Dissweeten – Divarication

Dissweeten

DISSWEETEN, verb transitive To deprive of sweetness. [Not used.]

Dissyllabic

DISSYLLABIC, adjective Consisting of two syllables only; as a dissyllabic foot in poetry.

Dissyllable

DISSYLLABLE, noun [Gr., two or twice; a syllable.] A word consisting of two syllables only; as, paper, whiteness, virtue.

Distaff

DISTAFF, noun

1. The staff of a spinning-wheel, to which a bunch of flax or tow is tied, and from which the thread is drawn.

She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff Proverbs 31:19.

2. Figuratively, a woman, or the female sex.

His crown usurped, a distaff on the throne.

Distaff-Thistle

DISTAFF-THISTLE, noun A species of thistle; a name of the Atraetylis, and of the Carthamus, or false saffron.

Distain

DISTAIN, verb transitive [dis and stain. Latin See Stain.]

1. To stain; to tinge with any different color from the natural or proper one; to discolor. We speak of a sword distained with blood; a garment distained with gore. It has precisely the signification of stain, but is used chiefly or appropriately in poetry and the higher kinds of prose.

2. To blot; to sully; to defile; to tarnish.

She distained her honorable blood.

The worthiness of praise distains his worth.

Distained

DISTAINED, participle passive Stained; tinged; discolored; blotted; sullied.

Distaining

DISTAINING, participle present tense Staining; discoloring; blotting; tarnishing.

Distance

DISTANCE, noun [Latin , to stand apart; to stand.]

1. An interval or space between two objects; the length of the shortest line which intervenes between two things that are separate; as a great or small distance distance may be aline, an inch, a mile, or any indefinite length; as the distance between the sun and Saturn.

2. Preceded by at, remoteness of place.

He waits at distance till he hears from Cato.

3. Preceded by thy, his, your, her, their, a suitable space, or such remoteness as is common or becoming; as, let him keep his distance; keep your distance [See No. 8.]

4. A space marked on the course where horses run.

This horse ran the whole field out of distance

5. Space of time; any indefinite length of time, past or future, intervening between two periods or events; as the distance of an hour, of a year, of an age.

6. Ideal space or separation.

Qualities that affect our senses are, in the things themselves, so united and blended, that there is no distance between them.

7. Contrariety; opposition.

Banquo was your enemy, so he is mine, and in such bloody distance--

8. The remoteness which respect requires; hence, respect.

I hope your modesty will know what distance to the crown is due.

Tis by respect and distance that authority is upheld.

[See No. 3]

9. Reserve; coldness; alienation of heart.

On the part of heaven now alientated, distance and distaste.

10. Remoteness in succession or relation; as the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.

11. In music, the interval between two notes; as the distance of a fourth or seventh.

DISTANCE, verb transitive

1. To place remote; to throw off from the view.

2. To leave behind in a race; ; to win the race by a great superiority.

3. To leave at a great distance behind.

He distanced the most skillful of his cotemporaries.

Distanced

DISTANCED, participle passive Left far behind; cast out of the race.

Distant

DISTANT, adjective [Latin , standing apart.]

1. Separate; having an intervening space of any indefinite extent. One point may be less than a line or a hairs breadth distant from another. Saturn is supposed to be nearly nine hundred million miles distant from the sun.

2. Remote in place; as, a distant object appears under a small angle.

3. Remote in time, past or future; as a distant age or period of the world.

4. Remote in the line of succession or descent, indefinitely; as a distant descendant; a distant ancestor; distant posterity.

5. Remote in natural connection or consanguinity; as a distant relation; distant kindred; a distant collateral line.

6. Remote in nature; not allied; not agreeing with or in conformity to; as practice very distant from principles or profession.

7. Remote in view; slight; faint; not very likely to be realized; as, we have a distant hope or prospect of seeing better times.

8. Remote in connection; slight; faint; indirect; not easily seen or understood; as a distant hint or allusion to a person or subject. So also we say, a distant idea; a distant thought; a distant resemblance.

9. Reserved; shy; implying haughtiness, coldness of affection, indifference, or disrespect; as, the manners of a person are distant

Distantly

DISTANTLY, adverb Remotely; at a distance; with reserve.

Distaste

DISTASTE, noun [dis and taste.]

1. Aversion of the taste; dislike of food or drink; disrelish; disgust, or a slight degree of it. distaste for a particular kind of food may be constitutional, or the effect of a diseased stomach.

2. Dislike; uneasiness.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comfort and hopes.

3. Dislike; displeasure; alienation of affection.

DISTASTE, verb transitive

1. To disrelish; to dislike; to lothe; as, to distaste drugs or poisons.

2. To offend; to disgust.

He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish, but sought to please them.

3. To vex; to displease; to sour.

[The two latter significations are rare.]

Distasted

DISTASTED, participle passive Disrelished; disliked; offended; displeased.

Distasteful

DISTASTEFUL, adjective

1. Nauseous; unpleasant or disgusting to the taste.

2. Offensive; displeasing; as a distasteful truth.

3. Malevolent; as distasteful looks.

Distastefulness

DISTASTEFULNESS, noun Disagreeableness; dislike.

Distasting

DISTASTING, participle present tense Disrelishing; disliking; offending; displeasing.

Distastive

DISTASTIVE, noun That which gives disrelish or aversion.

Distemper

DISTEMPER, noun [dis and temper.]

1. Literally, an undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Hence,

2. Disease; malady; indisposition; any morbid state of an animal body, or of any part of it; a state in which the animal economy is deranged or imperfectly carried on. [See Disease.] It is used of the slighter disease, but not exclusively. In general, it is synonymous with disease, and is particularly applied to the diseases of brutes.

3. Want of due temperature, applied to climate; the literal sense of the word, but not now used.

Countries under the tropic of a distemper uninhabitable.

4. Bad constitution of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite.

5. Want of due balance of parts or opposite qualities and principles; as, the temper and distemper of an empire consist of contraries. [Not now used.]

6. Ill humor of mind; depravity of inclination. [Not used.]

7. Political disorder; tumult.

8. Uneasiness; ill humor or bad temper.

There is a sickness, which puts some of us in distemper

9. In painting, the mixing of colors with something besides oil and water. When colors are mixed with size, whites of eggs, or other unctuous or glutinous matter, and not with oil, it is said to be done in distemper

DISTEMPER, verb transitive

1. To disease; to disorder; to derange the functions of the body or mind.

2. To disturb; to ruffle.

3. To deprive of temper or moderation.

4. To make disaffected, ill humored or malignant. This verb is seldom used, except in the participles.

Distemperance

DISTEMPERANCE, noun Distemperature.

Distemperate

DISTEMPERATE, adjective Immoderate. [Little used.]

Distemperature

DISTEMPERATURE, noun

1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; a noxious state; as the distemperature of the air of climate.

2. Violent tumultuousness; outrageousness.

3. Perturbation of mind.

4. Confusion; commixture of contrarieties; loss of regularity; disorder.

5. Slight illness; indisposition.

Distempered

DISTEMPERED, participle passive or adjective

1. Diseased in body, or disordered in mind. We speak of a distempered body, a distempered limb, a distempered head or brain.

2. Disturbed; ruffled; as distempered passions.

3. Deprived of temper or moderation; immoderate; as distempered zeal.

4. Disordered; biased; prejudiced; perverted; as minds distempered by interest or passion.

The imagination, when completely distempered is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.

5. Disaffected; made malevolent.

DISTEMPERED lords.

Distempering

DISTEMPERING, participle present tense Affecting with disease or disorder; disturbing; depriving of moderation.

Distend

DISTEND, verb transitive [Latin , to tend, to stretch; to hold. Gr., to stretch.]

1. To stretch or spread in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge; to expand; to swell; as, to distend a bladder; to distend the bowels to distend the lungs. [This is the appropriate sense of the word.]

2. To spread apart; to divaricate; as, to distend the legs. We seldom say, to distend a plate of metal, and never, I believe, to distend a line; extend being used in both cases. We use distend chiefly to denote the stretching, spreading or expansion of any thing, by means of a substance inclosed within it, or by the elastic force of something inclosed. In this case the body distended swells or spreads in all directions, and usually in a spherical form. A bladder is distended by inflation, or by the expansion of rarefied air within it. The skin is distended in boils and abscesses, by matter generated within them. This appropriation of the word has not always been observed.

Distended

DISTENDED, participle passive Spread; expanded; dilated by an inclosed substance or force.

Distending

DISTENDING, participle present tense Stretching in all directions; dilating; expanding.

Distensibility

DISTENSIBILITY, noun The quality or capacity of being distensible.

Distensible

DISTENSIBLE, adjective Capable of being distended or dilated.

Distent

DISTENT, adjective Spread. [Not in use.]

DISTENT, noun Breadth. [Not used.]

Distention

DISTENTION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being distended; as the distention of the lungs or bowels.

2. Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.

3. An opening, spreading or divarication; as the distention of the legs.

Disterminate

DISTERMINATE, adjective [Latin] Separated by bounds.

Distermination

DISTERMINATION, noun Separation.

Disthene

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

Disthronize

DISTHRONIZE, verb transitive To dethrone. [Not used.]

Distich

DISTICH, noun [Latin , Gr., a verse.] A couplet; a couple of verses or poetic lines, making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.

Distichous

DISTICHOUS, DISTICH, adjective Having two rows, or disposed in two rows. A distichous spike has all the flowers pointing two ways.

Distill

DISTILL, verb intransitive [Latin , to drop; a drop. Gr.]

1. To drop; to fall in drops.

Soft showers distilld, and suns grew warm in vain.

2. To flow gently, or in a small stream.

The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia.

3. To use a still; to practice distillation.

DISTILL, verb transitive

1. To let fall in drops; to throw down in drops. The clouds distill water on the earth.

The dew, which on the tender grass the evening had distilled.

2. To extract by heat; to separate spirit or essential oils from liquor by heat or evaporation, and convert that vapor into a liquid by condensation in a refrigeratory; to separate the volatile parts of a substance by heat; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine, or spirit form melasses.

3. To extract spirit from, by evaporation and condensation; as, to distill cyder or melasses; to distill wine.

4. To extract the pure part of a fluid; as, to distill water.

5. To dissolve or melt. [Unusual.]

Swords by the lightnings subtle force distilled.

Distillable

DISTILLABLE, adjective That may be distilled; fit for distillation.

Distillation

DISTILLATION, noun

1. The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring or throwing down in drops.

2. The vaporization and subsequent condensation of a liquid by means of an alembic, or still and refrigeratory, or of a retort and receiver; the operation of extracting spirit from a substance by evaporation and condensation; rectification.

3. The substance extracted by distilling.

4. That which falls in drops.

Distillatory

DISTILLATORY, adjective Belonging to distillation; used for distilling; as distillatory vessels.

Distilled

DISTILLED, participle passive Let fall or thrown down inn drops; subjected to the process of distillation; extracted by evaporation.

Distiller

DISTILLER, noun One who distills; one whose occupation is to extract spirit by evaporation and condensation.

Distillery

DISTILLERY, noun

1. The act or art of distilling.

2. The building and works where distilling is carried on.

Distilling

DISTILLING, participle present tense Dropping; letting fall in drops; extracting by distillation.

Distillment

DISTILLMENT, noun That which is drawn by distillation.

Distinct

DISTINCT, adjective [Latin See Distinguish.]

1. Literally, having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign, or by a note or mark; as a place distinct by name.

2. Different; separate; not the same in number or kind; as, he holds tow distinct offices; he is known by distinct titles.

3. Separate in place; not conjunct; as, the two regiments marched together, but had distinct encampments.

4. So separated as not to be confounded with any other thing; clear; not confused. To reason correctly we must have distinct ideas. We have a distinct or indistinct view of a prospect.

5. Spotted; variegated.

Tempestuous fell his arrows from the fourfold-visagd four, distinct with eyes.

DISTINCT, verb transitive To distinguish. [Not in use.]

Distinction

DISTINCTION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of separating or distinguishing.

2. A note or mark of difference. [Seldom used.]

3. Difference made; a separation or disagreement in kind or qualities, by which one thing is known from another. We observe a distinction between matter and spirit; a distinction between matter and spirit; a distinction between the animal and vegetable kingdoms; a distinction between good and evil, right and wrong; between sound reasoning and sophistry.

4. Difference regarded; separation; preference; as in the phrase, without distinction which denotes promiscuously, all together, alike.

Maids, women, wives, without distinction fall.

5. Separation; division; as the distinction of tragedy into acts.

[In this sense, division would be preferable.]

6. Notation of difference; discrimination; as a distinction between real and apparent good.

In classing the qualities of actions, it is necessary to make accurate distinctions.

7. Eminence; superiority; elevation of rank in society, or elevation of character; honorable estimation. Men who hold a high rank by birth or office, and men who are eminent fro their talents, services or worth, are called men of distinction as being raised above others by positive institutions or by reputation. So we say, a man of note.

8. That which confers eminence or superiority; office, rank or public favor.

9. Discernment; judgment.

Distinctive

DISTINCTIVE, adjective

1. That marks distinction or difference; as distinctive names or titles.

2. Having the power to distinguish and discern. [Less proper.]

Distinctively

DISTINCTIVELY, adverb With distinction; plainly.

Distinctly

DISTINCTLY, adverb

1. Separately; with distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing with another; as a proposition distinctly understood; a figure distinctly defined. Hence,

2. Clearly; plainly; as, to view an object distinctly

Distinctness

DISTINCTNESS, noun

1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things; as the distinctness of two ideas, or of distant objects.

2. Nice discrimination; whence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness

Distinguish

DISTINGUISH, verb transitive [Latin Gr. The primary sense is, to prick, to pierce with a sharp point, to thrust in or on; and we retain the precise word in the verb, to stick, which see. The practice of making marks by puncturing, or sticking, gave rise to the applications of this word, as such marks were used to note and ascertain different things, to distinguish them. See distinguish ]

1. To ascertain and indicate difference by some external mark. The farmer distinguishes his sheep by marking their ears. The manufacturer distinguishes pieces of cloth by some mark or impression.

2. To separate one thing from another by some mark or quality; to know or ascertain difference.

First, by sight; as, to distinguish ones own children from others by their features.

Secondly, by feeling. A blind man distinguishes an egg from an orange, but rarely distinguishes colors.

Thirdly, by smell; as, it is easy to distinguish the small of a peach from that of an apple.

Fourthly, by taste; as, to distinguish a plum from a pear.

Fifthly, by hearing; as to distinguish the sound of a drum from that of a violin.

Sixthly, by the understanding; as, to distinguish vice form virtue, truth from falsehood.

3. To separate or divide by any mark or quality which constitutes difference. We distinguish sounds into high and low, soft and harsh, lively and grave. We distinguish causes into direct and indirect, immediate and mediate.

4. To discern critically; to judge.

Not more can you distinguish of a man, than of his outward show.

5. To separate from others by some mark of honor or preference. Homer and Virgil are distinguished as poets; Demosthenes and Cicero, as orators.

6. To make eminent or known.

DISTINGUISH, verb intransitive To make a distinction; to find or show the difference. It is the province of a judge to distinguish between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.

Distinguishable

DISTINGUISHABLE, adjective

1. Capable of being distinguished; that may be separated, known or made known, by notes of diversity, or by any difference. A tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea is not distinguishable into different ideas.

2. Worthy of note or special regard.

Distinguished

DISTINGUISHED, participle passive

1. Separated or known by a mark of difference, or by different qualities.

2. adjective Separated from others by superior or extraordinary qualities; whence, eminent; extraordinary; transcendent; noted; famous; celebrated. Thus, we admire distinguished men, distinguished talents or virtues, and distinguished services.

Distinguisher

DISTINGUISHER, noun

1. He or that which distinguishes, or that separates one thing from another by marks of diversity.

2. One who discerns accurately the difference of thins; a nice or judicious observer.

Distinguishing

DISTINGUISHING, participle present tense

1. Separating from others by a note of diversity; ascertaining difference by a mark.

2. Ascertaining, knowing or perceiving a difference.

3. adjective Constituting difference, or distinction from every thing else; peculiar; as the distinguishing doctrines of Christianity.

Distinguishingly

DISTINGUISHINGLY, adverb With distinction; with some mark of preference.

Distinguishment

DISTINGUISHMENT, noun Distinction; observation of difference.

Distitle

DISTITLE, verb transitive To deprive of right.

Distort

DISTORT, verb transitive [Latin , to twist.]

1. To twist out of natural or regular shape; as, to distort the neck, the limbs or the body; to distort the features.

2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction.

Wrath and malice, envy and revenge distort the understanding.

3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of scripture, or their meaning.

DISTORT, adjective Distorted.

Distorted

DISTORTED, participle passive Twisted out of natural or regular shape; wrested; perverted.

Distorting

DISTORTING, participle present tense Twisting out of shape; wresting; perverting.

Distortion

DISTORTION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of distorting or wresting; a twisting out of regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as the distortions of the face or body.

2. The state of being twisted out of shape; deviation from natural shape or position; crookedness; grimace.

3. A perversion of the true meaning of words.

Distract

DISTRACT, verb transitive [Latin , to draw. See draw and drag. The old participle distraught is obsolete.]

1. Literally, to draw apart; to pull in different directions, and separate. Hence, to divide; to separate; and hence, to throw into confusion. Sometimes in a literal sense. Contradictory or mistaken orders may distract an army.

2. To turn or draw from any object; to divert from any point, towards another point or toward various other objects; as, to distract the eye or the attention.

If he cannot avoid the eye of the observer, he hopes to distract it by a multiplicity of the object.

3. To draw towards different objects; to fill with different considerations; to perplex; to confound; to harass; as, to distract the mind with cares; you distract me with your clamor.

While I suffer thy terrors, I am distracted. Psalms 88:15.

4. To disorder the reason; the derange the regular operations of intellect; to render raving or furious; most frequently used in the participle distracted.

DISTRACT, adjective Mad. [Not in use.]

Distracted

DISTRACTED, participle passive

1. Drawn apart; drawn in different directions; diverted from its object; perplexed; harassed; confounded.

2. adjective Deranged; disordered in intellect; raving; furious; mad; frantic.

Distractedly

DISTRACTEDLY, adverb Madly; furiously; wildly.

Distractedness

DISTRACTEDNESS, noun A state of being mad; madness.

Distracter

DISTRACTER, noun One who distracts.

Distracting

DISTRACTING, participle present tense Drawing apart; separating; diverting from an object; perplexing; harassing; disordering the intellect.

Distraction

DISTRACTION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.

2. Confusion from a multiplicity of objects crowding on the mind and calling the attention different ways; perturbation of mind; perplexity; as, the family was in a state of distraction [See 1 Corinthians 7:35]

3. Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as political distractions.

Never was known a night of such distraction

4. Madness; a state of disordered reason; franticness; furiousness. [We usually apply this word to a state of derangement which produces raving and violence in the patient.]

5. Folly in the extreme, or amounting to insanity.

On the supposition of the truth of the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, irreligion is nothing better than distraction

Distractive

DISTRACTIVE, adjective Causing perplexity; as distractive cases.

Distrain

DISTRAIN, verb transitive [Latin Dis and stringo. See Strain. Blackstone writes distrein.]

1. To seize for debt; to take a personal chatel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the possession of the injured party, to satisfy a demand, or compel the performance of a duty; as, to distrain goods fro rent, or for an amercement.

2. To rend; to tear.

DISTRAIN, verb intransitive To make seizure of goods.

On whom I cannot distrain for debt.

For neglecting to do suit to the lords court, or other personal service, the lord may distrain of common right.

[In this phrase however some word seems to be understood; as, to distrain goods.]

Distrainable

DISTRAINABLE, adjective That is liable to be taken for distress.

Distrained

DISTRAINED, participle passive Seized for debt or to compel the performance of duty.

Distraining

DISTRAINING, participle present tense Seizing for debt, or for neglect of suit and service.

Distrainor

DISTRAINOR, noun He who seizes goods for debt or service.

Distraught

DISTRAUGHT, obsolete [See Distract.]

Distream

DISTREAM, verb intransitive [dis and stream.] To spread or flow over.

Yet oer that virtuous blush distreams a tear.

Distress

DISTRESS, noun [See Stress.]

1. The act of distraining; the taking of any personal chattel from a wrong-doer, to answer a demand, or procure satisfaction for a wrong committed.

2. The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

A distress of household goods shall be impounded under cover. If the lessor does not find sufficient distress on the premises, etc.

3. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer great distress from the gout, or from the loss of near friends.

4. Affliction; calamity; misery.

On earth distress of nations. Luke 21:23.

5. A state of danger; as a ship in distress from leaking, loss of spars, or want of provisions or water, etc.

DISTRESS, verb transitive

1. To pain; to afflict with pain or anguish; applied to the body or the mind. [Literally, to press or strain.]

2. To afflict greatly; to harass; to oppress with calamity; to make miserable.

DISTRESS not the Moabites. Deuteronomy 2:9.

We are troubled on every side, but not distressed. 2 Corinthians 4:8.

3. To compel by pain or suffering.

There are men who can neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of duty.

Distressed

DISTRESSED, participle passive Suffering great pain or torture; severely afflicted; harassed; oppressed with calamity or misfortune.

Distressedness

DISTRESSEDNESS, noun A state of being greatly pained.

Distressful

DISTRESSFUL, adjective

1. Inflicting or bringing distress; as a distressful stroke.

2. Indicating distress; proceeding from pain or anguish; as distressful cries.

3. Calamitous; as a distressful event.

4. Attended with poverty; as distressful bread.

Distressing

DISTRESSING, participle present tense

1. Giving severe pain; oppressing with affliction.

2. adjective Very afflicting; affecting with severe pain; as a distressing sickness.

Distributable

DISTRIBUTABLE, adjective [See Distribute.] That may be distributed; that may be assigned in portions.

Distribute

DISTRIBUTE, verb transitive [Latin , to give or divide.]

1. To divide among two or more; to deal; to give or bestow in parts or portions. Moses distributed lands to the tribes of Israel. Christ distributed the loaves to his disciples.

2. To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice.

3. To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds or species.

4. To give in charity.

Distributing to the necessities of the saints. Romans 12:1.

5. In printing, to separate types, and place them in their proper cells in the cases.

Distributed

DISTRIBUTED, participle passive Divided among a number; dealt out; assigned in portions; separated; bestowed.

Distributer

DISTRIBUTER, noun One who divides or deals out in parts; one who bestows in portions; a dispenser.

Distributing

DISTRIBUTING, participle present tense Dividing among a number; dealing out; dispensing.

Distribution

DISTRIBUTION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of dividing among a number; a dealing in parts or portions; as the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.

2. The act of giving in charity; a bestowing in parts.

3. Dispensation; administration to numbers; a rendering to individuals; as the distribution of justice.

4. The act of separating into distinct parts or classes; as the distribution of plants into genera and species.

5. In architecture, the dividing and disposing of the several parts of the building, according to some plan, or to the rules of the art.

6. In rhetoric, a division and enumeration of the several qualities of a subject.

7. In general, the division and disposition of the parts of any thing.

8. In printing, the taking a form apart; the separating of the types, and placing each letter in its proper cell in the cases.

Distributive

DISTRIBUTIVE, adjective

1. That distributes; that divides and assigns in portions; that deals to each his proper share; as distributive justice.

2. That assigns the various species of a general term.

3. That separates or divides; as a distributive adjective.

DISTRIBUTIVE, noun In grammar, a word that divides or distributes, as each and every, which represent the individuals of a collective number as separate.

Distributively

DISTRIBUTIVELY, adverb By distribution; singly; not collectively.

Distributiveness

DISTRIBUTIVENESS, noun Desire of distributing. [Little used.]

District

DISTRICT, noun [Latin , to press hard, to bind. See Distrain.]

1. Properly, a limited extent of country; a circuit within which power, right or authority may be exercised, and to which it is restrained; a word applicable to any portion of land or country, or to any part of a city or town, which is defined by law or agreement. A governor, a prefect, or a judge may have his district Some of the states are divided into districts for the choice of senators, representatives or electors. Cities and towns are divided into districts for various purposes, as for school, etc. The United States are divided into districts for the collection of the revenue.

2. A region; a territory within given lines; as the district of the earth which lies between the tropics, or that which is north of a polar circle.

3. A region; a country; a portion of territory without very definite limits; as the districts of Russia covered by forest.

DISTRICT, verb transitive To divide into districts or limited portions of territory. Legislatures district states for the choice of senators. In New England, towns are districted for the purpose of establishing and managing schools.

District-Court

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

District-Judge

DISTRICT-JUDGE, noun The judge of a district-court.

District-School

DISTRICT-SCHOOL, noun A school within a certain district of a town.

Districted

DISTRICTED, participle passive Divided into districts or definite portions.

Districting

DISTRICTING, participle present tense Dividing into limited or definite portions.

DISTRICTING, participle present tense Dividing into limited or definite portions.

Distriction

DISTRICTION, noun Sudden display. [Unusual.]

Distringas

DISTRINGAS, noun In law, a writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person for debt, or for his appearance at a certain day.

Distrust

DISTRUST, verb transitive [dis and trust. See Mistrust.]

1. To doubt or suspect the truth, fidelity, firmness or sincerity of; not to confide in or rely on. We distrust a man, when we question his veracity, etc. We may often distrust our own firmness.

2. To doubt; to suspect not to be real, true, sincere or firm. We distrust a mans courage, friendship, veracity, declarations, intentions or promises, when we question their reality or sincerity. We cannot distrust the declarations of God. We often have reason to distrust our own resolutions.

DISTRUST, noun

1. Doubt or suspicion of reality or sincerity; want of confidence, faith or reliance. Sycophants should be heard with distrust distrust mars the pleasures of friendship and social intercourse.

2. Discredit; loss of confidence.

Distrusted

DISTRUSTED, participle passive Doubted; suspected.

Distrustful

DISTRUSTFUL, adjective

1. Apt to distrust; suspicious.

2. Not confident; diffident; as distrustful of ourselves.

3. Diffident; modest.

Distrustfully

DISTRUSTFULLY, adverb In a distrustful manner; with doubt or suspicion.

Distrustfulness

DISTRUSTFULNESS, noun The state of being distrustful; want of confidence.

Distrusting

DISTRUSTING, participle present tense Doubting the reality or sincerity of; suspecting; not relying on or confiding in.

Distrustless

DISTRUSTLESS, adjective Free from distrust or suspicion.

Distune

DISTUNE, verb transitive To put out of tune. [Not used.]

Disturb

DISTURB, verb transitive [Latin , to trouble, disorder, discompose; a crowd, a tumult; Gr., a tumult. The primary sense seems to be to stir, or to turn or whirl round.]

1. To stir; to move; to discompose; to excite from a state of rest or tranquillity. We say, the man is asleep, do not disturb him. Let the vessel stand, do not move the liquor, you will disturb the sediment. disturb not the public peace.

2. To move or agitate; to disquiet; to excite uneasiness or a slight degree of anger in the mind; to move the passions; to ruffle. The mind may be disturbed by an offense given, by misfortune, surprise, contention, discord, jealousy, envy, etc.

3. To move from any regular course or operation; to interrupt regular order; to make irregular. It has been supposed that the approach of a comet may disturb the motions of the planets in their orbits. An unexpected cause may disturb a chemical operation, or the operation of medicine.

4. To interrupt; to hinder; to incommode. Care disturbs study. Let no person disturb my franchise.

5. To turn off from any direction; with from. [Unusual.]

--And disturb his inmost counsels from their destind aim.

DISTURB, noun Confusion; disorder. [Not used.]

Disturbance

DISTURBANCE, noun

1. A stirring or excitement; any disquiet or interruption of peace; as, to enter the church without making disturbance

2. Interruption of a settled state of things; disorder; tumult. We have read much at times of disturbances in Spain, England and Ireland.

3. Emotion of the mind; agitation; excitement of passion; perturbation. The merchant received the news of his losses without apparent disturbance

4. Disorder of thoughts; confusion.

They can survey a variety of complicated ideas, without fatigue or disturbance

5. In law, the hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, of tenure, of patronage.

Disturbed

DISTURBED, participle passive Stirred; moved; excited; discomposed; disquieted; agitated; uneasy.

Disturber

DISTURBER, noun

1. One who disturbs or disquiets; a violator of peace; one who causes tumults or disorders.

2. He or that which excites passion or agitation; he or that which causes perturbation.

3. In law, one that interrupts or incommodes another in the peaceable enjoyment of his right.

Disturbing

DISTURBING, participle present tense Moving; exciting; rendering uneasy; making a tumult; interrupting peace; incommoding the quiet enjoyment of.

Disturn

DISTURN, verb transitive [dis and turn.] To turn aside. [Not in use.]

Disuniform

DISUNIFORM, adjective Disyuniform. Not uniform. [Not in use.]

Disunion

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

Disunite

DISUNITE, verb transitive disyunite. [dis and unite.] To separate; to disjoin; to part; as, to disunite two allied countries; to disunite particles of matter; to disunite friends.

DISUNITE, verb intransitive To part; To fall asunder; to become separate. Particles of matter may spontaneously disunite

Disunited

DISUNITED, participle passive Separated; disjoined.

Disuniter

DISUNITER, noun He or that which disjoins.

Disuniting

DISUNITING, participle present tense Separating; parting.

Disunity

DISUNITY, noun Disyunity. A state of separation.

Disusage

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

Disuse

DISUSE, noun Disyuse. [dis and use.]

1. Cessation of use, practice or exercise; as, the limbs lose their strength and pliability by disuse; language is altered by the disuse of words.

2. Cessation of custom; desuetude.

DISUSE, verb transitive disyuze. [dis and use.]

1. To cease to use; to neglect or omit to practice.

2. To disaccustom; with from, in or to; as disused to toils; disused from pain.

Disused

DISUSED, participle passive Disyuzed.

1. No longer used; obsolete, as words, etc.

Priam in arms disused

2. Disaccustomed.

Disusing

DISUSING, participle present tense Disyuzing. Ceasing to use; disaccustoming.

Disvaluation

DISVALUATION, noun [See Disvalue.] Disesteem; disreputation.

Disvalue

DISVALUE, verb transitive [dis and value.] To undervalue; to disesteem.

DISVALUE, noun Disesteem; disregard.

Disvouch

DISVOUCH, verb transitive [dis and vouch.] to discredit; to contradict.

Diswarn

DISWARN, verb transitive [dis and warn.] To direct by previous notice. [Not used.]

Diswitted

DISWITTED, adjective Deprived of wits or understanding.

Diswont

DISWONT, verb transitive [dis and wont.] To wean; to deprive of wonted usage.

Disworship

DISWORSHIP, noun [dis and worship.] Cause of disgrace.

Dit

DIT, noun A ditty. [Not used.]

DIT, verb transitive To close up. [Not used.]

Ditation

DITATION, noun [Latin] The act of making rich. [Not used.]

Ditch

DITCH, noun [G.]

1. A trench in the earth made by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, or for making a fence to guard inclosures, or for preventing an enemy from approaching a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a foss or moat, and is dug round the rampart or wall between the scarp and counterscarp.

2. Any long, hollow receptacle of water.

DITCH, verb intransitive To dig or make a ditch or ditches.

DITCH, verb transitive

1. To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch; as, to ditch moist land.

2. To surround with a ditch

Ditch-Delivered

DITCH-DELIVERED, adjective Brought forth in a ditch.

Ditcher

DITCHER, noun One who digs ditches.

Ditching

DITCHING, participle present tense Digging ditches; also, draining by a ditch or ditches; as ditching a swamp.

Ditetrahedral

DITETRAHEDRAL, adjective [dis and tetrahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of a tetrahedral prism with dihedral summits.

Dithyramb

DITHYRAMB, DITHYRAMBUS, noun [Gr.] In ancient poetry, a hymn in honor of Bacchus, full of transport and poetical rage. Of this species of writing we have no remains.

Dithyrambic

DITHYRAMBIC, noun

1. A song in honor of Bacchus, in which the wildness of intoxication is imitated.

2. Any poem written in wild enthusiastic strains.

DITHYRAMBIC, adjective Wild; enthusiastic.

Dithyrambus

DITHYRAMB, DITHYRAMBUS noun [Gr.] In ancient poetry, a hymn in honor of Bacchus, full of transport and poetical rage. Of this species of writing we have no remains.

Dition

DITION, noun [Latin] rule; power; government; dominion.

Ditone

DITONE, noun [Gr., tone.] In music, an interval comprehending two tones. The proportion of the sounds that form the ditone is 4:5, and that of the semiditone, 5:6.

Ditrihedria

DITRIHEDRIA, noun [Gr., twice three sides.] In mineralogy, a genus of spars with six sides or planes; being formed of tow trigonal pyramids joined base to base, without an intermediate column.

Dittander

DITTANDER, noun Pepper-wort, Lepidium, a genus of plants of many species. The common dittander has a hot biting taste, and is sometimes used in lieu of pepper.

Dittany

DITTANY, noun [Latin , Gr.] The white dittany is a plant of the genus Dictamnus. Its leaves are covered with a white down; in smell, they resemble lemon-thyme, but are more aromatic. When fresh, they yield an essential oil.

Th dittany of crete is a species of Origanum, and the bastard dittany is a species of Marrubium.

Dittied

DITTIED, adjective [See Ditty.] Sung; adapted to music.

He, with his soft pipe, and smooth, and smooth dittied song.

Ditto

DITTO, contracted into do, in books of accounts, is the Italian detto, from Latin It denotes said, aforesaid, or the same thing; an abbreviation used to save repetition.

Ditty

DITTY, noun [Latin] A song; a sonnet or a little poem to be sung.

And to the warblign lute soft ditties sing.

DITTY, verb intransitive To sing; to warble a little tune.

Diuretic

DIURETIC, adjective [Gr., urinam reddo; urine.] Having the power to provoke urine; tending to produce discharges of urine.

DIURETIC, noun A medicine that provokes urine, or increases its discharges.

Diurnal

DIURNAL, adjective [Latin , daily.]

1. Relating to a day; pertaining to the daytime; as diurnal heat; diurnal hours.

2. Daily; happening every day; performed in a day; as a diurnal task.

3. Performed in 24 hours; as the diurnal revolution of the earth.

4. In medicine, an epithet of diseases whose exacerbations are in the day time; as a diurnal fever.

DIURNAL, noun A day-book; a journal. [See Journal, which is mostly used.]

Diurnalist

DIURNALIST, noun A journalist. [Not in use.]

Diurnally

DIURNALLY, adverb Daily; every day.

Diuturnal

DIUTURNAL, adjective Lasting; being of long continuance.

Diuturnity

DIUTURNITY, noun [Latin , of long continuance.] Length of time; long duration.

Divan

DIVAN, noun

1. Among the Turks and other orientals, a court of justice, or a council.

2. A council-chamber; a hall; a court.

3. Any council assembled.

Divaricate

DIVARICATE, verb intransitive [Latin , to straddle.] To open; to fork; to part into two branches.

DIVARICATE, verb transitive to divide into two branches.

DIVARICATE, adjective In botany, standing out wide. A divaricate branch forms an obtuse angle with the stem. It is applied also to panicles, peduncles and petioles.

Divaricated

DIVARICATED, participle passive Parted into two branches.

Divaricating

DIVARICATING, participle present tense Parting into two branches.

Divarication

DIVARICATION, noun

1. A parting; a forking; a separation into two branches.

2. A crossing or intersection of fibers at different angles.