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Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety. Swift.

Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness. Hooker.

Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.

e; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune. The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy. Bancroft.

Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley.

ss to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft.

the duke, his joints dissolved asunder. Fairfax. For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. The Declaration of Independence.

To banish or drive from a country. [Obs.] Howell.

ing; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft.

Disturbance. [Obs.] Milton.

Act of disturbing; disturbance. [Obs.] Daniel.

A kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem written in a wild irregular strain. Bentley.

gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Bancroft.

d among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.

know; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. A sagacity which divined the evil designs. Bancroft.

The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (or thoro), "from bed board."

e, who have a taste for good living, have many harmless arts, by which they improve their banquet, and innocent dodges, if we may be permitted to use an excellent phrase that has become vernacular since the appearance of the last dictionaries. Thackeray.

A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry. Approach the dome, the social banquet share. Pope.

peace, or even the doubtful friend [i. e., one as to whose sincerity there may be doubts] Bancroft.

dow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease. Blount. Burrill.