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ongruous; Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and each nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. Udall.

The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.

An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end. Spenser.

Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty. The acclivities and asperities of duty. Barrow.

Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of Steevens.

ir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. Keble.

A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.

ne and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.

onous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines. [Written also cacodyle, and kakodyl.]

A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).

The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats. Shak.

A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. "[A] wintry chill." W. Irving.

A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness.

Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.

solated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4. Chlori…

Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. "Cold news for me." "Cold comfort." Shak.

Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau & Fl.

Of disagreeable things and antipathies. In our dear peril. Shak. Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day. Shak.

In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.

Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.