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To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.

The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments. [The] disendowment of the Irish Church. G. B. Smith.

To spend; to lay out; to expend. [Obs.] Spenser. Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. Fuller.

One who dispends or expends; a steward. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Cor. iv. 1).

To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch. [R.] But say, what mean those colored streaks in heaven Distended as the brow of God appeased Milton.

propriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.

A locomotive with pilot at each end. Knight.

A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.

Master; sir; -- a title of a Turkish state official and man of learning, especially one learned in the law.

To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.

Corrigible; amendable. [R.] Bailey.

Without fault; correctly. [Obs.]

erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement. "He lies in his sin without repentance or emendation." Jer. Taylor.

One who emends or critically edits.

Pertaining to emendation; corrective. "Emendatory criticism."" Johnson.

One who emends.

To beg. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To register in a calendar; to calendar. Drayton.

To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife. Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth. Southey.

The act of generation. [Obs.] Chaucer.