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of its proper place. Especially, 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, dislocat…

t walketh disorderly. 2 Thess. iii. 6. Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Sir W. Raleigh.

The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.

The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.

ay be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.

Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit. At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute. Sir W. Scott.

To become unsheathed. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

bs.] Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a distemper uninhabitable. Sir W. Raleigh.

Immoderate. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

or in a small stream. The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia. Sir W. Raleigh.

warning. [Obs.] They were forth with stoned to death, as a document to others. Sir W. Raleigh.

es containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains.

ar (except in leap year, when the letter is changed at the end of February). After twenty-eight years the same letters return in the same order. The dominical letters go backwards one day every common year, and two every leap year; e. g., if the dominical letter of a common year be G, F will be the dominical letter for…

A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched h…

ry engine not used for propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes. -- Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary. -- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the large round seed of the Mucuna pruriens, a tropical leguminous plant.…

e value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes. -- Dotted rest, a rest lengthened by a dot in the same manner as a dotted note.

To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false. What penalty and danger you accrue, If you be found to double. J. Webster.

Having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window.

A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.

Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram.