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The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it. Hakluyt. Longfellow.

One who practices deerstalking.

The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.

To immerse. [Obs.] Boyle.

Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.

The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.

The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore.

Cleansing; detergent. -- n.

In a way to cleanse.

The quality of cleansing.

One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.

A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.

The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion. Darwin.

; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of beeves disperse. Cowper.

Scattered. -- Dis*pers"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pers"ed*ness, n. Dispersed harmony (Mus.), harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more.

Dispersedness. [Obs.]

One that disperses.

The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites and ceremonies; a great dispersion of the human family took place at the building of Babel. The days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished. Jer. xxv. 3…

Tending to disperse. Dispersive power (Opt.), the relative effect of a material in separating the different rays of light by refraction, as when the substance is formed into a prism. -- Dis*pers"ive*ness, n.

To deprive of personality or individuality. [R.] We multiply; we dispersonate ourselves. Hare.