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an religion. Locke. He counted it no derogation of his manhood to be seen to weep. F. W. Robertson.

To discover; to disclose; to reveal. [R.] His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him. Milton.

A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.

te. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. fishes, and sea hedgehogs.

To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked. Drink disapparels the soul. Junius (1635).

To take off the dress of; to unrobe. So, as she bade, the witch they disarrayed. Spenser.

To unrobe; to undress. Spenser.

one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar.

bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience. C. J. Smith.

o show disapprobation of; to discountenance. Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey. Swift.

To reduce the flesh or obesity of. [Obs.] Shelton.

oint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller.

Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf.

d; a nonconformist. Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries. Burke. Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter. Shipley.

ce, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of. And made us doff our easy robes of peace. Shak. At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. Emerson.

A long robe or outer garment, with long sleeves, worn by the Turks. [Written also doliman.]

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

To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with. Should I don this robe and trouble you. Shak. At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. Emerson.

To dye again or twice over. To double-dye their robes in scarlet. J. Webster.