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With plundering violence; by violent injustice. [R.] Strype.

n; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn. How my soul is moved with just disdain! Pope.

Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved. Shak. The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. Madison. Disease germ. See under Germ.

To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate. I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship. Spectator.

Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust. To get dishonest gain. Ezek. xxii. 27. The dishonest profits of men in office. Bancroft.

Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act.

se from obligation. [Obs.] Absolving and disobliging from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause. Milton.

of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor; indignation. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Ps. vi. 1. Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn Fro…

Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction. The execution leave to high disposal. Milton.

To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine. The knightly forms of combat to dispose. Dryden.

To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice. Shak.

serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. "Distributive justice." Swift.

be suspicious of; to mistrust. Not distrusting my health. 2 Mac. ix. 22. To distrust the justice of your cause. Dryden. He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other. Udall. Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid. Collins.

of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share. True justice unto people to divide. Spenser. Ye shall divide the land by lot. Num. xxxiii. 54.

To indicate publicly; to proclaim. [R.] God . . . marks The just man, and divulges him through heaven. Milton.

You can not do wrong without suffering wrong. Emerson. Hence: To do homage, honor, favor, justice, etc., to render homage, honor, etc.

utes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent. The doers of the law shall be justified. Rom. ii. 13.

in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.

A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.