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Privation of life. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

discuss. [R.] One dissertates, he is candid; Two must discept, -- has distinguished. R. Browning.

eveal. How softly on the Spanish shore she plays, Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown! Byron. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose. Pope.

Discomfited; overthrown. [Obs.]

To leave out of account; to take no notice of. [R.] Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's). Sir W. Hamilton.

The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.

To separate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals. Sir T. Browne.

To break to pieces; to shatter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc. Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved. Shak. The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. Ma…

Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled. The disenshrouded statue. R. Browning.

t disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife. Without a thought disloyal. Mrs. Browning.

l place. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.

r or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment.

courage, and dispelled their fears. Milton. I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night. Dryden.

Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. Boyle.