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blunt; to dull. Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart. Tennyson.

Disrepute. [R.] Tennyson.

To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams.

eprive of the helmet. [Poetic] Lying stark, Dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale. Tennyson.

et for us to see the king's dishonor. Ezra iv. 14. His honor rooted in dishonor stood. Tennyson.

To dismount. Tennyson.

To unlink; to disunite; to separate. [R.] Tennyson.

their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws. Not to disobey her lord's behest. Tennyson.

To refuse to consider as pope; to depose from the popedom. One whom they disposed. Tennyson.

; blame censure; reproach; disparagement. Dryden. In praise and in dispraise the same. Tennyson.

with ooze, and torn with briers, . . . And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. Tennyson.

To solve; to clear up; to resolve. "Dissolved the mystery." Tennyson. Make interpretations and dissolve doubts. Dan. v. 16.

s from flowers, etc.; to distill fresh water from sea water. "Distilling odors on me." Tennyson.

like manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson.

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

sheet of paper or cloth. Prior. Then the old man Was wroth, and doubled up his hands. Tennyson.

eir own! Pope. I doubt not that however changed, you keep So much of what is graceful. Tennyson. To doubt not but. I do not doubt but I have been to blame. Dryden. We doubt not now But every rub is smoothed on our way. Shak.

applied to widows of personages of rank. With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans. Tennyson. Queen dowager, the widow of a king.

of down When in the down I sink my head, Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath. Tennyson. Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares! Southern.

A light sleep; a drowse. Tennyson.