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The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet.

ul situation; misfortune; affliction; misery. Affliction's sons are brothers in distress. Burns.

cessive fondness; weak and foolish affection. The dotage of the nation on presbytery. Bp. Burnet.

ace of three hundred years, notwithstanding all casualties, the number of men doubles. T. Burnet.

from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.

sks. Shak. The draff and offal of a bygone age. Buckle. Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt. Tennyson.

and appropriate as in satisfaction of thirst. "Song was the form of literature which he [Burns] had drunk in from his cradle." J. C. Shairp. -- To drink off or up, to drink the whole at a draught; as, to drink off a cup of cordial. -- To drink the health of, or To drink to the health of, to drink while expressing go…

Turbid; muddy. [Scot. & Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wodroephe (1623). Burns.

tless; lifeless; inert. "The dull earth." Shak. As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain. Longfellow.

Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak. "Durance vile." Burns. In durance, exile, Bedlam or the mint. Pope.

range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals. -- Dutch pink, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc. Weale. -- Dutch rush (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum (E. hyemale) having a rough, siliceous surfac…

An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.

re present, they are of minor importance. Its symptoms are loss of appetite, nausea, heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of weight or fullness in the stomach, etc. Dunglison.

Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.

Affected with fear; affrighted. Burns.

to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits. To burn, or To hang, in effigy, to burn or to hang an image or picture of a person, as a token of public odium.

or the power to leave; departure. Embarred from all egress and regress. Holland. Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress. Milton.

An electress. Bp. Burnet.

t of electricity which in passing through a resisting medium heats it to incandescence or burns it. See under Carbon. -- Electric, or Electrical, machine, an apparatus for generating, collecting, or exciting, electricity, as by friction. -- Electric motor. See Electro-motor,

The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. Bp. Burnet.