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To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted. A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her. Shak.

To rend; to tear. [Obs.] Neither guile nor force might it [a net] distrain. Spenser.

To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy.

d and its effect; alienation. Such a disunion between the two houses as might much clouClarendon.

To deprive of utility; to render useless. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

To rend apart. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

To render divine; to deify. [Obs.] Living on earth like angel new divined. Spenser.

To render divine; to deify. [Obs.] "Blessed and divinified soul." Parth. Sacra (1633).

Tending to pull asunder, tear, or rend; distracting.

ng without suffering wrong. Emerson. Hence: To do homage, honor, favor, justice, etc., to render homage, honor, etc.

Doctorate. [R.] Clarendon.

done; a deed; an action good or bad; hence, in the plural, conduct; behavior. See Do. To render an account of his doings. Barrow.

Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.

An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.

for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct. W. H. Wollaston.

d for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war. On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel . . . at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal. Cook (First Voyage).

ery. [Obs.] Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon.

t in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, b…

To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. "Dulls the mirror." Bacon.