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To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.] You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. Robynson (More's Utopia). To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. -- To dig from, out of, out…

A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.

The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.

pression; -- jocosely so called from the analogy of the sound of a bell induced by the stroke of the clapper.

A blow; a stroke. [Obs.] "Mortal dint." Milton. "Like thunder's dint." Fairfax.

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means. What is direct to, what slides by, the question. Locke.

Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way. Hooker. The precepts directive of our practice in relation to God. Barrow.

terms. No man hath hitherto been so impious as plainly and directly to condemn prayer. Hooker.

To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.

To debase or degrade. [Obs.] Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself. B. Jonson.

ove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover. The shells being broken, . . . the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty. Woodward.

To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off. Bacon.

One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.

Not continuous; interrupted; broken off. A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. De Quincey.

(face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it become due. -- Discount broker, one who makes a business of discounting commercial paper; a bill broker. -- Discount day, a particular day of the week when a bank discounts bills. -- True discount, the interest which, added to a principal, will equal the…

One who discounts; a discount broker. Burke.

couraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Col. iii. 21.

To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.] I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it. Evelyn.

Discrimination. Well spoken, with good accent and good discretion. Shak.

Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens. Bacon.