Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis. / Extremely alarmed; shocked.

simple past tense and past participle of disturb

(prosody) A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense. / Any couplet.

Distichous.

(idiomatic, historical, law) a wrongful using of an animal or chattel distrained, by the distrainer

Education obtained remotely, often involving written material together with audio-visual material transmitted via the internet and, sometimes, summer schools and local tutorials.

(astronomy) An estimate of the distance of a body based on its luminosity and the inverse square law.

The female or maternal branch of a family.

A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of women. / Of the maternal side of a family.