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e of ordnance. On account of the dispart, the line of aim or line of metal, which is in a plane passing through the axis of the gun, always makes a small angle with the axis. Eng. Cys.

To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants. I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl.

ction or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.

The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. [Obs.] Crabb.

separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.

The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.

Capable of being scattered or dissipated. [R.] The heat of those plants is very dissipable. Bacon.

to the next admission. Geographical distribution, the natural arrangements of animals and plants in particular regions or districts.

A plant of the Mint family (Origanum Dictamnus), a native of Crete.

h's diurnal motion. -- Diurnal parallax. See under Parallax. -- Diurnal revolution of a planet, the motion of the planet upon its own axis which constitutes one complete revolution.

pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes (Geol.), planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.

To succeed; to avail; to answer the purpose; to serve; as, if no better plan can be found, he will make this do. You would do well to prefer a bill against all kings and parliaments since the Conquest; and if that won't do; challenge the crown. Collier. To do by. See under By. -- To do for. (a) To answer for; to serve…

A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.

lendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly. On the docket, in hand; in the plan; under consideration; in process of execution or performance. [Colloq.]

A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root. is nourished by the plant that supports it.

A Linnæan order of plants having twelve styles.

A Linnæan class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.

A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.

To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.