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The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower.

To unlink; to disunite; to separate. [R.] Tennyson.

To come down; to descend. [Poetic] But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser.

action; -- commonly with to. It ought to be no disparagement to a star that it is not the sun. South. Imitation is a disparagement and a degradation in a Christian minister. I. Taylor.

To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic] Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. Spenser. The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. Emerson.

ing out of place. Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell.

here light disports in ever mingling dyes. Pope. Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, Disporting there like any other fly. Byron.

To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.

Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.

To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster.

The act of leaping or starting asunder. Johnson.

Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp.

sperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.

Lying apart. [Obs.] Lands far dissite and remote asunder. Holland.

To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward.

The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion. It will add infinitely dissociation, distraction, and confusion of these confederate republics. Burke.

Capable of being disunited.

The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation. Dissolutions of ancient amities. Shak.

nt parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament. Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life. Shak.