Noun : Traditional customs are falling into disuse. From Dictionary.com.
The Rajah is without authority, and even his name disused in the official instruments issued or taken by the manager. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)] Reference
Whilst we’re on the subject, I’ve heard plenty of mention of CO2 being stored in disused mines etc – does this involve it being converted into a liquid form?. From Wordnik.com. [Storing CO2 in Giant Underwater Plastic Bags? | Inhabitat] Reference
Through it runs a curious trackway, marked "disused" on the. From Wordnik.com. [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference
Today, the area around Stanford's hangar, which he described in the video as "disused," is landscaped with palms and manicured lawns. From Wordnik.com. [Caribbean Net News Daily Headlines] Reference
Community schemes enable voluntary groups to look after disused areas of Network Rail land, such as disused platforms, land adjoining stations, or areas underneath viaducts. From Wordnik.com. [EDP24 News] Reference
"It is the old castle thoroughfare, long since disused.". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Least likely to: Do a gig in a disused fairground – too scary. From Wordnik.com. [The Smiles and Frowns (No 834)] Reference
Those files are stored in a disused mine in western Pennsylvania. From Wordnik.com. [America’s Secret Police?] Reference
And this surrender was early followed by weakness of her disused body. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Archipelago remained in the lotus-eating land, and the disused "Ark" or. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
The reader must not suppose that this was a disused chapel: far from it. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
It was a disused convent that it would have been nice to be able to sell. From Wordnik.com. [Bridging The Christian-Muslim Divide] Reference
His company was lying in an old disused trench, where it had arrived in the dark. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
A trench entered and found empty might be a disused sap or bay habitually unoccupied. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
There are about 80 disused stations, known as station phantom (ph) or phantom stations. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Stations And Boyhood Love On The Paris Metro] Reference
A native eloquence, long disused, began to urge him to a sort of confused improvisation. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Château, close to Ypres, and the Transport to a disused brickfield west of Vlamertinghe. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
A regal seat was prepared for her by his side, and she received the new or disused title of Queen. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
Independently of shortening, the disused wing-bones have actually thickened or increased in weight. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
Artificial selection appears to enlarge or diminish used parts or disused parts with equal facility. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
Then come the dingy and now disused houses and streets of those powerful men of a by-gone age, the daimios. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
On the edge of a railroad siding, squeezed in a patch of disused land - give people a bit of extra fresh veg. From Wordnik.com. [London's Gardens: Allotments for the People] Reference
Since 1882 there has been a Slav majority in the diet, and Italian has been disused in the proceedings of that body. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
There must be many such houses still extant in London, and who knows what there may be in their long-disused attics?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Or who has explored the lumber accumulated in many a disused cellar within a quarter of a mile of the Mansion House?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
The Tate Gallery hopes to transform the disused Bankside power station into a showcase for its modern-art collection. From Wordnik.com. [London Reigns] Reference
The used leg-bones and the disused wing-bones have alike been shortened and thickened, though in different proportions. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
He can draw nothing from South Carolina, save from a small corner down in the southeast, and that by a disused wagon-road. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
As an initial step to our parade, we managed somehow or other to secure a disused old fire-engine, and on this the band piled. From Wordnik.com. [Through St. Dunstan's to Light] Reference
The black-leather and navel-ring set will preen at The Tunnel, a newly reopened nightclub housed in a disused railroad passage. From Wordnik.com. [A Crasher's Guide To New Year's Eve, From Coast To Coast] Reference
Their nuptial ceremonies are peculiar to themselves; and formerly consisted of many whimsical rites, some of which are now disused. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
Artists now don't have to be 50 years old before their art is shown in galleries because my generation put on shows in disused warehouses. From Wordnik.com. [This much I know: Gillian Wearing] Reference
The free concert series that began in 2006 in a disused Williamsburg swimming pool and grew into a symbol of the neighborhood's cultural clout has ended in acrimony. From Wordnik.com. [Williamsburg Pool Parties Dry Up] Reference
Saber lives in a disused holiday camp outside Moscow -- one of several occupied by homeless foreigners -- with 1,200 other refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq and Kurdistan. From Wordnik.com. [The War's Outcasts] Reference
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