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A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii.

A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.

ensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux. [Written also Dacotahs.]

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

nt, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole. Degradation of energy, or Dissipation of energy (Physics), the transformation of energy into some form in which it is less available for doing work.

To taste; to take a sip of; to dabble in. [Obs.]

d shaped like the letter delta (as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi.

A group of fishlike animals including the Marsipobranchiata and Leptocardia.

rning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.

tes], that form of diabetes in which the urine contains saccharine matter. -- Diabetes insipidus Etym: [NL., lit., diabetes], the form of diabetes in which the urine contains no abnormal constituent.

One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.

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.

solute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft.

Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness. [Obs. or R.] Atterbury.

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.

va of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous.