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To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money. They [gold mohurs] have been completely demonetized by the [East India] Company. R. Cobden.

se, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

To divide in order to share; to apportion. [Obs.] And here is gold, and that full great plentee, That shall departed been among us three. Chaucer.

To become dispeopled. [R.] Whether the country be depopulating or not. Goldsmith.

y. [Obs.] He shall first be depured and cleansed before that he shall be laid up for pure gold in the treasures of God. Sir T. More.

infected, lose their relish for happiness [and] saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith.

ogical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds. Atterbury. He [Goldsmith] knew nothing accurately; his reading had been desultory. Macaulay.

impaired in quality; to degenerate. Under such conditions, the mind rapidly deteriorates. Goldsmith.

band of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy. Goldsmith.

ying waste. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done. Goldsmith.

Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner. "The golden dew of sleep." Shak.

In the manner or nature of a dialogue. Goldsmith.

Difficulty. [R.] Golding.

To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.

is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained. [Recent]

ure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished. The dim magnificence of poetry. Whewell. How is the gold become dim! Lam. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth.

An ancient gold coin of the East.

boweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.

Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.

To pay for; to atone for. [Obs.] His sin was dispensed With gold, whereof it was compensed. Gower.