Distance - Distinct

3. (Racing) A space marked out in the last part of a race course.
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The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange.
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☞ In trotting matches under the rules of the American Association, the distance varies with the conditions of the race, being 80 yards in races of mile heats, best two in three, and 150 yards in races of two-mile heats. At that distance from the winning post is placed the distance post. If any horse has not reached this distance post before the first horse in that heat has reached the winning post, such horse is distanced, and disqualified for running again during that race.
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4. (Mil.) Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left. “Distance between companies in close column is twelve yards.” Farrow.
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5. Space between two antagonists in fencing. Shak.
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6. (Painting) The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape.
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☞ In a picture, the Coloq. Middle distance is the central portion between the foreground and the distance or the extreme distance. In a perspective drawing, the Coloq. Point of distance is the point where the visual rays meet.
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7. Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety. Locke.
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8. Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events.
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Ten years' distance between one and the other. Prior.
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The writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years. Playfair.
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9. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
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I hope your modesty
Will know what distance to the crown is due. Dryden.
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'T is by respect and distance that authority is upheld. Atterbury.
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10. A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve.
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Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves. Bacon.
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On the part of Heaven,
Now alienated, distance and distaste. Milton.
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11. Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.
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12. (Mus.) The interval between two notes; as, the distance of a fourth or seventh.
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Coloq. Angular distance , the distance made at the eye by lines drawn from the eye to two objects. -- Coloq. Lunar distance . See under . -- Coloq. North polar distance (Astron.), the distance on the heavens of a heavenly body from the north pole. It is the complement of the declination. -- Coloq. Zenith distance (Astron.), the arc on the heavens from a heavenly body to the zenith of the observer. It is the complement of the altitude. -- Coloq. To keep one's distance , to stand aloof; to refrain from familiarity.
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If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is he keeps his at the same time. Swift.
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Distance (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distanced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Distancing (?).] 1. To place at a distance or remotely.
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I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence. Fuller.
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2. To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote.
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His peculiar art of distancing an object to aggrandize his space. H. Miller.
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3. To outstrip by as much as a distance (see , n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.
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He distanced the most skillful of his contemporaries. Milner.
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Distancy (?), n. Distance. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
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Distant (?), a. [F., fr. L. distans, -antis, p. pr. of distare to stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See .] 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
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One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22.
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Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak.
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2. Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.
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The success of these distant enterprises. Prescott.
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3. Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.
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He passed me with a distant bow. Goldsmith.
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4. Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
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Some distant knowledge. Shak.
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A distant glimpse. W. Irving.
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5. Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.

Syn. -- Separate; far; remote; aloof; apart; asunder; slight; faint; indirect; indistinct.
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Distantial (?), a. Distant. [Obs.]
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More distantial from the eye. W. Montagu.
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Distantly (?), adv. At a distance; remotely; with reserve.
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Distaste (?), n. 1. Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish. Bacon.
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2. Discomfort; uneasiness.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.
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3. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
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On the part of Heaven,
Now alienated, distance and distaste. Milton.

Syn. -- Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion; displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.
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Distaste, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Distasting.] 1. Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.
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Although my will distaste what it elected. Shak.
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2. To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.]
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He thought in no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them. Sir J. Davies.
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3. To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful. Drayton.
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Distaste (?), v. i. To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable. [Obs.]
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Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons,
Which at the are scarce found to distaste. Shak.
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Distasteful (?), a. 1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.
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2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth.
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Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton.
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3. Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive. “Distasteful looks.” Shak.

Syn. -- Nauseous; unsavory; unpalatable; offensive; displeasing; dissatisfactory; disgusting.

- Distastefully, adv. -- Distastefulness, n.
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Distasteive (?), a. Tending to excite distaste. [Obs.] -- n. That which excites distaste or aversion. [Obs.] Whitlock.
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Distasture (?; 135), n. Something which excites distaste or disgust. [Obs.] Speed.
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Distemper (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distempered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Distempering.] [OF. destemprer, destremper, to distemper, F. détremper to soak, soften, slake (lime); pref. des- (L. dis-) + OF. temprer, tremper, F. tremper, L. temperare to mingle in due proportion. See , and cf. .] 1. To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of. [Obs.]
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When . . . the humors in his body ben distempered. Chaucer.
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2. To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease. Shak.
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The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster.
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3. To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant. “Distempered spirits.” Coleridge.
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4. To intoxicate. [R.]
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The courtiers reeling,
And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered,
But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing. Massinger.
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5. (Paint.) To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size. [R.]
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Distemper, n. [See , v. t., and cf. .] 1. An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Bacon.
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☞ This meaning and most of the following are to be referred to the Galenical doctrine of the four “humors” in man. See . According to the old physicians, these humors, when unduly tempered, produce a disordered state of body and mind.
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2. Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold. [Obs.]
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Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a distemper uninhabitable. Sir W. Raleigh.
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3. A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle.
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They heighten distempers to diseases. Suckling.
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4. Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor. [Obs.]
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Little faults proceeding on distemper. Shak.
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Some frenzy distemper had got into his head. Bunyan.
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5. Political disorder; tumult. Waller.
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6. (Paint.) (a) A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. ) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms. (b) A painting done with this preparation.

Syn. -- Disease; disorder; sickness; illness; malady; indisposition; ailment. See .
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Distemperance (?), n. Distemperature. [Obs.]
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Distemperate (?), a. [LL. distemperatus, p. p.] 1. Immoderate. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
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2. Diseased; disordered. [Obs.] Wodroephe.
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Distemperately, adv. Unduly. [Obs.]
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Distemperature (?; 135), n. 1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. [Obs.]
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2. Disorder; confusion. Shak.
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3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper.
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A huge infectious troop
Of pale distemperatures and foes to life. Shak.
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4. Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness.
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Sprinkled a little patience on the heat of his distemperature. Sir W. Scott.
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Distemperment (?), n. Distempered state; distemperature. [Obs.] Feltham.
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Distend (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distended; p. pr. & vb. n. Distending.] [L. distendere, distentum, distensum; dis- + tendere to stretch, stretch out: cf. F. distendre to distend, détendre to unbend. See , and cf. .] 1. To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch. [R.]
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But say, what mean those colored streaks in heaven
Distended as the brow of God appeased? Milton.
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2. To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc.
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The warmth distends the chinks. Dryden.

Syn. -- To dilate; expand; enlarge; swell; inflate.
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Distend, v. i. To become expanded or inflated; to swell. “His heart distends with pride.” Milton.
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Distensibility (?), n. The quality or capacity of being distensible. [R.]
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Distensible (?), a. Capable of being distended or dilated.
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Distension (?), n. Same as .
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Distensive (?), a. Distending, or capable of being distended.
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Distent (?), a. [L. distentus, p. p. See .] Distended. [Poetic] Thomson.
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Distent, n. Breadth. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.
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Distention (?), n. [L. distentio: cf. F. distension.] 1. The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs.
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2. Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.
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Dister (?), v. t. [L. dis- + terra earth, country; cf. Sp. & Pg. desterrar.] To banish or drive from a country. [Obs.] Howell.
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Disterminate (?), a. [L. disterminatus, p. p. of disterminare to limit. See .] Separated by bounds. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
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Distermination (?), n. [L. disterminatio.] Separation by bounds. [Obs.] Hammond.
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Disthene (?), n. [Gr. di- = dis- twice + � force: cf. F. disthène.] (Min.) Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See .
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Disthrone (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + throne: cf. OF. desthroner, F. détroner.] To dethrone. [Obs.]
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Disthronize (?), v. t. To dethrone. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Distich (?), n. [L. distichon, Gr. �, neut. of � with two rows, of two verses; di- = dis- twice + � row, verse, fr. � to ascend; akin to AS. stīgan to ascend: cf. F. distique. See .] (Pros.) A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.

{ Distich (?), Distichous (?), } a. [Gr. �. See , n.] Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.
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Distichously, adv. In a distichous manner.
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Distil (?), v. t. & i. See .
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Distill (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Distilled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Distilling.] [F. distiller, from L. destillare, destillatum; de + stillare to drop, stilla a drop, prob. fr. stiria frozen drop, icicle; prob. akin to stare, E. stand. Cf. , n. & v., .] [Written also distil.] 1. To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.
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Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope.
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2. To flow gently, or in a small stream.
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The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia. Sir W. Raleigh.
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3. To practice the art of distillation. Shak.
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Distill, v. t. 1. To let fall or send down in drops.
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Or o'er the glebe distill the kindly rain. Pope.
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The dew which on the tender grass
The evening had distilled. Drayton.
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2. To obtain by distillation; to subject to a process of evaporation and subsequent condensation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; to distill alcoholic spirits from grain; to distill essential oils from flowers, etc.; to distill fresh water from sea water. “Distilling odors on me.” Tennyson.
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3. To subject to distillation; as, to distill molasses in making rum; to distill barley, rye, corn, etc.
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4. To dissolve or melt. [R.]
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Swords by the lightning's subtle force distilled. Addison.
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5. to extract out and present the essence of; to shorten and refine; to present the essential elements of; -- of ideas or texts.
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Distillable (dĭstĭlȧb'l), a. (Chem.) Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
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Distillate (dĭstĭl�t or dĭstĭl�t), n. (Chem.) The product of distillation; as, the distillate from molasses.
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Distillation (dĭstĭllāshŭn), n. [F. distillation, L. destillatio.] 1. The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
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2. That which falls in drops. [R.] Johnson
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3. (Chem.) The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam.
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☞ The evaporation of water, its condensation into clouds, and its precipitation as rain, dew, frost, snow, or hail, is an illustration of natural distillation.
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4. The substance extracted by distilling. Shak.
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Coloq. Destructive distillation (Chem.), the distillation, especially of complex solid substances, so that the ultimate constituents are separated or evolved in new compounds, -- usually requiring a high degree of heat; as, the destructive distillation of soft coal or of wood. -- Coloq. Dry distillation , the distillation of substances by themselves, or without the addition of water or of other volatile solvent; as, the dry distillation of citric acid. -- Coloq. Fractional distillation . (Chem.) See under .
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Distillatory (?), a. [Cf. F. distillatoire.] Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n. A distillatory apparatus; a still.
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Distiller (?), n. 1. One who distills; esp., one who extracts alcoholic liquors by distillation.
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2. The condenser of a distilling apparatus.
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Distillery (?), n.; pl. Distilleries (#). [F. distillerie.] 1. The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on.
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2. The act of distilling spirits. [R.] Todd.
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Distillment (?), n. Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation. [Obs.] Shak.
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Distinct (?), a. [L. distinctus, p. p. of distinguere: cf. F. distinct. See .] 1. Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified. [Obs.]
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Wherever thus created -- for no place
Is yet distinct by name. Milton.
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2. Marked; variegated. [Obs.]
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The which [place] was dight
With divers flowers distinct with rare delight. Spenser.
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