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To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [Obs.] As if he thought her soul to disentrail. Spenser.

To divest of coat of mail. Spenser.

To separate (a pair). [R.] I have . . . dispaired two doves. Beau. & Fl.

Blamable. [R.]

To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame. Dispraising the power of his adversaries. Chaucer. I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him. Shak.

One who blames or dispraises.

By way of dispraise.

A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.

To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry. "Distained with dirt and blood." Spenser. [She] hath . . . distained her honorable blood. Spenser. The worthiness of praise distains his worth. Shak.

To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. [Obs.] "Distrained with chains." Chaucer.

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

Same as Distrainor.

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

The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress. Abbott.

Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

opounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.

(Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait; -- called also goldseed.

e possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively. The domain of authentic history. E. Everett. The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges. J. C. Shairp.

The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."

A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. Dovetail molding (Arch.), a molding of any convex section arranged in a sort of zigzag, like a s…