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ngs and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors.

rent of the same direction as the inducing current, produced by stopping or removing the latter; also, a similar current produced by removal of a magnet.

on which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.

ct the plainest sense of Scripture, because it seems disagree with what they call reason. Atterbury.

To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army. They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling. Knolles.

nsulated by a glass handle. It is employed for discharging a Leyden jar or an electrical battery. See Discharger.

Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.

The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. Bp. Wilkins.

To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat. And his proud foes discomfit in victorious field. Spenser.

y of being discreet; wise conduct and management; cautious discernment, especially as to matters of propriety and self- control; prudence; circumspection; wariness. The better part of valor is discretion. Shak. The greatest parts without discretion may be fatal to their owner. Hume.

To break to pieces; to shatter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter.

Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application. -- n.

To 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.

To disperse; to scatter; -- opposite of congregate. [Obs.]

A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table. She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Judg. v. 25.

To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.

The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.

discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious. Bp. Atterbury. Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms. Milton.