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DISJUNCTION n. 2 definitions
The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.
DISJUNCTIVE a. 2 definitions
Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.
DISJUNCTIVELY adv.
In a disjunctive manner; separately. Dr. H. More.
DISJUNCTURE n.
The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation. Fuller.
DISK n. 10 definitions
A discus; a quoit. Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart. Pope.
DISK CLUTCH n.
A friction clutch in which the gripping surfaces are disks or more or less resemble disks.
DISKINDNESS n.
Unkindness; disservice. [R.] A. Tucker.
DISKLESS a.
Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.
DISLADE v.
To unlade. [Obs.] Heywood.
DISLEAL a.
Disloyal; perfidious. [Obs.] "Disleal knight." Spenser.
DISLEAVE v.
To deprive of leaves. [R.] The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.
DISLIKE v. 4 definitions
To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson.
DISLIKEFUL a.
Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. [Obs.] Spenser.
DISLIKELIHOOD n.
The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.
DISLIKEN v.
To make unlike; to disguise. [Obs.] Shak.
DISLIKENESS n.
Unlikeness. [R.] Locke.
DISLIKER n.
One who dislikes or disrelishes.
DISLIMB v.
To tear limb from limb; to dismember. [Obs.] Bailey.
DISLIMN v.
To efface, as a picture. [Obs.] Shak.
DISLINK v.
To unlink; to disunite; to separate. [R.] Tennyson.
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