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One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

ning or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation. Having witnessed displays of his power and grace. Trench.

State of disgrace or disfavor; disfavor. [Obs.] He went into Poland, being in displeasure with the pope for overmuch familiarity. Peacham.

. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. Spenser.

A space marked out in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange.

A deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit. [Obs.] Milton.

gue which many did to die. Spenser. We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. 2 Cor. viii. 1.

ome doily petticoats." Dryden. A fool and a doily stuff, would now and then find days of grace, and be worn for variety. Congreve.

ing; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power. The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. Macaulay. Dominant estate or tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estat…

Any preparation, as of opium, used to stupefy or, in the case of a race horse, to stimulate. [Slang or Cant]

A chart of previous performances, etc., of race horses. [Race- track Slang]

and doubt their own! Pope. I doubt not that however changed, you keep So much of what is graceful. Tennyson. To doubt not but. I do not doubt but I have been to blame. Dryden. We doubt not now But every rub is smoothed on our way. Shak.

or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion. It will be rain to-night. Let it come down. Shak. I sit me down beside the hazel grove. Tennyson. And that drags down his life. Tennyson. Ther…

From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin. And downward fell into a groveling swine. Milton.

A race Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion.

To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.

To love in idleness; to do nothing. "Race of droning kings." Dryden.

waved coats dropped with gold. Milton. To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.

f an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons.

The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced. [Obs.] Shak.