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Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion. Disrank the troops, set all in disarray. Daniel.

Disconsolate. [Obs.] A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature. Sterne.

on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.

To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.

Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

o rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic] Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. Spenser. The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. Emerson.

nything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

ob xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. Spenser.

Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left. "Distance between companies in close column is twelve yards." Farrow.

Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life. Shak.

To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).

a dredging machine. R. Carew. Dredging machine, a machine (commonly on a boat) used to scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them.

e size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.

icks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay.

To make less; to bring low. Our drooping days are dwindled down to naught. Thomson.

rnal box, that encircles and receives motion from an eccentric; -- called also eccentric hoop.

An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance. Upton (Tactics).

Manifestation; expression; sign. All the large effects That troop with majesty. Shak.

A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.