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The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter.

Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.

To erase from a roll or list. [Written also disenrol.] Donne.

To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall. [Written also disenthral.] Milton.

Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment. [Written also disenthralment.]

To free from thralldom; to disenthrall. [Written also disinthral.]

A releasing from thralldom or slavery; disenthrallment. [Written also disinthralment.]

To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge. [Poetic & Rare] [Written also dispunge.] O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me. Shak.

eehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. [Written also disseise.] Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof. Holland.

isseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor. [Written also disseisee.]

izing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold. [Written also disseisin.] Blackstone.

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

A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.

s, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem written in a wild irregular strain. Bentley.

A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz. [Persia]

cells. -- Long division (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mostly written down. -- Short division (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mentally performed and only the results written down; -- used principally when the divisor is not greater than ten or twelve.…

vorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.

A blockhead. [Obs.] [Written also dizard, and disard.] -- Diz"zard*ly, adv. [Obs.]

A game played with it. [Written also jereed, jerrid, etc.]

Of or pertaining to written evidence; documentary; as, documental testimony.