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dis-kus', v. [-cu ed (-kust'), -cu ing.] To break up, disperse; to examine or consider by disputation. {Law.) To exhaust a remedy against, as against a debtor before proceeding against the surety. [L. discutere, -cu um, to shake asunder, dis and quatere. to shake quash.'] — Discu 'er, n. — Discus's ion, -kush'un, n. Act or proce of discu ing; examination by argument; debate; dis- Sutation. — Discu fve. a. Able or tending to iscu . — Discu'tient, -shent, a. Serving to disperse morbid matter. — n. A medicine to disperse a tumor or any coagulated fluid in the body. Disdain, dis or diz-dan', v. [-dained (-dan dO, -Daining.] To reject as not deserving notice to look with scorn upon, contemn, despise, —v. To be filled with contemptuous anger. — n. A feeling sun, cube, full moon, fd6t cow, oil DISGRACE of contempt and aversion haughtine scorn arrogance. [OF. desdein, disdain, desdegner, to disdain, fr. des (L. dis) and degner (L. dignari), to deem worthy, fr. L. dignus, worthy. See Deign.] — Disdainful, -ful, a. Full of, or expre ing, disdain contemptuous haughty. — Disdainfully, adv. — Disdainfulne , n.