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The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.

Divergence.

Diversion; amusement; recreation. [R.]

A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play. Smart.

Divination. [Obs.]

Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.

Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution.

A variety of pear of large size and excellent flavor.

The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. [R.] Mrs. Oliphant.

relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation. In need of every kind of relief and easement. Burke.

g up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation. The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer. Clarendon.

A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation. G. Brown.

The operation performed with an écraseur.

The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

Instigation; incitement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of figs of superior quality.

be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.

Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope.

The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.

The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.