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ws, etc. Joining them together and digesting them into order. Blair. We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. Shak.

To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.

ing characteristics resembling those of diphtheria; as, diphtheritic inflammation of the bladder.

atodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix.

One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.

The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.

much used by the Scottish Highlander. Dirk knife, a clasp knife having a large, dirklike blade.

d disconsolate parent. One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. Moore. The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. Dryden.

g the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc. Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved. Shak. The insta…

To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.

ople that deserved my disfavor. Is. x. 6 (1551). Sentiment of disfavor against its ally. Gladstone.

ak up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle.

Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous. [Obs.] That were dispunct to the ladies. B. Jonson.

A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle. They heighten distempers to diseases. Suckling.

icity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc. The warmth distends the chinks. Dryden.

tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo. To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder. Macaulay.

Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right. Burrill.

worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.

Lady; mistress; madam; -- a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady.

h of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.