changed from a solid to a liquid state by increase of temperature; melted. Opposite of unmelted.

Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.

That which has the power of dissolving or melting other substances, esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent.

One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate.

Melting; breaking up; vanishing.

A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.

Discord; dissonance.

Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.

See Dispirit.

To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).

One who dissuades; a dehorter.

The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation.

Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice. A dissuasive argument or counsel; dissuasion; dehortation.

A dissuasive.

To separate; to sunder; to destroy.

To deprive of sweetness.

Consisting of two syllables only; as, a dissyllabic foot in poetry.

A forming into two syllables.

To form into two syllables.

To form into two syllables; to dissyllabify.

A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.

Not having symmetry; asymmetrical; unsymmetrical.

Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.

Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference.

Toward a distal part; on the distal side of; distally.

The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.

To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry.

Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone.

Toward a distal part.

To place at a distance or remotely.

Distance.

Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.

Distant.

At a distance; remotely; with reserve.

To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.

Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.

Tending to excite distaste. That which excites distaste or aversion.

Something which excites distaste or disgust.

An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.

Distemperature.

Immoderate.

Unduly.

Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air.

Distempered state; distemperature.

To become expanded or inflated; to swell.

The quality or capacity of being distensible.

Capable of being distended or dilated.

Same as Distention.

Distending, or capable of being distended.

Breadth.

The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs.

To banish or drive from a country.

Separated by bounds.

Separation by bounds.

Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite.

To dethrone.

To dethrone.

A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.

Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.

In a distichous manner.

To let fall or send down in drops.

Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.

The product of distillation; as, the distillate from molasses.

The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.

Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. A distillatory apparatus; a still.

One who distills; esp., one who extracts alcoholic liquors by distillation.

The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on.

Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation.

To distinguish.

A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division.

Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar.

With distinction; plainly.

State of being distinctive.

With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly.

The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things.

Distinctness.

To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.

Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub.

The quality of being distinguishable.

So as to be distinguished.

Marked; special.

In a distinguished manner.

One who, or that which, distinguishes or separates one thing from another by marks of diversity.

Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic.

With distinction; with some mark of preference.

Observation of difference; distinction.

To deprive of title or right.

A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2.

To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.

One who, or that which, distorts.

The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.

Causing distortion.

To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.

Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad.

Disjointedly; madly.

A state of being distracted; distraction.

One who, or that which, distracts away.

Distracting.

Capable of being drawn aside or distracted.

Tending or serving to draw apart.

Tending or serving to distract.

The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.

Distractive.

Causing perplexity; distracting.

To levy a distress.

Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.

Same as Distrainor.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.

The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.

Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

Torn asunder; separated.

Distracted.

To flow.

To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.

facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; as, distressed companies need loans and technical advice.

A state of being distressed or greatly pained.

Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation.

the quality of causing mental anguish.

Causing distress; painful; unpleasant.

In a distressing manner.