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To pay for; to atone for. [Obs.] His sin was dispensed With gold, whereof it was compensed. Gower.

One who disputes; one who argues A singularly eager, acute, and pertinacious disputant. Macaulay.

State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft.

Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two). Distributive operation (Math.), any operation which either consists of two or more parts, or works upon two or more things, and w…

By distribution; singly; not collectively; in a distributive manner.

Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc.

a little poem intended to be sung. "Religious, martial, or civil ditties." Milton.ditties sing. Sandys.

To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. [Obs.] Spenser.

or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker.

ts. "We will . . . do our best to gain their assent." Jowett (Thucyd.). -- To do one's business, to ruin one. [Colloq.] Wycherley. -- To do one shame, to cause one shame. [Obs.] -- To do over. (a) To make over; to perform a second time. (b) To cover; to spread; to smear. "Boats . . . sewed together and done over with…

ky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity. Milton.

The 3d pers. sing. pres. of Do.

h a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.

A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.

A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.

excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child. Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. Shak. What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. Pope.

ims, A. D. 1582, the Old Testament at Douai, A. D. 1609-10. Various revised editions have since been published. [Written also Doway Bible. Called also the Rheims and Douay version.]

ed into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere. With a double heart do they speak. Ps. xii. 2.

Deceit; duplicity. Now cometh the sin of double-tongue, such as speak fair before folk and wickedly behind. Chaucer.

The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached.