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A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

te requirement that the townships must be squares. -- House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell. -- Under correction, subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error.

, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze. O, madam, my old hear is cracked. Shak. He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. Roscommon.

That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.

To disorder; to make shapeless. [Obs.] Shak.

Disorder; dissoluteness. [Obs.] Excess of rideordination. Jer. Taylor.

ut of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.

Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.

act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.

Disorder; merriment. [Obs.]

To disturb the functions of; to disorder. It disaffects the bowels. Hammond.

Disorder; bad constitution. [R.] Wiseman.

The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.

To throw into disorder; to break the array of. Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton.

Disorder. [R.] Feltham.

To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up. Or discomposed the headdress of a prude. Pope.

Disordered; disturbed; disquieted. -- Dis`com*pos"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`com*pos"ed*ness, n.

The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation. No discomposure stirred her features. Akenside.

To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.