Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DIS-UN-ION-IST – DITCH
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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.]
- Cessation of use, practice or exercise; as, the limbs lose their strength and pliability by disuse; language is altered by the disuse of words.
- Cessation of custom; desuetude.
DIS-USE', v.t. [disyu'ze; dis and use.]
- To cease to use; to neglect or omit to practice.
- To disaccustom; with from, in or to; as, disused to toils; disused from pain.
DIS-US-ED, pp. [disyu'zed.]
- No longer used; obsolete, as words, &c. Priam in arms disused. – Dryden.
- 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.]
- 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.
- Any long, hollow receptacle of water.