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Distracted. [Obs.] Spenser.

rill. If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle. Spenser. The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for. Blackstone. Abuse of distress. (Law) See under Abuse.

To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice. Shak.

One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser. Addison.

The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena of geological distribution are exactly analogous to those of geography. A. R. Wallace.

To trouble. [Obs.] Spenser.

ll-cofounding war the realms above. Cowper. The bellow's noise disturbed his quiet rest. Spenser. The utmost which the discontented colonies could do, was to disturb authority. Burke.

pare for action or use; to make ready; to dight. [Obs.] His hideous club aloft he dites. Spenser.

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e that is short and frequently repeated; a theme. O, too high ditty for my simple rhyme. Spenser.

To turn aside. [Obs.] The redcross knight diverst, but forth rode Britomart. Spenser.

y; variously. "Diversely interpreted." Bacon. How diversely love doth his pageants play. Spenser.

ive in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share. True justice unto people to divide. Spenser. Ye shall divide the land by lot. Num. xxxiii. 54.

To render divine; to deify. [Obs.] Living on earth like angel new divined. Spenser.

shall . . . your cloister do make. Piers Plowman. A fatal plague which many did to die. Spenser. We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. 2 Cor. viii. 1.

stress; anguish. [Written also dolour.] [Poetic] Of death and dolor telling sad tidings. Spenser.

A female dolphin. [R.] Spenser.

ch authorizes it to appropriate any part thereof to a necessary public use, reasonable compensation being made.

Sorrow; dole. [Obs.] Spenser.

apartment is closed and opened. At last he came unto an iron door That fast was locked. Spenser.