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Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.

Discontent. [Obs.] Ascham.

Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent. And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him. 1 Sam. xxii. 2. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ness, n.

Full of discontent. [R.]

Discontented. [Obs.] Shak.

Relating or tending to discontent. [R.] "Pride is ever discontentive." Feltham.

The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. Bacon.

Distended. [Poetic] Thomson.

t of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs.

, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the "ectental line" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum. C. S. Minot.

Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.

Attentive; zealous. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.

Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.

eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden.

Having existence. [Archaic] Bp. Barlow. --Ex`is*ten"tial*ly, adv. [Archaic] Existentially as well as essentially intelligent. Colerige.

e to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity. Life in its large extent is scare a span. Cotton.

The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds. Hottentot cherry (Bot.), a South African plant of the genus Cassine (C. maurocenia), having handsome foliage, with generally inconspicuous white or green flowers. Loudon. -- Hottentot's bread. (Bot.) See Elephant's foot (a), under Elephant.…

A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering. Tylor.

Presiding over fire; also, fiery. Vulcan is called the powerful ignipotent. Pope.