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D.
2. A small mass of anything soft or moist.
Sometimes improperly used for dabbler; as, "I am but a dabster with gentle art."
Dac"tyl*et (?), n. [Dactyl + &?;et.] A dactyl. [Obs.]
2. pl. Dactylic meters.
2. Crafty; deceitful. [R.] Keats.
Daff (?), v. t. [Cf. Doff.] To cast aside; to put off; to doff. [Obs.]
Tennyson
Let us think no more of this daft business
2. Gay; playful; frolicsome. [Scot.] Jamieson.
2. A large pistol formerly used. [Obs.]
3. (Zoöl.) The unbranched antler of a young deer.
2. To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment. [Obs.] Wright.
Dag, v. i. To be misty; to drizzle. [Prov. Eng.]
Dag"ger, v. t. To pierce with a dagger; to stab. [Obs.]
1 Sam. v. 2.
2. The process of taking such pictures.
2. To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.
Dai"li*ness (?), n. Daily occurence. [R.]
The daintiness and niceness of our captains
I ne told no deyntee of her love.
2. That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.
3. A term of fondness. [Poetic] B. Jonson.
2. Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
To make dainty, to assume or affect delicacy or fastidiousness. [Obs.]
3. A dairy farm. [R.]
3. A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity. [Obs.] Shiply.
2. A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. Knight.
2. Delay or procrastination. Shak.
3. Entertaining discourse. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.
2. A king or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
2. To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
2. Hurtful; pernicious. [R.]
5. A deep pink or rose color. Fairfax.
2. Having the color of the damask rose.
3. A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.
4. A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Odious; pernicious; detestable.
2. Odiously; detestably; excessively. [Low]
3. A sin deserving of everlasting punishment. [R.]
2. Hateful; detestable; abominable.
2. Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
3. (Mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.
2. Dejected; depressed; sunk. [R.]
2. To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
2. Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful. [Obs.] "Dispel dampy throughts." Haywards.
2. A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.
3. (Milling) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
2. Anger or vexation; rage. [Low] Halliwell.
2. A small coin.
2. To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.
3. To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle. [Obs.]
3. A dandy roller. See below.
Dang (?), imp. of Ding. [Obs.]
Dang, v. t. [Cf. Ding.] To dash. [Obs.]
3. Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
4. Difficulty; sparingness. [Obs.] Chaucer.
5. Coyness; disdainful behavior. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Dan"ger*less, a. Free from danger. [R.]
2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
4. Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.]
5. Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] "Of his speech dangerous." Chaucer.
Dank, n. Moisture; humidity; water. [Obs.]
Dansk (?), a. [Dan.] Danish. [Obs.]
Dansk"er (?), n. A Dane. [Obs.]
2. (Myth.) A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.
Dap"per*ling (?), n. A dwarf; a dandiprat. [r.]
Dar"bies (?), n. pl. Manacles; handcuffs. [Cant]
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.
2. To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
Dare, n. 1. The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash. [R.]
2. Defiance; challenge.
Dare, v. t. To terrify; to daunt. [Obs.]
2. Any very pure gold coin.
5. Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.
6. Deprived of sight; blind. [Obs.]
2. The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
2. To render dim; to deprive of vision.
3. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
4. To cast a gloom upon.
5. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
Dark"ful (?), a. Full of darkness. [Obs.]
Dark"ling (?), adv. [Dark + the adverbial suffix -ling.] In the dark. [Poetic]
2. Dark; gloomy. "The darkling precipice." Moore.
2. With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.
2. A state of privacy; secrecy.
5. A state of distress or trouble.
Dark"some (?), a. Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless. [Poetic]
Dark"y (?), n. A negro. [Sleng]
2 Sa. xviii. 14.
2. Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.
3. A spear set as a prize in running. [Obs.] Chaucer.
4. (Zoöl.) A fish; the dace. See Dace.
3. To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress. South.
2. A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash.
5. Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.
2. A dashboard or splashboard. [U. S.]
3. One who makes an ostentatious parade. [Low]
Dash"ing*ly, adv. Conspicuously; showily. [Colloq.]
V. Knox.
2. The office or employment of a datary.
3. Assigned end; conclusion. [R.]
4. Given or assigned length of life; dyration. [Obs.]
M. Arnold.
Da"tive*ly, adv. As a gift. [R.]
2. To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
I. Watts.
3. To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
4. To flatter excessively or glossy. [R.]
5. To put on without taste; to deck gaudily. [R.]
2. (Paint.) A picture coarsely executed.
3. A low and gross flatterer.
4. (Zoöl.) The mud wasp; the mud dauber.
Daub"y (?), a. Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive. "Dauby wax."
2. A female descendant; a woman.
3. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.
4. A term of address indicating parental interest.
Daw, v. t. [Contr. fr. Adaw.] 1. To rouse. [Obs.]
2. To daunt; to terrify. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Jowett (Thucyd. )
2. pl. The eyes. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
Day"maid` (-md`), n. A dairymaid. [Obs.]
2 Peter i. 19.
2. The sun, as the orb of day. [Poetic]
Day"wom`an (-wm`an), n. A dairymaid. [Obs.]
Daze, n. 1. The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze. [Colloq.]
2. (Mining) A glittering stone.
2. To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
2. The chairman of an incorporated company. [Scot.]
2. Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
5. So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
9. Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
I had them a dead bargain.
I deme thee, thou must algate be dead.
I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.
2. One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
Dead, v. t. To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor. [Obs.]
Dead, v. i. To die; to lose life or force. [Obs.]
Dead` beat" (?). See Beat, n., 7. [Low, U.S.]
3. To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
2. (Naut.) A buoy. See under Dead, a.
Dead"li*hood (?), n. State of the dead. [Obs.]
3. Subject to death; mortal. [Obs.]
2. In a manner to occasion death; mortally.
3. In an implacable manner; destructively.
2. Dead trees or branches; useless material.
3. Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.
4. Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. [R.]
M. Arnold.
2. The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed.
3. Distribution; apportionment. [Colloq.]
6. Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.
2. One who distributes cards to the players.
Dealth (?), n. Share dealt. [Obs.]
2. The residence of a dean. Shak.
3. The territorial jurisdiction of a dean.
I dont't value your deanship a straw.
2. Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.
Deare (?), variant of Dere, v. t. & n. [Obs.]
2. At a high rate or price; grievously.
3. Exquisitely. [Obs.] Shak.
Dearn, v. t. Same as Darn. [Obs.]
2. Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.
Dear"y (?), n. A dear; a darling. [Familiar]
De"as (?), n. See Dais. [Scot.]
2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
4. Cause of loss of life.
6. Danger of death. "In deaths oft." 2 Cor. xi. 23.
7. Murder; murderous character.
8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life.
9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
2. Liable to undergo death; mortal.
2. Deadly. [Obs.] "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth.
I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat.
2. The guard set over a criminal before his execution.
De`au*ra"tion (?), n. Act of gilding. [Obs.]
Deave (?), v. t. [See Deafen.] To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen. [Scot.]
3. Subject of discussion. [R.]
De*bate"ful*ly, adv. With contention. [Obs.]
2. An act or occasion of debauchery.
De*bauch"ness, n. Debauchedness. [Obs.]
De*bosh"ment (?), n. Debauchment. [Obs.]
Debt"ed, p. a. Indebted; obliged to. [R.]
I stand debted to this gentleman.
De*bul"li*ate (?), v. i. [Pref. dé- + L. bullire to boil.] To boil over. [Obs.]
2. Something consisting of ten parts. W. Watson.
2. Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; -- generally used disparagingly.
De*can"tate (?), v. t. To decant. [Obs.]
2. One who decants liquors.
2. To remove summarily from office. [Colloq. U. S.]
De*card" (?), v. t. To discard. [Obs.]
De*cay", v. t. 1. To cause to decay; to impair. [R.]
2. To destroy. [Obs.] Shak.
2. Destruction; death. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. Cause of decay. [R.]
De*cay"er (?), n. A causer of decay. [R.]
2. The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices.
De*ceiv"a*ble (?), a. [F. décevable.] 1. Fitted to deceive; deceitful. [Obs.]
2. Subject to deceit; capable of being misled.
2 Thess. ii. 10.
2. Liability to be deceived or misled; as, the deceivableness of a child.
2 Tim. iii. 13.
3. To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud. [Obs.]
2. (Zoöl.) Having ten feet; decapodal. [R.] Bailey.
2. A member of any body of ten men in authority.
2. A body of ten men in authority.
2. That which is proper or becoming.
2. (O. Eng. Law) A tithing consisting of ten neighboring families. Burrill.
2. Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.
3. Comely; shapely; well-formed. [Archaic]
2. The state of being deceived or misled.
De*cep"tious (?), a. [LL. deceptiosus.] Tending deceive; delusive. [R.]
De*cep"to*ry (?), a. [L. deceptorius, from decipere.] Deceptive. [R.]
2. (Scots Law) To decree; to adjudge.
2. That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece. Glanvill.
1 Kings xx. 40.
Dec`i*du"i*ty (?), n. Deciduousness. [R.]
2. A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. Shak.
3. To stamp; to detect; to discover. [R.]
2. Marked by promptness and decision.
De*cit"i*zen*ize (?), v. t. To deprive of the rights of citizenship. [R.]
3. To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
3. (Railroad) The roof of a passenger car.
4. A pack or set of playing cards.
5. A heap or store. [Obs.]
De*claim"ant (?), n. A declaimer. [R.]
2. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
I the Lord . . . declare things that are right.
De*clare"ment (?), n. Declaration. [Obs.]
M. Arnold.
3. The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.
4. The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.
7. (Gram.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4.
2. A dissentient. [R.] Bp. Hacket.
2. A descending surface; a sloping place.
2. An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
De*coc"ture (?; 135), n. A decoction. [R.]
De*col"ling (?), n. Beheading. [R.]
2. (Bot.) See Decompound, a., 2.
2. The state of being reduced into original elements.
3. Repeated composition; a combination of compounds. [Obs.]
2. To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose.
2. (Bot.) Several times compounded or divided, as a leaf or stem; decomposite.
De*con`cen*tra"tion (?), n. Act of deconcentrating. [R.]
De*core"ment (?), n. Ornament. [Obs.]
2. The wane of the moon. Bacon.
De*crease"less, a. Suffering no decrease. [R.]
2. To ordain by fate.
2. The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment.
4. (Math.) The quantity by which a variable is diminished.
Dec"u*ple (?), a. [F. décuple, L. decuplus, fr. decem ten.] Tenfold. [R.]
Dec"u*ple, n. A number ten times repeated. [R.]
De`cur*ta"tion (?), n. [L. decurtatio.] Act of cutting short. [Obs.]
2 Sam. viii. 10, 11.
2. To devote, set apart, or give up, as one's self, to a duty or service.
3. To inscribe or address, as to a patron.
2. Capable of being brought down. [Obs.]
3. To reduce; to diminish. [Obs.] "Do not deduct it to days." Massinger.
2. Deducible; consequential.
2. Illustrious act; achievement; exploit. "Knightly deeds." Spenser.
3. Power of action; agency; efficiency. [Obs.]
4. Fact; reality; -- whence we have indeed.
6. Performance; -- followed by of. [Obs.] Shak.
2. To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard.
2. To pass judgment. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley.
7. Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson.
9. Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads. Chaucer.
4. To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ.
3. Very; with a tendency to darkness of color.
4. Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument.
2. Craft; insidiousness. [R.] J. Gregory.
2. [Cf. F. défaire.] To destroy; to make null. [Obs.]
2. That which mars or disfigures. Bacon.
De*fail"ance (?), n. [F. défaillance.] Failure; miscarriage. [Obs.]
2. That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated.
Def"al*ca`tor (?), n. A defaulter or embezzler. [Modern]
2. To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
3. To charge; to accuse. [R.]
Def"a*mous (?), a. Defamatory. [Obs.]
2. Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom.
2. To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty.
3. To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.
3. To leave out of account; to omit. [Obs.]
2. A rendering null or void.
4. To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
2. Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] "Strange defeatures in my face." Shak.
De*fea"tured (?; 135), p. p. Changed in features; deformed. [R.]
2. To void excrement.
2. (Physiol.) The act or process of voiding excrement.
2. To prohibit; to forbid. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Making defense.
De`fen*dee" (d`fn*d" or d*fnd"`), n. One who is defended. [R. & Ludicrous]
De*fend"ress (?), n. A female defender. [R.]
3. Protecting plea; vindication; justification.
6. Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance. [Obs.]
2. Capable of offering defense. [Obs.] Shak.
3. In a state or posture of defense. Milton.
2. (Law) A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector.
2. To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to.
De*fer"ment (?), n. [See 1st Defer.] The act of delaying; postponement. [R.]
De*fig"ure (?), v. t. [Pref. de- (intens.) + figure.] To delineate. [Obs.]
2. To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint.
3. To injure in purity of character; to corrupt.
4. To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate.
5. To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute.
De*fine" (?), v. i. To determine; to decide. [Obs.]
3. Determined; resolved. [Obs.] Shak.
Def"i*nite, n. A thing defined or determined. [Obs.]
3. Description; sort. [R.] "A new creature of another definition." Jer. Taylor.
2. Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word.
3. Determined; resolved. [Obs.] Shak.
De*fin"i*tude (?), n. Definiteness. [R.]
2. (Chem.) The act or process of deflagrating.
2. Bent downward; deflexed.
2. (Gunnery) The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course.
2. To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament.
3. To deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to ravish; also, to seduce.
Def`*da"tion (?), n. Defedation. [Obs.]
De*force"or (?), n. Same as Deforciant. [Obs.]
2. Transformation; change of shape.
2. To make foul; to defile. [Obs.] Wyclif.
2 Cor. vii. 2.
De*func"tion (?), n. [L. defunctio performance, death.] Death. [Obs.]
I defy the surety and the bond.
I defy the enemies of our constitution to show the contrary.
4. The thing degenerated. [R.]
De*gen"er*ous*ly, adv. Basely. [Obs.]
Deg`lu*ti"tious (?), a. Pertaining to deglutition. [R.]
I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
De*hort"a*tive (?), a. Dissuasive. [R.]
De*hort"er (?), n. A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary. [Obs.]
2. One concerned in putting Christ to death.
2. Conformable to the will of God. [R.] Bp. Burnet.
De`i*for"mi*ty (?), n. Likeness to deity. [Obs.]
3. To render godlike.
I fear my Julia would not deign my lines.
Deil (dl), n. Devil; -- spelt also deel. [Scot.]
I. Watts.
2. A god or goddess; a heathen god.
2. To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.
De*ject", a. [L. dejectus, p. p.] Dejected. [Obs.]
2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self.
4. A low condition; weakness; inability. [R.]
5. (Physiol.) (a) The discharge of excrement. (b) Fæces; excrement. Ray.
De*ject"ly (?), adv. Dejectedly. [Obs.]
2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
2. To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.
4. To carry on; to conduct. Warner.
2. (Law) Accusation by an informer. Milman.
3. To allay; to temper. [Obs.]
2. A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation. [Obs.] Burton.
Del"e*ter*y, n. That which destroys. [Obs.]
Del"i*ber (?), v. t. & i. To deliberate. [Obs.]
3. Not hasty or sudden; slow. Hooker.
8. Pleasure; gratification; delight. [Obs.]
3. Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful; as, "a delicate creature." Shak.
7. Light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color; as, a delicate blue.
11. Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
Del"i*cate, n. 1. A choice dainty; a delicacy. [R.]
2. A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
2. Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate. [Obs.]
2. Luxury. "To drive away all superfluity and deliciousness." Sir T. North.
2. That which gives great pleasure or delight.
3. Licentious pleasure; lust. [Obs.] Chaucer.
I delight to do thy will, O my God.
De*line" (d*ln"), v. t. 1. To delineate. [Obs.]
2. To mark out. [Obs.] R. North.
2. To portray to the mind or understanding by words; to set forth; to describe.
2. A delineated picture; representation; sketch; description in words.
De*lin"e*a*ture (?; 135), n. Delineation. [Obs.]
Del`i*qua"tion (?), n. A melting. [Obs.]
2. A sinking away; a swooning. [Obs.] Bacon.
3. A melting or maudlin mood. Carlyle.
De*lir"a*cy (?), n. [See Delirate.] Delirium. [Obs.]
2. Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness.
De*lit"a*ble (?), a. Delightful; delectable. [Obs.]
2. (Med.) The sudden disappearance of inflammation.
De*lit`i*ga"tion (?), n. Chiding; brawl. [Obs.]
6. To discover; to show. [Poetic]
7. To deliberate. [Obs.] Chaucer.
8. To admit; to allow to pass. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. Act of bringing forth children. [Archaic] Shak.
3. Act of speaking; utterance. [Archaic] Shak.
4. The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint.
I do desire deliverance from these officers.
2. One who relates or communicates.
De*liv"er*ly, adv. Actively; quickly; nimbly. [Obs.]
De*liv"er*ness, n. Nimbleness; agility. [Obs.]
5. The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.
6. The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.
2. A young woman; a wench. [Obs.]
2. Ambiguous; mysterious. "If he is silent or delphic." New York Times.
Delphinic acid. (Chem.) See Valeric acid, under Valeric. [Obs.]
2. (Astron.) The Dolphin, a constellation near the equator and east of Aquila.
2. To frustrate or disappoint.
2. The state of being deluded or misled.
2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
I can not delve him to the root.
2. To free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize.
2. (Law) See Demesne.
I did demand what news from Shrewsbury.
4. (Law) To call into court; to summon. Burrill.
2. Earnest inquiry; question; query. Shak.
De*march" (?), n. [F. démarche. See March, n.] March; walk; gait. [Obs.]
2. (Biol.) An undifferentiated aggregate of cells or plastids.
2. To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
3. To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
2. Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor. [Obs.]
De*mean", n. [See Demesne.] 1. Demesne. [Obs.]
2. pl. Resources; means. [Obs.]
2. Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien.
3. The state of one who deserves ill.
2. To depreciate or cry down. [R.] Bp. Woolton.
2. The state of being overwhelmed in water, or as if in water. Ray.
2. To convey; to give. [R.]
3. (Law) To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.
2. Resignation of an office. [Scot.]
2. Tending to lower, depress, or degrade.
De*miss"ive (?), a. [See Demiss.] Downcast; submissive; humble. [R.]
De*miss"ly, adv. In a humble manner. [Obs.]
3. To lay down, as an office; to resign. [Scot.]
Dem"i*tone` (?), n. (Mus.) Semitone. [R.]
2. God, as the Maker of the world.
3. Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government. Milton.
4. The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called. [U.S.]
2. A member of the Democratic party. [U.S.]
2. Relating to a political party so called.
3. Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic.
De*moc"ra*tism (?), n. The principles or spirit of a democracy. [R.]
3. (Zoöl.) A beautiful, small dragon fly of the genus Agrion.
3. An evil spirit; a devil.
De*mo"ni*asm (?), n. See Demonianism. [R.]
2. To control or possess by a demon.
2. Proved; apparent. [Obs.] Shak.
2. An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show.
4. (Mil.) a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement indicating an attack.
5. (Logic) The act of proving by the syllogistic process, or the proof itself.
3. Consisting of eulogy or of invective. "Demonstrative eloquence." Blair.
2. (Anat.) A teacher of practical anatomy.
De*mount" (?), v. i. To dismount. [R.]
3. To scruple or object; to take exception; as, I demur to that statement.
4. (Law) To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2.
2. To cause delay to; to put off. [Obs.]
2. Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
2. A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. [Written also demi.]
3. Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone. [Colloq.]
4. [AS. denu.] A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell. [Old Eng. & Scotch] Shak.
2. A coin; the Anglicized form of denarius. Udall.
De*nay" (?), v. t. [See Deny.] To deny. [Obs.]
Den`e*ga"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. dénégation.] Denial. [Obs.]
3. A refusal to grant; rejection of a request.
2. Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame. [R.]
2. Fig.: A blackening; defamation.
3. One admitted to residence in a foreign country.
2. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
2. (Logic) Connotative; as, a denominative name.
4. (Gram.) Derived from a substantive or an adjective; as, a denominative verb.
2. To be the sign of; to betoken; to signify; to mean.
De*note"ment (?), n. Sign; indication. [R.]
2. The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome.
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish.
2. Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.
3. (Photog.) Depth of shade. Abney.
2. (Zoöl.) Having teeth or toothlike points. See Illust. of Antennæ.
Den*ta"tion (?), n. Formation of teeth; toothed form. [R.]
2. (Bot. & Zoöl.) A diminutive tooth; a denticle.
2. (Zoöl.) The system of teeth peculiar to an animal.
De*ox"y*gen*ate (?), v. t. (Chem.) To deoxidize. [Obs.]
2. To mark with, or as with, color; to color.
De*paint"er (?) n. One who depaints. [Obs.]
I will depart to mine own land.
4. To pass away; to perish.
1 Sam. iv. 21.
5. To quit this world; to die.
2. To divide in order to share; to apportion. [Obs.]
2. A going away; departure; hence, death. [Obs.]
De*part"er (?), n. 1. One who refines metals by separation. [Obs.]
2. One who departs.
2. A part, portion, or subdivision.
6. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
3. Removal from the present life; death; decease.
2 Tim. iv. 6.
De*pau"per*ize (?), v. t. To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty. [R.]
De*peach" (?), v. t. [L. dépêcher. See Dispatch.] To discharge. [Obs.]
5. To serve; to attend; to act as a dependent or retainer. [Obs.] Shak.
6. To impend. [Obs.] Shak.
3. Mutual connection and support; concatenation; systematic inter-relation.
5. A resting with confidence; reliance; trust.
6. That on which one depends or relies; as, he was her sole dependence.
2. A thing hanging down; a dependence.
2. That which depends; corollary; consequence.
De*peo"ple (?), v. t. To depopulate. [Obs.]
2. To represent in words; to describe vividly.
2. To complain of. [Obs.] Shak.
3. To regard as hopeless; to give up. [Obs.] Bacon.
De*plore"ment (?), n. Deploration. [Obs.]
2. (Med.) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. Thomas.
2. To lay bare; to expose.
2. To lay down. [R.] Southey.
3. To assert under oath; to depose. [A Scotticism]
2. (Gr. & Lat. Gram.) A deponent verb.
De*pop"u*late, v. i. To become dispeopled. [R.]
De*por"ture (?), n. Deportment. [Obs.]
2. To let fall; to deposit. [Obs.]
5. To put under oath. [Obs.]
2. One who testifies or deposes; a deponent.
4. To lay aside; to rid one's self of. [Obs.]
5. A place of deposit; a depository. [R.]
I . . . made you my guardians, my depositaries.
2. A storehouse; a depository. Bp. Hurd.
2. The act of bringing before the mind; presentation.
5. An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration.
2. One with whom something is deposited; a depositary.
I am the sole depository of my own secret, and it shall perish with me.
2. The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting.
3. The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity.
4. (Med.) Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.
2. To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.
2. Entreaty for pardon; petitioning.
3. An imprecation or curse. [Obs.] Gilpin.
2. The falling of value; reduction of worth. Burke.
3. the state of being depreciated.
2. To detect; to discover; to find out.
2. To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.
3. To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.
4. To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.
5. To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.
6. (Math.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
2. The state of being depressed; a sinking.
4. Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.
5. Dejection; despondency; lowness.
6. Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.
7. (Astron.) The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
8. (Math.) The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.
9. (Surg.) A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8.
2. (Anat.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part.
2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
De*prive"ment (?), n. Deprivation. [R.]
De*pros"trate (?), a. Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude. [Obs.]
3. Lowness; as, depth of sound.
6. (Horology) A pair of toothed wheels which work together. [R.]
Depth"en (?), v. t. To deepen. [Obs.]
2. Of measureless depth; unfathomable.
De*pure" (?), v. t. [F. dépurer. See Depurate.] To depurate; to purify. [Obs.]
2. Sam. xv. 3.
2. To appoint; to assign; to choose. [R.]
De*pute", n. A person deputed; a deputy. [Scot.]
1 Kings xxii. 47.
2. A member of the Chamber of Deputies. [France]
De*rac`i*na"tion (?), n. The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication. [R.]
2. The renunciation of religious or monastic vows. [Obs.] Blount.
2. A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.
2. Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.
2. A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment.
3. The state of being left or abandoned.
De`re*li"gion*ize (?), v. t. To make irreligious; to turn from religion. [R.]
2. An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock.
I was a derision to all my people.
De*riv"al (?), n. Derivation. [R.]
5. That from which a thing is derived.
6. That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
De*rive"ment (?), n. That which is derived; deduction; inference. [Obs.]
I offer these derivements from these subjects.
2. (Anat.) See Dermis.
2. (Anat.) Pertaining to the dermis or true skin.
2. (Anat.) Pertaining to the dermis; dermal.
3. (Zoöl.) An order of Mammalia; the Cheiroptera.
2. Solitary; sad. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
2. To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate. [R.]
I hope it is no derogation to the Christian religion.
Der"ring, a. Daring or warlike. [Obs.]
2. To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic]
7. (Anat.) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
8. (Mus.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
7. That which is descended; descendants; issue.
9. Lowest place; extreme downward place. [R.]
3. To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class. [Obs.]
D. Webster.
3. A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
2. To discover; to disclose; to reveal. [R.]
De*scry" (?), n. Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance. [Obs.]
2. The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion.
3. Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency.
De*sert"less (?), a. Without desert. [R.]
2. To serve; to treat; to benefit. [Obs.]
De*sight" (?), n. [Pref. de- + sight.] An unsightly object. [Obs.]
De*sight"ment (?), n. The act of making unsightly; disfigurement. [R.]
I wish others the same intention, and greater successes.
2. To call by a distinctive title; to name.
2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
4. Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.
2. One who designates.
Des"ig*na*to*ry (?), a. Serving to designate; designative; indicating. [R.]
2. (Fine Arts) One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.
3. A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense.
De*sign"less, a. Without design. [Obs.] -- De*sign"less*ly, adv. [Obs.]
De*sign"ment (?), n. 1. Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention. [Obs.]
2. Design; purpose; scheme. [Obs.] Shak.
2. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
2 Kings iv. 28.
3. To require; to demand; to claim. [Obs.]
4. To miss; to regret. [Obs.]
2. An expressed wish; a request; petition.
3. Anything which is desired; an object of longing.
4. Excessive or morbid longing; lust; appetite.
5. Grief; regret. [Obs.] Chapman.
De*sire"ful (?), a. Filled with desire; eager. [R.]
De*sist"ive (?), a. [See Desist.] Final; conclusive; ending. [R.]
De*si"tion (?), n. [See Desinent.] An end or ending. [R.]
3. Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
4. Lost to shame; dissolute. [Obs.] Chaucer.
5. Destitute of; lacking in. [Obs.]
I were right now of tales desolate.
2. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.
3. A place or country wasted and forsaken.
2 Cor. i. 8.
I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted.
2. To cause to despair. [Obs.] Sir W. Williams.
2. That which is despaired of. "The mere despair of surgery he cures." Shak.
De*speed" (?), v. t. To send hastily. [Obs.]
De*spend" (?), v. t. To spend; to squander. See Dispend. [Obs.]
I am desperate of obtaining her.
Des"per*ate, n. One desperate or hopeless. [Obs.]
De*spis"a*ble (?), a. [Cf. OF. despisable.] Despicable; contemptible. [R.]
De*spis"al (?), n. A despising; contempt. [R.]
Des*pit"e*ous*ly, adv. Despitefully. [Obs.]
De*spit"ous (?), a. Despiteous; very angry; cruel. [Obs.]
De*spoil"ment (?), n. Despoliation. [R.]
I should despair, or at least despond.
D. Webster.
De*spond" n. Despondency. [Obs.]
De*spon"sage (?), n. [From L. desponsus, p. p. See Despond.] Betrothal. [Obs.]
C. J. Smith.
2. One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.
Des"po*tist, n. A supporter of despotism. [R.]
Dess (?), n. Dais. [Obs.]
Des"ti*nist (?), n. A believer in destiny; a fatalist. [R.]
Des"ti*tute, v. t. 1. To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. [Obs.]
3. To disappoint. [Obs.]
2. To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume.
I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation.
3. To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill.
De*stroy"a*ble (?), a. Destructible. [R.]
2. The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated.
2. A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer.
Des`ul*to"ri*ous (?), a. Desultory. [R.]
I shot at it [a bird], but it was so desultory that I missed my aim.
3. Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.
3. To hold or keep in custody.
2. To inform against; to accuse. [Obs.]
D. Webster.
2. The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.
3. Confinement; restraint; custody.
De*ter"mi*na*cy (?), n. Determinateness. [R.]
2. Conclusive; decisive; positive.
3. Determined or resolved upon. [Obs.]
4. Of determined purpose; resolute. [Obs.]
2. Resolutely; unchangeably.
2. Bringing to an end; termination; limit.
3. Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.
5. The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.
I. Taylor.
I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
8. (Logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
De*ter"mine, v. i. 1. To come to an end; to end; to terminate. [Obs.]
De*ter"rence (?), n. That which deters; a deterrent; a hindrance. [R.]
2. To take credit or reputation from; to defame.
V. Knox.
De*tract"ive (?), a. 1. Tending to detract or draw. [R.]
2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
Det"ri*ment (?), v. t. To do injury to; to hurt. [Archaic]
I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
Det`ur*ba"tion (?), n. The act of deturbating. [Obs.]
Dev"el*in (?), n. (Zoöl.) The European swift. [Prov. Eng.]
De"vi*ant (?), a. Deviating. [Obs.]
De"vi*ate, v. t. To cause to deviate. [R.]
2. Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
I must have instruments of my own device.
4. Anything fancifully conceived. Shak.
5. A spectacle or show. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
6. Opinion; decision. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
De*vice"ful (?), a. Full of devices; inventive. [R.]
De*vice"ful*ly, adv. In a deviceful manner. [R.]
2. An evil spirit; a demon.
6. (Manuf.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
2. To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
2. Extreme; excessive. [Colloq.] Dryden.
Dev"il*ize (?), v. t. To make a devil of. [R.]
2. The whole body of evil spirits. Tylor.
2. Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will.
2. To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
3. To say; to relate; to describe. [Obs.] Chaucer.
4. To imagine; to guess. [Obs.] Spenser.
5. (Law) To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer.
3. Property devised, or given by will.
De*vise" (?), n. Device. See Device. [Obs.]
2. To execrate; to curse. [Obs.]
4. Disposal; power of disposal. [Obs.]
5. A thing consecrated; an object of devotion. [R.]
I waste my life and do my days devour.
3. To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
2. A devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion. [Obs.] Milton.
De*vout"ful (?), a. 1. Full of devotion. [R.]
2. Sacred. [R.]
2. Sincerely; solemnly; earnestly.
2. [Cf. OF. desvoer. Cf. Disavow.] To disavow; to disclaim. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.
3. An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor. "The dew of his youth." Longfellow.
2. The flesh upon the human throat, especially when with age. [Burlesque]
2. Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew.
3. (Bot.) Resembling a dew-covered surface; appearing as if covered with dew.
Dex*ter"i*cal (?), a. Dexterous. [Obs.]
2. Possession by the devil. Bp. Warburton.
Di*ab"o*lize (?), v. t. To render diabolical. [R.]
2. Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.
Di`æ*ret"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; dividing.] (Med.) Caustic. [Obs.]
2. (Engin.) A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel.
Indicator diagram. (Steam Engine) See Indicator card, under indicator
3. A miner's compass.
2. (Mining) To survey with a dial. Raymond.
2. Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects. Earle.
2. A writer of dialogues. P. Skelton.
Di"a*logue, v. t. To express as in dialogue. [R.]
2. (Rhet.) Same as Asyndeton.
2. That form or condition of magnetic action which characterizes diamagnetics.
Di`a*man"tine (?), a. Adamantine. [Obs.]
3. One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.
2. Adorned with diamonds; diamondized. Emerson.
Di"a*mond*ize (?), v. t. To set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich. [R.]
Di"an (?), a. Diana. [Poetic]
Di"a*pase (?), n. Same as Diapason. [Obs.]
2. Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony.
3. The entire compass of tones.
4. A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason.
2. (Med.) A composition of five ingredients.
3. A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc.
4. An infant's breechcloth.
2. To put a diaper on (a child).
5. (Mach.) A partition in any compartment, for various purposes.
2. (Anat.) The shaft, or main part, of a bone, which is first ossified.
2. (Gram.) A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.
3. An electuary compounded of four medicines.
2. A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle.
2. pl. A child's game, played with dib bones.
2. To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble.
I . . . diced not above seven times a week.
2. To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
Dich (?), v. i. To ditch. [Obs.]
5. The place where a stem or vein is forked.
2. Gambling with dice. J. R. Green.
I can not tell what the dickens his name is.
2. A false shirt front or bosom.
3. A gentleman's shirt collar. [Local, U. S.]
2. To compose literary works; to tell what shall be written or said by another.
I credit what the Grecian dictates say.
Dic`ta*to"ri*an (?), a. Dictatorial. [Obs.]
Dic`tion*al"ri*an (?), n. A lexicographer. [R.]
M. Arnold.
Di"dal (?), n. A kind of triangular spade. [Obs.]
Di*das"ca*lar (?), a. Didascalic. [R.]
Did"dler (?), n. A cheat. [Colloq.]
2. To suffer death; to lose life.
1 Sam. xxv. 37.
8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
2. Any small cubical or square body.
4. (Arch.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
2. (Print.) The mark &Dagger;; -- called also double dagger.
Di"et, v. i. 1. To eat; to take one's meals. [Obs.]
1 Cor. xv. 41.
3. To have a difference, cause of variance, or quarrel; to dispute; to contend.
M. Arnold.
I differ with the honorable gentleman on that point.
Dif"fer, v. t. To cause to be different or unlike; to set at variance. [R.]
1 Cor. xii. 5.
4. Choice; preference. [Obs.]
2. (Math.) Of or pertaining to a differential, or to differentials.
3. A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
Dif"fi*den*cy (?), n. See Diffidence. [Obs.]
2. (Physiol.) Capable of passing through animal membranes by osmosis.
2. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
4. To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.]
I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed.
3. To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously. [Cant, U.S.]
2. A plodding and laborious student. [Cant, U.S.]
4. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works.
8. To ripen; to mature. [Obs.]
9. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
2. (Med.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
3. (Med.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
3. pl. Region; locality. [Low]
2. To have sexual intercourse with. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Dight"er (?), n. One who dights. [Obs.]
2. A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.
Dig"it, v. t. To point at or out with the finger. [R.]
2. Suitable; adequate; fit. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. Haughty; disdainful. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Elevation; grandeur.
5. One holding high rank; a dignitary.
6. Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim. [Obs.]
2. To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. [R.]
2. A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense. [R.]
2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
3. A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.]
2. To drain by a dike or ditch.
Dike, v. i. To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs.]
Di*la`ni*a"tion (?), n. A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration. [R.]
2. To impair by waste and abuse; to squander.
3. (Anat.) A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.
2. To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely. [R.]
2. (Bot.) Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.
3. (Zoöl.) Having the margin wide and spreading.
2. (Anat.) A muscle that dilates any part.
3. (Med.) An instrument for expanding a part; as, a urethral dilator.
Dil"do (?), n. A burden in popular songs. [Obs.]
Dil"ling (dl"lng), n. A darling; a favorite. [Obs.]
2. (Med.) An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink.
C. Pitt.
2. Extent; reach; scope; importance; as, a project of large dimensions.
Di*men"sioned (?), a. Having dimensions. [R.]
2. (Her.) To represent the half of; to halve.
I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
4. To take away; to subtract.
Dim"i*nute*ly, adv. Diminutively. [Obs.]
3. (Law) Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record.
2. Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
3. Tending to diminish. [R.]
2. A slight indentation on any surface.
2. To utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding.
2. An ancient gold coin of the East.
2. To dine upon; to have to eat. [Obs.] "What will ye dine." Chaucer.
2. To cause to sound or ring.
Ding, v. i. 1. To strike; to thump; to pound. [Obs.]
2. To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
3. To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster. [Low]
2. A ship's smallest boat.
Ding"thrift` (?), n. A spendthrift. [Obs.]
Dink, v. t. To deck; -- often with out or up. [Scot.]
Din"mont (?), n. (Zoöl.) A wether sheep between one and two years old. [Scot.]
2. An entertainment; a feast.
Din"ner*ly, a. Of or pertaining to dinner. [R.]
3. Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of.
2. pl. The clergy or the people of a diocese. Strype.
2. (Zoöl.) A genus of whales.
2. A building used for such an exhibition.
3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic]
4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.]
3. To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
5. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
6. To dip snuff. [Southern U.S.]
2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
4. A dipped candle. [Colloq.] Marryat.
Diph"thong, v. t. To form or pronounce as a diphthong; diphthongize. [R.]
2. Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact.
Dip`lo*ma"tial (?), a. Diplomatic. [R.]
3. Pertaining to diplomatics; paleographic. Astle.
Di*plo"ma*tism (?), n. Diplomacy. [R.]
2. The act of inclining downward.
3. The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
2. (Zoöl.) A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.
2. (Bot.) Having two wings; two- winged.
2. Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
3. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
4. In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
2 Thess. iii. 5.
I will direct their work in truth.
I 'll first direct my men what they shall do.
5. The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.
2. Able to be directed; manageable. [Obs.]
3. Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
4. Exactly; just.
5. Straightforwardly; honestly.
I have dealt most directly in thy affair.
6. Manifestly; openly. [Obs.]
8. Immediately after; as soon as.
3. (Mech.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.
4. Direction; guide. [R.] Whitlock.
2. Meanness; sordidness.
3. In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
2. Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color. Locke.
3. Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow.
4. Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather.
M. Arnold.
2. To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.
2. A prefix from Gr. di`s- twice. See Di-.
2. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
I have disabled mine estate.
2. To disturb the functions of; to disorder.
2. Disorder; bad constitution. [R.] Wiseman.
Dis`a*gree"ance (?), n. Disagreement. [Obs.]
2. Unsuitableness; unadaptedness. [R.]
3. Difference of opinion or sentiment.
4. A falling out, or controversy; difference.
1 Pet. ii. 4.
2. To deprive of spirit; to dishearten. Shak.
2. The state of being disanimated or discouraged; depression of spirits.
2. To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared.
I was disappointed, but very agreeably.
2. To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result.
2. Unprepared; unequipped. [Obs.]
2. That which disappoints.
2. (Law) To sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation.
2. (Her.) Deprived of claws, and teeth or beaks. Cussans.
2. To take off the dress of; to unrobe.
2. Confused attire; undress. Spenser.
Dis`as*sent" (?), v. i. To dissent. [Obs.]
2. To bring harm upon; to injure. [R.] Thomson.
Dis`aug*ment" (?), v. t. To diminish. [R.]
2. To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.
2. To divorce. [Obs.]
Dis*base" (?), v. t. [Cf. Debase.] To debase or degrade. [Obs.]
2. (Eng. Law) To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges. Mozley & W.
Dis*bod"ied (?), a. Disembodied. [R.]
Dis*can"dy (?), v. i. To melt; to dissolve; to thaw. [Obs.]
Dis*ca*pac"i*tate (?), v. t. To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate. [R.]
3. To put or thrust away; to reject.
I. Taylor.
I dare not discede from my copy a tittle.
Dis*cept" (?), v. i. [L. disceptare.] To debate; to discuss. [R.]
I wake, and I discern the truth.
2. To make cognizance. [Obs.] Bacon.
Dis*cern"ance (?), n. Discernment. [Obs.]
2. To separate; to disunite. [R.] Bp. Hurd.
4. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
7. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
8. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
We say such an order was "discharged on appeal."
12. To prohibit; to forbid. [Scot. Obs.] Sir W. Scott.
6. Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner.
2. To punish; to discipline. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
3. To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles. [R.]
Dis*ci"pless (?), n. A female disciple. [Obs.]
C. J. Smith.
3. Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
6. The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. Bp. Wilkins.
3. To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
4. To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.
2. To deny, as a claim; to refuse.
3. A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like. Burke.
2. To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover.
D. Webster.
2. That which is disclosed or revealed.
Dis*clout" (?), v. t. To divest of a clout. [R.]
Dis`co*her"ent (?), a. Incoherent. [R.]
2. To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon.
2. A discolored spot; a stain. Arbuthnot.
2. Variegated; of divers colors. [R.]
Dis*com"fit, a. Discomfited; overthrown. [Obs.]
1 Sam. xiv. 20.
2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. [R.]
2. To expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any one.
2. To deprive of privileges. [R.] T. Warton.
Dis*com"pa*ny (?), v. t. To free from company; to dissociate. [R.]
3. To put out of place or service; to discharge; to displace. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. Discordance; disagreement of parts. [Obs.] Boyle.
Dis`con*du"cive (?), a. Not conductive; impeding; disadvantageous. [R.]
Dis*con"se*crate (?), v. t. To deprive of consecration or sacredness. [R.]
Dis*con"so*la`ted (?), a. Disconsolate. [Obs.]
Hallam
2. A discontented person; a malcontent. [R.]
1 Sam. xxii. 2.
Dis`con*tent"ful (?), a. Full of discontent. [R.]
2. Causing discontent; dissatisfying. Milton.
Dis`con*tin"u*a*ble (?), a. Admitting of being discontinued. [R.]
2. To be separated or severed; to part.
I. Taylor.
Dis*cord"ous (?), a. Full of discord. [Obs.]
Dis*cost" (?), v. i. Same as Discoast. [Obs.]
4. To leave out of account; to take no notice of. [R.]
3. The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Dis*coure" (?), v. t. To discover. [Obs.]
2. Conversation; talk.
3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
5. Dealing; transaction. [Obs.]
3. To relate something; to tell. Shak.
4. To treat of something in writing and formally.
Dis*course", v. t. 1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.]
2. To utter or give forth; to speak.
3. To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.]
2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation.
2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.
3. Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man. [R.]
1 Sam. xiv. 8.
4. To manifest without design; to show.
C. J. Smith.
5. To explore; to examine. [Obs.]
Dis*cov"er, v. i. To discover or show one's self. [Obs.]
2. A scout; an explorer. Shak.
Dis*cov"er*ment, n. Discovery. [Obs.]
Dis*cov"ert, n. An uncovered place or part. [Obs.]
5. Exploration; examination. [Obs.]
Dis*cra"dle (?), v. t. To take from a cradle. [R.]
2. Differing; distinct. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. (Bot.) Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent.
3. Discrimination.
5. That which discriminates; mark of distinction.
I almost fear you think I begged it, but I can disculpate myself.
Dis*cure" (?), v. t. [See Discover.] To discover; to reveal; to discoure. [Obs.]
2. A disk. See Disk.
3. To shake; to put away; to finish. [Obs.]
5. To deal with, in eating or drinking. [Colloq.]
2. Doubt-dispelling; decisive. [R.]
3. The state of being despised; shame. [Obs.] Shak.
1 Sam. xvii. 42.
Dis*dained" (?), a. Disdainful. [Obs.]
Dis*deign" (?), v. t. To disdain. [Obs.]
Dis*ease"ful (?), a. 1. Causing uneasiness. [Obs.]
2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate. [R.]
Dis*ed"i*fy (?), v. t. To fail of edifying; to injure. [R.]
Dis`em*bark"ment (?), n. Disembarkation. [R.]
Dis`em*bit"ter (?), v. t. To free from
2. (Mil.) To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers. Wilhelm.
2. To eject; to cast forth. [R.] Swift.
Dis`en*crese", n. Decrease. [Obs.]
I have disencumbered myself from rhyme.
2. Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure.
Dis*er"ti*tude (?), n. [L. disertitud&?;.] Eloquence. [Obs.]
2. The condition of being disestablished.
Dis*ex"er*cise (?), v. t. To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. [Obs.]
Dis*fan"cy (?), v. t. To dislike. [Obs.]
3. An unkindness; a disobliging act.
2. To injure the form or looks of. [R.] B. Jonson.
Dis*fa"vor*a*bly, adv. Unpropitiously. [Obs.]
2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.
2. To clear or deprive of forests or trees.
Dis*ges"tion (?; 106), n. Digestion. [Obs.]
Dis*glo"ry (?), n. Dishonor. [Obs.]
4. An act of unkindness; a disfavor. [Obs.]
3. To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile.
Dis*grun"tle (?), v. t. To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger. [Colloq.]
3. To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
D. Webster.
3. Change of manner by drink; intoxication. Shak.
4. A masque or masquerade. [Obs.]
2. One who wears a disguise; an actor in a masquerade; a masker. [Obs.] E. Hall.
Dis*guis"ing, n. A masque or masquerade. [Obs.]
4. A hollow place, as in a field. Ogilvie.
3. To frustrate; to beat; to ruin. [Low]
Dis`ha*bil"i*tate (?), v. t. [Cf. Disability.] To disqualify. [R.]
Dis*hab"it (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + habit to inhabit.] To dislodge. [Obs.]
Dis*ha"ble (?), v. t. 1. To disable. [Obs.]
2. To disparage. [Obs.]
Dis*har"mo*ny (?), n. Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [R.]
Dish"clout` (?), n. A dishcloth. [Obsolescent]
Dis*heart" (?), v. t. To dishearten. [Obs.]
2. To spread loosely or disorderly.
Di*shev"ele (?), p. p. & a. Disheveled. [Obs.]
2. Having the hair in loose disorder.
2. Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [Obs.]
I will no longer dishonest my house.
4. Lewdness; unchastity. Shak.
1. Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.
2. To violate the chastity of; to debauch. Dryden.
2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed.
Dis*hu"mor (?), n. Ill humor. [Obs.]
2. (Zoöl.) A European bird; the wagtail.
2. To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon.
Dis`in*hab"it*ed (?), a. Uninhabited. [Obs.]
2. To deprive of heritage; to dispossess.
Dis`in*hume" (?), v. t. To disinter. [R.]
Dis*in"ter*est (?), p. a. Disinterested. [Obs.]
2. A disjunctive proposition. Coleridge.
2. A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
Dis*leave" (?), v. t. To deprive of leaves. [R.]
2. Discord; dissension. [Obs.] Fairfax.
Dis*live" (?), v. t. To deprive of life. [Obs.]
Dis*lodge", v. i. To go from a place of rest. [R.]
Dis*lodge", n. Dwelling apart; separation. [R.]
3. To disable; to render useless. Comber.
Dis*march" (?), v. i. To march away. [Obs.]
2. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. [Obs.]
I . . . can not think of such a battle without dismay.
2. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. Spenser.
2. To deprive of membership. [Obs.]
3. Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.
3. (Mech.) To take down, or apart, as a machine.
1 Kings xiii. 26.
2. Not yielding.
2. A disobliging act; an offense. [Obs.] Clarendon.
3. Release from obligation. Jer. Taylor.
2. To release from obligation. [Obs.]
Dis`o*blige"ment (?), n. Release from obligation. [Obs.]
2. Displeasing; offensive. [Obs.] Cov. of Tongue.
2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity.
3. Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult. Shak.
3. To depose from holy orders. [Obs.] Dryden.
2. Disorderly. [Obs.] Shak.
2. Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
2 Thess. iii. 6.
2. To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny.
Dis*own"ment (?), n. Act of disowning. [R.]
Dis*ox"i*date (?), v. t. (Chem.) To deoxidate; to deoxidize. [R.]
Dis*ox`i*da"tion (?), n. (Chem.) Deoxidation. [R.]
Dis*ox"y*gen*ate (?), v. t. (Chem.) To deprive of oxygen; to deoxidize. [R.]
Dis*ox`y*gen*a"tion (?), n. (Chem.) Deoxidation. [R.]
Dis*pair" (?), v. t. To separate (a pair). [R.]
I have . . . dispaired two doves.
I. Taylor.
2. (Logic) Pertaining to two coördinate species or divisions.
I. Taylor.
2. To set at large; to release from inclosure.
2. (Gun.) To furnish with a dispart sight.
2. To rid; to free. [Obs.]
I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.
3. To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.
5. To send out of the world; to put to death.
2. Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.
5. A message transmitted by telegraph. [Modern]
Dis*pence" (?), v. i. & n. See Dispense. [Obs.]
2. Capable of being dispensed with. Coleridge.
2. A dispensatory. Pope.
3. To pay for; to atone for. [Obs.]
4. To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from.
Dis*pense", v. i. 1. To compensate; to make up; to make amends. [Obs.]
2. To give dispensation.
Addis & Arnold (Cath. Dict. )
Dis*pense", n. [OF. despense, F. dépense.] Expense; profusion; outlay. [Obs.]
Dis*perge" (?), v. t. [L. dispergere. See Disperse.] To sprinkle. [Obs.]
Dis*per"ple (?), v. t. [OF. desparpeulier.] To scatter; to sprinkle. [Obs.]
2. To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors.
2. To distribute wealth; to share one's abundance with others.
Dis*perse"ness (?), n. Dispersedness. [Obs.]
Dis*per"son'*ate (?), v. t. To deprive of personality or individuality. [R.]
2. To distill or infuse the spirit of. [Obs. or R.]
Dis*pir"it*ment (?), n. Depression of spirits; discouragement. [R.]
2. To crowd out; to take the place of.
4. To dislodge; to drive away; to banish. [Obs.]
2. (Chem.) The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement.
2. (Mil.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line. Farrow.
5. (Print.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
6. To discover; to descry. [Obs.]
2. Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade.
2. (Her.) With wings expanded; -- said of a bird of pray, esp. an eagle.
3. (Print.) Set with lines of prominent type interspersed, to catch the eye.
Dis"ple (?), v. t. To discipline; to correct. [Obs.]
1 Chron. xxi. 7.
2. To fail to satisfy; to miss of. [Obs.]
I shall displease my ends else.
Dis*please", v. i. To give displeasure or offense. [Obs.]
Dis*pleas"ed*ly (?), adv. With displeasure. [R.]
2. That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offense; injury.
3. State of disgrace or disfavor; disfavor. [Obs.]
2. To dispose of. Chaucer.
3. (Scots Law) To make over, or convey, legally.
2. To remove from a port; to carry away. Prynne.
2. Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction.
2. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
I have disposed of her to a man of business.
Dis*pose" (?), v. i. To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.]
2. Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor. [Obs.]
2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
4. Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
6. Mood; humor.
2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. [Obs.]
Dis*prais"a*ble (?), a. Blamable. [R.]
Dis*pread", v. i. To extend or expand itself. [R.]
Dis*prince" (?), v. t. To make unlike a prince. [R.]
Dis*priv"i*lege (?), v. t. To deprive of a privilege or privileges. [R.]
Dis*prof"it*a*ble (?), a. Unprofitable. [Obs.]
Dis*prov"al (?), n. Act of disproving; disproof. [R.]
2. To disallow; to disapprove of. [Obs.] Stirling.
Dis*punct" (?), a. Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous. [Obs.]
Dis*punge", v. t. See Disponge. [Obs.]
2. Disputatious; contentious. [Obs.] Shak.
3. To strive or contend about; to contest.
4. To struggle against; to resist. [Obs.]
2. Contest; struggle; quarrel. De Foe.
1 Cor. i. 20.
Dis*qui"et*al (?), n. The act of disquieting; a state of disquiet. [Obs.]
Dis*qui"et*ive (?), a. Tending to disquiet. [R.]
Dis*qui"et*ous (?), a. Causing uneasiness. [R.]
Dis*rank" (?; see Dis-), v. t. [Cf. Derange.] 1. To degrade from rank. [Obs.]
2. To throw out of rank or into confusion. Decker.
2. Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness. Milton.
Dis`re*mem"ber (?), v. t. To fail to remember; to forget. [Obs. or Archaic]
Dis*rep`u*ta*bil"i*ty (?), n. The state of being disreputable. [R.]
Dis`re*pute", v. t. To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor. [R.]
Dis*ru"ly (?), a. Unruly; disorderly. [Obs.]
2. (Bot.) Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf.
3. Used for or in dissecting; as, a dissecting knife; a dissecting microscope.
2. To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign.
C. J. Smith.
2. To spread or extend by dispersion.
3. To differ; to be of a contrary nature. Hooker.
3. Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality. [Obs.]
2. (Bot.) One of the partitions which divide a compound ovary into cells.
Dis*sert"ly (?), adv. See Disertly. [Obs.]
Dis*set"tle (?), v. t. To unsettle. [Obs.]
D. Webster.
Dis*sev`er*a"tion (?), n. The act of disserving; disseverance. [Obs.]
Dis*shiv"er (?), v. t. & i. To shiver or break in pieces. [Obs.]
I. Taylor.
C. Smart.
2. (Rhet.) A comparison by contrast; a dissimile.
Dis*sim"u*ler (?), n. A dissembler. [Obs.]
I soon dissipated his fears.
2. To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.
3. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
Dis"site (?), a. [L. dissitus.] Lying apart. [Obs.]
Dis*slan"der*ous (?), a. Slanderous. [Obs.]
2. Capable of being disunited.
3. Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.
6. The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.
7. The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution. Bacon.
8. Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.
9. Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness. [Obs. or R.] Atterbury.
4. To solve; to clear up; to resolve. "Dissolved the mystery." Tennyson.
5. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
2. To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.
3. To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.
2. Want of agreement; incongruity. Milton.
I have tried what is possible to dissuade him.
2. A motive or consideration tending to dissuade; a dissuasive.
Dis*sua"so*ry (?), n. A dissuasive. [R.]
Dis*sym"pa*thy (?), n. Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference. [R.]
I will the distaff hold; come thou and spin.
2. Remoteness of place; a remote place.
3. (Racing) A space marked out in the last part of a race course.
5. Space between two antagonists in fencing. Shak.
7. Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety. Locke.
I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence.
2. To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote.
4. Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
Dis*tan"tial (?), a. Distant. [Obs.]
2. Discomfort; uneasiness.
3. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
2. To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.]
3. To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful. Drayton.
Dis*taste" (?), v. i. To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable. [Obs.]
3. Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive. "Distasteful looks." Shak.
4. To intoxicate. [R.]
2. Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold. [Obs.]
5. Political disorder; tumult. Waller.
Dis*tem"per*ance (?), n. Distemperature. [Obs.]
2. Diseased; disordered. [Obs.] Wodroephe.
Dis*tem"per*ate*ly, adv. Unduly. [Obs.]
2. Disorder; confusion. Shak.
3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper.
4. Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness.
Dis*ten`si*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or capacity of being distensible. [R.]
2. Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.
2. To flow gently, or in a small stream.
3. To practice the art of distillation. Shak.
4. To dissolve or melt. [R.]
2. That which falls in drops. [R.] Johnson
4. The substance extracted by distilling. Shak.
2. The condenser of a distilling apparatus.
2. The act of distilling spirits. [R.] Todd.
2. Marked; variegated. [Obs.]
4. Not identical; different; individual.
D. Webster.
2. With meaning; significantly. [Obs.]
Dis*tinc"ture (?), n. Distinctness. [R.]
4. To constitute a difference; to make to differ.
1 Cor. iv. 7. (Douay version).
2. Worthy of note or special regard. Swift.
2. A wresting from the true meaning. Bp. Wren.
2. Insane; mad. [Obs.] Drayton.
2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot.
3. A diversity of direction; detachment. [Obs.]
1 Cor. vii. 35.
5. Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions.
6. Agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind; despair.
7. Derangement of the mind; madness. Atterbury.
Dis*trac"tious (?), a. Distractive. [Obs.]
2. To rend; to tear. [Obs.]
2. Distracted; perplexed. "Distraught twixt fear and pity." Spenser.
Dis*tream" (?), v. i. [Pref. dis- (intens.) + stream.] To flow. [Poetic]
2 Cor. iv. 8.
2. To compel by pain or suffering.
3. (Law) To seize for debt; to distrain.
2. To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice. Shak.
3. That which is distributed. "Our charitable distributions." Atterbury.
4. (Logic) A resolving a whole into its parts.
2. (Logic) Assigning the species of a general term.
Dis"trict (?), a. [L. districtus, p. p.] Rigorous; stringent; harsh. [Obs.]
3. Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract.
2 Mac. ix. 22.
2. Suspicion of evil designs.
D. Webster.
3. State of being suspected; loss of trust. Milton.
2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. Boyle.
Dis*tune" (?), v. t. To put out of tune. [Obs.]
3. To turn from a regular or designed course. [Obs.]
2. Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness.
3. Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult.
Dis*u"ni*form (?), a. Not uniform. [Obs.]
2. A breach of concord and its effect; alienation.
I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion.
D. Webster.
2. To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of.
Dis*vel"op (?), v. t. To develop. [Obs.]
Dit (?), n. [Ditty.] 1. A word; a decree. [Obs.]
2. A ditty; a song. [Obs.]
2. Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.
2. To surround with a ditch. Shak.
3. To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.
3. (Zoöl.) A diurnal bird or insect.
Di`ur*na"tion (?), n. 1. Continuance during the day. [Obs.]
3. A chief officer of state. [India]
6. A coffee and smoking saloon. [Colloq.]
2. To diverge; to be divaricate. Woodward.
Di*vast" (?), a. Devastated; laid waste. [Obs.]
2. To explore by diving; to plunge into. [R.]
Di*vel"lent (?), a. [L. divellens, p. pr.] Drawing asunder. [R.]
2. Disagreement; difference.
2. (Optics) Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens.
3. Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement.
2. Capable of various forms; multiform.
2. In different directions; to different points.
I. Taylor.
3. Variegation. "Bright diversities of day." Pope.
Di*ver"so*ry (?), a. Serving or tending to divert; also, distinguishing. [Obs.]
C. J. Smith.
Di*vert", v. i. To turn aside; to digress. [Obs.]
I diverted to see one of the prince's palaces.
2. (Anat.) A diverticulum.
3. (Law) See Devest. Mozley & W.
Di*vest"ment (?), n. The act of divesting. [R.]
Di*ves"ture (?; 135), n. Divestiture. [Obs.]
2. Divided; separated; parted. [Obs.] Shak.
1 Kings iii. 25.
6. (Math.) To subject to arithmetical division.
7. (Logic) To separate into species; - - said of a genus or generic term.
8. (Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
2. To cause separation; to disunite.
3. To break friendship; to fall out. Shak.
4. To have a share; to partake. Shak.
2. (Math.) A number or quantity which is to be divided.
2. One who deals out to each his share.
3. One who, or that which, causes division.
Di*vid"u*al*ly, adv. By dividing. [R.]
2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." Bacon.
6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.]
7. Relating to divinity or theology.
2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.
3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.]
2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
2. By the agency or influence of God.
Di*vine"ment (?), n. Divination. [Obs.]
2. A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things. Locke.
2. The Deity; the Supreme Being; God.
3. A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.
4. A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.
I was overlooked in the division of the spoil.
2. That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.
4. Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.
I will put a division between my people and thy people.
8. (Logic) The separation of a genus into its constituent species.
10. (Naut.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.
12. (Rhet.) The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.
2. Creating, or tending to create, division, separation, or difference.
2. The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
3. Separation; disunion of things closely united.
4. That which separates. [Obs.] Shak.
2. To separate or disunite; to sunder.
3. To make away; to put away.
Div"ul*ga`ter (?), n. A divulger. [R.]
2. To indicate publicly; to proclaim. [R.]
3. To impart; to communicate.
Which would not be
2. To dress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out.
2. Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo.
2. To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive. [Obs.]
I shall . . . your cloister do make.
2 Cor. viii. 1.
3. To bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to effect; to achieve.
8. To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.]
10. (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
2 Kings xvii. 34.
2. Ado; bustle; stir; to do. [R.]
3. A cheat; a swindle. [Slang, Eng.]
2. A float to a fishing line. [Local, U. S.]
2. Sea gravel mixed with sand. [Prov. Eng.]
2. Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.
C. J. Smith.
2. Willingness to be taught; tractableness.
Doc"i*ty (?), n. Teachableness. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]
2. A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
3. To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.
3. The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.
4. A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly.
3. To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.
5. (Zoöl.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.]
2. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
Doc"tor, v. i. To practice physic. [Colloq.]
Doc"tor*al*ly, adv. In the manner of a doctor.[R.]
Doc"tor*ess, n. A female doctor.[R.]
Doc"tress (?), n. A female doctor. [R.]
2. Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching.
I. Watts.
2. An example for instruction or warning. [Obs.]
Doc"u*ment, v. t. 1. To teach; to school. [Obs.]
I am finely documented by my own daughter.
2. Of or pertaining to written evidence; documentary; as, documental testimony.
3. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. Coleridge.
2. A small handbill. [U. S.]
3. See Corndodger.
2. (Zoöl.) Any shellfish which casts its shell, as a lobster. [Prov. Eng.]
2. (Scots Law) An agent or attorney; a factor. Burrill.
2. To strip; to divest; to undress.
2. A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
2 Kings viii. 13 (Rev. Ver. )
5. An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.
I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid.
2. The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin.
3. The burbot of Lake Erie.
Dog"ged (?), a. [Fron. Dog.] 1. Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.]
Dog"ged*ness, n. 1. Sullenness; moroseness. [R.]
2. Sullen or obstinate determination; grim resolution or persistence.
Dog"get (?), n. Docket. See Docket. [Obs.]
Dog"ma*tize, v. t. To deliver as a dogma. [R.]
Dog"sick` (?), a. Sick as a dog sometimes is very sick. [Colloq.]
2. (Naut.) The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress.
Doh"tren (d"trn), n. pl. Daughters. [Obs.]
2. A thing of small value; as, I care not a doit.
3. Alms; charitable gratuity or portion.
4. A boundary; a landmark. Halliwell.
5. A void space left in tillage. [Prov. Eng.]
Do"-lit`tle (?), n. One who performs little though professing much. [Colloq.]
2. (Mach.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet. Knight.
2. A cloak of a peculiar fashion worn by women.
2. Occasioning pain or grief; painful.
Dolt, v. i. To behave foolishly. [Obs.]
2. In Portugal and Brazil, the title given to a member of the higher classes.
2. Subjugation. [Obs.] Hobbes.
2. (Arch.) A cupola formed on a large scale.
Domes"day` (?), n. A day of judgment. See Doomsday. [Obs.]
Domes"man (?), n.; pl. Domesmen (#). [See Doom.] A judge; an umpire. [Obs.]
V. Knox.
2. pl. (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [U. S.]
Do*mes"tic*al (?), a. Domestic. [Obs.]
Do*mes"tic*al, n. A family; a household. [Obs.]
2. To domesticate. Pownall.
2. To tame; to domesticate. [Obs.] Johnson.
2. A ruling party; a party in power. [R.] Burke.
Do*min"ic*al, n. The Lord's day or Sunday; also, the Lord's prayer. [Obs.]
2. One who kills his master.
2. A clergyman. See Domine, 1. [Scot. & Colloq. U. S.]
2. Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.
4. pl. A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3. Milton.
2. A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
5. A person wearing a domino.
7. One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played. Hoyle.
2. It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically.
Do*nif"er*ous (d*nf"r*s), a. [L. donum gift + -ferous.] Bearing gifts. [R.]
2. A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass.
Doo (?), n. (Zoöl.) A dove. [Scot.]
Doo"dle*sack` (?), n. [Cf. G. dudelsack.] The Scotch bagpipe. [Prov. Eng.]
3. Ruin; death.
3. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
Doom"age (?), n. A penalty or fine for neglect. [Local, New England]
2. The day of the final judgment.
I could not tell till doomsday.
Doom"ster (?), n. Same as Dempster. [Scot.]
3. Passage; means of approach or access.
I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.
2. (Zoöl.) A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryphæna.
2. (Mus.) Same as Doric, 3. "Dorian mood." Milton.
2. A burial place. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
2. To deafen with noise. [Obs.] Halliwell.
2. The back of a book. [Obs.]
2. Same as Dorsal, n.
2. (Anat.) See Dorsoventral.
2. (Zoöl.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also doré. See Pike perch.
I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses.
South
3. To give anything nauseous to.
2. A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.
2. Foolish utterance; drivel.
3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
2. pl. Natural endowments. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Dot"ed (?), a. 1. Stupid; foolish. [Obs.]
2. Half-rotten; as, doted wood. [Local, U. S.]
2. One excessively fond, or weak in love. Shak.
Dot"er*y (?), n. The acts or speech of a dotard; drivel. [R.]
2. A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull. Barrow.
Do"ty (?), a. [See Dottard.] Half-rotten; as, doty timber. [Local, U. S.]
2 Kings ii. 9.
2. Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled.
I was double their age.
5. (Mil.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
3. To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.
3. That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.
7. Double beer; strong beer.
10. (Mus.) An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites.
2. To overcharge. Shak.
2. A public conveyance, as a street car, with seats on the roof. [Colloq.]
2. Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous. Milton.
2. Deceitful; deceptive. Glanvill.
2. Duplicity; insincerity. Chaucer.
2. (Print.) A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.
1 Tim. iii. 8.
3. (Her.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.
4. The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor.
2. Deceitfully. "A man that deals doubly." Huloet.
2. To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive. [Obs.]
I do not doubt but I have been to blame.
2. To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of. [Obs.]
I doubt some foul play.
3. To fill with fear; to affright. [Obs.]
2. Uncertainty of condition.
3. Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread. [Obs.]
I stand in doubt of you.
4. Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.
2. Worthy of being feared; redoubtable. [Obs.]
4. Of uncertain issue or event.
5. Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious. [Obs.]
3. Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon.
Doubt"less, a. Free from fear or suspicion. [Obs.]
2. Sober; prudent; sedate; modest. [Scot.]
2. A dowcet, or deep's testicle.
2. (Med.) A syringe.
2. Anything of the consistency of such paste.
Doupe (?), n. (Zoöl.) The carrion crow. [Written also dob.] [Prov. Eng.]
C. Reade.
Dout"er (?), n. An extinguisher for candles. [Obs.]
2. A word of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
2. A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it.
4. pl. [From the adverb.] A state of depression; low state; abasement. [Colloq.]
M. Arnold.
I sit me down beside the hazel grove.
I was down and out of breath.
3. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
D. Webster.
I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house.
Down, a. 1. Downcast; as, a down look. [R.]
2. Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
At the downlying, at the travail in childbirth. [Scot.]
2. In plain terms; without ceremony.
3. Without delay; at once; completely. [Obs.]
2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.
2. Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.
3. Cunning; wary. [Slang, Eng.] Latham.
Dow"ral (?), a. Of or relating to a dower. [R.]
3. A gift or presents for the bride, on espousal. See Dower.
2. One who uses the dowser or divining rod. Eng. Cyc.
2. To make dull; to stupefy. [Obs.]
I was an hour . . . in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
2. An indefinite small number. Milton.
Doz"enth (?), a. Twelfth. [R.]
2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. Shak.
2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
2. Same as Dram.
2. A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents.
2. A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.
3. (Zoöl.) A genus of lizards. See Dragon, 6.
4. An allowance or deduction made from the gross weight of goods. Simmonds.
8. (Milling) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.
10. A current of air. Same as Draught.
2. To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.
4. To transfer by draft.
3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
4. To fish with a dragnet.
4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [Collog.] Thackeray.
5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
Drag"bolt` (?), n. A coupling pin. See under Coupling. [U. S.]
2. A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman. Johnson.
7. (Zoöl.) A variety of carrier pigeon.
C. Kingsley.
2. A variety of pigeon. Clarke.
2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
Dra*goon"er (?), n. A dragoon. [Obs.]
3. To filter.
3. pl. The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains. [Eng.] Halliwell.
2. The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.
2. [Cf. Dragon fly, under Dragon.] The drake fly.
Drake, n. [AS. draca dragon, L. draco. See Dragon.] 1. A dragon. [Obs.]
2. A small piece of artillery. [Obs.]
2. A minute quantity; a mite.
4. (Numis.) A Persian daric. Ezra ii. 69.
2. To rail at; to banter. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.
2. Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general.
Draugh (?), n. See Draft. [Obs.]
2. That which is drawn; as: (a) That which is taken by sweeping with a net.
4. Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
6. (Com.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.
7. A move, as at chess or checkers. [Obs.] Chaucer.
9. (Masonry) See Draft, n., 7.
2. Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.
3. Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.
2. To diminish or exhaust by drawing. [R.]
3. A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.
4. One who drinks drams; a tippler. [Obs.] Tatler.
Drave (?), old imp. of Drive. [Obs.]
2 Chron. v. 9.
I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood.
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
4. To remove the contents of; as: (a) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
11. To withdraw. [Obs.] Chaucer.
12. To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.
2. To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.
3. To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.
6. To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.
8. To become contracted; to shrink. "To draw into less room." Bacon.
2. A lot or chance to be drawn.
3. A drawn game or battle, etc. [Colloq.]
2. (Railroad) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.
5. The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
2. A species of damask made on the drawloom.
2. A kind of sledge or sled. Halliwell.
2. The charge, or sum paid, for the use of a dray.
2. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
3. An object of terrified apprehension.
4. A person highly revered. [Obs.] "Una, his dear dread." Spenser.
5. Fury; dreadfulness. [Obs.] Spenser.
6. Doubt; as, out of dread. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. Inspiring awe or reverence; awful. [Obs.] "God's dreadful law." Shak.
I had a dream which was not all a dream.
They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting
Your old men shall dream dreams
And still they dream that they shall still succeed
Drear"i*ness, n. 1. Sorrow; wretchedness. [Obs.]
2. Dismalness; gloomy solitude.
2. (Mining) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. Raymond.
2. A dredging machine.
Dree, v. i. To be able to do or endure. [Obs.]
Dree, a. Wearisome; tedious. [Prov. Eng.]
Drench"e (?), v. t. & i. To drown. [Obs.]
2. One who administers a drench.
2. A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.
3. Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it.
4. (Milling) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. Knight.
2. (Mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
3. An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
2. (Surg.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound. Wiseman.
7. Castigation; scolding; -- often with down. [Colloq.]
Dretch (?), v. t. & i. See Drecche. [Obs.]
Dreul (?), v. i. To drool. [Obs.]
Drey (?), n. A squirrel's nest. See Dray. [Obs.]
2. To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.
Drib"ble, n. A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. [Colloq.]
Drie (?), v. t. [See Dree.] To endure. [Obs.]
8. In South Africa, a ford in a river.
2. To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.
3. (Mach.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
2. Anything that drifts.
2. (Mining) Same as Drift, 11.
2. Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
3. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on. [Obs.]
4. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. [Obs.]
2. To sow in drills.
Drill, n. 1. A small trickling stream; a rill. [Obs.]
2. A training by repeated exercises.
2. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
4. To smoke, as tobacco. [Obs.]
Taylor (1630.)
2. Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.
2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.
3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.
2. To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.
2. That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting.
Drip"ple (?), a. [From Drip, cf. Dribble.] Weak or rare. [Obs.]
5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
7. To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.] Chaucer.
5. To distrain for rent. [Obs.]
2. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
M. Arnold.
2. Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.
3. A driveler; a fool; an idiot. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
4. A servant; a drudge. [Obs.] Huloet.
3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
2. Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.
2. Tendency; drift. [R.]
Drock (?), n. A water course. [Prov. Eng.]
2. Mean labor; toil.[Obs.]
2. To make a jest of; to set in a comical light. [R.]
The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer."
2. One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.
4. A humming or deep murmuring sound.
5. (Mus.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
2. To love in idleness; to do nothing. "Race of droning kings." Dryden.
3. (Arch.) (a) Same as Gutta. (b) Any small pendent ornament.
5. pl. Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.
7. Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.
5. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.
6. To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.
7. To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.
8. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
3. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
4. To fall dead, or to fall in death.
8. To fall short of a mark. [R.]
2. A dropping tube.
3. (Mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
2. pl. That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals.
2. Of or pertaining to dropsy.
2. Rust of metals. [R.] Addison.
Drotch"el (?), n. See Drossel. [Obs.]
2. Thirst; want of drink. Johnson.
3. Scarcity; lack.
2. Dry; thirsty; wanting drink.
3. A crowd of people in motion.
4. A road for driving cattle; a driftway. [Eng.]
5. (Agric.) A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land. Simmonds.
Dro"ven (?), p. p. of Drive. [Obs.]
2. A boat driven by the tide. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.
Drown"age (?), n. The act of drowning. [R.]
2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
3. Dull; stupid. " Drowsy reasoning." Atterbury.
2. A dredging box.
Whence merchants bring
C. Kingsley.
2. To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
3. To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.
3. (Zoöl.) See Drumfish.
5. A tea party; a kettledrum. G. Eliot.
3. To throb, as the heart. [R.] Dryden.
D. Webster.
2. To mumble in speaking. [Obs.]
2. The marching leader of a military band. [U.S.]
3. A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4.
2. One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.
2. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
Drunk, n. A drunken condition; a spree. [Slang]
2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.
3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.
Drunk"en*head (?), n. Drunkenness. [Obs.]
I. Watts.
Shak
Jowett (Thucyd. )
3. To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.
I Kings xiii. 4.
2. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.
2. One who administers two offices. Fuller.
2. To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.
3. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. [Obs.]
4. The body substance of an angler's fly. Davy.
3. Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.
2. (Naut.) pl. The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates. [Colloq.]
2. To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.
2. A cringing, servile person; a fawner.
4. Guidance; direction. [Obs.] Hammond.
2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
2. Tractableness; pliableness. South.
I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf.
Dud"der*y (?), n. A place where rags are bought and kept for sale. [Eng.]
Du*deen" (?), n. A short tobacco pipe. [Written also dudheen.] [Irish]
2. The haft of a dagger. Shak.
3. A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger. Hudibras.
I drink it to thee in dudgeon and hostility.
Dudg"eon, a. Homely; rude; coarse. [Obs.]
2. Effects, in general.[Slang]
5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
2. Right; just title or claim.
Du"el, v. i. & t. To fight in single combat. [Obs.]
3. Any old woman who is employed to guard a younger one; a governess. Arbuthnot.
2. A stupid, awkward, inefficient person.[Slang]
Dug"out` (dg"out), n. 1. A canoe or boat dug out from a large log. [U.S.]
2. A place dug out.
3. In some European countries, a sovereign prince, without the title of king.
Duke, v. i. To play the duke. [Poetic]
2. The title or dignity of a duke. Shak.
Dulce (?), v. t. To make sweet; to soothe. [Obs.]
2. Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious.
Dul*cif"lu*ous (?), a. [L. dulcis sweet + fluere to flow.] Flowing sweetly. [R.]
2. Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please.
I must ever have some Dulcinea in my head.
Dul"ci*ness (?), n. See Dulceness. [Obs.]
2. Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
3. Insensible; unfeeling.
3. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. "Dulls the mirror." Bacon.
Dul"wil*ly (?), n. [Prob. imitative.] (Zoöl.) The ring plover. [Prov. Eng.]
3. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. [R.]
Dum"found`er (?), v. t. To dumfound; to confound. [Written also dumbfounder.]
2. Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
4. (Drama) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.
5. A thick-witted person; a dolt. [Colloq.]
8. A floating barge connected with a pier. Knight.
2. (Bot.) Having a compact, bushy form.
I was musing in the midst of my dumps.
2. Absence of mind; revery. Locke.
4. An old kind of dance. [Obs.] Nares.
2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
3. That which is dumped.
4. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock.
2. A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads.
2. Sullen or discontented. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
2. An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
I never knew this town without dunces of figure.
Dun"cish (?), a. Somewhat like a dunce. [R.]
2. Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode.
1. Sam. ii. 8.
Dun"ny (?), a. Deaf; stupid.[Prov. Eng.]
Dunt"ed, a. Beaten; hence, blunted. [Obs.]
Dun"ter (?), n. (Zoöl.) A porpoise. [Scott.]
Dup"er*y (?), n. [F. duperie, fr. duper.] The act or practice of duping. [R.]
I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch.
I. Watts.
D. Webster.
2. Harshness; cruelty. Cockeram.
Du"rous (?), a. [L. durus.] Hard. [Obs. & R.]
2. A darkish color.
Dusk, v. t. To make dusk. [Archaic]
Dusk"en (?), v. t. To make dusk or obscure. [R.]
3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
4. Intellectually clouded.
3. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
4. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
5. Figuratively, a worthless thing.
6. Figuratively, a low or mean condition.
1 Sam. ii. 8.
7. Gold dust; hence: (Slang) Coined money; cash.
2. To sprinkle with dust.
3. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate. Sprat.
To dyst one's jacket, to give one a flogging. [Slang.]
2. Like dust; of the color of dust; as, a dusty white.
2. The language spoken in Holland.
2. Subservient; obsequious.
C. J. Smith.
4. Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors. Shak.
5. Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage. "My duty to you." Shak.
3. A sleeping potion; an opiate. Chaucer.
2. (Mech.) (a) A kind of crowbar. (b) A large wrench. Knight.
2. To abide; to remain; to continue.
I 'll rather dwell in my necessity.
C. J. Smith.
2. To break; to disperse. [R.] Clarendon.
2. Material used for dyeing; a dyestuff.
2. Relating to physical forces, effects, or laws; as, dynamical geology.
Dy"na*mi`tard (?), n. A political dynamiter. [A form found in some newspapers.]
2. A dynasty; a government. [Obs.]
E.
2. Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every. Shak.
I know each lane and every alley green.
Each"where` (?), adv. Everywhere. [Obs.]
4. Brittle; inflexible; not ductile. [Obs.]
2. Tartness; sourness. [Obs.]
2. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars.
Ea"grass (?), n. See Eddish. [Obs.]
4. (Arch.) (a) Same as Acroterium. (b) Same as Crossette.
5. Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention.
Ear"a*ble (?), a. Arable; tillable. [Archaic]
2. (Bot.) A species of primrose. See Auricula.
2. (Zoöl.) Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears.
Ear"ing, n. A plowing of land. [Archaic]
Earl, n. (Zoöl.) The needlefish. [Ireland]
2. The status, title, or dignity of an earl.
Earl"dor*man (?), n. Alderman. [Obs.]
Ear"let (?), n. [Ear + - let.] An earring. [Obs.]
2. A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.
I earn that [what] I eat.
Earn (?), v. t. & i. [See 1st Yearn.] To grieve. [Obs.]
Earn, v. i. [See 4th Yearn.] To long; to yearn. [Obs.]
2. Intent; fixed closely; as, earnest attention.
3. Serious; important. [Obs.]
Ear"nest, v. t. To use in earnest. [R.]
2 Cor. i. 22.
Ear"sore` (?), n. An annoyance to the ear. [R.]
4. A part of this globe; a region; a country; land.
6. The people on the globe.
2. To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; -- sometimes with up.
Earth, n. [From Ear to plow.] A plowing. [Obs.]
2. Relating to, or occasioned by, earthly objects.
Earth"din` (?), n. An earthquake. [Obs.]
2. Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable.
3. Made of earth; earthy. [Obs.] Holland.
Earth"mad` (?), n. [Earth + mad an earthworm.] (Zoöl.) The earthworm. [Obs.]
2. A mean, sordid person; a niggard. Norris.
1 Cor. xv. 47, 48 (Rev. Ver. )
3. Gross; low; unrefined. "Her earthy and abhorred commands." Shak.
3. A whisperer of insinuations; a secret counselor. Johnson.
2. To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate.
4. To entertain; to furnish with accommodations. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. Readily; without reluctance; willingly.
4. Smoothly; quietly; gently; gracefully; without &?;umult or discord.
5. Without shaking or jolting; commodiously; as, a carriage moves easily.
2. Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.
4. Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc.
5. Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.
2. The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day.
2. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England. Crabb.
3. (Zoöl.) The smew.
2. Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage.
6. Moderate; sparing; frugal. [Obs.] Chaucer.
1 Kings xiii. 28.
2 Sam. ix. 13.
2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
3. To make one's way slowly.
2. Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. [Colloq.]
2. Brow; ridge. [Obs.] "Eaves of the hill." Wyclif.
3. Eyelids or eyelashes.
2. Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark.
2. (Zoöl.) Tailless.
3. (Mach.) Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
4. Not coincident as to motive or end.
2. (Eccl.) A church, either as a body or as a building.
2. The Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus. [Obs.]
2. (Naval) An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation. Encyc. Dict.
2. Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
2. The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes.
2. Demonstration of admiration and approbation; applause. Prescott.
2. Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses.
2. Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs.
6. Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end. Grew.
2. One who is conversant with political economy; a student of economics.
2. Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.
Ec"sta*sy, v. t. To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm. [Obs.]
2. Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.
2. Tending to external objects. [R.] Norris.
2. A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed.
Ed"der, v. t. To bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge. [Obs.]
2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.
Ed"dy, v. t. To collect as into an eddy. [R.]
2. (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Edentata.
3. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
2. To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
2. To sail close to the wind.
I must edge up on a point of wind.
Edge"long (?; 115), adv. In the direction of the edge. [Obs.]
Edg"ing*ly, adv. Gradually; gingerly. [R.]
2. A building or edifice. [Obs.] Bullokar.
Ed"i*fi`er (?), n. 1. One who builds. [Obs.]
3. To teach or persuade. [Obs.] Bacon.
E*di`tion*er (?), n. An editor. [Obs.]
M. Arnold.
I have e'en done with you.
2. Affected with fear; affrighted. Burns.
Ee"ri*some (?), a. Causing fear; eerie. [Scot.]
2. To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.
2. Manifestation; expression; sign.
4. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
6. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to.
2 Chron. xxxiv. 22.
7. The purport; the sum and substance. "The effect of his intent." Chaucer.
8. Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.
2. One who is capable of active service.
2. Actually; in effect. [Obs.] Fuller.
Ef*fec"tu*ous*ly, adv. Effectively. [Obs.]
2. Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
Ef*fem"i*nize (?), v. t. To make effeminate. [Obs.]
Mrs. Browning
2. (Mech.) The ratio of useful work to energy expended. Rankine.
2. Covered with an efflorescence.
2. That which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux.
I. Taylor.
2. That which flows out; emanation; effluence.
2. That which flows out; effluvium; emanation.
Ef*form" (?), v. t. [Pref. ex- + form.] To form; to shape. [Obs.]
2. (Mech.) A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion. Rankine.
2. Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal. [Obs.] Young.
2. That which is poured out, literally or figuratively.
I wold never eft comen into the snare.
E*ger"mi*nate (?), v. i. [From L. egerminare to sprout.] To germinate. [Obs.]
3. Anything resembling an egg in form.
E*go"i*cal (?), a. Pertaining to egoism. [R.]
2. (Philos.) A believer in egoism.
E"go*the`ism (?), n. [Gr. 'egw` I + qeo`s God.] The deification of self. [R.]
E"gre (?), a. & n. See Eager, and Eagre. [Obs.]
E*gress"or (?), n. One who goes out. [R.]
4. (Zoöl.) A kind of ape.
Eg"ri*mo*ny (?), [Corrupted fr. agrimony.] (Bot.) The herb agrimony. [Obs.]
Eg"ri*mo*ny, n. [L. aegrimonia.] Sorrow. [Obs.]
2. A gypsy. [Obs.] Shak.
2. A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii.
2. A symbol denoting eighteen units, as 18 or xviii.
2. Consisting of one of eighteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
2. The eighth after the tenth.
2. Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing.
2. (Mus.) The interval of an octave.
2. Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.
2. Entailed; belonging to the eldest son. [Obs.]
1 Kings xviii. 27.
3. (Physiol.) The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct.
3. The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.
2. (Mech.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
Eke, n. An addition. [R.]
E*lab"o*ra*to*ry, n. A laboratory. [Obs.]
2. (Zoöl.) The elk or moose.
E*lap"sion (?), n. The act of elapsing. [R.]
2. Power of resistance to, or recovery from, depression or overwork.
2. Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic]
Eld, v. i. To age; to grow old. [Obs.]
Eld, v. t. To make old or ancient. [Obs.]
Jowett (Thucyd. )
2. An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
Eld"er*ish (?), a. Somewhat old; elderly. [R.]
El"dern (?), a. Made of elder. [Obs.]
2. Office of an elder; collectively, a body of elders.
2. Any region of fabulous wealth; exceeding richness.
2. A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant.
2. pl. (Theol.) Those who are chosen for salvation.
3. (Theol.) To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.
4. Discriminating choice; discernment. [Obs.]
7. Those who are elected. [Obs.]
2. Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.
2. Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.
3. In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.
M. Arnold.
2. A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy. [Obs.] Wyclif.
3. Electrifying; thrilling; magnetic. "Electric Pindar." Mrs. Browning.
2. Made of electrum, an alloy used by the ancients.
2. An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients.
3. German-silver plate. See German silver, under German.
3. Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor.
2. That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.
El`e*gi*og"ra*pher (?), n. [Gr. &?; an elegy + -graph + -er.] An elegist. [Obs.]
11. pl. The whole material composing the world.
2 Peter iii. 10.
12. pl. (Eccl.) The bread and wine used in the eucharist or Lord's supper.
2. To constitute; to make up with elements.
El`e*men*ta"tion (?), n. Instruction in the elements or first principles. [R.]
El"enge*ness, n. Loneliness; misery. [Obs.]
2. Ivory; the tusk of the elephant. [Obs.] Dryden.
E*leu`ther*o*ma"ni*ac, a. Mad for freedom. [R.]
4. To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character.
5. (Dialing) The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
2. A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.
3. (Mus.) Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.
2. A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
E*lic"i*tate (?), v. t. To elicit. [Obs.]
3. The refined spirit; the quintessence.
4. Any cordial or substance which invigorates.
El"les (?), adv. & conj. See Else. [Obs.]
2. (Gram.) Omission. See Ellipsis.
3. The elliptical orbit of a planet.
2. (Geom.) An ellipse. [Obs.]
2. Having a part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase.
2. With a part omitted; as, elliptically expressed.
Elm"en (?), a. Belonging to elms. [Obs.]
2. Departure from the usual state; an ecstasy. [Obs.]
3. Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction. [Obs.]
E*loign"ment (?), n. [F. éloignement.] Removal to a distance; withdrawal. [Obs.]
2. To put away; to separate; to keep off. [Obs.] Wyatt.
2. To remove further off. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
2. That which lengthens out; continuation.
3. Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance.
2. A mythical serpent. [Obs.] Milton.
2. Fig.: Whatever produces the effect of moving and persuasive speech.
3. That which is eloquently uttered or written.
2. Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different.
Else"wise` (?), adv. Otherwise. [R.]
El"sin (?), n. A shoemaker's awl. [Prov. Eng.]
E*lu"ci*da*to*ry (?), a. Tending to elucidate; elucidative. [R.]
2. Mysterious; also, foolish. [Obs.]
2. Hence, any delightful place.
I. Taylor.
E*mac`er*a"tion (?), n. Emaciation. [Obs.]
Em"a*nate (?), a. Issuing forth; emanant. [R.]
E*man"ci*pist (?), n. A freed convict. [Australia]
2. (Bot.) Notched at the summit.
3. (Cryst.) Having the edges truncated.
V. Knox.
Em*bace" (?), v. t. See Embase. [Obs.]
2. To bind up; to inclose.
2. To fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume.
2. To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.
2. To engage in any affair.
2. That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits. Smollett.
2. Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.
2. Message; errand. Shak.
3. The residence or office of an ambassador.
Em*bas"tard*ize (?), v. t. [Pref. em- + bastardize.] To bastardize. [Obs.]
Em*bat"tle, v. i. To be arrayed for battle. [Obs.]
3. Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field. J. Baillie.
2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
Em*bay"ment (?), n. A bay. [R.]
I. Taylor.
Em"ber*ings (?), n. pl. Ember days. [Obs.]
Em*bet"ter (?), v. t. To make better. [Obs.]
2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance. [Obs.]
2. To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon. [Archaic]
2. Intercalated time. Johnson.
2. To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
2. Having a part projecting like the boss of a shield.
3. Swollen; protuberant. [Obs.] "An embossed carbuncle." Shak.
2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury.
Em*bow"el*er (?), n. One who takes out the bowels. [Written also emboweller.]
2. To cling to; to cherish; to love. Shak.
4. To encircle; to encompass; to inclose.
7. (Law) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court. Blackstone.
2. State of being contained; inclosure. [Obs.]
3. Willing acceptance. [Obs.]
2. To upbraid. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.
2. To decorate; to make showy and fine. [Obs.]
Em*brawn" (?), v. t. To harden. [Obs.]
Em*breathe"ment (?), n. The act of breathing in; inspiration. [R.]
Em*bright" (?), v. t. To brighten. [Obs.]
2. To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.
2. To color in imitation of bronze. See Bronze, v. t.
Em*brue" (?), v. t. See Imbrue, Embrew. [Obs.]
Em"bry*ous (?), a. Embryonic; undeveloped. [R.]
Em*burse" (?), v. t. [See Imburse.] To furnish with money; to imburse. [Obs.]
Em"en*date*ly (?), adv. Without fault; correctly. [Obs.]
2. Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; calling for prompt action; urgent.
2. A glazier's diamond. Crabb.
Emforth my might, so far as lies in my power. [Obs.]
2. What is voided by the urinary passages; urine.
Em"i*grate (?), a. Migratory; roving. [Obs.]
2. A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.
Em"i*gra`tor (?), n. One who emigrates; am emigrant. [R.]
Em*mar"ble (?), v. t. To turn to marble; to harden. [Obs.]
2. To inclose; to surround. See Impale.
3. To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
4. (Her.) Same as Impale.
2. A putting to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
3. (Her.) Same as Impalement.
Em*pas"sion*ate (?), a. Strongly affected. [Obs.]
Em"per*ess (?), n. See Empress. [Obs.]
Em*per"ished (?), a. Perished; decayed. [Obs.]
I deem thy brain emperished be.
2. Not really, but apparently. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Em*phren"sy (?), v. t. To madden. [Obs.]
C. J. Smith.
2. [See 1st Emplaster.] (Med.) The application of a plaster or salve.
Em*plore" (?), v. t. See Implore. [Obs.]
Em*plumed" (?), a. Plumed. [R.]
2. (Physiol.) The brain. [Obs.]
2. A female sovereign.
3. A sovereign mistress. "Empress of my soul." Shak.
2. The qualifies which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits.
3. Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.
I shall find you empty of that fault.
3. Having nothing to carry; unburdened. "An empty messenger." Shak.
6. Producing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine.
8. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams.
2. To become empty. "The chapel empties." B. Jonson.
2. pl. The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. [U.S.]
Em`py*reu"ma*tize (?), v. t. To render empyreumatic. [R.]
Em"rods (?), n. pl. See Emerods. [Obs.]
2. Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention.
Em"u*la`tress (?), n. A female emulator. [R.]
2. Yielding oil by expression; as, emulsive seeds.
3. Producing or yielding a milklike substance; as, emulsive acids.
2. A prefix from Gr. &?; in, meaning in; as, encephalon, entomology. See In- .
2. To act; to perform; to do; to effect. [Obs.]
3. To act the part of; to represent; to play.
I did enact Julius Caesar.
En*act", n. Purpose; determination. [Obs.]
En*am"bush (?), v. t. To ambush. [Obs.]
2. (Min.) A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe.
2. To variegate with colors as if with enamel.
4. To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.
En*am"or*ment (?), n. The state of being enamored. [R.]
2. (Med.) Allopathy; -- a term used by followers of Hahnemann, or homeopathists.
En*bat"tled (?), a. Embattled. [Obs.]
1 Chron. xi. 15.
En*can"ker (?), v. t. To canker. [Obs.]
2. (Biol.) An old theory of generation similar to emboîtement. See Ovulist.
2. The area or town inclosed by a line of fortification.
En*chaf"ing, n. Heating; burning. [Obs.]
2. To hold fast; to confine; as, to enchain attention.
3. To link together; to connect. Howell.
2. To chase; to ornament by embossing or engraving; as, to enchase a watch case.
3. To delineate or describe, as by writing. [Obs.]
En*chas"ten (?), v. t. To chasten. [Obs.]
En*cinc"ture (?), n. A cincture. [Poetic]
En*cin"dered (?), a. Burnt to cinders. [R.]
En*clave"ment (?), n. [F.] The state of being an enclave. [Recent]
En*cof"fin (?), v. t. To put in a coffin. [R.]
En*cold"en (?), v. t. To render cold. [Obs.]
En*col"lar (?), v. t. To furnish or surround with a collar. [R.]
En*col"or (?), v. t. To color. [R.]
En*com"ber (?), v. t. See Encumber. [Obs.]
C. J. Smith.
I am most fortunate thus accidentally to encounter you.
I will encounter with Andronicus.
As one for . . . fierce encounters fit
To join their dark encounter in mid- air
1 Sam. xxx. 6.
2. That which is taken by encroaching on another.
3. (Law) An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another.
I. Taylor.
En*cum"ber*ment (?), n. [Cf. F. encombrement.] Encumbrance. [R.]
2. (Law) Same as Incumbrance.
I shall see an end of him.
5. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends.
6. (Carpet Manuf.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
2. To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.
3. To destroy; to put to death. "This sword hath ended him." Shak.
End"-all` (?), n. Complete termination. [R.]
2. To incur the hazard of; to risk. [Obs.]
En*de"mi*al (?), a. Endemic. [R.]
En*den`i*za"tion (?), n. The act of naturalizing. [R.]
En*den"ize (?), v. t. To endenizen. [Obs.]
En*di"a*demed (?), a. Diademed. [R.]
2. Infinite; excessive; unlimited. Shak.
4. Void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit.
End"long` (?; 115), adv. & prep. [Cf. Along.] Lengthwise; along. [Archaic]
2. (Med.) Seated or generated within the heart; as, endocardial murmurs.
2. (Biol.) Originating from within; increasing by internal growth.
2. (Zoöl.) And endostoma.
I. Taylor.
I will no longer endure it.
2 Tim. ii. 10.
3. To harden; to toughen; to make hardy. [Obs.]
2. With the end forward.
I say unto you, Love your enemies.
En"e*my, a. Hostile; inimical. [Obs.]
2. Having energy or great power; energetic.
4. (Physics) Capacity for performing work.
2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
E*ner"va*tive (?), a. Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening. [R.]
2. To give in vassalage; to make subservient. [Obs.]
En*flesh" (?), v. t. To clothe with flesh. [Obs.]
3. To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
6. To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
En*force (?), v. i. 1. To attempt by force. [Obs.]
2. To prove; to evince. [R.] Hooker.
3. To strengthen; to grow strong. [Obs.] Chaucer.
En*force", n. Force; strength; power. [Obs.]
2. A giving force to; a putting in execution.
En*freeze" (?), v. t. To freeze; to congeal. [Obs.]
3. To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw.
4. To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.
5. To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.
4. (Mach.) To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.
3. Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
4. (Mil.) An action; a fight; a battle.
2. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent. Shak.
En"gine, v. t. 1. To assault with an engine. [Obs.]
2. One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
2. Engines, in general; instruments of war.
3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone.
2. Contrived with care; ingenious. [Obs.]
En"gle, v. t. To cajole or coax, as favorite. [Obs.]
I 'll presently go and engle some broker.
3. A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.
En*gloom" (?), v. t. To make gloomy. [R.]
2. To glut. [Obs.] "Englutted with vanity." Ascham.
En*gore" (?), v. t. 1. To gore; to pierce; to lacerate. [Obs.]
2. To make bloody. [Obs.] Chapman.
2. To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour. Spenser.
2. (Med.) Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested.
3. (Metal.) The clogging of a blast furnace.
En*graff" (?), v. t. [See Ingraft.] To graft; to fix deeply. [Obs.]
En*graff"ment (?), n. See Ingraftment. [Obs.]
2. (Her.) To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.
3. To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1.
En*grap"ple (?), v. t. & i. To grapple. [Obs.]
4. To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.
2. (Zoöl.) Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines.
2. Engraved work. [R.] Barrow.
2. That which is engraved; an engraved plate.
2. To amass. [Obs.]
En*gulf"ment (?), n. A swallowing up as if in a gulf. [R.]
I. Taylor.
I am enjoined by oath to observe three things.
3. To have sexual intercourse with. Milton.
2. That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction.
M. Arnold.
2. To excite; to rouse into action; to incite.
2 Cor. vi. 11.
3. To set at large or set free. [Archaic]
M. Arnold.
En*length"en (?), v. t. To lengthen. [Obs.]
2. To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.
2. The writing by which an enlisted man is bound.
2. A state of opposition; hostility.
En*move" (?), v. t. See Emmove. [Obs.]
En*mure" (?), v. t. To immure. [Obs.]
2. To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.
2. That which ennobles; excellence; dignity.
2. Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime.
I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.
2. To utter; to articulate.
2. To rove over; to range. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.
En*ring" (?), v. t. To encircle. [R.]
En*rive" (?), v. t. To rive; to cleave. [Obs.]
2. To envelop; to inwrap; to involve. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. A writing in which anything is enrolled; a register; a record. Sir J. Davies.
1 Pet. v. 3.
En*sear" (?), v. t. To sear; to dry up. [Obs.]
En*seint" (n*snt"), a. (Law) With child; pregnant. See Enceinte. [Obs.]
En*shel"ter (?), v. t. To shelter. [Obs.]
2. A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice.
3. Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol.
En"sign, v. t. 1. To designate as by an ensign. [Obs.]
2. The fodder preserved in a silo.
En*so"ber (?), v. t. To make sober. [Obs.]
2. To form into a sphere.
En*style" (?), v. t. To style; to name. [Obs.]
I. Taylor.
2. To betroth. [Obs.] Sir T. More.
2. To appoint hereditary possessor. [Obs.]
3. To cut or carve in an ornamental way. [Obs.]
2. The condition of being entailed.
3. A thing entailed.
2. (Med.) Same as Entasia.
2. To treat with tenderness. [R.] Young.
11. To initiate; to introduce favorably. [Obs.] Shak.
3. To penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; -- with into.
En"ter*deal` (?), n. [Enter- + deal.] Mutual dealings; intercourse. [Obs.]
2. To treat with hospitality; to entertain. [Obs.]
I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke.
5. To meet or encounter, as an enemy. [Obs.] Shak.
7. To lead on; to bring along; to introduce. [Obs.]
3. Admission into service; service.
4. Payment of soldiers or servants; wages. [Obs.]
En`ter*take" (?), v. t. To entertain. [Obs.]
En*thuse" (?), v. t. & i. To make or become enthusiastic. [Slang]
4. Lively manifestation of joy or zeal.
En*thu`si*as"tic, n. An enthusiast; a zealot. [Obs.]
En*tier"ty (?), n. See Entirety. [Obs.]
4. Not gelded; -- said of a horse.
5. Internal; interior. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely.
2. Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. [R.]
2. That which is entire; the whole. Bacon.
3. To attribute; to ascribe. [Obs.]
2. A treatise on the science of entomology.
2. A group of marsupials which are partly insectivorous, as the opossum.
3. A group of edentates, including the ant- eaters.
2. A dance, piece of music, or interlude, performed between two acts of a drama.
2. The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth.
3. The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
2. An applicant for admission. Stormonth.
I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well.
I must entreat of you some of that money.
4. To invite; to entertain. [Obs.] "Pleasures to entreat." Spenser.
1 Mac. x. 47.
2. To make an earnest petition or request.
2. Any small entertainment between two greater ones. [R.]
En"tryng (?), n. Am entrance. [Obs.]
2. (Med.) To remove without cutting (as a tumor).
3. To bring to light; to make clear. Sclater (1654).
2. A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
3. (Rhet.) A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
En*vas"sal (?), v. t. To make a vassal of. [Obs.]
2. That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
En*ven"ime (?), v. t. To envenom. [Obs.]
En*vig"or (?), v. t. To invigorate. [Obs.]
3. Inspiring envy. [Obs. or Poetic]
4. Excessively careful; cautious. [Obs.]
En*vi"ron, adv. [F.] About; around. [Obs.]
En*vol"ume (?), v. t. To form into, or incorporate with, a volume. [R.]
3. Emulation; rivalry. [Obs.]
4. Public odium; ill repute. [Obs.]
5. An object of envious notice or feeling.
3. To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
4. To do harm to; to injure; to disparage. [Obs.]
5. To hate. [Obs.] Marlowe.
6. To emulate. [Obs.] Spenser.
En*wid"en (?), v. t. To widen. [Obs.]
2. To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern. Donne.
2. (Geol.) Formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes.
2. One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist.
2. A jolly companion; a roisterer. [Obs.] Shak.
2. Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.
2. (Zoöl.) The dorsal wall of the head of insects.
2. One given to epicurean indulgence.
Ep`i*cu*re"ous (?), a. Epicurean. [Obs.]
2. Epicurean habits of living; luxury.
2. To feed or indulge like an epicure. Fuller.
Ep`i*der*mat"ic (?), a. Epidermal. [R.]
Ep`i*der"me*ous (?), a. Epidermal. [R.]
Ep`i*der"mic*al (?), a. Epidermal. [R.]
Ep`i*der"mi*dal (?), a. Epidermal. [R.]
Ep`i*ge"al (?), a. (Bot.) Epigæous. [R.]
3. The style of the epigram.
2. A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.
E*piph"o*neme (?), n. Epiphonema. [R.]
2. (Med.) A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.
2. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the epipodium of Mollusca.
2. The collective body of bishops.
3. The time of a bishop's rule.
2. Episcopacy. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
2. (Eccl.) The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.
Ep"i*taph, v. t. To commemorate by an epitaph. [R.]
Ep"i*taph, v. i. To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph. [R.]
2. (Med.) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm. Dunglison.
2. Term; expression; phrase. "Stuffed with epithets of war." Shak.
Ep"i*thet, v. t. To describe by an epithet. [R.]
Ep`i*thu*met"ic (?), a. Epithumetical. [Obs.]
2. A compact or condensed representation of anything.
C. J. Smith.
I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
Ep"u*lose` (?), a. [L. epulum a feast.] Feasting to excess. [Obs.]
Ep`u*los"i*ty (?), n. A feasting to excess. [Obs.]
5. Of the same interest or concern; indifferent.
7. (Math.) Exactly agreeing with respect to quantity.
2. State of being equal; equality. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. To make equal return to; to recompense fully.
3. Evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of surface.
2. To pronounce equal; to compare as equal.
3. To be equal to; equal; to match. [Obs.]
2. An officer of princes or nobles, charged with the care of their horses.
2. Being or riding on horseback; mounted; as, an equestrian statue.
E"qui*crure (?), a. Equicrural. [Obs.]
2. Equinoctial wind or storm. [R.] Dryden.
2. To dress up; to array; accouter.
2. Retinue; train; suite. Swift.
E*quip"a*ra*ble (?) a. [L. aequiparabilis.] Comparable. [Obs. or R.]
2. Counterpoise.
I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken.
2. Equal power or force; equivalent amount.
E*quiv"a*lent, v. t. To make the equivalent to; to equal; equivalence. [R.]
3. Uncertain, as an indication or sign; doubtful. "How equivocal a test." Burke.
2. An equivocation; a guibble. B. Jonson.
M. Arnold.
2. The state of being plucked up by the roots.
2. Rather than.
I will be thrown into Etna, . . . ere I will leave her.
2. (Greek Myth.) The son of Chaos and brother of Nox, who dwelt in Erebus.
2. Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
3. Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
4. Watchful; alert.
6. (Her.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
3. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
4. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
E*rect", v. i. To rise upright. [Obs.]
Sidney
3. State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.
4. Anything erected; a building of any kind.
2. (Anat.) A muscle which raises any part.
I am as fair now as I was erewhile.
4. (Anat.) See 2d Calcar, 3 (b).
I will make it [Babylon] a possession for the ericius and pools of waters.
Er"i*gi*ble (r"*j*b'l), a. [See Erect.] Capable of being erected. [Obs.]
4. (Her.) One of the furs. See Fur (Her.)
Er"mit (?), n. [See Hermit.] A hermit. [Obs.]
2. (Bot.) Having the edge worn away so as to be jagged or irregularly toothed.
2. The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.
5. To offend, as by erring.
I have a secret errand to thee, O king.
I will not eat till I have told mine errand.
2. Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant.
2. The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson.
3. Irregular; changeable. "Erratic fever." Harvey.
2. A rogue. [Obs.] Cockeram.
2. Misleading; misled; mistaking. [Obs.]
2. Previously; before; formerly; heretofore. Chaucer.
Erst`while" (-hwl"), adv. Till then or now; heretofore; formerly. [Archaic]
E*ru"di*ate (?), v. t. [L. erudire.] To instruct; to educate; to teach. [Obs.]
2. That which bursts forth.
3. A violent exclamation; ejaculation.
2. (Min.) See Erythrite, 2.
2. To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.
I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former escapes.
3. A sally. "Thousand escapes of wit." Shak.
5. (Arch.) An apophyge.
6. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
2. Way of escape; vent. [R.]
Es*chaunge" (?), n. Exchange. [Obs.]
2. Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.
3. That which falls to one; a reversion or return
2. To escape from; to avoid. [Obs.]
Es*chew"ment (?), n. The act of eschewing. [R.]
Es*coch"eon (?), n. Escutcheon. [Obs.]
Es*cot" (?), n. [OF.] See Scot, a tax. [Obs.]
Es"cript (?), n. [OF.] A writing. [Obs.]
Eskimo dog
2. (Hort.) A grass plat; a lawn. Simmonds.
2. To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry.
2. To inspect narrowly; to examine and keep watch upon; to watch; to observe.
3. An assay. See Assay, n. [Obs.]
2. To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay. [Obs.] Locke.
3. Constituent substance.
4. A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.
6. Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.
2. Hence, really existing; existent.
6. (Med.) Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.
2. Excuse; exemption. [Obs.]
2. The state of being established, founded, and the like; fixed state.
2. Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
3. A person of high rank. [Obs.]
2. Tom settle as a fortune. [Archaic] Shak.
3. To endow with an estate. [Archaic]
2. Valuable; worth a great price. [R.]
3. Worth of esteem or respect; deserving our good opinion or regard.
Es"ti*ma*ble (?), n. A thing worthy of regard. [R.]
3. Favorable opinion; esteem; regard; honor.
I shall have estimation among multitude, and honor with the elders.
4. Supposition; conjecture.
2. Pertaining to an estimate. [R.]
2. A blow with edge of a sword. Farrow.
I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me.
Es*tran"gle (?), v. t. To strangle. [Obs.]
2. (Com.) The down of the ostrich. Brande & C.
E*su"ri*ent, n. One who is hungry or greedy. [R.]
2. To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.
I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875.
3. To sketch; to delineate. [R.]
2. Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.
2 Tim. ii. 10.
3. Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.
4. Existing at all times without change; immutable.
M. Arnold.
2. That which is endless and immortal. Young.
E*ter"ni*fy (?), v. t. To make eternal. [Obs.]
2. Condition which begins at death; immortality.
Eth"el (?), a. [AS. e&?;ele, æ&?;ele. See Atheling.] Noble. [Obs.]
2. Supposed matter above the air; the air itself.
2. To render ethereal or spiritlike.
2. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or resembling, ether.
I. Taylor.
Eth"i*dene (?), n. [From Ether.] (Chem.) Ethylidene. [Obs.]
Eth"nic (?) n. A heathen; a pagan. [Obs.]
2. (Med.) To become pale through disease or absence of light.
2. (Med.) To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light.
2. (Med.) Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease. Dunglison.
V. Baker.
2. Original or fundamental signification. [R.]
Eu"cho*logue, n. [F. euchologe.] Euchology. [R.]
2. To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme. [Slang.]
Eu"pho*nize (?), v. t. To make euphonic. [R.]
Eu"pho*nous (?), n. Euphonious. [R.]
2. One born of European parents in Asia.
Eu"ri*pize (?), v. t. [See Euripus.] To whirl hither and thither. [Obs.]
2. (Zoöl) A genus of ophiurans with much-branched arms.
2. (Med.) Regularly of the pulse.
2. (Bot.) A genus of palms, some species of which are elegant trees.
2. Fig.: To make empty; to deprive. [R.]
3. Abolition; nullification. [Obs.] Hooker.
E*vad"i*ble (?), a. Capable of being evaded. [R.]
I believe him to have evanesced or evaporated.
2. Vanishing from notice; imperceptible.
E*van"ge*ly (?), n. Evangel. [Obs.]
E*van"gile (?), n. [F. évangile. See Evangel.] Good tidings; evangel. [R.]
3. To give vent to; to dissipate. [R.]
3. That which is evaporated; vapor.
4. (Steam Engine) See Vaporization.
E*va"si*ble (?), a. That may be evaded. [R.]
Eve (?), n. [See Even, n.] 1. Evening. [Poetic]
3. Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
It will even all inequalities
2. To equal. [Obs.] "To even him in valor." Fuller.
4. To set right; to complete.
5. To act up to; to keep pace with. Shak.
2. Up to, or down to, an unusual measure or level; so much as; fully; quite.
4. At the very time; in the very case.
I knew they were bad enough to please, even when I wrote them.
Jowett (Thucyd. )
2. To discuss; to ventilate. [Obs.] Johnson.
2. Final; ultimate. "Eventual success." Cooper.
3. (Law) Dependent on events; contingent. Marshall.
2. (Phren.) Disposition to take cognizance of events.
2. At all times; through all time; always; forever.
3. Without cessation; continually.
M. Arnold.
2. (With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God.
4. A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See Lasting.
2. Continual; incessant; unintermitted.
I evermore did love you, Hermia.
2. To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine.
2. Every one. Cf. Each. [Obs.] "Every of your wishes." Shak.
2. To evince; to prove. [Obs.] Cheyne.
2. Conclusive evidence; proof. [Obs.]
2. One who bears witness. [R.] "Infamous and perjured evidences." Sir W. Scott.
1 Chron. vii. 23.
Ev`i*ra"tion (?), n. [L. eviratio.] Castration. [Obs.]
Ev`i*ter"ni*ty (?), n. Eternity. [Obs.]
M. Arnold.
Ev"o*ca`tor (?), n. [L.] One who calls forth. [R.]
4. (Arith. & Alg.) The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.
2. To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors.
Ev`ul*ga"tion (?), n. A divulging. [Obs.]
I took a great pains to make out the exact truth.
Jowett (Thucyd. )
3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
Ex*act", v. i. To practice exaction. [R.]
Ex*act"er (?), n. An exactor. [R.]
I. Taylor.
2. To satirize; to censure severely. [Obs.] Hooker.
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.
Exalt thy towery head, and lift thine eyes
2. One who is to be examined. [Obs.] H. Prideaux.
2. That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.
I gave, thou sayest, the example; I led the way.
1 Cor. x. 6.
Ex*am"ple*less (?), a. Without or above example. [R.]
Ex*an"i*mate (?), v. t. To deprive of animation or of life. [Obs.]
Ex*auc"tor*ate (?), v. t. See Exauthorate. [Obs.]
2. Violent anger; a growing angry. [Obs.] Blount.
3. (Engin.) To dig out and remove, as earth.
2. To be more or greater; to be paramount. Shak.
I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
2. To exceed or go beyond; to surpass.
3. A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency.
2. To object to; to protest against. [Obs.] Shak.
Jowett (Th. )
Ex*cept"less, a. Not exceptional; usual. [Obs.]
Ex*cer"e*brose` (?), a. [See Excerebration.] Brainless. [R.]
2. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract. [R.]
2. Available for making exchanges; ratable. "An exchangeable value." J. S. Mill.
Ex*cheat"or (?), n. See Escheator. [Obs.]
Ex*cip"i*ent, n. 1. An exceptor. [R.]
11 Allen's (Mass. ) Rpts.
2. To impose upon; to overcharge. [Prov. Eng.]
2. (Eccl.) The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.
Ex*cit"ive, n. That which excites; an excitant. [R.]
Ex*claim", n. Outcry; clamor. [Archaic]
2. (Physiol.) The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.
3. Thing emitted. Sir T. Browne.
Poets . . . were excommuned Plato's common wealth
2. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
Ex`com*mun"ion (?). A shutting out from communion; excommunication. [Obs.]
2. Stripping of possession; spoliation. [Obs.]
Ex*cres"cen*cy (?), n. Excrescence. [Obs.]
2. That which is excreted; excrement. Bacon.
I exculpate him further for his writing against me.
Ex*curse" (?), v. t. [See excurrent.] To journey or pass thought. [R.]
3. A wandering from a subject; digression.
I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions.
I. Taylor.
I must excuse what can not be amended.
3. To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.
I pray thee have me excused.
2 Cor. xii. 19.
2. One who excuses or forgives another. Shelton.
2. To inspect; to investigate; to decipher. [R.]
3. To seize and detain by law, as goods. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
2. That which is execrated; a detested thing.
5. To put to death illegally; to kill. [Obs.] Shak.
2. To perform musically.
6. The act of sacking a town. [Obs.] Beau. & FL.
2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
2. An executioner. [Obs.]
2. (Math.) The process of finding the roots of an equation. [Obs.]
2. A copy of a book or writing. [Obs.] Udall.
Ex*em"plar, a. Exemplary. [Obs.]
Ex`em*plar"i*ty (&?;), n. [Cf. LL. exemplaritas.] Exemplariness. [R.]
3. Illustrating as the proof of a thing. Fuller.
2. That which exemplifies; a case in point; example.
3. To prove or show by an attested copy.
2. Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.] Chapman.
Ex*en`ter*a"tion (?), n. [LL. exenteratio.] Act of exenterating. [R.]
2. Official recognition or permission. Prescott.
4. The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.
6. That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
Ex*ert"ment (?), n. Exertion. [R.]
3. A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
Ex*hale"ment (?), n. Exhalation. [Obs.]
Ex*hal"ence (?), n. Exhalation. [R.]
Ex*haust"ment (?), n. Exhaustion; drain. [Obs.]
3. (Med.) To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel.
2. (Law) A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.
I have given more exhibitions to scholars, in my days, than to the priests.
4. (Med.) The act of administering a remedy.
2. The state of being enlivened or cheerful.
2. Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition.
Ex*hu"ma*ted (?), a. Disinterred. [Obs.]
Ex`ic*ca"tion (?), n. See Exsiccation. [Obs.]
Ex"i*gent, n. 1. Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment. [Obs.]
2. (o. Eng. Law) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry. Abbott.
3. That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.
3. A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out.
2. (Gr. Drama) The final chorus; the catastrophe.
Ex"o*dy (?), n. Exodus; withdrawal. [Obs.]
2. (Biol.) Growing by addition to the exterior.
3. To discharge from duty or obligation, as a bail.
2. Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.
2. To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.
2. Conjuration for raising spirits. [R.] Shak.
2. A conjurer who can raise spirits. [R.]
I. Taylor.
2. (Bot.) A knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease.
Ex*panse", v. t. To expand. [Obs.]
3. Space through which anything is expanded; also, pure space.
Ex*pan"sure (?shur; 135), n. Expanse. [Obs.] "Night's rich expansure."
Ex*pa"ti*a*to*ry (?), a. Expansive; diffusive. [R.]
2. That which is expected or looked for.
2. That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
Ex*pede" (?) v. t. To expedite; to hasten. [Obs.]
2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.]
3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.]
2. Quick; expeditious. [Obs.]
2. Means devised in an exigency; shift.
2. With expedition; quickly. [Obs.]
Ex*ped"i*ment (?) n. An expedient. [Obs.]
2. Expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt.
2. To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially.
With winged expedition
2. To drive away from one's country; to banish.
4. To keep out, off, or away; to exclude. "To expel the winter's flaw." Shak.
5. To discharge; to shoot. [Obs.]
2. To pay out or disburse money.
2. That which is expended or paid out; expense.
3. Loss. [Obs.] Shak.
P. Henry
2. To exercise; to train by practice.
2. An experimenter. [Obs.] Sir. K. Gigby.
Ex*pe"ri*ent (-ent), a. Experienced. [Obs.]
2. Experience. [Obs.]
2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
Ex*per`i*men"ta*tive (?), a. Experimental; of the nature of experiment. [R.]
Ex*per"i*men*ta`tor (?), n. [LL.] An experimenter. [R.]
Ex*pert" (?), v. t. To experience. [Obs.]
2. To purify with sacred rites. [Obs.]
Deut. xviii. 10 (Douay version)
Ex"pi*a*tist (?), n. An expiator. [R.]
3. To emit; to give out. [Obs.] Dryden.
4. To bring to a close; to terminate. [Obs.]
2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation.
2. The sense given by an expositor. Bp. Burnet.
4. To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.
2. See Explosive, n., 2.
2. One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt. South.
2. Combat; war. [Obs.]
2. Exploitation. Harper's Mag.
2. Commodity exported; an export.
3. The act of carrying out. [R.] Bourne.
Ex*pos"tu*late, v. t. To discuss; to examine. [Obs.]
4. (Photog.) The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.
I have express commandment.
3. An express office.
4. That which is sent by an express messenger or message. [Obs.] Eikon Basilike.
5. To denote; to designate.
M. Arnold.
I am sent expressly to your lordship.
M. Arnold.
M. Arnold.
2. The state of being expelled or driven out.
I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough.
Ex*san"guine (?), a. Bloodless. [R.]
2. (Zoöl.) Destitute of true, or red, blood, as insects.
D. H. Barnes.
2. (Eccles.) A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath. Jer. Taylor.
3. (Physiol.) A strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs.
Ex*suf"fli*cate (?), a. Empty; frivolous. [A Shakespearean word only once used.]
Ex"ta*cy (?), n. See Ecstasy. [Obs.]
2. Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding.
I. Taylor.
3. Publicly known; conspicuous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech
4. To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand.
2. (Law) Liable to be taken by a writ of extent.
Ex*tend"less*ness, n. Unlimited extension. [Obs.]
2. (Physics) That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.
5. (Physiol.) The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion.
2. Capable of being extended. [Obs.]
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3. To lower or degrade; to detract from. [Obs.]
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3. (Math.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.]
2. (Math.) Elimination. [R.]
2. Outward form or part; exterior. [R.]
4. Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.
6. (Anat.) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.
Adam was then no less glorious in his externals
Ex`til*la"tion (?), n. Distillation. [Obs.]
Ex*tim`u*la"tion (?), n. Stimulation. [Obs.]
2. To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.
2. (Law) The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation. Abbott.
Ex*tirp" (&?;), v. t. [Cf. F. extirper.] To extirpate. [Obs.]
2. (Law) To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2.
3. That which is extorted or exacted by force.
I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.
6. Extraction; descent. [Obs.] South.
3. That which is extracted; extract; essence.
2. Tending or serving to extract or draw out.
2. Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses.
Knowing whence thou art extraught
2. An extravagant flight of sentiment or language.
2. Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.
4. Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.
5. (Math.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series.
2. To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture.
2. The act of sending out or evolving.
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Ex*tu"ber*an*cy (?), n. Extuberance. [R.]
Ex*uc"cous (?), a. See Exsuccous. [Obs.]
2. To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame. [Obs.]
2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.
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Ey (?), n.[AS. g. Cf.Eyot.] An island. [Obs.]
Ey"as, a. Unfledged, or newly fledged. [Obs.]
8. Tinge; shade of color. [Obs.]
Eye, v. i. To appear; to look. [Obs.]
2. Eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, etc.
3. The retina. [Poetic]
4. A glass eyecup. See Eyecup.
2. A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid.
2. (Min.) Eye agate. See under Eye.
To cut one's eyeteeth, to become acute or knowing. [Colloq.]
Eye"wink`er (?), n. An eyelash. [A child's word.]
2 Pet. i. 16.