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Disuse :: Disuse (v. t.) To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.

Disusage :: Disusage (n.) Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse.

Imprescriptible :: Imprescriptible (a.) Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription..

Thane :: Thane (n.) A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place..

Lamarckism :: Lamarckism (n.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs..

Obsoletism :: Obsoletism (n.) A disused word or phrase; an archaism.

Pair :: Pair (n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. A pair of beads. Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. Four pair of stairs. Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.].

Baritone :: Baritone (n.) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused..

Inusitation :: Inusitation (n.) Want of use; disuse.

Desuete :: Desuete (a.) Disused; out of use.

Friend :: Friend (n.) One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers..

Obsolete :: Obsolete (a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances..

Trones :: Trones (n.) A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused..

Angelot :: Angelot (n.) An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused..

Disuse :: Disuse (v. t.) To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil..

Digamma :: Digamma (n.) A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse..

Intermission :: Intermission (n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.

Rusty :: Rusty (superl.) Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect..

Disuse :: Disuse (n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse..

Flat-cap :: Flat-cap (n.) A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London..

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