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Disarrangement; disturbance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Inordinate; disorderly. [Obs.] "With disordinate gestures." Prynne.

Inordinately. [Obs.] E. Hall.

The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion. [Obs.] Bacon.

That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker.

By division.

With dread. Warner.

A method of armature winding in which the wire is wound upon the outer surface of a cylinder or drum from end to end of the cylinder; -- distinguished from ring winding, etc.

An earthquake. [Obs.]

An order of Brachiopoda; the Lyopomata. See Brachiopoda.

A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.

A solid isomeric modification of olein.

Fuel. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.

Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.

A green compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid.

An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.

More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very.