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d dejection. Every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture. 1 Sam. xiv. 20. A hope destined to end . . . in discomfiture and disgrace. Macaulay.

A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband.

To deprive of features; to mar the features of. [R.]

The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. [Obs.]

The act of depriving of investiture. [Obs.] Ogilvie.

The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation. Fuller.

To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Locke.

Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. [Obs.] Shak.

Disruption. [R.] Jefferson.

Something which excites distaste or disgust. [Obs.] Speed.

Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. [Obs.]

Distinctness. [R.]

range; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest. Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms above. Cowper. The bellow's noise disturbed his quiet rest. Spenser. The utmost which the discontented colonies could do, was to disturb authority. Burke.

peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current.

Act of disturbing; disturbance. [Obs.] Daniel.

One who, or that which, disturbs of disquiets; a violator of peace; a troubler. A needless disturber of the peace of God's church and an author of dissension. Hooker.

To turn aside. [Obs.] Daniel.

A disadventure. [Obs.] Shelton.

Of long continuance; lasting. [R.] Milton.

Long duration; lastingness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.