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rdance or diversity of form; unlikeness in form. Uniformity or disformity in comparing together the respective figures of bodies. S. Clarke.

gs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part. Shak. A degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory. Prescott.

To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease. Shak. The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster.

th or otherwise; -- with from. The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct. Clarendon.

urbation of mind; despair. The distraction of the children, who saw both their parents together, would have melted the hardest heart. Tatler.

over; to perform a second time. (b) To cover; to spread; to smear. "Boats . . . sewed together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin." De Foe. -- To do to death, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.] -- To do up. (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] Chaucer. (b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up. (c) To ac…

Milton. By him were all things created . . . whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. Col. i. 16.

Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled. [Let] The swan, on still St. Mary's lake, Float double, swan and shadow. Wordsworth.

A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other. [Local, U. S.]

Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.

in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly. He put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed . . . that it was indeed a very curious show. Burke.

To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

agoonade. He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. C. Kingsley.

A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation. A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member. Macaulay. No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye. South.

ce; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.

shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. Weale.

A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like. Drifts of rising dust involve the sky. Pope. We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice]. Kane.

cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome. (e) (Mach.)

A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.

umpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another. [R.] He was a little man, dumpled up together. Sir W. Scott.