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of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.

marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins. Milton. Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy. Addison. Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses. Pennant.

an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.

d peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone.

rs, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.

A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de- Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.

only, but now common to all classes. Don is used in Italy, though not so much as in Spain France talks of Dom Calmet, England of Dom Calmet, England of Dan Lydgate. Oliphant.

-speaking Roman Catholics; -- done from the Latin Vulgate by English scholars resident in France. The New Testament portion was published at Rheims, A. D. 1582, the Old Testament at Douai, A. D. 1609-10. Various revised editions have since been published. [Written also Doway Bible. Called also the Rheims and Douay vers…

One of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war. [Written also douzepere.] [Obs.] Big-looking like a doughty doucepere. Spenser.

f milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.

o dress elaborately, artificially, or pompously. "You see very often a king of England or France dressed up like a Julius Cæsar." Addison. -- To dress a ship (Naut.), to ornament her by hoisting the national colors at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when dressed full, the signal flags and pennant…

quis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count.

isting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral. The independent use of their elective franchise. Bancroft.

One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their country in consequence.

o some equivalent. . . . During some weeks the word equivalent, then lately imported from France, was in the mouths of all the coffeehouse. Macaulay.

r of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings. To exsasperate them against the king of France. Addison.

in the coin or standard of another, as the value of the pound sterling in the currency of France or the United States. The par of exchange rarely varies, and serves as a measure for the rise and fall of exchange that is affected by the demand and supply. Exchange is at par when, for example, a bill in New York, for the…

(a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. The expatriated landed interest of France. Burke.

One of the metrical tales of the Trouvères, or early poets of the north of France.

, the facility of an operation. The facility with which government has been overturned in France. Burke .