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isowning; rejection and denial. An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. Richardson.

one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.

open and common adultery." Milton. (c) To break or go back from, as one's word. [Obs.] Richardson.

or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.

Capacity of being dissolved; solubility. Richardson.

To deprive of sweetness. [R.] Bp. Richardson.

Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite.

e distraction of the children, who saw both their parents together, would have melted the hardest heart. Tatler.

rms little though professing much. [Colloq.] Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.

the common-law action of ejectment, the fictitious defendant being usually denominated Richard Roe. Hence, a fictitious name for a party, real or fictitious, to any action or proceeding.

A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait; -- called also goldseed.

The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes.

A grebe or diver; -- applied also to the golden-eye, pochard, scoter, and other ducks. [Written also ducker.] [Prov. Eng.]

Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. [Scot.] A dour wife, a sour old carlin. C. Reade.

ed not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.

A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.

An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.

One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant. Milton.

Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit. He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body. W. Irving.

A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.