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gether and digesting them into order. Blair. We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. Shak.

In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.

To rend in pieces; to tear. [R.] Howell.

To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.

ky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished. The dim magnificence of poetry. Whewell. How is the gold become dim! Lam. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth.

Dimension. [R.] Howell.

able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. fishes, and sea hedgehogs.

Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple.

cription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants. The princes digged the well . . . by the direction of the law giver. Numb. xxi. 18.

To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

ce; as, to disband an army. They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling. Knolles.

To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk Well, go with me and be not so discomfited. Shak.

To discommode. [Obs.] Howell.

in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do. Thackeray.

That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. [R.] Halliwell.

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

uise one's sentiments, character, or intentions. All God's angels come to us disguised. Lowell.

Unharmonious; discordant. [Obs.] Hallywell.

To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt. Halliwell.

The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. Lowell.