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A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. [Written also demi.] He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called "scholars," young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. Johnson.

tined, did obtain. Tennyson. Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way. Longfellow.

me comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow. The Destinies (Anc. Myth.), the three Parcæ, or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration. Marked by the Destinies to be avoided. Shak.

s by devices on their shields. Addison. A banner with this strange device -Excelsior. Longfellow.

ith sorcery. -- Devil may care, reckless, defiant of authority; -- used adjectively. Longfellow. -- Devil's apron (Bot.), the large kelp (Laminaria saccharina, and L. longicruris) of the Atlantic ocean, having a blackish, leathery expansion, shaped somewhat like an apron. -- Devil's coachhorse. (Zoöl.) (a) The black…

An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor. "The dew of his youth." Longfellow.

haracterized by modest reserve. The diffident maidens, Folding their hands in prayer. Longfellow.

e. Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. Longfellow.

Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. The creature's at his dirty work again. Pope.

. But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger. Longfellow.

verthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection. Every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture. 1 Sam. xiv. 20. A hope destined to end . . . in discomfiture and disgrace. Macaulay.

tes or sounds. For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart. Longfellow.

t To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope. The sea is silent, the sea is discreet. Longfellow.

columns; to disjoint and edifice. Some half-ruined wall Disjointed and about to fall. Longfellow.

prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind. "A man of turbulent disposition." Hallam. "He is of a very melancholy disposition." Shak. His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him. Strype.…

To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward.

Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow.

× (b + c) = ab + ac, and (a + b) × c = ac + bc. -- Distributive proportion. (Math.) See Fellowship.

ertaining to, or resembling, a dithyramb; wild and boisterous. "Dithyrambic sallies." Longfellow. -- n.

oldsmith. My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being. As the light does the shadow. Longfellow. In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, "This just reproach their virtue does excite." Dryden. To do one's best, To do one's diligence (and the like), to exert one's self; to…