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DISADORN-DISAGREE.

DISADORN, dis-a-dawrn', v. a. To deprive of orna

ments.

DISADVANCE, dis-ad-vans', v. a. or v. n. To check; to halt.-Obsolete.

Which th' other seeing, 'gan his course relent, And vaunted spear eftsoons to disadvance.-Spenser. DISADVANTAGE, dis-ad-vanʼtaje, s. (desavantage, Fr.) That which prevents success or renders it difficult; a state not favourable to successful operation; any unfavourable state; a state in which some loss or injury may be sustained; loss; injury to interest; diminution of anything desirable, as credit, fame, honour;-v. a. to injure in interest of any kind.

DISADVANTAGEABLE, dis-ad-vanʼtay-ja-bl, a. Not advantageous.

DISADVANTAGEOUS, dis-ad-van-ta'jus, a. Unfavourable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; not adapted to promote interest, reputation, or other good.

DISADVANTAGEOUSLY, dis-ad-van-taʼjus-le, ad. In a manner unfavourable to interest, success, or reputation; with loss or inconvenience. DISADVANTAGEOUSNESS, dis-ad-van-ta'jus-nes, s. Unfavourableness to success; inconvenience; loss. DISADVENTUROUS, dis-ad-ven'tu-rus, a. Unprosperous; unhappy.-Obsolete.

Now he hath left you here,

To be the record of his rueful loss,

And of my doleful disadventurous deare.-Spenser. DISAFFECT, dis-af-fekt', v. a. To alienate affection; to make less friendly to; to make less faithful to a person, party, or cause, or less zealous in their support; to make discontented or unfriendly; to disdain or dislike; to throw into disorder. DISAFFECTED, dis-af-fek'ted, a. part. Having the affections alienated; indisposed to favour or support; unfriendly.

DISAFFECTEDLY, dis-af-fek'ted-le, ad. In a disaffected manner.

DISAFFECTEDNESS, dis-af-fek'ted-nes, s. The quality of being disaffected. DISAFFECTION, dis-af-fek'shun, s. Alienation of affection, attachment, or good-will; want of affection, or more generally, positive enmity, dislike, or unfriendliness; disloyalty; disorder; bad constitation.-Obsolete in the last two senses. DISAFFECTIONATE, dis-af-fek'shun-ate, a. Not disposed to affection or zeal.

DISAFFIRM, dis-af-firm', v. a. To deny; to contradict; to overthrow or annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal. DISAFFIRMANCE, dis-af-fir'mans, s. Confutation; negation; overthrow or annulment, by the decision of a superior tribunal.

DISAFFOREST, dis-af-forʼrest, v. a. To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to strip of forest laws and their oppressive privileges.

By charter 9, Henry III., many forests were disaffo

restol-Blackstone.

To separate

DISAGGREGATE, dis-ag'gre-gate, v. a. an aggregate mass into its component parts. DISAGGREGATION, dis-ag-gre-ga'shun, s. The act or operation of separating an aggregate body into its component parts.

DISAGREE, dis-a-gre', v. n. To differ; to be not accordant or coincident; to be not the same; to be not exactly similar; to differ, as in opinion; to be unsuitable; to be in a state of opposition.

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DISAGREEABLE-DISAPPOINT.

DISAGREEABLE, dis-a-gre ́a-bl, a. Contrary; unsuitable; not conformable; not congruous; unpleasing; offensive.

DISAGREEABLENESS, dis-a-gre'a-bl-nes, 8. Unsuitableness; contrariety; unpleasantness; offensiveness.

Disagreeably, dis-a-greʼa-ble, ad. Unsuitably; unpleasantly; offensively. DISAGREEMENT, dis-a-gre'ment, s. Difference;

dissimilitude; diversity; not likeness or identity; difference of opinion; contrariety of sentiments. DISALLIEGE, dis-al-leej', v. a. To alienate from allegiance, Obsolete.

What greater dividing than, by a pernicious and hostile peace, to disallicge a whole feudary kingdom from the ancient dominion of England.-Milton. DISALLOW, dis-al-low', v. a. To refuse permission, or not to permit; not to grant; to deny authority to any; to consider as unlawful; to testify dislike or disapprobation; to refuse assent; to reject; not to justify;-v. n. to refuse permission; not to grant.

DISALLOWABLE, dis-al-low'a-bl, a. Not allowable; not to be suffered.

DISALLOWANCE, dis-al-low'ans, s. Disapprobation; refusal to admit or permit; prohibition; rejection. DISALLY, dis-al-li', v. a. To form an improper al

liance.

DI SALTO, de sal'to, s. (Italian.) In Music, a motion by skips, not by degrees. A melody proceeds by skips when it omits one or more degrees. In general, degrees and skips are intermixed. The degrees and skips of melody are both called by the general term interval, which is the distance between two sounds, or their difference in respect of pitch. DISANCHOR, dis-angʻkur, v. a. To force from its anchor, as a ship.

DISANDRA, dis-an'dra, s. (dis, and aner andros, a male, Gr. in reference to the stamens being sometimes four and sometimes eight, therefore often double the common number of four.) A genus of prostrate shrubs: Order, Sibthropiaceæ. DISANGELICAL, dis-an-jel'e-kal, a. Not angelical; not suiting the nature or dignity of angels. DISANIMATE, dis-an'e-mate, v. a. To discourage; to deject; to depress; to dishearten; to deprive of life.-Seldom used in the last sense. DISANIMATION, dis-an-e-ma'shun, s. The act of discouraging; depression of spirits; privation of life. Obsolete in the last sense. DISANNEX, dis-an-neks', v. a. separate that which was annexed. DISANNUL.-See Annul. DISANNULMENT, dis-an-nul'ment, s. making void.

DISANOINT, dis-a-noynt', v. a. tion invalid.

To disunite; to

The act of

To render consecra

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Cessation of

DISAPPEAR, dis-a-pere', v. n. To vanish from the sight; to recede from the view; to become invisible; to cease, as the epidemic has disappeared; to withdraw from observation. DISAPPEARANCE, dis-a-pe'rans, 8. appearance; a removal from sight. DISAPPEARING, dis-ap-pe'ring, s. removal from sight. DISAPPOINT, dis-ap-poynt', v. a. To defeat of expectation, wish, hope, desire, or intention; to frustrate; to balk; to hinder from the possession

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DISAPPOINTMENT-DISASTROUSLY.

or enjoyment of that which was intended, desired, hoped, or expected; to frustrate; to prevent an effect intended.

DISAPPOINTMENT, dis-ap-poynt'ment, s.

Defeat

DISASTROUSNESS-DISCALCEATE.

DISASTROUSNESS, diz-as'trus-nes, s. Unfortunateness; calamitousness.

DISAUTHORISE, dis-aw'thur-ize, v. a. To deprive of credit or authority.

or failure of expectation, hope, wish, desire, or in- DISAVOUCH, dis-a-vowtsh', v. a.

To un

tention; miscarriage of design or plan. DISAPPRECIATE, dis-ap-pre'she-ate, v. a. dervalue; not to esteem. DISAPPROBATION, dis-ap-pro-ba'shun, s. Censure; condemnation; expression of dislike. DISAPPROBATORY, dis-ap'pro-bay-tur-e, a. Containing disapprobation; tending to disapprove. DISAPPROPRIATE, dis-ap-pro'pre-ate, a. Not appropriated, or not having appropriated church property. Disappropriate church, a church from which the appropriated parsonage, glebe, and tithes are severed;-v. a. to sever or separate, as an appropriation; to withdraw from an appropriate use; to deprive of appropriated property, as a church. DISAPPROVAL, dis-ap-proo'val, s. Disapprobation;

dislike.

DISAPPROVE, dis-ap-proov', v. a. (disapprouver, Fr.) To dislike; to condemn in opinion or judgment; to censure as wrong; to manifest dislike or disapprobation; to reject, as disliked, what is proposed for sanction.

DISAPPROVINGLY, dis-ap-proo'ving-le, ad. By disapprobation.

DISARD, diz'ard, s. (dysio, Sax.) A prater; a DIZARD, boasting talker.-Obsolete.

How like a dizard, a fool, an ass, he looks! how like a clown he behaves!-Burton.

fession; to disown.

To retract pro

DISAVOW, dis-a-vow', v. a. To disown; to deny knowledge of; to deny to be true; to dissent from; not to admit as true or justifiable; not to vindicate.

DISAVOWAL, dis-a-vow'al, s. Denial; a disowning; rejection; a declining to vindicate. DISAVOWMENT, dis-a-vow'ment, s. Denial; a disowning.

DISBAND, dis-band', v. a. To dismiss from military service; to break up a band or body of men enlisted; to scatter; to disperse ;-v. n. to retire from military service; to separate; to break up; to dissolve connection; to be dissolved.-Obsolete in the last sense.

Refusal of credit or

Yea, when both rocks and all things shall disband, Then shalt thou be my rock and tower.-Herbert. DISBARK, dis-bark', v. a. (debarquer, Fr.) To land from a ship; to put on shore. Debark and disembark are now used. DISBELIEF, dis-be-leef', s. faith; denial of belief. DISBELIEVE, dis-be-leve', v. a. Not to believe; to hold not to be true, or not to exist; to refuse to credit. DISBELIEVER, dis-be-le'vur, s. One who refuses belief; one who denies to be true or real.

DISBENCH, dis-benshí', v. a. To drive from a bench

or scat.

DISBLAME, dis-blame', v. a.

or censure.

DISARM, diz-ŭrm', v. a. (desarmer, Fr.) To deprive
of arms; to deprive of means of attack or defence;
to deprive of force, strength, or means of annoy-
ance; to render harmless; to quell; to strip; to
divest of anything injurious or threatening.
DISARMAMENT, diz-ur'ma-ment, s. Act of dis-
armning.
DISARMER, diz-ărʼmur, s. One who deprives of DISBRANCH, dis-bransh', v. a.

arms.

The act

DISARMING, diz-ăr'ming, s. Deprivation of arms. DISARRANGE, dis-ar-ranje', v. a. To put out of order; to unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of parts. Derange is generally used. DISARRANGEMENT, dis-ar-ranje'ment, s. of disturbing order or method; disorder. DISARRAY, dis-ar-ray', v. a. To undress; to divest of clothes; to discomfit; to rout; to overthrow; -s. disorder; confusion; loss of the regular order of battle; undress.

DISASSIDUITY, dis-as-se-du'c-te, s. Absence of care or attention.-Obsolete.

DISASSOCIATE, dis-as-so'she-ate, v. a. To disunite; to disconnect things associated. DISASTER, diz-as'tur, s. (desastre, Fr.) Misfortune; grief; mishap; misery; calamity; the blast or stroke of an unfavourable planet ;-(obsolete in the last sense ;)

Stars shone with trains of fire; dews of blood fell; Disasters veil'd the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.-Shaks. -v. a. to injure; to afflict; to blast by the stroke of an unlucky planet.

DISASTROUS, diz-as'trus, a. Unlucky; unfortunate; calamitous; gloomy; threatening misfortune; struck with affliction. DISASTROUSLY, diz-as'trus-le, ad.

in a dismal manner.

DISBODIED.-See Disembodied. DISBOWEL, dis-bow'el, v. a. testines.

To clear from blame

To take out the in

To separate or cut off, as the branch of a tree; to deprive of branches. DISBUD, dis-bud', v. a. To deprive of buds or shoots.

DISBURDEN, dis-bur'dn, v. a. To ease of a burden; to unload; to disencumber, discharge, or clear; to throw off a burden; to clear of anything oppressive or cumbersome. DISBURSE, dis-burs', v. a. (debourser, Fr.) To pay out as money; to spend or lay out; primarily, to pay money from a public chest or treasury. DISBURSEMENT, dis-burs'ment, s. (deboursement, Fr.) The act of paying out, as money from a public or private chest; the money or sum paid out, as the annual disbursements exceed the income. DISBURSER, dis-burs'sur, s. One who pays out or

disburses money. DISC, disk, s. (discus, Lat.) The body and face of DISK, the sun, moon, or a planet, as it appears to us on the earth-or the body and face of the earth, as it would appear to a spectator in the moon; also, a circular flat piece of stone, wood, metal, &c., of which the thickness is not considered. In Optics, the magnitude of a telescope glass, or the width of its aperture.

DISCÆLIS, dis-se'les, s. (dis, and skalis, a hoe or digging instrument, Gr.?) A genus of Hymenopterous insects, belonging to the Vespariæ, or Wasp

tribe.

Unfortunately; DISCALCEATE, dis-kal'se-ate, v. a. (discalceatus,
Lat.) To pull off the shoes or sandals.

DISCALCEATED-DISCERNMENT.

shoes.

DISCERP-DISCIPLE.

DISCALCEATED, dis-kal'se-ay-ted, a. Stripped of DISCERP, dis-serp', v. a. (diserpo, Lat.) To tea
in pieces; to separate.-Obsolete.
Orpheus says, Bacchus was discerped by the giants.-
Dr. Stukeley.

DISCALCEATION, dis-kal-se-a'shun, s. The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals. DISCANDY, dis-kan'de, v. n. solve.-Seldom used.

To melt; to dis- DISCERPIBILITY, dis-serp-e-bil'e-te, s. Capability of being torn asunder; liableness to be rent asunder or disunited.

The hearts
That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave
Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
On blossoming Casar.-Shaks.

DISCANTHERA, dis-kan-the'ra, s. (diskos, a disk, and anthera, an anther, Gr.) A genus of plants: Order, Curbitaceæ.

DISCARD, dis-kard', v. a. (discartar, Span.) To throw out of the hand such cards as are useless; to dismiss or eject from service or employment, or from society; to cast off; to thrust away; to reject. DISCARIA, dis-ka're-a, s. (diskos, a disk, Gr. from its broad disk.) A genus of plants, consisting of spiny shrubs-natives of Buenos Ayres: Order, Rhamnaceæ.

DISCARNATE, dis-kårʼnate, a. (dis, and curo, flesh, Lat.) Stripped of flesh.

DISCASE, dis-kase', v. a. To take off a covering from; to strip; to undress.

DISCELIUM, dis-se'le-um, s. (dis, and kelios, brilHant, Gr.) A genus of Urn-moss plants: Order, Bryacere.

DISCEPTATION, dis-sep-ta'shun, s. disputation.-Obsolete.

Controversy;

The proportion is such as ought not to be admitted in any science or any disceptation.-Barrow. DISCEPTATOR, dis-sep-ta'tur, s. (Latin.) One who arbitrates or decides.-Obsolete.

DISCERN, diz-zern', v. a. (discerno, Lat.) To descry; to see; to discover; to judge; to have knowledge of by comparison; to see the difference between two or more things; to discriminate; to make the difference between;-(obsolete in the last sense ;)

They follow virtue for reward to-day;
To-inorrow vice, if she give better pay;
We are so good, or bad, just at a price;
For nothing else discerns the virtue or the vice.—
Ben Jonson.

-e.. to see or understand the difference; to make distinction; to have judicial cognizance.Obsolete in the last sense.

DISCERNER, diz-zer'nur, s. One who sees, discovers, or distinguishes; an observer; one who knows and judges; one who has the power of distinguishing; that which distinguishes, or that which causes to understand.

DISCERNIBLE, diz-zer'ne-bl, a. That may be seen distinctly; discoverable by the eye or the understanding; distinguishable.

DISCERNIBLENESS, diz-zer'ne-bl-nes, s. Visible

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DISCERNIBLY, diz-zer'ne-ble, ad. Perceptibly; apparently.

DISCERNING, diz-zer'ning, a. Having power to discern; capable of seeing, discriminating, knowing, and judging; sharp-sighted; penetrating; acute;-8. the power of distinguishing. DISCERNINGLY, diz-zer'ning-le, ad. With discernment; judiciously; rationally; acutely. DISCERNMENT, diz-zern'ment, 8. The act of discerning; the power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; acuteness of judgment; power of perceiving differences of things or ideas.

DISCERPIBLE, dis-serp'e-bl, a. That may be torn asunder; separable; capable of being disunited by violence; frangible.

NOTE.-This term is erroneously written discerptible in some dictionaries. The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts. DISCESSION, dis-sesh'un, s. (discessio, Lat.) Departure.-Obsolete.

DISCERPTION, dis-serp'shun, s.

DISCHARGE, dis-tshărj', v. a. (decharger, Fr.) To disburden; to exonerate; to free from any load or inconvenience; to unload, as a ship; to take out, as a cargo; to throw off anything collected or accumulated; to give vent to anything; to let fly; to unload a gun; to clear a debt by payment; to send away, as a creditor by payment of what is due to him; to free from claim or demand; to give an acquittance to, or a receipt in full, as to a debtor; to free from an obligation; to clear from an accusation or crime; to absolve; to acquit; to perform or execute, as a duty or office, considered as a charge; to put away; to obliterate; to destroy; to divest of an office or employment; to dismiss from service; to release; to send away from any business or appointment; to emit or send out; to liberate from confinement; to remove; to clear from;-v. n. to break up;-8. vent; explosion; emission; that which is thrown out; matter emitted; dismission from office or service, or the writing which evidences the dismission; release from obligation, debt, or penalty, or the writing which is evidence of it; an acquittance; absolution from a crime or accusation; ransom; liberation; price paid for deliverance; performance; execution; liberation; release from imprisonment or other confinement; exemption; DISCHARGER, dis-tshăr jur, 8. escape; payment, as of a debt.

One who discharges in any manner; one who fires a gun. In Electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden phial, jar, &c., by opening a communication between the two surfaces.

DISCHIDIA, dis-kid'e-a, s. (dis, aud schizo, I cut, Gr. in reference to the bifid leaflets of the corona.) A genus of creeping parasitical trees, with small subumbellate flowers: Order, Asclepiadacem. DISCHIRIUS, dis-ki're-us, s. (dis, and cheir, a hand, Gr.) A genus of Coleopterous insects: Family, Carabida.

DISCHURCH, dis-tshurtsh', v. a. To deprive of the rank of a church.-Seldom used.

This can be no ground to dischurch that differing company of Christians.-Bp. Hall. DISCIDE, dis-side', Įv. a. To divide; to cut in DISCIND, dis-sind', pieces.-Obsolete.

And as her tongue, so was her heart discided, That never thought one thing, but doubly still was guided.-Spenser.

DISCIFORM, dis'e-fawrm, a. (discus, a quoit, and forma, form, Lat.) In the form of a disk. DISCINCT, dis-singkt', a. Ungirded; loosely

dressed.

DISCIPLE, dis-si'pl, s. (discipulus, Lat.) A learner;

DISCIPLELIKE-DISCLOSE.

a scholar; one who receives, or professes to receive, instruction from another; a follower; an adherent to the doctrines of another;-v. a. to teach; to train or bring up; to make disciples; to convert to doctrines or principles; to punish; to disciple. -Obsolete in the last two senses.

She, bitter penance, with an iron whip, Was wont him to disciple every day.-Spenser. DISCIPLELIKE, dis-si'pl-like, a. Becoming a disciple.

DISCIPLESHIP, dis-si'pl-ship, 8.

The state of a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts. DISCIPLINABLE, dis-sip'lin-a-bl, a. Capable of instruction and improvement in learning; that may be subjected to discipline; subject or liable to discipline, as the member of a church. DISCIPLINABLENESS, dis-sip'plin-a-bl-nes, s. Ca

cover;

DISCLOSER-DISCOLOUR.

to open; to remove a cover from, and lay open to the view; to cause to appear; to lay open to the view; to reveal; to bring to light; to tell; to utter; to make known; to show in any manner; to hatch.-Obsolete in the last sense. The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the sun discloseth them.-Bacon.

-8. discovery. DISCLOSER, dis-klo'zur, 8. reveals.

DISCLOSURE, dis-klo'zure, s.

One who discloses or

The act of disclosing;

an uncovering and opening to view; the act of revealing; utterance of what was secret; the act of making known what was concealed; that which is disclosed or made known.

DISCLUSION, dis-klu ́zhun, s. (disclusus, Lat.) An emission or throwing out.

the coast.-Obsolete.

pacity of receiving instruction; qualification for DISCOAST, dis-koste', v. n. To depart from; to quit improvement by education and discipline. DISCIPLINANT, dis-sip'lin-nant, s. One of a religious order, so called from their practice of scourging themselves, or other rigid discipline. DISCIPLINARIAN, dis-sip-le-na're-an, a. Relating to discipline; s. one who disciplines; one versed in rules, principles, and practice, and who teaches them with precision; one who instructs in military and naval tactics and manoeuvers; a puritan or presbyterian, so called from his rigid adherence to religious discipline.

DISCIPLINARY, dis-sip'lin-a-re, as Pertaining to discipline; relating to a regular course of education.

DISCIPLINE, dis'se-plin, s. (disciplina, Lat.) Education; instruction; the act of cultivating the mind; the act of forming the manners; rule of government; order; method of government; subjection to laws, rules, order, precepts, or regulations; correction; chastisement; punishment intended to correct crimes or errors; chastisement or bodily punishment inflicted on a delinquent, or that infliction or external mortification which a religious person inflicts on himself. In Ecclesiastical affairs, the execution of the laws by which the church is governed, and infliction of the penalties enjoined against offenders who profess the religion of Jesus Christ. Book of Discipline, in the Church of Scotland, a book drawn up by the General Assembly in 1650, from the reformation and uniformity to be observed in the discipline and policy of the church;-v. a. to educate; to instruct; to inform the mind; to prepare by instructing in correct principles and habits; to instruct and govern; to teach rules and practice, and accustom to order and subordination; to correct; to chastise; to punish; to execute the laws of the church on offenders, with a view to bring them to repentance and reformation of life; to advance and prepare by instruction. DISCLAIM, dis-klame', v. a. To disown; to deny any knowledge of; to retract any union with; to abrogate; to renounce; to reject; to deny all claim;-v. n. to disavow all part or share. DISCLAIMATION, dis-klay-ma'shun, s. disclaiming; a disavowing.-Obsolete. DISCLAIMER, dis-kla'inur, s. A person who disclaims, disowns, or renounces. In Law, an express or implied denial by a tenant that he holds an estate of his lord; a denial of tenure by plea or otherwise.

The act of

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They would not be singular and uncouth in discoasting from the common road or fashion of men.-Barrow. DISCOBOLE, dis-kob'o-le, s. (diskos, a quoit or DISCOBOLES, dis'ko-bo-les, disk, and ballo, I throw, Gr.) A family of fishes, in which the pectoral fins are of a discoidal form. DISCOCACTUS, dis-ko-kak ́tus, s. (diskos, a disk, Gr. and cactus.) A genus of plants: Order, Cactaceæ. DISCOCAPNOS, dis-ko-kap'nus, s. (diskos, a disk, and kapnos, the Greek name of Fumitory.) A genus of flowers, with red obtuse-spurred flowers: Order, Fumariacex.

DISCOCARPUS, dis-ko-kărʼpus, s. (diskos, a disk, and karpos, fruit, Gr. from the shape of the fruit.) A genus of plants: Order, Euphorbiaceæ. DISCODOMA, dis-kod'o-ma, s. (diskos, a disk, and dome, a structure, Gr.) A genus of Mollusca, belonging to the Lucerninæ, or Land-volutes, the shell of which has the aperture angulated, the inner lip nearly obsolete; the outer only slightly thickened; the margin corinated: Family, Helicidæ. DISCOHERENT, dis-ko-heʼrent, a. Incoherent. DISCOID, dis'koyd, a. (diskos, a quoit, and DISCOIDAL, dis-koy'dal, eidos, resemblance, Gr.) Having the form of a disk. In Botany, a term applied to parts or organs of plants which have two flattened surfaces, with an obtuse circular border. In Composite plants, the heads of the flowers are said to be discoid when the florets are all tubular; the term is also applied when the florets of the centre of a head of flowers are more perfect than the rest. In Conchology, univalve shells are said to be discoid when their spire are vertically convoluted on the same plane, and which, consequently, have the figure of a disk.

DISCOIDEA, dis-koyd'e-a, s. (diskos, a disk, and eidos, resemblance, Gr.) A genus of fossil Echinodermata, found in the Chalk, Green-sand, and Oolitic formations.

DISCOLOBIUM, dis-ko-lob'e-um, s. (diskos, a disk, and lobos, a lobe, Gr.) A genus of Leguminous plants: Suborder, Papilionaceæ. DISCOLORATION, dis-kul-lur-a'shun, s. The act of altering the colour; a staining alteration of colour; stain; alteration of complexion or appear

ance.

DISCOLOUR, dis-kul lur, r. a. (discoloro, Lat.) To alter the natural hue or colour of; to stain; to tinge; to change any colour, natural or artificial; to alter a colour partially; figuratively, to alter the complexion; to change the appearance.

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DISCOLOURED-DISCONCERT.

DISCOLOURED, dis-kul'urd, a. Variegated; having various colours.

DISCOLOURING, dis-kul'ur-ing, s. The act of altering colour for the worse. DISCOMPIT, dis-kum'fit, v. a. (deconfire, deconfit, Fr.) To rout; to defeat; to scatter in fight; to canse to flee; to vanquish ;-s. rout; dispersion; defeat; overthrow. DISCOMFITURE, dis-kum'fit-ure, s. Defeat; loss of battle; ruin; overthrow. DISCOMFORT, dis-kum'furt, 8. Uneasiness; sorrow; melancholy gloom;-v. a. to disturb peace or happiness; to make uneasy; to pain; to grieve; to Badden; to deject.

DISCOMFORTABLE, dis-kum'fur-ta-bl, s. Causing measiness; unpleasant; giving pain; making sad; uneasy; melancholy. Uncomfortable is generally used.

DISCOMFORTABLENESS, dis-kum'fur-ta-bl-nes, 8. The state of being discomfortable.-Obsolete. DISCOMMEND, dis-kom-mend', v. a. To blame; to censure; to mention with disapprobation. DISCOMMENDABLE, dis-kom-men'da-bl, a. Blamable; censurable; deserving disapprobation. DISCOMMENDABLENESS, dis-kom-men'da-bl-nes, s. Blamableness; the quality of being worthy of disapprobation.

DISCOMMENDATION, dis-kom-men-da' shun, 8. Blame; reproach; censure.

DISCOMMENDER, dis-kom-men'dur, s. One who discommends.

DISCONCERTION-DISCONTINUE.

DISCONCERTION, dis-kon-ser'shun, s. The act of disconcerting.

DISCONFORMITY, dis-kon-fawr'me-te, s. Want of agreement or conformity; inconsistency. DISCONGRUITY, dis-kon-gru'e-te, s. Want of congruity; incongruity; disagreement; inconsistency. DISCONNECT, dis-kon-nekt', v. a. To separate; to disunite; to dissolve connection. DISCONNECTION, dis-kon-nek'shun, s. The act of separating, or state of being disunited; separation; want of union. DISCONSENT, dis-kon-sent', v. n. To differ; to disagree; not to consent. DISCONSOLANCE, dis-kon'so-lans, s. DisconsoDISCONSOLANCY, dis-kon'so-lan-se, lateness. DISCONSOLATE, dis-kon'so-late, a. (dis, and consolatus, Lat.) Destitute of comfort or consolation; sorrowful; hopeless, or not expecting comfort; sad; dejected; melancholy; not affording comfort; cheerless. DISCONSOLATELY, dis-kon'so-late-le, ad. In a disconsolate manner; without comfort. DISCONSOLATENESS, dis-kon'so-late-nes, s. state of being disconsolate or comfortless. DISCONSOLATION, dis-kon-so-la'shun, s. Want of comfort.

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DISCONTENT, dis-kon-tent', s. Want of content; uneasiness or inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction at any present state of things;-a. uneasy; dissatisfied;-v. a. to make uneasy at the present state; to dissatisfy.

DISCOMMODATE, dis-kom'mo-date, v. a. To molest; DISCONTENTEDLY, dis-kon-ten'ted-le, ad.

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discontented manner or mood. DISCONTENTEDNESS, dis-kon-ten'ted-nes, s. easiness of mind; inquietude; dissatisfaction. DISCONTENTFUL, dis-kon-tent'ful, a. Full of dis

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DISCONTENTING, dis-kon-ten'ting, a. Giving uneasiness; disgusting.

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DISCONTENTMENT, dis-kon-tent'ment, s. The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. DISCONTINUABLE, dis-kon-tin'u-a-bl, a. may be discontinued. DISCONTINUANCE, dis-kon-tin'u-ans, s. Want of continuance; cessation; intermission; interruption of continuance; want of continued connection or cohesion of parts; want of union; disruption. In Law, a breaking off or interruption of possession, as where a tenant in tail makes a feoffment in fee-simple, or for the life of the feoffee, or in tail, which he has not power to do; in this case the entry of the feoffee is lawful during the life of the feoffer; but if he retains possession after the death of the feoffer, it is an injury which is termed a discontinuance, the legal estate of the heir in tail being discontinued till a recovery can be had in law. Discontinuance of a suit, is when a plaintiff leaves a chasm in the proceedings in his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day; in which case the defendant is not bound to attend. Formerly the demise of the king caused a discontinuance of all suits; but this is remedied by statute 1 Edw. VI. DISCONTINUATION, dis-kon-tin-u-a'shun, s. Breach or interruption of continuity; disruption of parts; separation of parts which form a connected series. To leave off; to DISCONTINUE, dis-kon-tin'u, v. a. cause to cease, as a practice or habit; to stop; to put an end to; to break off; to interrupt; to cease to take or receive;-v. n. to cease; to leave

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