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To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.] The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book. Foxe.

Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.

Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show. That eye which glances through all disguises. D. Webster.

A place of low resort. [Slang] The music halls and dives in the lower part of the city. J. Hawthorne.

, passions, etc. Wretches divested of every moral feeling. Goldsmith. The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle.

im write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.

air does not concern the person denoted by the subject of have. "Philology has to do with language in its fullest sense." Earle. "What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah 2 Sam. xvi. 10.

purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. [Slang]

reparation, as of opium, used to stupefy or, in the case of a race horse, to stimulate. [Slang or Cant]

A chart of previous performances, etc., of race horses. [Race- track Slang]

Affected by "dope"; esp., sluggish or dull as though under the influence of a narcotic. [Slang]

A place to sleep in; a bed; hence, sleep. [Slang]

A translation of the Scriptures into the English language for the use of English-speaking Roman Catholics; -- done from the Latin Vulgate by English scholars resident in France. The New Testament portion was published at Rheims, A. D. 1582, the Old Testament at Douai, A. D. 1609-10. Various revised editions have since…

Having two heads; bicipital. Double-headed rail (Railroad), a rail whose flanges are duplicates, so that when one is worn the other may be turned uppermost.

One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.

To put out; to extinguish. [Slang] " To douse the glim." Sir W. Scott.

te (Argas reflexus) which infests doves and other birds. -- Soiled dove, a prostitute. [Slang]

Cunning; wary. [Slang, Eng.] Latham.

Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.

The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.