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onstructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials. [Written also dialling.]

Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization.

Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers. Gray.

A darling; a favorite. [Obs.] Whilst the birds billing, Each one with his dilling. Drayton.

Capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training.

The quality of being improvable by discipline. Sir M. Hale.

Relating to discipline. Latham.

A flagellant. See Flagellant.

Pertaining to discipline. "Displinarian system." Milman.

Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training. Those canons . . . were only disciplinary. Bp. Ferne. The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial. Buckminster.

cise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral. Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. Bacon. Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience. C. J. Smith.

One who disciplines.

The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian.

To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined. Cowper.

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

The state of being disorderly.

One of several isomeric organic bases of the quinoline series of alkaloids.

That dissembles; hypocritical; false. -- Dis*sem"bling*ly, adv.

The beaked whale (Balænoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained.

False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing. Shak.