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Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated. The effect of heresy is, like the plague, infectious and disseminative. Jer. Taylor.

y to persuade (one from a course). [Obsolescent] Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter. Goldsmith. War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades. Milton.

d chiefly in poetry. "Distained with dirt and blood." Spenser. [She] hath . . . distained her honorable blood. Spenser. The worthiness of praise distains his worth. Shak.

Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic. Not more distinguished by her purple vest, Than by the charming features of her face. Dryden. Milton has distinguished the sweetbrier and the eglantine. Nares.…

Distorted; misshapen. [Obs.] Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. Spenser.

uently used in the participle, distracted. A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her. Shak.

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot. She did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred. Judith xvi. 24.

In America, the Cunila Mariana, a fragrant herb of the Mint family.

To sing; to warble a little tune. Beasts fain would sing; birds ditty to their notes. Herbert.

A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. "from the bond of matrimony."

Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.

ress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out. Like a tragedy queen, he has dizened her out. Goldsmith. To-morrow when the masks shall fall That dizen Nature's carnival. Emerson.

The neglecting it may do much danger. Shak. He waved indifferently' twixt doing them neither good not harm. Shak.

Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.

A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

resembling the tooth of a dog. See Calcite. -- Dogtooth violet (Bot.), a small, bulbous herb of the Lily family (genus Erythronium). It has two shining flat leaves and commonly one large flower. [Written also dog's-tooth violet.]

grief; sorrow; lamentation. [Archaic] And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat. Tennyson.

ependents. Go to the feast, revel and domineer. Shak. His wishes tend abroad to roam, And hers to domineer at home. Prior.

ppy destiny; penalty. Ere Hector meets his doom. Pope. And homely household task shall be her doom. Dryden.