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Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Want of concert; disagreement. Sir W. Temple.

Incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness. Sir M. Hale.

uation of parts, made either by bubbles or by shaking the glass, the whole mercury falls. Sir I. Newton.

ve out of account; to take no notice of. [R.] Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's). Sir W. Hamilton.

enance her despised! Milton. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir W. Scott.

One who discourages. The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. Sir G. C. Lewis.

The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.

n country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh.

able; to disgrace. He. . . least discredits his travels who returns the same man he went. Sir H. Wotton.

ntrariety. There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth and age, men and women. Sir T. Elyot. There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies. G. S. Faber.

Separate; distinct; disjunct. Sir M. Hale.

The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set apart. Sir J. Reynolds.

Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals. Sir T. Browne.

Not current or free to circulate; not in use. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

To break to pieces; to shatter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

do a mean act. Disdaining . . . that any should bear the armor of the best knight living. Sir P. Sidney.

The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.

assment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate. To disembarrass himself of his companion. Sir W. Scott.