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Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, Obey the rules and discipline of art. Dryden.

To render unaccustomed.

event, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity! South.

To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar. We are hindered and disinured . . . towards the true knowledge. Milton.

mination or disruption of the union of the States forming the United States. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion. D. Webster.

Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse. [R.] Hooker.

To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil. "Disuse me from . . . pain." Donne.

To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom. [R.] Bp. Hall.

To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.

The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

A customhouse.

An officer of the French customs. [Anglicized form douaneer.]

The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like. A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement. Sir W. Temple.

Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied. M

in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.

One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.

pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll. He will give the devil his due. Shak. Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil. Tennyson.

nd the like. Those [drugs] she has Will stupefy and dull the sense a while. Shak. Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. Trench.

Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.