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zing themselves, or, in other words, of publicly renouncing their allegiance to their sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his enemy. Prescott.

mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

One admitted to residence in a foreign country. Ye gods, Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. Dryden.

A gift or offering to God. [Obs.] Wherein that blessed widow's deodate was laid up. Hooker.

The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.

railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passenges or freight. [U. S.]

The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.

A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign. Irresponsible power in human hands so naturally leads to it, that cruelty has become associated with despot and tyrant. C. J. Smith.

Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.

as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on). Who presumed to dictate to the sovereign. Macaulay.

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

To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster. [Low]

A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.

Pertaining to diplomacy; relating to the foreign ministers at a court, who are called the diplomatic body.

lamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking. Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. Shak. -- Dis*as"trous*ly, adv. -- Dis*as"trous*ness, n.

To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority. Milton.

To deprive of heritage; to dispossess. And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here. Milton.

Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife. Without a thought disloyal. Mrs. Browning.

To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge. [Poetic & Rare] [Written also dispunge.] O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me. Shak.

on." Shak. His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him. Strype.