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Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust; as, a disrelish for some kinds of food. Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty. Burke.

To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.] He thought in no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them. Sir J. Davies.

Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.

Something which excites distaste or disgust. [Obs.] Speed.

alton. Drake fly, a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling. The dark drake fly, good in August. Walton.

A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium. T. Gray.

n; as, a difficult entrance into business. "Beware of entrance to a quarrel." Shak. St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill.

over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and August.

reme folly. "The extremest remedy." Dryden. "Extreme rapidity." Sir W. Scott. Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire. Shak.

An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration. Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw. Milton. Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn. Tennyson.

Subject to sudden flaws or gusts of wind.

ights of angels ministrant. Milton. Like a flight of fowl Scattered winds and tempestuous gusts. Shak.

A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.

Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.

they sow not. Matt. vi. 26. Like a flight of fowl Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts. Shak.

To visit often; to resort to often or habitually. He frequented the court of Augustus. Dryden.

of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.

The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; -- commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendémiaire.

An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh. Dryden.