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excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism. The breaking down of already existing chemical compounds into simpler ones, sometimes called disassimilation. Martin.

Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation. Disassimilative processes constitute a marked feature in the life of animal cells. McKendrick.

Disconsolateness. [Obs.] Barrow.

Disconsolate. [Obs.] A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature. Sterne.

Dejection; grief. [R.] Bp. Hall.

To open. [Obs.] Holland.

To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat. [Obs.] Hakewill.

To render dissimilar.

The act of making dissimilar. H. Sweet.

Feigning; simulating; pretending. [Obs.] Henryson.

earance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9. Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is. Bacon. Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is. Tatler.

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

The product of distillation; as, the distillate from molasses.

The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization;…

Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.

A housebreaker or thief. [Obs.] Old Play (1631).

A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.

Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.

Set with small spines or prickles.

cy of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown. "The eclat of Homer's battles." Pope.