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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.

Disunite

To part; to fall asunder; to become separated.

Disuniter

One who, or that which, disjoins or causes disunion.

Disunity

A state of separation or disunion; want of unity.

Disusage

Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse.

Disuse

Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.

Disutilize

To deprive of utility; to render useless.

Diswarn

To dissuade from by previous warning.

Diswitted

Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted.

Diswont

To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom.

Disworship

A deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit.

Disworth

To deprive of worth; to degrade.

Disyoke

To unyoke; to free from a yoke; to disjoin.

Dit

To close up.

Ditation

The act of making rich; enrichment.

Ditch

To dig a ditch or ditches.

Dite

To prepare for action or use; to make ready; to dight.

Ditheism

The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism.

Ditheist

One who holds the doctrine of ditheism; a dualist.

Dithionic

Containing two equivalents of sulphur; as, dithionic acid.

Dithyramb

A kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem written in a wild irregular strain.

Dithyrambic

Pertaining to, or resembling, a dithyramb; wild and boisterous. A dithyrambic poem; a dithyramb.

Ditokous

Having two kinds of young, as certain annelids. Producing only two eggs for a clutch, as certain birds do.

Ditolyl

A white, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C14H14, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene.

Ditone

The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).

Ditrochee

A double trochee; a foot made up of two trochees.

Ditroite

An igneous rock composed of orthoclase, el/olite, and sodalite.

Dittander

A kind of peppergrass (Lepidium latifolium).

Dittany

A plant of the Mint family (Origanum Dictamnus), a native of Crete. The Dictamnus Fraxinella. See Dictamnus. In America, the Cunila Mariana, a fragrant herb of the Mint family.

Dittied

Set, sung, or composed as a ditty; -- usually in composition.

Ditto

As before, or aforesaid; in the same manner; also.

Dittology

A double reading, or twofold interpretation, as of a Scripture text.

Ditty

To sing; to warble a little tune.

Ditty-bag

A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife.

Ditty-box

A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc.

Diureide

One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide.

Diuretic

Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine. A medicine with diuretic properties.

Diurna

A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.

Divagation

A wandering about or going astray; digression.

Divalent

Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.

Divan

A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz.

Divaricate

Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.

Divarication

A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.

Divaricator

One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.

Dive

A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.

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