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disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial. An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. Richardson.

ld not to be true or actual. Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability or impossibility. J. S. Mill.

ive and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.

hoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. H. Spencer.

To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal. How softly on the Spanish shore she plays, Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown! Byron. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose. Pope.

y cold treatment; to discourage. A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot. Bancroft.

one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing. J. H. Newman. Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the convention. M…

To disparage. [Obs.] She oft him blamed . . . and him dishabled quite. Spenser.

just. To get dishonest gain. Ezek. xxii. 27. The dishonest profits of men in office. Bancroft.

r side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.

eed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.

The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration. To respect the dispensations of Providence. Burke.

e a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke. God was displeased with this thing. 1 Chron. xxi. 7. Wilt thou be displeased at us forever Psalms lxxxv. 5 (Bk. of Com. Prayer). Thi…

ns or arguments. To seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance. Bancroft.

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

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

To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften. As if the world were all dissolved to tears. Shak.

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope.

mpounds, -- usually requiring a high degree of heat; as, the destructive distillation of soft coal or of wood. -- Dry distillation, the distillation of substances by themselves, or without the addition of water or of other volatile solvent; as, the dry distillation of citric acid. -- Fractional distillation. (Chem.)…

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