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A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.

To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury. The duty of collecting and disbursing his revenues. Macaulay. Disbursing officer, an officer in any department of the public service who is charged with the duty of paying out public money.

rest charged in discounting. At a discount, below par, or below the nominal value; hence, colloquially, out of favor; poorly esteemed; depreciated. -- Bank discount, a sum equal to the interest at a given rate on the principal (face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it become due. -- Discount brok…

To deal with, in eating or drinking. [Colloq.] We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us. Sir S. Baker.

To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger. [Colloq.]

rage. Not dispirited with my afflictions. Dryden. He has dispirited himself by a debauch. Collier.

and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. Hazlitt.

Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively. His crown usurped, a distaff on the throne. Dryden. Some say the crozier, some say the distaff was too busy. Howell.

dealing out. Distributing past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.

Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two). Distributive operation (Math.), any operation which either consists of two or more parts, or works upon two or more things, and w…

By distribution; singly; not collectively; in a distributive manner.

en display; flash; glitter. [R.] A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.

doth distrust that other. Udall. Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid. Collins.

A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz. [Persia]

A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War. [U.S.]

To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.] He was not be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. De Quincey.

One who performs little though professing much. [Colloq.] Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.

cket, in hand; in the plan; under consideration; in process of execution or performance. [Colloq.]

ied to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.

ts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol. Saint Luke . . . collected them from such documents and testimonies as he . . . judged to be authentic. Paley.