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r hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot. Such secrets of guilt are never from detection. D. Webster.

s, or difficulty, risk, etc. Addison. Potent enemies tempt and deter us from our duty. Tillotson. My own face deters me from my glass. Prior.

of religion are already either determinately true or false, before you think of them. Tillotson.

A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.

An infant's breechcloth.

n, deep steel frame, sharpened to a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather, cloth, paper, etc. -- The die is cast, the hazard must be run; the step is taken, and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken.

ight path; to transgress; to offend. [R.] Thy abundant goodness shall excuse This deadly blot on thy digressing son. Shak.

To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.

of belief. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. Tillotson. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness that disbelief in great men. Carlyle.

he action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot. Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.

A dishcloth. [Obsolescent]

or prohibition. He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.

To roam. [Obs.] In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser.

To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. [R.] A. Brewer.

ivest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip 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.

. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men. Tillotson.

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot. She did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred. Judith xvi. 24.

To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.

e out; to share. True justice unto people to divide. Spenser. Ye shall divide the land by lot. Num. xxxiii. 54.