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A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property. Fines upon devises were still exacted. Bancroft.

One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee.

A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament.

The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area. Tait.

The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.

Act of digladiating. [Obs.] "Sore digladiations and contest." Evelyn.

A fight; contest. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

with a horizontal line; -- called also inclination. -- Dip of a stratum (Geol.), its greatest angle of inclination to the horizon, or that of a line perpendicular to its direction or strike; -- called also the pitch.

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means. What is direct to, what slides by, the question. Locke.

prudence; circumspection; wariness. The better part of valor is discretion. Shak. The greatest parts without discretion may be fatal to their owner. Hume.

n the chief priests and scribes saw the marvels that he did . . . they disdained. Genevan Testament (Matt. xxi. 15).

disposed to each other that the gravest note of the upper is one note higher than the acutest note of the other.

Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. Actions, every one of which is very disputable. Jer. Taylor.

ntation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.

To strive or contend about; to contest. To dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards. Prescott.

r a false appearance; a hypocrite. It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers. Bacon. Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. Pope.

ch, especially that of England; nonconformity. It is the dissidence of dissent and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. Burke.

The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place. Every particle attracts every other with a force . . . inversely proportioned to the square of the distance. Sir I. Newton.

Sudden display; flash; glitter. [R.] A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.