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Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting. -- n.

or composed as a ditty; -- usually in composition. Who, with his soft pipe, and smooth-dittied song. Milton.

A cramp.

Subjected to a duty. Ames.

The quotient of a unit divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts.

One who, or that which, empties.

See Entirety. [Obs.]

One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.

Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years.

A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster. [Obs.]

Fusty. [Obs.]

See Forty.

One of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-ninth.

another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.

Placed on the frontiers. [R.]

A man living on the frontier.

The consecrated wafer; the host. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. I then, . . . Out of my grief and my impatience, Answered neglectingly. Shak. W…

Impatience. [Obs.]

A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.…