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are many species. See Opossum. [Written also Didelphis.] See Illustration in Appendix. Cuvier.

; characteristic quality; specific attribute. The marks and differences of sovereignty. Davies.

sions; marking dimensions or the limits. Who can draw the soul's dimensive lines Sir J. Davies.

A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.

To differ in opinion; to hold discordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel. Who shall decide, when doctors disagree Pope.

To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.

e power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.

To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal. How softly on the Spanish shore she plays, Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown! Byron. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose. Pope.

To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse. Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. Shak.

To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown). Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover The several caskets to this noble prince. Shak. Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. Bacon. We will discover…

The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

A hollow place, as in a field. Ogilvie.

To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view. Addison.

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

proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a dispassionate view.

To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest. His statement . . . displays very clearly the actual condition of the army. Burke.

To eject from a post; to displace. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate. Addicted more To contemplation and profound dispute. Milton.

Melting; breaking up; vanishing. -- Dis*solv"ing*ly, adv. Dissolving view, a picture which grows dim and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; -- an effect produced by magic lanterns.

To form into two syllables. Ogilvie.