Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-UN-ION-IST, n.

An advocate of disunion.

DIS-U-NITE', v.i.

To part; to fall asunder; to become separate. Particles of matter may spontaneously disunite.

DIS-U-NITE', v.t. [disyuni'te; dis and unite.]

To separate; to disjoin; to part; as, to disunite two allied countries; to disunite particles of matter; to disunite friends.

DIS-U-NIT'ED, pp.

Separated; disjoined.

DIS-U-NIT'ER, n.

He or that which disjoins.

DIS-U-NIT'ING, ppr.

Separating; parting.

DIS-U'NI-TY, n. [disyu'nity.]

A state of separation. – More.

DIS-U'SAGE, n. [disyu'zage; dis and usage.]

Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use, exercise or practice. We lose words by disusage.

DIS-USE', n. [disyu'ze; dis and use.]

1. Cessation of use, practice or exercise; as, the limbs lose their strength and pliability by disuse; language is altered by the disuse of words.
2. Cessation of custom; desuetude.

DIS-USE', v.t. [disyu'ze; dis and use.]

1. To cease to use; to neglect or omit to practice.
2. To disaccustom; with from, in or to; as, disused to toils; disused from pain.

DIS-US-ED, pp. [disyu'zed.]

1. No longer used; obsolete, as words, &c. Priam in arms disused. – Dryden.
2. Disaccustomed.

DIS-US-ING, ppr. [disyu'zing.]

Ceasing to use; disaccustoming.

DIS-VAL-U-A'TION, n. [See Disvalue.]

Disesteem; disreputation.

DIS-VAL'UE, n.

Disesteem; disregard. – B. Jonson.

DIS-VAL'UE, v.t. [dis and value.]

To undervalue; to disesteem. Shak.

DIS-VEL'OP, v.t.

To develop. [Not used.]

DIS-VOUCH', v.t. [dis and vouch.]

To discredit; to contradict. – Shak.

DIS-WARN', v.t. [dis and warn.]

To direct by previous notice. [Not used.]

DIS-WIT'TED, a.

Deprived of wits or understanding. – Drayton.

DIS-WONT', v.t. [dis and wont.]

To wean; to deprive of wonted usage. – Bp. Hall.

DIS-WOR'SHIP, n. [dis and worship.]

Cause of disgrace. – Barret.

DIT, n.

A ditty. [Not used.] – Spenser.

DIT, v.t. [Sax. dyttan.]

To close up. [Not used.] – More.

DI-TA'TION, n. [L. ditatus.]

The act of making rich. [Not used.] – Bp. Hall.

DITCH, n. [Sax. dic, a ditch; D. dyk, a dike; G. deich, a dike; deicher, a ditcher; D. dige, a ditch, a dike; Sw. dike; Fr. digue; Eth. ደሐየ dachi, to dig. Class Dg, No. 14. The primary sense is a digging or place dug. After the practice of embanking commenced, the word was used for the bank made by digging, the dike.]

1. A trench in the earth made by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, or for making a fence to guard inclosures, or for preventing an enemy from approaching a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also called a foss or moat, and is dug round the rampart or wall between the scarp and counterscarp. – Encyc.
2. Any long, hollow receptacle of water.