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A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow. [Slang]

ly or abusively. [Low] -- To blow over, to pass away without effect; to cease, or be dissipated; as, the storm and the clouds have blown over. -- To blow up, to be torn to pieces and thrown into the air as by an explosion of powder or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or stea…

Constipated; costive.

To open up. to be scattered; t be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking. At length the darkness begins to break. Macawlay.

An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. [Slang, U.S.]

emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar. Malborough anticipated the day when he would be servilely flattered and courted by Cæsar on one side and by Louis the Great on the other. Macaulay.

of two bodies. It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.

Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent. "Consumable commodities." Locke.

Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

Dissolute; dissipated. "A coarse and debauched look." Ld. Lytton.

Capable of being scattered or dissipated. [R.] The heat of those plants is very dissipable. Bacon.

used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. Hazlitt.

The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.

To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. [R.] Milton.

it; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. Pope. It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they pro…

A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.

journal box of a driving axle. See Illust. of Locomotive. -- Driving note (Mus.), a syncopated note; a tone begun on a weak part of a measure and held through the next accented part, thus anticipating the accent and driving it through. -- Driving spring, a spring fixed upon the box of the driving axle of a locomotive…

collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.