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isfaction; offensive; disagreeable. -- Dis*pleas"ing*ly, adv. -- Dis*pleas"ing*ness, n. Locke.

n for a use. Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons. Locke.

Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety. Locke.

That which excites distaste or aversion. [Obs.] Whitlock.

parent good. The distinction betwixt the animal kingdom and the inferior parts of matter. Locke.

mple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. Locke.

distinctive; peculiar; characteristic. The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion. Locke. Distinguishing pennant (Naut.), a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet is recognized and signaled. Simmonds.

istinguish by numerous differences or aspects. Separated and diversified on from another. Locke. Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature. I. Taylor.

A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things. Locke.

A blockhead. [Obs.] [Written also dizard, and disard.] -- Diz"zard*ly, adv. [Obs.]

A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.

One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

lf watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p.m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, P. M. Totten.

In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.

A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard. This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt. Drayton.

Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown. -- Dolt"ish*ly, adv. -- Dolt"ish*ness, n.

house or apartment is closed and opened. At last he came unto an iron door That fast was locked. Spenser.

The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.

s the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock.

ncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke.