Search the Dictionary

Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [Obs.] Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears. Dryden.

hich the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.

To obtain by distillation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; to distill alcoholic spirits from grain; to distill essential oils from flowers, etc.; to distill fresh water from sea water. "Distilling odors on me." Tennyson.

ing distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.

molecule two atoms of sulphur in the higher state of oxidation. Disulphuric acid, a thick oily liquid, H2S2O7, called also Nordhausen acid (from Nordhausen in the Harts, where it was originally manufactured), fuming sulphuric acid, and especially pyrosulphuric acid. See under Pyrosulphuric.

To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil. "Disuse me from . . . pain." Donne.

, or the state of being so divided; separation. I was overlooked in the division of the spoil. Gibbon.

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

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the doegling; as, doeglic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid.

The beaked whale (Balænoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained.

Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book. Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared. Ld. Mansfield.

f a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.

engine, a small auxiliary engine not used for propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes. -- Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary. -- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the large round seed of the Mucuna pruriens, a tropic…

A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.

A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

14. Dove tick (Zoöl.), a mite (Argas reflexus) which infests doves and other birds. -- Soiled dove, a prostitute. [Slang]

From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions. Arbuthnot.

ng combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.

See Doily.

A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.