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cause of variance, or quarrel; to dispute; to contend. We 'll never differ with a crowded pit. Rowe.

rken the senses or understanding of. Her starry eyes were dimmed with streaming tears. C. Pitt.

er; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of. Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity. Shak. It was by dint of passing strength That he moved the massy stone at length. Sir W. Scott.

Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.

An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent. [Obs.] Disasters in the sun. Shak.

Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. [Obs.] The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton.

A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill.

Unpropitiously. [Obs.]

put out favor; to dismiss with dishonor. Flatterers of the disgraced minister. Macaulay. Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed. J. Morley.

passive participle. With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan. Spenser.

The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation. In spite of all the dissuasions of his friends. Boyle.

Distracted; perplexed. "Distraught twixt fear and pity." Spenser. As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror. Shak. To doubt betwixt our senses and our souls Which are the most distraught and full of pain. Mrs. Browning.

ame syllables are used by mane as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet.

An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.

Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.] The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. Sir W. Scott.

A ruler or ruling power. "Sole dominator of Navarre." Shak. Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world. Camden.

the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.

Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.

Having two heads; bicipital. Double-headed rail (Railroad), a rail whose flanges are duplicates, so that when one is worn the other may be turned uppermost.

Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.