Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance; scattered widely.

serving to diffuse, disseminate, or disperse.

The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.

Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated.

One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease.

Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel.

Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious.

The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement.

Disagreeing; contrary; differing; -- opposed to consentaneous.

Dissentaneous; inconsistent.

Dissension.

One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement.

The spirit or principles of dissenters.

To throw into a state of dissent.

Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting. One who dissents.

disagreeing, especially with a majority.

Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious.

Disagreeing; inconsistent.

A separating tissue; a partition; a septum.

To discourse or dispute; to discuss.

To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse.

A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.

Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.

A writer of dissertations.

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.

See Disertly.

To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.

Injury; mischief.

Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable.

To unsettle.

The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.

To part; to separate.

The act of disserving; separation.

The act of disserving; disseverance.

Disseverance.

To free from shadow or shade.

To become unsheathed.

To dismiss from service on board ship.

To shiver or break in pieces.

Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion.

One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.

In a dissident manner.

The act of leaping or starting asunder.

Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp.

The act of bursting or springing apart.

Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.

Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms.

In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style.

To render dissimilar.

The act of making dissimilar.

Comparison or illustration by contraries.

Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

Feigning; simulating; pretending.

To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive.

The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

To dissemble.

A dissembler.

A dissembler.

To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.

To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.

Squandered; scattered.

The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

Tending to dissipate.

The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.

Lying apart.

Slander.

Slanderous.

Want of sociability; unsociableness.

Not well associated or assorted; incongruous.

Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.

To render unsocial.

To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.

not connected or associated.

The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.

Tending or leading to dissociation.

The quality of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, and converted into a fluid.

Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid.

The quality of being dissoluble; dissolubility.

With nerves unstrung; weak.

In a dissolute manner.

State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation.

The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.

Capacity of being dissolved; solubility.

Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble.

Having the power to dissolve anything; solvent.

To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

changed from a solid to a liquid state by increase of temperature; melted. Opposite of unmelted.

Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.

That which has the power of dissolving or melting other substances, esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent.

One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate.

Melting; breaking up; vanishing.

A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.

Discord; dissonance.

Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.

See Dispirit.

To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).

One who dissuades; a dehorter.

The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation.

Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice. A dissuasive argument or counsel; dissuasion; dehortation.

A dissuasive.

To separate; to sunder; to destroy.

To deprive of sweetness.

Consisting of two syllables only; as, a dissyllabic foot in poetry.

A forming into two syllables.

To form into two syllables.

To form into two syllables; to dissyllabify.

A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.

Not having symmetry; asymmetrical; unsymmetrical.

Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.

Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference.

Toward a distal part; on the distal side of; distally.

The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.

To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry.

Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone.

Toward a distal part.

To place at a distance or remotely.

Distance.

Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.