DISDIACLASTIC CRYSTAL, in natural history, a name given by Bartholine and some others to the pellucid fossil substance, more usually called, from the place whence it was first brought, Iceland crystal; though properly it is no crystal at all, but a fine pellucid spar, called by Dr. Hill from its shape parallelopipedum.

DISEASE v. a. & n. s. )

Dis and ease. To

DISEAS EDNESS, n. s. Safflict with illness, to torment with pain or sorrow; to make morbid; infect as a substantive, the malady, sickness, &c., endured.

In the world ghe schuler haue disese, but triste ghe, Wiclif. Jon xvi.

I haue ouercome the world.

And Asa, in the thirty and ninth year of his reign, was diseased in his feet, and his disease was exceeding great; and in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

Chron.

Full of diseases was his carcas blew,
And a dry dropsie through his flesh did flow,
Which by misdiet daily greater grew.
Spenser. Faerie Queene,
We are all diseased,

And with our surfeiting and wanton hours
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever.
Shakspeare.

Food improperly taken, not only produces original diseases, but affords those that are already engendered both matter and sustenance; so that, let the father of disease be what it may, intemperance is certainly its mother. Burton.

A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid
Numbers of all diseased, all maladies
Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture.

Authority is a disease and cure,

Milton.

Which men can neither want nor well endure.

sult physicians, when they were sick, imputed their diseases generally to evil spirits, the executioners of divine vengeance.

DISEASES OF DOGS. See DOG and HYDROPHOBIA.

DISEASES OF HORSES. SEE FARRIERY. DISEDG'ED, adj. Dis and edge. Blunted; obtunded; dulled

I grieve myself

To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her
Whom now thou tirest on, how thy memory
Will then be panged by me.

Shakspeare. Cymbeline.
Dis and em-

DISEMBARK', v. a. & v. n.
bark. To carry to land; to go on land.
I must unto the road, to disembark
Some necessaries.

Shakspeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona.
There disembarking on the green sea-side,
We land our cattle, and the spoil divide.

DISEMBITTER, v. a.

Pope's Odyssey. Dis and embitter.

To sweeten; to free from bitterness; to clear from acrimony: an unusual word.

Encourage such innocent amusements as may disembitter the minds of men, and make them mutually rejoice in the same agreeable satisfactions.

Addison's Freeholder. DISEMBODIED, adj. Dis and embodied. Divested of the body; discharged from military service.

Disembodied spirits are generally creatures of the imagination, and of old wondering wit. Thomas. DISEMBOGUE', v. a. & v. n. Old Fr. disemboucher.-Skinner. To pour out at the mouth or a river; to vent: to gain vent; flow.

So her disembowelled web

Arachne in a hall or kitchen spreads, Obvious to vagrant flies. DISEMBROIL', v. a. Fr. debrouiller.

Philips.

To

having given a definition of disease, differing in some respects from his predecessors. See MEDICINE and NOSOLOGY. Of all animals, man is subject to the most diseases; and of men, the studious and speculative are most exposed to them. Other animals have their diseases; but they are in small number, because they live more according to nature: nor are plants without them; though their known maladies are few. The ancient Hebrews, who were versed in the study of natural philosophy, and not much accustomed to recur to physical causes, and con

from confusion.

The senate have cast you forth
Disgracefully, to be the common tale
Of the whole city.
Ben Jonson's Catiline.

Masters must correct their servants with gentleness, prudence, and mercy; not with upbraiding and disgraceful language, but with such only as may express and reprove the fault, and amend the person.

Taylor's Rule of Living Holy.

And he whose affluence disdained a place, Bribed by a title, makes it a disgrace. Browne. To such bondage he was for so many courses tied by her, whose disgraces to him were gfaced by her excellence. Sidney.

And is it not a foul disgrace,

To lose the boltsprit of thy face? Baynard. Men's passions will carry them far in misrepresenting an opinion which they have a mind to disgrace. Burnet.

I have given good advice to those infamous disgracers of the sex and calling. Swift.

To retire behind their chariots, was as little disgraceful then, as it is now to alight from one's horse in a battle. Pope. kind heaven, to find some happier place,

Grant me,

So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compared with idos, Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn.

To

Milton.

DISGUISE', v. a. & n. s.` Fr. deguiser;

DISGUISER, n. s.

DISGUISEMENT.

Dr. Johnson's Poems.

dis and guise. To Sconceal by an un

usual guise, or dress: the dress worn in disguise. disguiser, he who wears it.

DISH, n. s. & v. a. DISH-CLOUT, n. s. DI'SHING, part. adj.

DISH-WASHER.

Saxon, disch; Goth. disk; Erse. dysc; Wel. (dysgel; Tent. tisch, from Gr. dokog; Lat. discus, (à

Suko, to hurl) a round plate of iron, or other metal, hurled in the games. See DISCUS. A broad vessel used for setting food on a table, or to contain liquids: hence the food contained in a dish, and a measure of quantity; and, as a verb, to place in a dish, or dishes; to serve up. Dishclout, the useful cloth for cleaning dishes. Dishing, of a hollow, dish-like shape. Dish-washer, the name of a bird; mergus.

And sche bifore warnid of hir modir seide give thou to me heere the head of Jon Baptist in a dische. Wiclif. Matt. 14.

The earth's face is but a table; there are set Plants, cattle, men, dishes, for death to eat."

Donne.

Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.

For conspiracy,

Shakspeare.

I know not how it tastes, though it be dished
For me to try.

Id. A dish-clout of Jaquenetta's he wears next his heart for a favor. Id. They measure block-tin by the dish, which containeth a gallon. Carew.

Who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish; Or do his grey hairs any violence? Milton. Many people would, with reason, prefer the griping of an hungry belly, to those dishes which are a feast to others.

A ladle for our silver dish,

Locke.

More than another, that a pheasant is. Suckling. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas, would give bread to a whole family during six months. Hume.

Suppose the ancient luxury of a dish of peacocks' brains were to be revived, how many carcasses would that is made about people who are ruined by extravabe left to the poor at a cheap rate! and as to the rout gance, it is no matter to the nation tha some individuals suffer. Johnson.

DISHABILLE', n. s. & adj. Fr. deshabillé. Undress; loose, or negligently dressed. Queens are not to be too negligently dressed or dishabille. Dryden's Dufresnoy.

A woman, who would preserve a lover's respect to her person, will be careful of her appearance before him when in dishabille. Clarissa.

DISHABIT, v. a. To throw out of place; to drive from their habitation.

But for our approach those sleeping stones By the compulsion of their ordinance,

Dis. and honest.

DISHONEST, adj. Į DISHONESTLY, adv. Void of probity: void of faith; faithless; wicked; fraudulent.

A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband; but she that liveth dishonestly is her father's heaviness. Ecc. xxii. 4.

Mrs. Ford, the honest woman, the modest wife, the virtuous creature, that hath the jealous fool to her husband! I suspect without cause, mistress, do I?— Heaven be my witness you do, if you suspect me in any dishonesty. Shakspeare.

I protest he had the chain of me,
Tho' most dishonestly he doth deny it.

Id.

Their fortune depends upon their credit, and a stain of open public dishenesty must be to their disadvantage. Swift.

Pope.

She saw her sons with purple death expire, Her sacred domes involved in rolling fire; A dreadful series of intestine wars, Inglorius triumphs, and dishonest scars. DISHONOR, v. a. & n. s. Į Dis and hoDISHON'ORER. Snor. To disgrace; to bring shame upon; to blast with infamy: a dishonorer is he who treats another with indignity.

He that is honoured in poverty, how much more in riches and he that is dishonourable in riches, how much more in poverty! Ecclus. x. 31.

Let not my jealousies be your dishonours, But mine own safeties. Shakspeare. Mucbeth. It is no vicious blot, murther, or foulness, No unchaste action, or dishonoured step, That hath deprived me of your grace and favour.

Preaching how meritorious with the gods It would be, to ensnare an irreligious Dishonourer of Dagon.

Id.

Milton.

It is a mighty shame and dishonour to employ excellent faculties and abundance of wit, to humour and to please men in their vices and follies.

Sir. R. Blackmore. But what is most dishonourable of all is, for a man at once to discover a great genius and an ungoverned mind. Mason.

DOGE. Would'st thou repeat them? Would'st thou repeat them-thou, a Faliero, Harp on the deep dishonour of our house, Dishonoured in its chief-that chief the prince Of Venice, first of cities? To the sentence.

We'll dishorn the spirit,
And mock him home to Windsor.

Shakspeare. DISHU'MOR, n. s. Dis and humor. Peevishness; ill humor; uneasy state of mind. Speaking impatiently to servants, or any thing that betrays inattention or dishumour, are also criminal. Spectator.