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One who engages in conversation.

To seal or ratify with another or others. Shak.

To give additional security to or for. Burke.

The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

To immerse. [Obs.] Boyle.

Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.

; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of beeves disperse. Cowper.

Scattered. -- Dis*pers"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pers"ed*ness, n. Dispersed harmony (Mus.), harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more.

Dispersedness. [Obs.]

One that disperses.

ferent; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate. The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from its original import. J. Edwards. Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she. R. Browning.

In different ways; differently; variously. "Diversely interpreted." Bacon. How diversely love doth his pageants play. Spenser.

The quality of being diverse.

Standing out of, or rising above, water. Gray.

To overthrow or subvert. [Obs.] Glanvill.

A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy. Farrow.

asized form of the third person feminine pronoun; -- used as a subject with she; as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is herself; she blames herself.

Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.

See Hyperæsthesia.

Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. [Obs.] "Things immerse in matter." Bacon.