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s being broken, . . . the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty. Woodward.

One who discusses; one who sifts or examines. Wood.

e your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller.

To disarrange. [Obs.] Wood.

A nearly uniform and constant fire or heat disseminated throughout the body of the earth. Woodward.

eing dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid. Woodward.

ally requiring a high degree of heat; as, the destructive distillation of soft coal or of wood. -- Dry distillation, the distillation of substances by themselves, or without the addition of water or of other volatile solvent; as, the dry distillation of citric acid. -- Fractional distillation. (Chem.) See under Fract…

To diverge; to be divaricate. Woodward.

One who, or that which, dives. Divers and fishers for pearls. Woodward.

gyman. The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge.

Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood.

An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.

The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes.

two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. [Written also Doomsday Book.]

A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched h…

The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.

The back of a book. [Obs.] Books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses. Wood.

Half-rotten; as, doted wood. [Local, U. S.]

A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.

A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.