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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.

Capability or liableness to be discerped. [R.] Wollaston.

Incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness. Sir M. Hale.

Unsuitableness; incongruity. [Obs.] Bacon.

tate of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court.

Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. [Obs.] "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2.

Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object.

Want of sociability; unsociableness. Bp. Warburton.

Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. [Jocular] Carlyle. Miss Austen.

teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness. [Obs. or R.]

Teachableness. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]

Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay.

Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness. Chesterfield.

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

Tractableness; pliableness. South.

Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic] Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. I. Watts.

a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or olefiant gas; -- called also Dutch oil. It is so called because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four Hollandish chemists. See Ethylene, and Olefiant. -- Dutch oven, a tin screen for baking before an open fire or…

The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.

Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness.

o egoism or thoughts of self. I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness. Carlyle.