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Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.

To render difficult; to difficilitate. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

With difficulty. Cowper.

Difficulty. [R.] Golding.

The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not being able to promote them [the interests of life] on account of the difficulty of the region. James Byrne.

To be distrustful. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others. [Archaic] That affliction grew heavy upon me, and weighed me down even to a diffidence of God's mercy. Donne.

See Diffidence. [Obs.]

Wanting confidence in others; distrustful. [Archaic] You were always extremely diffident of their success. Melmoth.

In a diffident manner. To stand diffidently against each other with their thoughts in battle array. Hobbes.

To split. [Obs.] Bailey.

To define. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Definitive; determinate; final. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Act of cleaving or splitting. [R.] Bailey.

A blowing apart or away. [Obs.] Bailey.

A flowing off on all sides; fluidity. [R.]

Flowing apart or off; dissolving; not fixed. [R.] Bailey.

Irregular in form; -- opposed to uniform; anomalous; hence, unlike; dissimilar; as, to difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; difform leaves. The unequal refractions of difform rays. Sir I. Newton.

Irregularity of form; diversity of form; want of uniformity. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a