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pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place. This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. Hakluyt. They loudly laughed To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. Dryden.…

That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.

To rid; to free. [Obs.] I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge. Udall.

Expense; profusion; outlay. [Obs.] It was a vault built for great dispense. Spenser.

red or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites and ceremonies; a great dispersion of the human family took place at the building of Babel. The days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished. Jer. xxv. 34.

e to be used or employed as occasion may require; not assigned to any service or use. The great of this kingdom . . . has easily afforded a disposable surplus. Burke.

condition, etc.; alienation, or parting; as, a disposal of property. A domestic affair of great importance, which is no less than the disposal of my sister Jenny for life. Tatler.

divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.

under a false appearance; a hypocrite. It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers. Bacon. Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. Pope.

uade (one from a course). [Obsolescent] Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter. Goldsmith. War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades. Milton.

outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly. He distanced the most skillful of his contemporaries. Milner.

Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness.

A state of being distressed or greatly pained.

Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally. Divers of Antonio's creditors. Shak.

Capable of various forms; multiform. Eloquence is a great and diverse thing. B. Jonson.

t which, causes division. Hate is of all things the mightiest divider. Milton. Money, the great divider of the world. Swift.

he other. -- Divisible offense (Law), an offense containing a lesser offense in one of a greater grade, so that on the latter there can be an acquittal, while on the former there can be a conviction. -- Di*vis"i*ble*ness, n. -- Di*vis"i*bly, adv.

performed and only the results written down; -- used principally when the divisor is not greater than ten or twelve.

Ado; bustle; stir; to do. [R.] A great deal of do, and a great deal of trouble. Selden.

One who performs little though professing much. [Colloq.] Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.