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parted air; disparted towers. [Archaic] Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. Spenser. The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. Emerson.

See Dispense. [Obs.]

To spend; to lay out; to expend. [Obs.] Spenser. Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. Fuller.

Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless. Spenser. -- Dis*pit"e*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]

To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants. Spenser.

de; to expand; to stretch out; to spread. The northern wind his wings did broad display. Spenser.

ct. [Obs.] And bitter Penance, with an iron whip, Was wont him once to disple every day. Spenser.

in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. Spenser.

The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. [R.]

Conscious inclination; propension or propensity. How stands your disposition to be married Shak.

ad abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.

To renounce the profession or pursuit of. His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess. Spenser.

Want of provisions; [Obs.] Spenser.

With nerves unstrung; weak. [Obs.] Spenser.

ully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry. "Distained with dirt and blood." Spenser. [She] hath . . . distained her honorable blood. Spenser. The worthiness of praise distains his worth. Shak.

To dethrone. [Obs.] Spenser.

ated. [Obs.] The which [place] was dight With divers flowers distinct with rare delight. Spenser.

Distorted; misshapen. [Obs.] Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. Spenser.

To rend; to tear. [Obs.] Neither guile nor force might it [a net] distrain. Spenser.

Torn asunder; separated. [Obs.] "His greedy throat . . . distraught." Spenser.