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d earth discoasted lie. G. Fletcher. To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech. Barrow.

The state of being disconsolate. [Obs.] Barrow.

Disconsolateness. [Obs.] Barrow.

discerning differences; to distinguish. Cowper. To discriminate the goats from the sheep. Barrow.

Disheveled. [Obs.] Dishevele, save his cap, he rode all bare. Chaucer.

To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park. [R.] Spectator.

dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay. Mrs. Barbauld.

m an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like. Dismounted from his authority. Barrow.

urred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.). A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to marry. Ward.

sides. J. Fletcher. Adversity is so wholesome . . . why should we be displeased therewith Barrow.

To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock. [Scot.]

To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.] She had disposed with Cæsar. Shak.

disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower. Absolute lord and disposer of all things. Barrow.

Producing inquietude or uneasiness. [R.] Barrow.

contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel. Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them. Acts xv. 2. Debates, dissension, uproars are thy joy. Dryden. A seditious person and raiser-up of dissension among the people. Robynson (More's Utopia).…

Disagreeing; contrary; differing; -- opposed to consentaneous. [R.] Barrow.

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

To subject to distillation; as, to distill molasses in making rum; to distill barley, rye, corn, etc.

of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness. They will prove opposite; and not resting in a bare diversity, rise into a contrariety. South.

g. Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker.