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In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.

to resolve. "Dissolved the mystery." Tennyson. Make interpretations and dissolve doubts. Dan. v. 16.

A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord. Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton.

Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow.

Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.

To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable. [Obs.] Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which at the are scarce found to distaste. Shak.

A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.

Act of disturbing; disturbance. [Obs.] Daniel.

To turn aside. [Obs.] Daniel.

To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand. Mark iii. 24. Every family became now divided within itself. Prescott.

to produce, as an effect or result; to effect; to achieve. The neglecting it may do much danger. Shak. He waved indifferently' twixt doing them neither good not harm. Shak.

ous lessee acting as plaintiff in the common-law action of ejectment, the fictitious defendant being usually denominated Richard Roe. Hence, a fictitious name for a party, real or fictitious, to any action or proceeding.

Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava. Dana.

held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables. R. H. Dana.

to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.

I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion. Dan. iv. 34. To choose between dominion or slavery. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

ugh not so much as in Spain France talks of Dom Calmet, England of Dom Calmet, England of Dan Lydgate. Oliphant.

A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

l earth, mica, etc., mixed with nitroglycerin to make a damp powder (dynamite, etc.) less dangerous to transport, and ordinarily explosive only by suitable fulminating caps.

Back to back; as, to sit dos-à-dos in a dogcart; to dance dos- à-dos, or so that two dancers move forward and pass back to back.