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, adv. Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined; as, deperditely wicked. [Archaic]

Loss; destruction. [Archaic] Sir T. Browne.

To do injury to; to hurt. [Archaic] Other might be determined thereby. Fuller.

nt; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others. [Archaic] That affliction grew heavy upon me, and weighed me down even to a diffidence of God's mercy. Donne.

Wanting confidence in others; distrustful. [Archaic] You were always extremely diffident of their success. Melmoth.

To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn. [Archaic] "She gan the house to dight." Chaucer. Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice. Fairfax. The clouds in thousand liveries dight. Milton.

To disburden; to relieve of a load. [Archaic]

Controversy; disputation; discussion. [Archaic] Verbose janglings and endless disceptations. Strype.

To clear from clouds. [Archaic] Fuller.

To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber. [Archaic] Pope.

Freed from restraint; unrestrained. [Archaic] E. A. Poe.

; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic] Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. Spenser. The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. Emerson.

To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit. [Obs. or Archaic] Bale.

To fail to remember; to forget. [Obs. or Archaic]

oes 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 put forth one's best or most or most diligent efforts. "We will . . .…

grief; sorrow; lamentation. [Archaic] And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat. Tennyson.

A trick, joke, or deception. Beau. & Fl. To give one the dor, to make a fool of him. [Archaic] P. Fletcher.

ke descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down. [Archaic or Colloq.] "To down proud hearts." Sir P. Sidney. I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house. Madame D'Arblay.

iddle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel. [Hist. or Archaic] Fuller. The great dromond swinging from the quay. W. Morris.

A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. [Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. Smollett.