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added to a principal, will equal the face of a note when it becomes due. The principal yielding this interest is the present value of the note.

Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.

vexation; disquiet. [Obs.] So all that night they passed in great disease. Spenser. To shield thee from diseases of the world. Shak.

A hollow place, as in a field. Ogilvie.

ing in piece; m The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. Macaulay.

Not yielding. Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli. E. Darwin.

; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from. It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance. Macaulay. He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself. Johnson.

To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. Therefore disputed [reasoned, Rev. Ver .] he in synagogue with the Jews. Acts xvii. 17.

trip of covering; to 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.

The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.

gs that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. Hazlitt.

olving view, a picture which grows dim and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; -- an effect produced by magic lanterns.

A space marked out in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange.

A saloon or hall where a council is held, in Oriental countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room.

cal form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.

One who divides or makes division. [Obs.] Sheldon.

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

pparatus resembling a Jacquard for weaving small figures (usually about 12 - 16 threads, seldom more than 36 - 40 threads).

Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.

Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetæ. "Docetic Gnosticism." Plumptre.