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disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash. The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do. Thackeray.

o dispatch. [Obs.] Knolles. Then they dispeeded themselves of the Cid and of their mother-in-law, DoSouthey.

A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.

those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en- or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em- before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and so…

essels and lymphatics, serous cavities, etc. It often includes the epidermis (i. e., keratin-producing epithelial cells), and it is sometimes restricted to the alimentary canal, the glands and their appendages, -- the term endothelium being applied to the lining membrane of the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cav…

fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful and fain-hearted Deut. xx. 8.

nging to, or characteristic of, the close of the 19th century; modern; "up-to-date;" as, fin-de-siècle ideas.

Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.] Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin- spun life. Milton.

American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.

A metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic.

tion or worship of woman. The sentimental gyneolatry of chivalry, which was at best but skin- deep. Lowell.

. A form of the prefix in-, not, and in-, among. See In-.

. A form of the prefix in- not, and in- in. See In-. Im- also occurs in composition with some words not of Latin origin; as, imbank, imbitter.

eciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t.

of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x. Inverse figures (Geom.), two figures, such that each point of either figure is inverse to a corresponding point in the order figure. -- Inverse points (Geom.), two points lying on a line draw…

. A form of the prefix in-. See In-.

large wooden screw turning in a nut attached to the crosspiece of a rude press. -- Jack-in-office, an insolent fellow in authority. Wolcott. -- Jack-in-the-bush (Bot.), a tropical shrub with red fruit (Cordia Cylindrostachya). -- Jack-in-the-green, a chimney sweep inclosed in a framework of boughs, carried in Mayda…

Having knees;- used chiefly in composition; as, in-kneed; out- kneed; weak-kneed.

resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain- bearing plants.

sed or rounded edge resembling the lip; -- often used in composition; as, thick-lipped, thin-lipped, etc.