Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DIS-BURD'EN-ED – DIS-CERN'I-BLE-NESS
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DIS-BURD'EN-ED, pp.
Eased of a burden; unloaded; disencumbered.
DIS-BURD'EN-ING, ppr.
Unloading; discharging; throwing off a burden; disencumbering.
DIS-BURSE', v.t. [disburs'; Fr. debourser; de or dis and bourse, a purse.]
To pay out, as money; to spend or lay out; primarily, to pay money from a public chest or treasury, but applicable to a private purse.
DIS-BURS'ED, pp.
Paid out; expended.
DIS-BURSE'MENT, n. [disburs'ment; Fr. deboursement.]
- The act of paying out, as money from a public or private chest.
- The money or sum paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.
DIS-BURS'ER, n.
One who pays out or disburses money.
DIS-BURS'ING, ppr.
Paying out or expending.
DISC, n. [L. discus. See Disk.]
The face or breadth of the sun or moon; also, the width of the aperture of a telescope glass.
DIS-CAL'CE-ATE, v.t. [L. discalceatus; dis and calceus, a shoe.]
To pull off the shoes or sandals.
DIS-CAL'CE-A-TED, pp.
Stripped of shoes.
The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals. – Brown.
DIS-CAN'DY, v.i. [dis and candy.]
To melt; to dissolve. – Shak.
DIS-CARD', v.t. [Sp. descartar; Port. id.; dis and card.]
- To throw out of the hand such cards as are useless.
- To dismiss from service or employment, or from society; to cast off; as, to discard spies and informers; to discard an old servant; to discard an associate.
- To thrust away; to reject; as, to discard prejudices.
DIS-CARD'ED, pp.
Thrown out; dismissed from service; rejected.
DIS-CARD'ING, ppr.
Throwing out; dismissing from employment; rejecting.
DIS-CARN'ATE, a. [dis and L. caro, flesh.]
Stripped of flesh. – Glanville.
DIS-CASE', v.t. [dis and case.]
To take off a covering from; to strip; to undress. – Shak.
DIS-CEP-TA'TION, n.
Controversy.
DIS-CEP-TA'TOR, n. [L.]
One who arbitrates or decides. [Not used.]
DIS-CERN', v.i.
- To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.
- To have judicial cognizance. [Obs.] – Bacon.
DIS-CERN', v.t. [s as z; L. discerno; dis and cerno, to separate, or distinguish, Gr. κρινω; It. discernere; Sp. discernir; Fr. discerner; Eng. screen. The sense is to separate.]
- To separate by the eye, or by the understanding. Hence,
- To distinguish; to see the difference between two or more things; to discriminate; as, to discern the blossom-buds from the leaf-buds of plants. – Boyle. Discern thou what is thine. – Gen. xxxi.
- To make the difference. [Obs.] For nothing else discerns the virtue or the vice. – B. Jonson.
- To discover; to see; to distinguish by the eye. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding. – Prov. vii.
- To discover by the intellect; to distinguish; hence, to have knowledge of; to judge. So is my lord the king to discern good and bad. – 2 Sam. xiv. A wise man's heart discerneth time and judgment. – Eccles. viii.
DIS-CERN'ED, pp.
Distinguished; seen; discovered.
DIS-CERN'ER, n.
- One who sees, discovers, or distinguishes; an observer.
- One who knows and judges; one who has the power of distinguishing. He was a great observer and discerner of men's natures and humors. – Clarendon.
- That which distinguishes; or that which causes to understand. The word of God is quick and powerful … a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. – Heb. iv.
DIS-CERN'I-BLE, a.
That may be seen distinctly; discoverable by the eye or the understanding; distinguishable. A star is discernible by the eye; the identity or difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding.
Visibleness.