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For fear it [water] choke up the pits . . . they [the workman] derive it by other drains. Holland. Her due loves derived to that vile witch's share. Spenser. Derived to us by tradition from Adam to Noah. Jer. Taylor.

Desirable. [R.] "Good and desiderable things." Holland.

A despising. [R.] Holland.

despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous. [Obs.] "Despiteous reproaches." Holland.

To free from spume or scum. [Obs.] If honey be despumed. Holland.

ourse of argument, in writing or speaking. Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude. Holland. In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. Locke.

To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud. [R.] Holland.

To drive from a camp. [Obs.] Holland.

Expressly; clearly; eloquently. [Obs.] Holland.

To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage. [Obs.] Holland.

To open. [Obs.] Holland.

Disorder. [Obs.] Holland.

To scatter abroad. [Obs.] Holland.

To crowd out; to take the place of. Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas. London Times.

of Disarray. [Obs.] Holland.

eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof. Holland.

Lying apart. [Obs.] Lands far dissite and remote asunder. Holland.

A sudden fall; a body of things falling. Those cataracts or downfalls aforesaid. Holland. Each downfall of a flood the mountains pour. Dryden.

By drops or small portions. [Obs.] Distilling dropmeal, a little at once. Holland.

My private voice is drowned amid the senate. Addison. To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] Holland.