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ering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.

Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound.

bit the structure; an anatomical so prepared. Dissection wound, a poisoned wound incurred during the dissection of a dead body.

Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.

Continuance during the day. [Obs.]

Long duration; lastingness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War. [U.S.]

en letters of the alphabet are used for this purpose, the same letter standing for Sunday during a whole year (except in leap year, when the letter is changed at the end of February). After twenty-eight years the same letters return in the same order. The dominical letters go backwards one day every common year, and tw…

A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms. [Written also Durga.] Malcom.

A kind of millet. See Durra.

See Durukuli.

That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband. Blackstone.

The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. Dryden. I had a dream which was not all a dream. Byron.

To endure; to suffer. [Scot.]

To endure. [Obs.] So causeless such drede for to drie. Chaucer.

ile. [Obs.] Gold will be sometimes so eager, as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself. Locke.

A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.

A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals. J. J. Rousseau.

The art of measuring the duration of sounds or echoes.

A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base. Dunglison.