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Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.

Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo.

To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown. [Obs.] South.

Having in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair.

Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit. [R.] Llewellyn.

Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.

Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.

Stupid; heavy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.

Having a bill like that of a duck..

One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage. Wilhelm.

A bumblebee; also, a cockchafer. [Prov. Eng.]

Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field. J. Baillie.

r adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed. [Written also enamelled.]

Embattled. [Obs.]

Having some object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be "enfiled of" the thing which it pierces.

Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled.

Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.

d alone or apart, as if on an island; severed, as an island. [R.] "In the sea of life enisled." M. Arnold.

Equiangular. [Obs.] Boyle.