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

Astrolabe :: Astrolabe (n.) An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.

Disacquaintance :: Disacquaintance (n.) Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance..

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

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

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

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

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

Post-captain :: Post-captain (n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was posted, in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse..

Use :: Use (v. i.) To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between use to, and used to..

Court-baron :: Court-baron (n.) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse..

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

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.].

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

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

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

Disused :: Disused (imp. & p. p.) of Disus.

Revive :: Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning..

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

Sinapis :: Sinapis (n.) A disused generic name for mustard; -- now called Brassica.

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