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To drive from a camp. [Obs.] Holland.

Capability or liableness to be discerped. [R.] Wollaston.

Expressly; clearly; eloquently. [Obs.] Holland.

To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage. [Obs.] Holland.

To open. [Obs.] Holland.

Disorder. [Obs.] Holland.

To scatter abroad. [Obs.] Holland.

To crowd out; to take the place of. Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas. London Times.

of Disarray. [Obs.] Holland.

agerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof. Holland.

Lying apart. [Obs.] Lands far dissite and remote asunder. Holland.

To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.

been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. [Colloq.] -- Done for, tired out; used up; collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. [Colloq.] -- Done up. (a) Wrapped up. (b) Worn out; exhausted. [Colloq.]

at both ends. -- Double eagle, a gold coin of the United States having the value of 20 dollars. -- Double entry. See under Bookkeeping. -- Double floor (Arch.), a floor in which binding joists support flooring joists above and ceiling joists below. See Illust. of Double-framed floor. -- Double flower. See Double,…

romatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct. W. H. Wollaston.

anish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon in Sup.

A sudden fall; a body of things falling. Those cataracts or downfalls aforesaid. Holland. Each downfall of a flood the mountains pour. Dryden.

By drops or small portions. [Obs.] Distilling dropmeal, a little at once. Holland.

My private voice is drowned amid the senate. Addison. To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] Holland.

un is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth. Holland.