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To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.

To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair. He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons. Dryden.

To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right. To undeceive and disabuse the people. South. If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. J. Adams.…

To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate. To disentangle truth from error. Stewart. To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth. Clarendon. A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. Bp…

To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage. [Obs.]

Disputing; engaged in controversy. Milton.

es me for all conversation; I mean my deafness. Swift. Me are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in high society. Southey.

To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.

One who engages in a duel. [R.] [Written also dueller.] South.

inces overbold Have eat our substance. Tennyson. His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. Thackeray.

Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas

s there the tree of life. Rev. xxii. 2. The extreme right and left of either army never engaged. Jowett (Thucyd).

To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade. It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation. South.

is affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.

To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speak…

That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government. Cares are employments, and without employ The soul is on a rack. Young.

suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth. Then certain philosopher…

That which is formed as a crust; incrustment; incrustation. Disengaging truth from its encrustment of error. I. Taylor.

To load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.

To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.