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The act of making black. Boyle.

To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through. [Obs.] Boyle.

To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate. [Obs.] Boyle.

A state of being freed from water. [Obs.] Boyle.

Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities. Boyle.

Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable. Boyle.

The act or state of desisting; cessation. [R.] Boyle. If fatigue of body or brain were in every case followed by desistance . . . then would the system be but seldom out of working order. H. Spencer.

A destroyer. [R.] Fire, the destructive and the artificial death of things. Boyle.

tory or without order or method; unconnectedness. The seeming desultoriness of my method. Boyle.

The act of deterring; also, that which deters. Boyle.

In a differing or different manner. Boyle.

To elucidate. [Obs.] Boyle.

The act of making clear. [Obs.] Boyle.

To advise against; to dissuade from. [R.] Boyle.

To strip of bark; to bark. [R.] Boyle.

To put or thrust away; to reject. A man discards the follies of boyhood. I. Taylor.

of; to discriminate; to distinguish. To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. Boyle. A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone. Robynson (More's Utopia).

To part; to divide. [Obs.] Boyle.

Discordance; disagreement of parts. [Obs.] Boyle.

Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.