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ve. Yet can they never Toss into air the freedom of my birth, Or disavow my blood Plantagenet's. Ford.

m another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.

stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth. Shak. Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. Daniel. They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to disconti…

make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

found out, or for the first time ascertained or recognized; as, the properties of the magnet were an important discovery.

The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. [R.] T. Burnet.

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. T. Burnet.

To come down; to descend. [Poetic] But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser.

ose of a house; to dispose of one's time. More water . . . than can be disposed of. T. Burnet. I have disposed of her to a man of business. Tatler. A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize. Waller.

The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. [Obs.] Crabb.

ice and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist. Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries. Burke. Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter. Shipley.

e or lavish use; to squander. The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated. Bp. Burnet.

he flood into those that belong to the heavens, and those that belong to the earth. T. Burnet.

act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet.

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

diurnal motion. -- Diurnal parallax. See under Parallax. -- Diurnal revolution of a planet, the motion of the planet upon its own axis which constitutes one complete revolution.

Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. South.

ct; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances. "The doctrine of gravitation." I. Watts. Articles of faith and doctrine. Hooker. The Monroe doctrine (Politics), a policy enunciated by Presid…

innæan class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.