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To become dispeopled. [R.] Whether the country be depopulating or not. Goldsmith.

infected, lose their relish for happiness [and] saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith.

ogical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds. Atterbury. He [Goldsmith] knew nothing accurately; his reading had been desultory. Macaulay.

impaired in quality; to degenerate. Under such conditions, the mind rapidly deteriorates. Goldsmith.

band of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy. Goldsmith.

ying waste. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done. Goldsmith.

In the manner or nature of a dialogue. Goldsmith.

Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.

en away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. Goldsmith.

; to uproot. A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by subterraneous inundations. Goldsmith.

scent] 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.

ld; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner. He passed me with a distant bow. Goldsmith.

tract the eye; to distract the attention. Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination. Goldsmith.

divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc. Wretches divested of every moral feeling. Goldsmith. The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle.

ily; 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.

d and died as flowers do now." Shak. "I . . . chose my wife as she did her wedding gown." Goldsmith. My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being. As the light does the shadow. Longfellow. In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, "This just reproach their virtue does excite…

thou art a bitter draught. Sterne. Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired. Goldsmith.

flattering painter who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. Goldsmith. Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move, Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power Prior.

o give ear to, to listen to; to heed, as advice or one advising. "Give ear unto my song." Goldsmith. -- To have one's ear, to be listened to with favor. -- Up to the ears, deeply submerged; almost overwhelmed; as, to be in trouble up to one's ears. [Colloq.]

Relating to, or occasioned by, earthly objects. All earthborn cares are wrong. Goldsmith.