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

Disheveled. [Obs.] Chaucer.

) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle. With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan. Spenser.

Disheveled. [Obs.] Dishevele, save his cap, he rode all bare. Chaucer.

Having in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair.

To treat irreverently or with disrespect. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster.

The act of disserving; separation.

The act of disserving; disseverance. [Obs.]

Disseverance. Sir W. Scott.

A level having a short telescope (hence its name) rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane. The telescope is usually an inverting one. It is sometimes called the Troughton level, from the name of the inventor, and a variety improved by one Gavatt is known as the Gavatt level.…

A pupil; a student.

Ten and one added; as, eleven men.

Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.

To excite fever in. [R.] A. Seward.

To grieve. [Obs.] Spenser.

Eleven. [Obs.] Chaucer.

f the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever.

A slight fever. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

A perennial plant (Pyrethrum, or Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.