displume

t. [O. Fr. desplumer; Fr. déplumer: O. Fr. des Fr. dé Lat. dis =away, apart, and Fr. plume =Lat. plum a =a feather.] To strip of the feathers. "So displumed , degraded, and metamorphosed, that we no longer know them."-Burke: French Revolution. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, displumed *dis-plûm ed, pa . par . or a . [DISPLUME.] *dis-plúm-Ing, pr . par . , a. & 8. [DISPLUME.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.j C. As subst.: The act of stripping of feathers. dis-po-line, s. [Etym. doubtful.] Chem.: C1HnN.. A base homologous with chino line, obtained, with many others, by distilling cinchonine with potash. It occurs in the part of the distillate which boils between 282° and 304°. The solution of this distillate in hydrochloric acid is warmed with a little nitric acid to decompose pyrrol, .; and the filtered solution is precipitated by platinic chloride, . ( Watts : Dict. Chem.) di-spon-dee, s . [Lat. dispondeus , from Gr. dis =twice, twofold, and spondeios =a spondee.] Pros. A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.