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Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious. [R.] Ascham. -- Dis*sen"sious*ly, adv. Chapman.

To separate; to sunder; to destroy. [R.] Chapman.

Distorted; misshapen. [Obs.] Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. Spenser.

The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.

Under rule; subject; tributary. [Obs.] Chapman.

A wayside inn. [Obs. or R.] Chapman.

is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction. Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come. Sir T. North.

; - - called also water tiger. -- Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above. -- Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine. -- Divi…

o baffle completely; as, a goblet is done for when it is broken. [Colloq.] Some folks are happy and easy in mind when their victim is stabbed and done for. Thackeray. -- To do withal, to help or prevent it. [Obs.] "I could not do withal." Shak. -- To do without, to get along without; to dispense with. -- To have done…

Having a head shaped like that of a dog; -- said of certain baboons.

Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish.

Barrel-shaped, or like a cask in form.

A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet. Knight.

Damage; hurt. [Obs.] Chapman.

Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome.

s household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. Macaulay.

Relating to, or shaped like, a dome.

two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino a…

That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty. Ere Hector meets his doom. Pope. And homely household task shall be her doom. Dryden.

A small annual species of Geranium, native in England; -- so called from the shape of the leaf.