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ih any land’animal is a dijk or bowl; being hereby fitted 
for the clearer fight of the objedt. Grew. 
In areas varied with mofaic art, 
Some whirl the dijk, and fotne the jav’lin dart. Pope. 
DISKIND'NESS, f Want of kindnefs; wantof af¬ 
fection; want of benevolence. Ill turn; injury; act of 
malignity ; detriment.—This difcourfe is fo far from 
doing any dijkindnefs to the caufe, that it does it a real 
fervice. Woodward. 
DISLE'AL, adj. [Ital.] Diflvonourable : 
Dfeal knight, whofe cowheard corage chofe 
To wreck itfelfe on bead all innocent, 
And flutn’d the marke at which it diould be ment. Spenf. 
DISLI'KE,/. Difinclination ; abfence of affedtion ; 
the contrary to fondnefs.—Our likings and difikes are 
often founded rather upon-humour and fancy, than upon 
reafon. VEfrange .—The jealous man is not angry if you 
dijlike another ; but if you find thofe faults which are in 
his own cliaradter, you difcover not only your dijlike of 
another, but of himfelf. Addifon. —Difcord ; diflenfion ; 
difagreement. Not in ufe: 
This faid Aletes, and a murmur rofe 
That fhew’d dijlike among the Chriftian peers. Fairfax. 
To DISLI'KE, w. a. To difapprove ; to regard with¬ 
out affedtion; to regard with ill will or difguft.—Who- 
foever di/likes the digreflions, or grows weary of them, 
may throw them away. Temple. 
Ye difike, and fo undo 
The players, and difgrace the poet too. Denham. 
To diforder.—I’ll do it, but it dijlikes me. Shakefpeare : 
DISLI'KEFUL, adj. Difaffected; malign. Not in 
vfe .—I think it bed, by an union of mapners, and con¬ 
formity of minds, to bring them to be one people, and 
to put away the difikej'ul conceit of the one and the 
other. Spenfer on Ireland. 
To DISLI'KEN, v. a. To make unlike. Unufual: 
Muffle your face, 
Difmantle you ; and, as you can, dijliken 
The truth of your own Teeming. Shakefpeare. 
DISLI'KENESS, f. Difflmilitude ; not refemblance ; 
unlikenefs.—That which is not defigned to reprefent 
any thing but itfelf, can never be capable of a wrong re- 
prefentation, nor miflead us from the true apprehenfion 
of any thing by its dfikenefs to it; and fuch, excepting 
thofe of fubdances, are all our own complex ideas. Locke. 
DISLI'KER,/. A difapprover ; one that is not pleaf- 
ed.—There is a point, which whoever can touch, will never 
fail of pleafing a majority, fo great that the dfikers will 
be forced to fall in with the herd. Swift. 
To DISLI'MB, v. a. To dilaniate ; to tear limb from 
limb. 
To DISLI'MN, v. a. To’unpaint ; to ftrike out of a 
picture: 
That which is now a horfe, even with a thought 
The rack di/limns, and makes it indidinCt 
As water is in water. Shakefpeare. 
To DIS'LOCATE, <v. a. \_dis and locus, Lat.] To put 
out of the proper place.—After lome time, the ftrata on 
all fides of the globe were dijlocated , and their fituation 
varied, being elevated in fome places, and depreded in 
others. Woodward. —To put out of joint ; to disjoint: 
Wer’t my fitnefs 
To let thefe hands obey my boiling blood. 
They are apt enough to dijlocate and tear 
Thy fleflt and bones. Shakefpeare. 
DISLOCATION, f. [from dfocate.~] The aft of 
Ihifting the places of things ; the (fate of being difplaced. 
■—The pofture of rocks, often leaning or prodrate, (hews 
that they had fome djlocation from their natural fite. 
Von. V. No. 322. 
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Burnet. —A luxation ; a violent preffure of a bone out of 
the focket, or correfpondent part; a joint put out.—It 
might go awry either within or without the upper, as 
often as it is forcibly pulled to it, and fo caufe a dfoca- 
tion, or a (train. Grew. 
To DISLO'DGE, <z>. a. To remove from a place.'—■ 
The fiiell-fifii which are refident in the depths live and 
die there, and are never difodged or removed by dorms, 
nor cad upon the (bores ; which the littorales ufually 
are. Woodward. —To remove from an habitation: 
Thefe fenfes lod, behold a new defeat, 
The foul difodging from another feat. Dry den. 
To drive an enemy from a dation : 
My fword can perfect what it has begun, 
And from your walls djlodge that haughty fon. Dryden. 
To remove an army to other quarters: 
The ladies have prevail’d, 
The Volfcians are difodg'd, and Marcus gone. Shakfp. 
To DISLO'DGE, <v. n. To go away to another place : 
Soon as midnight brought on the dufky hour, 
Friendlied to deep, and filence, he refolv’d 
With all his legions to djlodge. Milton. 
DISLOI'GNED, part. adj. [from defoier, old Fr. to 
difunite, to feparate.] Secluded.—Low looking dales,, 
djloign’d from common gaze. Spenfer. 
DISLOY'AL, adj. \_defoyal , Fr.] Not true to allegi¬ 
ance ; faithlefs ; falfe to a (overeign ; difobedient : 
Foul didrud, and breach 
DifoyaT, on the part of man, revolt 
And difobedience. Milton .• 
Difhoned ; perfidious. Obfolete: 
Such things, in a falfe difoyal knave, 
Are tricks of cudom; but, in a man that’s jud, 
They’re cold delations working from the heart, 
That paffion cannot rule. Shakefpeare. 
Not true to the marriage bed : 
The lady is difoyal. 
- Difoyal! the word is too good to paint out 
Her tvickednefs. Shakefpeare. 
Falfe in love; not condant. The three latter fenfes are 
now obfolete. 
DISLOY'ALLY, adv. Not faithfully; treacheroudyj 
difobediently. 
DISLOY'ALTY, f. Want of fidelity to the fove- 
reign.—Let the truth of that religion I profefs be repre- 
fented to judgment, not in the difguifes of levity, fchifm, 
herefy, novelty, and dfoyalty. K. Charles .—Wantof fide¬ 
lity in love. A fenfe now obfolete. —There diall appear 
fuch feeming truths of Hero’s dfoyalty , that jealoufy diall 
be called adurance. Shakefpeare. 
To DISMAIL', -v. a. To drip of mail.—Their migh- - 
tie drokes their habergeons difmayl'd. Spenfer. 
DIS'MA, a town of Japan, where the Dutch carry on 
a confiderable trade. 
DI'SMAL, \_dies malus, Lat. an evil day.] Sor¬ 
rowful ; dire ; horrid; melancholy ; uncomfortable ; 
unhappy ; dark.—On the one hand fet the mod glitter¬ 
ing temptations to difcord, and on the other view the 
difmal effeCts of it. Decay of Piety. —The thane of Cawder . 
’gan a difmal conflict. Shakefpeare. 
Nor yet in horrid fiiade or difmal den, 
Nor nocent yet; but on the grafly herb 
Fearlefs, unfear’d, lie dept. Milton. 
DIS'MAL SWAMP, a dreary impenetrable bog or 
moor, in North America, called the Great Difmal, to dif. 
tinguifh it from another fwamp called Difmal, in Curri¬ 
tuck county. It extends from north to fouth near thirty- 
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