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onstellations seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible. Sir J. Herschel.

se; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.

another at various angles and in various ways. Logs and tree luing crisscross in utter confusion. W. E. Boardman.

A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple. Innocence when it has in it a dash of folly. Addison.

st in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.

or is called the decoction of the plant. Arbuthnot. In pharmacy decoction is opposed to infusion, where there is merely steeping. Latham.

order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.

ing or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.

ferent substances in solution, as crystalloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes.

Prepared by diffusion through an animal membrane; as, dialyzed iron.

The emission and diffusion of rays of light.

The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.

Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion. Disrank the troops, set all in disarray. Daniel.

discomfiting, or the state of being discomfited; rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection. Every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture. 1 Sam. xiv. 20. A hope destined to end . . . in discomfiture and disgrace. Macaulay.

To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

s therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.

ate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved. Shak. The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. Madison. Disease germ. See under Germ.

To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.

Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion. [Obs.] Bacon.