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dissolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore.

e. An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood, and disables his children to inherit. Blackstone.

und; to exempt from forest laws. By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. Blackstone.

ration. The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone.

To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share. Blackstone. Disclaim in, Disclaim from, to disown; to disavow. [Obs.] "Nature disclaims in thee." Shak.

distinguishing. -- Dis*crim"i*na`ting*ly, adv. And finds with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black; -- nor white so very white. Canning.

; to free from illusion. "The bitter disillusionizing experience of postnuptial life." W. Black.

; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.

sessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold. [Written also disseisin.] Blackstone.

lly disseizes, or puts another out of possession of a freehold. [Written also disseisor.] Blackstone.

sessions; the breaking up of a partnership. Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament. Blackstone.

Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained. Blackstone.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone.

attle. Spenser. The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for. Blackstone. Abuse of distress. (Law) See under Abuse.

ined extent; a region; a country; a tract. These districts which between the tropics lie. Blackstone. Congressional district. See under Congressional. -- District attorney, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. -- District court, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jur…

ruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone.

h bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance. The pride of dogmatizing schools. Blackmore.

sually, in fact, an unlicensed pawnbroker's shop, formerly distinguished by the sign of a black doll. [England]

Dolphin fly (Zoöl.), the black, bean, or collier, Aphis (Aphis fable), destructive to beans. -- Dolphin striker (Naut.), a short vertical spar under the bowsprit.

Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag.