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act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.

A state of things in which it is difficult to determine which one of three courses to pursue.

A fault or interruption in a stratum. To get into trouble, to get into difficulty or danger. [Colloq.] -- To take the trouble, to be at the pains; to exert one's self; to give one's self inconvenience. She never took the trouble to close them. Bryant.

having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries. The wood is crossgrained and very difficult to split. Called also black gum, sour gum, and pepperidge. Largo tupelo, or Tupelo gum (Bot.), an American tree (Nyssa uniflora) with softer wood than the tupelo. -- Sour tupelo (Bot.), the Ogeechee lime.…

ted with a subject; a novice. [Written also tiro.] The management of tyros of eighteen Is difficult. Cowper.

To disencumber of a clog, or of difficulties and obstructions; to free from encumbrances; to set at liberty. Shak.

Not easy; difficult. [R.] Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood. Boyle. The road will be uneasy to find. Sir W. Scott.

Not easy; difficult; hard. [Obs.] Who he was, uneath was to descry. Spenser.

Free from pecuniary difficulties or encumbrances; as, he and his property are unembarrassed.

With difficulty; scarcely. See Uneath. [Written also unethe, unneth, unnethe, unnethes, etc.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

With difficulty. See Uneath. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot.

Attended with labor; difficult; as, uphill work.

kelihood. Verisimilitude and opinion are an easy purchase; but true knowledge is dear and difficult. Glanvill. All that gives verisimilitude to a narrative. Sir. W. Scott.

though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness. Quian.

A kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.

Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed as, to wade through a dull book. And wades through fumes, and gropes his way. Dryden. The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. Davenant.

e way to heaven." Shak. I shall him seek by way and eke by street. Chaucer. The way seems difficult, and steep to scale. Milton. The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance. Evelyn.

weather the storm. For I can weather the roughest gale. Longfellow. You will weather the difficulties yet. F. W. Robertson.

lor or gold. Hawthorne. Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures. W. Irving.