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e bric-a-brac craze; the æsthetic craze. Various crazes concerning health and disease. W. Pater.

The state of being crispate.

A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.

Dissolute; dissipated. "A coarse and debauched look." Ld. Lytton.

To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [R.] While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. Shak.

To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

Tending to exculpate; exculpatory.

To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors. Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection. Sir H. Wotton. A pomade . . . of virtue to discuss pimples. Rambler.

To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions. [Satan] gently raised their fainting courage, and dispelled their fears. Milton. I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night. Dryden…

To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors. Dispersed are the glories. Shak.

Explosion. The vast displosion dissipates the clouds. Young.

Capable of being scattered or dissipated. [R.] The heat of those plants is very dissipable. Bacon.

Tending to dissipate. Dissipative system (Mech.), an assumed system of matter and motions in which forces of friction and resistances of other kinds are introduced without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to conservative system.

The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.

To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate. Thou kind dissolver of encroaching care. Otway.

Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. [R.] Milton.

To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. A sagacity which divined the evil designs. Bancroft.

it; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. Pope. It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they pro…

A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.