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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Dis-sŏlv'er, n. p. 394One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate. “Thou kind dissolver of encroaching care.” Otway.Dis'so-nance, n. p. 394A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord. Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton. 2. Want of agreement; incongruity; inconsistency. Milton.Dis'so-nan-cy, n. p. 394Discord; dissonance. Bp. Taylor.Dis'so-nant, a. p. 394Without concord; discordant; harsh; jarring; unharmonious. Dire were the strain, and dissonant to sing. Thomson. 2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant. “Any thing dissonant to truth.” South. What…Dis-spĭr'it, v. t. p. 394See DISPIRIT.Dis-suāde', v. t. p. 394To attempt to divert from a measure by persuasion; to advise or exhort against; to dehort. I dissuaded him from his interest. Shak. Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails. Addison. 2. To…Dis-suād'er, n. p. 394One who dissuades; a dehorter.Dis-suā′sion, n. p. 394The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation. “In spite of all the dissuasions of his friends.” Boyle. 2. A motive or consideration tending to dissuade; a dissuasive.Dis-suā'sive, a. p. 394Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice.Dis-suā’sive, n. p. 394An argument, or counsel, employed to deter one from a measure; that which tends to divert the mind from any purpose or pursuit; dehortation. “An excellent dissuasive from ill company.” Prynne.Dis-suā'sive-ly, adv. p. 394In a dissuasive manner.Dis-suā'so-ry, n. p. 394The same as DISSUASION. [Rare.] This virtuous and reasonable person, however, has ill luck in all his dissuasories. Jeffrey.Dis-sŭn'der, v. t. p. 394To separate; to rend; to sunder. Chapman.Dis-sweet'en, v. t. p. 394To deprive of sweetness. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson.Dis'syl-lāb'ic, a. p. 394Consisting of two syllables only; as, a dissyllabic foot in poetry.Dis'syl-lāb'i-fy, v. t. p. 394To form into two syllables. Ogilvie.Dis-syl'la-bīze, v. t. p. 394To form into two syllables; to dissyllabify.Dis-syl'la-ble or Dis'syl-la-ble, n. p. 394A word consisting of two syllables only; as, pa-per.Dis-sym'pa-thy, n. p. 394Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference. [Rare.]Dis'taff, n. p. 394The staff for holding the bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand. I will the distaff hold; come thou and spin. Fairfax. 2. The holder of a distaff; hence, a…Dis'taff-thīs'tle, n. p. 394(Bot.) A plant of certain species of the genera Atractylis and Carthamus.Dis-tāin′, v. t. p. 394To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to blot; to sully; to defile; to tarnish; — used chiefly in poetry. She distained her honorable blood. Spenser.…Dis'tal, a. p. 394(Compar. Anat.) Remote from the place of attachment or insertion; as, the distal extremity of a bone. Barclay.Dis'tal-ly, adv. p. 394Toward the extremity; remotely.Dis'tance, n. p. 394An interval or space between two objects; the length of the shortest line which intervenes between two things that are separate. Every particle attracts every other with a force . . . inversely…Dis'tance, v. t. p. 394To place at a distance or remote. I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then sixty miles distanced thence. Fuller. 2. To cause to appear as if at a distance; to remove from view. His peculiar art…Dis'tan-cy, n. p. 394Distance. [Obs.]Dis'tant, a. p. 394Separate; having an intervening space of whatever extent. One board had two tenons equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Dana's temple is not distant far. Shak. 2. Far separated; not near; remote;—in…Dis-tăn’tial, a. p. 394Distant. [Obs.] Montagu.Dis'tant-ly, adv. p. 394At a distance; remotely; with reserve.Dis-tāste', n. p. 394Aversion of the taste; dislike of food or drink; disrelish; disgust. “The distaste of satiety.” Bacon. 2. Discomfort; uneasiness. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is…Dis-tāste', v. t. p. 394Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; as, to distaste drugs or poisons. 2. To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.] He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish…Dis-tāste'ful, a. p. 394Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. 2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; as, a distasteful truth. “Distasteful answers, and sometimes unfriendly actions.” Milton. 3.…Dis-tāste'ful-ly, adv. p. 394In a displeasing or offensive manner.Dis-tāste'ful-ness, n. p. 394The quality of being distasteful; disagreeableness; dislike.Dis-tāst'ive, n. p. 394That which excites distaste or aversion. [Obs.] Whitlock.Dis-tāst'ure, n. p. 394The state of being distasted or vexed. [Obs.] Speed.Dis-tēm'per, n. p. 394An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Bacon. 2. Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold. [Obs.] Countries under the tropic of a distemper…Dis-tēm'per, v. t. p. 394To derange the functions of, whether bodily or mental; to disorder; to disease. Shak. The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster. 2.…Dis-tēm'per-ance, n. p. 394Distemperature. [Obs.]Dis-tēm'per-ate, a. p. 394Immoderate. [Obs.] Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. [Obs.] Woodroffe.Dis-tĕm'per-a-tūre, n. p. 394Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; a noxious state; as, the distemperature of the air or climate. [Obs.] 2. Commixture of contrarieties; confusion; loss…Dis-tĕm'per-ment, n. p. 395Disturbance; distemperature. [Obs.] Feltham.Dis-tĕnd', v. t. p. 395To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch. [Rare.] What mean those colored streaks in heaven distended? Milton. 2. To stretch or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge; to…Dis-tĕnd', v. i. p. 395To become expanded or inflated; to swell. And now his heart distends with pride. Milton.Dis-tĕn'si-bĭl'i-ty, n. p. 395The quality or capacity of being distensible.Dis-tĕn'si-ble, a. p. 395Capable of being distended or dilated.Dis-tĕn'sion, n. p. 395The same as DISTENTION.Dis-tĕn'sĭve, a. p. 395Distending or capable of being distended.Dis-tĕnt', a. p. 395Distended. [Poet.] Thomson.Dis-tĕnt', n. p. 395Breadth. [Obs.] Wotton.Dis-tĕn'tion, n. p. 395The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being distended; as, the distention of the lungs. 2. Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing…Dis-tĕr', v. t. p. 395To banish from a country. [Obs.] Howell.Dis-tĕr'mi-nate, a. p. 395Separated by boundaries. [Obs.] Hale.Dis-tĕr'mi-nā'tion, n. p. 395Separation by boundaries. [Obs.] Hammond.Dis'thēne, n. p. 395(Min.) Kyanite; — so called in allusion to its unequal hardness and electrical properties in two different directions. See KYANITE. Dana.Dis-thrōne' or Dis-thrōn'ize, v. t. p. 395To dethrone. [Obs.] Spenser.Dĭs'tich, n. p. 395(Pros.) (a.) A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses. (b.) A couplet of two lines, of different kinds of verse, which are repeated in the same order.Dĭs'tich or Dĭs'tich-oŭs, a. p. 395Having two rows, or disposed in two rows; two-ranked. Distichous spike (Bot.), one having the flowers pointing two ways. Martyn.Dis-tĭll', v. i. p. 395To drop; to fall in drops. Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope. 2. To flow gently, or in a small stream. The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia. Raleigh. 3. To…