disjointed 
A young author is apt to run into a confusion of mixed 
metaphors, which leave the sense disjointed. 
Goldsmith, .Metaphors. 
2. Out of joint; out of order or sorts; badly 
jointed together. 
Melancholy books, 
Which make you laugh that any one should weep, 
In this disjointed life, for one wrong more. 
Mr*. Browning, Aurora Leigh, 1. 
1668 
junct + -me. C. juncture. e ac o i- 
ing, or the state of being disjoined ; separation ; 
disjunction. 
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Bruises, disjunctures, or brokenness of bones. 
Goodwin, Works, II. iv. 347. 
disjointedly (dis-join't 
jointed or disconnected 
' 
'ted-li), adv. 
d manner. 
disjointedness (dis-join'ted-nes), . The state 
of being disjointed. 
disjoint lyt (dis-joint'li), adv. In a divided state. 
Soathu, 
disjudicationt (dis-jo-di-ka'shon), n. Same as 
dijudication. 
disjunct (dis-jungkf), a. [< L. disjunetus or 
dijunctus, pp. of disjungere, disjoin: see dis- 
join, and. disjoint, a.] 1. Disconnected; sepa- 
rated; distinct. Specifically 2. In entom., 
having the head, thorax, and abdomen separat- 
ed by a deep incision Disjunct modal, in logic, 
a modal proposition in which the sign of modality sepa- 
rates the dictum into two parts. See conjunct modal, un- 
der conjunct. Disjunct motion. See motion. Dis- 
junct proposition, a disjunctive proposition. 
So when I say, Tomorrow it will rain or it will not rain, 
this disjunct proposition is necessary, but the necessity 
lies upon the disjunction of the parts, not upon the parts 
themselves. Dr. 11. Hare, Immortal, of Soul, II. iii. 12. 
Disjunct species, in logic, different species considered 
as coining under one genns. Disjunct tetracliord. See 
tetrachord. 
. 
disjunction (dis-jungk'shon), n. [= OF. dis- 
disjune (dis-jon'), . [Also dejeune; < OF. des- 
In a dis- jure, desjeun, desjuiig, breakfast, < dexjuner, des- 
jeuuer, breakfast: see dejeune, dejeuner. Cf. 
'dine.] Breakfast. [Scotch.] 
disjungere, pp. disjunetus, disjoin : see disjoin, 
disjunct.'] 1. The act of disjoining, or the 
state of being disjoined ; separation ; division ; 
distinction. 
The disjunction of the body and the soul. South, .Sermons. 
All thought is a comparison, a recognition of similarity 
or difference ; a conjunction or disjunction . . . of its ob- 
jects. In Conception that is, in the forming of concepts 
(or general notions) it compares, disjoins, or conjoins at- 
tributes. Sir W. Hamilton, Logic, i. 
It is presupposed that there are "two kinds "of con- 
sciousness, one individual, the other universal. And the 
fact will be found to be, I imagine, that consciousness is 
the unity of the individual and the universal ; that there 
is no purely individual or purely universal. So the dis- 
junction made is meaningless. Mind, XLI. 17. 
Specifically 2. In logic, the relation between 
the members of a disjunctive proposition or 
term. 
One side or other of the following disjunction is true. 
Paley, Evidences, i. 3. 
disjunctive (dis-jungk'tiv), a. and . [= OF. 
disjomctif, F. disjonctif = Sp. disyuntivo = Pg. 
disjunctivo = It. disgiuntlvo, < LL. disjunctivus 
or dijunctivus, < L. disjunetus, pp. of disjungere, 
disjoin: see disjunct, disjoin.'] i. a. 1. Serving 
or tending to disjoin; separating; dividing; 
distinguishing: as, a disjunctive conjunction. 
2. Incapable of joining or uniting. [Bare.] 
Atoms . . . of that disjunctive nature as not to be united 
in a sufficient number to make a visible mass. Grew. 
3. Comprising or marked by a disjunction or 
separation of parts. 
Now, in the whole sphere of experience there is a certain 
unity, corresponding formally to the category of recipro- 
city, or disjunctive totality. Adamson, Philos. of Kant. 
4. In music, pertaining to disjunct tetraehords : 
as, a disjunctive interval. Disjunctive conjunc- 
tion, in gram., a word which joins, or brings into relation 
with each other, sentences or parts of a sentence disjoined 
in meaning that is, which express opposed or contrasted 
ideas : as, he is good but rough ; I neither love him nor fear 
him. Disjunctive equation, in math., a relation be- 
tween two sets of quantities such that each one of either 
set is equal to some unspecified one of the other set. 
Disjunctive judgment or inference. Same as alterna- 
tive judgment or inference (which see, under alternative). 
Disjunctive proposition, a proposition asserting one or 
other of two separately described states of things to be 
true : as, either you will give me your money, or I will 
take your life. Disjunctive syllogism, in logic, a syl- 
logism in which the major proposition is disjunctive : as, 
the earth moves in a circle or an ellipse; but it does not 
move in a circle, therefore it moves in an ellipse. 
IE. n. 1. In gram., a word that disjoins; a 
disjunctive conjunction, as or, nor, neither. 2. 
In logic, a disjunctive proposition. 
disjunctively (dis-jungk'tiv-li), adv. In a dis- 
junctive manner; by disjunction. 
disjunctpr (dis-jungk'tor),. [< tfL.*digjunctor, 
< L. disjungere, pp. disjunetus, disjoin : see dis- 
junct, disjoin.'] In gun., a device employed to 
cut simultaneously the electric currents which 
pass through the wire targets used for obtain- 
ing the velocity of a projectile Disjunctor 
reading, the small correction applied to the instrumental 
reading of any velocimeter to obtain the true reading. 
In the mornyng up scho gatt, 
And on hir hairt laid hir disjune. 
ITt^oMtfcAtframcMiMChild's Ballads, VIIL 118) ' 
Did I not tell you, Mysie, that it was my especial plea- 
sure on this occasion to have everything in the precise 
order wherein it was upon that famous morning win n nil 
most sacred Majesty partook of his di*june at T illietudlem ? 
Scott, Old Mortality, xi. 
disk, disc (disk), n. [< L. discus, < Gr. 6iams, 
a discus, disk, a dish, trencher: see discus, dish, 
desk, dais.] 1. Same as discus, 1. 
Some whirl the disk, and some the jav'lin dart. Pope. 
2. In the Gr. Ch., a paten. 3. Any flat, or ap- 
proximately or apparently flat, circular plate 
or surface. 
So through the Plymouth woods John Alden went on his 
errand, 
Came to an open space and saw the disk of the ocean. 
Longfellow, Miles Staudish, iii. 
The sun just dipping behind the western mountains, 
with a disk all golden. D. G. Mitchell, Wet Days. 
A cellar, in which I this very past summer planted sonic 
sunflowers to thrust their great disks out from the hollow 
and allure the bee and the humming-bird. 
Hawthorne, Septimius Felton, p. 4. 
Specifically 4. In 'hot. : (a) The flat surface 
of an organ, such as a leaf, in distinction from 
the margin. (6) Any flat, circular, discus- 
shaped growth, as the adhe- 
sive disks which form on the 
tendrils of the Virginia creep- 
er, (c) In the tubuliflorous 
Composite, the series of flow- 
ers having a tubular corolla, 
and forming the central por- 
tion or whole of the head, as 
distinct from a surrounding Daisy 
ligulate -flowered ray; also, disk! 
the central portion of any ra- 
diate inflorescence, (d) An enlargement of the 
torus of a flower about the pistil. This assumes 
many forms, and 
_ is usually glan- 
dular or nectarif- 
erous. It may be 
either free (hypo- 
gynous) or adnate 
to the calyx (peri- 
gynous), or when 
the ovary is in- 
ferior it may be 
upon its summit 
(epigynous). It 
may also be en- 
tire or variously 
lobed. (e) A name sometimes given to the bor- 
dered pits (otherwise called dots and discoid 
markings) which characterize 
the woody tissue of gymno- 
sperms, as the pine. (/) The 
hymenium of a discocarp ; the 
cup-like or otherwise expand- 
ed surface on which the asci 
are borne in Discomycetes. 
5. In zool. and anat., any 
flattened and rounded surface 
or part; a discus, specifically 
(a) In conch., the part of a bivalve 
shell between the margin and the 
umbo. (b) In ornith., either side of 
the face of an owl ; the set of fea- Disk-bearing Wood- 
thers, of peculiar shape or texture, c ?] ls , of thc Plne ' ma s- 
radiatiug from the eye as a center, n e ' . ... 
including the loral bristles and the tion of cefls- 1 * na crosfr 
auriculars or opercular feathers, and section of cells. ' 
the ruff which margins the whole, 
(c) I n entom. , the most elevated part of the thorax or elytra, 
seen from above ; the central portion of the wing. 
6. In armor, same as roundel. 7. One of the 
collars separating and securing the cutters on 
a horizontal mandrel Accessory disk. See acces- 
sory. Anisotropous disk. See striated muscle, under 
striated. Arago's disk, a disk rotating in its own plane 
in a field of magnetic force. Blastodermic disk. See 
blastodermic. Bowman's disks, the disks formed by the 
transverse cleavage of muscular fibers. Brachiferous 
disk. See brachiffrou.*. Choked disk, in pathol., a con- 
dition of the optic disk or papilla in which it is swollen, 
with obscure margins, and the retinal vessels are tortu- 
ous. It appears to be an inflammatory condition of the 
papilla, and is found in connection with intracranial tu- 
mors and other affections. Also called i>i>i/t!ti.i. Disk 
coupling. See coupling. Disk crank. See era *-'. 
Gelatinous disk, the bell or umbrella of discophorous 
hydrozoans. Germinal disk. Same as germ-disk. 
Epteynous and Hypogynous Disks. 
A. Umbelliferous flower : d, disk ; o, ovary. 
ower of the orange family : rf, disk ; , 
dislike 
Maxwell color-disks, disks having each a single color, 
and slit radially so that one may be made to lap over ano- 
ther to any desired extent. By rotating them on a spindle, 
the effect of combining certain colors in varying propor- 
tions can be studied. Newton's disk, a cardboard disk 
with radial sectors showing the colors of the spectrum. 
When rapidly rotated it appears nearly white. Oral 
disk, in Polyzoa, the lophophore (which see). See also 
J'lttuiatella. Proligerous disk. See discus prolii/erus, 
under discus. Trochal disk. See trochal. See also 
Mood-disk. 
disk-armature (disk'ar''ma-tur), n. A dynamo- 
arrnature so wound that its coils lie in the form 
of a disk, which revolves with its plane at right 
angles to the lines of force of the magnetic 
field. 
disk-clutch (disk'kluch), n. A form of friction- 
clutch in which a disk upon one shaft has an 
annular plunge which enters an annular groove 
in the adjacent disk. 
disk-dynamo (disk'di // na-mo), n. A dynamo 
with a disk-armature. 
disk-gastrula (disk'gas"tro-la), n. A disco- 
gastrula. 
disk-harrow (disk'har'o), n. A triangular har- 
row having a number of sharp-edged concave 
disks set at such an angle that as the machine 
is drawn along they pulverize the soil and turn 
it over in furrows, the disks being kept free 
from dirt by scrapers. 
diskindness (dis-kind'nes), . [< dis- priv. + 
kindness,] 1. Want of kindness; unkindness; 
want of affection. 2. An ill turn; an injury; 
a detriment. [Bare in both senses.] 
This discourse is so far from doing any diskindness to the 
cause that it does it a real service. Woodward. 
disknowt (dis-no'), . * [< dis- priv. + know.'] 
To disown; refuse to acknowledge. 
And when he shall (to light thy sinfull load) 
Put manhood on, disknow him not for God. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Lawe. 
disk-owl (disk'oul), n. The barn-owl: so called 
because the facial disk is complete. See disk. 
5(6). 
disk-telegraph (disk'teFe-graf), n. A tele- 
graph in which the letters 
of the alphabet or fig- 
ures are placed on a cir- 
cular plate in such a man- 
ner that they can be 
brought in succession to 
an opening, or indicated 
in succession in some 
other way, as by a pointer. 
disk-valve (disk'valv), n. 
A valve consisting of a 
perforated disk with a 
partial and reciprocating, 
or a complete, rotation 
upon a circular seat, the 
openings in which form 
ports for steam and other 
fluids. 
disk-wheel (disk'hwel), n. 
Disk-telegraph. 
A worm-wheel in 
which a spiral thread on the face of the disk 
drives a spur-gear the space of one tooth at 
each revolution, the shafts of the disk and gear 
being at right angles to each other. 
disladet (dis-lad'), v. t. [< dis- priv. + lade."] 
To unlade. Heywood. 
disladyt (dis-la'di), v. t. [< dis- priv. + lady.~\ 
To deprive of the reputation or position of a 
lady. B. Jonson. 
dislawyert (dis-la/yer), v. t. [< dis- priv. + 
lawyer.] To deprive of the standing of a law- 
yer. Eager North. 
dislealt, [< OF. desjeal, desleel, disloyal : see 
id 
leal,] Perfidious ; treacherous ; 
disloyal and 
disloyal. 
Disleall Knight, whose coward corage chose 
To wreake itselfe on beast all innocent 
Spenser, V. Q., II. v. 5. 
disleave (dis-lev'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. disleaved, 
ppr. disleaving. [< di's-priv. + leave 3 .] To de- 
prive of leaves. Sylvester. [Rare.] 
Where June crowded once, I see 
Only bare trunk and disleaved tree. 
Lowell, The Nest. 
dislikable (dis-li'ka-bl), a. [< dislike + -able.] 
Worthy of being 'disliked; displeasing; dis- 
tasteful. Also spelled' dislikeable. 
A lively little Provencal figure, not dMikeable. 
Carlylf, in Fronde, II. 71. 
dislike (dis-llk'), r. t. ; pret. and pp. disliked, 
ppr. disliking. [< dis- priv. + like 3 , r. Cf. mis- 
like.] 1. To annoy; vex; displease. [Ar- 
chaic.] 
To vs there may bee nothing more gricnons and dis- 
liHiifi then that any thing should happen through the 
default of our Subjects. llakluijt's Voyages, II. 145. 
