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

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

That distributes; dealing out.

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.

Of or pertaining to distribution.

A distributer.

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

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

Quality of being distributive.

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.

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

Sudden display; flash; glitter.

Strictly.

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

To trouble.

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

One who distrusts.

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

That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in.

Free from distrust.

To put out of tune.

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.

Act of disturbing; disturbance.

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

To turn aside.

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

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.

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

See Disulphide.

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

Not uniform.

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

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

To part; to fall asunder; to become separated.

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

A state of separation or disunion; want of unity.

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

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

To deprive of utility; to render useless.

Disesteem; depreciation; disrepute.

Disesteem; disregard.

Disadvantageous.

To develop.

A disadventure.

To discredit; to contradict.

To dissuade from by previous warning.

Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted.

To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom.

Bad workmanship.

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

To deprive of worth; to degrade.

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

To close up.

The act of making rich; enrichment.

To dig a ditch or ditches.

One who digs ditches.

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

See Colophene.

Having two thec/, cells, or compartments.

One who holds the doctrine of ditheism; a dualist.

Pertaining to ditheism; dualistic.

Containing two equivalents of sulphur; as, dithionic acid.

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.

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

See Dithyramb.

Dominion; rule.

A subject; a tributary.

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

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

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

Divided into twos or threes.

Containing two trochees.

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

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

See Dit, n., 2.

A kind of peppergrass (Lepidium latifolium).

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.

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

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

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

To sing; to warble a little tune.

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

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

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.

Free excretion of urine.

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

Diuretic.

The quality of being diuretical; diuretic property.

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

A daybook; a journal.

A journalist.

Daily; every day.

The quality of being diurnal.

Continuance during the day.

Of long continuance; lasting.

Long duration; lastingness.

A prima donna.

A wandering about or going astray; digression.

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

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

Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.

With divarication.

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

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

Devastated; laid waste.

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

A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick.

To rend apart.

Drawing asunder.

To pull in pieces.

One who, or that which, dives.

A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb.

To strike or sound through.

A sounding through.

To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.

Divergence.

A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.

Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.

Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent.