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With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly.

r state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth.

ern by marks, signs, or characteristic quality or qualities; to know and discriminate (anything) from other things with which it might be confounded; as, to distinguish the sound of a drum. We are enabled to distinguish good from evil, as well as truth from falsehood. Watts. Nor more can you distinguish of a man, Than…

One who, or that which, distinguishes or separates one thing from another by marks of diversity. Sir T. Browne.

The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. Bouvier. Kent. Burrill. If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle. Spenser. The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for. Blackstone. Abuse of distress. (Law) See under Abuse…

th.), any operation which either consists of two or more parts, or works upon two or more things, and which is such that the result of the total operation is the same as the aggregated result of the two or more partial operations. Ordinary multiplication is distributive, since a × (b + c) = ab + ac, and (a + b) × c = a…

An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current.

The aforesaid thing; the same (as before). Often contracted to do., or to two "turned commas" ("), or small marks. Used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition. A spacious table in the center, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners. Dickens.

To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck. [Obs.] Hooker.

Capable of various forms; multiform. Eloquence is a great and diverse thing. B. Jonson.

Desiring different things. [Obs.] Webster (White Devil).

Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting. Things of a pleasant and divertive nature. Rogers.

One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.

; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction. Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come. Sir T. North.

One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2.

ivine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead. When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Separation; disunion of things closely united. To make divorce of their incorporate league. Shak.

A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel. [Scot.] Simmonds.

what I can. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work. Ex. xx. 9. We did not do these things. Ld. Lytton. You can not do wrong without suffering wrong. Emerson. Hence: To do homage, honor, favor, justice, etc., to render homage, honor, etc.

as the do-all at court, being the king's treasurer, councilor, chancellor, confessor, all things. Fuller.