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To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit. [Obs. or Archaic] Bale.

Without penal restraint; not punishable. [R.] Swift.

Contest; struggle; quarrel. De Foe. Beyond dispute, Without dispute, indisputably; incontrovertibly.

of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from. The bill passed . . . without a dissenting voice. Hallam. Opinions in which multitudes of men dissent from us. Addison.

der a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9. Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is. Bacon. Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is. Tatler.…

act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste. Without loss or dissipation of the matter. Bacon. The famous dissipation of mankind. Sir M. Hale.

ter and motions in which forces of friction and resistances of other kinds are introduced without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to conservative system.

Discomfort; uneasiness. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.

Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.

t coal or of wood. -- Dry distillation, the distillation of substances by themselves, or without the addition of water or of other volatile solvent; as, the dry distillation of citric acid. -- Fractional distillation. (Chem.) See under Fractional.

of difference; regard to differences or distinguishing circumstance. Maids, women, wives, without distinction, fall. Dryden.

With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly.

tion is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity. That ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. 1 Cor. vii. 3

A wandering about or going astray; digression. Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation. Thackeray.

Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books.

berative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote. The motion passed without a division. Macaulay.

Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless. "The dizzy multitude." Milton.

do all thy work. Ex. xx. 9. We did not do these things. Ld. Lytton. You can not do wrong without suffering wrong. Emerson. Hence: To do homage, honor, favor, justice, etc., to render homage, honor, etc.

Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn. Halliwell.

rtions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.