DIS 
had its own earls, when the knights of the paneer order 
invaded and conquered Pruffia. Dirfchau is 15 miles S. of 
Dantzic, and fince the peace of Tiifit forms a part of its 
dominions. 
DIRSCHKEIM, a ey town of Pruffia, in German 
Samland, in the as sai f Fifchhaufen. 
DI RT- BOA Can al-making, &e. fignifies a Float, 
or flat-bottomed Boat generally with {quare een and very 
wallow, ufed u canal for moving earth or other mate- 
. Nials for the repair bor the banks, &c. See 
A, GiROLAmo, in Biography, organitt of the ca- 
thedral at Chioggia in 1615, publifhed in Italian at Venice, 
in fol. a book on mufic, entitled, « T} Tranfilvartio,” in dias 
canoe up and down. t 
alternately, without other intention than to exercife 
the fingers in the moft obvious and vulgar divifions then in 
ufe. 
DIS, an infeparable ‘aghie eae to divers words ; the 
effect whereof | is, either to them a ? 
ry to what the fim ory 
eh Hie oh &c. or : caetes a ce 
ment, diftribution, pon as 
tracting, difpofing, 
DISA, in Botany, a. name contrived by Bergius, poflibly 
from Avs, Fupiter, to exprefs a female divinity, in allufion 
to the magnificence and beauty of the flower, exceeding 
moft of its tribe, and to preferve an analogy with see 
ration, deta 
in difcerning, difcouriing, We 
Berg. Cap. 3 . t. 4. . Linn. aon 59. Schr reb. oon 
Wilid, Sp. Pl. Teh wartz. Orchi ede te Le 
B. Clafs sa order, Gynandria Monandria. Nat. rd. 
h: Cal. perianth of 3 leaves, Jina reverfed ; 
the Aes foremoft nearly upright; the back on 
the ufual reverfe pofture o fl 
men inferior, oblon hore s 3 ae 
in ae near the bafe of the iby le, pines 5 Saher obicng, 
of two cells, parallel to the ftyle, and conneéted with it 
iauwie. ercét or incumbent, bent back with the petals 
towards the f{purred leaf of the calyx; pollen in two club- 
fhaped glutinous maffes, with a glandular bafe.  Peric. 
Capfule oblong or obovate, triangular, of three valves and 
one cell, buriting at each angle, the top and bottom re- 
maining entire. Seeds 
with a membranous tunic. 
Ch, Calyx fpreading, moftly reverfed; one leaf 
{purred behind. Petals attached to the ftyle. Lip without 
Avather parallel to the fly 
Swartz enumerates 28 [pecies oo Difa. all natives of the 
Cane of Good Hope, of w hich the frit D. grandiflora, (D 
uniflora of Bergius, as aes the genus,) is one of tne 
finett of this natural or ts 
veined. he mafics of piles are larger and more ftrikia 
than in any other of the Orchidee. Orchis draconis, biffora, 
fexuofa, aie fagittalis, barbata, tripetaloides, Jpatulata, ‘s 
valvata and patens of Linnzus, are ail removed by Swar 
numerous, minute, roundifh, each men 
DIS 
to this genus, as well as his f/tcornis, which feems to ug 
{carcely diftin& frem the laft 
DISABILITY, ia Lies is when a man is made isca- 
pable to inherit lands, or take any benefit, which othcrwife 
he might do, which may happen four ways; viz. by the 
adi of the anceftor; by cae act of the a ; by the a& of 
law ; and y the aé& of 
IsABILITY dy the a of te anceftor, 18 hee the man Is 
attainted of tata or felon y which attainder his blco 
is corrupted, and thereby himfelf and l:is children are difabled 
to in lie 
Disapiuity by the ad hee aes himfelf, is where a man 
binds himfelf by eae eke the furrerder of a 
leafe, he will grant a n= are e k flee ; and afterwards 
he grants the reer to pees which puts it out of his 
power to per 
Deas cee y ve aff of the law, is when a man, 
fole aét of law, without any thing by him done, is ren= 
dered incapable of the benefit of the law: as, an alien born ; 
fo that if a man born ovt of the king’s liegeance, will fue an 
aétion, the tenanz, or defendant, may fay, he was born in fuch 
a country out of the king’s liegeance, and demand judg- 
ment, if he fhall be anfwered : for the law is our birth-right, 
to which an alien is a ranger, and therefore difab!ed from 
by. 
by the 
in all cafes ‘eh 
infancy, and covertu r makin g 
y ftatute, as Papifts are difabled for making any pre 
fe hia &c. and officers not taking the oaths 
for holding o 
Disaninrre ofthe plaintif. ples to. See Ditarory Pleas. 
DISABL n Sea Language, is applied to a fhip, when 
by the lofs 7 fe eats, yards, or rigging, or other damage, 
fhe is rendered incapabl e = profecuting her voyage, without 
great difficulty and dan; 
SABLING a man’s eae or members, in Law. 
YHEM. 
DISAFFORESTED. See DearroresrTep. 
DISANDRA, in Botany, (of obfe ure etymology, unlefs 
Linnaeus meant Dyfandra, trom ou; and aynp; alluding to the 
great uncertainty in the anmper of its Ramens, and the cone 
fequent difficulty of referring it to any of his claffes, which 
induced him to place it in ra eptandria, where it might moft 
eafily be feen ; as was the cafe likewife with Apsnogetons 
See 
Suppl. 33.) Lirn. S¢ Teg. a 13.290. Suppl. 32. 
Pape att Daly So. _ v. 2. 282, Mart. Mu. Did. 
2. Jui, las 8 and order Heptandria Monog ogynia. 
Nat rd. * Bohs slares, | 
h. Cal. ped, diviied half-way 
to an aes neatly ftraight, ie 
ents, permanent. Cor. o ase wheel-Shaped be 
very {hort ; in from five to eight deep, obuvate, equal 
Germen fuperior, 
ovate ; fyle thread-fhaped, ie length of the flamens 5 
itigma fimple. Peric. Capfule ovate, the length of the calyx, 
of two celis. Sveds rumetous, ovate. 
Eff. Cy. Calyx in about feven divifions. Corolla wheel- 
fhaped, with about feven a one Capiule fuperior, 
of two cells, with many fer 
D. frofirata, Curt. Mag ne A 218, (Sibthorp'a pere- 
gtina; Linn. Sp. Pi, 880, i . the shy ipecies, a native of 
Madeira 
