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ain the consciousness of those disqualifications which you have been pleased to overlook. Sir J. Shore.

t thou disquieted within me Ps. xlii. 11. As quiet as these disquieted times will permit. Sir W. Scott.

g in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.

credit. At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute. Sir W. Scott.

To treat irreverently or with disrespect. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.

We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than any disservice unto their relators. Sir T. Browne.

o disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster.

Disseverance. Sir W. Scott.

To become unsheathed. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

ance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms. Sir W. Jones.

ste. Without loss or dissipation of the matter. Bacon. The famous dissipation of mankind. Sir M. Hale.

dissolvable. Cudworth. Such things as are not dissolvable by the moisture of the tongue. Sir I. Newton.

acts every other with a force . . . inversely proportioned to the square of the distance. Sir I. Newton.

y to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them. Sir J. Davies.

r cold. [Obs.] Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a distemper uninhabitable. Sir W. Raleigh.

Immoderate. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

f mind; mental uneasiness. Sprinkled a little patience on the heat of his distemperature. Sir W. Scott.

Breadth. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

w gently, or in a small stream. The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia. Sir W. Raleigh.