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state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste. Without loss or dissipation of the matter. Bacon. The famous dissipation of mankind. Sir M. Hale.

Tending to dissipate. Dissipative system (Mech.), an assumed system of matter and motions in which forces of friction and resistances of other kinds are introduced without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to conservative system.

Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness. [Obs. or R.] Atterbury.

ance to the crown is due. Dryden. 'T is by respect and distance that authority is upheld. Atterbury.

and apparent good. The distinction betwixt the animal kingdom and the inferior parts of matter. Locke.

Derangement of the mind; madness. Atterbury.

That which is distributed. "Our charitable distributions." Atterbury.

ide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

rding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.

hich their parts are capable of separation. Divisibility . . . is a primary attribute of matter. Sir W. Hamilton.

(Law), an offense containing a lesser offense in one of a greater grade, so that on the latter there can be an acquittal, while on the former there can be a conviction. -- Di*vis"i*ble*ness, n. -- Di*vis"i*bly, adv.

ied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables are used by mane as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet.

rt, metallurgy, or the art of assaying metals; the art of separating metals from foreign matters, and determining the nature and quantity of metallic substances contained in any ore or mineral.

A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly. On the docket, in hand; in the plan; under consideration; in process of execution or performance. [Colloq.]

he doctor of a calico- printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines. T. Goodwin. Sir T. Elyot.

Shattered; infirm. "A laurel grew, doddered with age." Dryden.

A light one-horse carriage, commonly two-wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box at the back for carrying dogs.

Domestic. [Obs.] Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney.

people have arranged such sequences involving thousands of dominoes, arrayed in fanciful patterns. Domino theory. A political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism. The…