disterrite

[Ger. dis territ.] Min.: A variety of Seybertite from Fa a in the Tyrol, where it occurs in hexagonal prisms of a yellowish-green or leek-green color to reddish-gray. "The huntsman, with distended cheek, 'Gan make his instrument of music speak." Cowper: The Needle Alarm. 2. To stretch or spread out. "Vpon the earth my bodie I distend ." Stirling: Aurora, song 2. Brand i site (q. v.). IMG:content-0210.png:[blocks in formation] *3. To spread or extend apart; as, to distend the throne, to depose. 4. To widen, to open. legs. IMG:content-0211.png:[blocks in formation] *dis-thron-ize, v. t. [Eng. disthron (e); -ize.] 1. Lit.: To dethrone or disthrone. "By his death he it recovered; But Peridure and Vigent him disthronized . " Spenser: F. Q., IL. x. 44. 2. Fig .: To deprive of any position of majesty or sovereignty. dis-tich, s . & a. [Lat. distich us , distich on ; Gr. IMG:content-0212.png:[blocks in formation] +dis-ten-si-ble, a . [Lat. distens ( us ), pa. par. of distendo, and Eng. suff. -able .] That may or can be distended; capable of being distended. dis-těn-sion, 8. [DISTENTION.] "A state of balanced distension."-Bain: The Emotions and the Will (2d ed.), ch. i., p. 10.