In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm.
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The eliminant of the n partial differentials of any homogenous function of n variables. See Eliminant.
To make a difference or distinction; to distinguish accurately; as, in judging of evidence, we should be careful to discriminate between probability and slight presumption.
In a discriminating manner; distinctly.
The state of being discriminated; distinctness.
Marking a difference; distinguishing.
The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.
Marking a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic.
With discrimination or distinction.
One who discriminates.
Discriminative.
Hazardous; dangerous.
To describe.
To deprive of a crown.
To torture; to excruciate.
Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture.
To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
Exculpation.
Tending to exculpate; exculpatory.
The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals.
To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
To discover; to reveal; to discoure.
Not current or free to circulate; not in use.
The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought.
A discourser.
Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
Argumentative; discursive; reasoning.
Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning.
A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill. The exercise with the discus.
To break to pieces; to shatter.
a participant in a discussion, especially a member of a panel.
One who discusses; one who sifts or examines.
The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.
Pertaining to discussion.
Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter; discutient.
A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient.
Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application. An agent (as a medicinal application) which serves to disperse morbid matter.
To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.
Disdainful.
Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.
Disdainfully.
Disdainful.
Disdainfully.
To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition.
To disdain.
One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers.
An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason. Compare diapason{1}.
To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
Afflicted with disease.
The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness.
Causing uneasiness.
The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial.
Uneasiness; inconvenience.
To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull.
To fail of edifying; to injure.
To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder.
A selenide containing two atoms of selenium in each molecule.
To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark.
The act of disembarking.
Disembarkation.
To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.
Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
To clear from a bay.
To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.
To free from
Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal.
The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.
To divest of the body or corporeal existence.
To become discharged; to flow out; to find vent; to pour out contents.
The act of disemboguing; discharge.
To separate from the bosom.
To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.
Deprived of, or removed from, a bower.
To free from wrangling or litigation.
To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.
To throw out of employment.
The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment.
To deprive of power; to divest of strength.
To disable; to disqualify.
To free from the captivity of love.
Freed from restraint; unrestrained.
To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells.
One who, or that which, disenchants.
freeing from illusion, credulity, overoptimism, or false belief.
The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted.
To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
See Disinclose.
Discouragement.
Decrease.
To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden.
Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome.
To deprive of an endowment, as a church.
The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen.
deprived of the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote. Opposite of enfranchised.
To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self.
Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant.
The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged.
Loosing; setting free; detaching.
To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.
To erase from a roll or list.
Insanity; folly.
Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled.
To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall.
To free from entailment.
To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.
freed from an entanglement; -- of people or agents.
The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties.
See Disinter.
To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall.
Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment.
To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority.
To deprive of title or claim.
To take out from a tomb; a disinter.
To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails.
To awaken from a trance or an enchantment.
To free from being entwined or twisted.
Having two sepals; two-sepaled.
Eloquent.
Eloquence.
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