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To discommode. [Obs.] Howell.

To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [Obs.] As if he thought her soul to disentrail. Spenser.

guise one's sentiments, character, or intentions. All God's angels come to us disguised. Lowell.

The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. Lowell.

To deprive of leaves. [R.] The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.

To redeem from mortgage. [Obs.] Howell.

distaff on the throne. Dryden. Some say the crozier, some say the distaff was too busy. Howell.

To banish or drive from a country. [Obs.] Howell.

The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog. Cowell.

Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer. Howell. Some words altered in the dominical Gospels. Fuller. Dominical altar (Eccl.), the high altar. -- Dominical letter, the letter which, in almanacs, denotes Sunday, or the Lord's day (dies Domini). The first seven letters of the alphabet ar…

spect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor. Cowell.

A hamlet. "A mean fishing dorp." Howell.

Pertaining to doxology; giving praise to God. Howell.

To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal. In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe. King.

n dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. [He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.

A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. Cowell. Burrill.

andlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

of; to set in a comical light. [R.] This drolling everything is rather fatiguing. W. D. Howells.

. At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross coats its ounce of gold. Lowell.

e. "He drowsed upon his couch." South. In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees. Lowell.