v. i.
The marmot absconds all winter. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]
That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
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.
‖n. [ Sp., a searcher, fr. buscar to search. ] One who searches for ores; a prospector. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do. Thackeray.
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.
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.
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.
n. the state of being disconnected.
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. ]
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 ]
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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.
n.
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 ]
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.
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a. Full of discontent. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
Discontinuous function (Math.),
n. Unsuitableness; incongruity. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted. [ Obs. ] Bp. Reynolds. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
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. [ 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 ]
v. i.