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To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine. The knightly forms of combat to dispose. Dryden.

ithholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve. Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves. Bacon. On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste. Milton.

To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted. A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her. Shak.

Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.

To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest. Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms above. Cowper. The bellow's noise disturbed his quiet rest. Spenser. The utmost which the discontented colonies could do, was to disturb authority.…

or while above the horizon; hence, the arc described by the moon or a star from rising to setting. -- Diurnal circle, the apparent circle described by a celestial body in consequence of the earth's rotation. -- Diurnal motion of the earth, the motion of the earth upon its axis which is described in twentyfour hours.…

A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet.

Having different minds at different times; unsettled; undetermined. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Jas. i. 8.

of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation. Doubt is the beginning and the end of our efforts to know. Sir W. Hamilton. Doubt, in order to be operative in requiring…

One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.

Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure. Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful. Shak. With doubtful feet an…

ceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease. Blount. Burrill.

p (Naut.), to ornament her by hoisting the national colors at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when dressed full, the signal flags and pennants are added. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting. "Our drift was south." Hakluyt.

A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.

e ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.

Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined. "Dubious policy." Sir T. Scott. A dubious, agitated state of mind. Thackeray.

The act of setting free the dynamic powers of a medicine, as by shaking the bottle containing it.

Same as Crossette.

reas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.