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t heels." F. Hardman (Blackw. Mag.). -- Devil worship, worship of the power of evil; -- still practiced by barbarians who believe that the good and evil forces of nature are of equal power. -- Printer's devil, the youngest apprentice in a printing office, who runs on errands, does dirty work (as washing the ink rolle…

eal estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property. Fines upon devises were still exacted. Bancroft.

To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. To die in the last ditch, to fight till death; to die rather than surrender. "There is one certain way," replied the Prince [William of Orange] " by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last ditch." Hume (Hist. of Eng. ). -- To die out…

or diffusely. [R.] Do me the favor to dilate at full What hath befallen of them and thee till now. Shak.

To still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain. [Obs.]

ial of belief. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. Tillotson. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness that disbelief in great men. Carlyle.

f; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery.

; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds. For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart. Longfellow.

this labyrinth. Clarendon. A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. Bp. Stillingfleet.

, therefore, God himself disjoins. Milton. Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy. Addison. Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses. Pennant.

r wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery.

and or prohibition. He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.

To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark them all. Waller.

ong 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.

To distill or infuse the spirit of. [Obs. or R.] This makes a man master of his learning, and dispirits the book into the scholar. Fuller.

isqualification of a person for office; sickness is a disqualification for labor. I must still retain the consciousness of those disqualifications which you have been pleased to overlook. Sir J. Shore.

act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.

f resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity. Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images. Stillingfleet.

Irving. 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view. T. Campbell. [He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato. Addison.

See Distill.