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to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.

Capable of being displaced.

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell.

Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One that displaces.

A charge of phase whereby an alternating current attains its maximum later or earlier. An inductance would cause a lag, a capacity would cause an advance, in phase.

A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself. T. G. Thomas.

A displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual.

To displace by anteversion.

t of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thousand to fifteen thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.

the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced. Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. Eng. Cyc.

em a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state. -- To burn a bowl (Game of Bowls), to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned. -- To burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. Shak. -- To burn one's fingers, to get one's self i…

To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.

t of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.

To put out of place or service; to discharge; to displace. [Obs.] Bacon.

To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the ar…

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. T. Burnet.

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.

The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.

To eject from a post; to displace. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).