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One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

See Counter irritant, etc., under Counter, a.

Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling. Crepitant rale (Med.), a peculiar crackling sound audible with inspiration in pneumonia and other lung disease.

Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug.

A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public.

Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation. Carlyle.

An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.

Somewhat like a dilettante.

The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.

Dilettanteish.

Same as Dilettanteism. F. Harrison.

That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.

One who disputes; one who argues A singularly eager, acute, and pertinacious disputant. Macaulay.

d; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak.

Distant. [Obs.] More distantial from the eye. W. Montagu.

At a distance; remotely; with reserve.

A dotard. [Obs.] Shak.

One who has the power of choosing; an elector. [R.]

Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing. -- E`qui*dis"tant*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.

Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.