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Distasture

Something which excites distaste or disgust.

Distemper

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

Distemperature

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

Distend

To become expanded or inflated; to swell.

Distensive

Distending, or capable of being distended.

Distention

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.

Dister

To banish or drive from a country.

Disthene

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

Distich

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

Distill

To let fall or send down in drops.

Distillable

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

Distillate

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

Distillation

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

Distillatory

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

Distiller

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

Distillery

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

Distillment

Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation.

Distinction

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

Distinctive

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

Distinctly

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

Distinctness

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

Distinguish

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

Distinguishable

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

Distinguisher

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

Distinguishing

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

Distoma

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

Distort

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

Distortion

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.

Distract

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

Distraction

The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.

Distrainor

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.

Distraint

The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.

Distrait

Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

Distress

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

distressed

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

Distressful

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

Distributary

Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.

distributed

spread from a central location to multiple points or recipients. Opposite of concentrated.

Distributer

One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser.

Distribution

The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.

Distributive

A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral.

Distributively

By distribution; singly; not collectively; in a distributive manner.

Distributor

One that distributes; a distributer; A machine for distributing type. An appliance, as a roller, in a printing press, for distributing ink. An apparatus for distributing an electric current, either to various points in rotation, as in some motors, or along two or more lines in parallel, as in a distributing system.

District

To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.

Distringas

A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.

distrust

Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; lack of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc.

Distrustful

Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.

Distrusting

That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in.

Disturbance

An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current.

Disturber

One who, or that which, disturbs of disquiets; a violator of peace; a troubler.

Distyle

Having two columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or the like.

Disulphate

A salt of disulphuric or pyrosulphuric acid; a pyrosulphate. An acid salt of sulphuric acid, having only one equivalent of base to two of the acid.

Disulphide

A binary compound of sulphur containing two atoms of sulphur in each molecule; -- formerly called disulphuret. Cf. Bisulphide.

Disulphuric

Applied to an acid having in each molecule two atoms of sulphur in the higher state of oxidation.

Disunion

The termination of union; separation; disjunction; as, the disunion of the body and the soul.

Disunionist

An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States.

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