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In a disjointed state. Sandys.

ich wastes time or distracts attention. Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations. Swift. Dissipation of energy. Same as Degradation of energy, under Degradation.

tance between one and the other. Prior. The writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years. Playfair.

le poem intended to be sung. "Religious, martial, or civil ditties." Milton.ditties sing. Sandys.

Sea gravel mixed with sand. [Prov. Eng.]

Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.

ds when all have fallen. For amusement, people have arranged such sequences involving thousands of dominoes, arrayed in fanciful patterns. Domino theory. A political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asia…

To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.

multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length. Double six thousand, and then treble that. Shak.

Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.

A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural. Hills afford prospects, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex. Ray. She went by dale, and she went by down. Tennyson.

rth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden.

The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.

r thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like. Drifts of rising dust involve the sky. Pope. We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice]. Kane.

A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl.

w in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. [R.] Thomson.

Same as Drought. Sandys. Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn. Bacon. One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. Milton. In the dust and drouth of London life. Tennyson.

ruid stones, a name given, in the south of England, to weatherworn, rough pillars of gray sandstone scattered over the chalk downs, but in other countries generally in the form of circles, or in detached pillars.

wn with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. [U.S.] Bartlett. Dumping car or cart, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also dump car, or dump cart.

so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy. -- Dun diver (Zoöl.), the goosander or merganser.