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A catching; discovery. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation. Oblique descension (Astron.), the degree or arc of the equator which descends, with a celestial object, below the horizon of an oblique sphere. -- Right descension, the degree or arc of the equator which descends below the horizon of a ri…

Pertaining to descension. Johnson.

Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending. Smart.

A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.

The devil. [A vulgar euphemism.] I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.

Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in length and breadth, or in length, breadth, and thickness; extent; size; as, the dimensions of a room, or of a ship; the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom. Gentlemen of more t…

Pertaining to dimension.

Having dimensions. [R.]

Without dimensions; having no appreciable or noteworthy extent. Milton.

Dimension. [R.] Howell.

Without dimensions; marking dimensions or the limits. Who can draw the soul's dimensive lines Sir J. Davies.

Insanity; folly. [Obs.] What tediosity and disensanity Is here among! Beau. & Fl.

Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled. The disenshrouded statue. R. Browning.

To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South.

Capable of being dispensed or administered.

Quality of being dispensable.

A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.

The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration. To respect the dispensations of Providence. Burke.

Granting dispensation.