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A mass of chalk. As chalkstones . . . beaten in sunder. Isa. xxvii. 9.

de so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons.

To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage. [A vapor] detaching, fold by fold, From those still heights. Tennyson.

A prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. Before a vowel dia- becomes di-; as, diactinic; dielectric, etc.

To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne.

The act of rending asunder. Arbuthnot.

To part, as an alliance; to sunder. [R.] "Disallied their nuptials." Milton.

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

To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder. That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins. Milton. Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy. Addison. Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses. Pennant.

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.

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.

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

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.

So separated as not to be confounded with any other thing; not liable to be misunderstood; not confused; well-defined; clear; as, we have a distinct or indistinct view of a prospect. Relation more particular and distinct. Milton.

Separated; drawn asunder. [Obs.]