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re. The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. Dryden.

mploy the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. [Obs.] "Have sense or can discourse." Dryden.

on; interlocutory. The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. Dryden.

Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove. Dryden.

clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.

stone. Hakluyt. They loudly laughed To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. Dryden.

To disinherit. [Obs.] Dryden.

honest with lopped arms the youth appears, Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears. Dryden.

To violate the chastity of; to debauch. Dryden.

en they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.

To depose from holy orders. [Obs.] Dryden.

Then they, who brother's better claim disown, Expel their parents, and usurp the throne. Dryden.

Milton. I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night. Dryden.

ster; to execute; to manage; to direct. While you dispense the laws, and guide the state. Dryden.

depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage. Not dispirited with my afflictions. Dryden. He has dispirited himself by a debauch. Collier.

To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine. The knightly forms of combat to dispose. Dryden.

rk, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece. Dryden.

The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement. Dryden. In praise and in dispraise the same. Tennyson.

ssension and disputation with them. Acts xv. 2. Debates, dissension, uproars are thy joy. Dryden. A seditious person and raiser-up of dissension among the people. Robynson (More's Utopia).

To relax by pleasure; to make powerless. Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie. Dryden.