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erited any love or thanks. Udall. Executed as a traitor . . . as he well demerited. State Trials (1645).

se. [A Scotticism] Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference. State Trials(1606).

Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation. A trial which would have demanded of him a most heroic faith and the detachment of a saint. J. H. Newman.

Thou mayest difference gods from men. Chapman. Kings, in receiving justice and undergoing trial, are not differenced from the meanest subject. Milton. So completely differenced by their separate and individual characters that we at once acknowledge them as distinct persons. Sir W. Scott.

policy to bear upon hiMotley. Dilatory plea (Law), a plea designed to create delay in the trial of a cause, generally founded upon some matter not connected with the merits of the case.

tions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings. Diogenes' crab (Zoöl.), a species of terrestrial hermit crabs (Cenobita Diogenes), abundant in the West Indies and often destructive to crops. -- Diogenes' tub, the tub which the philosopher Diogenes is said to have carried about with him as his house, in which he lived.…

To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of. State Trials (1608).

One who disassents; a dissenter. [Obs.] State Trials (1634).

of disconcerting, or state of being disconcerted; discomposure; perturbation. [R.] State Trials (1794).

A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill.

The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.

To disable; to disqualify. The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak. State Trials (1640).

The act of dispatching. [Obs.] State Trials (1529).

To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.

agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other. Trial by duel (Old Law), a combat between two persons for proving a cause; trial by battel.

Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal. [R.] "Their earthy charge." Milton. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy. 1 Cor. xv. 47, 48 (Rev. Ver. ) Earthy spirits black and envious are. Dryden.…

This alternation between unhealthy activity and depression, this ebb and flow of the industrial. A. T. Hadley.

A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23º 28' with the equator; -- used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.

ition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution. Elastic bitumen. (Min.) See Elaterite. -- Elastic curve. (a) (Geom.) The curve made by a thin elastic rod fixed horizontally at one end and loaded at the other. (b) (Mech.) Th…

To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. [R.] The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton.