Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS'TRICT-ED, pp.

Divided into districts or definite portions.

DIS'TRICT-ING, ppr.

Dividing into limited or definite portions.

DIS-TRIC'TION, n.

Sudden display. [Unusual.] – Collier.

DIS'TRICT-JUDGE, n.

The judge of a district-court. – United States.

DIS'TRICT-SCHOOL, n.

A school within a certain district of a town. – New England, &c.

DIS-TRIN'GAS, n.

In law, a writ commanding the sherif to distrain a person for debt, or for his appearance at a certain day.

DIS-TRUST', n.

1. Doubt or suspicion of reality or sincerity; want of confidence, faith or reliance. Sycophants should be heard with distrust. Distrust mars the pleasures of friendship and social intercourse.
2. Discredit; loss of confidence. – Milton.

DIS-TRUST', v.t. [dis and trust. The Danes have miströster; the Swedes, misströsta. See Mistrust.]

1. To doubt or suspect the truth, fidelity, firmness or sincerity of; not to confide in or rely on. We distrust a man, when we question his veracity, &c. We may often distrust our own firmness.
2. To doubt; to suspect not to be real, true, sincere or firm. We distrust a man's courage, friendship, veracity, declarations, intentions or promises, when we question their reality or sincerity. We can not distrust the declarations of God. We often have reason to distrust our own resolutions.

DIS-TRUST'ED, pp.

Doubted; suspected.

DIS-TRUST'FUL, a.

1. Apt to distrust; suspicious. – Boyle.
2. Not confident; diffident; as, distrustful of ourselves.
3. Diffident; modest. – Pope.

DIS-TRUST'FUL-LY, adv.

In a distrustful manner; with doubt or suspicion. – Milton.

DIS-TRUST'FUL-NESS, n.

The state of being distrustful; want of confidence.

DIS-TRUST'ING, ppr.

Doubting the reality or sincerity of; suspecting; not relying on or confiding in.

DIS-TRUST'ING-LY, adv.

Suspiciously; with distrust.

DIS-TRUST'LESS, a.

Free from distrust or suspicion. – Shenstone.

DIS-TUNE', v.t.

To put out of tune. [Not used.] – Wotton.

DIS-TURB', n.

Confusion; disorder. [Not used.] – Milton.

DIS-TURB', v.t. [Sp. disturbar; It. disturbare; L. disturbo; dis and turbo, to trouble, disorder, discompose; turba, a crowd, a tumult; Gr. τυρβη or συρβη, a tumult; θορυβος, id. The primary sense seems to be to stir, or to turn or whirl round. The word trouble is probably from the L. turbo, by transposition. If tr are the primary elements, as I suppose, the word coincides in origin with tour and turn. If t is a prefix, the word belongs to Class Rb, coinciding with the Swedish rubba, to remove, to trouble. See Class Rb, No. 3, 4, 34, and Class Dr, No. 3, 25, 27.]

1. To stir; to move; to discompose; to excite from a state of rest or tranquility. We say, the man is asleep, do not disturb him. Let the vessel stand, do not move the liquor, you will disturb the sediment. Disturb not the public peace.
2. To move or agitate; to disquiet; to excite uneasiness or a slight degree of anger in the mind; to move the passions; to ruffle. The mind may be disturbed by an offense given, by misfortune, surprise, contention, discord, jealousy, envy, &c.
3. To move from any regular course or operation; to interrupt regular order; to make irregular. It has been supposed that the approach of a comet may disturb the motions of the planets in their orbits. An unexpected cause may disturb a chimical operation, or the operation of medicine.
4. To interrupt; to hinder; to incommode. Care disturbs study. Let no person disturb my franchise.
5. To turn off from any direction; with from. [Unusual.] And disturb / His inmost counsels from their destin'd aim. – Milton.

DIS-TURB'ANCE, n.

1. A stirring or excitement; any disquiet or interruption of peace; as, to enter the church without making disturbance.
2. Interruption of a settled state of things; disorder; tumult. We have read much at times of disturbances in Spain, England and Ireland.
3. Emotion of the mind; agitation; excitement of passion; perturbation. The merchant received the news of his losses without apparent disturbance.
4. Disorder of thoughts; confusion. They can survey a variety of complicated ideas, without fatigue or disturbance. – Watts.
5. In law, the hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, of tenure, of patronage. – Blackstone.

DIS-TURB'ED, pp.

Stirred; moved; excited; discomposed; disquieted; agitated; uneasy.

DIS-TURB'ER, n.

1. One who disturbs or disquiets; a violater of peace; one who causes tumults or disorders.
2. He or that which excites passion or agitation; he or that which causes perturbation. – Shak.
3. In law, one that interrupts or incommodes another in the peaceable enjoyment of his right.

DIS-TURB'ING, ppr.

Moving; exciting; rendering uneasy; making a tumult; interrupting peace; incommoding the quiet enjoyment of.

DIS-TURN', v.t. [dis and turn.]

To turn aside. [Not in use.] – Daniel.

DIS-U'NI-FORM, a. [disyu'niform.]

Not uniform. [Not in use.] – Coventry.

DIS-U'NION, n. [disyu'nion; dis and union.]

Separation; disjunction; or a state of not being united. It sometimes denotes a breach of concord, and its effect, contention.