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The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation. No discomposure stirred her features. Akenside.

Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult. Shak.

Disarrangement; disturbance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety. Swift.

Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness. Hooker.

Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.

Disturbance. [Obs.] Milton.

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

Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily. Sir W. Temple.

any imperfectly conducting substance or space. It is generally brought into action by any disturbance of molecular equilibrium, whether from a chemical, physical, or mechanical, cause.

A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. How different the emotions between departure and return! W. Irving. Some vague emotion of delight. Tennyson.…

face of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral.

A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.

An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.

Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret. Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret. Pope.

Tumult; disturbance; disorder. [Obs.] Shak.

of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.

Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance.

Disturbance. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

rogressive locomotor ataxy (Med.), a disease of the spinal cord characterized by peculiar disturbances of gait, and difficulty in coördinating voluntary movements.