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lace; 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.

Having two spores.

arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.

To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster.

Not They came in two and two, though matched in the most dissociable manner. Spectator.

Consisting of two syllabas, a dissyllabic foot in poetry. B. Jons

To form into two syllables. Ogilvie.

To form into two syllables; to dyssyllabify.

A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.

The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place. Every particle attracts every other with a force . . . inversely proportioned to the square of the distance. Sir I. Newton.

Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak.

Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite.

A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.

Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.

not conjunct; not united by growth or otherwise; -- with from. The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct. Clarendon.

A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke,

jective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two). Distributive operation (Math.), any operation which either consists of two or more parts, or works upon two or more things, and which is such that the result of the total operation is the same as the aggregated result…

ng 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.

Having two columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or the like. Distyle in antis, having columns between two antæ. See Anta.