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Mood; humor. As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on. Shak.

alculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable. Shaftesbury. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*ble*ness, n. Norris. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*bly, adv.

se; -- with from. The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct. Clarendon.

Creating, or tending to create, division, separation, or difference. It [culture] is after all a dainty and divisive quality, and can not reach to the depths of humanity. J. C. Shairp. -- Di*vi"sive*ly, adv. -- Di*vi"sive*ness, n. Carlyle.

t or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self. They fear not the Lord, neither do they after . . . the law and commandment. 2 Kings xvii. 34.

imal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting. Grew.

To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity. Milton.

A light one-horse carriage, commonly two-wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box at the back for carrying dogs.

The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog. Cowell.

ng a whole year (except in leap year, when the letter is changed at the end of February). After twenty-eight years the same letters return in the same order. The dominical letters go backwards one day every common year, and two every leap year; e. g., if the dominical letter of a common year be G, F will be the dominic…

ut on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played Hoyle.

The act of giving or bestowing; a grant. After donation there an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given. South.

A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon. [Written also dhony, doney, and done.]

nce, a wraith. My charming friend . . . has, I am almost sure, a double, who preaches his afternoon sermons for him. Atlantic Monthly.

or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease. Blount. Burrill.

l estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband. Blackstone.

g; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway. Down draught, a downward draft, as in a flue, chimney, shaft of a mine, etc. -- Down in the mouth, chopfallen; dejected.

A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught. Everything available for draft burden. S. G. Goodrich.

A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.