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In a manner to dispose.

By way of dispraise.

Causing distress; painful; unpleasant.

One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

The state of being dressy.

Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.

State of being drowsy. Milton.

An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.

A resinous substance formed in the decomposition of cholic acid of bile; -- so called because it is difficult to solve.

Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.

ng to Eleusis, in Greece, or to secret rites in honor of Ceres, there celebrated; as, Eleusinian mysteries or festivals.

A shoemaker's awl. [Prov. Eng.]

Full of daring; adventurous. [Archaic] T. Campbell.

The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds. [R.]

prise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm. -- En"ter*pri`sing*ly, adv.

A yellow or brownish red dyestuff obtained by the action of bromine on fluoresceïn, and named from the fine rose-red which it imparts to silk. It is also used for making a fine red ink. Its solution is fluorescent.

A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin.

The state or quality of being flimsy.

Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See Rosaniline.

The quality of being fussy.