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and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.

ral planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body. Direct action. (Mach.) See Direct-acting. -- Direct discourse (Gram.), the language of any one quoted without change in its form; as, he said "I can not come;" -- correlative to indirect di…

is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction.

To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.

To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted.

render void or of no effect. For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul Isaiah xiv. 27.

o longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.

d or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. Knolles. Feeling in oth…

Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; - - said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.

Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.

Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent. Discrete movement. See Concrete movement of the voice, under Concrete, a. -- Discrete proportion, proportion where the ratio of the means is different from that of either couplet; as, 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6 as 8 does to 16. But 3 is…

To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors. Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection. Sir H. Wotton. A pomade . . . of virtue to discuss pimples. Rambler.

y of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands. Burrill.

e; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of…

To refuse or decline to accept or pay; -- said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exchange.

the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery.

s, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations. Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. Rogers.

With wings expanded; -- said of a bird of pray, esp. an eagle.

ist. Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries. Burke. Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter. Shipley.

The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; -- said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances; as, the dissociation of the sulphur molecules; the dissociation of ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia.