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to repel. [A Latinism & Obs.] Th' other strove for to defend The force of Vulcan with his might and main. Spenser.

ction, as from violence or danger. In cases of defense 't is best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems. Shak.

degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third cousins might marry, being in the seventh degree according to the civil law. Hallam.

nother; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart. Till he these words to him deliver might. Spenser. Whereof the former delivers the precepts of the art, and the latter the perfection. Bacon.

ter of its God. J. Edwards. Something divinely beautiful . . . that at some time or other might influence or even determine her course of life. W. Black.

To do injury to; to hurt. [Archaic] Other might be determined thereby. Fuller.

A woman who dictates or commands. Earth's chief dictatress, ocean's mighty queen. Byron.

cabulary; a wordbook. I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time the materials of a dictionary. Johnson.

That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. Such is the die of war. Spenser.

ghter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do. Thackeray.

To discover. [Obs.] That none might her discoure. Spenser.

y confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of. An occasion might be given to the . . . papists of discrediting our common English Bible. Strype.

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

An unkindness; a disobliging act. He might dispense favors and disfavors. Clarendon.

ered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle.

he power of his adversaries. Chaucer. I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him. Shak.

quality or qualities; to know and discriminate (anything) from other things 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.…

To rend; to tear. [Obs.] Neither guile nor force might it [a net] distrain. Spenser.

A breach of concord and its effect; alienation. Such a disunion between the two houses as might much clouClarendon.

One who, or that which, causes division. Hate is of all things the mightiest divider. Milton. Money, the great divider of the world. Swift.