Distractedness (n.) A state of being distracted; distraction.
Distracter (n.) One who, or that which, distracts away.
Distractful (a.) Distracting.
Distractible (a.) Capable of being drawn aside or distracted.
Distractile (a.) Tending or serving to draw apart.
Distracting (a.) Tending or serving to distract.
Distraction (n.) The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.
Distraction (n.) That which diverts attention; a diversion.
Distraction (n.) A diversity of direction; detachment.
Distraction (n.) State in which the attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity.
Distraction (n.) Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions.
Distraction (n.) Agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind; despair.
Distraction (n.) Derangement of the mind; madness.
Distractious (a.) Distractive.
Distractive (a.) Causing perplexity; distracting.
Distrained (imp. & p. p.) of Distrain
Distraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distrain
Distrain (v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.
Distrain (v. t.) To rend; to tear.
Distrain (v. t.) To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement.
Distrain (v. t.) To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.
Distrain (v. i.) To levy a distress.
Distrainable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
Distrainer (n.) Same as Distrainor.
Distrainor (n.) One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.
Distraint (n.) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.
Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.
Distraught (a.) Torn asunder; separated.
Distraught (a.) Distracted; perplexed.
Distraughted (a.) Distracted.
Distream (v. i.) To flow.
Distress (n.) Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
Distress (n.) That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.
Distress (n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.
Distress (n.) The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.
Distress (n.) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
Distressed (imp. & p. p.) of Distress
Distressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distress
Distress (n.) To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.
Distress (n.) To compel by pain or suffering.
Distress (n.) To seize for debt; to distrain.
Distressedness (n.) A state of being distressed or greatly pained.
Distressful (a.) Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation.
Distressing (a.) Causing distress; painful; unpleasant.
Distressing (adv.) In a distressing manner.
Distributable (a.) Capable of being distributed.
Distributary (a.) Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.
Distributed (imp. & p. p.) of Distribute
Distributing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distribute
Distribute (v. t.) To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
Distribute (v. t.) To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice.
Distribute (v. t.) To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc.
Distribute (v. t.) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
Distribute (v. t.) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
Distribute (v. t.) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
Distribute (v. i.) To make distribution.
Distributer (n.) One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser.
Distributing (a.) That distributes; dealing out.
Distribution (n.) The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
Distribution (n.) Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.
Distribution (n.) That which is distributed.
Distribution (n.) A resolving a whole into its parts.
Distribution (n.) The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
Distribution (n.) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
Distributional (a.) Of or pertaining to distribution.
Distributionist (n.) A distributer.
Distributive (a.) Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share.
Distributive (a.) Assigning the species of a general term.
Distributive (a.) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two).
Distributive (n.) A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral.
Distributively (adv.) By distribution; singly; not collectively; in a distributive manner.
Distributiveness (n.) Quality of being distributive.
District (a.) Rigorous; stringent; harsh.
District (n.) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.
District (n.) A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc.
District (n.) Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract.
Districted (imp. & p. p.) of District
Districting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of District
District (v. t.) To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.
Distriction (n.) Sudden display; flash; glitter.
Districtly (adv.) Strictly.
Distringas (n.) A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.
Distrouble (v. t.) To trouble.
Distrusted (imp. & p. p.) of Distrust
Distrusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distrust
Distrust (v. t.) To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.
Distrust (n.) Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc.
Distrust (n.) Suspicion of evil designs.
Distrust (n.) State of being suspected; loss of trust.
Distruster (n.) One who distrusts.
Distrustful (a.) Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.
Distrustful (a.) Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful.
Distrusting (a.) That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in.
Distrustless (a.) Free from distrust.
Distune (v. t.) To put out of tune.
Disturbed (imp. & p. p.) of Disturb
Disturbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disturb
Disturb (v. t.) To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.
Disturb (v. t.) To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy.
Disturb (v. t.) To turn from a regular or designed course.