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The act of delaying; postponement. [R.] My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.

ands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use. [Written also demain.] Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill. Ancient demesne. (Eng. Law) See under Ancient.

n from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.

The sound developed itself into a real compound. J. Peile. All insects . . . acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed. Owen.

Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides. Diagonal bond (Masonry), herringbone work. See Herringbone, a. -- Diagonal built (Shipbuilding), built by forming the outer skin of two layers of planking, making…

A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation.

Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth. [Obs.]

One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.

lassify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc. Joining them together and digesting them into order. Blair. We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. Shak.

A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi.

The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.

Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.

To sunder; to separate, as joints. -- Dis`ar*tic`u*la"tion, n.

Disjoined; separated. [R.]

The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.

Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.

The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation. Fuller.

, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time,…

The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.

To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle.