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by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership. Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament. Blackstone.

Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold. [Obs.] Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a distemper uninhabitable. Sir W. Raleigh.

or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress. Shak.

e of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.

To make away; to put away. Nothing but death Shall e'er divorce my dignities. Shak.

To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a t…

A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.

a member of the medical profession; a physician. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. Shak.

An example for instruction or warning. [Obs.] They were forth with stoned to death, as a document to others. Sir W. Raleigh.

The skin of a dog, or leather made of the skin. Also used adjectively.

A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind. Totten.

Pain; grief; distress; anguish. [Written also dolour.] [Poetic] Of death and dolor telling sad tidings. Spenser.

A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.

Ruin; death. This is the day of doom for Bassianus. Shak.

A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death. "My body's doomsday." Shak.

A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiæ on the back.

a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband. Blackstone.

Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather. Shak. No feather, or dowle of a feather. De Quincey.

hich affords ease and repose, like a bed of down When in the down I sink my head, Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath. Tennyson. Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares! Southern.

Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. "A downy feather." Shak. Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. Bacon.