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The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.

To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark. And, making fast their moorings, disembarked. Cowper.

The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.

sfranchised. Fabyan (1509). He was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs. Thirlwall.

n the passive participle. With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan. Spenser.

The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.

To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim. Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece. Lucar.

To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration. Shak.

Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Nichol.

The act of making dissimilar. H. Sweet.

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

Melting; breaking up; vanishing. -- Dis*solv"ing*ly, adv. Dissolving view, a picture which grows dim and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; -- an effect produced by magic lanterns.

A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.

To subject to distillation; as, to distill molasses in making rum; to distill barley, rye, corn, etc.

A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.

Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two). Distributive operation (Math.), any operation which either consists of two or more parts, or works upon two or more things, and w…

The act of making rich; enrichment. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act of making various, or of changing form or quality. Boyle.

Speaking in different ways. [R.]

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. "The divine Apollo said." Shak.