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Mitigation; abatement.

The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. [R.] Milton.

The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

The proprietor or manager of a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

To adorn with gems, or as with gems. Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley.

The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged. Golding.

Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf.

Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [Slang] "These Brummagem gentry." Lady D. Hardy.

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

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

n of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement. "Discouragements from vice." Swift.

Discouragement. [Obs.] Spectator.

aging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. Transl. of Lavoisier. A disengagement from earthly trammels. Sir W. Jones.

The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. Bp. Hall.

Release from obligation. [Obs.]

excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. [Eng.] And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser.

Divergence.

Instigation; incitement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity. All generous encouragement of arts. Otway.

Damage; injury; harm. [Obs.] Shak.