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. Security disarms the best-appointed army. Fuller. The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson.

To uncage. [R.] Tennyson.

discern the minute texture of visible objects. Beattie. I wake, and I discern the truth. Tennyson.

one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.

Tending to separate or disunite parts. Encys. Dict.

ecially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. H. Spencer.…

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.

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

reaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienatio…

To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash. How would one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised! Milton. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir W. Scott.

That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement. "Discouragements from vice." Swift.

Tending to exculpate; exculpatory.

tigate; to ventilate. "We sat and . . . discussed the farm . . . and the price of grain." Tennyson. "To discuss questions of taste." Macaulay.

Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter.

to blunt; to dull. Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart. Tennyson.

Disrepute. [R.] Tennyson.

To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands. Burrill.

To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams.

o deprive of the helmet. [Poetic] Lying stark, Dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale. Tennyson.

meet for us to see the king's dishonor. Ezra iv. 14. His honor rooted in dishonor stood. Tennyson.