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Having two wings, as certain insects; belonging to the order Diptera.

Having two dorsal fins; -- said of certain fishes.

A noun which has only two cases. Andrews.

Anything consisting of two leaves. Especially:

Containing two stones or nutlets.

re f, and either dis- or di- before j. It is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See Two, and cf. Bi-, Di-, Dia-. Dis- denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissev…

tual corporation. The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone.

To debate; to discuss. [R.] One dissertates, he is candid; Two must discept, -- has distinguished. R. Browning.

t for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.

To divide; to cleave in two. [Obs.] Spenser.

of youth and age, men and women. Sir T. Elyot. There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies. G. S. Faber.

An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason.

A selenide containing two atoms of selenium in each molecule.

rms or spells; to free from fascination or delusion. Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove. Dryden.

Having two sepals; two-sepaled.

." Moore (Encyc. of Music). Disjunctive conjunction (Gram.), one connecting grammatically two words or clauses, expressing at the same time an opposition or separation inherent in the notions or thoughts; as, either, or, neither, nor, but, although, except, lest, etc. -- Disjunctive proposition, one in which the parts…

To separate (a pair). [R.] I have . . . dispaired two doves. Beau. & Fl.

Pertaining to two coördinate species or divisions.

Containing only two seeds; two-seeded.

ws are dispersed among all nations. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of beeves disperse. Cowper.