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l; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. Bryant.

The character or person of a devil or the devil. Cowley.

To devote. [Obs.] Cowley.

Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew. Dewy sleep ambrosial. Cowper.

ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves. [Obs.] A dicker of cowhides. Heywood.

different or unlike; to set at variance. [R.] But something 'ts that differs thee and me. Cowley.

With difficulty. Cowper.

iers, who dims all his attendants. Dryden. Now set the sun, and twilight dimmed the ways. Cowper.

s are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries.

The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.

One who arbitrates or decides. [R.] Cowley.

Lack of courage; cowardliness.

to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish. Cowper. To discriminate the goats from the sheep. Barrow.

a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark. And, making fast their moorings, disembarked. Cowper.

To spread loosely or disorderly. Like the fair flower disheveled in the wind. Cowper.

y reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined. Cowper.

dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.

e knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of beeves disperse. Cowper.

One who dispossesses. Cowley.

cite from a state of rest. Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms above. Cowper. The bellow's noise disturbed his quiet rest. Spenser. The utmost which the discontented colonies could do, was to disturb authority. Burke.