DIS 
Madeira, as well as of the Levant. 
ground, or are pendent from rocks and ftones in an elegant 
manner, clothed with alternate, ftalked, kidney-fhaped, cre- 
nate, downy /eaves, and altogether refembling the fhoots of 
ground ivy. Flower-/laiks creat ie aaa fingle-flowered, 
downy. Blofoms yellow. This pla now become common 
in green-houfes, where it a i advantage, as Curtis 
remarks, if placed on a pedettal, fo that its branches may 
It is eafily propagated by cuttings, 
The fems trail on the 
bloffoming throughout the fummer, and indeed whenever 
the weather is favourable for ny vegetatio 
Shaw’s Chry/o/plenii feliis planta aquatica, aie flavo, penta- 
etalo, Spec. Phyt. Afr. f. 149, on which Linnzus founded 
his Sibtborpia Mec Sp. Pi. 880, appears to be this very 
plant, not even a variety, except fo far as the bad drawing of 
his figure ees it unlike nature. 
DISAPPOINTMENT, in Geography, 
a bay on the 
N. W. coaft of North America. N. lat. 52° g 
15’, W. long. 
DissrrointMenT Jfland, an ifland in the South fea, fo 
called by the Miffionary voyagers in 1797, being one of the 
clufter called by them « Duff’s Group 3” they are ene 
11 in number, lying in a direction S. E. and 
15 miles: in the middle are two larger iflands about fix ne 
in circumference. On the N. W. fide of the group are five 
or fix more, fome of which are high 5 ; and at the eaft end of 
one of them is a remarkable rock in form ofan obelifk. The 
appearance of great fertility. The — feemed to be ftout 
well made, with copper-coloured complexions: their 
houfes were buile clofe to each other, can not dif aa ] in 
other places: a horde of their dwellings was a ee e 
S.W. fide so gt ifland ; in S, lat 9° 57". E. ed 
167°. oyages P 
onde x a clufter of iflands in Oe 
South Pace ocean, ae eee commodore Byro 
1765, becaufe he found it impo e to procure at thein an 
refrefhment for his fick cre he middle of this clufter 
ies in 14° 10! ong. 144° 52’. The varia- 
tion of the compa{s was here. 4° 
DIS n the Maneyge. To ‘difarm the lips of a 
aca is to keep them fubject, and out from above the bars, 
n they are fo large as to cover them, and prevent the 
rie lee or appui of the mouth, by bearing up the bit, 
and fo rendering the horfe to feel the effects of it upon the 
bars 
Disarm. To difarm a regiment is generally confidered 
asa difgrace, and ufuall as war its being difembodied ; 
becaufe, when the arms are only laid by for a while, they are 
faid to be depofited ; and when they are turned over to an- 
other corps, they are always fuppofed to be exchanged by the 
fupply of new ones. We rarely hear of a regiment being 
difarmed, except where mutiny has taken place, or that dif- 
obedience is expected. In fuch cafe the utmoft precaution 
fhould neceffartly be taken; it being extremely difficult to 
induce foldiers to furrender their weapons ; more particularly 
efficacious as dividing them into mall parties, and difarming 
them in detail. 
When armies, or bodies of fufficient force to entitle them 
to deference, are compelled to furrender, it is generally con- 
tended by them, that their arms, artillery, and baggage 
fhould be allowed them, This admits of various modifica- 
DIS 
In fom 
tions. 
ove from, and 
e 
varieties ; it being fometimes a condition that the officers 
fhall retain their fide arms; in others, that they fhall re- 
em until embarked only, fo as to fave appearances. 
Axccord the modern mode of warfare, we ordinaq- 
rily find but little ceremony ufed; for the moft part t 
whole furrendering as prifoners of war, ard all delivering 
up their arms without refervation. t is, owever 
and no ee ia to grant 
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court ceremonies ; but fince our 
enemies have laid afide all feeling, generofity, and huma-. 
hity, it has become indifpenfably neceffary for our generals 
to difarm their prifoners, and to 
granting any indulgence, or honourable type, 
who are infenfible to the dignity a pride of the military 
profeffion. 
On the conclufion of a peace, it is ufual for both fides to 
difarm. We have divers laws for difarming papifts, and all 
recufants. Under king George I. a law was made for 
difarming the Highlanders; none of whom, except peers, 
or gentlemen of 400/. per ann: are to wear any arms in the 
field, on the road, or at market. 1° Geo. I. ftat. 2. 
cap. 5 
The game law has, in effe&t, difarmed all the common 
people oF England, haying under /. a year in landed 
d to bear arms, See 
DISARRHENUM, in “Botany, (From dis, double, and 
appny, a male, becaufe of the 
e gives a plate 
; "Cl lafs and ae i Mase. 
(rather Triandria ess Nat 
Eff. Ch. Cal. Glame of two ne counimine three 
florets, the central one pcraepiiclne the two lateral ones _ 
le. The former 
3 
7] 
awns ; three ftamens; two ftyles; one feed: the latter have 
the outer valve of the een awned ; 3 and three flamens. 
: athom and more 
reer be ts bo 
tire he fervice ; in contradiftinGtion to reducing a bate 
fabon = dngehine the men into other batons 5. ” ena 
Orps 
