dis per an cet

Same as des per ance. dis per get (dis-pėrj'), v. t. [= Pr. disperger = It. dispergere, spergere, dispermous (di-spėr'mus), a. [ In several places Republican meetings were frightened into dispersal by an aggre ive display of force. G. S. Merriam , S. Bowles, II. 279. disperse (dis-pèrs'), v.; pret. and pp. dispersed , ppr. dispersing . [F. disperser = Sp. Pg. dis persar , dispersus , pp. of dispergere , scatter abroad, disperse, dis- , di- , apart, + spargere , pp. spars us , scatter: see sparse .] I. trans. 1. To scatter; separate and send off or drive in different directions; cause to separate in different directions: as, to disperse a crowd. Two lions in the still dark night A herd of beeves disperse . Chapman. And now all things on both sides prepar'd, the Spanish Navy set forth out of the Groyne in May, but were dis- pers'd and driven back by Weather. Baker , Chronicles, p. 375. Her feet disperse the powdery snow, That rises up like smoke. Words worth , Lucy Gray. 21. To distribute; dispense. Being a king that loved wealth, he could not endure to have trade sick, nor any obstruction to continue in the gate vein which disperseth that blood. Bacon . disperse The goods landed in the store houses hee sent from thence, and dispersed it to his workemen in generall. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's True Travels, II. 136. 3. To diffuse; spread. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. He hath dispersed good sentences, like Roses scattered on a dung-hill. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 255. He [the admiral] gave order that the sick Men should be scattered into divers Ships, which dispersed the Contagion exceedingly. Howell , Letters, I. iv. 17. It was the end of the adversary to suppre e, but Gods to propagate the Gospel; theirs to smother and put out the light, Gods to communicate and disperse it to the utmost corners of the Earth. T. Shepard, Clear Sunshine of the Gospel, Ded. 41. To make known; publish. The poet entering on the stage to disperse the argument. B. Jonson. Their own divulged and dispersed ignominy. Benvenuto , Pa engers' Dialogues. 5. To di ipate; cause to vanish: as, the fog is dispersed . I'll disperse the cloud That hath so long obscur'd a bloody act Ne'er equall'd yet. Fletcher (and another ?), Prophete , ii. 2. =Syn. 1 and 5. Dispel, Scatter, etc. See di ipate.-3. To distribute, deal out, di eminate, sow broadcast. II. in trans. 1. To separate and move apart in different directions without order or regularity; become scattered: as, the company dis persed at 10 o'clock. The clouds disperse in fumes, the wondering moon Beholds her brother's steeds beneath her own. Add is on, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., ii. The cadi went away, and the mob dispersed , and we directed a Moor to cry, That all people should in the nighttime keep away from the tent, or they would be fired at. Bruce , Source of the Nile, I. 110. 2t. To become diffused or spread; spread. Th' Almighties Care doth diuersly disperse Ore all the parts of all this Vniverse. 1676 point where refracted rays begin to diverge. When a ray of sunlight is made to pa through prisms of different substances, but of such angles as to produce the same mean deviation of the ray, it is found that the spectra formed are of different lengths. Thus, the spectrum formed by a prism of oil of ca ia is found to be two or displacement three times longer than one formed by a gla prism; the oil of ca ia is therefore said to disperse the rays of light more than the gla , or to have a greater dispersive The World and the Child (1522) (Hazlitt's Dodsley, I. 251). power ere it is also found that in spectra formed by brisms of different substances the colored spaces have to one another ratios differing from the ratios of the lengths of the spectra which they compose; and this property has been called the irrationality of dispersion or of the colored spaces in the spectrum. See prism and refraction. Dispersion has been accounted for by the different speeds of light of different wave-lengths in the same refracting medium. Tait , Light, § 72. In consequence of... dispersion of the colours in various directions of vibration, white light becomes broken up in a mode which is comparable with the dispersion of colour by ordinary refraction, and on this account has received the name of circular or rotary dispersion . Lommel, Light (trans.), p. 334. 4. In med. and surg., the scattering or removal of inflammation from a part and the restoration of the part to its natural state.-5. In math., the exce of the average value of a function at le than an infinitesimal distance from a point over the value at that point, this exce being divided by of the square of the limiting infinitesimal distance. - Abnormal dispersion, in optics, a phenomenon exhibited by solutions of some substances, as fuchsin, which give spectra differing from the usual prismatic spectrum in the order of the colors. Cone of dispersion. See cone. Dispersion of the bisectrices, in crystal., the separation of the bisectrices for different colors observed in many monoclinic and triclinic crystals when the position of the three axes of light-elasticity is not the same for all the rays of the spectrum. It may be cro ed, horizontal, or inclined. It is cro ed when the acute bisectrix coincides with the orthodiagonal axis. When a section of a biaxial crystal cut normal to the acute bisectrix is viewed in converging polar ized light, the dispersion of the optic axes or bisectrices is Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 7. generally marked by the arrangement of the colors in the dispirit (dis-pir'it), v. t. [For dis spirit, IMG:content-2839.png:[blocks in formation] Collier , He has dispirited himself by a debauch. =Syn. 1. To damp, depre , intimidate, daunt. dispirited (dis-pir'i-ted), p . a . [Pp. of dispirit , v.] 1. Indicating depre ion of spirits; discouraged; dejected. Arriba to sees Revulgo at a distance, on a Sunday morning, ill-dre ed, and with a dispirited air. Ticknor, Span. Lit., I. 233. 2. Spiritle ; tame; wanting vigor: as, a poor, dispirited style. Dispirited recitations. Hammond, Works, IV., Pref. dispiritedly (dis-pir'i-ted-li), adv. In a dispirited manner; dejectedly. dispiritedne (dis-pir'i-ted-nes), n. Depre ion of spirits; dejection. Arsenical appensa have...caused, in some, great faintne and dispiritedne . Boyle , Works, V. 45. dispiritment (dis-pir'it-ment), n. The act of sight. IMG:content-2840.png:[blocks in formation] The dust towered into the air along the road and dis persed like the smoke of battle. R. L. Stevens on , Silver a do Squatters, p. 84. dis per set, a . [ME. dispers , dispers , dis pars , dispersus , scattered, pp. of disper gere , scatter: see disperse , v.] Scattered; dispersed. Gower. dispersed (dis-pėrst'), p. a. [Pp. of disperse, v.] Scattered: specifically, in entom., said of spots, punctures, etc., which are placed irregularly, but near together - scattered being applied to spots that are both irregular and far apart. Dispersed harmony. See harmony. dispersedly (dis-pèr's ed-li), adv. In a dispersed manner; separately. Bailey, 1731. dispersedne (dis-per's ed-nes), n. The state of being dispersed or scattered. Bailey, 1728. dispersene t (dis-pèrs'nes), n. A scattered state; sparsene ; thinne . The torrid parts of Africk are by Piso resembled to a libbard's skin, the distance of whose spots represent the disperse ne of habitations or towns in Africk. Brere wood, Languages, One who or that disperser (dis-pèr'sér), n . which disperses: as, a disperser of libels. The disperser of this copy was one Munsey, of that college, whom (as he thought) they made their instrument. Strype , Abp. Whitgift (1595). An iron or stone plate, 4 or 5 feet square, called the disperser, is placed over each fire [in brewing) to disperse the heat and prevent the malt immediately above from taking Encyc . Brit ., IV. 269. fire.