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Fatigue. Able to continue without delassation. Ray.

A small cup for, or of, black coffee.

To dissent. [Obs.]

One who disassents; a dissenter. [Obs.] State Trials (1634).

Want of as siduity or care. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

To subject to disassimilation.

y for excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism. The breaking down of already existing chemical compounds into simpler ones, sometimes called disassimilation. Martin.

Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation. Disassimilative processes constitute a marked feature in the life of animal cells. McKendrick.

To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate. Florio.

To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate. To disembarrass himself of his companion. Sir W. Scott.

Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.

Free from warmth of passion or feeling.

Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy. Sir W. Temple.

Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. Wise and dispassionate men. Clarendon.

Free from passion; dispassionate. [R.] "Dispassioned men." Donne.

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

A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. [Written also doub grass.]

Doob grass.

See Eddish. [Obs.]

A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.