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A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve. [Written also deluing.]

, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge. Evensongs and placebo and dirige. Wyclif. Resort, I pray you, unto my sepulture To sing my dirige with great devotion. Lamentation of Mary Magdalene.

e of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. Discharge the common sort With pay and thanks. Shak. Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see. Milton.

als his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance; a hypocrite. It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers. Bacon. Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. Pope.

To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc.

ibuting past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.

The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

A place of low resort. [Slang] The music halls and dives in the lower part of the city. J. Hawthorne.

A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.

A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.

A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry. Doggerel like that of Hudibras. Addison. The ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers. Macaulay.

A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice. Kersey.

A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms. [Written also Durga.] Malcom.

A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland. [Formerly written also darnex, dornic, dorneck, etc.] Halliwell. Jamieson.

tions except one. Dovetail molding (Arch.), a molding of any convex section arranged in a sort of zigzag, like a series of dovetails. -- Dovetail saw (Carp.), a saw used in dovetailing.

ix of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.

by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like. A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement. Sir W. Temple.

See Draw, v. t. & i. Drawn butter, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy. -- Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. -- Drawn game or battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. -- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. -- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from…

A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.

and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.