acting or proceeding, by danger, difficulty or other consideration which disheartens, or countervails the motive for an act. We are often deterred from out duty by trivial difficulties. The state of the road or a cloudy sky may deter a man from undertaking a journey.
A million of frustrated hopes will not deter us from new experiments.
2. To prevent by prohibition or danger.


Topic: Deterge
Definition:
DETERGE, v.t. deterj. [L., to wipe or scour.] To cleanse; to purge away foul or offending matter, from the body, or from an ulcer.


Topic: Detergent
Definition:
DETERGENT, a. Cleansing; purging.
DETERGENT, n. A medicine that has the power of cleansing the vessels or skin from offending matter.


Topic: Deteriorate
Definition:
DETERIORATE, v.i. [L.] To grow worse; to be impaired in quality to degenerate; opposed to meliorate.
DETERIORATE, v.t. To make worse; to reduce in quality; as, to deteriorate a race of men of their condition.


Topic: Determinable
Definition:
DETERMINABLE, a. [See Determine.]
1. That may be decided with certainty.
2. That may end or be determined.


Topic: Determinate
Definition:
DETERMINATE, a. [L.]
1. Limited; fixed; definite; as a determinate quantity of matter.
2. Established; settled; positive; as a determinate rule or order.
The determinate counsel of God. Acts 2.
3. Decisive; conclusive; as a determinate resolution or judgment.
4. Resolved on.
5. Fixed; resolute.
DETERMINATE, v.t. To limit. [Not used. See Determine.]


Topic: Determinately
Definition:
DETERMINATELY, adv. 
1. With certainty.
The principles of religion are determinately true or false.
2. Resolutely; with fixed resolve. [Unusual.]


Topic: Determination
Definition:
DETERMINATION, n. 
1. The act of determining or deciding.
2. Decision of a question in the mind; firm resolution; settled purpose; as, they have acquainted me with their determination.
3. Judicial decision; the ending of a controversy or suit by the judgment of a court. Justice is promoted by a speedy determination of causes, civil and criminal.
4. Absolute direction to a certain end.
Remissness can by no means consist with a constant determination of the will to the greatest apparent good.
5. An ending; a putting an end to; as the determination of a will.


Topic: Determinative
Definition:
DETERMINATIVE, a. 
1. That uncontrollably directs to a certain end.
The determinative power of a just cause.
2. Limiting; that limits or bounds; as, a word may be determinative and limit the subject.


Topic: Determine
Definition:
DETERMINE, v.t. [L., to bound; a boundary or limit. Gr. See Term.]
1. To end; particularly, to end by the decision or conclusion of a cause, or of a doubtful or controverted point; applicable to the decisions of the mind, or to judicial decisions. We say, I had determined this question in my own mind; the court has determined the cause.
2. To end and fix; to settle ultimately; as, this event determined his fate.
3. To fix on; to settle or establish; as, to determine the proper season for planting seeds.
God--hath determined the times before appointed. Acts 17.
4. To end; to limit; to bound; to confine. Yonder hill determines our view. Knowledge is determined by the sight.
5. To give a direction to; to influence the choice; that is, to limit to a particular purpose or direction; as, this circumstance determined him to the study of law.  Also, to give a direction to material bodies in their course; as, impulse may determine a moving body to this or that point.
6. To resolve, that is, to end or settle a point in the mind, as in Definition first.
I determined this with myself. 2 Corinthians 2.
Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus. Acts 20.
7. To destroy. [Not used.]
8. To put an end to; as, to determine a will.
9. To settle or ascertain, as something uncertain.
The character of the soul is determined by the character of its God.
DETERMINE, v.i.
1. To resolve; to conclude; to come to a decision.
He shall pay as the judges determine. Exodus 21.
It is indifferent how the learned shall determine concerning this matter.
2. To end; to terminate. The danger determined by the death of the conspirators. Revolutions often determine in setting up tyranny at home, or in conquest from abroad.
Some estates may determine, on future contingencies.


Topic: Determined
Definition:
DETERMINED, pp. 
1. Ended; concluded; decided; limited; fixed; settled; resolved; directed.
2. a. Having a firm or fixed purpose, as a determined man; or manifesting a firm resolution, as a determined countenance.


Topic: Deterration
Definition:
DETERRATION, n. [L., de and terra, earth.] The uncovering of any thing which is buried or covered with earth; a taking from out of the earth.


Topic: Deterred
Definition:
DETERRED, pp. [See Deter.] Discouraged or prevented from proceeding or acting, by fear, difficulty or danger.


Topic: Deterring
Definition:
DETERRING, pp. 
1. Discouraging or influencing not to proceed or act, by fear, difficulty, danger, or prospect of evil.
2. a. Discouraging; frightening.


Topic: Detersive
Definition:
DETERSIVE, a. [See Deterge.] Cleansing; having power to cleanse from offending matter.
DETERSIVE, n. A medicine which has the power of cleansing ulcers, or carrying off foul matter.


Topic: Detest
Definition:
DETEST, v.t. [L., to affirm or bear witness. The primary sense of testor is to set, throw or thrust. To detest is to thrust away.] To abhor; to abominate; to hate extremely; as, to detest crimes or meanness.


Topic: Detestable
Definition:
DETESTABLE, a. Extremely hateful; abominable; very odious; deserving abhorrence.
Thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things. Ezekiel 5.


Topic: Detestation
Definition:
DETESTATION, n. Extreme hatred; abhorrence; with of. The good man entertains uniformly a detestation of sin.


Topic: Dethrone
Definition:
DETHRONE, v.t. [L.] 
1. To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of royal authority and dignity.
2. To divest of rule or power, or of supreme power.
The protector was dethroned.


Topic: Detinue
Definition:
DETINUE, n.  In law, a writ of detinue is one that lies against him who wrongfully detains goods or chattels delivered to him, or in his possession. This writ lies for a thing certain and valuable, as for a horse, cow, sheep, plate, cloth, &c., to recover the thing itself or damages for the detainer.


Topic: Detonate
Definition:
DETONATE, v.t. [L., to thunder.] In chemistry, to cause to explode; to burn or inflame with a sudden report.
DETONATE, v.i. To explode; to burn with a sudden report. Niter detonates with sulphur.


Topic: Detonation
Definition:
DETONATION, n. An explosion or sudden report made by the inflammation of certain combustible bodies, as fulminating gold. Detonation is not decrepitation.


Topic: Detonize
Definition:
DETONIZE, v.t [See Detonate.] To cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to calcine with detonation.
DETONIZE, v.i. To explode; to burn with a sudden report.
This precipitate-detonizes with a considerable noise.


Topic: Detort
Definition:
DETORT, v.t. [L., to twist.] To twist; to wrest; to pervert; to turn from the original or plain meaning.


Topic: Detract
Definition:
DETRACT, v.t. [L., to draw. See Draw and Drag.]
1. Literally, to draw from. Hence, to take away from reputation or merit, through envy, malice or other motive; hence, to detract from, is to lessen or depreciate reputation or worth; to derogate from.
Never circulate reports that detract from the reputation or honor of your neighbor, without obvious necessity to justify the act.
2. To take away; to withdraw, in a literal sense.


Topic: Detraction
Definition:
DETRACTION, n. [L.] The act of taking something from the reputation or worth of another, with the view to lessen him in estimation; censure; a lessening of worth; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice. Detraction may consist in representing merit, as less than it really is; or in the imputation of faults, vices or crimes, which impair reputation; and if such imputation is false, it is slander or defamation.


Topic: Detractor
Definition:
DETRACTOR, n. One who takes away or impairs the reputation of another injuriously; one who attempts to lessen the worth or honor of another.


Topic: Detriment
Definition:
DETRIMENT, n. [L., worn off.] Loss; damage; injury; mischief; harm; diminution. We speak of detriment to interest, property, religion, morals, reputation, and to land or buildings. It is a word of very general application.


Topic: Detrimental
Definition:
DETRIMENTAL, a. Injurious; hurtful; causing loss or damage.
A spirit of speculation may be detrimental to regular commerce.


Topic: Detritus
Definition:
DETRITUS, n. [L., worn; to wear.] In geology, a mass of substances worn off or detached from solid bodies by attrition; as diluvial detritus.


Topic: Detruncate
Definition:
DETRUNCATE, v.t. [L., to cut shorter; cut short. See Trench.] To cut off; to lop; to shorten by cutting.


Topic: Deuce
Definition:
DEUCE, n. Two; a card with two spots; a die with two spots; a term used in gaming.
DEUCE, n. A demon. [See Duse.]


Topic: Deuterogamy
Definition:
DEUTEROGAMY, n. [Gr., second; marriage.] A second marriage after the death of the first husband or wife.


Topic: Deuteronomy
Definition:
DEUTERONOMY, n. [Gr., second; law.] The second law, or second giving of the law by Moses; the name given to the fifth book of the Pentateuch.


Topic: Devastate
Definition:
DEVASTATE, v.t. [L., to waste. See Waste.] To lay waste; to waste; to ravage; to desolate; to destroy improvements.


Topic: Devastation
Definition:
DEVASTATION, n. [L.] 
1. Waste; ravage; desolation; destruction of works of art and natural productions which are necessary or useful to man; havock; as by armies, fire, flood, &c.
2. IN law, waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor, or administrator.


Topic: Develop
Definition:
DEVELOP, v.t. 
1. To uncover; to unfold; to lay open; to disclose or make known something concealed or withheld from notice.
The General began to develop the plan of his operations.
These serve to develop its tenets.
2. To unravel; to unfold what is intricate; as, to develop a plot.


Topic: Development
Definition:
DEVELOPMENT, n. 
1. An unfolding; the discovering of something secret or withheld from the knowledge of others; disclosure; full exhibition.
2. The unraveling of a plot.


Topic: Devest
Definition:
DEVEST, v.t. [L., a vest, a garment. Generally written divest.]
1. To strip; to deprive of clothing or arms; to take off.
2. To deprive; to take away; as, to devest a man or nation of rights. [See Divest.]
3. To free from; to disengage.
4. In law, to alienate, as title or right.
DEVEST, v.i. In law, to be lost or alienated, as a title or an estate.
[This word is generally written divest, except in the latter and legal sense.]


Topic: Deviate
Definition:
DEVIATE, v.i. [L., way.]
1. To turn aside or wander from the common or right way, course or line, either in a literal or figurative sense; as, to deviate from the common track or path, or from a true course.
There nature deviates, and here wanders will.
2. To stray from the path of duty; to wander, in a moral sense; to err; to sin.


Topic: Deviation
Definition:
DEVIATION, n. 
1. A wandering or turning aside from the right way, course or line.
2. Variation from a common or established rule, or from analogy.
3. A wandering from the path of duty; want of conformity to the rules prescribed by God; error; sin; obliquity of conduct.
4. In commerce, the voluntary departure of a ship, without necessity, from the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured. This discharges the underwriters from their responsibility.


Topic: Device
Definition:
DEVICE, n. [L.]
1. That which is formed by design, or invented; scheme; artificial contrivance; stratagem; project; sometimes in a good sense; more generally in a bad sense, as artifices are usually employed for bad purposes.
In a good sense:
His device is against Babylon, to destroy it. Jeremiah 51.
In a bad sense:
 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Job 5.
They imagined a mischievous device. Psalm 212.
2. An emblem intended to represent a family, person, action or quality, with a suitable motto; used in painting, sculpture and heraldry. It consists in a metaphorical similitude between the things representing and represented, as the figure of a plow representing agriculture.
Knights-errant used to distinguish themselves by devices on their shields.
3. Invention; genius; faculty of devising; as a man of noble device.
4. A spectacle or show.


Topic: Devil
Definition:
DEVIL, n. Devl. [L., to calumniate.]
1. In the Christian theology, an evil spirit or being; a fallen angel, expelled from heaven for rebellion against God; the chief of the apostate angels; the implacable enemy and tempter of the human race. In the New Testament, the word is frequently and erroneously used for demon.
2. A very wicked person, and in ludicrous language, an great evil. In profane language, it is an expletive expressing wonder, vexation, &c.
3. An idol, or false god. Leviticus 17. 2 Chronicles 11.


Topic: Devilish
Definition:
DEVILISH, a. 
1. Partaking of the qualities of the devil; diabolical; very evil and mischievous; malicious; as a devilish scheme; devilish wickedness.
2. Having communication with the devil; pertaining to the devil.
3. Excessive; enormous; in a vulgar and ludicrous sense; as a devilish cheat.


Topic: Devilishly
Definition:
DEVILISHLY, adv. 
1. In a manner suiting the devil; diabolically; wickedly.
2. Greatly; excessively; in a vulgar sense.


Topic: Devious
Definition:
DEVIOUS, a. [L., way.]
1. Out of the common way or track; as a devious course.
2. Wandering; roving; rambling.
To bless the wildly devious morning walk.
3. Erring; going astray from rectitude or the divine precepts.
One devious step at first may lead into a course of habitual vice.


Topic: Devisable
Definition:
DEVISABLE, a. s as z. [See the Verb.]
1. That may be bequeathed or given by will.
2. That can be invented or contrived.


Topic: Devise
Definition:
DEVISE, v.t. s as z. [L.] 
1. To invent; to contrive; to form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to excogitate; to strike out by thought; to plan; to scheme; to project; as, to devise an engine or machine; to devise a new mode of writing; to devise a plan of defense; to devise arguments.
To devise curious works in gold and silver. Exodus 35.
In a bad sense:
Devise not evil against thy neighbor. Proverbs 3.
2. To give or bequeath by will, as land or other real estate.
DEVISE, v.i. To consider; to contrive; to lay a plan; to form a scheme.
Devise how you will use him, when he comes.
Formerly followed by of; as, let us devise of ease.
DEVISE, n. 
1. Primarily, a dividing or division; hence, the act of bequeathing by will; the act of giving or distributing real estate by a testator.
2. A will or testament.
3. A share of estate bequeathed.
DEVISE, n. Contrivance; scheme invented.


Topic: Devoid
Definition:
DEVOID, a. [See Void.]
1. Void; empty; vacant; applied to place.
2. Destitute; not possessing; as devoid of understanding.
3. Free from; as devoid of fear or shame.


Topic: Devoir
Definition:
DEVOIR, n. [L., to owe.] Primarily, service or duty. Hence, an act of civility or respect; respectful notice due to another; as, we paid our devoirs to the queen, or to the ladies.


Topic: Devolution
Definition:
DEVOLUTION, n. [L.]
1. The act of rolling down; as the devolution of earth into a valley.
2. Removal from one person to another; a passing or falling upon a successor.


Topic: Devolve
Definition:
DEVOLVE, v.t. devolv. [L., to roll.]
1. To roll down; to pour or flow with windings.
Through splendid kingdoms he devolves his maze.
2. To move from one person to another; to deliver over, or from one possessor to a successor.
The king devolved the care and disposition of affairs on the duke or Ormond.
DEVOLVE, v.i. devolv. Literally, to roll down; hence, to pass from one to another; to fall by succession from one possessor to his successor. In the absence of the commander in chief, the command devolved on the next officer in rank. On the death of the prince, the crown devolved on his eldest son.


Topic: Devote
Definition:
DEVOTE, v.t. [L., to vow.]
1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart ro dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate.
No devoted thing that a man shall devote to the Lord--shall be sold or redeemed. Every thing devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. Leviticus 27.
2. To give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention wholly or chiefly; to attach; as, to devote ones self to science; to devote ourselves to our friends, or to their interest or pleasure.
3. To give up; to resign; as, aliens were devoted to rapine; the city was devoted to the flames.
4. To doom; to consign over; as, to devote one to destruction.
5. To execrate; to doom to evil.
DEVOTE, a. Devoted.
DEVOTE, n. A devotee.


Topic: Devoted
Definition:
DEVOTED, pp. Appropriated by vow; solemnly set apart or dedicated; consecrated; addicted; given up; doomed; consigned.


Topic: Devotee
Definition:
DEVOTEE, n. One who is wholly devoted; particularly, one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.


Topic: Devoting
Definition:
DEVOTING, ppr. Giving or appropriating by vow; solemnly setting apart or dedicating; consecrating; giving wholly; addicting; dooming; consigning.


Topic: Devotion
Definition:
DEVOTION, n. 
1. The state of being dedicated, consecrated, or solemnly set apart for a particular purpose.
2. A solemn attention to the Supreme Being in worship; a yielding of the heart and affections to God, with reverence, faith and piety, in religious duties, particularly in prayer and meditation; devoutness.
3. External worship; acts of religion; performance of religious duties.
As I passed by and beheld your devotions. Acts 17.
4. Prayer to the Supreme Being. A Christian will be regular in his morning and evening devotions.
5. An act of reverence, respect or ceremony.
6. Ardent love or affection; attachment manifested by constant attention; as, the duke was distinguished by his devotion to the king, and to the interest of the nation.
7. Earnestness; ardor; eagerness.
He seeks their hate with greater devotion than they can render it him.
8. Disposal; power of disposing of; state of dependence.
Arundel castle would keep that rich corner of the country at his majestys devotion.


Topic: Devotional
Definition:
DEVOTIONAL, a. 
1. Pertaining to devotion; used in devotion; as a devotional posture; devotional exercises.
2. Suited to devotion; as a devotional frame of mind.


Topic: Devotionalist
Definition:
DEVOTIONALIST, DEVOTIONIST, n. A person given to devotion; or one superstitiously or formally devout.


Topic: Devour
Definition:
DEVOUR, v.t. [L., to eat.] 
1. To eat up; to eat with greediness; to eat ravenously, as a beast of prey, or as a hungry man.
We will say, some evil beast hath devoured him. Genesis 37.
In the morning, he shall devour the prey. Genesis 49.
2. To destroy; to consume with rapidity and violence.
I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad. Amos 1.
Famine and pestilence shall devour him. Ezekiel 7.
3. To destroy; to annihilate; to consume.
He seemed in swiftness to devour the way.
4. To waste; to consume; to spend in dissipation and riot.
As soon as this thy son had come, who hath devoured thy living with harlots. Luke 15.
5. To consume wealth and substance by fraud, oppression, or illegal exactions.
Ye devour widows houses. Matthew 23.
6. To destroy spiritually; to ruin the soul.
Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. 1 Peter 5.
7. To slay.
The sword shall devour the young lions. Nahum 2.
8. To enjoy with avidity.
Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, devour her oer and oer with vast delight.


Topic: Devout
Definition:
DEVOUT, a. [L. See Devote.]
1. Yielding a solemn and reverential attention to God in religious exercises, particularly in prayer.
We must be constant and devout in the worship of God.
2. Pious; devoted to religion; religious.
Simeon was a just man and devout. Luke 2.
Devout men carried Stephen to his burial. Acts 8.
3. Expressing devotion or piety; as, with eyes devout.
4. Sincere; solemn; earnest; as, you have my devout wishes for your safety.
DEVOUT, n. A devotee. [Not used.]


Topic: Devoutly
Definition:
DEVOUTLY, adv. 
1. With solemn attention and reverence to God; with ardent devotion.
He was devoutly engaged in prayer.
2. Piously; religiously; with pious thoughts; as, he viewed the cross devoutly.
3. Sincerely; solemnly; earnestly; as, a consummation devoutly to be wished.


Topic: Dew
Definition:
DEW, n. [G. To thaw.] The water or moisture collected or deposited on or near the surface of the earth, during the night, by the escape of the heat which held the water in solution.
DEW, v.t To wet with dew; to moisten.


Topic: Dew-berry
Definition:
DEW-BERRY, n. The fruit of a species of brier or bramble, that creeps along the ground, of the genus Rubus.


Topic: Dew-lap
Definition:
DEW-LAP, n. [dew and lap, to lick.]
1. The flesh that hangs from the throat of oxen, which laps or licks the dew in grazing.
2. In Shakespeare, a lip flaccid with age.


Topic: Dew-worm
Definition:
DEW-WORM, n. A worm, called otherwise earth-worm, a species of Lumbricus, which lives just under the surface of the ground. It is of a pale red color, and does no injury to plants.


Topic: Dewy
Definition:
DEWY, a. 
1. Partaking of dew; like dew; as dewy mist.
2. Moist with dew; as dewy fields.
His dewy locks distilled Ambrosia.


Topic: Dexter
Definition:
DEXTER, a. [L., Gr.] Right, as opposed to left; a term used in heraldry, to denote the right side of a shield or coat of arms; as, bend-dexter; dexter-point.


Topic: Dexterity
Definition:
DEXTERITY, n. [L., right, fit, prompt.]
1. Readiness of limbs; adroitness; activity; expertness; skill; that readiness in performing an action, which proceeds from experience or practice, united with activity or quick motion. We say, a man handles an instrument, or eludes a thrust, with dexterity.
2. Readiness of mind or mental faculties, as in contrivance, or inventing means to accomplish a purpose; promptness in devising expedients; quickness and skill in managing or conducting a scheme of operations. We say, a negotiation is conducted with dexterity.


Topic: Dextrous
Definition:
DEXTROUS, a. 
1. Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active in manual employment; adroit; as a dextrous hand; a dextrous workman.
2. Ready in the use of the mental faculties; prompt in contrivance and management; expert; quick at inventing expedients; as a dextrous manager.
3. Skillful; artful; done with dexterity; as dextrous management.


Topic: Dey
Definition:
DEY, n. The title of the governor or sovereign of Algiers, under the protection of the Grand Seignior.


Topic: Diabetes
Definition:
DIABETES, n. [Gr., to pass through; to go or pass.] A long continued increased quantity of urine; an excessive and morbid discharge of urine.


Topic: Diabolic
Definition:
DIABOLIC, DIABOLICAL, a. [L., the devil.] Devilish; pertaining to the devil; hence, extremely malicious; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; partaking of any quality ascribed to the devil; as a diabolical temper; a diabolical scheme or action.


Topic: Diacoustics
Definition:
DIACOUSTICS, n. The science or doctrine of refracted sounds; the consideration of the properties of sound refracted by passing through different mediums; called also diaphonics.


Topic: Diacritical
Definition:
DIACRITICAL, a. [Gr., to separate.] That separates or distinguishes; distinctive; as a diacritical point or mark.
The short vowel is never signified by any diacritical mark.


Topic: Diadelph
Definition:
DIADELPH, n. [Gr., twice; a brother.] In botany, a plant whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.


Topic: Diadem
Definition:
DIADEM, n. [Gr., to gird; to bind. L.]
1. Anciently, a head-band or fillet worn by kings as a badge or royalty.  It was made of silk, linen or wool, and tied round the temples and forehead, the ends being tied behind and let fall on the neck. It was usually white and plain; sometimes embroidered with gold, or set with pearls and precious stones.
2. In modern usage, the mark or badge of royalty, worn on the head; a crown; and figuratively, empire; supreme power.
3. A distinguished or principal ornament.
A diadem of beauty. Isaiah 28.


Topic: Diadrom
Definition:
DIADROM, n. [Gr., a running about; to run.] A course or passing; a vibration; the time in which the vibration of a pendulum is performed.


Topic: Diagnostic
Definition:
DIAGNOSTIC, a. [Gr., to know.] Distinguishing; characteristic; indicating the nature of a disease.
DIAGNOSTIC, n. The sign or symptom by which a disease is known or distinguished from others. Diagnostics are of two kinds; the adjunct, or such as are common to several diseases; and the pathognomonic, which always attend the disease, and distinguish it from all others.


Topic: Diagonal
Definition:
DIAGONAL, a. [Gr. A corner.] 
1. In geometry, extending from one angle to another of a quadrilateral figure, and dividing it into two equal parts.
2. Being in an angular direction.
DIAGONAL, n. A right line drawn from angle to angle of a quadrilateral figure, as a square or parallelogram, and dividing it into two equal parts. It is sometimes called the diameter, and sometimes the diametral.


Topic: Diagram
Definition:
DIAGRAM, n. [Gr., to write.] In geometry, a figure, draught or scheme delineated for the purpose of demonstrating the properties of any figure, as a square, triangle, circle, &c. Anciently, a musical scale.


Topic: Dial
Definition:
DIAL, n. An instrument for measuring time, by the aid of the sun; being a plate or plain surface, on which lines are drawn in such a manner, that the shadow of a wire, or of the upper edge of another plane, erected perpendicularly on the former, may show the true time of the day. The edge of the plane, which shows the time, is called the stile of the dial, and this must be parallel to the axis of the earth. The line on which this plane is erected, is called the substile; and the angle included between the substile and stile, is called the elevation or highth of the stile. A dial may be horizontal, vertical, or inclining.


Topic: Dial-plate
Definition:
DIAL-PLATE, n. The plate of a dial on which the lines are drawn, to show the hour or time of the day.


Topic: Dialect
Definition:
DIALECT, n. [Gr.]
1. The form or idiom of a language, peculiar to a province, or to a kingdom or state; consisting chiefly in differences of orthography or pronunciation. The Greek language is remarkable for four dialects, the Attic, Iionic, Doric and Eolic. A dialect is the branch of a parent language, with such local alterations as time, accident and revolutions may have introduced among descendants of the same stock or family, living in separate or remote situations.  But in regard to a large portion of words, many languages, which are considered as distinct, are really dialects of one common language.
2. Language; speech, or manner of speaking.


Topic: Dialing
Definition:
DIALING, n. The art of constructing dials, or of drawing dials on a plane. The sciateric science, or knowledge of showing the time by shadows.


Topic: Diallage
Definition:
DIALLAGE, n. [Gr., difference, alluding to the difference of luster between its natural joints.] A mineral, the smaragdite of Saussure, of a lamellar or foliated structure. Its subspecies are green diallage, metalloidal diallage and bronzite. The metalloidal subspecies is called schillersteing, or shiller spar.


Topic: Dialogue
Definition:
DIALOGUE, n. Dialog. [Gr., to dispute; to speak.]
1. A conversation or conference between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conversation in theatrical performances; also, an exercise in colleges and schools, in which two or more persons carry on a discourse.
2. A written conversation, or a composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing on some topic; as the dialogues of Cicero de Oratore, and de Natura Deorum.
DIALOGUE, v.i. To discourse together; to confer. [Not used.]


Topic: Dialysis
Definition:
DIALYSIS, n. [Gr., to dissolve.] 
1. A mark in writing or printing, consisting of two points placed over one of two vowels, to dissolve a diphthong, or to show that the two vowels are to be separated in pronunciation; as, aer, mosaic.
2. In medicine, debility; also, a solution of continuity.


Topic: Diameter
Definition:
DIAMETER, n. [Gr., measure through.]
1. A right line passing through the center of a circle or other curvilinear figure, terminated by the circumference, and dividing the figure into two equal parts.
2. A right line passing through the center of a piece of timber, a rock or other object, from one side to the other; as the diameter of a tree, or of a stone.


Topic: Diametrical
Definition:
DIAMETRICAL, a. 
1. Describing a diameter.
2. Observing the direction of a diameter; direct; as diametrical opposition.


Topic: Diamond
Definition:
DIAMOND, n. Dimond. [L., Gr. See Adamant.]
1. A mineral, gem or precious stone, of the most valuable kind, remarkable for its hardness, as it scratches all other minerals. When pure, the diamond is usually clear and transparent, but it is sometimes colored. In its rough state, it is commonly in the form of a roundish pebble, or of octahedral crystals. It consists of carbon, and when heated to 14 degrees Wedgewood, and exposed to a current of air, it is gradually, but completely combustible. When pure and transparent, it is said to be of the first water.
2. A very small printing letter.
3. A figure, otherwise called a rhombus.
DIAMOND, a. Resembling a diamond, as a diamond color; or consisting of diamonds, as a diamond chain.


Topic: Diapase
Definition:
DIAPASON, DIAPASE, n. [Gr., through all.]  
1. In music, the octave or interval which includes all the tones.
2. Among musical instrument-makers, a rule or scale by which they adjust the pipes of organs, the holes of flutes, &c., in due proportion for expressing the several tones and semitones.
Diapason-diapente, a compound consonance in a triple ratio, as 3 to 9, consisting of 9 tones and a semitone, or 19 semitones; a twelfth.
Diapason-diatessaron, a compound concord, founded on the proportion of 8 to 3, consisting of eight tones and a semitone.
Diapason-ditone, a compound concord, whose terms are as 10 to 4, or 5 to 2.
Diapason-semiditone, a compound concord, whose terms are in the proportion of 12 to 5.


Topic: Diapente
Definition:
DIAPENTE, n. [Gr., five.]
1. A fifth; an interval making the second of the concords, and with the diatessaron, an octave.
2. In medicine, a composition of five ingredients.


Topic: Diaper
Definition:
DIAPER, n. Figured linen cloth; a cloth wove in flowers or figures; much used for towels or napkins. Hence, a towel or napkin.
DIAPER, v.t. To variegate or diversify, as cloth, with figures; to flower.
DIAPER, v.i. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
If you diaper on folds.


Topic: Diaphaneity
Definition:
DIAPHANEITY, n. [Gr., to shine through; to shine.] The power of transmitting light; transparency; pellucidness.


Topic: Diaphanous
Definition:
DIAPHANOUS, a. [See supra.] Having power to transmit rays of light, as glass; pellucid; transparent; clear.


Topic: Diaphoresis
Definition:
DIAPHORESIS, n. [Gr., to carry through; to carry.] Augmented perspiration; or an elimination of the humors of the body through the pores of the skin.


Topic: Diaphoretic
Definition:
DIAPHORETIC, a. [supra.] Having the power to increase perspiration; sudorific; sweating.
DIAPHORETIC, n. A medicine which promotes perspiration; a sudorific.  Diaphoretics differ from sudorifics; the former only increase the insensible perspiration; the latter excite the sensible discharge called sweat.


Topic: Diaphragm
Definition:
DIAPHRAGM, n. Diafram. [Gr., to break off, to defend.]
1. In anatomy, the midriff, a muscle separating the chest or thorax from the abdomen or lower belly.
2. A partition or dividing substance.


Topic: Diaresis
Definition:
DIARESIS, DIARESY, n. [Gr., a division; to take away.] The dissolution of a diphthong; the mark placed over one of two vowels, denoting that they are to be pronounced separately, as distinct letters.


Topic: Diarrhea
Definition:
DIARRHEA, n. [Gr., to flow through; to flow.] Purging or flux; a frequent and copious evacuation of excrement by stool.


Topic: Diary
Definition:
DIARY, n. [L., a day.] An account of daily events or transactions; a journal; a register of daily occurrences or observations; as a diary of the weather. A diary fever is a fever of one day.


Topic: Diaschism
Definition:
DIASCHISM, n. [Gr., a piece cut off; to cut off.] In music, the difference between the comma and enharmonic diesis, commonly called the lesser comma.


Topic: Diaspore
Definition:
DIASPORE, n. [Gr., to disperse.] A mineral occurring in lamellar concretions, of a pearly gray color, and infusible. A small fragment, placed in the flame of a candle, almost instantly decrepitates, and is dispersed; whence its name. It is a mineral little known.


Topic: Diastaltic
Definition:
DIASTALTIC, a. [Gr., dilating.] Dilated; noble; bold; an epithet given by the Greeks to certain intervals in music, as the major third, major sixth and major seventh.


Topic: Diastole
Definition:
DIASTOLE, DIASTOLY, n. [Gr., to set or send from.]
1. Among physicians, a dilation of the heart, auricles and arteries; opposed to systole or contraction.
2. In grammar, the extension of a syllable; or a figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.


Topic: Diastyle
Definition:
DIASTYLE, n. [Gr.] An edifice in which three diameters of the columns are allowed for intercolumniations.


Topic: Diatessaron
Definition:
DIATESSARON, n. [Gr., four.] Among musicians, a concord or harmonic interval, composed of a greater tone, a lesser tone, and one greater semitone. Its proportion is as 4 to 3, and it is called a perfect fourth.


Topic: Diatonic
Definition:
DIATONIC, a. [Gr., by or through, sound.] Ascending or descending, as in sound, or from sound to sound. This epithet is given to a scale or gammut, to intervals of a certain kind, or to music composed of these intervals; as a diatonic series; a diatonic interval; diatonic melody or harmony. It is applied to ordinary music, containing only the two greater and lesser tones, and the greater semitone.


Topic: Diazeutic
Definition:
DIAZEUTIC, a. [Gr., to disjoin.] A diazeutic tone, in ancient Greek music, disjoined two fourths, one on each side of it, and which, being joined to either, made a fifth. This is, in our music, from A to B.


Topic: Dibble
Definition:
DIBBLE, n. [probably from the root of top, tip, a point, and denoting a little sharp point; or allied to dip, to thrust in.] A pointed instrument, used in gardening and agriculture, to make holes for planting seeds, &c.
DIBBLE, v.t. To plant with a dibble; or to make holes for planting seeds, &c.
DIBBLE, v.i. To dibble or dip; a term in angling.


Topic: Dichotomous
Definition:
DICHOTOMOUS, a. [Gr., doubly, by pairs; to cut.] In botany, regularly dividing by pairs from top to bottom; as a dichotomous stem.


Topic: Dichotomous-corymbed
Definition:
DICHOTOMOUS-CORYMBED, adjective Composed of corymbs, in which the pedicles divide and subdivide by pairs.


Topic: Dichotomy
Definition:
DICHOTOMY, n. [Gr., a division into two parts; to cut.]
1. Division or distribution of ideas by pairs. [Little used.]
2. In astronomy, that phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.


Topic: Dicker
Definition:
DICKER, n. [Gr., ten. L.] In old authors, the number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; but applied to other things, as a dicker gloves, &c. [I believe not used in America.]


Topic: Dicoccous
Definition:
DICOCCOUS, a. [Gr., L., a grain.] Two-grained; consisting of two cohering grains or cells, with one seed in each; as a dicoccous capsule.


Topic: Dicotyledonous
Definition:
DICOTYLEDONOUS, a. Having two lobes. A dicotyledonous plant is one whose seeds have two lobes, and consequently rise with two seminal leaves.


Topic: Dictate
Definition:
DICTATE, v.t. [L., to speak.]
1. To tell with authority; to deliver, as an order, command, or direction; as, what God has dictated, it is our duty to believe.
2. To order or instruct what is to be said or written; as, a general dictates orders to his troops.
3. To suggest; to admonish; to direct by impulse on the mind. We say, the spirit of God dictated the messages of the prophets to Israel. Conscience often dictates to men the rules by which they are to govern their conduct.
DICTATE, n. 
1. An order delivered; a command.
2. A rule, maxim or precept, delivered with authority.
I credit what the Grecian dictates say.
3. Suggestion; rule or direction suggested to the mind; as the dictates of reason or conscience.


Topic: Dictating
Definition:
DICTATING, ppr. Uttering or delivering with authority; instructing what to say or write; ordering; suggesting to the mind.


Topic: Dictation
Definition:
DICTATION, n. The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing.
It affords security against the dictation of laws.


Topic: Dictator
Definition:
DICTATOR, n. [L.]
1. One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims for the direction of others.
2. One invested with absolute authority. In ancient Rome, a magistrate, created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power. He remained in office six months.


Topic: Dictatorial
Definition:
DICTATORIAL, a. 
1. Pertaining to a dictator; absolute; unlimited; uncontrollable.
2. Imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, the officer assumed a dictatorial tone.


Topic: Dictatorship
Definition:
DICTATORSHIP, n. 
1. The office of a dictator; the term of a dictators office.
2. Authority; imperiousness; dogmatism.


Topic: Dictature
Definition:
DICTATURE, n. 
1. The office of a dictator; dictatorship.
2. Absolute authority; the power that dictates.


Topic: Dictionary
Definition:
dictionary, n. [L., a word, or a speaking.] A book containing the words of a language arranged in alphabetical order, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon.


Topic: Did
Definition:
DID, pret of do, contracted from doed. I did, thou didst, he did; we did, you or ye did, they did.
Have ye not read what David did when he was hungry? Matthew 12.
The proper signification is, made, executed, performed; but it is used also to express the state of health.
And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the womens house, to know how Esther did. Esther 2.
Did is used as the sign of the past tense of verbs, particularly in interrogative and negative sentences; as, did he command you to go? He did not command me. It is also used to express emphasis; as, I did love him beyond measure.


Topic: Didactic
Definition:
DIDACTIC, DIDACTICAL, a. [Gr., to teach.] Adapted to teach; preceptive; containing doctrines, precepts, principles or rules; intended to instruct; as a didactic poem or essay.


Topic: Didecahedral
Definition:
DIDECAHEDRAL, a. [di and decahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of a dodecahedral prism with hexahedral summits.


Topic: Didodecahedral
Definition:
DIDODECAHEDRAL, a. [di and dodecahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of a dodecahedral prism with hexahedral summits.


Topic: Didynam
Definition:
DIDYNAM, n. [Gr., power.] In botany, a plant of four stamens, disposed in two pairs, one being shorter than the other.


Topic: Die
Definition:
DIE, v.i. [See Day.]
1. To be deprived of respiration, of the circulation of blood, and other bodily functions, and rendered incapable of resuscitation, as animals, either by natural decay, by disease, or by violence; to cease to live; to expire; to decease; to perish; and with respect to man, to depart from this world.
All the first born in the land of Egypt shall die. Exodus 11.
The fish that is in the river shall die. Exodus 7.
This word is followed by of or by. Men die of disease; of a fever; of sickness; of a fall; of grief. They die by the sword; by famine; by pestilence; by violence; by sickness; by disease. In some cases, custom has established the use of the one, to the exclusion of the other; but in many cases, either by or of may be used at the pleasure of the writer or speaker. The use of for, he died for thirst, is not elegant nor common.
2. To be punished with death; to lose life for a crime, or for the sake of another.
I will relieve my master, if I die for it.  Christ died for the ungodly. Romans 5.
Christ died for our sins. 1 Corinthians 15.
3. To come to an end; to cease; to be lost; to perish or come to nothing; as, let the secret die in your own breast.
4. To sink; to faint.
His heart died withing him, and he became as a stone. 1 Samuel 25.
5. To languish with pleasure or tenderness; followed by away.
To sounds of heavenly harps she dies away.
6. To languish with affection.
The young men acknowledged that they died for Rebecca.
7. To recede as sound, and become less distinct; to become less and less; or to vanish from the sight, or disappear gradually. Sound or color dies away.
8. To lose vegetable life; to wither; to perish; as plants or seeds. Plants die for want of water. Some plants die annually.
9. To become vapid or spiritless, as liquors; mostly used in the participle; as the cider or beer is dead.
10. In theology, to perish everlastingly; to suffer divine wrath and punishment in the future world.
11. To become indifferent to, or to cease to be under the power of; as, to die to sin.
12. To endure great danger and distress.
I die daily. 1 Corinthians 15.
To die away, to decrease gradually; to cease to blow; as, the wind dies away.
DIE, n. plu. dice. 
1. A small cube, marked on its faces with numbers from one to six, used in gaming, by being thrown from a box.
He ventured his all on the cast of a die.
2. Any cubic body; a flat tablet.
3. Hazard; chance.
Such is the die of war.
DIE, n. Plu. Dies. A stamp used in coining money, in founderies, &c.


Topic: Diecian
Definition:
DIECIAN, n. [Gr., two; house.] In botany, one of a class of plants, whose male and female flowers are on different plants of the same species.


Topic: Diesis
Definition:
DIESIS, n. [Gr., a division.] In music, the division of a tone, less than a semitone; or an interval consisting of a less or imperfect semitone.


Topic: Diet
Definition:
DIET, n. [L., Gr., manner of living, mode of life prescribe by a physician, food, a room, parlor or bed room. In the middle ages, this word was used to denote the provision or food for one day, and for a journey of one day. Hence it seems to be from dies, day, or its root; and hence the word may have come to signify a meal or supper, and the room occupied for eating.]
1. Food or victuals; as, milk is a wholesome diet; flesh is nourishing diet.
2. Food regulated by a physician, or by medical rules; food prescribed for the prevention or cure of disease, and limited in kind or quantity. I restrained myself to a regular diet of flesh once a day.
3. Allowance of provision.
For his diet there was a continual diet given him by the king. Jeremiah 52.
4. Board, or boarding; as, to pay a certain sum for diet, washing and lodging.
DIET, n. [G.] An assembly of the states or circles of the empire of Germany and of Poland; a convention of princes, electors, ecclesiastical dignitaries, and representatives of free cities, to deliberate on the affairs of the empire. There are also diets of states and cantons.
DIET, v.t.
1. To feed; to board; to furnish provisions for; as, the master diets his apprentice.
2. To take food by rules prescribed; as, an invalid should carefully diet himself.
3. To feed; to furnish aliment; as, to diet revenge.
DIET, v.i. 
1. To eat according to rules prescribed.
2. To eat; to feed; as, the students diet in commons.


Topic: Dietetic
Definition:
DIETETIC, DIETETICAL, a. [Gr.] Pertaining to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten.


Topic: Dieting
Definition:
DIETING, n. A subordinate or local diet; a cantonal convention.
DIETING, ppr. Taking food; prescribing rules for eating; taking food according to prescribed rules.


Topic: Diffarreation
Definition:
DIFFARREATION, n. [L.] The parting of a cake; a ceremony among the Romans, at the divorce of man and wife.


Topic: Differ
Definition:
DIFFER, v.i. [L., to bear or move apart. See Bear.]
1. Literally, to be separate. Hence, to be unlike, dissimilar, distinct or various, in nature, condition, form or qualities; followed by from. Men differ from brutes; a statue differs from a picture; wisdom differs from folly.
One star differeth from another star in glory. 1 Corinthians 15.
2. To disagree; not to accord; to be of a contrary opinion. We are all free to differ in opinion, and sometimes our sentiments differ less than we at first suppose.
3. To contend; to be at variance; to strive or debate in words; to dispute; to quarrel.
Well never differ with a crowded pit.
DIFFER, v.t. To cause to be different or various. A different dialect and pronunciation differs persons of divers countries. [This transitive use of the verb is not common, nor to be commended.]


Topic: Difference
Definition:
DIFFERENCE, n. 
1. The state of being unlike or distinct; distinction; disagreement; want of sameness; variation; dissimilarity. Difference may be total or partial, and exist in the nature and essence of things, in the form, the qualities or degrees. There is a difference in nature between animals and plants; a difference in form between the genera and species of animals; a difference of quality in paper; and a difference in degrees of heat, or of light.
2. The quality which distinguishes one thing from another.
3. Dispute; debate; contention; quarrel; controversy.
What was the difference? It was a contention in public.
4. The point in dispute; ground of controversy.
5. A logical distinction.
6. Evidences or marks of distinction.
The marks and differences of sovereignty.
7. Distinction. 
There is no difference between the Jew and the Greek. Romans 10.
8. In mathematics, the remainder of a sum or quantity, after a lesser sum or quantity is subtracted.
9. In logic, an essential attribute, belonging to some species, and not found in the genus; being the idea that defines the species.
10. In heraldry, a certain figure added to a coat of arms, serving to distinguish one family from another, or to show how distant a younger branch is from the elder or principal branch. 
DIFFERENCE, v.t. To cause a difference or distinction. A regular administration of justice according to fixed laws differences a civilized from a savage state.


Topic: Different
Definition:
DIFFERENT, a. 
1. Distinct; separate; not the same; as, we belong to different churches or nations.
2. Various or contrary; of various or contrary natures, forms or qualities; unlike; dissimilar; as different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different shapes; different degrees of excellence.


Topic: Differential
Definition:
DIFFERENTIAL, a. An epithet applied to an infinitely small quantity, so small as to be less than any assignable quantity. This is called a differential quantity. The differential method is applied to the doctrine of infinitesimals, or infinitely small quantities, called the arithmetic of fluxions. It consists in descending from whole quantities to their infinitely small differences, and comparing them. Hence it is called the differential calculus, or analysis of infinitesimals.


Topic: Differently
Definition:
DIFFERENTLY, adv. In a different manner; variously. Men are differently affected with the same eloquence.


Topic: Difficult
Definition:
DIFFICULT, a. [L., easy to be made or done; to make or do.]
1. Hard to be made, done or performed; not easy; attended with labor and pains; as, our task is difficult. It is difficult to persuade men to abandon vice. It is difficult to ascend a steep hill, or travel a bad road.
2. Hard to be pleased; not easily wrought upon; not readily yielding; not compliant; unaccommodating; rigid; austere; not easily managed or persuaded; as a difficult man; a person of a difficult temper.
3. Hard to be ascended as a hill, traveled as a road, or crossed as a river, &c. We say, a difficult ascent; a difficult road; a difficult river to cross; &c.


Topic: Difficulty
Definition:
DIFFICULTY, n. [L.]
1. Hardness to be done or accomplished; the state of any thing which renders its performance laborious or perplexing; opposed to easiness or facility; as the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of labor and difficulty.
2. That which is hard to be performed or surmounted. We often mistake difficulties for impossibilities. To overcome difficulties is an evidence of a great mind.
3. Perplexity; embarrassment of affairs; trouble; whatever renders progress or execution of designs laborious. We lie under many difficulties, by reason of bad markets, or a low state of trade.
4. Objection; obstacle to belief; that which cannot be easily understood, explained or believed, Men often raise difficulties concerning miracles and mysteries in religion, which candid research will remove.
5. In a popular sense, bodily complaints; indisposition.


Topic: Diffidence
Definition:
DIFFIDENCE, n. [L., to trust. See Faith.]
1. Distrust; want of confidence; any doubt of the power, ability or disposition of others. It is said there was a general diffidence of the strength and resources of the nation, and of the sincerity of the king.
2. More generally, distrust of ones self; want of confidence in our own power, competency, correctness or wisdom; a doubt respecting some personal qualification. We speak or write with diffidence, when we doubt our ability to speak or write correctly or to the satisfaction of others. The effect of diffidence is some degree of reserve, modesty, timidity or bashfulness. Hence,
3. Modest reserve; a moderate degree of timidity or bashfulness; as, he addressed the audience or the prince with diffidence.


Topic: Diffident
Definition:
DIFFIDENT, a. 
1. Distrustful; wanting confidence; doubting of anothers power, disposition, sincerity or intention.
Be not diffident of wisdom.
Be diffident in dealing with strangers.
2. Distrustful of ones self; not confident; doubtful of ones own power or competency.
Distress makes the humble heart diffident.
3. Reserved; modest; timid; as a diffident youth.


Topic: Difform
Definition:
DIFFORM, a. [L.]
1. Irregular in form; not uniform; anomalous; as a difform flower or corol, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; so difform leaves.
2. Unlike; dissimilar.
The unequal refractions of difform rays.


Topic: Diffuse
Definition:
DIFFUSE, v.t. diffuze. [L., to pour, to spread.]
1. To pour out and spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow and spread.
The river rose and diffused its waters over the adjacent plain.
2. To spread; to send out or extend in all directions; to disperse. Flowers diffuse their odors. The fame of Washington is diffused over Europe. The knowledge of the true God will be diffused over the earth.
DIFFUSE, a. 
1. Widely spread; dispersed.
2. Copious; prolix; using many words; giving full descriptions; as, Livy is a diffuse writer.
3. Copious; verbose; containing full or particular accounts; concise; as a diffuse style.


Topic: Diffusibility
Definition:
DIFFUSIBILITY, n. Diffuzibility. The quality of being diffusible, or capable of being spread; as the diffusibility of clay in water.


Topic: Diffusible
Definition:
DIFFUSIBLE, a. Diffuzible. That may flow or be spread in all directions; that may be dispersed; as diffusible stimuli.


Topic: Diffusion
Definition:
DIFFUSION, n. S as z. 
1. A spreading or flowing of a liquid substance or fluid, in a lateral as well as a lineal direction; as the diffusion of water; the diffusion of air or light.
2. A spreading or scattering; dispersion; as a diffusion of dust or of seeds.
3. A spreading; extension; propagation; as the diffusion of knowledge, or of good principles.
4. Copiousness; exuberance, as of style. [Little used.]


Topic: Diffusive
Definition:
DIFFUSIVE, a. Having the quality of diffusing, or spreading by flowing, as liquid substances or fluids; or of dispersing, as minute particles. Water, air and light; dust, smoke and odors, are diffusive substances.
2. Extended; spread widely; extending in all directions; extensive; as diffusive charity or benevolence.


Topic: Diffusiveness
Definition:
DIFFUSIVENESS, n. 
1. The power of diffusing, or state of being diffused; dispersion.
2. Extension, or extensiveness; as the diffusiveness of benevolence.
3. The quality or state of being diffuse, as an author or his style; verboseness; copisousness of words or expression.


Topic: Dig
Definition:
DIG, v.t. pret. Digger or dug; pp. Digged or dug. [G.]
1. To open and break or turn up the earth with a spade or other sharp instrument.
Be first to dig the ground.
2. To excavate; to form an opening in the earth by digging and removing the loose earth; as, to dig a well, a pit or a mine.
3. To pierce or open with a snout or by other means, as swine or moles.
4. To pierce with a pointed instrument; to thrust in.
Still for the growing liver digged his breast.
To dig down, is to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall.
To dig out, or to dig from, is to obtain by digging; as, to dig coals from a mine; to dig out fossils. But the preposition is often omitted, and it is said, the men are digging coals, or digging iron ore. In such phrases, some word is understood; They are digging out ore, or digging for coals, or digging ore from the earth.
To dig up, is to obtain something from the earth by opening it, or uncovering the thing with a spade or other instrument, or to force out from the earth by a bar; as, to dig up a stone.
DIG, v.i. 
1. To work with a spade or other piercing instrument; to do servile work.
I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg. Luke 16.
2. To work in search of; to search.
They dig for it, more than for hid treasures. Job 3.
To dig in, is to pierce with a spade or other pointed instrument.
Son of man, dig now in the wall. Ezekiel 8.
To dig through, to open a passage through; to make an opening from one side to the other.


Topic: Digamma
Definition:
DIGAMMA, n. [Gr., double gamma.] The name of F, most absurdly given to that letter, when first invented or used by the Eolians, on account of its figure. A letter should be named from its sound, and not from its shape. The letter is ef.


Topic: Digest
Definition:
DIGEST, n. [L., put in order.] 
1. A collection or body of Roman laws, digested or arranged under proper titles by order of the Emperor Justinian. A pandect.
2. Any collection, compilation, abridgment or summary of laws, disposed under proper heads or titles; as the digest of Comyns.
DIGEST, v.t. L., to distribute, or to dissolve; to bear, carry, or wear.]
1. To distribute into suitable classes, or under proper heads or titles; to arrange in convenient order; to dispose in due method; as, to digest the Roman laws or the common law.
2. To arrange methodically in the mind; to form with due arrangement of parts; as, to digest a plan or scheme.
3. To separate or dissolve in the stomach, as food; to reduce to minute parts fit to enter the lacteals and circulate; to concoct; to covert into chyme.
4. In chemistry, to soften and prepare by heat; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
5. To bear with patience; to brook; to receive without resentment; not to reject; as, say what you will, he will digest it.
6. To prepare in the mind; to dispose in a manner that shall improve the understanding and heart; to prepare for nourishing practical duties; as, to digest a discourse or sermon.
7. To dispose an ulcer or wound to suppurate.
8. To dissolve and prepare for manure, as plants and other substances.
DIGEST, v.i. 
1. To be prepared by heat.
2. To suppurate; to generate laudable pus; as an ulcer or wound.
3. To dissolve and be prepared for manure, as substances in compost.


Topic: Digested
Definition:
DIGESTED, pp. Reduced to method; arranged in due order; concocted or prepared in the stomach or by a gentle heat; received without rejection; borne; disposed for use.


Topic: Digester
Definition:
DIGESTER, n. 
1. He that digests or disposes in order.
2. One who digests his food.
3. A medicine or article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens the digestive power of the stomach.
4. A strong vessel contrived by Papin, in which to boil bony substances with a strong heat, and reduce them to a fluid state, or in general, to increase the solvent power of water.


Topic: Digesting
Definition:
DIGESTING, ppr. Arranging in due order, or under proper heads; dissolving and preparing for circulation in the stomach; softening and preparing by heat; disposing for practice; disposing to generate pus; brooking; reducing by heat to a fluid state.


Topic: Digestion
Definition:
DIGESTION, n. [L.] 
1. The conversion of food into chyme, or the process of dissolving aliment in the stomach and preparing it for circulation and nourishment. A good digestion is essential to health.
2. In chemistry, the operation of exposing bodies to a gentle heat, to prepare them for some action on each other; or the slow action of a solvent on any substance.
3. The act of methodizing and reducing to order; the maturation of a design.
4. The process of maturing an ulcer or wound, and disposing it to generate pus; or the generation of matter.
5. The process of dissolution and preparation of substances for manure, as in compost.


Topic: Digestive
Definition:
DIGESTIVE, a. 
1. Having the power to cause digestion in the stomach; as a digestive preparation or medicine.
2. Capable of softening and preparing by heat.
3. Methodizing; reducing to order; as digestive thought.
4. Causing maturation in wounds or ulcers.
5. Dissolving.
DIGESTIVE, n. 
1. In medicine, any preparation or medicine which increases the tone of the stomach, and aids digestion; a stomachic; a corroborant.
2. In surgery, an application which ripens an ulcer or wound, or disposes it to suppurate.
Digestive salt, the muriate of potash.


Topic: Digger
Definition:
DIGGER, n. One who digs; one who opens, throws up and breaks the earth; one who opens a well, pit, trench or ditch.


Topic: Dight
Definition:
DIGHT, v.t. dite. [L.] To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn. [Obsolete, or used only in poetry.]


Topic: Digit
Definition:
DIGIT, n. [L., a finger, that is, a shoot; Gr.]
1. The measure of a fingers breadth, or three fourths of an inch.
2. The twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of six digits is one which hides one half of the disk.
3. In arithmetic, any integer under 10; so called from counting on the fingers. Thus 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. are called digits.


Topic: Digitate
Definition:
DIGITATE, DIGITATED, a. In botany, a digitate leaf is one which branches into several distinct leaflets like fingers; or when a simple, undivided petiole connects several leaflets at the end of it.


Topic: Dignified
Definition:
DIGNIFIED, pp. [See Dignify.]
1. Exalted; honored; invested with dignity; as the dignified clergy.
2. a. Marked with dignity; noble; as dignified conduct, or manner.
To the great astonishment of the Jews, the manners of Jesus are familiar, yet dignified.


Topic: Dignify
Definition:
DIGNIFY, v.t. [L., worthy; to make.]
1. To invest with honor or dignity; to exalt in rank; to promote; to elevate to a high office.
2. To honor; to make illustrious; to distinguish by some excellence, or that which gives celebrity.
Your worth will dignify our feast.


Topic: Dignitary
Definition:
DIGNITARY, n. An ecclesiastic who holds a dignity, or a benefice which gives him some pre-eminence over mere priests and canons, as a bishop, dean, archdeacon, prebendary, &c.


Topic: Dignity
Definition:
DIGNITY, n. [L., worthy.]
1. True honor; nobleness or elevation of mind, consisting in a high sense of propriety, truth and justice, with an abhorrence of mean and sinful actions; opposed to meanness. In this sense, we speak of the dignity of mind, and dignity of sentiments. This dignity is based on moral rectitude; all vice is incompatible with true dignity of mind. The man who deliberately injures another, whether male or female, has no true dignity of soul.
2. Elevation; honorable place or rank of elevation; degree of excellence, either in estimation, or in the order of nature. Man is superior in dignity to brutes.
3. Elevation of aspect; grandeur of mein; as a man of native dignity.
4. Elevation of deportment; as dignity of manners or behavior.
5. An elevated office, civil or ecclesiastical, giving a high rank in society; advancement; preferment, or the rank attached to it. We say, a man enjoys his dignity with moderation, or without haughtiness. Among ecclesiastics, dignity is office or preferment joined with power or jurisdiction.
6. The rank or title of a nobleman.
7. In oratory, one of the three parts of elocution, consisting in the right use of tropes and figures.
8. In astrology, an advantage which a planet has on account of its being in some particular place of the zodiac, or in a particular station in respect to other planets.
9. A general maxim, or principle. [Not used.]


Topic: Digraph
Definition:
DIGRAPH, n. [Gr., to write.] A union of two vowels, of which one only is pronounced, as in head, breath.


Topic: Digress
Definition:
DIGRESS, v.i. [L., to step. See Grade.]
1. Literally, to step or go from the way or road; hence, to depart or wander from the main subject, design or tenor of a discourse, argument or narration; used only of speaking or writing.
In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition, as often as a man varies the signification of any term.
2. To go out of the right way or common track; to deviate; in a literal sense. [Not now in use.]


Topic: Digression
Definition:
DIGRESSION, n. [L.]
1. The act of digressing; a departure from the main subject under consideration; an excursion of speech or writing.
2. The part or passage of a discourse, argument or narration, which deviates from the main subject, tenor or design, but which may have some relation to it, or be of use to it.
3. Diviation from a regular course; as, the digression of the sun is not equal. [Little used.]


Topic: Digressional
Definition:
DIGRESSIONAL, a. Pertaining to or consisting in digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.


Topic: Dihexahedral
Definition:
DIHEXAHEDRAL, a. [di and hexahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of a hexahedral prism with trihedral summits.


Topic: Dike
Definition:
DIKE, n. [G. See Dig. It is radically the same word as ditch, and this is its primary sense; but by an easy transition, it came to signify also the bank formed by digging and throwing up earth. Intrenchment is sometimes used both for a ditch and a rampart.]
1. A ditch; an excavation made in the earth by digging, of greater length than breadth, intended as a reservoir of water, a drain, or for other purpose.
2. A mound of earth, of stones, or of other materials, intended to prevent low lands, from being inundated by the sea or a river. The low countries of Holland are thus defended by dikes.
3. A vein of basalt, greenstone or other stony substance.
DIKE, v.t. To surround with a dike; to secure by a bank.
DIKE, v.i. To dig. [Not in use.]


Topic: Dilaceration
Definition:
DILACERATION, n. The act of rending asunder; a tearing, or rending. [In lieu of these words, lacerate, laceration, are generally used.]


Topic: Dilapidate
Definition:
DILAPIDATE, v.i. [L., to stone; a stone. It seems originally to have signified to pull down stone-work, or to suffer such work to fall to pieces.] To go to ruin; to fall by decay.
DILAPIDATE, v.t.
1. To pull down; to waste or destroy; to suffer to go to ruin.
If the bishop, parson, or vicar, &c., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony of the church--
2. To waste; to squander.


Topic: Dilapidation
Definition:
DILAPIDATION, n. 
1. Ecclesiastical waste; a voluntary wasting or suffering to go to decay any building in possession of an incumbent. Dilapidation is voluntary or active, when an incumbent pulls down a building; permissive or passive, when he suffers it to decay and neglects to repair it. Dilapidation extends to the waste or destruction of wood, and other property of the church.
2. Destruction; demolition; decay; ruin.
3. Peculation.


Topic: Dilatability
Definition:
DILATABILITY, n. [See Dilate.] The quality of admitting expansion by the elastic force of the body itself, or of another elastic substance acting upon it; opposed to contractibility.


Topic: Dilatable
Definition:
DILATABLE, a. Capable of expansion; possessing elasticity; elastic. A bladder is dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat. It is opposed to contractible.


Topic: Dilatation
Definition:
DILATATION, n. The act of expanding; expansion; a spreading or extending in all directions; the state of being expanded; opposed to contraction. Dilatation differs from extension, as the latter is applied to lines and surfaces; the former to bodies that spread, open or enlarge in all directions. A line or a plain is extended; a bladder, an artery, a balloon is dilated.


Topic: Dilate
Definition:
DILATE, v.t. [L. See Delay.]
1. To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; opposed to contract. The air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by rarefaction.
2. To enlarge; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely; as, to dilate upon the policy of a measure. In this sense, it is generally used intransitively. Spenser and Shakespeare have used it in a transitive sense; as, to dilate a theme.
DILATE, a. Expanded; expansive.


Topic: Dilatoriness
Definition:
DILATORINESS, n. [from dilatory.] The quality of being dilatory or late; lateness; slowness in motion; delay in proceeding; tardiness.


Topic: Dilatory
Definition:
DILATORY, a. [L. See Delay and Dilate.]
1. Literally, drawing out or extending in time; hence, slow; late; tardy; applied to things; as dilatory councils or measures.
2. Given to procrastination; not proceeding with diligence; making delay; slow; late; applied to persons; as a dilatory messenger. A man is dilatory, when he delays attendance, or performance of business, beyond the proper time.
3. In law, intended to make delay; tending to delay; as a dilatory plea, which is designed or which tends to delay the trial of a cause.


Topic: Dilemma
Definition:
DILEMMA, n. [Gr., a syllogism which strikes on each side; an assumption; to take.]
1. In logic, an argument equally conclusive by contrary suppositions. A young rhetorician said to an old sophist;  Instruct me in pleading, and I will pay you, when I gain a cause. The master sued for the reward, and the scholar endeavored to elude the claim by a dilemma. If I gain my cause, I shall withhold your pay, because the award of the judge will be against you. It I lose it, I may withhold it, because I shall not yet have gained a cause. The master replied: If you gain your cause, you must pay me, because you are to pay me, when you gain a cause; if you lose it, you must pay me, because you are to pay me, when you gain a cause; if you lose it, you must pay me, because the judge will award it.
2. A difficult or doubtful choice; a state of things in which evils or obstacles present themselves on every side, and it is difficult to determine what course to pursue.
A strong dilemma in a desperate case!
To act with infamy, or quit the place.


Topic: Diligence
Definition:
DILIGENCE, n. [L., to love earnestly; to choose.]
1. Steady application in business of any kind; constant effort to accomplish what is undertaken; exertion of body or mind without unnecessary delay or sloth; due attention; industry; assiduity.
Diligence is the philosophers stone that turns every thing to gold.
Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure. 2 Peter 1.
2. Care; heed; heedfulness.
Keep thy heart with all diligence. Proverbs 4.
3. The name of a stage-coach, used in France.


Topic: Diligent
Definition:
DILIGENT, a. [L.] 
1. Steady in application to business; constant in effort or exertion to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduous; attentive; industrious; not idle or negligent; applied to persons.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings. Provers 22.
2. Steadily applied; prosecuted with care and constant effort; careful; assiduous; as, make diligent search.
The judges shall make diligent inquisition. Judges 19.


Topic: Diligently
Definition:
DILIGENTLY, adv. With steady application and care; with industry or assiduity; not carelessly; not negligently.
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 6.


Topic: Dill
Definition:
DILL, n. [G.] An annual plant of the genus Anethum, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent and aromatic.


Topic: Diluent
Definition:
DILUENT, a. [L. See Dilute.]
1. Making liquid or more fluid; making thin; attenuating.
2. Weakening the strength of, by mixture with water.
DILUENT, n. 
1. That which thins or attenuates; that which makes more liquid.
2. That which weakens the strength of; as water, which, mixed with wine or spirit, reduces the strength of it.


Topic: Dilute
Definition:
DILUTE, v.t. [L., to wash. See Deluge.]
1. Literally, to wash; but appropriately, to render liquid, or more liquid; to make thin, or more fluid. Thus sirup or molasses is made thin or more liquid by an admixture with water; and the water is said to dilute it. Hence, 
2. To weaken, as spirit or an acid, by an admixture of water, which renderst the spirit or acid less concentrated. Thus, we dilute spirit, wine or a decoction by adding to it water.
3. To make weak or weaker, as color, by mixture.
4. To weaken; to reduce the strength or standard of; as, to dilute virtue.
DILUTE, a. Thin; attenuated; reduced in strength, as spirit or color.


Topic: Dilution
Definition:
DILUTION, n. The act of making thin, weak, or more liquid. Opposite to dilution is coagulation or thickening.


Topic: Diluvial
Definition:
DILUVIAL, DILUVIAN, a. [L., a deluge. See Dilute.]
1. Pertaining to a flood or deluge, more especially to the deluge in Noahs day.
2. Effected or produced by a deluge, particularly by the great flood in the days of Noah.


Topic: Diluvium
Definition:
DILUVIUM, n. [L.] In geology, a deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, &c., caused by the deluge.


Topic: Dim
Definition:
DIM, a. [See Damp.]
1. Not seeing clearly; having the vision obscured and indistinct.
When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim. Genesis 27.
2. Not clearly seen; obscure; imperfectly seen or discovered; as a dim prospect.
3. Somewhat dark; dusky; not luminous; as a dim shade.
4. Dull of apprehension; having obscure conceptions.
The understanding is dim.
5. Having its luster obscured; sullied; tarnished.
How is the gold become dim? Lamentations 4.
DIM, v.t. 
1. To cloud; to impair the powers of vision; as, to dim the eyes.
2. To obscure; as, to dim the sight; to dim the prospect.
3. To render dull the powers of conception.
4. To make less bright; to obscure.
Each passion dimmed his face.
5. To render less bright; to tarnish or sully; as, to dim gold.


Topic: Dimension
Definition:
DIMENSION, n. [L., to measure; Gr. See Mete and Measure.] In geometry, the extent of a body, or length, breadth and thickness or depth. A line has one dimension, or length; a superficies has two dimensions, length and breadth; and a solid has three dimensions, length, breadth and thickness or depth. The word is generally used int eh plural, and denotes the whole space occupied by a body, or its capacity, size, measure; as the dimensions of a room, or of a ship; the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom, &c.


Topic: Dimiciliary
Definition:
DIMICILIARY, a. Pertaining to an abode, or the residence of a person or family. A domiciliary visit is a visit to a private dwelling, particularly for the purpose of searching it, under authority.


Topic: Diminish
Definition:
DIMINISH, v.t. [L., to lessen; less.]
1. To lessen; to make less or smaller, by any means; opposed to increase and augment; as, to diminish the size of a thing by contraction, or by cutting off a part; to diminish a number by subtraction; to diminish the revenue by limiting commerce, or reducing the customs; to diminish strength or safety; to diminish the heat of a room. It is particularly applied to bulk and quantity, as shorten is to length.
2. To lessen; to impair; to degrade.
I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. Ezekiel 29.
3. In music, to take from a note by a sharp, flat or natural.
To diminish from, to take away something.
Neither shall you diminish aught from it Deuteronomy 4.
DIMINISH, v.i. To lessen; to become or appear less or smaller. The size of an object diminishes, as we recede from it.


Topic: Diminution
Definition:
DIMINUTION, n. [L.] 
1. The act of lessening; a making smaller; opposed to augmentation; as the diminution of size, of wealth, of power, of safety.
2. The state of becoming or appearing less; opposed to increase; as the diminution of the apparent diameter of a receding body.
3. Discredit; loss of dignity; degradation.
4. Deprivation of dignity; a lessening of estimation.
5. In architecture, the contraction of the upper part of a column, by which its diameter is made less than that of the lower part.
6. In music, the imitation of or reply to a subject in notes of half the length or value of those of the subject itself.


Topic: Diminutive
Definition:
DIMINUTIVE, a. Small; little; narrow; contracted; as a diminutive race of men or other animals; a diminutive thought.
DIMINUTIVE, n. In grammar, a word formed from another word, usually an appellative or generic term, to express a little thing of the kind; as, in Latin, lapillus, a little stone, from lapis; cellula, a little cell, from cella, a cell; in French, maisonnette, a little house, from maison, a house; in English, manikin, a little man, from man.


Topic: Diminutively
Definition:
DIMINUTIVELY, adv. In a diminutive manner; in a manner to lessen; as, to speak diminutively of another.


Topic: Dimissory
Definition:
DIMISSORY, a. [L. See Dismiss.]
1. Sending away; dismissing to another jurisdiction. A letter dimissory, is one given by a bishop to a candidate for holy orders, having a title in his diocese, directed to some other bishop, and giving leave for the bearer to be ordained by him.
2. Granting leave to depart.


Topic: Dimly
Definition:
DIMLY, adv. [See Dim.]
1. In a dim or obscure manner; with imperfect sight.
2. Not brightly, or clearly; with a faint light.


Topic: Dimness
Definition:
DIMNESS, n. 
1. Dullness of sight; as the dimness of the eyes.
2. Obscurity of vision; imperfect sight; as the dimness of a view.
3. Faintness; imperfection; as the dimness of a color.
4. Want of brightness; as the dimness of gold or silver.
5. Want of clear apprehension; stupidity; as the dimness of perception.


Topic: Dimple
Definition:
DIMPLE, n. [G., to reel, to indent.] A small natural cavity or depression in the cheek or other part of the face.
DIMPLE, v.i. To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.


Topic: Din
Definition:
DIN, n. [L. This word probably belongs to the root of tone and thunder, and denotes a rumbling or rattling noise.] Noise; a loud sound; particularly, a rattling, clattering or rumbling sound, long continued; as the din of arms; the din of war.
DIN, v.t. To strike with continued or confused sound; to stun with noise; to harass with clamor; as, to din the ears with cries; to din with clamor.


Topic: Dine
Definition:
DINE, v.i. [L., to cease. Gr., to feast.] To eat the chief meal of the day. This meal seems originally to have been taken about the middle of the day, at least in northern climates, as it still is by laboring people. Among people in the higher walks of life, and in commercial towns, the time of dining is from tow to five or six oclock in the afternoon.
DINE, v.t. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the principal meal; to feed; as, the landlord dined a hundred men.


Topic: Ding
Definition:
DING, v.t. pret. dung or dinged. To thrust or dash with violence. [Little used.]
DING, v.i. To bluster; to bounce. [A low word.]


Topic: Dinner
Definition:
DINNER, n. [See Dine.]
1. The meal taken about the middle of the day; or the principal meal of the day, eaten between noon and evening.
2. An entertainment; a feast.
Behold, I have prepared my dinner. Matthew 22.


Topic: Dint
Definition:
DINT, n. 
1. A blow; a stroke.
2. Force; violence; power exerted; as, to win by dint of arms, by dint of war, by dint of argument or importunity.
3. The mark made by a blow; a cavity or impression made by a blow or by pressure on a substance; often pronounced dent. 
His hands had made a dint.
DINT, v.t. To make a mark or cavity on a substance by a blow or by pressure. [See Indent.]


Topic: Diocesan
Definition:
DIOCESAN, a. [See Diocese. The accent on the first and on the third syllable is nearly equal. The accent given to this word int he English books is wrong, almost to ridiculousness.] Pertaining to a diocese.
DIOCESAN, n. A bishop; one in possession of a diocese, and having the ecclesiastical jurisdiction over it.


Topic: Diocese
Definition:
DIOCESE, n. [Gr., administration, a province or jurisdiction; residence; to dwell; a house. Diocese is a very erroneous orthography.] The circuit or extent of a bishops jurisdiction; an ecclesiastical division of a kingdom or state, subject to the authority of a bishop. In England there are two provinces or circuits of archbishops jurisdiction, Canterbury and York. The province of Canterbury contains twenty-one dioceses, and that of York three, besides the isle of Man. Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries, of which there are sixty; and each archdeaconry, into rural deaneries; and every deanery, into parishes. A diocese was originally a division of the Roman empire for the purpose of civil government, a prefecture. But the term is now exclusively appropriated to ecclesiastical jurisdiction.


Topic: Dioctahedral
Definition:
DIOCTAHEDRAL, a. [Dis and octahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of an octahedral prism with tetrahedral summits.


Topic: Diodon
Definition:
DIODON, n. The sun-fish; a genus of fishes of a singular form, appearing like the fore part of the body of a deep fish amputated in the middle.


Topic: Diomede
Definition:
DIOMEDE, n. An aquatic fowl of the webfooted kind, about the size of a common domestic hen, but its neck and legs much longer.


Topic: Diopside
Definition:
DIOPSIDE, n. [Gr.] A rare mineral, regarded by Hauy as a variety of augite, and called by Jameson a subspecies of oblique-edged augite, occurring in prismatic crystals, of a vitreous luster, and of a pale green, or a greenish or yellowish white. The variety with four-sided prims has been called Mussite, from Mussa in Piedmont. It resembles the Sahlite.


Topic: Dioptric
Definition:
DIOPTRIC, DIOPTRICAL, a. [Gr., to see through; to see.]
1. Affording a medium for the sight; assisting the sight in the view of distant objects; as a dioptric glass.
2. Pertaining to dioptrics, or the science of refracted light.


Topic: Dioptrics
Definition:
DIOPTRICS, n. That part of optics which treats of the refractions of light passing through different mediums, as through air, water or glass.


Topic: Dip
Definition:
DIP, v.t. pret. and pp. dipped or dipt. [G.]
1. To plunge or immerse, for a moment or short time, in water or other liquid substance; to put into a fluid and withdraw.
The priest shall dip his finger int he blood. Leviticus 4.
Let him dip his foot in oil. Deuteronomy 33.
One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre.
2. To take with a ladle or other vessel by immersing it in a fluid, as to dip water from a boiler; often with out, as to dip out water.
3. To engage; to take concern; used intransitively, but the passive participle is used.
He was a little dipt in the rebellion of the commons.
4. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Little used.]
5. To moisten; to wet. [Unusual.]
6. To baptize by immersion.
DIP, v.i. 
1. To sink; to emerge in a liquid.
2. To enter; to pierce.
3. To engage; to take a concern; as, to dip into the funds.
4. To enter slightly; to look cursorily, or here and there; as, to dip into a volume of history.
5. To choose by chance; to thrust and take.
6. To incline downward; as, the magnetic needle dips. [See Dipping.]
DIP, n. Inclination downward; a sloping; a direction below a horizontal line; depression; as the dip of the needle. The dip of a stratum, in geology, is its greatest inclination to the horizon, or that on a line perpendicular to its direction or course; called also the pitch.


Topic: Diph-thong
Definition:
DIPH-THONG, n. [Gr., sound; L.] A coalition or union of two vowels pronounced in one syllable. In uttering a diphthong, both vowels are pronounced; the sound is not simple, but the two sounds are so blended as to be considered as forming one syllable, as in joy, noise, bound, out. [The pronunciation dipthong is vulgar.]


Topic: Diphthongal
Definition:
DIPHTHONGAL, a. Belonging to a diphthong; consisting of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable.


Topic: Diploe
Definition:
DIPLOE, n. [Gr., double.] The soft meditullium, medullary substance, or porous part, between the plates of the skull.


Topic: Diploma
Definition:
DIPLOMA, n. [Gr., to double or fold. Anciently, a letter or other composition written on paper or parchment and folded; afterwards, an y letter, literary monument, or public document.] A letter or writing conferring some power, authority, privilege or honor. Diplomas are given to graduates of colleges on their receiving the usual degrees; to clergymen who are licensed to exercise the ministerial functions; to physicians who are licensed to practice their profession; and to agents who are authorized to transact business fro their principals. A diploma then is a writing or instrument, usually under seal and signed by the proper person or officer, conferring merely honor, as int he case of graduates, or authority, as int he case of physicians, agents, &c.


Topic: Diplomacy
Definition:
DIPLOMACY, n. [This word, like supremacy, retains the accent of its original.]
1. The customs, rules and privileges of embassadors, envoys and other representatives of princes and states at foreign courts; forms of negotiation.
2. A diplomatic body the whole body of ministers at a foreign court.
3. The agency or management of ministers at a foreign court.


Topic: Diplomatic
Definition:
DIPLOMATIC, a. 
1. Pertaining to diplomas; privileged.
2. Furnished with a diploma; authorized by letters or credentials to transact business for a sovereign at a foreign court. Ministers at a court are denominated a diplomatic body.
3. Pertaining to ministers at a foreign court, or to men authorized by diploma; as a diplomatic character; diplomatic management.
DIPLOMATIC, n. A minister, official agent or envoy to a foreign court.


Topic: Diplomatics
Definition:
DIPLOMATICS, n. The science of diplomas, or of ancient writings, literary and public documents, letters, decrees, charters, codicils, &c., which has for its object to decipher old writings, to ascertain their authenticity, their dat, signatures, &c.


Topic: Dipper
Definition:
DIPPER, n. 
1. One that dips; he or that which dips.
2. A vessel used to dip water or other liquor; a ladle.


Topic: Dipping
Definition:
DIPPING, ppr. 
1. Plunging or immersing into a liquid and speedily withdrawing, as to ascertain the temperature of water by dipping the finger int it; baptizing by immersion.
2. Engaging or taking a concern in.
3. Looking into here and there; examining in a cursory, slight or hasty manner.
4. Inclining downward, as the magnetic needle.
5. Breaking; inclining; as a vein of ore.
DIPPING, n. 
1. The act of plunging or immersing.
2. The act of inclining towards the earth; inclination downwards; as the dipping of the needle.
3. The interruption of a vein of ore, or stratum of a fossil, in a mine; or a sloping downwards.


Topic: Dipping-needle
Definition:
DIPPING-NEEDLE, n. A needle that dips; a magnetic needle which dips or inclines to the earth; an instrument which shows the inclination of the magnet, at the different points of the earths surface. In the equatorial regions, the needle takes a horizontal position; but as we recede from the equator towards either pole, it dips or inclines one end to the earth, the north end, as we proceed northward, and the south end, as we proceed southward, and the farther north or south we proceed, the greater is the dip or inclination. This is on the supposition that the poles of the earth and the magnetic poles coincide, which is not the case. The above statement is strictly true, only of the magnetic equator and its poles.


Topic: Dipsas
Definition:
DIPSAS, n. [gr., dry, thirsty; to thirst.] A serpent whose bite produces a mortal thirst. See Deuteronomy 8.


Topic: Dipter
Definition:
DIPTER, DIPTERA, n. [Gr., a wing.] The dipters are an order of insects having only two wings, and two poisers, as the fly.


Topic: Diptych
Definition:
DIPTYCH, n. [Gr., to fold.] A public register of the names of consuls and other magistrates among pagans; and of bishops, martyrs and others, among Christians; so called because it sometimes two leaves folded, but is sometimes contained three or more leaves. The sacred diptych was a double catalogue, in one of which were registered the names of the living, and in the other the names of the dead, which were to be rehearsed during the office.


Topic: Dipyre
Definition:
DIPYRE, n. A mineral occurring in minute prisms, either single or adhering to each other in fascicular groups. Before the blowpipe, it melts with ebullition or intumescence, and its powder on hot coals phosphoresces with a feeble light. Its name, from Gr., two; fire, indicates the double effect of fire, in producing fusion and phosphorescence.


Topic: Dire
Definition:
DIRE, a. [L.] Dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; evil in a great degree.
Dire was the tossing, deep the groans.


Topic: Direct
Definition:
DIRECT, a. [L., to make straight. See Right.]
1. Straight; right; as, to pass in a direct line from one body or place to another. It is opposed to crooked, winding, oblique. It is also opposed to refracted; as a direct ray of light.
2. In astronomy, appearing to move forward in the zodiac, in the direction of the sign; opposed to retrograde; as, the motion of a planet is direct.
3. In the line of father and sons; opposed to collateral; as a descendant in the direct line.
4. Leading or tending to an end, as by a straight line or course; not circuitous. Thus we speak of direct means to effect an object; a direct course; a direct way.
5. Open; not ambiguous or doubtful.
6. Plain; express; not ambiguous; as, he said this in direct words; he made a direct acknowledgment.
7. In music, a direct interval is that which forms any kind of harmony on the fundamental sound which produces it; as the fifth, major third and octave.
Direct tax, is a tax assess on real estate, as houses and lands.
DIRECT, v.t. [L.]
1. To point or aim in a straight line, towards a place or object; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance; to direct the eye; to direct a course or flight.
2. To point; to show the right road or course; as, he directed me to the left hand road.
3. To regulate; to guide or lead; to govern; to cause to proceed in a particular manner; as, to direct the affairs of a nation.
Wisdom is profitable to direct. Ecclesiastes 10.
4. To prescribe a course; to mark out a way. Job 37.
5. To order; to instruct; to point out a course of proceeding, with authority; to command. But direct is a softer term than command.
DIRECT, n. In music, a character placed at the end of a stave to direct the performer to the first note of the next stave.


Topic: Direction
Definition:
DIRECTION, n. [L.]
1. Aim at a certain point; a pointing towards, in a straight line or course; as, the direction of good works to a good end.
2. The line in which a body moves by impulse; course. Matter or body cannot alter the direction of its own motion.
3. A straight line or course. A star appeared int eh direction of a certain tower. The ship sailed in a south-easterly direction.
4. The act of governing; administration; management; guidance; superintendence; as the direction of public affairs; direction of domestic concerns; the direction of a bank.
5. Regularity; adjustment.
All chance, direction which thou canst not see.
6. Order; prescription; either verbal or written; instruction in what manner to proceed. The employer gives directions to his workmen; the physician, to his patient.
7. The superscription of a letter, including the name, title and place of abode of the person for whom it is intended.
8. A body or board of directors.


Topic: Directive
Definition:
DIRECTIVE, a. 
1. Having the power of direction; as a directive rule. 
2. Informing; instructing; shewing way.


Topic: Directly
Definition:
DIRECTLY, adv. 
1. In a straight lin or course; rectilineally; not in a winding course. Aim directly to the object. Gravity tends directly to the center of the earth.
2. Immediately; soon; without delay; as, he will be with us directly.
3. Openly; expressly, without circumlocution or ambiguity, or without a train or inferences.
No man hath been so impious, as directly to condemn prayer.


Topic: Director
Definition:
DIRECTOR, n. 
1. One who directs; one who superintends, governs or manages; one who prescribes to others, by virtue of authority; an instructor; a counselor.
2. That which directs; a rule; an ordinance.
3. One appointed to transact the affairs of a company; as the director of a bank, or of the India Company.
4. That which directs or controls by influence.
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
5. In surgery, a grooved probe, intended to direct the edge of the knife or scissors in opening sinuses or fistulae; a guide for and incision-knife.


Topic: Directory
Definition:
DIRECTORY, a. Containing directions; enjoining; instructing.
DIRECTORY, n. 
1. A guide; a rule to direct; particularly, a book containing directions for public worship, or religious services. The Bible is our best directory, in faith and practice.
2. A book containing an alphabetical list of the inhabitants of a city, with their places of abode.
3. The supreme council of France, in the late revolution.
4. A board of directors.


Topic: Direful
Definition:
DIREFUL, a. [See Dire.] Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; as direful fiend; a direful misfortune.


Topic: Dirge
Definition:
DIRGE, n. Durj. [L., a word used in the funeral service.] A song or tune intended to express grief, sorrow and mourning; as a funeral dirge.


Topic: Dirigent
Definition:
DIRIGENT, DIRECTRIX, n. [See Direct.] In geometry, the line of motion along which the describent line or surface is carried in the generation of any plane or solid figure.


Topic: Dirk
Definition:
DIRK, n. Durk. A kind of dagger or poniard.
DIRK, a. Durk. Dark.
DIRK, v.t. durk.
1. To darken.
2. To poniard; to stab.


Topic: Dirt
Definition:
DIRT, n durt.
1. Any foul or filthy substance; excrement; earth; mud; mire; dust; whatever adhering to any thing, renders it foul or unclean.
The fat closed, and the dirt came out. Judges 3.
Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Isaiah 57.
2. Meanness; sordidness. [Not in use.]
DIRT, v.t. durt. To make foul or filthy; to soil; to bedaub; to pollute; to defile.


Topic: Dirtily
Definition:
DIRTILY, adv. Durtily. [from dirty.]
1. In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily.
2. Meanly; sordidly; by low means.


Topic: Dirty
Definition:
DIRTY, a. Durty.
1. Foul; nasty; filthy; not clean; as dirty hands.
2. Not clean; not pure; turbid; as dirty water.
3. Cloudy; dark; dusky; as a dirty white.
4. Mean; base; low; despicable; groveling; as a dirty fellow; a dirty employment.
DIRTY, v.t. durty.
1. To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.
2. To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; applied to reputation.


Topic: Dis
Definition:
DIS, a prefix or inseparable preposition, from the Latin, whence Fr. Des, Sp. Dis, and de may in some instances be the same word contracted. Dis denotes separation, a parting from; hence it has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. In some cases, it still signifies separation, as in distribute, disconnect.


Topic: Disability
Definition:
DISABILITY, n. [from disable.]
1. Want of competent natural or bodily power, strength or ability; weakness; impotence; as disability arising from infirmity or broken limbs.
2. Want of competent intellectual power or strength of mind; incapacity; as the disability of a deranged person to reason or to make contracts.
3. Want of competent means or instruments. [In this sense, inability is generally used.]
4. Want of legal qualifications; incapacity; as a disability to inherit an estate, when the ancestor has been attainted. [In this sense, it has a plural.] 
Disability differs from inability, in denoting deprivation of ability; whereas inability denotes destitution of ability, either by deprivation or otherwise.


Topic: Disable
Definition:
DISABLE, v.t. [dis and able.] 
1. To render unable; to deprive of competent natural strength or power. A man is disabled to walk by a broken or paralytic leg, by sickness, &c.
2. To deprive of mental power, as by destroying or weakening the understanding. 
3. To deprive of adequate means, instruments or resources. A nation may be disabled to carry on war by want of money. The loss of a ship may disable a man to prosecute commerce, or to pay his debts.
4. To destroy the strength; or to weaken and impair so as to render incapable of action, service or resistance. A fleet is disabled by a storm, or by a battle. A ship is disabled by the loss of her masts or spars.
5. To destroy or impair and weaken the means which render any thing active, efficacious or useful; to destroy or diminish any competent means.
6. To deprive of legal qualifications, or competent power; to incapacitate; to render incapable.
An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood and disables his children to inherit.


Topic: Disabled
Definition:
DISABLED, pp. Deprived of competent power, corporeal or intellectual; rendered incapable; deprived of means.


Topic: Disabling
Definition:
DISABLING, ppr. Rendering unable or incapable; depriving of adequate power or capacity, or of legal qualifications.


Topic: Disabuse
Definition:
DISABUSE, v.t. disabuze. [See Abuse.] To free from mistake; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right. It is our duty to disabuse ourselves of false notions and prejudices.
If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, hypocrisy and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history.


Topic: Disaccommodation
Definition:
DISACCOMMODATION, n. [dis and accommodation.] A state of being unaccommodated; a state of being unprepared.


Topic: Disaccustom
Definition:
DISACCUSTOM, v.t. [dis and accustom.] To neglect familiar or customary practice; to destroy the force of habit by disuse.


Topic: Disadvantage
Definition:
DISADVANTAGE, n. 
1. That which prevents success, or renders it difficult; a state not favorable to successful operation. The army commenced an attack on the enemy, notwithstanding the disadvantage of its position.
2. Any unfavorable state; a state in which some loss or injury may be sustained. Hence,
3. Loss; injury; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good; as, to sell goods to disadvantage.
DISADVANTAGE, v.t. To injure in interest; to prejudice.


Topic: Disadvantageous
Definition:
DISADVANTAGEOUS, a. Unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; not adapted to promote interest, reputation or other good; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. We are apt to view characters int eh most disadvantageous lights.


Topic: Disadvantageously
Definition:
DISADVANTAGEOUSLY, adv. In a manner not favorable to success, or to interest, profit or reputation; with loss or inconvenience.


Topic: Disaffect
Definition:
DISAFFECT, v.t. [dis and affect.] 
1. To alienate affection; to make less friendly to; to make less faithful to a person, party or cause, or less zealous to support it; to make discontented or unfriendly ; as, an attempt was made to disaffect the army.
2. To disdain, or dislike.
3. To throw into disorder.


Topic: Disaffected
Definition:
DISAFFECTED, pp. or a. Having the affections alienated; indisposed to favor or support; unfriendly; followed by with or to; as, these men are disaffected with the government, or disaffected to the king, or to the administration.


Topic: Disaffection
Definition:
DISAFFECTION, n. 
1. Alienation of affection, attachment or good will; want of affection; or more generally, positive enmity, dislike or unfriendliness; disloyalty. It generally signifies more than indifference; as the disaffection of people to their prince or government; the disaffection of allies; disaffection to religion.
2. Disorder; bad constitution; in a physical sense. [Little used.]


Topic: Disaffirm
Definition:
DISAFFIRM, v.t. disafferm. [dis and affirm.] 
1. To deny; to contradict.
2. To overthrow or annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal.


Topic: Disaffirmance
Definition:
DISAFFIRMANCE, n. 
1. Denial; negation; disproof; confutation.
2. Overthrow or annulment, by the decision of a superior tribunal; as disaffirmance of judgment.


Topic: Disafforest
Definition:
DISAFFOREST, v.t. [dis and afforest.] To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to strip of forest laws and their oppressive privileges.
By Charter 9. Hen. III many forests were disafforested.


Topic: Disagree
Definition:
DISAGREE, v.i. [dis and agree.]= 
1. To differ; to be not accordant or coincident; to be not the same; to be not exactly similar. Two ideas disagree, when they are not the same, or when they are not exactly alike. The histories of th same fact often disagree.
2. To differ, as in opinion; as, the best judges sometimes disagree.
Who shall decide when doctors disagree?
3. To be unsuitable. Medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste.
4. To differ; to be in opposition.
Men often reject the plainest sense of scripture, because it disagrees with their reason or preconceived opinions.
It is usually followed by with. But we say, I disagree to your proposal. The use of from after disagree is not common.


Topic: Disagreeable
Definition:
DISAGREEABLE, a. 
1. Contrary; unsuitable; not conformable; not congruous. [Little used.]
This conduct was disagreeable to her natural sincerity.
2. Unpleasing; offensive to the mind, or to the sense; but expressing less than disgusting and odious. Behavior may be disagreeable to our minds; food may be disagreeable to the taste; many things are disagreeable to the sight; sounds may be disagreeable to the ear, and odors to the smell. Whatever is disagreeable gives some pain or uneasiness.


Topic: Disagreeableness
Definition:
DISAGREEABLENESS, n. 
1. Unsuitableness; contrariety.
2. Unpleasantness; offensiveness to the mind, or to the senses; as the disagreeableness of anothers manners; the disagreeableness of a taste, sound or smell.


Topic: Disagreement
Definition:
DISAGREEMENT, n. 
1. Difference, either in form or essence; dissimilitude; diversity; as the disagreement of two ideas, of two pictures, of two stories or narrations.
2. Difference of opinion or sentiments.
3. Unsuitableness.


Topic: Disallow
Definition:
DISALLOW, v.t. [dis and allow.] To refuse permission, or not to permit; not to grant; not to make or suppose lawful; not to authorize; to disapprove. God disallows that Christians should conform to the immoral practices of the world. A good man disallows every kind of profaneness.
2. To testify dislike or disapprobation; to refuse assent.
But if her father shall disallow her int he day that he heareth, not nay of her vows or her bonds--shall stand. Numbers 30.
3. Not to approve; not to receive; to reject.
To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious. 1 Peter 2.
4. Not to allow or admit as just; to reject; as, to disallow an account or charge.


Topic: Disanimate
Definition:
DISANIMATE, v.t. [dis and animate.]
1. To deprive of life. [Not used.]
2. To deprive of spirit or courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to deject.


Topic: Disanimation
Definition:
DISANIMATION, n. 
1. The act of discouraging; depression of spirits.
2. Privation of life. [Not used.]


Topic: Disannul
Definition:
DISANNUL, v.t. [dis and annul. In this instance, the prefix dis is improperly used, and of no effect. But its use is well established.] To annul; to make void; to deprive of authority or force; to nullify; to abolish; as, to disannul a law or an ordinance.
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? Job 40. Galatians 3. 15.


Topic: Disannulment
Definition:
DISANNULMENT, n. The act of making void; as the disannulment of a law or decree.
Disannual differs from repeal, as the genus from the species. A repeal makes a law void by the same power that enacted it. Annulment or disannulment destroys its force and authority by repeal or by other means.


Topic: Disappear
Definition:
DISAPPEAR, v.i. [dis and appear.]
1. To vanish from the sight; to recede from the view; to become invisible by vanishing or departing, or by being enveloped in any thing that conceals, or by the interposition of an object. Darkness disappears at the access of light, and light disappears at the approach of darkness. A ship disappears by departure to a distance; the sun disappears in a fog, or behind a cloud, or in setting.
2. To cease; as, the epidemic has disappeared.
3. To withdraw from observation. The debtor disappears when he absconds.


Topic: Disappearing
Definition:
DISAPPEARING, ppr. Vanishing; receding from the sight; becoming invisible.
DISAPPEARING, n. A vanishing or removal from sight.


Topic: Disappoint
Definition:
DISAPPOINT, v.t. [dis and appoint; properly, to unfix or unsettle.]
1. To defeat of expectation, wish, hope, desire or intention; to frustrate; to balk; to hinder from the possession or enjoyment of that which was intended, desired, hoped or expected. We say, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions or expectations are disappointed. A bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil The man promised me a visit, by he disappointed me.
Without counsel purposes are disappointed. Proverbs 15.
2. To frustrate; to prevent an effect intended.
The retiring foe shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow.


Topic: Disappointment
Definition:
DISAPPOINTMENT, n. Defeat or failure of expectation, hope, wish, desire or intention; miscarriage of design or plan.
We are apt to complain of the disappointment of our hopes and schemes, but disappointments often prove blessings and save us from calamity or ruin.


Topic: Disapprobation
Definition:
DISAPPROBATION, n. [dis and approbation.] A disapproving; dislike; the act of the mind which condemns what is supposed to be wrong, whether the act is expressed or not. We often disapprove, when we do not express disapprobation.


Topic: Disappropriate
Definition:
DISAPPROPRIATE, a. [dis and appropriate.] Not appropriated, or not having appropriated church property; a disappropriate church is one from which the appropriated parsonage, glebe and tithes are severed.
The appropriation may be severed and the church become disappropriate, two ways.
DISAPPROPRIATE, v.t. 
1. To sever or separate, as an appropriation; to withdraw from an appropriate use.
The appropriations of the several parsonages would have been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated.
2.  To deprive of appropriated property, as a church.


Topic: Disapprove
Definition:
DISAPPROVE, v.t. 
1. To dislike; to condemn in opinion or judgment; to censure as wrong. We often disapprove the conduct of others, or public measures, whether we express an opinion or not. It is often followed by of; as, to disapprove of behavior. But modern usage inclines to omit of.
2. To manifest dislike or disapprobation; to reject, as disliked, what is proposed for sanction.
The sentence of the court-marital was disapproved by the commander in chief.


Topic: Disarm
Definition:
DISARM, v.t. s as z.
1. To deprive of arms; to take the arms or weapons from , usually by force or authority; as, he disarmed his foes; the prince gave orders to disarm his subjects. With of before the thing taken away; as, to disarm one of his weapons.
2. To deprive of means of attack or defense; as, to disarm a venomous serpent.
3. To deprive of force, strength, or means of annoyance; to render harmless; to quell; as, to disarm rage or passion.
4. To strip; to divest of any thing injurious or threatening; as, piety disarms death of its terrors.


Topic: Disarmed
Definition:
DISARMED, pp. Deprived of arms; stripped of the means of defense or annoyance; rendered harmless; subdued.


Topic: Disarrange
Definition:
DISARRANGE, v.t. [dis and arrange.] To put out of order; to unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of parts. [See Derange, which is more generally used.]


Topic: Disarray
Definition:
DISARRAY, v.t. [dis and array.]
1. To undress; to divest of clothes.
2. To throw into disorder; to rout, as troops.
DISARRAY, n. 
1. Disorder; confusion; loss or want of array or regular order.
2. Undress.


Topic: Disaster
Definition:
DISASTER, n. Dizaster. [Gr., a star; a word of astrological origin.]
1. A blast or stroke of an unfavorable planet.
2. Misfortune; mishap; calamity; any unfortunate event, especially a sudden misfortune; as, we met with many disasters on the road.
DISASTER, v.t. To blast by the stroke of an unlucky planet; also, to injure; to afflict.


Topic: Disastrous
Definition:
DISASTROUS, a. 
1. Unlucky; unfortunate; calamitous; occasioning loss or injury; as, the day was disastrous; the battle proved disastrous; their fate was disastrous.
Fly the pursuit of my disastrous love.
2. Gloomy; dismal; threatening disaster.
The moon, in dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds.


Topic: Disavouch
Definition:
DISAVOUCH, v.t. [dis and avouch. See Vow.] To retract profession; to deny; to disown. [Little used.]


Topic: Disavow
Definition:
DISAVOW, v.t. [dis and avow. See Vow.]
1. To deny; to disown; to deny to be true, as a fact or charge respecting ones self; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the fact. A man may disavow his name or signature; he may disavow a knowledge of a fact, or his concern in a transaction. Opposed to own or acknowledge.
2. To deny; to disown; to reject.
3. To dissent from; not to admit as true or justifiable; not to vindicate.
The Envoy disavowed some parts of the Presidents proclamation.


Topic: Disavowal
Definition:
DISAVOWAL, n. 
1. Denial; a disowning.
A disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear.
2. Rejection; a declining to vindicate.


Topic: Disband
Definition:
DISBAND, v.t. [dis and band.] 
1. To dismiss from military service; to break up a band, or body of men enlisted; as, to disband an army or a regiment; to disband troops.
2. To scatter; to disperse.
DISBAND, v.i. 
1. To retire from military service; to separate; to break up; as, the army, at the close of the war, disbands.
2. To separate; to dissolve connection.
Human society may disband. [Improper.]
3. To be dissolved. [Not used.]
When both rocks and all things shall disband.


Topic: Disbelief
Definition:
DISBELIEF, n. [dis and belief.] Refusal of credit or faith; denial of belief.
Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.


Topic: Disbelieve
Definition:
DISBELIEVE, v.t. [dis and believe.] Not to believe; to hold not to be true or not to exist; to refuse to credit. Some men disbelieve the inspiration of the scriptures, and the immortality of the soul.


Topic: Disbranch
Definition:
DISBRANCH, v.t. [dis and branch.]
1. To cut off or separate, as the branch of a tree. [Little used.]
2. To deprive of branches. [Little used.]


Topic: Disburden
Definition:
DISBURDEN, v.t. [dis and burden. See Burden.]
1. To remove a burden from ; to unload; to discharge.
2. To throw off a burden; to disencumber; to clear of any thing weighty, troublesome or cumbersome; as, to disburden ones self of grief or care; to disburden of superfluous ornaments.
DISBURDEN, v.i. To ease the mind; to be relieved.


Topic: Disburse
Definition:
DISBURSE, v.t. disburs.  To pay out, as money; to spend or lay out; primarily, to pay money from a public chest or treasury, but applicable to a private purse.


Topic: Disbursement
Definition:
DISBURSEMENT, n. Disbursment.
1. The act of paying out, as money from a public or private chest.
2. The money or sum paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.


Topic: Disc
Definition:
DISC, n. [L. See Disk.] The face or breadth of the sun or moon; also, the width of the aperture of a telescope glass.


Topic: Discard
Definition:
DISCARD, v.t. 
1. To throw out of the hand such cards as are useless.
2. To dismiss from service or employment, or from society; to cast off; as, to discard spies and informers; to discard an old servant; to discard an associate.
3. To thrust away; to reject; as, to discard prejudices.


Topic: Discern
Definition:
DISCERN, v.t. s as z. [L., to separate or distinguish, Gr.]
1. To separate by the eye, or by the understanding. Hence,
2. To distinguish; to see the difference between two or more things; to discriminate; as, to discern the blossom-buds from the leaf-buds of plants.
Discern thou what is thine--Genesis 31.
3. To make the difference.
For nothing else discerns the virtue or the vice.
4. To discover; to see; to distinguish by the eye.
I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding. Proverbs 7.
5. To discover by the intellect; to distinguish; hence, to have knowledge of; to judge.
So is my lord the king to discern good and bad. 2 Samuel 14.
A wise mans heart discerneth time and judgment. Ecclesiastes 8.
DISCERN, v.i. 
1. To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.
2. To have judicial cognizance. 


Topic: Discerner
Definition:
DISCERNER, n. 
1. One who sees, discovers or distinguishes; an observer.
2. One who knows and judges; one who has the power of distinguishing.
He was a great observer and discerner of mens natures and humors.
3. That which distinguishes; or that which causes to understand.
The word of God is quick and powerful--a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4.


Topic: Discernible
Definition:
DISCERNIBLE, a. That may be seen distinctly; discoverable by the eye or the understanding; distinguishable. A star is discernible by the eye; the identity or difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding.


Topic: Discerning
Definition:
DISCERNING, ppr.
1. Distinguishing; seeing; discovering; knowing; judging.
2. a. Having power to discern; capable of seeing, discriminating, knowing and judging; sharp-sighted; penetrating; acute; as a discerning man or mind.
DISCERNING, n. The act of discerning; discernment.


Topic: Discernment
Definition:
DISCERNMENT, n. The act of discerning; also, the power or faculty of the mind, by which it distinguishes one thing from another, as truth from falsehood, virtue from vice; acuteness of judgment; power of perceiving differences of things or ideas, and their relations and tendencies. The errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.


Topic: Discerpible
Definition:
DISCERPIBLE, a. [L., to seize, to tear. In some dictionaries it is written discerptible, on the authority of Glanville and More; and error indeed, but of little consequence, as the word is rarely or never used.] That may be torn asunder; separable; capable of being disunited by violence.


Topic: Discharge
Definition:
DISCHARGE, v.t. 
1. To unload, as a ship; to take out, as a cargo; applied both to the ship and the loading. We say, to discharge a ship; but more generally, to discharge a cargo or the lading of the ship.
2. To free from any load or burden; to throw off or exonerate; as, discharge of business.
3. To throw off a load or charge; to let fly; to shoot; applied to fire-arms; as, to dis-charge a pistol or a cannon; or to discharge a ball or grape-shot.
4. To pay; as, to discharge a debt, a bond, a note.
5. To send away, as a creditor by payment of what is due to him. He discharge his creditors.
6. To free from claim or demand; to give an acquittance to, or a receipt in full, as to a debtor. The creditor discharged his debtor.
7. To free from an obligation; as, to discharge a man from further duty or service; to discharge a surety.
8. To clear from an accusation or crime; to acquit; to absolve; to set free; with of; as, to discharge a man of all blame.
9. To throw off or out; to let fly; to give vent to; as, to discharge a horrible oath; to discharge fury or vengeance.
10. To perform or execute, as a duty or office considered as a charge. One man discharges the office of a sheriff; another that of a priest. We are all bound to discharge the duties of piety, of benevolence and charity.
11. To divest of an office or employment; to dismiss from service; as, to discharge a steward or a servant; to discharge a soldier or seaman; to discharge a jury.
12. To dismiss; to release; to send away from any business or appointment.
Discharge your powers to their several counties.
13. To emit or send out; as, an ulcer discharges pus; a pipe discharges water.
14. To release; to liberate from confinement; as, to discharge a prisoner.
15. To put away; to remove; to clear from; to destroy. In general, to throw off any load or incumbrance; to free or clear.
DISCHARGE, v.i. To break up.
The cloud, if it were oily or fatty, would not discharge.
DISCHARGE, n.
1. An unloading, as of a ship; as the discharge of a cargo.
2. A throwing out; vent; emission; applied to a fluid, a flowing or issuing out, or a throwing out; as the discharge of water from a spring, or from a spout; applied to fire-arms, an explosion; as a discharge of cannon.
3. That which is thrown out; matter emitted; as a thin serous discharge; a purulent discharge.
4. Dismission from office or service; or the writing which evidences the dismission. The general, the soldier, obtains a discharge.
5. Release from obligation, debt or penalty; or the writing which is evidence of it; an acquittance; as, the debtor has a discharge.
6. Absolution from a crime or accusation; acquittance.
7. Ransom; liberation; price paid for deliverance.
8. Performance; execution; applied to an office, trust or duty. A good man is faithful in the discharge of his duties, public and private.
9. Liberation; release from imprisonment or other confinement.
10. Exemption; escape.
There is no discharge in that war. Ecclesiastes 8.
11. Payment, as of a debt.


Topic: Discharged
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DISCHARGED, pp. Unloaded; let off; shot; thrown out; dismissed from service; paid; released; acquitted; freed from debt or penalty; liberated; performed; executed.


Topic: Discharger
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DISCHARGER, n. 
1. He that discharges in any manner.
2. One who fires a gun.
3. In electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden phial, jar, &c., by opening a communication between the two surfaces.


Topic: Discharging
Definition:
DISCHARGING, pp. Unlading; letting fly; shooting; throwing out; emiting; dismissing from service; paying; releasing from debt, obligation or claim; acquitting; liberating; performing; executing.


Topic: Disciple
Definition:
DISCIPLE, n. [L., to learn.]
1. A learner; a scholar; one who receives or professes to receive instruction from another; as the disciples of Plato.
2. A follower; an adherent to the doctrines of another. Hence the constant attendants of Christ were called his disciples; and hence all Christians are called his disciples, as they profess to learn and receive his doctrines and precepts.
DISCIPLE, v.t. 
1. To teach; to train, or bring up.
2. To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles.
This authority he employed in sending missionaries to disciple all nations.
3. To punish; to discipline. [Not in use.]


Topic: Disciplinable
Definition:
DISCIPLINABLE, a. [See Discipline.]
1. Capable of instruction, and improvement in learning.
2. That may be subjected to discipline; as a disciplinable offense, in church government.
3. Subject or liable to discipline, as the member of a church.


Topic: Disciplinableness
Definition:
DISCIPLINABLENESS, n. 
1. Capacity of receiving instruction by education.
2. The state of being subject to discipline.


Topic: Disciplinant
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DISCIPLINANT, n. One of a religious order, so called from their practice of scourging themselves, or other rigid discipline.


Topic: Disciplinarian
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DISCIPLINARIAN, a. Pertaining to discipline.
DISCIPLINARIAN, n. One who disciplines; one versed in rules, principles and practice, and who teaches them with precision; particularly, one who instructs in military and naval tactics and maneuvers. It is chiefly used in the latter sense, and especially for one who is well versed in, or teaches with exactness, military exercises and evolutions.
2. A puritan or presbyterian; so called from his rigid adherence to religious discipline. [I believe not now used.]


Topic: Disciplinary
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DISCIPLINARY, a. 
1. Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline or government; promoting discipline; as, certain canons of the church are disciplinary.
2. Relating to a regular course of education; intended for instruction.
The evils of life, pain, sickness, losses, sorrows, dangers and disappointments, are disciplinary and remedial.


Topic: Discipline
Definition:
DISCIPLINE, n. [L., to learn.]
1. Education; instruction; cultivation and improvement, comprehending instruction in arts, sciences, correct sentiments, morals and manners, and due subordination to authority.
2. Instruction and government, comprehending the communication of knowledge and the regulation of practice; as military discipline, which includes instruction in manual exercise, evolutions and subordination.
3. Rule of government; method of regulating principles and practice; as the discipline prescribed for the church.
4. Subjection to laws, rules, order, precepts or regulations; as, the troops are under excellent discipline; the passions should be kept under strict discipline.
5. Correction; chastisement; punishment intended to correct crimes or errors; as the discipline of the strap.
6. In ecclesiastical affairs, the execution of the laws by which the church is governed, and infliction of the penalties enjoined against offenders, who profess the religion of Jesus Christ.
7. Chastisement or bodily punishment inflicted on a delinquent in the Romish Church; or that chastisement or external mortification which a religious person inflicts on himself.
DISCIPLINE, v.t. 
1. To instruct or educate; to inform the mind; to prepare by instructing in correct principles and habits; as, to discipline youth for a profession, or for future usefulness.
2. To instruct and govern; to teach rules and practice, and accustom to order and subordination; as, to discipline troops or an army.
3. To correct; to chastise; to punish.
4. To execute the laws of the church on offenders, with a view to bring them to repentance and reformation of life.
5. To advance and prepare by instruction.


Topic: Disciplined
Definition:
DISCIPLINED, pp. Instructed; educated; subjected to rules and regulations; corrected; chastised; punished; admonished.


Topic: Disciplining
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DISCIPLINING, pp. Instructing; educating; subjecting to order and subordination; correcting; chastising; admonishing; punishing.


Topic: Disclaim
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DISCLAIM, v.t. [dis and claim.]
1. To disown; to disavow; to deny the possession of; to reject as not belonging to ones self. A man disclaims all knowledge of a particular transaction; he disclaims every pretension to eloquence; he disclaims nay right to interfere in the affairs of his neighbor; he disclaims all pretensions to military skill. It is opposed to claim or challenge.
2. To renounce; to reject; as, to disclaim the authority of the pope.
3. To deny all claim. A tenant may disclaim to hold of his lord.
DISCLAIM, v.i. To disavow all part or share. [Unusual.] 
Nature disclaims in thee.


Topic: Disclaimer
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DISCLAIMER, n. 
1. A person who disclaims, disowns or renounces.
2. In law, an express or implied denial by a tenant that he holds an estate of his lord; a denial of tenure, by plea or otherwise.


Topic: Disclose
Definition:
DISCLOSE, v.t. discloze. [dis and close; L. See Close.]
1. To uncover; to open; to remove a cover from, and lay open to the view.
The shells being broken, the stone included in them is disclosed.
2. To discover; to lay open to the view; to bring to light. Events have disclosed the designs of the ministry.
3. To reveal by words; to tell; to utter; as, to disclose the secret thoughts of the heart.
4. To make known; to show in any manner. A blush may disclose a secret passion in the breast. 
5. To open; to hatch. [Not used.]
The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the sun discloseth them.
DISCLOSE, n. Discovery.


Topic: Disclosure
Definition:
DISCLOSURE, n. Disclozhur.
1. The act of disclosing; an uncovering and opening to view; discovery.
2. The act of revealing; utterance of what was secret; a telling.
3. The act of making known what was concealed.
4. That which is disclosed or made known.


Topic: Discoidal
Definition:
DISCOID, DISCOIDAL, a. Having the form of a disk.  Discoid or discous flowers, are compound flowers, not radiated, but the florets all tubular, as the tansy, southern-wood, &c.


Topic: Discolor
Definition:
DISCOLOR, v.t. [L.]
1. To alter the natural hue or color of; to stain; to tinge. A drop of wine will discolor a glass of water; silver is discolored by sea-water.
2. To change any color, natural or artificial; to alter a color partially.  It differs from color and dye, in denoting a partial alteration, rather than an entire change of color.
3. Figuratively, to alter the complexion; to change the appearance; as, to discolor ideas.


Topic: Discoloration
Definition:
DISCOLORATION, n. 
1. The act of altering the color; a staining.
2. Alteration of color; stain; as spots and discolorations of the skin.
3. Alteration of complexion or appearance.


Topic: Discomfit
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DISCOMFIT, v.t. [L., to fasten, to nail; to fix.] To rout; to defeat; to scatter in fight; to cause to flee; to vanquish.
Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. Exodus 17.
He, fugitive, declined superior strength, discomfited, pursued.
DISCOMFIT, n. Rout; dispersion; defeat; overthrow.


Topic: Discomfiture
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DISCOMFITURE, n. Rout; defeat in battle; dispersion; overthrow.
Every mans sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture. 1 Samuel 14.
2. Defeat; frustration; disappointment.


Topic: Discomfort
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DISCOMFORT, n. [dis and comfort.] Uneasiness; disturbance of peace; pain; grief; inquietude.
DISCOMFORT, v.t. To disturb peace or happiness; to make uneasy; to pain; to grieve; to sadden; to deject.


Topic: Discomfortable
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DISCOMFORTABLE, a. 
1. Causing uneasiness; unpleasant; giving pain; making sad. [Little used.]
2. Uneasy; melancholy; refusing comfort. [Not used.] [Instead of this word, uncomfortable is used.]


Topic: Discommend
Definition:
DISCOMMEND, v.t. [dis and commend.] To blame; to censure; to mention with disapprobation.
I do not discommend the lofty style in tragedy.


Topic: Discommode
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DISCOMMODE, v.t. To put to inconvenience; to incommode; to molest; to trouble. [Discommodate is not used.]


Topic: Discommon
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DISCOMMON, v.t. [dis and common.] 
1. To appropriate common land; to separate and inclose common.
2. To deprive of the privileges of a place.


Topic: Discompose
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DISCOMPOSE, v.t. discompoze. [dis and compose.]
1. To unsettle; to disorder; to disturb; applied to things.
2. To disturb peace and quietness; to agitate; to ruffle; applied to the temper or mind; expressing less agitation than fret and vex, or expressing vexation with decorum.
3. To displace; to discard. [Not in use.]


Topic: Discomposure
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DISCOMPOSURE, n. Discompozhur. Disorder; agitation; disturbance; perturbation; as discomposure of mind.


Topic: Disconcert
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DISCONCERT, v.t. [dis and concert.]
1. To break or interrupt any order, plan or harmonious scheme; to defeat; to frustrate. The emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy. Their schemes were disconcerted.
2. To unsettle the mind; to discompose; to disturb; to confuse. An unexpected question may disconcert the ablest advocate in his argument.


Topic: Disconnect
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DISCONNECT, v.t. [dis and connect.] To separate; to disunite; to dissolve connection.
The commonwealth would, in a few generations, crumble away, be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality--
This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious metals.


Topic: Disconnected
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DISCONNECTED, pp. Separated; disunited. This word is not synonymous with unconnected, though often confounded with it. Disconnected implies a previous connection; unconnected does not necessarily imply any previous union.


Topic: Disconnection
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DISCONNECTION, n. The act of separating, or state of being disunited; separation; want of union.
Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members, but weakness, disconnection and confusion.


Topic: Disconsolate
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DISCONSOLATE, a. [dis and L.] [See Console.]
1. Destitute of comfort or consolation; sorrowful; hopeless or not expecting comfort; sad; dejected; melancholy; as a parent, bereaved of an only child and disconsolate.
2. Not affording comfort; cheerless; as the disconsolate darkness of a winters night.


Topic: Discontent
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DISCONTENT, n. [dis and content.] Want of content; uneasiness or inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction at any present state of things.
DISCONTENT, a. Uneasy; dissatisfied.
DISCONTENT, v.t. To make uneasy at the present state; to dissatisfy.


Topic: Discontented
Definition:
DISCONTENTED, pp. or a. Uneasy in mind; dissatisfied; unquiet; as, discontented citizens make bad subjects.


Topic: Discontinuance
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DISCONTINUANCE, n. [See Discontinue.]
1. Want of continuance; cessation; intermission; interruption of continuance; as a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse.
2. Want of continued connection or cohesion of parts; want of union; disruption.
3. In law, a breaking off or interruption of possession, as where a tenant in tail makes a feoffment in fee-simple, or for the life of the feoffee, or in tail, which he has not power to do; in this case, the entry of the feoffee is lawful, during the life of the feoffor; but if he retains possession after the death of the feoffor, it is an injury which is termed a discontinuance, the legal estate of the heir in tail being discontinued, till a recovery can be had in law.
4. Discontinuance of a suit, is when a plaintiff leaves a chasm in the proceedings in his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day; in which case the defendant is not bound to attend. Formerly the demise of the king caused a discontinuance of all suits; but this is remedied by statute 1. Ed. VI.


Topic: Discontinuation
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DISCONTINUATION, n. Breach or interruption of continuity; disruption of parts; separation of parts which form a connected series.


Topic: Discontinue
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DISCONTINUE, v.t. [dis and continue.]
1. To leave off; to cause to cease, as a practice or habit; to stop; to put an end to; as, to discontinue the intemperate use of spirits. Inveterate customs are not discontinued without inconvenience.
The depredations on our commerce were not to be discontinued.
2. To break off; to interrupt.
3. To cease to take or receive; as, to discontinue a daily prayer.
DISCONTINUE, v.i. 
1. To cease; to leave the possession, or lose an established or long enjoyed right.
Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage. Jeremiah 17.
2. To lose the cohesion of parts; to suffer disruption or separation of substance. [Little used.]


Topic: Discord
Definition:
DISCORD, n. [L.]
1. Disagreement among persons or things. Between persons, difference of opinions; variance; opposition; contention; strife; any disagreement which produces angry passions, contest, disputes, litigation or war. Discord may exist between families, parties and nations.
2. Disagreement; want of order; a clashing.
All discord, harmony not understood.
3. In music, disagreement of sounds; dissonance; a union of sounds which is inharmonious, grating and disagreeable to the ear; or an interval whose extremes do not coalesce. Thus the second and the seventh, when sounded together, make a discord. The term discord is applied to each of the two sounds which form the dissonance, and to the interval; but more properly to the mixed sound of dissonant tones. It is opposed to concord and harmony.
DISCORD, v.i. To disagree; to jar; to clash; not to suit; not to be coincident. [Not in use.]


Topic: Discordance
Definition:
DISCORDANCE, DISCORDANCY, n. [L.] Disagreement; opposition; inconsistency; as a discordance of opinions, or of sounds.


Topic: Discordant
Definition:
DISCORDANT, a. [L.]
1. Disagreeing; incongruous; contradictory; being at variance; as discordant opinions; discordant rules or principles.
2. Opposite; contrarious; not coincident; as the discordant attractions of comets, or of different planets.
3. Dissonant; not in unison; not harmonious; not accordant harsh; jarring; as discordant notes or sounds.


Topic: Discordantly
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DISCORDANTLY, adv. Dissonantly; in a discordant manner; inconsistently; in a manner to jar or clash; in disagreement with another, or with itself.


Topic: Discount
Definition:
DISCOUNT, n. [See Count. Literally, a counting back or from.]
1. A sum deducted for prompt or advanced payment; an allowance or deduction from a sum due, or from a credit; a certain rate per cent deducted from the credit price of goods sold, on account of prompt payment; or any deduction from the customary price, or from a sum due or to be due at a future time. Thus the merchant who gives a credit of three months will deduct a certain rate per cent for payment in hand, and the holder of a note or bill of exchange will deduct a certain rate per cent of the amount of the note or bill for advanced payment, which deduction is called a discount.
2. Among bankers, the deduction of a sum for advanced payment; particularly, the deduction of the interest on a sum lent, at the time of lending. The discounts at banking institutions are usually the amount of legal interest paid by the borrower, and deducted from the sum borrowed, at the commencement of the credit.
3. The sum deducted or refunded; as, the discount was five per cent.
4. The act of discounting. A note is lodged in the bank for discount. The banks have suspended discounts.
DISCOUNT, v.t. 
1. To deduct a certain sum or rate per cent from the principal sum. Merchants discount five or six per cent, for prompt or for advanced payment.
2. To lend or advance the amount of, deducting the interest or other rate per cent from the principal, at the time of the loan or advance. The banks discount notes and bills of exchange, on good security.
The first rule--to discount only unexceptionable paper.
DISCOUNT, v.i. To lend or make a practice of lending money, deducting the interest at the time of the loan. The banks discount for sixty or ninety days, sometimes for longer terms.


Topic: Discountable
Definition:
DISCOUNTABLE, a. That may be discounted. Certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank. A bill may be discountable for more than sixty days.


Topic: Discounted
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DISCOUNTED, pp. 
1. Deducted from a principal sum; paid back; refunded or allowed; as, the sum of five per cent was discounted.
2. Having the amount lent on discount or deduction of a sum in advance; as, the bill was discounted for sixty days.


Topic: Discountenance
Definition:
DISCOUNTENANCE, v.t. [dis and countenance.] 
1. To abash; to ruffle or discompose the countenance; to put to shame; to put out of countenance. [Not used.]
How would one look from his majestic brow--Discountenance her despised.
2. To discourage; to check; to restrain by frowns, censure, arguments, opposition, or cold treatment. The good citizen will discountenance vice by every lawful means.
DISCOUNTENANCE, n. Cold treatment; unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.
He thought a little discountenance on those persons would suppress that spirit.


Topic: Discountenancer
Definition:
DISCOUNTENANCER, n. One who discourages by cold treatment, frowns, censure or expression of disapprobation; one who checks or depresses by unfriendly regards.


Topic: Discounting
Definition:
DISCOUNTING, ppr. 
1. Deducting a sum for prompt or advanced payment.
2. Lending on discount.
DISCOUNTING, n. The act or practice of lending money on discounts.
The profitable business of a bank consists in discounting.


Topic: Discourage
Definition:
DISCOURAGE, v.t. discurage. [dis and courage. See Courage.]
1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits; to deject; to deprive of confidence.
Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be discouraged. Colossians 3.
2. To deter from any thing; with from.
Why discourage ye the hearts of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them? Numbers 32.
3. To attempt to repress or prevent; to dissuade from; as, to discourage an effort.


Topic: Discouraged
Definition:
DISCOURAGED, pp. Discuraged. Disheartened; deprived of courage or confidence; depressed in spirits; dejected; checked.


Topic: Discouragement
Definition:
DISCOURAGEMENT, n. Discuragement.
1. The act of disheartening, or depriving of courage; the act of deterring or dissuading from an undertaking; the act of depressing confidence.
2. That which destroys or abates courage; that which depresses confidence or hope; that which deters or tends to deter from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of any thing. Evil examples are great discouragements to virtue. The revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement.


Topic: Discourager
Definition:
DISCOURAGER, n. Discurager. One who discourages; one who disheartens, or depresses the courage; one who impresses or fear of success; one who dissuades from an undertaking.


Topic: Discouraging
Definition:
DISCOURAGING, ppr. Discuraging. 
1. Disheartening; depressing courage.
2. a. Tending to dishearten, or to depress the courage; as discouraging prospects.


Topic: Discourse
Definition:
DISCOURSE, n. Discors. [L., to run.]
1. The act of the undertaking, by which it passes from premises to consequences; the act which connects propositions, and deduces conclusions from them. [This sense is now obsolete.]
2. Literally, a running over a subject in speech; hence, a communication of thoughts by words, either to individuals, to companies, or to public assemblies. Discourse to an individual or to a small company is called conversation or talk; mutual interchange or thoughts; mutual intercourse of language. It is applied to the familiar communication of thoughts by an individual, or to the mutual communication of two or more. We say, I was pleased with his discourse, and he heard our discourse.
The vanquished party with the victors joined, nor wanted sweet discourse, the banquet of the mind.
3. Effusion of language; speech.
4. A written treatise; a formal dissertation; as the discourse of Plutarch on garrulity; of Cicero on old age.
5. A sermon, uttered or written. We say, an extemporaneous discourse, or a written discourse.
DISCOURSE, v.i. 
1. To talk; to converse; to but it expresses rather more formality than talk. He discoursed with us an hour on the events of the war. We discoursed together on our mutual concerns.
2. To communicate thoughts or ideas in a formal manner; to treat upon in a solemn, set manner; as, to discourse on the properties of the circle; the preacher discoursed on the nature and effects of faith.
3. To reason; to pass from premises to consequences.
DISCOURSE, v.t. To treat of; to talk over; to discuss. [Not used.]
Let use discourse our fortunes.


Topic: Discourser
Definition:
DISCOURSER, n. 
1. One who discourses; a speaker; a haranguer.
2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation.


Topic: Discoursing
Definition:
DISCOURSING, ppr. Talking; conversing; preaching; discussing; treating at some length or in a formal manner.


Topic: Discoursive
Definition:
DISCOURSIVE, a. 
1. Reasoning; passing from premises to consequences.
2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.
The epic is interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes.


Topic: Discourteous
Definition:
DISCOURTEOUS, a. Discurteous. [dis and courteous.] Uncivil; rude; uncomplaisant; wanting in good manners; as discourteous knight.


Topic: Discourtesy
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DISCOURTESY, n. Discurtesy. [dis and courtesy.] Incivility; rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; act of disrespect.
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.


Topic: Discover
Definition:
DISCOVER, v.t. [See Cover.]
1. Literally, to uncover; to remove a covering. Isaiah 22.
2. To lay open to the view; to disclose; to show; to make visible; to expose to view something before unseen or concealed.
Go, draw aside the curtains and discover the several caskets to this noble prince.
He discovereth deep things out of darkness. Job 12.
Law can discover sin, but not remove.
3. To reveal; to make known.
We will discover ourselves to them. 1 Samuel 14.
Discover not a secret to another. Proverbs 25.
4. To espy; to have the first sight of; as, a man at mast-head discovered land.
When we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand. Acts 21.
5. To find out; to obtain the first knowledge of; to come to the knowledge of something sought or before unknown. Columbus discovered the variation of the magnetic needle. We often discover our mistakes, when too late to prevent their evil effects.
6. To detect; as, we discovered the artifice; the thief, finding himself discovered, attempted to escape.
Discover differs from invent. We discover what before existed, though to us unknown; we invent what did not before exist.


Topic: Discoverable
Definition:
DISCOVERABLE, a. 
1. That may be discovered; that may be brought to light, or exposed to view.
2. That may be seen; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope.
3. That may be found out, or made known; as, the scriptures reveal many things not discoverable by the light of reason.
4. Apparent; visible; exposed to view.
Nothing discoverable in the lunar surface is ever covered.


Topic: Discovered
Definition:
DISCOVERED, pp. Uncovered; disclosed to view; laid open; revealed; espied or first seen; found out; detected.


Topic: Discoverer
Definition:
DISCOVERER, n. 
1. One who discovers; one who first sees or espies; one who finds out, or first comes to the knowledge of something.
2. A scout; an explorer.


Topic: Discovering
Definition:
DISCOVERING, ppr. Uncovering; disclosing to view; laying open; revealing; making known; espying; finding out; detecting.


Topic: Discoverture
Definition:
DISCOVERTURE, n. A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband.


Topic: Discovery
Definition:
DISCOVERY, n. 
1. The action of disclosing to view, or bringing to light; as, by the discovery of a plot, the public peace is preserved.
2. Disclosure; a making known; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his estate and effects.
3. The action of finding something hidden; as the discovery of lead or silver in the earth.
4. The act of finding out, or coming to the knowledge of; as the discovery of truth; the discovery of magnetism.
5. The act of espying; first sight of; as the discovery of America by Columbus, or of the Continent by Cabot.
6. That which is discovered, found out or revealed; that which is first brought to light, seen or known. The properties of the magnet were an important discovery. Redemption from sin was a discovery beyond the power of human philosophy.
7. In dramatic poetry, the unraveling of a plot, or the manner of unfolding the plot or fable of a comedy or tragedy.


Topic: Discredit
Definition:
DISCREDIT, n. [See the Verb.]
1. Want of credit or good reputation; some degree of disgrace or reproach; disesteem; applied to persons or things. Frauds in manufactures bring them into discredit.
It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession.
2. Want of belief, trust or confidence; disbelief; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.
DISCREDIT, v.t. 
1. To disbelieve; to give no credit to; not to credit or believe; as, the report is discredited.
2. To deprive of credit or good reputation; to make less reputable or honorable; to bring into disesteem; to bring into some degree of disgrace, or into disrepute.
He least discredits his travels, who returns the same man he went.
Our virtues will be often discredited with the appearance of evil.
3. To deprive of credibility.


Topic: Discreet
Definition:
DISCREET, a. [L., Gr. It is sometimes written discrete; the distinction between discreet and discrete are arbitrary, but perhaps not entirely useless. The literal sense is, separate, reserved, wary, hence discerning.]
1. Prudent; wise in avoiding errors or evil, and in selecting the best means to accomplish a purpose; circumspect; cautious; wary; not rash.
It is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to society.
Let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise. Genesis 41.


Topic: Discreetly
Definition:
DISCREETLY, adv. Prudently; circumspectly; cautiously; with nice judgment of what is best to be done or omitted.


Topic: Discrepance
Definition:
DISCREPANCE, DISCREPANCY, n. [L., to give a different sound, to vary, to jar; to creak. See Crepitate.] Difference; disagreement; contrariety; applicable to facts or opinions.
There is no real discrepancy between these tow genealogies.


Topic: Discrete
Definition:
DISCRETE, a. [L. See Discreet.]
1. Separate; distinct; disjunct. Discrete proportion is when the ratio of two or more pairs of numbers or quantities is the same, but there is not the same proportion between all the numbers; as 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6, as 8 does to 16. But 3 is not to 6 as 6 is to 8. It is thus opposed to continued or continual proportion, as 3:6::12:24.
2. Disjunctive; as, I resign my life, but not my honor, is a discrete proposition.
DISCRETE, v.t. To separate; to discontinue. [Not used.]


Topic: Discretion
Definition:
DISCRETION, n. [L, a separating. See Discreet.]
1. Prudence, or knowledge and prudence; that discernment which enables a person to judge critically of what is correct and proper, united with caution; nice discernment and judgment, directed by circumspection, and primarily regarding ones own conduct.
A good man--will guide his affairs with discretion. Psalm 112.
My son, keep sound wisdom and discretion. Proverbs 3.
2. Liberty or power of acting without other control than ones own judgment; as, the management of affairs was left to the discretion of the prince; he is left to his own discretion. Hence, 
To surrender at discretion, is to surrender without stipulation or terms, and commit ones self entirely to the power of the conqueror.
3. Disjunction; separation. [Not much used.]


Topic: Discretional
Definition:
DISCRETIONARY, DISCRETIONAL, a. Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; that is to be directed or managed by discretion only. Thus, the President of the United States is, in certain cases, invested with discretionary powers, to act according to circumstances.


Topic: Discretive
Definition:
DISCRETIVE, a. [See Discreet and Discrete.]
1. Disjunctive; noting separation or opposition. In logic, a discretive proposition expresses some distinction, opposition or variety, by means of but, though, yet, &c.; as, travelers change their climate, but not their temper; Job was patient, though his grief was great.
2. In grammar, discretive distinctions are such as imply opposition or difference; as, not a man, but a beast.
3. Separate; distinct.


Topic: Discriminate
Definition:
DISCRIMINATE, v.t. [l., difference, distinction; differently applied; Gr., L.]
1. To distinguish; to observe the difference between; as, we may usually discriminate true from false modesty.
2. To separate; to select from others; to make a distinction between; as, in the last judgment, the righteous will be discriminated from the wicked.
3. To mark with notes of difference; to distinguish by some note or mark. We discriminate animals by names, as nature has discriminated them by different shapes and habits.
DISCRIMINATE, v.i. 
1. To make a difference or distinction; as, in the application of law, and the punishment of crimes, the judge should discriminate between degrees of guilt.
2. To observe or note a difference; to distinguish; as, in judging of evidence, we should be careful to discriminate between probability and slight presumption.
DISCRIMINATE, a. Distinguished; having the difference marked.


Topic: Discriminating
Definition:
DISCRIMINATING, ppr. 
1. Separating; distinguishing; marking with notes of difference.
2.a. Distinguishing; peculiar; characterized by peculiar differences; as the discriminating doctrines of the gospel.
3.a. That discriminates; able to make nice distinctions; as a discriminating mind.


Topic: Discrimination
Definition:
DISCRIMINATION, n. 
1. The act of distinguishing; the act of making or observing a difference; distinction; as the discrimination between right and wrong.
2. The state of being distinguished.
3. Mark of distinction.


Topic: Discriminative
Definition:
DISCRIMINATIVE, a. 
1. That makes the mark of distinction; that constitutes the mark of difference; characteristic; as the discriminative features of men.
2. That observes distinction; as discriminative providence.


Topic: Disculpate
Definition:
DISCULPATE, v.t. [L., a fault.] To free from blame or fault; to exculpate; to excuse.
Neither does this effect of the independence of nations disculpate the author of an unjust war.


Topic: Discumbency
Definition:
DISCUMBENCY, n. [L. See Discubitory.] The act of leaning at meat, according to the manner of the ancients.


Topic: Discumber
Definition:
DISCUMBER, v.t. [dis and cumber.] To unburden; to throw off any thing cumbersome; to disengage from any troublesome weight, or impediment; to disencumber. [The latter is generally used.]


Topic: Discursive
Definition:
DISCURSIVE, a. [L., supra.]
1. Moving or roving about; desultory.
2. Argumentative; reasoning; proceeding regularly from premises to consequences; sometimes written discursive. Whether brutes have a kind of discursive faculty.


Topic: Discus
Definition:
DISCUS, n. [L.]
1. A quoit; a piece of iron, copper or stone, to be thrown in play; used by the ancients.
2. In botany, the middle plain part of a radiated compound flower, generally consisting of small florets, with a hollow regular petal, as in the marigold and daisy.
3. The face or surface of the sun or moon. [See Disk.]


Topic: Discuss
Definition:
DISCUSS, v.t. [L.] Literally, to drive; to beat or to shake in pieces; to separate by beating or shaking.
1. To disperse; to scatter; to dissolve; to repel; as, to discuss a tumor; a medical use of the word.
2. To debate; to agitate by argument; to clear of objections and difficulties, with a view to find or illustrate truth; to sift; to examine by disputation; to ventilate; to reason on, for the purpose of separating truth from falsehood. We discuss a subject, a point, a problem, a question, the propriety, expedience or justice of a measure, &c.
3. To break in pieces. [The primary sense, but not used.]
4. To shake off. [Not in use.]


Topic: Discussing
Definition:
DISCUSSING, ppr. Dispersing; resolving; scattering; debating; agitating; examining by argument.
DISCUSSING, n. Discussion; examination.


Topic: Discussion
Definition:
DISCUSSION, n. 
1. In surgery, resolution; the dispersion of a tumor or any coagulated matter.
2. Debate; disquisition; the agitation of a point or subject with a view to elicit truth; the treating of a subject by argument, to clear it of difficulties, and separate truth from falsehood.


Topic: Discussive
Definition:
DISCUSSIVE, a. Having the power to discuss, resolve or disperse tumors or coagulated matter.
DISCUSSIVE, n. A medicine that discusses; a discutient.


Topic: Discutient
Definition:
DISCUTIENT, a. [L.] Discussing; dispersing morbid matter.
DISCUTIENT, n. A medicine or application which disperses a tumor or any coagulated fluid in the body; sometimes it is equivalent to carminative.


Topic: Disdain
Definition:
DISDAIN, v.t. [L., to think worthy; worthy. See Dignity.] To think unworthy; to deem worthless; to consider to be unworthy of notice, care, regard, esteem, or unworthy of ones character; to scorn; to contemn. The man of elevated mind disdains a mean action; he disdains the society of profligate, worthless men; he disdains to corrupt the innocent, or insult the weak. Goliath disdained David.
Whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. Job 30.
DISDAIN, n. Contempt; scorn; a passion excited in noble minds, by the hatred or detestation of what is mean and dishonorable, and implying a consciousness of superiority of mind, or a supposed superiority of mind, or a supposed superiority. In ignoble minds, disdain may spring from unwarrantable pride or haughtiness, and be directed toward objects of worth. It implies hatred, and sometimes anger.
How my soul is moved with just disdain.


Topic: Disdainful
Definition:
DISDAINFUL, a. 
1. Full of disdain; as disdainful soul.
2. Expressing disdain; as a disdainful look.
3. Contemptuous; scornful; haughty; indignant.


Topic: Disdiaclastic
Definition:
DISDIACLASTIC, a. An epithet given by Bartholine and others to a substance supposed to be crystal, but which is a fine pellucid spar, called also Iceland crystal, and by Dr. Hill, from its shape, parallelopipedum.


Topic: Disease
Definition:
DISEASE, n. Dizeze. [dis and ease.]
1. In its primary sense, pain, uneasiness, distress, and so used by Spenser; but in this sense, obsolete.
2. The cause of pain or uneasiness; distemper; malady; sickness; disorder; any state of a living body in which the natural functions of the organs are interrupted or disturbed, either by defective or preternatural action, without a disrupture of parts by violence, which is called a wound. The first effect of disease is uneasiness or pain, and the ultimate effect is death. A disease may affect the whole body, or a particular limb or part of the body. We say a diseased limb; a disease in the head or stomach; and such partial affection of the body is called a local or topical disease. The word is also applied to the disorders of other animals, as well as to those of man; and to any derangement of the vegetative functions of plants.
The shafts of disease shoot across our path in such a variety of courses, that the atmosphere of human life is darkened by their number, and the escape of an individual becomes almost miraculous.
3. A disordered state of the mind or intellect, by which the reason is impaired.
4. In society, vice; corrupt state of morals. Vices are called moral diseases.
A wise man converses with the wicked, as a physician with the sick, not to catch the disease, but to cure it.
5. Political or civil disorder, or vices in a state; any practice which tends to disturb the peace of society, or impede or prevent the regular administration of government.
The instability, injustice and confusion introduced into the public councils have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished.
DISEASE, v.t. dizeze.
1. To interrupt or impair any or all the natural and regular functions of the several organs of a living body; to afflict with pain or sickness to make morbid; used chiefly in the passive participle, as a diseased body, a diseased stomach; but diseased may here be considered as an adjective.
2. To interrupt or render imperfect the regular functions of the brain, or of the intellect; to disorder; to derange.
3. To infect; to communicate disease to, by contagion.
4. To pain; to make uneasy.


Topic: Diseaseful
Definition:
DISEASEFUL, a. Dizezeful.
1. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as diseaseful climate.
2. Occasioning uneasiness.


Topic: Disembark
Definition:
DISEMBARK, v.t. [dis and embark.] To land; to debark; to remove from on board a ship to the land; to put on shore; applied particularly to the landing of troops and military apparatus; as, the general disembarked the troops at sun-rise.
DISEMBARK, v.i. To land; to debark; to quit a ship for residence or action on shore; as, the light infantry and calvary disembarked, and marched to meet the enemy.


Topic: Disembarrass
Definition:
DISEMBARRASS, v.t. [dis and embarrass.] To free from embarrassment or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.


Topic: Disembitter
Definition:
DISEMBITTER, v.t. [dis and embitter.] To free from bitterness; to clear from acrimony; to render sweet or pleasant.


Topic: Disembodied
Definition:
DISEMBODIED, a. [dis and embodied.]
1. Divested of the body; as disembodied spirits or souls.
2. Separated; discharged from keeping in a body.


Topic: Disembogue
Definition:
DISEMBOGUE, v.t. [See Voice.] To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into the ocean or a lake.
Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves, and through nine channels disembogues his waves.
DISEMBOGUE, v.i. 
1. To flow out at the mouth, as a river; to discharge waters into the ocean, or into a lake. Innumerable rivers disembogue into the ocean.
2. To pass out of a gulf or bay.


Topic: Disembowel
Definition:
DISEMBOWEL, v.t. [dis and embowel.] To take out the bowels; to take or draw from the bowels, as the web of a spider.


Topic: Disembroil
Definition:
DISEMBROIL, v.t. [dis and embroil.] To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.


Topic: Disenable
Definition:
DISENABLE, v.t. [dis and enable.] To deprive of power, natural or moral; to disable; to deprive of ability or means. A man may be disenabled to walk by lameness; and by poverty he is disenabled to support his family.


Topic: Disenchant
Definition:
DISENCHANT, v.t. [dis and enchant.] To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells.
Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove.


Topic: Disencumber
Definition:
DISENCUMBER, v.t. [dis and encumber.]
1. To free from encumbrance; to deliver from clogs and impediments; to disburden; as, to disencumber troops of their baggage; to disencumber the soul of its body of clay; to disencumber the mind of its cares and griefs.
2. To free from any obstruction; to free from any thing heavy or unnecessary; as a disencumbered building.


Topic: Disengage
Definition:
DISENGAGE, v.t. [dis and engage.]
1. To separate, as a substance from any thing with which it is in union; to free; to loose; to liberate; as, to disengage a metal from extraneous substances.
Caloric and light must be disengaged during the process.
2. To separate from that to which one adheres, or is attached; as, to disengage a man from a party.
3. To disentangle; to extricate; to clear from impediments, difficulties or perplexities; as, to disengage one from broils or controversies.
4. To detach; to withdraw; to wean; as, to disengage the heart or affections from earthly pursuits.
5. To free from any thing that commands the mind, or employs the attention; as, to disengage the mind from study; to disengage ones self from business.
6. To release or liberate from a promise or obligation; to set free by dissolving an engagement; as, the men, who were enlisted, are now disengaged; the lady, who had promised to give her hand in marriage, is disengaged.  Let it be observed that disengaged properly implies previous engagement; and is not to be confounded with unengaged, which does not always imply prior engagement. This distinction is sometimes carelessly overlooked.


Topic: Disengaged
Definition:
DISENGAGED, pp. 
1. Separated; detached; set free; released; disjoined; disentangled.
2.a. Vacant; being at leisure; not particularly occupied; not having the attention confined to a particular object. [This word is thus used by mistake for unengaged, not engaged.]


Topic: Disengagedness
Definition:
DISENGAGEDNESS, n. 
1. The quality or state of being disengaged; freedom from connection; disjunction.
2. Vacuity of attention.


Topic: Disengagement
Definition:
DISENGAGEMENT, n. 
1. A setting free; separation; extrication.
It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses.
2. The act of separating or detaching.
3. Liberation or release from obligation.
4. Freedom from attention; vacancy; leisure.


Topic: Disengaging
Definition:
DISENGAGING, ppr. Separating; loosing; setting free; detaching; liberating; releasing from obligation.


Topic: Disentangle
Definition:
DISENTANGLE, v.t. [dis and entangle.]
1. To unravel; to unfold; to untwist; to loose, separate or disconnect things which are interwove, or united without order; as, to disentangle net-work; to disentangle a skain of yarn.
2. To free; to extricate from perplexity; to disengage from complicated concerns; to set free from impediments or difficulties; as, to disentangle ones self from business, from political affairs, or from the cares and temptations of life.
3. To disengage; to separate.


Topic: Disenthrone
Definition:
DISENTHRONE, v.t. [dis and enthrone.] To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority; as, to disenthrone a king.


Topic: Disentrance
Definition:
DISENTRANCE, v.t. [dis and entrance.] To awaken from a trance, or from deep sleep; to arouse from a reverie.


Topic: Disespouse
Definition:
DISESPOUSE, v.t. disespouz. [dis and espouse.] To separate after espousal or plighted faith; to divorce.


Topic: Disesteem
Definition:
DISESTEEM, n. [dis and esteem.] Want of esteem; slight dislike; disregard. It expresses less than hatred or contempt.
DISESTEEM, v.t. To dislike in a moderate degree; to consider with disregard, disapprobation, dislike or slight contempt; to slight.
But if this sacred gift you disesteem.


Topic: Disfavor
Definition:
DISFAVOR, n. [dis and favor.]
1. Dislike; slight displeasure; discountenance; unfavorable regard; disesteem; as, the conduct of the minister incurred the disfavor of his sovereign.
2. A state of unacceptableness; a state in which one is not esteemed or favored, or not patronized, promoted or befriended; as, to be in disfavor at court.
3. An ill or disobliging act; as, no generous man will do a disfavor to the meanest of his species.
DISFAVOR, v.t. To discountenance; to withdraw or withhold from one, kindness, friendship or support; to check or oppose by disapprobation; as, let the man be countenanced or disfavored, according to his merits.


Topic: Disfiguration
Definition:
DISFIGURATION, n. [See Disfigure.]
1. The act of disfiguring, or marring external form.
2. The state of being disfigured; some degree of deformity.


Topic: Disfigure
Definition:
DISFIGURE, v.t. [dis and figure.]
1. To change to a worse form; to mar external figure; to impair shape or form and render it less perfect and beautiful; as, the loss of a limb disfigures the body.
2. To mar; to impair; to injure beauty, symmetry or excellence.


Topic: Disfranchise
Definition:
DISFRANCHISE, v.t. [dis and franchise.] To deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen; to deprive of chartered rights and immunities; to deprive of any franchise, as of the right of voting in elections, &c.


Topic: Disfranchised
Definition:
DISFRANCHISED, pp. Deprived of the rights and privileges of a free citizen, or of some particular franchise.


Topic: Disfranchisement
Definition:
DISFRANCHISEMENT, n. The act of disfranchising, or depriving of the privileges of a free citizen, or of some particular immunity.


Topic: Disfurnish
Definition:
DISFURNISH, v.t. [dis and furnish.] To deprive of furniture; to strip of apparatus, habiliments or equipage.


Topic: Disgarnish
Definition:
DISGARNISH, v.t. [dis and garnish.]
1. To divest of garniture or ornaments.
2. To deprive of a garrison, guns and military apparatus; to degarnish.


Topic: Disglorify
Definition:
DISGLORIFY, v.t. [dis and glorify.] To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. The participle disglorified is used by Milton; but the word is little used.


Topic: Disgorge
Definition:
DISGORGE, v.t. disgorj.
1. To eject or discharge from the stomach, throat or mouth; to vomit.
2. To throw out with violence; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place. Thus, volcanoes are said to disgorge streams of burning lava, ashes and stones. Miltons infernal rivers disgorge their streams into a burning lake.


Topic: Disgorged
Definition:
DISGORGED, pp. Ejected; discharged from the stomach or mouth; thrown out with violence and in great quantities.


Topic: Disgorging
Definition:
DISGORGING, ppr. Discharging from the throat or mouth; vomiting; ejecting with violence and in great quantities.


Topic: Disgrace
Definition:
DISGRACE, n. [dis and grace.] 
1. A state of being out of favor; disfavor; disesteem; as, the minister retired from court in disgrace.
2. State of ignominy; dishonor; shame.
3. Cause of shame; as, to turn the back to the enemy is a foul disgrace; every vice is a disgrace to a rational being.
4. Act of unkindness. [Not used.]
DISGRACE, v.t. 
1. To put out of favor; as, the minister was disgraced.
2. To bring a reproach on; to dishonor; as an agent. Men are apt to take pleasure in disgracing an enemy and his performance.
3. To bring to shame; to dishonor; to sink in estimation; as a cause; as, men often boast of actions which disgrace them.


Topic: Disgraceful
Definition:
DISGRACEFUL, a. Shameful; reproachful; dishonorable; procuring shame; sinking reputation. Cowardice is disgraceful to a soldier. Intemperance and profaneness are disgraceful to a man, but more disgraceful to a woman.


Topic: Disgracefully
Definition:
DISGRACEFULLY, adv. 
1. With disgrace.
The senate have cast you forth disgracefully.
2. Shamefully; reproachfully; ignominiously; in a disgraceful manner; as the troops fled disgracefully.


Topic: Disgracer
Definition:
DISGRACER, n. One who disgraces; one who exposes to disgrace; one who brings into disgrace, shame or contempt.


Topic: Disguise
Definition:
DISGUISE, v.t. disgize. 
1. To conceal by an unusual habit, or mask. Men sometimes disguise themselves fro the purpose of committing crimes without danger of detection. They disguise their faces in a masquerade.
2.  To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloke by a false show, by false language, or an artificial manner; as, to disguise anger, sentiments or intentions.
3. To disfigure; to alter the form, and exhibit an unusual appearance.
They saw the faces, which too well they knew, though then disguised in death.
4. To disfigure or deform by liquor; to intoxicate.
DISGUISE, n. 
1. A counterfeit habit; a dress intended to conceal the person who wears it.
By the laws of England, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subjected to heavy penalties, and in some cases, declared felons.
2. A false appearance; a counterfeit show; an artificial or assumed appearance in tended to deceive the beholder.
A treacherous design is often concealed under the disguise of great candor.
3. Change of manner by drink; intoxication.


Topic: Disgust
Definition:
DISGUST, n. [L.]
1. Disrelish; distaste; aversion to the taste of food or drink; an unpleasant sensation excited int he organs of taste by something disagreeable, and when extreme, producing loathing or nausea.
2. Dislike; aversion; an unpleasant sensation in the mind excited by something offensive in the manners, conduct, language or opinions of others. Thus, obscenity in language and clownishness in behavior excite disgust.
DISGUST, v.t. 
1. To excite aversion in the stomach; to offend the taste.
2. To displease; to offend the mind or moral taste; with at or with; as, to be disgusted at foppery, or with vulgar manners. To disgust from is unusual and hardly legitimate.


Topic: Disgusting
Definition:
DISGUSTING, ppr. 
1. Provoking aversion; offending the taste.
2. a. Provoking dislike; odious; hateful; as disgusting servility.


Topic: Dish
Definition:
DISH, n. [Gr., L. It is the same word as disk and desk, and seems to signify something flat, plain or extended.]
1. A broad open vessel, made of various materials, used for serving up meat and various kinds of food at the table. It is sometimes used for a deep hollow vessel for liquors.
2. The meat or provisions served in a dish. Hence, any particular kind of food.
I have here a dish of doves.
We say, a dish of veal or venison; a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish.
3. Among miners, a trough in which ore is measure, about 28 inches long, 4 deep and 6 wide.
DISH, v.t. To put in a dish; as, the meat is all dished, and ready for the table.


Topic: Dishabil
Definition:
DISHABILLE, DISHABIL, n. [See Habit.] An undress; a loose negligent dress for the morning. But see Deshabille, the French and more correct orthography. Dryden uses the word as a participle. Queens are not to be too negligently dressed or dishabille. In this use, he is not followed.


Topic: Dishearten
Definition:
DISHEARTEN, v.t. dishartn. [dis and heart.] To discourage; to deprive of courage; to depress the spirits; to deject; to impress with fear; as, it is weakness to be disheartened by small obstacles.


Topic: Disherit
Definition:
DISHERIT, v.t. [See Heir.] To disinherit; to cut off from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance. [See Disinherit, which is more generally used.]


Topic: Dishevel
Definition:
DISHEVEL, v.t. [L.] To spread the hair loosely; to suffer the hair of the head to hang negligently, and to flow without confinement; used chiefly in the passive participle.
DISHEVEL, v.i. To spread in disorder.


Topic: Disheveled
Definition:
DISHEVELED, pp. or a. Hanging loosely and negligently without confinement; flowing in disorder; as disheveled locks.


Topic: Dishing
Definition:
DISHING, pp. [See Dish.]
1. Putting in a dish or dishes.
2. a. Concave; having the hollow form of a dish.


Topic: Dishonest
Definition:
DISHONEST, a. Dizonest. [dis and honest.]
1. Void of honesty; destitute of probity, integrity or good faith; faithless; fraudulent; knavish; having or exercising a disposition to deceive, cheat and defraud; applied to persons; as a dishonest man.
2. Proceeding from fraud or marked by it; fraudulent; knavish; as a dishonest transaction.
3. Disgraced; dishonored; from the sense in Latin.
Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears.
4. Disgraceful; ignominious; from the Latin sense.
Inglorious triumphs, and dishonest scars.
5. Unchaste; lewd.


Topic: Dishonestly
Definition:
DISHONESTLY, adv. Dizonestly. 
1. In a dishonest manner; without good faith, probity or integrity; with fraudulent views; knavishly.
2. Lewdly; unchastely.


Topic: Dishonesty
Definition:
DISHONESTY, n. Dizonesty.
1. Want of probity, or integrity in principle; faithlessness; a disposition to cheat or defraud, or to deceive and betray; applied to persons.
2. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; treachery; any deviation from probity or integrity; applied to acts.
3. Unchastity; incontinence; lewdness.
4. Deceit; wickedness; shame. 2 Corinthians 4.


Topic: Dishonor
Definition:
DISHONOR, n. Dizonor. [dis and honor.] Reproach; disgrace; ignominy; shame; whatever constitutes a stain or blemish in the reputation.
It was not meet for us to see the kings dishonor.  Ezra 4.
It may express less than ignominy and infamy.
DISHONOR, v.t. 
1. To disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to stain the character of; to lessen reputation. The duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor.
The impunity of the crimes of great men dishonors the administration of the laws.
2. To treat with indignity.
3. To violate the chastity of; to debauch.
4. To refuse or decline to accept or pay; as, to dishonor a bill of exchange.


Topic: Dishonorable
Definition:
DISHONORABLE, a. 
1. Shameful; reproachful; base; vile; bringing shame on; staining the character, and lessening reputation. Every act of meanness, and every vice is dishonorable.
2. Destitute of honor; as a dishonorable man.
3. In a state of neglect or disesteem.
He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more in poverty?


Topic: Disimpark
Definition:
DISIMPARK, v.t. [dis, in and park.] To free from the barriers of a park; to free from restraints or seclusion. [Little used.]


Topic: Disimprovement
Definition:
DISIMPROVEMENT, n. [dis and improvement.] Reduction from a better to a worse state; the contrary to improvement or melioration; as the disimprovement of the earth. [Little used.]


Topic: Disincarcerate
Definition:
DISINCARCERATE, v.t. [dis and incarcerate.] To liberate from prison; to set free from confinement. [Not much used.]


Topic: Disinclination
Definition:
DISINCLINATION, n. [dis and inclination.] Want of inclination; want of propensity, desire or affection; slight dislike; aversion; expressing less than hate.
Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex.


Topic: Disincline
Definition:
DISINCLINE, v.t. [dis and incline.] To excite dislike or slight aversion; to make disaffected; to alienate from. His timidity disinclined him from such an arduous enterprise.


Topic: Disincorporate
Definition:
DISINCORPORATE, v.t. 
1. To deprive of corporate powers; to disunite a corporate body, or an established society.
2. To detach or separate from a corporation or society.


Topic: Disingenuity
Definition:
DISINGENUITY, n. [dis and ingenuity.] Meanness of artifice; unfairness; disingenuousness; want of candor. [This word is little used, or not at all, in the sense here explained. See Ingenuity. We now use in lieu of it disingenuousness.]


Topic: Disingenuous
Definition:
DISINGENUOUS, a. [dis and ingenuous.]
1. Unfair; not open, frank and candid; meanly artful; illiberal; applied to persons.
2. Unfair; meanly artful; unbecoming true honor and dignity; as disingenuous conduct; disingenuous schemes.


Topic: Disingenuously
Definition:
DISINGENUOUSLY, adv. In a disingenuous manner; unfairly; not openly and candidly; with secret management.


Topic: Disingenuousness
Definition:
DISINGENUOUSNESS, n. 
1. Unfairness; want of candor; low craft; as the disingenuousness of a man, or of his mind.
2. Characterized by unfairness, as conduct or practices.


Topic: Disinherison
Definition:
DISINHERISON, n. [dis and inherit.]
1. The act of cutting off from hereditary succession; the act of disinheriting.
2. The state of being disinherited.


Topic: Disinherit
Definition:
DISINHERIT, v.t. [dis and inherit.] To cut off from hereditary right; to deprive of an inheritance; to prevent as an heir from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. A father sometimes disinherits his children by will. In England, the crown is descendible to the eldest son, who cannot be disinherited by the will of his father.


Topic: Disintegrable
Definition:
DISINTEGRABLE, a. [dis and integer.] That may be separated into integrant parts; capable of disintegration.
Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure to the atmosphere.


Topic: Disintegrate
Definition:
DISINTEGRATE, v.t. [dis and integer.] To separate the integrant parts of.
Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.


Topic: Disintegration
Definition:
DISINTEGRATION, n. The act of separating integrant parts of a substance, as distinguished from decomposition or the separation of constituent parts.


Topic: Disinter
Definition:
DISINTER, v.t. [dis and inter.]
1. To take out of a grave, or out of the earth; as, to disinter a dead body that is buried.
2. To take out as from a grave; to bring from obscurity into view.
The philosopher--may be concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred. [Unusual.]


Topic: Disinterest
Definition:
DISINTEREST, n. [dis and interest.]
1. What is contrary to the interest or advantage; disadvantage; injury. [Little used or not at all.]
2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage.
DISINTEREST, v.t. To disengage from private interest or personal advantage. [Little used.]


Topic: Disinterested
Definition:
DISINTERESTED, a. 
1. Uninterested; indifferent; free from self-interest; having no personal interest or private advantage in a question or affair. It is important that a judge should be perfectly disinterested.
2. Not influenced or dictated by private advantage; as a disinterested decision. [This word is more generally used than uninterested.]


Topic: Disinterestedness
Definition:
DISINTERESTEDNESS, n. The state or quality of having no personal interest or private advantage in a question or event; freedom from bias or prejudice, on account of private interest; indifference.


Topic: Disinthrall
Definition:
DISINTHRALL, v.t. [dis and enthrall.] To liberate from slavery, bondage or servitude; to free or rescue from oppression.


Topic: Disjoint
Definition:
DISJOINT, v.t. [dis and joint.]
1. To separate a joint; to separate parts united by joints; as, to disjoint the limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving.
2. To put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate.
3. To separate at junctures; to break at the part where things are united by cement; as disjointed columns.
4. To break in pieces; to separate united parts; as, to disjoint an edifice; the disjointed parts of a ship.
5. To break the natural order and relations of a thing; to make incoherent; as a disjointed speech.
DISJOINT, v.i. To fall in pieces.
DISJOINT, a. Disjointed.


Topic: Disjointed
Definition:
DISJOINTED, pp. Separated at the joints; parted limb from limb; carved; put out of joint; not coherent.


Topic: Disjointing
Definition:
DISJOINTING, ppr. Separating joints; disjoining limb from limb; breaking at the seams or junctures; rendering incoherent.


Topic: Disjunction
Definition:
DISJUNCTION, n. [L.] The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as the disjunction of soul and body.


Topic: Disjunctive
Definition:
DISJUNCTIVE, a. 
1. Separating; disjoining.
2. Incapable of union. [Unusual.]
3. In grammar, a disjunctive conjunction or connective, is a word which unites sentences or the parts of discourse in construction, but disjoins the sense, noting an alternative or opposition; as, I love him, or I fear him; I neither love him, nor fear him.
4. In logic, a disjunctive proposition, is one in which the parts are opposed to each other, by means of disjunctive; as, it is either day or night. A disjunctive syllogism, is when the major proposition is disjunctive; as, the earth moves in a circle, or an ellipsis; but it does not move in a circle, therefore it moves in an ellipsis.
DISJUNCTIVE, n. A word that disjoins, as or, nor neither.


Topic: Disk
Definition:
DISK, n. [L. See Dish and Desk.]
1. The body and face of the sun, moon or a planet, as it appears to us on the earth; or the body and face of the earth, as it appears to a spectator in the moon.
2. A quoit; a piece of stone, iron or copper, inclining to an oval figure, which the ancients hurled by the help of a leathern thong tied round the persons hand, and put through a hole in the middle.
Some whirl the disk, and some the javlin dart.
3. In botany, the whole surface of a leaf; the central part of a radiate compound flower.


Topic: Diskindness
Definition:
DISKINDNESS, n. [dis and kindness.]
1. Want of kindness; unkindness; want of affection.
2. Ill turn; injury; detriment.


Topic: Dislike
Definition:
DISLIKE, n. [dis and like.] 
1. Disapprobation; disinclination; displeasure; aversion; a moderate degree of hatred. A man shows his dislike to measures which he disapproves, to a proposal which he is disinclined to accept, and to food which he does not relish. All wise and good men manifest their dislike to folly.
2. Discord; disagreement. [Not in use.]
DISLIKE, v.t. 
1. To disapprove; to regard with some aversion or displeasure. We dislike proceedings which we deem wrong; we dislike persons of evil habit; we dislike whatever gives us pain.
2. To disrelish; to regard with some disgust; as, to dislike particular kinds of food.


Topic: Dislocate
Definition:
DISLOCATE, v.t. [dis and locate, L., place.] To displace; to put out of its proper place; particularly, to put out of joint; to disjoint; to move a bone from its socket, cavity or place of articulation.


Topic: Dislocation
Definition:
DISLOCATION, n. 
1. The act of moving from its proper place; particularly, the act of removing or forcing a bone from its socket; luxation.
2. The sate of being displaced.
3. A joint displaced.
4. In geology, the displacement of parts of rocks, or portions of strata, from the situations which they originally occupied.


Topic: Dislodge
Definition:
DISLODGE, v.t. dislodj. [dis and lodge.]
1. To remove or drive from a lodge or place or rest; to drive from the place where a thing naturally rests or inhabits. Shells resting int he sea at a considerable depth, are not dislodged by storms.
2. To drive from a place of retirement or retreat; as, to dislodge a coney or a deer.
3. To drive from any place of rest or habitation, or from any station; as, to dislodge the enemy from their quarters, from a hill or wall.
4. To remove an army to other quarters.
DISLODGE, v.i. To go from a place of rest.


Topic: Dislodged
Definition:
DISLODGED, pp. Driven from a lodge or place of rest; removed from a place of habitation, or from any station.


Topic: Dislodging
Definition:
DISLODGING, ppr. Driving from a lodge or place of rest; removed from a place of habitation, or from any station.
DISLODGING, ppr. Driving from a lodge, from a place of rest or retreat, or from any station.


Topic: Disloyal
Definition:
DISLOYAL, a. [dis and loyal.]
1. Not true to allegiance; false to a sovereign; faithless; as a disloyal subject.
2. False; perfidious; treacherous; as a disloyal knave.
3. Not true to the marriage-bed.
4. False in love; not constant.


Topic: Disloyally
Definition:
DISLOYALLY, adv. In a disloyal manner; with violation of faith or duty to a sovereign; faithlessly; perfidiously.


Topic: Disloyalty
Definition:
DISLOYALTY, n. 
1. Want of fidelity to a sovereign; violation of allegiance, or duty to a prince or sovereign authority.
2. Want of fidelity in love.


Topic: Dismal
Definition:
DISMAL, a. s as z. [I am not satisfied with the etymologies of this word which I have seen. ]
1. Dark; gloomy; as a dismal shade.
2. Sorrowful; dire; horrid; melancholy; calamitous; unfortunate; as a dismal accident; dismal effects.
3. Frightful; horrible; as a dismal scream.


Topic: Dismantle
Definition:
DISMANTLE, v.t. [dis and mantle.]
1. To deprive of dress; to strip; to divest.
2. To loose; to throw open.
3. More generally, to deprive or strip of apparatus, or furniture; to unrig; as, to dismantle a ship.
4. To deprive or strip of military furniture; as, to dismantle a fortress.
5. To deprive of outworks or forts; as, to dismantle a town.
6. To break down; as, his nose dismantled.


Topic: Dismast
Definition:
DISMAST, v.t. [dis and mast.] To deprive of a mast or masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismated the ship.


Topic: Dismay
Definition:
DISMAY, v.t. To deprive of that strength or firmness of mind which constitutes courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to sink or depress the spirits or resolution; hence, to affright or terrify.
Be strong, and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. Joshua 1.
DISMAY, n. Fall or loss of courage; a sinking of the spirits; depression; dejection; a yielding to fear; that loss of firmness which is effected by fear or terror; fear impressed; terror felt.
And each in others countenance read his own dismay.


Topic: Dismayedness
Definition:
DISMAYEDNESS, n. A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness. [A useless word, and not used.]


Topic: Dismember
Definition:
DISMEMBER, v.t. [dis and member.]
1. To divide limb from limb; to separate a member from the body; to tear or cut in pieces; to dilacerate; to mutilate.
Fowls obscene dismembered his remains.
2. To separate a part from the main body; to divide; to sever; as, to dismember an empire, kingdom or republic. Poland was dismembered by the neighboring powers.


Topic: Dismembered
Definition:
DISMEMBERED, pp. Divided member from member; torn or cut in pieces; divided by the separation of a part from the main body.


Topic: Dismembering
Definition:
DISMEMBERING, ppr. Separating a limb or limbs from the body; dividing by taking a part or parts from the body.
DISMEMBERING, n. Mutilation.


Topic: Dismemberment
Definition:
DISMEMBERMENT, n. The act of severing a limb or limbs from the body; the act of tearing or cutting in pieces; mutilation; the act of severing a part from the main body; division; separation.
He pointed out the danger of a dismemberment of the republic.


Topic: Dismiss
Definition:
DISMISS, v.t. [L.]
1. To send away; properly, to give leave of departure; to permit to depart; implying authority in a person to retain or keep. The town clerk dismissed the assembly.
2. To discard; to remove from office, service or employment. The king dismisses his ministers; the master dismisses his servant; and the employer, his workmen. Officers are dismissed from service, and students from college.
3. To send; to dispatch.
He dismissed embassadors from Pekin to Tooshoo Loomboo. [Improper.]
4. To send or remove from a docket; to discontinue; as, to dismiss a bill in chancery.
DISMISS, n. Discharge; dismission. [Not used.]


Topic: Dismission
Definition:
DISMISSION, n. [L.]
1. The act of sending away; leave to depart; as the dismission of the grand jury.
2. Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or disgrace.
3. An act requiring departure. [Not usual.]
4. Removal of a suit in equity.


Topic: Dismount
Definition:
DISMOUNT, v.i. [dis and mount.] 
1. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from a beast; as, the officer ordered his troops to dismount.
2. To descend from an elevation.
DISMOUNT, v.t. 
1. To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.
2. To throw or bring down from any elevation.
3. To throw or remove cannon or other artillery from their carriages; or to break the carriages or wheels, and render guns useless.


Topic: Dismounted
Definition:
DISMOUNTED, pp. 
1. Thrown from a horse, or from an elevation; unhorsed, or removed from horses by order; as dismounted troops. Applied to horses, it signifies unfit for service.
2. Thrown or removed from carriages.


Topic: Dismounting
Definition:
DISMOUNTING, ppr. Throwing from a horse; unhorsing; removing from an elevation; throwing or removing from carriages.


Topic: Disobedience
Definition:
DISOBEDIENCE, n. [dis and obedience.]
1. Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition; the omission of that which is commanded to be done, or the doing of that which is forbid; breach of duty prescribed by authority.
By one mans disobedience, many were made sinners. Romans 5.
2. Non-compliance.
This disobedience of the moon.


Topic: Disobedient
Definition:
DISOBEDIENT, a. 
1. Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; as children disobedient to parents; citizens disobedient to the laws.
I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. Acts 26.
2. Not yielding to exciting force or power.
Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli.


Topic: Disobey
Definition:
DISOBEY, v.t. [dis and obey.] To neglect or refuse to obey; to omit or refuse to do what is commanded, or to do what is forbid; to transgress or violate an order or injunction. Refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their maker and the laws; and we all disobey the precepts of the gospel. [The word is applicable both to the command and to the person commanding.]


Topic: Disoblige
Definition:
DISOBLIGE, v.t. [dis and oblige.]
1. To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of another; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to injure in a slight degree; a term by which offense is tenderly expressed.
My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige.
2. To release from obligation. [Not used.]


Topic: Disobliging
Definition:
DISOBLIGING, ppr. 
1. Offending; contravening the wishes of; injuring slightly.
2. a. Not obliging; not disposed to gratify the wishes of another; not disposed to please; unkind; offensive; unpleasing; unaccommodating; as a disobliging coachman.


Topic: Disorder
Definition:
DISORDER, n. [dis and order.]
1. Want of order or regular disposition; irregularity; immethodical distribution; confusion; a word of general application; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.
2. Tumult; disturbance of the peace of society; as, the city is sometimes troubled with the disorders of its citizens.
3. Neglect of rule; irregularity.
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, and snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
4. Breach of laws; violation of standing rules, or institutions.
5. Irregularity, disturbance or interruption of the functions of the animal economy; disease; distemper; sickness. [See Disease.] disorder however is more frequently used to express a slight disease.
6. Discomposure of the mind; turbulence of passions.
7. Irregularity in the functions of the brain; derangement of the intellect or reason.
DISORDER, v.t.
1. To break order; to derange; to disturb any regular disposition or arrangement of things; to put out of method; to throw into confusion; to confuse; applicable to every thing susceptible of order.
2. To disturb or interrupt the natural functions of the animal economy; to produce sickness or indisposition; as, to disorder the head or stomach.
3. To discompose or disturb the mind; to ruffle.
4. To disturb the regular operations of reason; to derange; as, the mans reason is disordered.
5. To depose from holy orders. [Unusual.]


Topic: Disordered
Definition:
DISORDERED, pp. Put out of order; derranged; disturbed; discomposed; confused; sick; indisposed.
DISORDERED, a. Disorderly; irregular; vicious; loose; unrestrained in behavior.


Topic: Disorderly
Definition:
DISORDERLY, a. Confused; immethodical; irregular; being without proper order or disposition; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state.
2. Tumultuous; irregular; as the disorderly motions of the spirits.
3. Lawless; contrary to law; violating or disposed to violate law and good order; as disorderly people; disorderly assemblies.
4. Inclined to break loose from restraint; unruly; as disorderly cattle.
DISORDERLY, adv. 
1. Without order, rule or method; irregularly; confusedly; in a disorderly manner.
Savages fighting disorderly with stones.
2. In a manner violating law and good order; in a manner contrary to rules or established institutions.
Withdraw from every brother that walketh disorderly. 2 Thessalonians 3.


Topic: Disorganization
Definition:
DISORGANIZATION, n. [See Disorganize.]
1. The act of disorganizing; the act of destroying organic structure, or connected system; the act of destroying order.
2. The state of being disorganized. We speak of the disorganization of the body, or of government, or of society, or of an army.


Topic: Disorganize
Definition:
DISORGANIZE, v.t. [dis and organize. See Organ.] To break or destroy organic structure or connected system; to dissolve regular system or union or parts; as, to disorganize a government or society; to disorganize an army.
Every account of the settlement of Plymouth mentions the conduct of Lyford, who attempted to disorganize the church.


Topic: Disorganizer
Definition:
DISORGANIZER, n. One who disorganizes; one who destroys or attempts to interrupt regular order or system; one who introduces disorder and confusion.


Topic: Disorganizing
Definition:
DISORGANIZING, ppr.
1. Destroying regular and connected system; throwing into confusion.
2. a. Disposed or tending to disorganize; as a disorganizing spirit.


Topic: Disown
Definition:
DISOWN, v.t. [dis and own.]
1. To deny; not to own; to refuse to acknowledge as belonging to ones self. A parent and hardly disown his child. An author will sometimes disown his writings. 
2. To deny; not to allow.
To disown a brothers better claim.


Topic: Disoxydate
Definition:
DISOXYDATE, v.t. [dis and oxydate.] To reduce from oxydation; to reduce from the state of an oxyd, by disengaging oxygen from a substance; as, to disoxydate iron or copper.


Topic: Disoxydation
Definition:
DISOXYDATION, n. The act or process of freeing from oxygen and reducing from the state of an oxyd. [This word seems to be preferable to deoxydate.]


Topic: Disparage
Definition:
DISPARAGE, v.t. 
1. To marry one to another of inferior condition or rank; to dishonor by an unequal match or marriage, against the rules of decency.
2. To match unequally; to injure or dishonor by union with something of inferior excellence.
3. To injure or dishonor by a comparison with something of less value or excellence.
4. To treat with contempt; to undervalue; to lower in rank or estimation; to vilify; to bring reproach on; to reproach; to debase by words or actions; to dishonor.
Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.


Topic: Disparaged
Definition:
DISPARAGED, pp. Married to one beneath his or her condition; unequally matched; dishonored or injured by comparison with something inferior; undervalued; vilified; debased; reproached.


Topic: Disparagement
Definition:
DISPARAGEMENT, n. 
1. The matching of a man or woman to one of inferior rank or condition, and against the rule of decency.
2. Injury by union or comparison with something of inferior excellence.
3. Diminution of value or excellence; reproach; disgrace; indignity; dishonor; followed by to.
It ought to be no disparagement to a stat that it is not the sun.
To be a humble Christian is not disparagement to a prince, or a nobleman.


Topic: Disparaging
Definition:
DISPARAGING, ppr. Marrying one to another of inferior condition; dishonoring by an unequal union or comparison; disgracing; dishonoring.


Topic: Disparity
Definition:
DISPARITY, n. [L.]
1. Irregularity; difference in degree, in age, rank, condition or excellence; as a disparity of year or of age; disparity of condition or circumstances; followed by of or in. We say, disparity in or of years.
2. Dissimilitude; unlikeness.


Topic: Dispark
Definition:
DISPARK, v.t. [dis and park.]
1. To throw open a park; to lay open.
2. To set at large; to release from inclosure or confinement.


Topic: Dispart
Definition:
DISPART, v.t. [dis and part. L.  See Part. Dis and part both imply separation.] To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to burst; to rend; to rive or split; as disparted air; disparted towers; disparted chaos. [An elegant poetic word.]
DISPART, v.i. To separate; to open; to cleave.
DISPART, n. In gunnery, the thickness of the metal of a piece of ordnance at the mouth and britch.
DISPART, v.t. In gunnery, to set a mark on the muzzle-ring of a piece of ordnance, so that a sight-line from the top of the base-ring to the mark on or near the muzzle may be parallel to the axis of the bore or hollow cylinder.


Topic: Dispassionate
Definition:
DISPASSIONATE, a. 
1. Free from passion; calm; composed; impartial; moderate; temperate; unmoved by feelings; applied to persons; as dispassionate men or judges.
2. Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; applied to things; as dispassionate proceedings.


Topic: Dispatch
Definition:
DISPATCH, v.t. [L.]
1. To send or send away; particularly applied to the sending of messengers, agents and letters on special business, and often implying haste. The king dispatched and envoy to the court of Madrid. He dispatched a messenger to his envoy in France. He dispatched orders or letters to the commander of the forces in Spain. The president dispatched a special envoy to the court of St. James in 1794.
2. To send out of the world; to put to death.
The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. Ezekiel 23.
3. To perform; to execute speedily; to finish; as, the business was dispatched in due time.
DISPATCH, v.i. To conclude an affair with another; to transact and finish. [Not now used.]
They have dispatched with Pompey.
DISPATCH, n. 
1. Speedy performance; execution or transaction of business with due diligence.
2. Speed; haste; expedition; due diligence; as, the business was done with dispatch; go, but make dispatch.
3. Conduct; management. [Not used.]
4. A letter sent or to be sent with expedition, by a messenger express; or a letter on some affair of state, or of public concern; or a packet of letters, sent by some public officer, on public business. It is often used in the plural. A vessel or a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister. A dispatch was immediately sent to the admiral. The secretary was preparing his dispatches.


Topic: Dispatched
Definition:
DISPATCHED, pp. Sent with haste or by a courier express; sent out of the world; put to death; performed; finished.


Topic: Dispatchful
Definition:
DISPATCHFUL, a. Bent on haste; indicating haste; intent on speedy execution of business; as dispatchful looks.


Topic: Dispauper
Definition:
DISPAUPER, v.t. [dis and pauper.] To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support, or of the capacity of suing in forma pauperis; to reduce back from the state of a pauper.
A man is dispaupered, when he has lands fallen to him or property given him.


Topic: Dispel
Definition:
DISPEL, v.t. [L., to drive., Gr. See Appeal, Peal, Pulse and Bawl.] To scatter by driving or force; to disperse; to dissipate; to banish; as, to dispel vapors; to dispel darkness or gloom; to dispel fears; to dispel cares or sorrows; to dispel doubts.


Topic: Dispend
Definition:
DISPEND, v.t. [L., to weigh.] To spend; to lay out; to consume. [See Expend, which is generally used.]


Topic: Dispensary
Definition:
DISPENSARY, n. A house, place or store, in which medicines are dispensed to the poor, and medical advice given, gratis.


Topic: Dispensation
Definition:
DISPENSATION, n. [L. See Dispense.]
1. Distribution; the act of dealing out to different persons or places; as the dispensation of water indifferently to all parts of the earth.
2. The dealing of God to his creatures; the distribution of good and evil, natural or moral, in the divine government.
Neither are Gods methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man.
3. The granting of a license, or the license itself, to do what is forbidden by laws or canons, or to omit something which is commanded; that is, the dispensing with a law or canon, or the exemption of a particular person from the obligation to comply with its injunctions. The pope has power to dispense with the canons of the church, but has no right to grant dispensations to the injury of a third person.
A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to marry.
4. That which is dispensed or bestowed; a system of principles and rites enjoined; as the Mosaic dispensation; the gospel dispensation; including, the former the Levitical law and rites; the latter the scheme of redemption by Christ.


Topic: Dispensatory
Definition:
DISPENSATORY, n. [L.] One whose employment is to deal out or distribute; a distributor; a dispenser; the latter word is generally used.
DISPENSATORY, a. Having power to grant dispensations.
DISPENSATORY, n. A book containing the method of preparing the various kinds of medicines used in pharmacy, or containing directions for the composition of medicines, with the proportions of the ingredients, and the methods of preparing them.


Topic: Dispense
Definition:
DISPENSE, v.t. dispens. [L., to weigh, primarily to move; and perhaps the original idea of expending was to weigh off, or to distribute by weight.]
1. To deal or divide out in parts or portions; to distribute. The steward dispenses provisions to every man, according to his directions. The society dispenses medicines to the poor gratuitously or at first cost. God dispenses his favors according to his good pleasure.
2. To administer; to apply, as laws to particular cases; to distribute justice.
While you dispense the laws and guide the state.
To dispense with, 
1. To permit not to take effect; to neglect or pass by; to suspend the operation or application of something required, established or customary; as, to dispense with the law, in favor of a friend; I cannot dispense with the conditions of the covenant. So we say, to dispense with oaths; to dispense with forms and ceremonies.
2. To excuse from; to give leave not to do or observe what is required or commanded. The court will dispense with your attendance, or with you compliance.
3. To permit the want of a thing which is useful or convenient; or in the vulgar phrase, to do without. I can dispense with your services. I can dispense with my cloke. In this application, the phrase has an allusion to the requisitions of law or necessity; the thing dispensed with being supposed, in some degree, necessary or required.
I could not dispense with myself from making a voyage to Caprea. [Not to be imitated.]
Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath? [Not legitimate.]
DISPENSE, n. Dispens. 
1. Dispensation. [Not used.]
2. Expense; profusion. [Not in use.]


Topic: Dispenser
Definition:
DISPENSER, n. One who dispenses; one who distributes; one who administers; as a dispenser of favors or of the laws.


Topic: Dispensing
Definition:
DISPENSING, ppr. 
1. Distributing; administering.
2. a. That may dispense with; granting dispensation; that may grant license to omit what is required by law, or to do what the law forbids; as a dispensing power.


Topic: Dispermous
Definition:
DISPERMOUS, a. [Gr., seed.] In botany, two-seeded; containing two seeds only; as, umbellate and stellate plants are dispermous.


Topic: Disperse
Definition:
DISPERSE, v.t. dispers. [L., to scatter.]
1. To scatter; to drive asunder; to cause to separate into different parts; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.
2. To diffuse; to spread.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Proverbs 15.
3. To dissipate; as, the fog or the cloud is dispersed.
4. To distribute.
DISPERSE, v.i. dispers.
1. To be scattered; to separate; to go or move into different parts; as, the company dispersed at ten oclock.
2. To be scattered; to vanish; as fog or vapors.


Topic: Dispersion
Definition:
DISPERSION, n. 
1. The act of scattering.
2. The state of being scattered, or separated into remote parts; as, the Jews, in their dispersion, retain their rites and ceremonies.
3. By way of eminence, the scattering or separation of the human family, at the building of Babel.
4. In optics, the divergency of the rays of light, or rather the separation of the different colored rays, in refraction, arising from their different refrangibilities.  The point of dispersion , is the point where refracted rays begin to diverge.
5. In medicine and surgery, the removing of inflammation from a part, and restoring it to its natural state.


Topic: Dispirit
Definition:
DISPIRIT, v.t. [dis and spirit.]
1. To depress the spirits; to deprive of courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to deject; to cast down. We may be dispirited by afflictions, by obstacles to success, by poverty, and by fear. When fear is the cause, dispirit is nearly equivalent to intimidate or terrify.
2. To exhaust the spirits or vigor of the body. [Not usual.]


Topic: Displace
Definition:
DISPLACE, v.t. [dis and place.]
1. To put out of the usual or proper place; to remove from its place; as, the books in the library are all displaced.
2. To remove from any state, condition, office or dignity; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.
3. To disorder.
You have displaced the mirth.


Topic: Displaced
Definition:
DISPLACED, pp. Removed from the proper place; deranged; disordered; removed from an office or state.


Topic: Displacement
Definition:
DISPLACEMENT, n. The act of displacing; the act of removing from the usual or proper place, or from a state, condition or office.
The displacement of the centers of the circles.
Unnecessary displacement of funds.


Topic: Displacing
Definition:
DISPLACING, ppr. Putting out of the usual or proper place; removing from an office, state or condition.


Topic: Displant
Definition:
DISPLANT, v.t. [dis and plant.]
1. To pluck up or to remove a plant.
2. To drive away or remove from the usual place of residence; as, to displant the people of a country.
3. To strip of inhabitants; as, to displant a country.


Topic: Displanted
Definition:
DISPLANTED, pp.
1. Removed from the place where it grew, as a plant.
2. Removed from the place of residence; applied to persons.
3. Deprived of inhabitants; applied to a country.


Topic: Display
Definition:
DISPLAY, v.t. [L., gr., to unfold.]
1. Literally, to unfold; hence, to open; to spread wide; to expand.
The northern wind his wings did broad display.
2. To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the eyes, or to the mind; to make manifest. The works of nature display the power and wisdom of the Supreme Being. Christian charity displays the effects of true piety. A dress, simple and elegant, displays female taste and beauty to advantage.
3. To carve; to dissect and open.
He carves, displays, and cuts up to a wonder.
4. To set to view ostentatiously.
5. To discover. [Not in use.]
6. To open; to unlock. [Not used.]
DISPLAY, n. 
1. An opening or unfolding; an exhibition of any thing to the view.
2. Show; exhibition; as, they make a great display of troops; a great display of magnificence.


Topic: Displeasant
Definition:
DISPLEASANT, a. Displezant. [See Displease.] Unpleasing; offensive; unpleasant. [The latter word is generally used.]


Topic: Displease
Definition:
DISPLEASE, v.t. displeze. [dis and please.]
1. To offend; to make angry, sometimes in a slight degree. It usually expresses less than anger, vex, irritate and provoke. Applied to the Almighty in scripture, it may be considered as equivalent to anger.
God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. 1 Chronicles 21.
2. To disgust; to excite aversion in; as, acrid and rancid substances displease the taste.
3. To offend; to be disagreeable to. A distorted figure displeases the eye.


Topic: Displeasing
Definition:
DISPLEASING, ppr or a. Offensive to the eye, to the mind, to the smell, or to the taste; disgusting; disagreeable.


Topic: Displeasure
Definition:
DISPLEASURE, n. Displezhur. 
1. Some irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by any thing that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice and a sense of propriety. A man incurs the displeasure of another by thwarting his views or schemes; a servant incurs the displeasure of his master by neglect or disobedience; we experience displeasure at any violation of right or decorum. Displeasure is anger, but it may be slight anger. It implies disaprobation or hatred, and usually expresses less than vexation and indignation. Thus, slighter offenses give displeasure, although they may not excite a violent passion.
2. Offense; cause of irritation.
Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. Judges 15.
3. State of disgrace or disfavor.
He went into Poland, being in displeasure with the pope for overmuch familiarity.
DISPLEASURE, v.t. To displease. [An unnecessary word, and not used.]


Topic: Displode
Definition:
DISPLODE, v.t. [L., to break forth.] To vent, discharge or burst with a violent sound.
In posture to displode their second tire of thunder.
DISPLODE, v.i. To burst with a loud report; to explode; as, a meteor diploded with a tremendous sound.


Topic: Displume
Definition:
DISPLUME, v.t. [dis and plume.] To strip or deprive of plumes or feathers; to strip of badges of honor.


Topic: Disport
Definition:
DISPORT, n. [dis and sport.] Play; sport; pastime; diversion; amusement; merriment.
DISPORT, v.i. To play; to wanton; to move lightly and without restraint; to move in gayety; as lambs disporting on the mead..
Where light disports in ever mingling dyes.
DISPORT, v.t. To divert or amuse; as, he disports himself.


Topic: Disposable
Definition:
DISPOSABLE, a. [See Dispose.] Subject to disposal; not previously engaged or employed; free to be used or employed as occasion may require.
The whole disposable force consisted in a regiment of light infantry, and a troop of calvary.


Topic: Disposal
Definition:
DISPOSAL, n. [See Dispose.]
1. The act of disposing; a setting or arranging.
This object was effected by the disposal of the troops in two lines.
2. Regulation, order or arrangement of things, int he moral government of God; dispensation.
Tax not divine disposal.
3. Power of ordering, arranging or distributing; government; management; as, an agent is appointed, and every thing is left to his disposal. The effects in my hands are entirely at my disposal.
4. Power or right of bestowing. Certain offices are at the disposal of the president. The father has the disposal of his daughter in marriage.
5. The passing into a new state or into new hands.


Topic: Dispose
Definition:
DISPOSE, v.t. dispoze. [L.]
1. To set; to place or distribute; to arrange; used with reference to order. The ships were disposed in the form of a crescent. The general disposed his troops in three lines. The trees are disposed in the form of a quincunx.
2. To regulate; to adjust; to set in right order. Job 34 and 37.
The knightly forms of combat to dispose.
3. To apply to a particular purpose; to give; to place; to bestow; as, you have disposed much in works of public piety.  In this sense, to dispose of is more generally used.
4. To set, place or turn to a particular end or consequence.
Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose to future good our past and present woes.
5. To adapt; to form for any purpose.
Then must thou thee dispose another way.
6. To set the mind in a particular frame; to incline. Avarice disposes men to fraud and oppression.
Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.
He was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts 18. 1 Corinthians 10:27.
To dispose of, 
1. To part with; to alienate; as, the man has disposed of his house, and removed.
2. To part with to another; to put into anothers hand or power; to bestow; as, the father has disposed of his daughter to a man of great worth.
3. To give away or transfer by authority.
A rural judge disposed of beautys prize.
4. To direct the course of a thing. Proverbs 16.
5. To place in any condition; as, how will you dispose of your son?
6. To direct what to do or what course to pursue; as, they know not how to dispose of themselves.
7. To use or employ; as, they know not how to dispose of their time.
8. To put away. The stream supplies more water than can be disposed of.
DISPOSE, v.i. To bargain; to make terms.
DISPOSE, n. 
1. Disposal; power of disposing; management.
2. Dispensation; act of government.
3. Disposition; cast of behavior.
4. Disposition; cast of mind; inclination.


Topic: Disposer
Definition:
DISPOSER, n. 
1. One who disposes; a distributor; a bestower; as a disposer of gifts.
2. A director; a regulator.
The Supreme Being is the rightful disposer of all events, and of all creatures.
3. That which disposes.


Topic: Disposing
Definition:
DISPOSING, ppr. Setting in order; arranging; distributing; bestowing; regulating; adjusting; governing.
DISPOSING, n. The act of arranging; regulation; direction. Proverbs 16:33.


Topic: Disposition
Definition:
DISPOSITION, n. [L.]
1. The act of disposing, or state of being disposed.
2. Manner in which things or the parts of a complex body are placed or arranged; order; method; distribution; arrangement. We speak of the disposition of the infantry and cavalry of an army; the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice, of the parts of a discourse, or of the figures in painting.
3. Natural fitness or tendency. The refrangibility of the rays of light is their disposition to be refracted. So we say, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upwards; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
4. Temper or natural constitution of the mind; as an amiable or an irritable disposition.
5. Inclination; propensity; the temper or frame of mind, as directed to particular objects. We speak of the disposition of a person to undertake a particular work; the dispositions of men towards each other; a disposition friendly to any design.
6. Disposal; alienation; distribution; a giving away or giving over to another; as, he has made disposition of his effects; he has satisfied his friends by the judicious disposition of his property.


Topic: Dispositor
Definition:
DISPOSITOR, n. A disposer; in astrology, the planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. [Not used.]


Topic: Dispossess
Definition:
DISPOSSESS, v.t. [dis and possess.] To put out of possession, by any means; to deprive of the actual occupancy of a thing, particularly of land or real estate; to deseize. 
Ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein. Numbers 33.
Usually followed by of, before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.


Topic: Disposure
Definition:
DISPOSURE, n. Dispozhur. [See Dispose.] 
1. Disposal; the power of disposeing; management; direction. [The use of this word is superseded by that of disposal.]
2. State; posture; disposition. [Not used.]


Topic: Dispraise
Definition:
DISPRAISE, n. Dispraze. [dis and praise.]
1. Blame; censure. Be cautious not to speak in dispraise of a competitor.
2. Reproach; dishonor.
The general has seen Moors with as bad faces; no dispraise to Bertrans.
DISPRAISE, v.t. To blame; to censure; to mention with disapprobation, or some degree of reproach. 
I dispraised him before the wicked.


Topic: Dispread
Definition:
DISPREAD, v.t. dispred. [dis and spread. See Spread.] To spread in different ways; to extend or flow in different directions.
DISPREAD, v.i. To expand or be extended.


Topic: Disproof
Definition:
DISPROOF, n. [dis and proof.] Confutation; refutation; a proving to be false or erroneous; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a fact, argument, principle or allegation.


Topic: Disproportion
Definition:
DISPROPORTION, n. [dis and proportion.]
1. Want of proportion of one thing to another, or between the parts of thing; want of symmetry. We speak of the disproportion of a mans arms to his body; of the disproportion of the length of an edifice to its highth.
2. Want of proper quantity, according to rules prescribed; as, the disproportion of the ingredients in a compound.
3. Want of suitableness or adequacy; disparity; inequality; unsuitableness; as the disproportion of strength or means to an object.
DISPROPORTION, v.t. To make unsuitable in form, size, length or quantity; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
To shape my legs of an unequal size, to disproportion me in every part.


Topic: Disproportionable
Definition:
DISPROPORTIONABLE, a. Disproportional; not in proportion; unsuitable in form, size or quantity to something else; inadequate. [Note. The sense in which this word is used is generally anomalous. In its true sense, that may be made disproportional, it is rarely or never used. The regular word which ought to be used is disproportional, as used by Locke.]


Topic: Disproportional
Definition:
DISPROPORTIONAL, a. Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form or quantity; unequal; inadequate. A disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body. The studies of youth should not be disproportional to their capacities. [This is the word which ought to be used for disproportionable.]


Topic: Disproportionally
Definition:
DISPROPORTIONALLY, adv. Unsuitably with respect to form, quantity or value; inadequately; unequally.


Topic: Disproportionate
Definition:
DISPROPORTIONATE, a. Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else, in bulk, from or value; inadequate. In a perfect form of the body, none of the limbs are disproportionate. It is wisdom not to undertake a work with disproportionate means.


Topic: Disproportionatene
Definition:
DISPROPORTIONATENESS, n. Unsuitably with respect to form, quantity or value; inadequately; unequally.


Topic: Dispropriate
Definition:
DISPROPRIATE, v.t. To destroy appropriation; to withdraw from an appropriate use.
[See Disappropriate, which is more regularly formed, and more generally used.]


Topic: Disprove
Definition:
DISPROVE, v.t. [dis and prove.]
1. To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to disprove an assertion, a statement, an argument, a proposition.
2. To convict of the practice of error. [Not in use.]
3. To disallow or disapprove. [Not in use.]


Topic: Dispunge
Definition:
DISPUNGE, v.t. [dis and spunge.] To expunge; to erase; also, to discharge as from a spunge. [Il formed and little used.]


Topic: Disputable
Definition:
DISPUTABLE, a. [See Dispute.] That may be disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted or contested; controvertible; of doubtful certainty. We speak of disputable opinions, statements, propositions, arguments, points, cases, questions, &c.


Topic: Disputant
Definition:
DISPUTANT, n. One who disputes; one who argues in opposition to another; a controvertist; a reasoner in opposition.
DISPUTANT, a. Disputing; engaged in controversy.


Topic: Disputation
Definition:
DISPUTATION, n. [L.]
1. The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest, respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition or argument.
2. An exercise in colleges, in which parties reason in opposition to each other, on some question proposed.


Topic: Disputatious
Definition:
DISPUTATIOUS, a. Inclined to dispute; apt to cavil or controvert; as a disputatious person or temper.


Topic: Disputative
Definition:
DISPUTATIVE, a. Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as a disputative temper.


Topic: Dispute
Definition:
DISPUTE, v.i. [L. Dispute is radically very similar to debate and discuss, both of which are from beating, driving, agitation.]
1. To contend in argument; to reason or argue in opposition; to debate; to altercate; and to dispute violently is to wrangle. Paul disputed with the Jews int he synagogue. The disciples of Christ disputed among themselves who should be the greatest. Men often dispute about trifles.
2. To strive or contend in opposition in a competitor; as, we disputed for the prize.
DISPUTE, v.t. 
1. To attempt to disprove by arguments or statements; to attempt to prove to be false, unfounded or erroneous; to controvert; to attempt to overthrow by reasoning. We dispute assertions, opinions, arguments or statements, when we endeavor to prove them false or unfounded. We dispute the validity of a title or claim. Hence to dispute a cause or case with another, is to endeavor to maintain ones own opinions or claims, and to overthrow those of his opponent.
2. To strive or contend for, either by words or actions; as, to dispute the honor of the day; to dispute a prize. But this phrase is elliptical, being used for dispute for, and primarily the verb is intransitive. See the Intransitive Verb, No. 2.
3. To call in question the propriety of; to oppose by reasoning.  An officer is never to dispute the orders of his superior.
4. To strive to maintain; as, to dispute every inch of ground.
DISPUTE, n. 
1. Strife or contest in words or by arguments; an attempt to prove and maintain ones own opinions or claims, by arguments or statements, in opposition to the opinions, arguments or claims of another; controversy in words. They had a dispute on the lawfulness of slavery, a subject which, one would think, could admit of no dispute.
Dispute is usually applied to verbal contest; controversy may be in words or writing.
Dispute is between individuals; debate and discussion are applicable to public bodies.
2. The possibility of being controverted; as in the phrase, this is a fact, beyond all dispute.


Topic: Disputer
Definition:
DISPUTER, n. One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist.
Where is the disputer of this world. 1 Corinthians 1.


Topic: Disputing
Definition:
DISPUTING, ppr. Contending by words or arguments; controverting.
DISPUTING, n. The act of contending by words or arguments; controversy; altercation.
Do all things without murmurings or disputings. Philippians 2.


Topic: Disqualification
Definition:
DISQUALIFICATION, n. [See Disqualitfy.]
1. The act of disqualifying; or that which disqualifies; that which renders unfit, unsuitable or inadequate; as, sickness is a disqualification for labor or study.
2. The act of depriving of legal power or capacity; that which renders incapable; that which incapacitates in law; disability. Conviction of a crime is a disqualification for office.
3. Want of qualification. It is used in this sense, though improperly. In strictness, disqualification implies a previous qualification; but careless writers use it for the want of qualification, where no previous qualification is supposed. Thus, I must still retain the consciousness of those disqualifications, which you have been pleased to overlook.


Topic: Disqualify
Definition:
DISQUALIFY, v.t. [dis and qualify.]
1. To make unfit; to deprive of natural power, or the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; with for. Indisposition disqualifies the body for labor, and the mind for study. Piety disqualifies a person for no lawful employment.
2. To deprive of legal capacity, power or right; to disable. A conviction of perjury disqualifies a man for a witness. A direct interest in a suit disqualifies a person to be a juror in the cause.


Topic: Disquiet
Definition:
DISQUIET, a. [dis and quiet.] Unquiet; restless; uneasy. [Seldom used.]
DISQUIET, n. Want of quiet; uneasiness; restlessness; want of tranquility in body or mind; disturbance; anxiety.
DISQUIET, v.t. To disturb; to deprive of peace, rest or tranquility; to make uneasy or restless; to harass the body; to fret or vex the mind.
That he may disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. Jeremiah 1.
Why hast thou disquieted me. 1 Samuel 28.
O my soul, why art thou disquieted within me? Psalm 42.


Topic: Disquieting
Definition:
DISQUIETING, ppr. 
1. Disturbing; making uneasy; depriving of rest or peace.
2. a. Tending to disturb the mind; as disquieting apprehensions.


Topic: Disquietly
Definition:
DISQUIETLY, adv. Without quiet or rest; in an uneasy state; uneasily; anxiously; as, he rested disquietly that night. [Unusual.]


Topic: Disquietude
Definition:
DISQUIETUDE, n. Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. It is, I believe, most frequently used of the mind. 
Religion is our best security from the disquietudes that embitter life.


Topic: Disquisition
Definition:
DISQUISITION, n. [L., to seek.] A formal or systematic inquiry into any subject, by arguments, or discussion of the facts and circumstances that may elucidate truth; as a disquistion on government or morals; a disquistion concerning the antediluvian earth. [It is usually applied to a written treatise.]


Topic: Disregard
Definition:
DISREGARD, n. [dis and regard.] Neglect; omission of notice; slight; implying indifference or some degree of contempt; as, to pass one with disregard.
DISREGARD, v.t. To omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice.
Studious of good, man disregarded fame.
We are never to disregard the wants of the poor, nor the admonitions of conscience.


Topic: Disrelish
Definition:
DISRELISH, n. [dis and relish.] 
1. Distaste; dislike of the palate; some degree of disgust. Men generally have a disrelish for tobacco, till the taste is reconciled to it by custom.
2. Bad taste; nauseousness.
3. Distaste or dislike, in a figurative sense; dislike of the mind, or of the faculty by which beauty and excellence are perceived.
DISRELISH, v.t. 
1. To dislike the taste of; as, to disrelish a particular kind of food.
2. To make nauseous or disgusting; to infect with a bad taste. [In this sense, I believe, the word is little used.]
3. To dislike; to feel some disgust at; as, to disrelish vulgar jests.


Topic: Disreputable
Definition:
DISREPUTABLE, a. [dis and reputable.]
1. Not reputable; not in esteem; not honorable; low; mean; as disreputable company.
2. Dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to impair the good name, and bring into disesteem. It is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd and the profane.


Topic: Disreputation
Definition:
DISREPUTATION, n. [dis and reputation.] Loss or want of reputation or good name; disrepute; disesteem; dishonor; disgrace; discredity. Ill success often brings an enterprising man, as well as his project, into disreputation.


Topic: Disrepute
Definition:
DISREPUTE, n. [dis and repute.] Loss or want of reputation; disesteem; discredit; dishonor. The alchimist and his books have sunk into disrepute.


Topic: Disrespect
Definition:
DISRESPECT, n. [dis and respect.]
1. Want of respect or reverence; disesteem. Disrespect often leads a man to treat another with neglect or a degree of contempt.
2. As an act, incivility; irreverence; rudeness.


Topic: Disrespectful
Definition:
DISRESPECTFUL, a. 
1. Wanting in respect; irreverent; as a disrespectful thought or opinion.
2. Manifesting disesteem or want of respect; uncivil; as disrespectful behavior.


Topic: Disrobe
Definition:
DISROBE, v.t. [dis and robe.]
1. To divest of a robe; to divest of garments; to undress.
2. To strip of covering; to divest of any surrounding appendage. Autumn disrobes the fields of verdure.
These two peers were disrobed of their glory.


Topic: Disroot
Definition:
DISROOT, v.t. [dis and root.]
1. To tear up the roots, or by the roots.
2. To tear from a foundation; to loosen or undermine.
A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by subterraneous inundations.


Topic: Disruption
Definition:
DISRUPTION, n. [L.]
1. The act of rending asunder; the act of bursting and separating.
2. Breach; rent; dilaceration; as the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; the disruption of a stratum of earth; disruption of the flesh.


Topic: Disrupture
Definition:
DISRUPTURE, v.t. [dis and rupture.] To rend; to sever by tearing, breaking or bursting. [Unnecessary, as it is synonymous with rupture.]


Topic: Dissatisfaction
Definition:
DISSATISFACTION, n. [dis and satisfaction.] The state of being dissatisfied; discontent; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations.
The ambitious man is subject to uneasiness and dissatisfaction.


Topic: Dissatisfactory
Definition:
DISSATISFACTORY, a. Unable to give content.  Rather, giving discontent; displeasing.
To have reduced the different qualifications, in the different states, to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the states, as difficult for the convention.


Topic: Dissatisfied
Definition:
DISSATISFIED, pp. 
1. Made discontented; displeased.
2. a.  Discontented; not satisfied; not pleased; offended.


Topic: Dissatisfy
Definition:
DISSATISFY, v.t. To render discontented; to displease; to excite uneasiness by frustrating wishes or expectations.


Topic: Dissect
Definition:
DISSECT, v.t. [L., to cut.]
1. To cut in pieces; to divide an animal body, with a cutting instrument, by separating the joints; as, to dissect a fowl. Hence appropriately,
2. To cut in pieces, as an animal or vegetable, for the purpose of examining the structure and use of its several parts; to anatomize. Also, to open any part of a body to observe its morbid appearances, or to ascertain the cause of death or the seat of a disease.
3. To divide into its constituent parts, for the purpose of examination; as, dissect your mind; dissect a paragraph.


Topic: Dissected
Definition:
DISSECTED, pp. Cut in pieces; separated by parting the joints; divided into its constituent parts; opened and examined.


Topic: Dissecting
Definition:
DISSECTING, ppr. Cutting in pieces; dividing the parts; separating constituent parts for minute examination.


Topic: Dissection
Definition:
DISSECTION, n. [L.] 
1. The act of cutting in pieces an animal or vegetable, for the purpose of examining the structure and uses of its parts; anatomy.
Dissection was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.
2.The act of separating into constituent parts, for the purpose of critical examination.


Topic: Disseize
Definition:
DISSEIZE, v.t. [dis and seize.] In law, to dispossess wrongfully; to deprive of actual seizin or possession; followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold.
A man may suppose himself disseized, when he is not so.


Topic: Disseizin
Definition:
DISSEIZIN, n. The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing of a person of his lands, tenements, or incorporeal hereditaments; a deprivation of actual seizin.


Topic: Dissemble
Definition:
DISSEMBLE, v.t. [L.]
1. To hide under a false appearance; to conceal; to disguise; to pretend that not to be which really is; as, I will not dissemble the truth; I cannot dissemble my real sentiments. [This is the proper sense of this word.]
2. To pretend that to be which is not; to make a false appearance of. This is the sense of simulate.
Your son Lucentio doth love my daughter, and she loveth him, or both dissemble deeply their affections.
DISSEMBLE, v.i. To be hypocritical; to assume a false appearance; to conceal the real fact, motives, intention or sentiments under some pretense. 
Ye have stolen and dissembled also. Joshua 7.
He that hateth, dissembleth with his lips. Proverbs 26.


Topic: Dissembler
Definition:
DISSEMBLER, n. One who dissembles; a hypocrite; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance.


Topic: Disseminate
Definition:
DISSEMINATE, v.t. [l., to sow; seed.]
1. Literally, to sow; to scatter seed; but seldom or never used in its literal sense. But hence, 
2. To scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread. Thus, principles, opinions and errors are disseminated, when they are spread and propagated. To disseminate truth or the gospel is highly laudable.
3. To spread; to diffuse.
A uniform heat disseminate through the body of the earth.
4. To spread; to disperse.
The Jews are disseminated through all the trading parts of the world.
[The second is the most proper application of the word, as it should always include the idea of growth or taking root. The fourth sense is hardly vindicable.]


Topic: Disseminated
Definition:
DISSEMINATED, pp.
1. Scattered, as seed propagated; spread.
2. In mineralogy, occurring in portions less than a hazel nut; being scattered.


Topic: Dissemination
Definition:
DISSEMINATION, n. The act of scattering and propagating, like seed; the act of spreading for growth and permanence. We trust the world is to be reformed by the dissemination of evangelical doctrines.


Topic: Dissension
Definition:
DISSENSION, n. [L., to think.] Disagreement in opinion, usually a disagreement which is violent, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; strife; discord; quarrel; breach of friendship and union.
Debates, dissensions, uproars are thy joy.
Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension with them. Acts 15.
We see dissensions in church and state, in towns, parishes, and families, and the word is sometimes applied to differences which produce war; as the dissensions between the houses of York and Lancaster in England.


Topic: Dissent
Definition:
DISSENT, v.i. [L., to think.]
1. To disagree in opinion; to differ; to think in a different or contrary manner; with from. There are many opinions in which men dissent from us, as they dissent from each other.
2. To differ from an established church, in regard to doctrines, rites or government.
3. To differ; to be of a contrary nature. [Less proper.]


Topic: Dissenter
Definition:
DISSENTER, n. 
1. One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or one who declares his disagreement.
2. One who separates from the service and worship of any established church. The word is in England particularly applied to those who separate from, or who do not unite with, the church of England.


Topic: Dissentient
Definition:
DISSENTIENT, a. Disagreeing; declaring dissent.
DISSENTIENT, n. One who disagrees and declares his dissent.


Topic: Dissenting
Definition:
DISSENTING, ppr. Disagreeing in opinion; separating from the communion of an established church. It is used as an adjective; as a dissenting minister or congregation.


Topic: Dissepiment
Definition:
DISSEPIMENT, n. [L., to separate; to inclose or guard.] In botany, a partition in dry seed-vessels, as in capsules and pods, which separates the fruit into cells.


Topic: Dissertation
Definition:
DISSERTATION, n. [L., to discourse; to sow, that is, to throw.]
1. A discourse, or rather a formal discourse, intended to illustrate a subject.
2. A written essay, treatise or disquisition; as Plutarchs dissertation on the poets; Newtons dissertations on the prophecies.


Topic: Disserve
Definition:
DISSERVE, v.t. disserv. [dis and serve.] To injure; to hurt; to harm; to do injury or mischief to.
He took the first opportunity to disserve him.
Too much zeal often disserves a good cause.


Topic: Dissever
Definition:
DISSEVER, v.t. [dis and sever. In this word, dis, as in dispart, can have no effect, unless to augment the signification, as dis and sever both denote separation.] To dispart; to part in two; to divide asunder; to separate; to disunite, either by violence or not. When with force, it is equivalent to rend and burst. It may denote either to cut or to tear asunder. In beheading, the head is dissevered from the body. The lightning may dissever a branch from the stem of a tree. Jealousy dissevers the bonds of friendship. The reformation dissevered the Catholic church; it dissevered Protestants from catholics.


Topic: Dissevering
Definition:
DISSEVERING, ppr. Dividing asunder; separating; tearing or cutting asunder.
DISSEVERING, n. The act of separating; separation.


Topic: Dissident
Definition:
DISSIDENT, a. [L., to disagree; to sit.] Not agreeing.
DISSIDENT, n. A dissenter; one who separates from the established religion; a word applied to the members of the Lutheran, Calvinistic and Greek churches in Poland.


Topic: Dissilient
Definition:
DISSILIENT, a. Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force, as the dry pod or capsule of a plant; as a dissilient pericarp.


Topic: Dissimilar
Definition:
DISSIMILAR, a. [dis and similar.] Unlike, either in nature, properties or external form; not similar; not having the resemblance of; heterogeneous. Newton denominates dissimilar, the rays of light of different refrangibility. The tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.


Topic: Dissimilarity
Definition:
DISSIMILARITY, n. Unlikeness; want of resemblance; dissimilitude; as the dissimilarity of human faces and forms.


Topic: Dissimulation
Definition:
DISSIMULATION, n. [L., to make like; like.] The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; a feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Dissimulation may be simply concealment of the opinions, sentiments or purpose; but it includes also the assuming of a false or counterfeit appearance which conceals the real opinions or purpose. Dissimulation among statesmen is sometimes regarded as a necessary vice, or as no vice at all.
Let love be without dissimulation. Romans 12.


Topic: Dissipable
Definition:
DISSIPABLE, a. [See Dissipate.] Liable to be dissipated; that may be scattered or dispersed. 
The heat of those plants is very dissipable.


Topic: Dissipate
Definition:
DISSIPATE, v.t. [L., to throw.]
1. To scatter; to disperse; to drive asunder. Wind dissipates fog; the heat of the sun dissipates vapor; mirth dissipates care and anxiety; the cares of life tend to dissipate serious reflections.  Scatter, disperse and dissipate are in many cases synonymous; but dissipate is used appropriately to denote the dispersion of things that vanish, or are not afterwards collected; as, to dissipate fog, vapor or clouds. We say, an army is scattered or dispersed, but not dissipated. Trees are scattered or dispersed over a field, but not dissipated.
2. To expend; to squander; to scatter property in wasteful extravagance; to waste; to consume; as, a man has dissipated his fortune in the pursuit of pleasure.
3. To scatter the attention.
DISSIPATE, v.i. To scatter; to disperse; to separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to vanish.
A fog or cloud gradually dissipates, before the rays or heat of the sun. The heat of a body dissipates; the fluids dissipate.


Topic: Dissipated
Definition:
DISSIPATED, pp. 
1. Scattered; dispersed; wasted; consumed; squandered.
2. a. Loose; irregular; given to extravagance in the expenditure of property; devoted to pleasure and vice; as a dissipated man; a dissipated life.


Topic: Dissipation
Definition:
DISSIPATION, n. 
1. The act of scattering; dispersion; the state of being dispersed; as the dissipation of vapor or heat.
2. In physics, the insensible loss or waste of the minute parts of a body, which fly off, by which means the body is diminished or consumed.
3. Scattered attention; or that which diverts and calls off the mind from any subject.
4. A dissolute, irregular course of life; a wandering from object to object in pursuit of pleasure; a course of life usually attended with careless and exorbitant expenditure of money, and indulgence in vices, which impair or ruin both health and fortune.
What! Is it proposed then to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance, by filling his pockets with money?


Topic: Dissociable
Definition:
DISSOCIABLE, a. [See Dissociate.] 
1. Not well associated, united or assorted.
They came in two and two, though matched in the most dissociable manner.
2. Incongruous; not reconcilable with.
Dormant partner, in commerce and manufactories, a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits and subject to a share in losses.  He is called also sleeping partner.


Topic: Dissociate
Definition:
DISSOCIATE, v.t. [L., to unite, a companion.] To separate; to disunite; to part; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.


Topic: Dissociation
Definition:
DISSOCIATION, n. The act of disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.
It will add to the dissociation, distraction and confusion of these confederate republics.


Topic: Dissoluble
Definition:
DISSOLUBLE, a. [L. See Dissolve.]
1. Capable of being dissolved; that may be melted; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid.
2. That may be disunited.


Topic: Dissolute
Definition:
DISSOLUTE, a. [L.]
1. Loose in behavior and morals; given to vice and dissipation; wanton; lewd; luxurious; debauched; not under the restraints of law; as a dissolute man; dissolute company.
2. Vicious; wanton; devoted to pleasure and dissipation; as a dissolute life.


Topic: Dissolutely
Definition:
DISSOLUTELY, adv. Loosely; wantonly; in dissipation or debauchery; without restraint; as, to live dissolutely.


Topic: Dissoluteness
Definition:
DISSOLUTENESS, n. Looseness of manners and morals; vicious indulgences in pleasure, as in intemperance and debauchery; dissipation; as dissoluteness of life or manners.


Topic: Dissolution
Definition:
DISSOLUTION, n. [L.] In a general sense, the separation of the parts of a body which, in the natural structure, are united; or the reduction of concrete bodies into their smallest parts, without regard to solidity or fluidity. Thus we speak of the dissolution of salts in water, of metals in nitro-muriatic acid, and of ice or butter by heat; in which cases, the dissolution is effected by a menstruum or particular agent. We speak so of the dissolution of flesh or animal bodies, when the parts separate by putrefaction. Dissolution then is, 
1. The act of liquefying or changing from a solid to a fluid state by heat; a melting; a thawing; as the dissolution of snow and ice, which converts them into water.
2. The reduction of a body into its smallest parts, or into very minute parts, by a dissolvent or menstruum, as of a metal by nitro-muricatic acid, or of slats in water.
3. The separation of the parts of a body by putrefaction, or the analysis of the natural structure of mixed bodies, as of animal or vegetable substances; decomposition.
4. The substance formed by dissolving a body in a menstruum. [This is now called a solution.]
5. Death; the separation of the soul and body.
6. Destruction; the separation of the parts which compose a connected system, or body; as the dissolution of the world, or of nature; the dissolution of government.
7. The breaking up of an assembly, or the putting an end to its existence. 
Dissolution is the civil death of parliament.
8. Looseness of manners; dissipation. In this latter sense the word is obsolete, dissoluteness being substituted.
9. Dissolution of the blood, in medicine, that state of the blood, in which it does not readily coagulate, no its cooling out of the body, as in malignant fevers.


Topic: Dissolvable
Definition:
DISSOLVABLE, a. Dizzolvable. [See Dissolve.] That may be dissolved; capable of being melted; that may be converted into a fluid. Sugar and ice are dissolvable bodies.


Topic: Dissolve
Definition:
DISSOLVE, v.t. dizzolv. [L., to loose, to free.]
1. To melt; to liquefy; to convert from a solid or fixed state to a fluid state, by means of heat or moisture. 
To desolve by heat, is to loosen the parts of a solid body and render them fluid or easily movable. Thus ice is converted into water by dissolution.
To dissolve in a liquid, is to separate the parts of a solid substance, and cause them to mix with the fluid; or to reduce a solid substance into minute parts which may be sustained in that fluid. Thus water dissolves salt and sugar.
2. To disunite; to break; to separate.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness? 2 Peter 3.
3. To loose; to disunite.
Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved. 
4. To loose the ties or bonds of any thing; to destroy an connected system; as, to dissolve a government; to dissolve a corporation.
5. To loose; to break; as, to dissolve a league; to dissolve the bonds of friendship.
6. To break up; to cause to separate; to put an end to; as, to dissolve the parliament; to dissolve an assembly.
7. To clear; to solve; to remove; to dissipate, or to explain; as, to dissolve doubts.  We usually say, to solve doubts and difficulties.
8. To break; to destroy; as, to dissolve a charm, spell or enchantment.
9. To loosen or relax; to make languid; as dissolved in pleasure.
10. To waste away; to consume; to cause to vanish or perish.
Thou dissolvest my substance. Job 30.
11. To annul; to rescind; as, to dissolve an injunction.
DISSOLVE, v.i. dizzolv.
1. To be melted; to be converted from a solid to a fluid state; as, sugar dissolves in water.
2. To sink away; to lose strength and firmness.
3. To melt away in pleasure; to become soft or languid.
4. To fall asunder; to crumble; to be broken. A government may dissolve by its own weight or extent.
5. To waste away; to perish; to be decomposed. Flesh dissolves by putrefaction.
6. To come to an end by a separation of parts.


Topic: Dissolved
Definition:
DISSOLVED, pp. Melted; liquefied; disunited; parted; loosed; relaxed; wasted away; ended.
Dissolved blood, is that which does not readily coagulate.


Topic: Dissolvent
Definition:
DISSOLVENT, a. Having power to melt or dissolve; as the dissolvent juices of the stomach.
DISSOLVENT, n. 
1. Any thing which has the power or quality of melting, or converting a solid substance into a fluid, or of separating the parts of a fixed body so that they mix with a liquid; as, water is a dissolvent of salts and earths. It is otherwise called a menstruum.
2. In medicine, a remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretions in the body, such as calculi, tubercles, &c.


Topic: Dissolver
Definition:
DISSOLVER, n. That which dissolves or has the power of dissolving. Heat is the most powerful dissolver of substances.


Topic: Dissonance
Definition:
DISSONANCE, n. [L., to be discordant; to sound.]
1. Discord; a mixture or union of harsh, unharmonious sounds, which are grating or unpleasing to the ear; as the dissonance of notes, sounds or numbers.
2. Disagreement.


Topic: Dissonant
Definition:
DISSONANT, a. 
1. Discordant; harsh; jarring; unharmonious; unpleasant to the ear; as dissonant notes or intervals.
2. Disagreeing; incongruous; usually with from; as, he advanced propositions very dissonant from truth.


Topic: Dissuade
Definition:
DISSUADE, v.t. [L., to advise or incite to any thing.]
1. To advise or exhort against; to attempt to draw or divert from a measure, by reason or offering motives to; as, the minister dissuaded the prince from adopting the measure; he dissuaded him from his purpose.
2. To represent as unfit, improper or dangerous.
War therefore, open or concealed, alike my voice dissuades.
This phraseology is probably elliptical, and merely poetical; from being understood.


Topic: Dissuaded
Definition:
DISSUADED, pp. Advised against; counseled or induced by advice not to do something; diverted from a purpose.


Topic: Dissuasion
Definition:
DISSUASION, n. Disuazhun. Advice or exhortation in opposition to something; the act of attempting, by reason or motives offered, to divert from a purpose or measure; dehortation.


Topic: Dissuasive
Definition:
DISSUASIVE, a. Tending to dissuade, or divert form a measure or purpose; dehortatory.
DISSUASIVE, n. Reason, argument, or counsel, employed to deter one from a measure or purpose; that which is used or which tends to divert the mind from any purpose or pursuit. The consequences of intemperance are powerful dissuasives from indulging in that vice.


Topic: Dissyllable
Definition:
DISSYLLABLE, n. [Gr., two or twice; a syllable.] A word consisting of two syllables only; as, paper, whiteness, virtue.


Topic: Distaff
Definition:
DISTAFF, n. 
1. The staff of a spinning-wheel, to which a bunch of flax or tow is tied, and from which the thread is drawn.
She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. Proverbs 31.
2. Figuratively, a woman, or the female sex.
His crown usurped, a distaff on the throne.


Topic: Distaff-thistle
Definition:
DISTAFF-THISTLE, n. A species of thistle; a name of the Atraetylis, and of the Carthamus, or false saffron.


Topic: Distain
Definition:
DISTAIN, v.t. [dis and stain. L. See Stain.]
1. To stain; to tinge with any different color from the natural or proper one; to discolor. We speak of a sword distained with blood; a garment distained with gore. It has precisely the signification of stain, but is used chiefly or appropriately in poetry and the higher kinds of prose.
2. To blot; to sully; to defile; to tarnish.
She distained her honorable blood.
The worthiness of praise distains his worth.


Topic: Distance
Definition:
DISTANCE, n. [L., to stand apart; to stand.]
1. An interval or space between two objects; the length of the shortest line which intervenes between two things that are separate; as a great or small distance. Distance may be aline, an inch, a mile, or any indefinite length; as the distance between the sun and Saturn.
2. Preceded by at, remoteness of place.
He waits at distance till he hears from Cato.
3. Preceded by thy, his, your, her, their, a suitable space, or such remoteness as is common or becoming; as, let him keep his distance; keep your distance. [See No. 8.]
4. A space marked on the course where horses run.
This horse ran the whole field out of distance.
5. Space of time; any indefinite length of time, past or future, intervening between two periods or events; as the distance of an hour, of a year, of an age.
6. Ideal space or separation.
Qualities that affect our senses are, in the things themselves, so united and blended, that there is no distance between them.
7. Contrariety; opposition.
Banquo was your enemy, so he is mine, and in such bloody distance--
8. The remoteness which respect requires; hence, respect.
I hope your modesty will know what distance to the crown is due.
Tis by respect and distance that authority is upheld. 
[See No. 3]
9. Reserve; coldness; alienation of heart.
On the part of heaven now alientated, distance and distaste.
10. Remoteness in succession or relation; as the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.
11. In music, the interval between two notes; as the distance of a fourth or seventh.
DISTANCE, v.t. 
1. To place remote; to throw off from the view.
2. To leave behind in a race;; to win the race by a great superiority.
3. To leave at a great distance behind.
He distanced the most skillful of his cotemporaries.


Topic: Distant
Definition:
DISTANT, a. [L., standing apart.]
1. Separate; having an intervening space of any indefinite extent. One point may be less than a line or a hairs breadth distant from another. Saturn is supposed to be nearly nine hundred million miles distant from the sun.
2. Remote in place; as, a distant object appears under a small angle.
3. Remote in time, past or future; as a distant age or period of the world.
4. Remote in the line of succession or descent, indefinitely; as a distant descendant; a distant ancestor; distant posterity.
5. Remote in natural connection or consanguinity; as a distant relation; distant kindred; a distant collateral line.
6. Remote in nature; not allied; not agreeing with or in conformity to; as practice very distant from principles or profession.
7. Remote in view; slight; faint; not very likely to be realized; as, we have a distant hope or prospect of seeing better times.
8. Remote in connection; slight; faint; indirect; not easily seen or understood; as a distant hint or allusion to a person or subject. So also we say, a distant idea; a distant thought; a distant resemblance.
9. Reserved; shy; implying haughtiness, coldness of affection, indifference, or disrespect; as, the manners of a person are distant.


Topic: Distaste
Definition:
DISTASTE, n. [dis and taste.]
1. Aversion of the taste; dislike of food or drink; disrelish; disgust, or a slight degree of it. Distaste for a particular kind of food may be constitutional, or the effect of a diseased stomach.
2. Dislike; uneasiness.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comfort and hopes.
3. Dislike; displeasure; alienation of affection.
DISTASTE, v.t.
1. To disrelish; to dislike; to lothe; as, to distaste drugs or poisons.
2. To offend; to disgust.
He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish, but sought to please them.
3. To vex; to displease; to sour.
[The two latter significations are rare.]


Topic: Distasteful
Definition:
DISTASTEFUL, a. 
1. Nauseous; unpleasant or disgusting to the taste.
2. Offensive; displeasing; as a distasteful truth.
3. Malevolent; as distasteful looks.


Topic: Distemper
Definition:
DISTEMPER, n. [dis and temper.]
1. Literally, an undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Hence, 
2. Disease; malady; indisposition; any morbid state of an animal body, or of any part of it; a state in which the animal economy is deranged or imperfectly carried on. [See Disease.] It is used of the slighter disease, but not exclusively. In general, it is synonymous with disease, and is particularly applied to the diseases of brutes.
3. Want of due temperature, applied to climate; the literal sense of the word, but not now used.
Countries under the tropic of a distemper uninhabitable.
4. Bad constitution of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite.
5. Want of due balance of parts or opposite qualities and principles; as, the temper and distemper of an empire consist of contraries. [Not now used.]
6. Ill humor of mind; depravity of inclination. [Not used.]
7. Political disorder; tumult.
8. Uneasiness; ill humor or bad temper.
There is a sickness, which puts some of us in distemper.
9. In painting, the mixing of colors with something besides oil and water. When colors are mixed with size, whites of eggs, or other unctuous or glutinous matter, and not with oil, it is said to be done in distemper.
DISTEMPER, v.t. 
1. To disease; to disorder; to derange the functions of the body or mind.
2. To disturb; to ruffle.
3. To deprive of temper or moderation.
4. To make disaffected, ill humored or malignant. This verb is seldom used, except in the participles.


Topic: Distemperature
Definition:
DISTEMPERATURE, n. 
1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; a noxious state; as the distemperature of the air of climate.
2. Violent tumultuousness; outrageousness.
3. Perturbation of mind.
4. Confusion; commixture of contrarieties; loss of regularity; disorder.
5. Slight illness; indisposition.


Topic: Distempered
Definition:
DISTEMPERED, pp. or a. 
1. Diseased in body, or disordered in mind. We speak of a distempered body, a distempered limb, a distempered head or brain.
2. Disturbed; ruffled; as distempered passions.
3. Deprived of temper or moderation; immoderate; as distempered zeal.
4. Disordered; biased; prejudiced; perverted; as minds distempered by interest or passion.
The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.
5. Disaffected; made malevolent.
Distempered lords.


Topic: Distend
Definition:
DISTEND, v.t. [L., to tend, to stretch; to hold. Gr., to stretch.]
1. To stretch or spread in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge; to expand; to swell; as, to distend a bladder; to distend the bowels to distend the lungs. [This is the appropriate sense of the word.]
2. To spread apart; to divaricate; as, to distend the legs. We seldom say, to distend a plate of metal, and never, I believe, to distend a line; extend being used in both cases. We use distend chiefly to denote the stretching, spreading or expansion of any thing, by means of a substance inclosed within it, or by the elastic force of something inclosed. In this case the body distended swells or spreads in all directions, and usually in a spherical form. A bladder is distended by inflation, or by the expansion of rarefied air within it. The skin is distended in boils and abscesses, by matter generated within them. This appropriation of the word has not always been observed.


Topic: Distention
Definition:
DISTENTION, n. [L.]
1. The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being distended; as the distention of the lungs or bowels.
2. Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.
3. An opening, spreading or divarication; as the distention of the legs.


Topic: Disthene
Definition:
DISTHENE, n. [Gr., two; force.] A mineral so called by Hauy, because its crystals have the property of being electrified both positively and negatively. It is the sappare of Saussure, and the cyanite or kyanite of Werner.


Topic: Distich
Definition:
DISTICH, n. [L., Gr., a verse.] A couplet; a couple of verses or poetic lines, making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.


Topic: Distichous
Definition:
DISTICHOUS, DISTICH, a. Having two rows, or disposed in two rows. A distichous spike has all the flowers pointing two ways.


Topic: Distill
Definition:
DISTILL, v.i. [L., to drop; a drop. Gr.]
1. To drop; to fall in drops. 
Soft showers distilld, and suns grew warm in vain.
2. To flow gently, or in a small stream.
The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia.
3. To use a still; to practice distillation.
DISTILL, v.t. 
1. To let fall in drops; to throw down in drops. The clouds distill water on the earth.
The dew, which on the tender grass the evening had distilled.
2. To extract by heat; to separate spirit or essential oils from liquor by heat or evaporation, and convert that vapor into a liquid by condensation in a refrigeratory; to separate the volatile parts of a substance by heat; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine, or spirit form melasses.
3. To extract spirit from, by evaporation and condensation; as, to distill cyder or melasses; to distill wine.
4. To extract the pure part of a fluid; as, to distill water.
5. To dissolve or melt. [Unusual.] 
Swords by the lightnings subtle force distilled.


Topic: Distillation
Definition:
DISTILLATION, n. 
1. The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring or throwing down in drops.
2. The vaporization and subsequent condensation of a liquid by means of an alembic, or still and refrigeratory, or of a retort and receiver; the operation of extracting spirit from a substance by evaporation and condensation; rectification.
3. The substance extracted by distilling.
4. That which falls in drops.


Topic: Distilled
Definition:
DISTILLED, pp. Let fall or thrown down inn drops; subjected to the process of distillation; extracted by evaporation.


Topic: Distiller
Definition:
DISTILLER, n. One who distills; one whose occupation is to extract spirit by evaporation and condensation.


Topic: Distillery
Definition:
DISTILLERY, n. 
1. The act or art of distilling.
2. The building and works where distilling is carried on.


Topic: Distinct
Definition:
DISTINCT, a. [L. See Distinguish.]
1. Literally, having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign, or by a note or mark; as a place distinct by name.
2. Different; separate; not the same in number or kind; as, he holds tow distinct offices; he is known by distinct titles.
3. Separate in place; not conjunct; as, the two regiments marched together, but had distinct encampments.
4. So separated as not to be confounded with any other thing; clear; not confused. To reason correctly we must have distinct ideas. We have a distinct or indistinct view of a prospect.
5. Spotted; variegated.
Tempestuous fell his arrows from the fourfold-visagd four, distinct with eyes.
DISTINCT, v.t. To distinguish. [Not in use.]


Topic: Distinction
Definition:
DISTINCTION, n. [L.]
1. The act of separating or distinguishing.
2. A note or mark of difference. [Seldom used.]
3. Difference made; a separation or disagreement in kind or qualities, by which one thing is known from another. We observe a distinction between matter and spirit; a distinction between matter and spirit; a distinction between the animal and vegetable kingdoms; a distinction between good and evil, right and wrong; between sound reasoning and sophistry.
4. Difference regarded; separation; preference; as in the phrase, without distinction, which denotes promiscuously, all together, alike. 
Maids, women, wives, without distinction fall.
5. Separation; division; as the distinction of tragedy into acts.
[In this sense, division would be preferable.]
6. Notation of difference; discrimination; as a distinction between real and apparent good.
In classing the qualities of actions, it is necessary to make accurate distinctions.
7. Eminence; superiority; elevation of rank in society, or elevation of character; honorable estimation. Men who hold a high rank by birth or office, and men who are eminent fro their talents, services or worth, are called men of distinction, as being raised above others by positive institutions or by reputation. So we say, a man of note.
8. That which confers eminence or superiority; office, rank or public favor.
9. Discernment; judgment.


Topic: Distinctive
Definition:
DISTINCTIVE, a. 
1. That marks distinction or difference; as distinctive names or titles.
2. Having the power to distinguish and discern. [Less proper.]


Topic: Distinctly
Definition:
DISTINCTLY, adv. 
1. Separately; with distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing with another; as a proposition distinctly understood; a figure distinctly defined. Hence,
2. Clearly; plainly; as, to view an object distinctly.


Topic: Distinctness
Definition:
DISTINCTNESS, n. 
1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things; as the distinctness of two ideas, or of distant objects.
2. Nice discrimination; whence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness.


Topic: Distinguish
Definition:
DISTINGUISH, v.t. [L. Gr. The primary sense is, to prick, to pierce with a sharp point, to thrust in or on; and we retain the precise word in the verb, to stick, which see. The practice of making marks by puncturing, or sticking, gave rise to the applications of this word, as such marks were used to note and ascertain different things, to distinguish them. See Distinguish.]
1. To ascertain and indicate difference by some external mark. The farmer distinguishes his sheep by marking their ears. The manufacturer distinguishes pieces of cloth by some mark or impression.
2. To separate one thing from another by some mark or quality; to know or ascertain difference.
First, by sight; as, to distinguish ones own children from others by their features.
Secondly, by feeling. A blind man distinguishes an egg from an orange, but rarely distinguishes colors.
Thirdly, by smell; as, it is easy to distinguish the small of a peach from that of an apple.
Fourthly, by taste; as, to distinguish a plum from a pear.
Fifthly, by hearing; as to distinguish the sound of a drum from that of a violin.
Sixthly, by the understanding; as, to distinguish vice form virtue, truth from falsehood.
3. To separate or divide by any mark or quality which constitutes difference. We distinguish sounds into high and low, soft and harsh, lively and grave. We distinguish causes into direct and indirect, immediate and mediate.
4. To discern critically; to judge.
Not more can you distinguish of a man, than of his outward show.
5. To separate from others by some mark of honor or preference. Homer and Virgil are distinguished as poets; Demosthenes and Cicero, as orators.
6. To make eminent or known.
DISTINGUISH, v.i. To make a distinction; to find or show the difference. It is the province of a judge to distinguish between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.


Topic: Distinguishable
Definition:
DISTINGUISHABLE, a. 
1. Capable of being distinguished; that may be separated, known or made known, by notes of diversity, or by any difference. A tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea is not distinguishable into different ideas.
2. Worthy of note or special regard.


Topic: Distinguished
Definition:
DISTINGUISHED, pp.
1. Separated or known by a mark of difference, or by different qualities.
2. a. Separated from others by superior or extraordinary qualities; whence, eminent; extraordinary; transcendent; noted; famous; celebrated. Thus, we admire distinguished men, distinguished talents or virtues, and distinguished services.


Topic: Distinguisher
Definition:
DISTINGUISHER, n. 
1. He or that which distinguishes, or that separates one thing from another by marks of diversity.
2. One who discerns accurately the difference of thins; a nice or judicious observer.


Topic: Distinguishing
Definition:
DISTINGUISHING, ppr.
1. Separating from others by a note of diversity; ascertaining difference by a mark.
2. Ascertaining, knowing or perceiving a difference.
3. a. Constituting difference, or distinction from every thing else; peculiar; as the distinguishing doctrines of Christianity.


Topic: Distort
Definition:
DISTORT, v.t. [L., to twist.]
1. To twist out of natural or regular shape; as, to distort the neck, the limbs or the body; to distort the features.
2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction.
Wrath and malice, envy and revenge distort the understanding.
3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of scripture, or their meaning.
DISTORT, a. Distorted.


Topic: Distortion
Definition:
DISTORTION, n. [L.] 
1. The act of distorting or wresting; a twisting out of regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as the distortions of the face or body.
2. The state of being twisted out of shape; deviation from natural shape or position; crookedness; grimace.
3. A perversion of the true meaning of words.


Topic: Distract
Definition:
DISTRACT, v.t. [L., to draw. See draw and drag. The old participle distraught is obsolete.]
1. Literally, to draw apart; to pull in different directions, and separate. Hence, to divide; to separate; and hence, to throw into confusion. Sometimes in a literal sense. Contradictory or mistaken orders may distract an army.
2. To turn or draw from any object; to divert from any point, towards another point or toward various other objects; as, to distract the eye or the attention.
If he cannot avoid the eye of the observer, he hopes to distract it by a multiplicity of the object.
3. To draw towards different objects; to fill with different considerations; to perplex; to confound; to harass; as, to distract the mind with cares; you distract me with your clamor.
While I suffer thy terrors, I am distracted. Psalm 88.
4. To disorder the reason; the derange the regular operations of intellect; to render raving or furious; most frequently used in the participle distracted.
DISTRACT, a. Mad. [Not in use.]


Topic: Distracted
Definition:
DISTRACTED, pp.
1. Drawn apart; drawn in different directions; diverted from its object; perplexed; harassed; confounded.
2. a. Deranged; disordered in intellect; raving; furious; mad; frantic.


Topic: Distracting
Definition:
DISTRACTING, ppr. Drawing apart; separating; diverting from an object; perplexing; harassing; disordering the intellect.


Topic: Distraction
Definition:
DISTRACTION, n. [L.]
1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.
2. Confusion from a multiplicity of objects crowding on the mind and calling the attention different ways; perturbation of mind; perplexity; as, the family was in a state of distraction. [See 1 Corinthians 7.]
3. Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as political distractions.
Never was known a night of such distraction.
4. Madness; a state of disordered reason; franticness; furiousness. [We usually apply this word to a state of derangement which produces raving and violence in the patient.]
5. Folly in the extreme, or amounting to insanity.
On the supposition of the truth of the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, irreligion is nothing better than distraction.


Topic: Distrain
Definition:
DISTRAIN, v.t. [L. Dis and stringo. See Strain. Blackstone writes distrein.]
1. To seize for debt; to take a personal chatel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the possession of the injured party, to satisfy a demand, or compel the performance of a duty; as, to distrain goods fro rent, or for an amercement.
2. To rend; to tear.


Topic: Distream
Definition:
DISTREAM, v.i. [dis and stream.] To spread or flow over. 
Yet oer that virtuous blush distreams a tear.


Topic: Distress
Definition:
DISTRESS, n. [See Stress.]
1. The act of distraining; the taking of any personal chattel from a wrong-doer, to answer a demand, or procure satisfaction for a wrong committed.
2. The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
A distress of household goods shall be impounded under cover. If the lessor does not find sufficient distress on the premises, &c.
3. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer great distress from the gout, or from the loss of near friends.
4. Affliction; calamity; misery.
On earth distress of nations. Luke 21.
5. A state of danger; as a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, or want of provisions or water, &c.
DISTRESS, v.t. 
1. To pain; to afflict with pain or anguish; applied to the body or the mind. [Literally, to press or strain.]
2. To afflict greatly; to harass; to oppress with calamity; to make miserable.
Distress not the Moabites. Deuteronomy 2.
We are troubled on every side, but not distressed. 2 Corinthians 4.
3. To compel by pain or suffering.
There are men who can neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of duty.


Topic: Distressed
Definition:
DISTRESSED, pp. Suffering great pain or torture; severely afflicted; harassed; oppressed with calamity or misfortune.


Topic: Distressful
Definition:
DISTRESSFUL, a. 
1. Inflicting or bringing distress; as a distressful stroke.
2. Indicating distress; proceeding from pain or anguish; as distressful cries.
3. Calamitous; as a distressful event.
4. Attended with poverty; as distressful bread.


Topic: Distressing
Definition:
DISTRESSING, ppr. 
1. Giving severe pain; oppressing with affliction.
2. a. Very afflicting; affecting with severe pain; as a distressing sickness.


Topic: Distribute
Definition:
DISTRIBUTE, v.t. [L., to give or divide.]
1. To divide among two or more; to deal; to give or bestow in parts or portions. Moses distributed lands to the tribes of Israel. Christ distributed the loaves to his disciples.
2. To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice.
3. To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds or species.
4. To give in charity.
Distributing to the necessities of the saints. Romans 12.
5. In printing, to separate types, and place them in their proper cells in the cases.


Topic: Distribution
Definition:
DISTRIBUTION, n. [L.]
1. The act of dividing among a number; a dealing in parts or portions; as the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
2. The act of giving in charity; a bestowing in parts.
3. Dispensation; administration to numbers; a rendering to individuals; as the distribution of justice.
4. The act of separating into distinct parts or classes; as the distribution of plants into genera and species.
5. In architecture, the dividing and disposing of the several parts of the building, according to some plan, or to the rules of the art.
6. In rhetoric, a division and enumeration of the several qualities of a subject.
7. In general, the division and disposition of the parts of any thing.
8. In printing, the taking a form apart; the separating of the types, and placing each letter in its proper cell in the cases.


Topic: Distributive
Definition:
DISTRIBUTIVE, a. 
1. That distributes; that divides and assigns in portions; that deals to each his proper share; as distributive justice.
2. That assigns the various species of a general term.
3. That separates or divides; as a distributive adjective.
DISTRIBUTIVE, n. In grammar, a word that divides or distributes, as each and every, which represent the individuals of a collective number as separate.


Topic: District
Definition:
DISTRICT, n. [L., to press hard, to bind. See Distrain.] 
1. Properly, a limited extent of country; a circuit within which power, right or authority may be exercised, and to which it is restrained; a word applicable to any portion of land or country, or to any part of a city or town, which is defined by law or agreement. A governor, a prefect, or a judge may have his district.  Some of the states are divided into districts for the choice of senators, representatives or electors.  Cities and towns are divided into districts for various purposes, as for school, &c. The United States are divided into districts for the collection of the revenue.
2. A region; a territory within given lines; as the district of the earth which lies between the tropics, or that which is north of a polar circle.
3. A region; a country; a portion of territory without very definite limits; as the districts of Russia covered by forest.
DISTRICT, v.t. To divide into districts or limited portions of territory. Legislatures district states for the choice of senators. In New England, towns are districted for the purpose of establishing and managing schools.


Topic: District-court
Definition:
DISTRICT-COURT, n. A court which has cognizance of certain causes within a district defined by law. The district-courts of the United States are courts of subordinate jurisdiction.


Topic: Districting
Definition:
DISTRICTING, ppr. Dividing into limited or definite portions.
DISTRICTING, ppr. Dividing into limited or definite portions.


Topic: Distringas
Definition:
DISTRINGAS, n. In law, a writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person for debt, or for his appearance at a certain day.


Topic: Distrust
Definition:
DISTRUST, v.t. [dis and trust. See Mistrust.]
1. To doubt or suspect the truth, fidelity, firmness or sincerity of; not to confide in or rely on. We distrust a man, when we question his veracity, &c. We may often distrust our own firmness.
2. To doubt; to suspect not to be real, true, sincere or firm. We distrust a mans courage, friendship, veracity, declarations, intentions or promises, when we question their reality or sincerity. We cannot distrust the declarations of God. We often have reason to distrust our own resolutions.
DISTRUST, n. 
1. Doubt or suspicion of reality or sincerity; want of confidence, faith or reliance. Sycophants should be heard with distrust. Distrust mars the pleasures of friendship and social intercourse.
2. Discredit; loss of confidence.


Topic: Distrustful
Definition:
DISTRUSTFUL, a. 
1. Apt to distrust; suspicious.
2. Not confident; diffident; as distrustful of ourselves.
3. Diffident; modest.


Topic: Disturb
Definition:
DISTURB, v.t. [L., to trouble, disorder, discompose; a crowd, a tumult; Gr., a tumult. The primary sense seems to be to stir, or to turn or whirl round.]
1. To stir; to move; to discompose; to excite from a state of rest or tranquillity. We say, the man is asleep, do not disturb him. Let the vessel stand, do not move the liquor, you will disturb the sediment. Disturb not the public peace.
2. To move or agitate; to disquiet; to excite uneasiness or a slight degree of anger in the mind; to move the passions; to ruffle. The mind may be disturbed by an offense given, by misfortune, surprise, contention, discord, jealousy, envy, &c.
3. To move from any regular course or operation; to interrupt regular order; to make irregular. It has been supposed that the approach of a comet may disturb the motions of the planets in their orbits. An unexpected cause may disturb a chemical operation, or the operation of medicine.
4. To interrupt; to hinder; to incommode.  Care disturbs study. Let no person disturb my franchise.
5. To turn off from any direction; with from. [Unusual.] 
--And disturb his inmost counsels from their destind aim.
DISTURB, n. Confusion; disorder. [Not used.]


Topic: Disturbance
Definition:
DISTURBANCE, n. 
1. A stirring or excitement; any disquiet or interruption of peace; as, to enter the church without making disturbance.
2. Interruption of a settled state of things; disorder; tumult. We have read much at times of disturbances in Spain, England and Ireland.
3. Emotion of the mind; agitation; excitement of passion; perturbation. The merchant received the news of his losses without apparent disturbance.
4. Disorder of thoughts; confusion.
They can survey a variety of complicated ideas, without fatigue or disturbance.
5. In law, the hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, of tenure, of patronage.


Topic: Disturber
Definition:
DISTURBER, n. 
1. One who disturbs or disquiets; a violator of peace; one who causes tumults or disorders.
2. He or that which excites passion or agitation; he or that which causes perturbation.
3. In law, one that interrupts or incommodes another in the peaceable enjoyment of his right.


Topic: Disturbing
Definition:
DISTURBING, ppr. Moving; exciting; rendering uneasy; making a tumult; interrupting peace; incommoding the quiet enjoyment of.


Topic: Disunion
Definition:
DISUNION, n. Disyunion. [dis and union.] Separation; disjunction; or a state of not being united. It sometimes denotes a breach of concord, and its effect, contention.


Topic: Disunite
Definition:
DISUNITE, v.t. disyunite. [dis and unite.] To separate; to disjoin; to part; as, to disunite two allied countries; to disunite particles of matter; to disunite friends.
DISUNITE, v.i. To part; To fall asunder; to become separate. Particles of matter may spontaneously disunite.


Topic: Disusage
Definition:
DISUSAGE, n. Disyuzage. [dis and usage.] Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use, exercise or practice. We lose words by disusage.


Topic: Disuse
Definition:
DISUSE, n. Disyuse. [dis and use.]
1. Cessation of use, practice or exercise; as, the limbs lose their strength and pliability by disuse; language is altered by the disuse of words.
2. Cessation of custom; desuetude.
DISUSE, v.t. disyuze. [dis and use.]
1. To cease to use; to neglect or omit to practice.
2. To disaccustom; with from, in or to; as disused to toils; disused from pain.


Topic: Disused
Definition:
DISUSED, pp. Disyuzed. 
1. No longer used; obsolete, as words, &c.
Priam in arms disused.
2. Disaccustomed.


Topic: Ditch
Definition:
DITCH, n. [G.]
1. A trench in the earth made by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, or for making a fence to guard inclosures, or for preventing an enemy from approaching a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a foss or moat, and is dug round the rampart or wall between the scarp and counterscarp.
2. Any long, hollow receptacle of water.
DITCH, v.i. To dig or make a ditch or ditches.
DITCH, v.t. 
1. To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch; as, to ditch moist land.
2. To surround with a ditch.


Topic: Ditetrahedral
Definition:
DITETRAHEDRAL, a. [dis and tetrahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of a tetrahedral prism with dihedral summits.


Topic: Dithyramb
Definition:
DITHYRAMB, DITHYRAMBUS, n. [Gr.] In ancient poetry, a hymn in honor of Bacchus, full of transport and poetical rage. Of this species of writing we have no remains.


Topic: Dithyrambic
Definition:
DITHYRAMBIC, n. 
1. A song in honor of Bacchus, in which the wildness of intoxication is imitated.
2. Any poem written in wild enthusiastic strains.
DITHYRAMBIC, a. Wild; enthusiastic.


Topic: Ditone
Definition:
DITONE, n. [Gr., tone.] In music, an interval comprehending two tones. The proportion of the sounds that form the ditone is 4:5, and that of the semiditone, 5:6.


Topic: Ditrihedria
Definition:
DITRIHEDRIA, n. [Gr., twice three sides.] In mineralogy, a genus of spars with six sides or planes; being formed of tow trigonal pyramids joined base to base, without an intermediate column.


Topic: Dittander
Definition:
DITTANDER, n. Pepper-wort, Lepidium, a genus of plants of many species. The common dittander has a hot biting taste, and is sometimes used in lieu of pepper.


Topic: Dittany
Definition:
DITTANY, n. [L., Gr.] The white dittany is a plant of the genus Dictamnus. Its leaves are covered with a white down; in smell, they resemble lemon-thyme, but are more aromatic.  When fresh, they yield an essential oil.
Th dittany of crete is a species of Origanum, and the bastard dittany is a species of Marrubium.


Topic: Dittied
Definition:
DITTIED, a. [See Ditty.] Sung; adapted to music. 
He, with his soft pipe, and smooth, and smooth dittied song.


Topic: Ditto
Definition:
DITTO, contracted into do, in books of accounts, is the Italian detto, from L.  It denotes said, aforesaid, or the same thing; an abbreviation used to save repetition.


Topic: Ditty
Definition:
DITTY, n. [L.] A song; a sonnet or a little poem to be sung.
And to the warblign lute soft ditties sing.
DITTY, v.i. To sing; to warble a little tune.


Topic: Diuretic
Definition:
DIURETIC, a. [Gr., urinam reddo; urine.] Having the power to provoke urine; tending to produce discharges of urine.
DIURETIC, n. A medicine that provokes urine, or increases its discharges.


Topic: Diurnal
Definition:
DIURNAL, a. [L., daily.]
1. Relating to a day; pertaining to the daytime; as diurnal heat; diurnal hours.
2. Daily; happening every day; performed in a day; as a diurnal task.
3. Performed in 24 hours; as the diurnal revolution of the earth.
4. In medicine, an epithet of diseases whose exacerbations are in the day time; as a diurnal fever.
DIURNAL, n. A day-book; a journal. [See Journal, which is mostly used.]


Topic: Divan
Definition:
DIVAN, n. 
1. Among the Turks and other orientals, a court of justice, or a council.
2. A council-chamber; a hall; a court.
3. Any council assembled.


Topic: Divaricate
Definition:
DIVARICATE, v.i. [L., to straddle.] To open; to fork; to part into two branches.
DIVARICATE, v.t. to divide into two branches.
DIVARICATE, a. In botany, standing out wide. A divaricate branch forms an obtuse angle with the stem. It is applied also to panicles, peduncles and petioles.


Topic: Divarication
Definition:
DIVARICATION, n. 
1. A parting; a forking; a separation into two branches.
2. A crossing or intersection of fibers at different angles.


Topic: Dive
Definition:
DIVE, v.i. [Gr.]
1. To descend or plunge into water, as an animal head first; to thrust the body into water or other liquor, or if already in water, to plunge deeper. In the pearl fishery men are employed to dive for shells.
2. To go deep into any subject; as, to dive into the nature of things, into arts or science.
3. To plunge into any business or condition, so as to be thoroughly engaged in it.
4. To sink; to penetrate.
Dive, thought, down to my soul.
DIVE, v.t. To explore by diving. [Rare.] 
The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame.


Topic: Diver
Definition:
DIVER, n. 
1. One who dives; one who plunges head first into water; one who sinks by effort; as a diver in the pearl fishery.
2. One who goes deep into a subject, or enters deep into study.
3. A fowl, so called from diving. The name is given to several species of the genus Colymbus.


Topic: Diverge
Definition:
DIVERGE, v.i. diverj. [L., to incline.] To tend from one point and recede from each other; to shoot, extend or proceed from a point in different directions, or not in parallel lines. Rays of light proceed from the sun and continually diverge. It is opposed to converge.


Topic: Divergence
Definition:
DIVERGENCE, n. A receding from each other; a going farther apart; as the divergence of lines, or the angle of divergence.


Topic: Divergent
Definition:
DIVERGENT, a. Departing or receding from each other, as lines which proceed from the same point; opposed to convergent.


Topic: Divers
Definition:
DIVERS, a. S as z. [L., to turn.]
1. Different; various.
Thou shalt not sow thy fields with divers seeds. Deuteronomy 21.
Nor let thy cattle gender with divers kinds. Leviticus 19.
[This is now generally written diverse.]
2. Several; sundry; more than one, but not a great number. We have divers examples of this kind. [This word is not obsolete even in common discourse, and is much used in law proceedings.]


Topic: Diverse
Definition:
DIVERSE, a. [L.]
1. Different; differing.
Four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. Daniel 7.
2. Different from itself; various; multiform. 
Eloquence is a diverse thing.
3. In different directions.
And with tendrils creep diverse.
DIVERSE, v.i. divers. To turn aside. [Not used.]


Topic: Diversification
Definition:
DIVERSIFICATION, n. [See Diversify.]
1. The act of changing forms or qualities, or of making various.
2. Variation; variegation.
3. Variety of forms.
4. Change; alteration.


Topic: Diversify
Definition:
DIVERSIFY, v.t. [L.]
1. To make different or various in form or qualities; to give variety to; to variegate; as, to diversify the colors of a robe; to diversify a landscape with mountains, plains, trees and lakes.
2. To give diversity to; to distinguish by different things; as a council diversified by different characters.
3. In oratory, to vary a subject, by enlarging on what has been briefly stated, by brief recapitulation, by adding new ideas, by transposing words or periods, &c.


Topic: Diversiified
Definition:
DIVERSIIFIED, pp.
1. Made various in form or qualities; variegated; altered.
2. a. Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of objects; as diversified scenery; a diversified landscape.


Topic: Diversion
Definition:
DIVERSION, n. [L., to divert.]
1. The act of turning aside from any course; as the diversion of a stream from its usual channel; the diversion of a purpose to another object; the diversion of the mind from business or study.
2. That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care, business or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; whatever unbends the mind; as the diversion of youth. Works of wit and humor furnish an agreeable diversion to the studious.
3. In war, the act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made, as by an attack or alarm on one wing of an army, when the other wing or center is intended for the principal attack. The enemy, if deceived, is thus induced to withdraw a part of his force from the part where his foe intends to make the main impression.


Topic: Diversity
Definition:
DIVERSITY, n. [L.]
1. Difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness. There may be diversity without contrariety. There is a great diversity in human constitutions.
2. Variety; as a diversity of ceremonies in churches.
3. Distinct being, as opposed to identity.
4. Variegation.
Blushing in bright diversities of day.


Topic: Diversly
Definition:
DIVERSLY, adv. [from diverse.]
1. In different ways; differently; variously; as a passage of scripture diversly interpreted or understood.
2. In different directions; to different points.
On lifes vast ocean diversly we sail.


Topic: Divert
Definition:
DIVERT, v.t. [L., to turn.]
1. To turn off from any course, direction or intended application; to turn aside; as, to divert a river from its usual channel; to divert commerce from its usual course; to divert appropriated money to other objects; to divert a man from his purpose.
2. To turn the mind from business or study; hence, to please; to amuse; to entertain; to exhilarate. Children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor; low minds are diverted with buffoonery in stage-playing.
3. To draw the forces of an enemy to a different point.
4. To subvert. [Not in use.]


Topic: Diverted
Definition:
DIVERTED, pp. Turned aside; turned or drawn from any course, or from the usual or intended direction; pleased; amused; entertained.


Topic: Diverting
Definition:
DIVERTING, ppr. 
1. Turning off from any course; pleasing; entertaining.
2. a.  Pleasing; amusing; entertaining; as a diverting scene or sport.


Topic: Divertisement
Definition:
DIVERTISEMENT, n. Diversion. [Little used.] Originally, a certain air or dance between the acts of the French opera, or a musical composition.


Topic: Divest
Definition:
DIVEST, v.t. [L. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is appropriately used as a technical term in law.]
1. To strip of clothes, arms or equipage; opposed to invest.
2. To deprive; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one of title or property.
3. To deprive or strip of any thing that covers , surrounds or attends; as, to divest one of his glory; to divest a subject of deceptive appearances, or false ornaments.


Topic: Divide
Definition:
DIVIDE, v.t. [L., to part. See the latter words.]
1. To part or separate an entire thing; to part a thing into two or more pieces.
Divide the living child in two. 1 Kings 3.
2. To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition or by an imaginary line or limit. A wall divides two houses. The equator divides the earth into two hemispheres.
Let the firmament divide the waters from the waters. Genesis 1.
3. To make partition of, among a number. 
Ye shall divide the land by lot. Numbers 33.
4. To open; to cleave.
Thou dist divide the sea. Nehemiah 9.
5. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant.
There shall be five in one house divided, three against two--Luke 12.
6. To distribute; to separate and bestow in parts or shares.
And he divided to them his living. Luke 15.
7. To make dividends; to apportion the interest or profits of stock among proprietors; as, the bank divides six per cent.
8. To separate into two parts, for ascertaining opinions for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house, in voting.
DIVIDE, v.i. 
1. To part; to open; to cleave.
2. To break friendship; as, brothers divide.
3. To vote by the division of a legislative house into two parts.
The emperors sat, voted and divided with their equals.


Topic: Dividend
Definition:
DIVIDEND, n. 
1. A part or share; particularly, the share of the interest or profit of stock in trade or other employment, which belongs to each proprietor according to his proportion of the stock or capital.
2. In arithmetic, the number to be divided into equal parts.


Topic: Divider
Definition:
DIVIDER, n. 
1. He or that which divides; that which separates into parts.
2. A distributor; one who deals out to each his share.
Who made me a judge or divider over you. Luke 12.
3. He or that which disunites.
4. A kind of compasses.


Topic: Dividing
Definition:
DIVIDING, ppr. 
1. Parting; separating; distributing; disuniting; apportioning to each his share.
2. a. That indicates separation or difference; as a dividing line.
DIVIDING, n. Separation.


Topic: Divination
Definition:
DIVINATION, n. [L., to foretell. See Divine.]
1. The act of divining; a foretelling future events, or discovering things secret or obscure, by the aid of superior beings, or by other than human means. The ancient heathen philosophers divided divination into two kinds, natural and artificial. Natural divination was supposed to be effected by a kind of inspiration or divine afflatus; artificial divination was effected by certain rites, experiments or observations, as by sacrifices, cakes, flour, wine, observation of entrails, flight of birds, lots, verses, omens, position of the stars, &c.
2. Conjectural presage; prediction.


Topic: Divine
Definition:
DIVINE, a. [L., a god.]
1. Pertaining to the true God; as the divine nature; divine perfections.
2. Pertaining to a heathen deity, or to false gods.
3. Partaking of the nature of God.
Half human, half divine.
4. Proceeding from God; as divine judgments.
5. Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; extraordinary; apparently above what is human. In this application the word admits of comparison; as a divine invention; a divine genius; the divinest mind.
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Proverbs 16.
6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Not used.]
7. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; as divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
DIVINE, n. 
1. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition, personal sanctity, and diligence in the pastoral office.
2. A man skilled in divinity; a theologian; as a great divine.
DIVINE, v.t. [L.] 
1. To foreknow; to foretell; to presage.
Darst thou divine his downfall?
2. To deify. [Not in use.]
DIVINE, v.i. 
1. To use or practice divination.
2. To utter presages or prognostications.
The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah 3.
3. To have presages or forebodings.
Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts--
4. To guess or conjecture.
Could you divine what lovers bear.


Topic: Divinely
Definition:
DIVINELY, adv. 
1. In a divine or godlike manner; in a manner resembling deity.
2. By the agency or influence of God; as a prophet divinely inspired; divinely taught. 
3. Excellently; in the supreme degree; as divinely fair; divinely brave.


Topic: Divineness
Definition:
DIVINENESS, n. 
1. Divinity; participation of the divine nature; as the divineness of the scriptures. [Little used.]
2. Excellence in the supreme degree.


Topic: Diviner
Definition:
DIVINER, n. 
1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by the aid of superior beings, or of supernatural means.
These nations hearkened to diviners. Deuteronomy 18.
2. One who guesses; a conjecturer.


Topic: Diving
Definition:
DIVING, ppr. [See Dive.]
1. Plunging or sinking into water or other liquid; applied to animals only.
2. Going deep into a subject.


Topic: Diving-bell
Definition:
DIVING-BELL, n. A hollow vessel in form of a truncated cone or pyramid, with the smaller base close, and the larger one open, in which a person may descend into deep water and remain, till the inclosed air ceases to be respirable.


Topic: Divinity
Definition:
DIVINITY, n. [L.]
1. The state of being divine; Deity; Godhead; the nature or essence of God.  Christians ascribe divinity to one Supreme Being only.
2. God; the Deity; the Supreme Being.
Tis the Divinity that stirs within us.
3. A false God; a pretended deity of pagans.
Beastly divinities, and droves of gods.
4. A celestial being, inferior to the Supreme God, but superior to man. Many nations believe in these inferior divinities.
5. Something supernatural.
They say there is divinity in odd numbers.
6. The science of divine things; the science which unfolds the character of God, his laws and moral government, the duties of man, and the way of salvation; theology; as the study of divinity; a system of divinity.


Topic: Divisibility
Definition:
DIVISIBILITY, n. [L. See Divide.] The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts or component particles are capable of separation.


Topic: Divisible
Definition:
DIVISIBLE, a. S as z. [L. See Divide.] Capable of division; that may be separated or disunited; separable. Matter is divisible indefinitely.


Topic: Division
Definition:
DIVISION, n. S as z. [L. See Divide.]
1. The act of dividing or separating into parts, any entire body.
2. The state of being divided.
3. That which divides or separates; that which keeps apart; partition.
4. The part separated from the rest by a partition or line, real or imaginary; as the divisions of a field.
5. A separate body of men; as, communities and divisions of men.
6. A part or distinct portion; as the divisions of a discourse.
7. A part of an army or militia; a body consisting of a certain number of brigades usually two, and commanded by a major general. But the term is often applied to other bodies or portions of an army, as to a brigade, a squadron or a platoon.
8. A part of a fleet, or a select number of ships under a commander, and distinguished by a particular flag or pendant.
9. Disunion; discord; variance; difference.
There was a division among the people. John 7.
10. Space between the notes of music, or the dividing of the tones.
11. Distinction.
I will put a division between my people and thy people. Exodus 8.
12. The separation of voters in a legislative house.
13. In arithmetic, the dividing of a number or quantity into any parts assigned; or the rule by which is found how many times one number is contained in another.


Topic: Divisional
Definition:
DIVISIONAL, DIVISIONARY, a. Pertaining to division; noting or making division; as a divisional line.


Topic: Divorce
Definition:
DIVORCE, n. [L. See Divert.]
1. A legal dissolution of the bonds of matrimony, or the separation of husband and wife by a judicial sentence. This is properly called a divorce, and called technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.
2. The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband, a mensa et thoro.
3. Separation; disunion of things closely united.
4. The sentence or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
5. The cause of any penal separation.
The long divorce of steel falls on me.
DIVORCE, v.t. 
1. To dissolve the marriage contract, and thus to separate husband and wife.
2. To separate, as a married woman from the bed and board of her husband.
3. To separate or disunite things closely connected; to force asunder.
4. To take away; to put away.


Topic: Divorced
Definition:
DIVORCED, pp. Separated by a dissolution of the marriage contract; separated from bed and board; parted; forced asunder.


Topic: Divorcement
Definition:
DIVORCEMENT, n. Divorce; dissolution of the marriage tie.
Let him write her a bill of divorcement. Deuteronomy 24.


Topic: Divorcer
Definition:
DIVORCER, n. 
1. The person or cause that produces divorce.
2. One of a sect called divorcers, said to have sprung from Milton.


Topic: Divulge
Definition:
DIVULGE, v.t. divulj. [L., to make public; the common people; people.]
1. To make public; to tell or make known something before private or secret; to reveal; to disclose; as, to divulge the secret sentiments of a friend; to divulge the proceedings of the cabinet. Divulge is more generally applied to verbal disclosures, and publish to printed accounts. But they may be used synonymously. We may publish by words, and divulge by the press.
2. To declare by a public act; to proclaim. [Unusual.]


Topic: Divulsion
Definition:
DIVULSION, n. [L., to pull.] The act of pulling or plucking away; a rending asunder.
And dire divulsions shook the changing world.


Topic: Dizen
Definition:
DIZEN, v.t. dizn. To dress gayly; to deck. 
This word is not esteemed elegant, and is nearly obsolete. Its compound bedizen is used in burlesque.


Topic: Dizzy
Definition:
DIZZY, a. [G., dizziness; dizzy.]
1. Giddy; having a sensation of whirling in the head, with instability or proneness to fall; vertiginous.
2. Causing giddiness; as a dizzy highth.
3. Giddy; thoughtless; heedless; as the dizzy multitude.
DIZZY, v.t. To whirl round; to make giddy; to confuse.


Topic: Do
Definition:
DO, v.t. or auxiliary; pret. Did; pp. Done, pronounced dun. This verb, when transitive, is formed in the indicative, present tense, thus, I do, thou doest, he does or doth; when auxiliary, the second person is, thou dost. [G.]
1. To perform; to execute; to carry into effect; to exert labor or power for brining any thing to the state desired, or to completion; or to bring any thing to pass. We say, this man does his work well; he does more in one day than some men will do in two days.
In six days thou shalt do all thy work. Exodus 20.
I will teach you what ye shall do. Exodus 4.
I the Lord do all these things. Isaiah 45.
2. To practice; to perform; as, to do good or evil.
3. To perform for the benefit or injury of another; with for or to; for, when the thing is beneficial; to, in either case.
Till I know what God will do for me. 1 Samuel 22.
Do to him neither good nor evil. But to is more generally omitted. Do him neither good nor harm.
4. To execute; to discharge; to convey; as, do a message to the king.
5. To perform; to practice; to observe.
We lie and do not the truth. 1 John 1.
6. To exert.
Do thy diligence to come shortly to me. 2 Timothy 4.
7. To transact; as, to do business with another.
8. To finish; to execute or transact and bring to a conclusion. The sense of completion is often implied in this verb; as, we will do the business and adjourn; we did the business and dined.
9. To perform in an exigency; to have recourse to, as a consequential or last effort; to take a step or measure; as, in this crisis, we knew not what to do.
What will ye do in the day of visitation. Isaiah 10.
10. To make or cause.
Nothing but death can do me to respire.
11. To put. 
Who should do the duke to death?
12. To answer the purpose.
Ill make the songs of Durfy do.
To have to do, to have concern with.
What have I to do with you? 2 Samuel 16.
What have I to do any more with idols? Hosea 14.
To do with, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ. Commerce is dull; we know not what to do with our ships. Idle men know not what to do with their time or with themselves. Also, to gain; to effect by influence.
A jest with a sad brow will do with a fellow who never had the ache in his shoulders.
I can do nothing with this obstinate fellow.
Also, to have concern with; to have business; to deal. [See No. 12.]
To do away, to remove; to destroy; as, to do away imperfections; to do away prejudices.
DO, v.i.
1. To act or behave, in any manner, well or ill; to conduct ones self.
They fear not the Lord, neither do they after the law and commandment. 2 Kings 17.
2. To fare; to be in a state with regard to sickness or health.
How dost thou?
We asked him how he did. How do you do, or how do you?
3. To succeed; to accomplish a purpose. We shall do without him. Will this plan do?  Also, to fit; to be adapted; to answer the design; with for; as, this piece of timber will do for the corner post; this tenon will do for the mortise; the road is repaired and will do for the present.
To have to do with, to have concern or business with; to deal with. Have little to do with jealous men. Also, to have carnal commerce with.
Do is used for a verb to save the repetition of it. I shall probably come, but if I do not, you must not wait; that is, if I do not come, if I come not.
Do is also used in the imperative, to express an urgent request or command; as, do come; help me, do; make haste, do. In this case, do is uttered with emphasis.
As an auxiliary, do is used in asking questions. Do you intend to go? Does he wish me to come?
Do is also used to express emphasis. She is coquetish, but still I do love her.
Do is sometimes a mere expletive.
This just reproach their virtue does excite.
Expletives their feeble aid do join.
[The latter use of do is nearly obsolete.]
Do is sometimes used by way of opposition; as, I did love him, but he has lost my affections.


Topic: Docile
Definition:
DOCILE, a. [L., to teach. See Teach.] Teachable; easily instructed; ready to learn; tractable; easily managed. Some children are far more docile than others. Dogs are more docile than many other animals.


Topic: Docility
Definition:
DOCILITY, n. Teachableness; readiness to learn; aptness to be taught. The docility of elephants is remarkable.


Topic: Docimastic
Definition:
DOCIMASTIC, a. [Gr., to try, essay, examine, proved; to prove.] Properly, essaying, proving by experiments, or relating to the assaying of metals. The docimastic art is otherwise called metallurgy. It is the art of assaying metals, or the art of separating them from foreign matters, and determining the nature and quantity of metallic substance contained in any ore or mineral.


Topic: Dock
Definition:
DOCK, n. [Gr., L.] A genus of plants, the Rumex, of several species. Its root resembles a carrot.
DOCK, v.t. 
1. To cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.
2. To cut off a part; to shorten; to deduct from; as, to dock an account.
3. To cut off, destroy or defeat; to bar; as, to dock an entail.
4. To bring, draw or place a ship in a dock.
DOCK, n. 
1. The tail of a beast cut short or clipped; the stump of a tail; the solid part of the tail.
2. A case of leather to cover a horses dock.
DOCK, n. A broad deep trench on the side of a harbor, or bank of a river, in which ships are built or repaired. A dry dock has flood-gates to admit the tide, and to prevent the influx, as occasion may require. Wet docks have no flood-gates, but ships may be repaired in them during the recess of the tide. Wet docks are also constructed with gates to deep the water in at ebb tide, so that vessels may lie constantly afloat in them. In America, the spaces between wharves are called docks.


Topic: Dock-yard
Definition:
DOCK-YARD, n. A yard or magazine near a harbor, for containing all kinds of naval stores and timber.


Topic: Docket
Definition:
DOCKET, n. 
1. A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing. Also, a subscription at the foot of letters patent, by the clerk of the dockets.
2. A bill, tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent. [See Ticket.]
3. An alphabetical list of cases in a court, or a catalogue of the names of the parties who have suits depending in a court. In some of the states, this is the principal or only use of the word.
DOCKET, v.t. 
1. To make an abstract of summary of the heads of a writing or writings; to abstract and enter in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.
2. To enter in a docket; to mark the contents of papers on the back of them.
3. To mark with a docket.


Topic: Docking
Definition:
DOCKING, ppr. Clipping; cutting off the end; placing in a dock.
DOCKING, n. The act of drawing, as a ship, into a dock.


Topic: Doctor
Definition:
DOCTOR, n. [L., to teach.]
1. A teacher.
There stood up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law. Acts 5.
2. One who has passed all the degrees of a faculty, and is empowered to practice and teach it, as a doctor in divinity, in physic, in law; or according to modern usage, ad person who has received the highest degree in a faculty. The degree of doctor is conferred by universities and colleges, as an honorary mark of literary distinction. It is also conferred on physicians, as a professional degree.
3. A learned man; a man skilled in a profession; a man of erudition.
4. A physician; one whose occupation is to cure diseases.
5. The title, doctor, is given to certain fathers of the church whose opinions are received as authorities, and in the Greek church, it is given to a particular officer who interprets the scriptures.
Doctors Commons, the college of civilians in London.
DOCTOR, v.t. To apply medicines for the cure of diseases. [A popular use of this word, but not elegant.]
DOCTOR, v.i. To practice physic. [Not elegant.]


Topic: Doctrinal
Definition:
DOCTRINAL, a. [See Doctrine.]
1. Pertaining to doctrine; containing a doctrine or something taught; as a doctrinal observation; a doctrinal proposition.
2. Pertaining to the act or means of teaching.
The word of God serveth no otherwise, than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument.
DOCTRINAL, n. Something that is a part of doctrine.


Topic: Doctrine
Definition:
DOCTRINE, n. [L., to teach.]
1. In a general sense, whatever is taught. Hence, a principle or position in any science; whatever is laid down as true by an instructor or master. The doctrines of the gospel are the principles or truths taught by Christ and his apostles. The doctrines of Plato are the principles which he taught. Hence a doctrine may be true or false; it may be a mere tenet or opinion.
2. The act of teaching.
He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in his doctrine. Mark 4.
3. Learning; knowledge.
Whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Isaiah 28.
4. The truths of the gospel in general.
That they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. Titus 2.
5. Instruction and confirmation in the truths of the gospel. 2 Timothy 3.


Topic: Document
Definition:
DOCUMENT, n. [L., to teach.]
1. Precept; instruction; direction.
2. Dogmatical precept; authoritative dogma.
3. More generally, in present usage, written instruction, evidence or proof; any official or authoritative paper containing instructions or proof, for information and the establishment of facts. Thus, the president laid before congress the report of the secretary, accompanied with all the documents.
DOCUMENT, v.t. 
1. To furnish with documents; to furnish with instructions and proofs, or with papers necessary to establish facts. A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
2. To teach; to instruct; to direct.


Topic: Documental
Definition:
DOCUMENTAL, a. Pertaining to instruction or to documents; consisting in or derived from documents; as documental testimony.


Topic: Dodder
Definition:
DODDER, n. [G.] A plant of the genus Cuscuta, one species of which is called hell-weed. It is almost destitute of leaves, parasitical, creeping and fixing itself to some other plant, as to hops, flax and particularly to the nettle. It decays at the root, and is nourished by the plant that supports it, by means of little vesicles or papillae, which attach themselves to the stalk.


Topic: Dodecagon
Definition:
DODECAGON, n. [Gr., twelve; an angle.] A regular figure or polygon, consisting of twelve equal sides and angles.


Topic: Dodecahedron
Definition:
DODECAHEDRON, n. [Gr., twelve; a base.] A regular solid contained under twelve equal and regular pentagons, or having twelve equal bases.


Topic: Dodecander
Definition:
DODECANDER, n. [Gr., twelve; a male.] In botany, a plant having twelve stamens; one of the class dodecandria. But this class includes all plants that have any number of stamens from twelve to nineteen inclusive.


Topic: Dodecandrian
Definition:
DODECANDRIAN, a. Pertaining to the plants or class of plants that have twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.


Topic: Dodge
Definition:
DODGE, v.i. doj. [from some root signifying to shoot, dart or start.]
1. To start suddenly aside; to shift place by a sudden start.
2. To play tricks; to be evasive; to use tergiversation; to play fast and loose; to raise expectations and disappoint them; to quibble.
DODGE, v.t. To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed; to dodge a canon ball. [This is a common word, very expressive and useful, but not admissible in solemn discourse or elegant composition.]


Topic: Dodo
Definition:
DODO, n. The Didus, a genus of fowls of the gallinaceous order. The hooded dodo is large than a swan, with a strong hooked bill. The general color of the plumage is cinereous; the belly and thighs whitish. The head is large, and seems as if covered with a hood. The solitary dodo is a large fowl, and is said to weigh sometimes forty five pounds. The plumage is gray and brown mixed.


Topic: Doe
Definition:
DOE, n. Do. A she deer; the female of the fallow-deer. The male is called a buck.
DOE, n. A feat. [Not used.]


Topic: Doer
Definition:
DOER, n. [from do.]
1. One who does; one who performs or executes; an actor; an agent.
2. One who performs what is required; one who observes, keeps or obeys, in practice.
The doers of the law shall be justified. Romans 2.


Topic: Doff
Definition:
DOFF, v.t. 
1. To put off, as dress.
And made us doff our easy robes of peace.
2. To strip or divest; as, he doffs himself.
3. To put or thrust away; to get rid of.
To doff their dire distresses.
4. To put off; to shift off; with a view to delay.
Every day thou doffst me with some device.
[This word is, I believe, entirely obsolete in discourse, at least in the United States, but is retained in poetry.]


Topic: Dog
Definition:
DOG, n. 
1. A species of quadrupeds, belonging to the genus Canis, of many varieties, as the mastiff, the hound, the spaniel, the shepherds dog, the terrier, the harrier, the bloodhound, &c.
2. It is used for male, when applied to several other animals; as a dog-fox; a dog-otter; dog-ape.  It is prefixed to other words, denoting what is mean, degenerate or worthless; as dog-rose.
3. An andiron, so named from the figure of a dogs head on the top. 
4. A term of reproach or contempt given to a man.
5. A constellation called Sirius or Canicula. [See Dog-day.]
6. An iron hook or bar with a sharp fang, used by seamen.
7. An iron used by sawyers to fasten a log of timber in a saw-pit.
8. A gay young man; a buck. [Not in use.]
To give or throw to the dogs, is to throw away, as useless.
To go to the dogs, is to be ruined.
DOG, v.t. To hunt; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to follow close; to urge; to worry with importunity.
I have been pursued, dogged and and way-laid.


Topic: Dog-cabbage
Definition:
DOG-CABBAGE, n. A plant growing in the south of Europe, the cynocrambe, constituting the genus Theligonum.


Topic: Dogday
Definition:
DOGDAY, n. One of the days when Sirius or the dogstar rises and sets with the sun. The dogdays commence the latter part of July, and end the beginning of September.


Topic: Dogdraw
Definition:
DOGDRAW, n. A manifest deprehension of an offender against the venison in the forest, when he is found drawing after the deer by the scent of a hound led by the hand.


Topic: Dogfish
Definition:
DOGFISH, n. A name given to several species of shark, as the spotted shark or greater dogfish, the piked dogfish, &c.


Topic: Dogged
Definition:
DOGGED, pp.
1. Pursued closely; urged frequently and importunately.
2. a. Sullen; sour; morose; surly; severe.


Topic: Dogger
Definition:
DOGGER, n. A Dutch fishing vessel used in the German ocean, particularly in the herring fishery. It is equipped with two masts, a main-mast and a mizen-mast, somewhat resembling a ketch.


Topic: Doggerel
Definition:
DOGGEREL, a. An epithet given to a kind of loose, irregular measure in burlesque poetry, like that of Hudibras; as doggerel verse or rhyme.
DOGGEREL, n. A loose, irregular kind of poetry; used in burlesque.


Topic: Doggers
Definition:
DOGGERS, n. In English alum works, a sort of stone found in the mines with the true alum-rock, containing some alum.


Topic: Dogma
Definition:
DOGMA, n. [Gr., to think; L.] A settled opinion; a principle, maxim or tenet; a doctrinal notion, particularly in matters of faith and philosophy; as the dogmas of the church; the dogmas of Plato.
Compliment my dogma, and I will compliment yours.


Topic: Dogmatical
Definition:
DOGMATIC, DOGMATICAL, a. 
1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to settled opinion.
2. Positive; magisterial; asserting or disposed to assert with authority or with overbearing and arrogance; applied to persons; as a dogmatic schoolman or philosopher.
3. Positive; asserted with authority; authoritative; as a dogmatical opinion.
4. Arrogant; overbearing in asserting and maintaining opinions.


Topic: Dogmatist
Definition:
DOGMATIST, n. A positive asserter; a magisterial teacher; a bold or arrogant advancer of principles.


Topic: Dogmatize
Definition:
DOGMATIZE, v.i. To assert positively; to teach with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.
Men often dogmatize most, when they are least supported by reason.


Topic: Dogstar
Definition:
DOGSTAR, n. Sirius, a star of the first magnitude, whose rising and setting with the sun gives name to the dogdays.


Topic: Dogtooth
Definition:
DOGTOOTH, n. Plu. Dogteeth. A sharp-pointed human tooth growing between the foreteeth and grinders, and resembling a dogs tooth. It is called also an eye tooth.


Topic: Dogvane
Definition:
DOGVANE, n. Among seamen, a small vane composed of thread, cork and feathers, fastened to a half pike and placed on the weather gun-wale, to assist in steering a ship on the wind.


Topic: Dogwatch
Definition:
DOGWATCH, n. Among seamen, a watch of two hours. The dogwatches are two reliefs between 4 and 8 oclock, P.M.


Topic: Doily
Definition:
DOILY, n. 
1. A species of woolen stuff, said to be so called from the first maker.
2. Linen made into a small napkin.


Topic: Doings
Definition:
DOINGS, n. Plu.
1. Things done; transactions; feats; actions, good or bad.
2. Behavior; conduct.
3. Stir; bustle.


Topic: Doit
Definition:
DOIT, n. [G.]
1. A small piece of money.
2. A trifle. Hence our vulgar phrase, I care not a doit. It is used adverbially and commonly pronounced dite.


Topic: Dole
Definition:
DOLE, n. [See Deal.]
1. The act of dealing or distributing; as the power of dole and donative. [Not in use.]
2. That which is dealt or distributed; a part, share or portion.
3. That which is given in charity; gratuity.
4. Blows dealt out.
5. Boundary. [Not in use.]
6. A void space left in tillage. [Local.]
DOLE, n. [L., pain, grief.] Grief; sorrow.
DOLE, v.t. To deal; to distribute. [Not used.]


Topic: Doleful
Definition:
DOLEFUL, a. [dole and full.]
1. Sorrowful; expressing grief; as a doleful whine; a doleful cry.
2. Melancholy; sad; afflicted; as a doleful sire.
3. Dismal; impressing sorrow; gloomy; as doleful shades.


Topic: Doll
Definition:
DOLL, n. [Gr., an idol; to see.] A puppet or baby for a child; a small image in the human form, for the amusement of little girls.


Topic: Dollar
Definition:
DOLLAR, n. [G.] A silver coin of Spain and of the United States, of the value of one hundred cents, or four shillings and sixpence sterling.  The dollar seems to have been originally a German coin, and in different parts of Germany, the name is given to coins of different values.


Topic: Dolomite
Definition:
DOLOMITE, n. A variety of magnesian carbonate of lime, so called from the French geologist Dolomieu. Its structure is granular.


Topic: Dolorous
Definition:
DOLOROUS, a. [L., grief.]
1. Sorrowful; doleful; dismal; impressing sorrow or grief; as a dolorous object; a dolorous region.
2. Painful; giving pain.
Their dispatch is quick, and less dolorous than the paw of the bear.
3. Expressing pain or grief; as dolorous sighs.


Topic: Dolphin
Definition:
DOLPHIN, n. [Gr.]
1. A genus of cetaceous fish, with teeth in both jaws, and a pipe in the head, comprehending the dolphin, the porpoise, the grampus and the beluga. But the fish to which seamen give this name, is the Coryphaena hippuris of Linne. It has a flat roundish snout and a tapering body, with a fin running along the back from the head to the tail, consisting of a coriaceous membrane with soft spines.
2. In ancient Greece, a machine suspended over the sea, to be dropped on any vessel passing under it.


Topic: Dom
Definition:
DOM, used as a termination, denotes jurisdiction, or property and jurisdiction; primarily, doom, judgment; as in kingdom, earldom. Hence it is used to denote state, condition or quality, as in wisdom, freedom.


Topic: Domain
Definition:
DOMAIN, n. [L.]
1. Dominion; empire; territory governed, or under the government of a sovereign; as the vast domains of the Russian emperor; the domains of the British king.
2. Possession; estate; as a portion of the kings domains.
3. The land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy. In this sense, the word coincides with demain, demesne.


Topic: Dome
Definition:
DOME, n. [Gr., a house, a plain roof. L.]
1. A building; a house; a fabric; used in poetry.
2. A cathedral.
3. In architecture, a spherical roof, raised over the middle of a building; a cupola.
4. In chemistry, the upper part of a furnace, resembling a hollow hemisphere or small dome. This form serves to reflect or reverberate a part of the flame; hence these furnaces are called reverberating furnaces.


Topic: Domesday-book
Definition:
DOOMSDAY-BOOK, DOMESDAY-BOOK, n. A book compiled by order of William the Conqueror, containing a survey of all the lands in England. It consists of two volumes; a large folio, and a quarto. The folio contains 382 double pages of vellum, written in a small but plain character. The quarto contains 450 double pages of vellum, written in a large fair character.


Topic: Domestic
Definition:
DOMESTIC, a. [L., a house.]
1. Belonging to the house, or home; pertaining to ones place of residence, and to the family; as domestic concerns; domestic life; domestic duties; domestic affairs; domestic contentions; domestic happiness; domestic worship.
2. Remaining much at home; living in retirement; as a domestic man or woman.
3. Living near the habitations of man; tame; not wild; as domestic animals.
4. Pertaining to a nation considered as a family, or to ones own country; intestine; not foreign; as domestic troubles; domestic dissensions.
5. Made in ones own house, nation or country; as domestic manufactures.
DOMESTIC, n. One who lives in the family of another, as a chaplain or secretary. Also, a servant or hired laborer, residing with a family.


Topic: Domesticate
Definition:
DOMESTICATE, v.t. 
1. To make domestic; to retire from the public; to accustom to remain much at home; as, to domesticate ones self.
2. To make familiar, as if at home.
3. To accustom to live near the habitations of man; to tame; as, to domesticate wild animals.


Topic: Domestication
Definition:
DOMESTICATION, n. 
1. The act of withdrawing from the public notice and living much at home.
2. The act of taming or reclaiming wild animals.


Topic: Domicil
Definition:
DOMICIL, n. [L., a mansion.] An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or family; a residence, animo manendi.


Topic: Domiciliate
Definition:
DOMICIL, DOMICILIATE, v.t. To establish a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy.


Topic: Domify
Definition:
DOMIFY, v.t. [L., a house; to make.]
1. In astrology, to divide the heavens into twelve houses, in order to erect a theme or horoscope, by means of six great circles, called circles of position.
2. To tame. [Not in use and improper.]


Topic: Dominant
Definition:
DOMINANT, a. [L., to rule; lord, master; a house; to overcome, to subdue.]
1. Ruling; prevailing; governing; predominant; as the dominant party, or faction.
2. In music, the dominant or sensible chord is that which is practiced on the dominant of the tone, and which introduces a perfect cadence. Every perfect major chord becomes a dominant chord, as soon as the seventh minor is added to it.
DOMINANT, n. In music, of the three notes essential to the tone, the dominant is that which is a fifth from the tonic.


Topic: Dominate
Definition:
DOMINATE, v.t. [L. See Dominant.] To rule; to govern; to prevail; to predominate over.
We every where meet the Slavonian nations either dominant or dominated.
DOMINATE, v.i. To predominate. [Little used.]


Topic: Domination
Definition:
DOMINATION, n. [L.]
1. The exercise of power in ruling; dominion; government.
2. Arbitrary authority; tyranny.
3. One highly exalted in power; or the fourth order of angelic beings.
Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.


Topic: Dominator
Definition:
DOMINATOR, n. 
1. A ruler or ruling power; the presiding or predominant power.
Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world.
2. An absolute governor.


Topic: Domineer
Definition:
DOMINEER, v.i. [L. See Dominant.]
1. To rule over with insolence or arbitrary sway.
To domineer over subjects or servants is evidence of a low mind.
2. To bluster; to hector; to swell with conscious superiority, or haughtiness.
Go to the feast, revel and domineer.


Topic: Domineering
Definition:
DOMINEERING, ppr. 
1. Ruling over with insolence; blustering; manifesting haughty superiority.
2. a. Overbearing.


Topic: Dominical
Definition:
DOMINICAL, a. [Low L., lord.]
1. That notes the Lords day or Sabbath. The Dominical letter is the letter which, in almanacks, denotes the sabbath, or dies domini, the Lords day. The first seven letters of the alphabet are used for this purpose.
2. Noting the prayer of our Lord.
DOMINICAL, n. [infra.] The Lords day.


Topic: Dominican
Definition:
DOMINICAN, a. or n. The Dominicans, or Dominican Friars, are an order of religious or monks, called also Jacobins, or Predicants, preaching friars; an order founded about the year 1215.


Topic: Dominion
Definition:
DOMINION, n. [L. See Dominant.]
1. Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling.
The dominion of the Most High is an everlasting dominion. Daniel 4.
2. Power to direct, control, use and dispose of at pleasure; right of possession and use without being accountable; as the private dominion of individuals.
3. Territory under a government; region; country; district governed, or within the limits of the authority of a prince or state; as the British dominions.
4. Government; right of governing. Jamaica is under the dominion of Great Britain.
5. Predominance; ascendant.
6. An order of angels.
Whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. Colossians 1.
7. Persons governed.
Judah was his sanctuary; Israel his dominion. Psalm 114.


Topic: Domite
Definition:
DOMITE, n. A mineral named from Dome in Auvergne, in France, of a white or grayish white color, having the aspect and gritty feel of a sandy chalk.


Topic: Don
Definition:
DON. A title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes. It is commonly supposed to be contracted from dominus, dom, and the Portuguese dono, the master or owner of any thing, gives some countenance to the opinion. It coincides nearly with Heb.: judge, ruler or lord. It was formerly used in England, and writter by Chaucer Dan. [See Spelman.] 
Dona, or duena, the feminine of don, is the title of a lady, in Spain and Portugal.
DON, v.t. [To do on; opposed to doff.] To put on; to invest with.


Topic: Donation
Definition:
DONATION, n. [L., to give.]
1. The act of giving or bestowing; a grant. 
That right we hold by his donation.
2. In law, the act or contract by which a thing or the use of it is transferred to a person, or corporation, as a free gift. To be valid, a donation supposes capacity both in the donor to give and donee to take, and requires consent, acceptance and delivery.
3. That which is given or bestowed; that which is transferred to another gratuitously, or without a valuable consideration; a gift; a grant. Donation is usually applied to things of more value than present.
Mr. Boudinot made a donation of ten thousand dollars to the American Bible Society.


Topic: Donatist
Definition:
DONATIST, n. One of the sect founded by Donatus. They held that theirs was the only pure church, and that baptism and ordination, unless by their church, were invalid.


Topic: Donative
Definition:
DONATIVE, n. [L., to give.]
1. A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present; a dole.
The Romans were entertained with shows and donatives.
2. In the canon law, a benefice given and collated to a person, by the founder or patron, without either presentation, institution or induction by the ordinary.
DONATIVE, a. Vested or vesting by donation; as a donative advowson.


Topic: Done
Definition:
DONE, pp. Dun. [See Do.]
1. Performed; executed; finished.
2. A word by which agreement to a proposal is expressed; as in laying a wager, an offer being made, the person accepting or agreeing says, done; that is, it is agreed, I agree, I accept.


Topic: Donee
Definition:
DONEE, n. [L., to give.]
1. The person to whom a gift or donation is made.
2. The person to whom lands or tenements are given or granted; as a donee in fee-simple or fee-tail.


Topic: Donor
Definition:
DONOR, n. [L., to give.] 
1. One who gives or bestows; one who confers any thing gratuitously; a benefactor.
2. One who grants an estate; as, a conditional fee may revert to the donor, if the donee has no heirs of his body.


Topic: Doom
Definition:
DOOM, v.t. [L., to esteem, and perhaps with the root of condemn. See Deem.]
1. To judge. [Unusual.]
Thou didst not doom so strictly.
2. To condemn to any punishment; to consign by a decree or sentence; as, the criminal is doomed to chains.
3. To pronounce sentence or judgment on.
Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
4. To command authoritatively.
Have I a tongue to doom my brothers death.
5. To destine; to fix irrevocably the fate or direction of; as, we are doomed to suffer for our sins and errors.
6. To condemn, or to punish by a penalty.
DOOM, n. 
1. Judgment; judicial sentence.
To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied.
Hence, the final doom is the last judgment.
2. Condemnation; sentence; decree; determination affecting the fate or future state of another; usually a determination to inflict evil, sometimes otherwise.
Revoke that doom of mercy.
3. That state to which one is doomed, or destined. To suffer misery is the doom of sinners. To toil for subsistence is the doom of most men.
4. Ruin; destruction.
From the same foes, at last, both felt their doom.
5. Discrimination. [Not used.]


Topic: Doomsday
Definition:
DOOMSDAY, n. [doom and day.]
1. The day of the final judgment; the great day when all men are to be judged and consigned to endless happiness or misery.
2. The day of sentence or condemnation.


Topic: Door
Definition:
DOOR, n. [G., Gr.]
1. An opening or passage into a house, or other building, or into any room, apartment or closet, by which persons enter. Such a passage is seldom or never called a gate.
2. The frame of boards, or any piece of board or plank that shuts the opening of a house or closes the entrance into an apartment or any inclosure, and usually turning on hinges.
3. In familiar language, a house; often in the plural, doors. My house is the first door from the corner. We have also the phrases, within doors, in the house; without doors, out of the house, abroad.
4. Entrance; as the door of life.
5. Avenue; passage; means of approach or access. An unforgiving temper shuts the door against reconciliation, or the door of reconciliation.
I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. John 10.
A door was opened to me of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 2.
To lie at the door, in a figurative sense, is to be imputable or chargeable to one. If the thing is wrong, the fault lies at my door.
Next door to, near to; bordering on.
A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult.
Out of door or doors, quite gone; no more to be found. [Not now used.]
In doors, within the house; at home.


Topic: Dor
Definition:
DOR, DORR, n. The name of the black-beetle, or the hedgechafer, a species of Scarabaeus. We usually say, the dor-beetle.


Topic: Dorado
Definition:
DORADO, n. 
1. A southern constellation, containing six stars, called also xiphias; not visible in our latitude.
2. A large fish resembling the dolphin.


Topic: Doree
Definition:
DOREE, n. A fish of the genus Zeus. It is called also faber, and gallus marinus. The body is oval and greatly compressed on the sides; the head is large and the snout long.


Topic: Doric
Definition:
DORIC, a. [from Doris in Greece.] in general, pertaining to Doris, or the Dorians, in Greece, who dwelt near Parnassus. 
In architecture, noting the second order of columns, between the Tuscan and Ionic. The Doric order is distinguished for simplicity and strength. It is used in the gates of cities and citadels, on the outside of churches, &c.
The Doric dialect of the Greek language was the dialect of the Dorians, and little different from that of Lacedemon.
The Doric mode, in music, was the first of the authentic modes of the ancients. Its character is to be severe, tempered with gravity and joy.


Topic: Dormant
Definition:
DORMANT, a. [L., to sleep.]
1. Sleeping; hence, at rest; not in action; as dormant passions.
2. Being in a sleeping posture; as the lion dormant, in heraldry.
3. Neglected; not used; as a dormant title; dormant privileges.
4. Concealed; not divulged; private. [Unusual.]
5. Leaning; inclining; not perpendicular; as a dormant window, supposed to be so called form a beam of that name. This is now written dormer or dormar.
DORMANT, n. A beam; a sleeper.


Topic: Dormar-window
Definition:
DORMAR, DORMAR-WINDOW, n. A window in the roof of a house, or above the entablature, being raised upon the rafters.


Topic: Dormitory
Definition:
DORMITORY, n. [L., to sleep.] 
1. A place, building or room to sleep in.
2. A gallery in convents divided into several cells, where the religious sleep.
3. A burial place.


Topic: Dormouse
Definition:
DORMOUSE, n. Plu. Dormice. [L., to sleep and mouse.] An animal of the mouse kind, which makes a bed of moss or dry leaves, in a hollow tree or under shrubs, lays in a store of nuts or other food, and on the approach of cold weather, rolls itself in a ball and sleeps the greatest part of the winter.


Topic: Dorsal
Definition:
DORSAL, a. [L., the back.] Pertaining to the back; as the dorsal fin of a fish; dorsal awn, in botany.


Topic: Dorsiferous
Definition:
DORSIFEROUS, DORSIPAROUS, a. [L., the back; to bear.] In botany, bearing or producing seeds on the back of their leaves; an epithet given to ferns or plants of the capillary kind without stalks.


Topic: Dose
Definition:
DOSE, n. [Gr., that which is give; to give.]
1. The quantity of medicine give or prescribed to be taken at one time. 
2. Any thing given to be swallowed; any thing nauseous, that one is obliged to take.
3. A quantity; a portion.
4. As much as a man can swallow.
DOSE, v.t. 
1. To proportion a medicine properly to the patient or disease; to form into suitable doses.
2. To give in doses; to give medicine or physic.
3. To give any thing nauseous.


Topic: Dossil
Definition:
DOSSIL, n. In surgery, a pledget or portion of lint made into a cylindric form, or the shape of a date.


Topic: Dot
Definition:
DOT, n. [I know not the origin and affinities of this word. It would be naturally deduced from a verb signifying to set, or to prick, like punctum, point.] A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck; used in marking a writing or other thing.
DOT, v.t. 
1. To mark with dots.
2. To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as a landscape dotted with cottages, or clumps of trees.
DOT, v.i. To make dots or spots.


Topic: Dotage
Definition:
DOTAGE, n. [from dote.] 
1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age, childishness of old age; as a venerable man now in his dotage.
2. A doting; excessive fondness.
3. Deliriousness. [See the verb, to dote.]


Topic: Dotal
Definition:
DOTAL, a. [L., dower.] Pertaining to dower, or a womans marriage portion; constituting dower or comprised in it; as a dotal town.


Topic: Dotard
Definition:
DOTARD, n. [dote and ard, kind.]
1. A man whose intellect is impaired by age; one in his second childhood.
The sickly dotard wants a wife.
2. A doting fellow; one foolishly fond.


Topic: Dotation
Definition:
DOTATION, n. [L., to endow.]
1. The act of endowing, or of bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.
2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support; as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.


Topic: Dote
Definition:
DOTE, v.i. 
1. To be delirious; to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to be silly.
Time has made you dote, and vainly tell of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
2. To be excessively in love; usually with on or upon; to dote on, is to love to excess or extravagance.
What dust we dote on, when tis man we love.
Aholah dotes on her lovers, the Assyrians. Ezekiel 23.
3. To decay.


Topic: Doter
Definition:
DOTER, n. 
1. One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.
2. One who is excessively fond, or weakly in love.


Topic: Dotted
Definition:
DOTTED, pp.
1. Marked with dots or small spots; diversified with small detached objects.
2. In botany, sprinkled with hollow dots or points.


Topic: Dotterel
Definition:
DOTTEREL, n. The name of different species of fowls, of the genus Charadrius and the grallic order; as the Alexandrine dotterel, the ringed dotterel, and the Morinellus; also, the turnstone or sea dotterel, a species of the genus Tringa.


Topic: Double
Definition:
DOUBLE, a. Dubl. [L., Gr. See Two.]
1. Two of a sort together; one corresponding to the other; being in pairs; as double chickens in the same egg; double leaves connected by one petiole.
2. Twice as much; containing the same quantity or length repeated.
Take double money in your hand. Genesis 53.
Let a double portion of thy spirit be on me. 2 Kings 2.
With to; as, the amount is double to what I expected.
3. Having one added to another; as a double chin.
4. Twofold; also, of two kinds.
Darkness and tempest make a double night.
5. Two in number; as double sight or sound. [See No. 1.]
6. Deceitful; acting two parts, one openly, the other in secret.
And with double heart do they speak. Psalm 12.
DOUBLE, adv. Dubl. Twice.
I was double their age.
DOUBLE, in composition, denotes, two ways, or twice the number or quantity.


Topic: Double-banked
Definition:
DOUBLE-BANKED, a. In seamanship, having two opposite oars managed by rowers on the same bench, or having two men to the same oar.


Topic: Double-dealer
Definition:
DOUBLE-DEALER, n. One who acts two different parts, in the same business, or at the same time; a deceitful, trickish person; one who says one thing and thinks or intends another; one guilty of duplicity.


Topic: Double-dealing
Definition:
DOUBLE-DEALING, n. Artifice; duplicity; deceitful practice; the profession of one thing and the practice of another.


Topic: Double-minded
Definition:
DOUBLE-MINDED, a. Having different minds at different times; unsettled; wavering; unstable; undetermined. James 1.


Topic: Double-octave
Definition:
DOUBLE-OCTAVE, n. In muxic, an interval composed of two octaves or fifteen notes in diatonic progression; a fifteenth.


Topic: Double-plea
Definition:
DOUBLE-PLEA, n. In law, a plea in which the defendant alledges two different matters in bar of the action.


Topic: Double-quarrel
Definition:
DOUBLE-QUARREL, n. A complaint of a clerk to the archbishop against an inferior ordinary, for delay of justice.


Topic: Double-tongued
Definition:
DOUBLE-TONGUED, a. Making contrary declarations on the same subject at different times; deceitful.
The deacons must be grave, not double-tongued. 1 Timothy 3.


Topic: Doubled
Definition:
DOUBLED, pp. Folded; increased by adding an equal quantity, sum or value; repeated; turned or passed round.


Topic: Doubler
Definition:
DOUBLER, n. 
1. He that doubles.
2. An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electrometer.


Topic: Doublet
Definition:
DOUBLET, n. 
1. The inner garment of a man; a waistcoat or vest.
2. Two; a pair.
3. Among lapidaries, a counterfeit stone composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color between them, so that they have the same appearance as if the whole substance of the crystal were colored.


Topic: Doublets
Definition:
DOUBLETS, n. 
1. A game on dice within tables.
2. The same number on both dice.
3. A double meaning.


Topic: Doubling
Definition:
DOUBLING, ppr. Making twice the sum, number or quantity; repeating; passing round; turning to escape.
DOUBLING, n. The act of making double; also, a fold; a plait; also, an artifice; a shift.


Topic: Doubly
Definition:
DOUBLY, adv. In twice the quantity; to twice the degree; as doubly wise or good; to be doubly sensible of an obligation.


Topic: Doubt
Definition:
DOUBT, v.i. dout. [L., G.]
1. To waver or fluctuate in opinion; to hesitate; to be in suspense; to be in uncertainty; to be in suspense; to be in uncertainty, respecting the truth or fact; to be undetermined.
Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt and suspend our judgment.
So we say, I doubt whether it is proper; I doubt whether I shall go; sometimes with of, as we doubt of a fact.
2. To fear; to be apprehensive; to suspect.
I doubt theres deep resentment in his mind.
DOUBT, v.t. dout.
1. To question, or hold questionable; to withhold assent from; to hesitate to believe; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
2. To fear; to suspect.
If they turn not back perverse; but that I doubt.
3. To distrust; to withhold confidence from; as, to doubt our ability to execute an office.
Tadmire superior sense, and doubt their own.
4. To fill with fear.
DOUBT, n. Dout.
1. A fluctuation of mind respecting truth or propriety, arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of mind; suspense; unsettled state of opinion; as, to have doubts respecting the theory of the tides.
Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. Genesis 37.
2. Uncertainty of condition.
Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee. Deuteronomy 28.
3. Suspicion; fear; apprehension.
I stand in doubt of you. Galatians 4.
4. Difficulty objected.
To every doubt your answer is the same.
5. Dread; horror and danger.


Topic: Doubtful
Definition:
DOUBTFUL, a. 
1. Dubious; not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating; applied to persons; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure.
2. Dubious; ambiguous; not clear in its meaning; as a doubtful expression.
3. Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear or certain; questionable; not decided; as a doubtful case; a doubtful proposition; it is doubtful what will be the event of the war.
4. Of uncertain issue.
We have sustained one day in doubtful fight.
5. Not secure; suspicious; as, we cast a doubtful eye.
6. Not confident; not without fear; indicating doubt.
With doubtful feet, and wavering resolution.
7. Not certain or defined; as a doubtful hue.


Topic: Doubtfully
Definition:
DOUBTFULLY, adv.
1. In a doubtful manner; dubiously.
2. With doubt; irresolutely.
3. Ambiguously; with uncertainty of meaning.
Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare.
4. In a state of dread.


Topic: Doubtfulness
Definition:
DOUBTFULNESS, n. 
1. A state of doubt of uncertainty of mind; dubiousness; suspense; instability of opinion.
2. Ambiguity; uncertainty of meaning.
3. Uncertainty of event or issue; uncertainty of condition.


Topic: Doubtless
Definition:
DOUBTLESS, a. Free from fear of danger; secure.
Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure.
DOUBTLESS, adv. Without doubt or question; unquestionably.
The histories of Christ by the evangelists are doubtless authentic.


Topic: Doucine
Definition:
DOUCINE, n. A molding concave above the convex below, serving as a cymatium to a delicate cornice; a gula.


Topic: Dough
Definition:
DOUGH, n. Do. [G.] Paste of bread; a mass composed of flour or meal moistened and kneaded, but not baked.
My cake is dough, that is, by undertaking has not come to maturity.


Topic: Dough-nut
Definition:
DOUGH-NUT, n. [dough and nut.] A small roundish cake, made of flour, eggs and sugar, moistened with milk and boiled in lard.


Topic: Doughty
Definition:
DOUGHTY, a. Douty. [G., L. See Decent.] Brave; valiant; eminent; noble; illustrious; as a doughty hero. It is now seldom used except in irony or burlesque.


Topic: Douse
Definition:
DOUSE, v.t. [Gr.]
1. To thrust or plunge into water.
2. In seamens language, to strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly. Douse the top-sail.
DOUSE, v.i. To fall suddenly into water.


Topic: Dove
Definition:
DOVE, n. [G.]
1. The oenas, or domestic pigeon, a species of Columba. Its color is a deep bluish ash color; the breast is dashed with a fine changeable green and purple; the sides of the neck, with a copper color. In a wild state, it builds its nest in holes of rocks or in hollow trees, but it is easily domesticated, and forms one of the luxuries of the table.
2. A word of endearment, or an emblem of innocence. Cant. 2:14.


Topic: Dove-tail
Definition:
DOVE-TAIL, n. In carpentry, the manner of fastening boards and timbers together by letting one piece into another in the form of a doves tail spread, or wedge reversed, so that it cannot be drawn out. This is the strongest of all the fastenings or jointings.
DOVE-TAIL, v.t. To unite by a tenon in form of a pigeons tail spread, let into a board or timber.


Topic: Dowager
Definition:
DOWAGER, n. A widow with a jointure; a title particularly given to the widows of princes and persons of rank. The widow of a king is called queen dowager.


Topic: Dower
Definition:
DOWER, n. [Gr., a gift; to give. L.]
1. That portion of the lands or tenements of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, after the death of her husband. [This is the usual present signification of the word.]
2. The property which a woman brings to her husband in marriage.
3. The gift of a husband for a wife.
Ask me never so much dowry and gift. Genesis 34.
4. Endowment; gift.
How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower.


Topic: Down
Definition:
DOWN, n. 
1. The fine soft feathers of fowls, particularly of the duck kind. The eider duck yields the best kind. Also, fine hair; as the down of the chin.
2. The pubescence of plants, a fine hairy substance.
3. The pappus or little crown of certain seeds of plants; a fine feathery or hairy substance by which seeds are conveyed to distance by the wind; as in dandelion and thistle.
4. Any thing that soothes or mollifies.
Thou bosom softness; down of all my cares.
DOWN, n. [G.]
1. A bank or elevation of sand, thrown up by the sea.
2. A large open plain, primarily on elevated land. Sheep feeding on the downs.
DOWN, prep.
1. Along a descent; from a higher to a lower place; as, to run down a hill; to fall down a precipice; to go down the stairs.
2. Toward the mouth of a river, or toward the place where water is discharged into the ocean or a lake. We sail or swim down a stream; we sail down the sound from New York to New London. Hence figuratively, we pass down the current of life or of time.
Down the sound, in the direction of the ebb-tide towards of the sea.
Down the country, towards the sea, or towards the part where rivers discharge their waters into the ocean.
DOWN, adv. 
1. In a descending direction; tending from a higher to a lower place; as, he is going down.
2. On the ground, or at the bottom; as, he is down; hold him down.
3. Below the horizon; as, the sun is down.
4. In the direction from a higher to a lower condition; as, his reputation is going down.
5. Into disrepute or disgrace. A man may sometimes preach down error; he may write down himself or his character, or run down his rival; but he can neither preach nor write down folly, vice or fashion.
6. Into subjection; into a due consistence; as, to boil down, in decoctions and culinary processes.
7. At length; extended or prostrate, on the ground or on any flat surface; as, to lie down; he is lying down.
Up and down, here and there; in a rambling course.
It is sometimes used without a verb, as down, down; in which cases, the sense is known by the construction.
Down with a building, is a command to pull it down, to demolish it.
Down with him, signifies, throw him.
Down, down, may signify, come down, or go down, or take down, lower.
It is often used by seamen, down with the fore sail, &c.
Locke uses it for go down, or be received; as, any kind of food will down; but the use is not elegant, nor legitimate.
Sidney uses it as a verb, To down proud hearts, to subdue or conquer them; but the use is not legitimate.


Topic: Down-haul
Definition:
DOWN-HAUL, n. In seamens language, a rope passing along a stay, through the cringles of the stay-sail or jib, and made fast to the upper corner of the sail, to haul it down.


Topic: Down-sitting
Definition:
DOWN-SITTING, n. The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
Thou knowest my down-sitting and my uprising. Psalm 139.


Topic: Downcast
Definition:
DOWNCAST, a. Cast downward; directed to the ground; as a downcast eye or look, indicating bashfulness, modesty or dejection of mind.
DOWNCAST, n. Sadness; melancholy look.


Topic: Downfall
Definition:
DOWNFALL, n. 
1. A falling, or body of things falling; as the downfall of a flood.
2. Ruin; destruction; a sudden fall; or ruin by violence, in distinction from slow decay or declension; as the downfall of the Roman empire, occasioned by the conquests of the Northern nations; the downfall of a city.
3. The sudden fall, depression or ruin of reputation or estate. We speak of the downfall of pride or glory, and of distinguished characters.


Topic: Downhill
Definition:
DOWNHILL, n. Declivity; descent; slope. 
And though tis downhill all.
DOWNHILL, a. Declivous; descending; sloping.
A downhill greensward.


Topic: Downlying
Definition:
DOWNLYING, n. The time of retiring to rest; time of repose.
DOWNLYING, a. About to be in travel of childbirth.


Topic: Downright
Definition:
DOWNRIGHT, adv. 
1. Right down; straight down; perpendicularly.
A giant cleft downright.
2. In plain terms; without ceremony or circumlocution.
We shall chide downright.
3. Completely; without stopping short; as, she fell downright into a fit.
DOWNRIGHT, a. 
1. Directly to the point; plain; open; artless; undisguised; as downright madness; downright nonsense; downright wisdom; downright falsehood; downright atheism.
2. Plain; artless; unceremonious; blunt; as, he spoke in his downright way.


Topic: Downward
Definition:
DOWNWARD, DOWNWARDS, adv. [See Ward.]
1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course, whether directly toward the center of the earth, or not; as, to tend downward; to move or roll downwards; to look downward; to take root downwards.
2. In a course or direction from a head, spring, origin or source. Water flows downward toward the sea; we sailed downward on the stream.
3. In a course of lineal descent from an ancestor, considered as a head; as, to trace successive generations downward from Adam or Abraham.
4. In the course of falling or descending from elevation or distinction.


Topic: Downy
Definition:
DOWNY, a. [See Down.] 
1. Covered with down or nap; as a downy feather; downy wings.
2. Covered with pubescence or soft hairs, as a plant.
3. Made of down or soft feathers; as a downy pillow.
4. Soft, calm, soothing; as downy sleep.
5. Resembling down.


Topic: Dowry
Definition:
DOWRY, n. [See Dower. This word differs not from dower. It is the same word differently written, and the distinction made between them is arbitrary.]
1. The money, goods or estate which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; the portion given with a wife.
2. The reward paid for a wife.
3. A gift; a fortune, given.


Topic: Doxology
Definition:
DOXOLOGY, n. [Gr., praise, glory; to speak.] In Christian worship, a hymn in praise of the Almighty; a particular form of giving glory to God.


Topic: Doze
Definition:
DOZE, v.i. [See Dote.]
1. To slumber; to sleep lightly.
If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
2. To live in a state of drowsiness; to be dull or half asleep; as, to doze away the time; to doze over a work.
DOZE, v.t. To make dull; to stupify. Dryden uses the participle dozed, Dozed with his fumes; but the transitive verb is seldom or never used.


Topic: Dozen
Definition:
DOZEN, a. Duzn. [G.] Twelve in number, applied to things of the same kind, but rarely or never to that number in the abstract.  We say, a dozen men; a dozen pair of gloves. It is a word much used in common discourse and in light compositions; rarely in the grave or elevated style.
DOZEN, n. The number twelve of things of a like kind; as a dozen of eggs; twelve dozen of gloves; a dozen of wine.


Topic: Drab
Definition:
DRAB, n. 
1. A strumpet; a prostitute.
2. A low, sluttish woman. [This seems to be the sense in which it is generally used in New England.]
3. A kind of wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans. Its bottom is shelving or inclining that the water may drain off.
DRAB, n. [L.] A kind of thick woolen cloth.
DRAB, a. Being of a dun color, like the cloth so called.
DRAB, v.i. To associate with strumpets.


Topic: Drabble
Definition:
DRABBLE, v.t. To draggle; to make dirty by drawing in mud and water; to wet and befoul; as, to drabble a gown or cloke. In scottish, this word signifies to dirty by slabbering, as if it were allied to dribble, drivel, from the root of drip, which coincides with drop.
DRABBLE, v.i. To fish for barbels with a long line and rod.


Topic: Drabbling
Definition:
DRABBLING, a. Drawing in mud or water; angling for barbels.
DRABBLING, n. A method of angling for barbels with a rod and a long line passed through a piece of lead.


Topic: Drabler
Definition:
DRABLER, n. In seamens language, a small additional sail, sometimes laced to the bottom of a bonnet on a square sail, in sloops and schooners. It is the same to a bonnet, as a bonnet is to a course.


Topic: Drachma
Definition:
DRACHMA, n. [L., Gr.]
1. A Grecian coin. Of the value of seven pence, three farthings, sterling, or nearly fourteen cents.
2. The eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains, or three scruples; a weight used by apothecaries, but usually written dram.


Topic: Draco
Definition:
DRACO, n. [See Dragon.]
1. In astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, containing according to Flamstead, eighty stars.
2. A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.
3. A genus of animals of two species. [See Dragon.]


Topic: Dracontic
Definition:
DRACONTIC, a. [L.] In astronomy, belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one entire revolution.


Topic: Dracunculus
Definition:
DRACUNCULUS, n. [L.]
1. In botany, a plant, a species of Arum, with a long stalk, spotted like a serpents belly.
2. In medicine, a long slender worm, bred in the muscular parts of the arms and legs called Guinea worm. These are troublesome in tropical climates, and are usually extirpated by the point of a needle.


Topic: Draft
Definition:
DRAFT, n. [corrupted from draught, from drag, draw, but authorized by respectable use.]
1. A drawing; as, this horse is good for draft. In this sense, draught is perhaps most  common.
2. A drawing of men from a military band; a selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or any part of it, or from a military post. Sometimes a drawing of men from other companies or societies.
Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year.
These important posts, in consequence of heavy drafts, were left weakly defended.
3. An order from one man to another directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.
I thought it most prudent to defer the drafts, till advice was received of the progress of the loan.
4. A drawing of lines for a plan; a figure described on paper; delineation; sketch; plan delineated. [See Draught.]
5. Depth of water necessary to float a ship. [See Draught.]
6. A writing composed.
DRAFT, v.t. 
1. To draw the outline; to delineate.
2. To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial or a lease.
3. To draw men from a military band or post; to select; to detach.
4. To draw men from any company, collection or society.
This Cohen-Caph-El was some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples.


Topic: Drag
Definition:
DRAG, v.t. [G., L. See Drink and Drench.]
1. To pull; to haul; to draw along the ground by main force; applied particularly to drawing heavy things with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing. John 21:8.
2. To break land by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; a common use of this word in New England.
3. To draw along slowly or heavily; to draw any thing burdensome; as, to drag a lingering life.
4. To draw along in contempt, as unworthy to be carried.
He drags me at his chariot-wheels.
To drag one in chains.
5. To pull or haul about roughly and forcibly.
In seamens language, to drag an anchor, is to draw or trail it along the bottom when loosened, or when the anchor will not hold the ship.
DRAG, v.i. 
1. To hang so low as to trail on the ground.
2. To fish with a drag; as, they have been dragging for fish all day, with little success.
3. To be drawn along; as, the anchor drags.
4. To be moved slowly; to proceed heavily; as, this business drags.
5. To hang or grate on the floor, as a door.
DRAG, n. 
1. Something to be drawn along the ground, as a net or a hook.
2. A particular kind of harrow.
3. A car; a low cart.
4. In sea-language, a machine consisting of a sharp square frame of iron, encircled with a net, used to take the wheel off from the platform or bottom of the decks.
5. Whatever is drawn; a boat in tow; whatever serves to retard a ships way.


Topic: Dragged
Definition:
DRAGGED, pp.  Drawn on the ground; drawn with labor or force; drawn along slowly and heavily; raked with a drag or harrow.


Topic: Dragging
Definition:
DRAGGING, ppr. Drawing on the ground; drawing with labor or by force; drawing slowly or heavily; raking with a drag.


Topic: Draggle
Definition:
DRAGGLE, v.t. To wet and dirty by drawing on the ground or mud, or on wet grass; to drabble.
DRAGGLE, v.i. To be drawn on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being drawn on the mud or wet grass.


Topic: Dragoman
Definition:
DRAGOMAN, DROGMAN, n. An interpreter; a term in general use in the Levant and other parts of the East.


Topic: Dragon
Definition:
DRAGON, n. [L., Gr., G.]
1. A kind of winged serpent, much celebrated in the romances of the middle ages.
2. A fiery, shooting meteor, or imaginary serpent.
Swift, swift, ye dragons of the night! That dawning may bear the ravens eye.
3. A fierce, violent person, male or female; as, this man or woman is a dragon.
4. A constellation of the northern hemisphere. [See Draco.]
In Scripture, dragon seems sometimes to signify a large marine fish or serpent, Isaiah 27. Where the leviathan is also mentioned; also Psalm 74.
Sometimes it seems to signify a venomous land serpent. Psalm 91. The dragon shalt thou trample under foot.
It is often used for the devil, who is called the old serpent. Revelations 20:2.
DRAGON, n. A genus of animals, the Draco. They have four legs, a cylindrical tail, and membranaceous wings, radiated like the fins of a flying-fish.


Topic: Dragon-fish
Definition:
DRAGON-FISH, n. A species of Trachinus, called the weaver. This fish is about twelve inches in length; it has two or three longitudinal lines of a dirty yellow on the sides, and the belly of a silvery hue. The wounds of its spines occasion inflammation. It buries itself int he sand, except its nose.


Topic: Dragon-fly
Definition:
DRAGON-FLY, n. A genus of insects, the Libella or Libellula, having four extended wings; they are furnished with jaws; the antennae are shorter than the thorax; and the tail of the male is terminated by a kind of hooked forceps. There are many species, with a great diversity of colors.


Topic: Dragon-shell
Definition:
DRAGON-SHELL, n. A species of concamerated patella or limpet.  The top is much curved, and of an ash-color on the outside, but internally, of a bright flesh color. It is found adhering to larger shells, or to the back of the tortoise, as common limpets do to the sides of rocks.


Topic: Dragonet
Definition:
DRAGONET, n. 
1. A little dragon.
2. A fish with a slender round body, colored with yellow, blue and white; the head is large and depressed at the top and has two orifices, through which it breathes and ejects water, like the cetaceous tribe.


Topic: Dragons-blood
Definition:
DRAGONS-BLOOD, n. A resinous substance, or red juice, extracted from the Dracaena draco, and other trees of a similar nature. It comes from the East Indies, in small flat cakes or round balls, or in oval drops, wrapped in leaves, and knotted like a chaplet. It has no sensible smell or taste. It has been considered as an astringent medicine, but is now little used for medicinal purposes. A solution of it in spirit of wine is used for staining marble, to which it gives a red tinge.


Topic: Dragons-head
Definition:
DRAGONS-HEAD, n. A genus of plants, the Dracocephalum, of many species, most of them herbaceous, annual or perennial plants. 
Dragons Head and Tail, in astronomy, are the nodes of the planets, or the two points in which the orbits of the planets intersect the ecliptic.


Topic: Dragoon
Definition:
DRAGOON, n. [G., L, an ensign bearer; dragon; an appellation given to horsemen, perhaps for their rapidity or fierceness.] A soldier or musketeer who serves on horseback or on foot, as occasion may require. Their arms are a sword, a musket and a bayonet.
DRAGOON, v.t. 
1. To persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
2. To enslave or reduce to subjection by soldiers.
3. To harass; to persecute; to compel to submit by violent measures; to force. [This is the more usual sense.] 
The colonies may be influenced to any thing, but they can de dragooned to nothing.


Topic: Drain
Definition:
DRAIN, v.t. 
1. To filter; to cause to pass through some porous substance.
Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.
2. To empty or clear of liquor, by causing the liquor to drop or run off slowly; as, to drain a vessel or its contents.
3. To make dry; to exhaust of water or other liquor, by causing it to flow off in channels, or through porous substances; as, to drain land; to drain a swamp or marsh.
4. To empty; to exhaust; to draw off gradually; as, a foreign war drains a country of specie.
DRAIN, v.i. 
1. To flow off gradually; as, let the water of low ground drain off.
2. To be emptied of liquor, by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain; let the cloth hand and drain.
DRAIN, n. A channel through which water or other liquid flows off; particularly, a trench or ditch to convey water from wet land; a watercourse; a sewer; a sink.


Topic: Drained
Definition:
DRAINED, pp. Emptied of water or other liquor by a gradual discharge, flowing or dropping; exhausted; drawn off.


Topic: Drake
Definition:
DRAKE, n. [G., L, a duck.]
1. The male of the duck kind.
2. [L., dragon.] A small piece of artillery.
3. The drake-fly.


Topic: Dram
Definition:
DRAM, n. [contracted from drachma, which see.]
1. Among druggists and physicians, a weight of the eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains. In avoirdupois weight, the sixteenth part of an ounce.
2. A small quantity; as no dram of judgment.
3. As much spirituous liquor as is drank at once; as a dram of brandy. Drams are the slow poison of life.
4. Spirit; distilled liquor.
DRAM, v.i. To drink drams; to indulge in the use of ardent spirit. [ A low word expressing a low practice.]


Topic: Drama
Definition:
DRAMA, n. [Gr., to make.] A poem or composition representing a picture of human life, and accommodated to action. The principal species of the drama are tragedy and comedy; inferior species are tragi-comedy, opera, &c.


Topic: Dramatize
Definition:
DRAMATIZE, v.t. To compose in the form of the drama; or to give to a composition the form of a play.
At Riga in 1204 was acted a prophetic play, that is, a dramatized extract from the history of the Old and New Testaments.


Topic: Drapery
Definition:
DRAPERY, n. 
1. Clothwork; the trade of making cloth.
2. Cloth; stuffs of wool.
3. In sculpture and painting, the representation of the clothing or dress of human figures; also, tapestry, hangings, curtains, &c.


Topic: Drastic
Definition:
DRASTIC, a. [Gr., to make.] Powerful; acting with strength or violence; efficacious; as a drastic cathartic.


Topic: Draught
Definition:
DRAUGHT, n. Draft. [from draw, drag.]
1. The act of drawing; as a horse or ox fit for draught.
2. The quality of being drawn; as a cart of plow of easy draught.
3. The drawing of liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
4. The quantity of liquor drank at once.
5. The act of delineating, or that which is delineated; a representation by lines, as the figure of a house, a machine, a fort, &c., described on paper.
6. Representation by picture; figure painted, or drawn by the pencil.
7. The act of drawing a net; a sweeping for fish.
8. That which is taken by sweeping with a net; as a draught of fishes. Luke 5.
9. The drawing or bending of a bow; the act of shooting with a bow and arrow.
10. The act of drawing men from a military band, army or post; also, the forces drawn; a detachment. [See Draft, which is more generally used.]
11. A sink or drain. Matthew 15.
12. An order for the payment of money; a bill of exchange. [See Draft.]
13. The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as a ship of twelve feet draught.
14. In England, a small allowance on weighable goods, made by the king to the importer, or by the seller to the buyer, to insure full weight.
15. A sudden attack or drawing on an enemy. [Query.]
16. A writing composed.
17. Draughts, a kind of game resembling chess.
DRAUGHT, v.t. To draw out; to call forth. [See Draft.]


Topic: Draught-hooks
Definition:
DRAUGHT-HOOKS, n. Large hooks of iron fixed on the cheeks of a cannon carriage, two on each side, one near the trunnion hole, and the other at the train; used in drawing the gun backwards and forwards by means of draught ropes.


Topic: Draught-horse
Definition:
DRAUGHT-HORSE, n. A horse used in drawing a plow, cart or other carriage, as distinguished from a saddle horse.


Topic: Draughtsman
Definition:
DRAUGHTSMAN, n. 
1. A man who draws writings or designs or one who is skilled in such drawings.
2. One who drinks drams; a tippler.


Topic: Draw
Definition:
DRAW, v.t. pret. drew; pp. drawn. [L. It is only a dialectical spelling of drag, which see.]
1. To pull along; to haul; to cause to move forward by force applied in advance of the thing moved or at the fore-end, as by a rope or chain. It differs from drag only in this, that drag is more generally applied to things moved along the ground by sliding, or moved with greater toil or difficulty, and draw is applied to all bodies moved by force in advance, whatever may be the degree of force. Draw is the more general or generic term, and drag, more specific. We say, the horses draw a coach or wagon, but they drag it through mire; yet draw is properly used in both cases.
2. To pull out, as to draw a sword or dagger from its sheath; to unsheathe. Hence, to draw the sword, is to wage war.
3. To bring by compulsion; to cause to come.
Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seat? James 2.
4. To pull up or out; to raise from any depth; as, to draw water from a well.
5. To suck; as, to draw the breasts.
6. To attract; to cause to move or tend towards itself; as a magnet or other attracting body is said to draw it.
7. To attract; to cause to turn towards itself; to engage; as, a beauty or a popular speaker draws the eyes of an assembly, or draws their attention.
8. To inhale; to take air into the lungs; as, there I first drew air; I draw the sultry air.
9. To pull or take from a spit, as a piece of meat.
10. To take from a cask or vat; to cause or to suffer a liquid to run out; a, to draw wine or cider.
11. To take a liquid form the body; to let out; as, to draw blood or water.
12. To take from an over; as, to draw bread.
13. To cause to slide; as a curtain, either in closing or unclosing; to open or unclose and discover, or to close and conceal. To draw the curtain is used in both sense.
14. To extract; as, to draw spirit from grain or juice.
15. To produce; to bring, as an agent or efficient cause; usually followed by a modifying word; as, piety draws down blessings; crimes draw down vengeance; vice draws on us many temporal evils; war draws after it a train of calamities.
16. To move gradually or slowly; to extend.
They drew themselves more westerly.
17. To lengthen; to extend in length.
How long her face is drawn. 
In some similes, men draw their comparisons into minute particulars of no importance.
18. To utter in a lingering manner; as, to draw a groan.
19. To run or extend, by marking or forming; as, to draw a line on paper, or a line of circumvallation. Hence,
20. To represent by lines drawn on a plain surface; to form a picture or image; as, to draw the figure of man; to draw the face. Hence,
21. To describe; to represent by words; as, the orator drew an admirable picture of human misery.
22. To represent in fancy; to image in the mind.
23. To derive; to have or receive from some source, cause or donor; as, to draw the rudiments of science from a civilized nation; to draw consolation from divine promises.
24. To deduce; as, to draw arguments from facts, or inferences from circumstantial evidence.
25. To allure; to entice; to lead by persuasion or moral influence; to excite to motion.
Draw me; we will run after thee. Cant. 1.
Men shall arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Acts 20.
26. To lead, as a motive; to induce to move.
My purposes do draw me much about.
27. To induce; to persuade; to attract towards; in a very general sense.
28. To win; to gain; a metaphor from gaming.
29. To receive or take, as from a fund; as, to draw money from a bank or from stock in trade.
30. To bear; to produce; as, a bond or note draws interest from its date.
31. To extort; to force out; as, his eloquence drew tears from the audience; to draw sighs or groans.
32. To wrest; to distort; as, to draw the scriptures to ones fancy.
33. To compose; to write in due form; to form in writing; as, to draw a bill of exchange; to draw a deed or will.
34. To take out of a box or wheel, as tickets in a lottery. We say, to draw a lottery, or to draw a number in the lottery.
35. To receive or gain by drawing; as, to draw a prize. We say also, a number draws a prize or a blank, when it is drawn at the same time.
36. To extend; to stretch; as, to draw wine; to draw a piece of metal by beating, &c.
37. To sink into the water; or to require a certain depth of water for floating; as, a ship draws fifteen feet of water.
38. To bend; as, to draw the bow. Isaiah 66.
39. To eviscerate; to pull out the bowels; as, to draw poultry.
40. To withdraw. [Not used.]
To draw back, to receive back, as duties on goods for exportation.
To draw in, 
1. To collect; to apply to any purpose by violence.
A dispute, in which every thing is drawn in, to give color to the argument.
2. To contract; to pull to a smaller compass; to pull back; as, to draw int he reins.
3. To entice, allure or inveigle; as, to draw in others to support a measure.
To draw off, 
1. To draw form or away; also, to withdraw; to abstract; as, to draw off the mind from vain amusements.
2. To draw or take from; to cause to flow from; as, to draw off wine or cider from a vessel.
3. To extract by distillation.
To draw on,
1. To allure; to entice; to persuade or cause to follow.
The reluctant may be drawn on by kindness or caresses.
2. To occasion; to invite; to bring on; to cause.
Under color of war, which either his negligence drew on, or his practices procured, he levied a subsidy.
To draw over, 
1. To raise, or cause to come over, as in a still.
2. To persuade or induce to revolt from an opposing party, and to join ones own party. Some men may be drawn over by interest; others by fear.
To draw out,
1. To lengthen; to stretch by force; to extend.
2. To beat or hammer out; to extend or spread by beating, as a metal.
3. To lengthen in time; to protract; to cause to continue.
Thy unkindness shall his death draw out to lingering sufferance.
Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? Psalm 84.
4. To cause to issue forth; to draw off; as liquor from a cask.
5. To extract, as the spirit of a substance.
6. To bring forth; to pump out, by questioning or address; to cause to be declared, or brought to light; as, to draw out facts from a witness.
7. To induce by motive; to call forth.
This was an artifice to draw out from us an accusation.
8. To detach; to separate from the main body; as, to draw out a file or part of men.
9. To range in battle; to array in a line.
To draw together, to collect or be collected.
To draw up, 
1. To raise; to lift; to elevate.
2. To form in order of battle; to array.
3. To compose in due form, as a writing; to form in writing; as, to draw up a deed; to draw up a paper.
In this use, it is often more elegant to omit the modifying word. [See No. 33.]
DRAW, v.i. 
1. To pull; to exert strength in drawing. We say, a horse or an ox draws well.
2. To act as a weight.
Watch the bias of the mind, that it may not draw too much.
3. To shrink; to contract into a smaller compass.
4. To move; to advance. The day draws towards evening.
5. To be filled or inflated with wind, so as to press on and advance a ship in her course; as, the sails draw.
6. To unsheathe a sword. His love drew to defend him. In this phrase, sword is understood.
7. To use or practice the art of delineating figures; as, he draws with exactness.
8. To collect the matter of an ulcer or abscess; to cause to suppurate; to excite to inflammation, maturation and discharge; as, an epispastic draws well.
To draw back, 
1. To retire; to move back; to withdraw.
2. To renounce the faith; to apostatize. Hebrews 10.
To draw near or nigh, to approach; to come near.
To draw off, to retire; to retreat; as, the company drew off by degrees.
To draw on, 
1. To advance; to approach; as, the day draws on.
2. To gain on; to approach in pursuit; as, the ship drew on the chase.
3. To demand payment by an order or bill, called a draught.
He drew on his factor for the amount of the shipment.
You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey.
To draw up, to form in regular order; as, the troops drew up in front of the palace; the fleet drew up in a semicircle.
Draw, in most of its uses, retains some shade of its original sense, to pull, to move forward by the application of force in advance, or to extend in length. And Johnson justly observes, that it expresses an action gradual or continuous, and leisurely. We pour liquor quick, but we draw it in a continued stream. We force compliance by threats, but we draw it by gradual prevalence. We write a letter with haste, but we draw a bill with slow caution, and regard to a precise form. We draw a bar of metal by continued beating.
DRAW, n. 
1. The act of drawing.
2. The lot or chance drawn.


