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ns consist with a constant determination of the will . . . to the greatest apparent good. Locke.

To thrust down or out; to push down with force. Locke.

A complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of a pendulum. [Obs.] Locke.

, allied to the European robin. The name is also given to other related species. -- Dial lock, a lock provided with one or more plates having numbers or letters upon them. These plates must be adjusted in a certain determined way before the lock can be operated. -- Dial plate, the plane or disk of a dial or timepiece…

A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones. Locke.

ictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others. Locke.

A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.

ress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. Locke.

An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

or end; as, a direct line; direct means. What is direct to, what slides by, the question. Locke.

Direction; guide. [R.] Whitlock.

Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color. Locke.

r. Shak. Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious discourse. Locke.

To strip of a garland. [Poetic] "Thy locks disgarland." Drummond.

e thing done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received. Locke. In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust. Macaulay.

Unlikeness. [R.] Locke.

ay. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.

To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Locke.

nctions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement. "Disorder in the body." Locke.

arate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse.