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Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. [R.] Mrs. Trollope.

EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil." Hawthorne.

ed of this fair proportion. Shak. Our incomes have been curtailed; his salary has been doubled. Macualay.

e and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.

t by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet. "Bright hair dabbled in blood." Shak.

A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.

Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out. "Beggary or decrepit age." Milton. Already decrepit with premature old age. Motley.

A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.

Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.

nsecrated; an object of devotion. [R.] Churches and altars, priests and all devotions, Tumbled together into rude chaos. Beau. & Fl. Days of devotion. See under Day.

To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble. The clayey soil around it was dibbled thick at the time by the tiny hoofs of sheep. H. Miller.

rless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.

A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst. Milton.

State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like. Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. Milton. Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. Bancroft.

pleasure disables him. Jer. Taylor. And had performed it, if my known offense Had not disabled me. Milton. I have disabled mine estate. Shak.

To disparage. [Obs.] She oft him blamed . . . and him dishabled quite. Spenser.

To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign. He soon dissembled a sleep. Tatler.

ings 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 of his outward show. Shak.

variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass. Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts. Milton.

; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. 2 Cor. iv. 8.