dismount (dismount)

[ Now the bright Sunne gynneth to dismount . Spenser, Shep. Cal., May. 2. To get off from a horse or other ridden animal; descend or alight, as a rider from the saddle: as, the officer ordered his troops to dis mount. When any one dismounts on the road, the way of getting up is on the back of the Arab, who stoops down, and so they climb up the neck of the camel. Pococke , Description of the East, I. 131. II. trans. 1. To throw or bring down from an elevation, or from a place or post of authority. [Rare or obsolete.] The existence of the king gives our House of Commons the power of practically dismi ing the executive govern- ment, as soon as it simply ceases to approve of its policy. Samuel, ungratefully and injuriously dismounted E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 380. from his authority. Barrow , Works, I. xxv. 3. To put aside; put away; put out of mind: 2. To throw or bring down from a horse; un- as, to dismi the subject. Man may dismi compa ion from his heart, But God will never. Cowper, The Task, vi. 442. 4. In law, to reject; put out of court: as, the complaint was dismi ed for lack of proof; the appeal was dismi ed for irregularity. =Syn. 1. To let go.-2. To discharge, turn off, turn out, cashier. dismi t (dis-mis'), n. [ His majesties servants, with great expre ions of grief for their dismi , poured forth their prayers for his majesty's freedom and preservation, and so departed. Sir T. Herbert , Threnodia Carolina, I. 14. dismi al (dis-mis'al), n . [ dismi + -al .] 1. The act of dismi ing, or the state or fact of being dismi ed. ( a ) Command or permi ion to depart. He wept, he prayed IMG:content-2826.png:[blocks in formation] (b) Discharge; displacement from employment or office. (c) The act of discarding, or the state of being discarded. In Mohammedan law,. in ordinary divorce or dis . mi al the wife claims her dowry. W. R. Smith , Kinship and Marriage, p. 92. 2. Liberation; manumi ion. [Rare.] All those wronged and wretched creatures By his hand were freed again;... He recorded their dismi al , And the monk replied, "Amen!" Long fellow, The Norman Baron, [ IMG:content-2827.png:[blocks in formation] So pois'd, so gently she descends from high, It seems a soft dismi ion from the sky. Dryden, Hind and Panther, 1. 346. As any of ye rest came over them, or of ye other returned upon occasion, they should be reputed as members without any further dismi ion or test i mon i all. horse: as, the soldier dismounted his adversary. When the fight became visible, half the knights on each side were dismounted, some by the dexterity of their adversary's lance, some by superior weight and strength of opponents, which had borne down both horse and man. Scott, Ivanhoe, xii. 3. To remove or throw down, as cannon or other artillery from their carriages, or from a parapet or intrenchment; destroy destroy the mountings of, so as to render usele .-4. To remove from a frame, setting, or other mounting: as, to dismount a picture or a jewel. - Dismounting battery ( mil it.), a battery placed and directed to breach or destroy the parapet of a fortification, and disable the enemy's cannon. Dismounting batteries employing direct fire are generally termed breaching batteries or counter-batteries; when employing flank or reverse fire, enfilading batteries. disna (diz'nä). Scotch for does not. He disna like to be disturbed on Saturdays wi' busine . Scott, Guy Manner ing, xxxvi.