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A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.

ersy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil. Measures for terminating all local difficulties. Bancroft.

Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained. [Recent]

An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense. [R.]

A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.

ording to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.

A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

lso, a line having several branches, each with such a sinker, used in deep-sea fishing. [Local, U. S.]

arate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving. Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame Prior.

tes time or distracts attention. Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations. Swift. Dissipation of energy. Same as Degradation of energy, under Degradation.

An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States.

A white, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C14H14, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene.

A float to a fishing line. [Local, U. S.]

Teachableness. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]

much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.

A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.

To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate. A man of genius . . . doomed to struggle with difficulties. Macaulay.

A penalty or fine for neglect. [Local, New England]

Entrance or place of a door. [Obs. or Local] Bp. Warburton.