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A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.

Releasing from obligation. "Disobligatory power." Charles I.

A distributer; a dispenser. Bacon.

In the way of dispensation; dispensatively.

Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations. "Dispensatory power." Bp. Rainbow.

A disposer.

Disquisitory.

Of or pertaining to disquisition; disquisitive. Ed. Rev.

Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing. To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as difficult for the Convention. A. Hamilton. -- Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness, n.…

One who dissects; an anatomist.

One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease.

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses. Boyle.

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.

Distorted; misshapen. [Obs.] Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. Spenser.

One who, or that which, distorts.

The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.

Causing distortion.

for distributing an electric current, either to various points in rotation, as in some motors, or along two or more lines in parallel, as in a distributing system.

One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.