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To discover; to show. [Poetic] I 'll deliver Myself your loyal servant. Shak.

To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic] [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. Milton.

orm in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.

plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year. Nor poets enough to understand That life develops from within. Mrs. Browning.

result of developing, or a developed state. A new development of imagination, taste, and poetry. Channing.

, Diana. [Poetic]

ness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems. His diction blazes up into a sudden explosion of prophetic grandeur. De Quincey.

oral lesson; as, didactic essays. "Didactical writings." Jer. Taylor. The finest didactic poem in any language. Macaulay.

sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished. The dim magnificence of poetry. Whewell. How is the gold become dim! Lam. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth.…

Having two poetical measures or meters. -- n.

To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic] A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er. Milton.

Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [Poetic] Bryant.

Freed from restraint; unrestrained. [Archaic] E. A. Poe.

To release from espousal or plighted faith. [Poetic] Milton.

To strip of a garland. [Poetic] "Thy locks disgarland." Drummond.

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

To come down; to descend. [Poetic] But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser.

preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacopoeia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government.

To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge. [Poetic & Rare] [Written also dispunge.] O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me. Shak.

Consisting of two syllabas, a dissyllabic foot in poetry. B. Jons