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v. t. To hide; to conceal. [ Obs. ] Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. [ R. ] Phillips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who absconds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 the act of running away sectretly (as to avoid arrest).
Syn. -- decampment [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Sp., a searcher, fr. buscar to search. ] One who searches for ores; a prospector. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disconcerted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disconcerting. ] [ Pref. dis- + concert: cf. OF. desconcerter, F. déconcerter. ] 1. To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash. [ 1913 Webster ]

The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do. Thackeray.

Syn. -- To discompose; derange; ruffle; confuse; disturb; defeat; frustrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of concert; disagreement. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. hard to deal with; causing uncertainty or confusion about how to act or react.
Syn. -- awkward, embarrassing, off-putting, sticky, tight, unenviable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of disconcerting, or state of being disconcerted; discomposure; perturbation. [ R. ] State Trials (1794). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not conductive; impeding; disadvantageous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not conformable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disconformable in religion from us. Stow (1603). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those . . . in some disconformity to ourselves. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conception of the mind. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disconnected; p. pr. & vb. n. Disconnecting. ] To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. [ 1913 Webster ]

The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious metals. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds. [ Narrower terms: staccato (vs. legato) ]
Syn. -- abrupt, broken off(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. not switched on or not connected to a power source; -- of electrical equipment. [ Narrower terms: off-line (vs. on-line), offline, off line(predicate); unplugged ]
Syn. -- not ready, off. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

3. noncontinuous; not continuing in time or space. Opposite of continuous.
Syn. -- disrupted, discontinuous. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

4. unconnected, detached. Opposite of connected.
Syn. -- disjoined, separate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. lacking orderly continuity; illogical or seemingly irrational; as, disconnected fragments of a story.
Syn. -- confused, disjointed, disordered, disorganized, desultory, garbled, illogical, rambling, scattered, unconnected. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the state of being disconnected.
Syn. -- disjunction, disjuncture, disconnection. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of consecration or sacredness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To differ; to disagree; to dissent. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being disconsolate. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disconsolateness. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. disconsolatus; L. dis- + consolatus, p. p. of consolari to console. See Console, v. t. ] 1. Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent. [ 1913 Webster ]

One morn a Peri at the gate
Of Eden stood disconsolate. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh,
Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. Ray.

Syn. -- Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful; hopeless; gloomy.

-- Dis*con"so*late*ly, adv. -- Dis*con"so*late*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disconsolate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dejection; grief. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Discontented; p. pr. & vb. n. Discontenting. ] To deprive of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy. Suckling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent. Hallam [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A discontented person; a malcontent. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus was the Scotch nation full of discontents. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Discontent. [ Obs. ] Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent. [ 1913 Webster ]

And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him. 1 Sam. xxii. 2.

-- Dis`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of discontent. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Discontented. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Causing discontent; dissatisfying. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating or tending to discontent. [ R. ] “Pride is ever discontentive.” Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Admitting of being discontinued. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States. (b) The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action. (c) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered. Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.

Syn. -- Cessation; intermission; discontinuation; separation; disunion; disjunction; disruption; break. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. discontinuation. ] Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upon any discontinuation of parts, made either by bubbles or by shaking the glass, the whole mercury falls. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Discontinued p. pr. & vb. n. Discontinuing. ] [ Cf. F. discontinuer. ] To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. Holder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be separated or severed; to part. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage. Jer. xvii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was no gadder abroad, not discontinuer from his convent for a long time. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. “Discontinuity of surface.” Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not continuous; interrupted; broken off. [ 1913 Webster ]

A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping. “Discontinuous wound.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Discontinuous function (Math.), a function which for certain values or between certain values of the variable does not vary continuously as the variable increases. The discontinuity may, for example, consist of an abrupt change in the value of the function, or an abrupt change in its law of variation, or the function may become imaginary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Unsuitableness; incongruity. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted. [ Obs. ] Bp. Reynolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ensconced imp. & p. p. Ensconcing ] To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal. [ 1913 Webster ]

She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. ] Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering. -- n. A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gasconnade, from Gascon an inhabitant of Gascony, the people of which were noted for boasting. ] A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]