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Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected. [R.]

To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve. He did it to disburden a conscience. Feltham. My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened. Hammond.

Incongruous. W. Montagu.

To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude. [Obs.] Marvell.

isagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion. I. Taylor. It is the dissidence of dissent. Burke.

No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different. Our life and manners be dissident from theirs. Robynson (More's Utopia).

In a dissident manner.

ppropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.

Dividend; share. [Obs.] Foxe.

A style of light, bright-figured dress goods for women; also, a style of dress. Dolly Varden trout (Zoöl.), a trout of northwest America; -- called also bull trout, malma, and red-spotted trout. See Malma.

Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. Shak.

A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.

Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion.

Containing twelve; twelvefold; increasing by twelves; duodecimal.

The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.

The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.

Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic. "Edenic joys." Mrs. Browning.

A variety of amphibole. See Amphibole.

Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr. ).

See Edentate, a. -- n. (Zoöl.)