Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-JU-DI-CA'TION, n. [L. dijudicatio.]

Judgment; determination. [Not used.] – Boyle.

DIS-JUNCT', a. [L. disjunctus, disjungo; dis and jungo, to join.]

Disjoined; separated.

DIS-JUNC'TION, n. [L. disjunctio.]

The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.

DIS-JUNC'TIVE, a.

1. Separating; disjoining.
2. Incapable of union. [Unusual.] – Grew.
3. In grammar, a disjunctive conjunction or connective, is a word which unites sentences or the parts of discourse in construction, but disjoins the sense, noting an alternative or opposition; as, I love him, or I fear him; I neither love him, nor fear him.
4. In logic, a disjunctive proposition, is one in which the parts are opposed to each other, by means of disjunctives; as, it is either day or night. A disjunctive syllogism, is when the major proposition is disjunctive; the earth moves in a circle, or an ellipse; but it does not move in a circle, therefore it moves in an ellipsis. – Watts.

DIS-JUNC'TIVE, n.

A word that disjoins, as or, nor, neither.

DIS-JUNC'TIVE-LY, adv.

In a disjunctive manner; separately.

DISK, n. [L. discus. See Dish and Desk.]

1. The body and face of the sun, moon, or a planet, as it appears to us on the earth; or the body and face of the earth as it appears to a spectator in the moon. – Newton. Dryden.
2. A quoit; a piece of stone, iron or copper, inclining to an oval figure, which the ancients hurled by the help of a leathern thong tied round the person's hand, and put through a hole in the middle. Some whirl the disk and some the jav'lin dart. – Pope.
3. In botany, the whole surface of a leaf; the central part of a radiate compound flower. – Martyn. Certain bodies or projections situated between the base of the stamens and the base of the ovary, but forming part with neither. – Lindley.

DIS-KIND'NESS, n. [dis and kindness.]

1. Want of kindness; unkindness; want of affection.
2. Ill turn; injury; detriment. – Woodward.

DIS-LIKE', n. [dis and like.]

1. Disapprobation; disinclination; displeasure; aversion; a moderate degree of hatred. A man shows his dislike to measures which he disapproves, to a proposal which he is disinclined to accept, and to food which he does not relish. All wise and good men manifest their dislike to folly.
2. Discord; disagreement. [Not in use.] – Fairfax.

DIS-LIKE', v.t.

1. To disapprove; to regard with some aversion or displeasure. We dislike proceedings which we deem wrong; we dislike persons of evil habits; we dislike whatever gives us pain.
2. To disrelish; to regard with some disgust; as, to dislike particular kinds of food.

DIS-LIK'ED, pp.

Disapproved; disrelished.

DIS-LIKE'FUL, a.

Disliking; disaffected. [Not used.] – Spenser.

DIS-LIK'EN, v.t.

To make unlike. – Shak.

DIS-LIK'EN-ED, pp.

Made unlike.

DIS-LIKE'NESS, n. [dis and likeness.]

Unlikeness; want of resemblance; dissimilitude. – Locke.

DIS-LIK'ER, n.

One who disapproves, or disrelishes.

DIS-LIK'ING, ppr.

Disapproving; disrelishing.

DIS-LIMB', v.t. [dislim'.]

To tear the limbs from. – Dict.

DIS-LIMB'ED, pp.

Torn limb from limb.

DIS-LIMN', v.t. [dislim'.]

To strike out of a picture. [Not in use.] – Shak.

DIS'LO-CATE, a.

Dislocated. – Montgomery.

DIS'LO-CATE, v.t. [dis and locate; L. locus, place; Fr. disloquer; It. dislocare.]

To displace; to put out of its proper place; particularly, to put out of joint; to disjoint; to move a bone from its socket, cavity, or place of articulation.

DIS'LO-CA-TED, pp.

Removed from its proper place; put out of joint.

DIS'LO-CA-TING, ppr.

Putting out of its proper place, or out of joint.

DIS-LO-CA'TION, n.

1. The act of moving from its proper place; particularly, the act of removing or forcing a bone from its socket; luxation. – Encyc.
2. The state of being displaced. – Burnet.
3. A joint displaced.
4. In geology, the displacement of parts of rocks, or portions of strata, from the situations which they originally occupied. – Cyc.