a god of the Gauls, the same as Pluto the god of hell. The inhabitants of Gaul supposed themselves descended from that deity; and from that circumstance they reckoned their time by nights instead of by days.

prefix or inseparable preposition in various words, the effect of which is either to give them a signification contrary to what the simple words have, as disobliging, disobey; or to signify a separation or detachment, as distributing.