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hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject. Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened. Macaulay.

Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

To part asunder; to divide; 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.

A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

Inhuman; cruel. Shak.

A light one-horse carriage, commonly two-wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box at the back for carrying dogs.

Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.

Dejected; low-spirited.

ce of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling place of spirits. That law preserves the earth a sphere And guides the planets in their course. S. Rogers. In heaven, or earth, or under earth, in hell. Milton.

A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.

See Earth light, under Earth.

A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.

A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet.

A bank or mound of earth.

The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.

Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human. Some earthborn giant. Milton.

Low; grovelling; vulgar.

An earthquake. [Obs.]

A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.

Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.