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discriminating. "Discriminative censure." J. Foster. "Discriminative Providence." Dr. H. More.

To disfigure. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

cts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties. There is no passion steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises, than pride. Addison.

ibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust. The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received. Locke. In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust. Macaulay.

Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more in poverty! Ecclus. x. 31. To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Shak. -- Dis*hon"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Dis*hon"or*a*bly, adv.

To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle. [R.] Dr. H. More.

In a disjunctive manner; separately. Dr. H. More.

A friction clutch in which the gripping surfaces are disks or more or less resemble disks.

nd. The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious satire, or implied dislike. Hannah More. We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sheridan and Fox. J. Morley. His dislike of a particular kind of sensational stories. A. W. Ward.

Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.] An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser.

To release from obligation. [Obs.] Absolving and disobliging from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause. Milton.

The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work. Robynson (More's Utopia).

ling out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration. To respect the dispensations of Providence. Burke.

To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.

, harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more.

Act of disporting; diversion; play. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time. More water . . . than can be disposed of. T. Burnet. I have disposed of her to a man of business. Tatler. A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize. Waller.

The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.

sion of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate. Addicted more To contemplation and profound dispute. Milton.

ieting; a state of disquiet. [Obs.] [It] roars and strives 'gainst its disquietal. Dr. H. More.