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One Who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words. Asham.

Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.

Half relief. See Demi-rilievo.

To alienate from allegiance. [Obs. & R.] Milton.

The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. Tillotson. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his…

Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual. Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability or impossibility. J. S. Mill.

One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion. I. Watts.

The act of leaping or starting asunder. Johnson.

ng asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp.

A boiling up or over; effervescence. Cudworth.

or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. "Ebullient with subtlety." De Quincey. The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. Carlyle.

A branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps.

Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient. "Emollient applications." Arbuthnot.

Completely armed; panoplied. Tennyson.

rained, as upon a wall; a tree or row of trees so trained. And figs from standard and espalier join. Pope.

A defense for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette. Fairholt.

A leaping out. [R.] Latham.

An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Drayton.

The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity. J. S. Mill.

Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail. Knight.