Disturbance

A stirring or excitement; any dis quiet or interruption of the peace; irruption on a settled state of things as, atmospheric disturbance. -Tumult; brawl; public disorder; popular derangement; civil commotion; as, a political disturbance. - Agitation or commotion of the mind; pa ion; perturbation of the mind or spirits; perplexity; discord; uneasine . "Any man in a state of disturbance and irritation."- Burke . (Law.) Interruption in po e ion or enjoyment of a social or civil right. The remedy is an action on the case, or, in some instances in equity, by an in june tion. Dit'ty, n. [A. S. diht , a disposing, ordering, dihtan , to lay in order, to write; O. Fr. dict , dicte , from Lat. dico , dictum.] Something said, rehearsed, recited, or sung; -v. a. To explore by diving. specifically, a song, a sonnet, or a short poem for music. IMG:content-0646.png:[ocr errors] Di'u, an island off the S. coast of the peninsula of Guze- rat, W Hindostan, on which is a fortified sea-port town belonging to the Portuguese. Pop . 4,000. It po e es the remains of the richest temple in India. Diure's is, n. [Gr. dia , through, and oureo, to make water.] ( Med . ) An increased secretion of urine. It is also applied to diabetes. Diuretic, a. [Fr. diuretique : Gr. diouretikos , from dia, and our on, urine. See URINE.] ( Med .) Having the power to provoke or expel urine; tending to pro- duce discharges of urine. -n. ( Med .) A cla of medicines which act on the kid- neys, and cause an increased discharge of water from the bladder. There are few diseases in which med i- cines of this nature are not of infinite service; but in dropsies they become of paramount importance. - D. belong to the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. Among the mineral cla are to be included all the prep- a rations of pota a, sulphur, sweet spirits of nitre, an- timony, . The vegetable kingdom comprises squills, onions, is, tobacco, ammoniacum, colchicum, jun i- per, turpentine, broom, and camphor; while from the animal kingdom we obtain castor, musk, and cantha- rides. Diurnal, a. [Lat. diurnus , from dies , a day. See DAY.] Relating to daylight; pertaining to the day or day- time; as, the diurnal solstice. - Daily; happening every day, performed in a day or in twenty-four hours; quo- tidian; as, the diurnal revolution of the sun, a diurnal duty, . -Constituting the measure of a day; as, diurnal hours. ( Bot . ) Applied to plants which only blow when the sun is above the horizon. Dive'dapper, n. Same as DIDAPPER, q. v. Divellent, a. [Lat. divellens .] Separating; severing: parting asunder. Divel'licate, v . a . To pull in pieces. (R.) Div'el-on-the-neck, n. An ancient instrument of torture, thus described by Fox in his Acts and Monи- "Certain strait irons, called the divel-on-his- "A diver into causes, and into the mysteries of proportion." Wotton . (Zool.) See COLYMBIDE. Diverbera'tion, n . [Lat. diver be rare .] A reverberat- ing or sounding through. Diverge, ( di - vurj ',) v . n . [L. Lat. diver go , from Lat. dis , and ver go , to incline. See VERGE.] To tend various ways from one point, and recede from each other; to shoot, extend, or proceed from a point in different direc- tions, or not in parallel lines; - correlative to converge ; as, diverging rays. To vary or go aside from the truth, or from a pristine condition; as, to diverge from the path of innocence. Disvalue, v . a . To undervalue; to disrespect; to set a low estimate upon. -n. Disesteem; dis valuation. Disvouch', v. a. To contradict; to reject the credit of; to vouch to the contrary. Ditch'er, n. A laborer employed in making ditches. Ditetrahedral, a. ( Crystal . ) That is tetrahedral, with IMG:content-0647.png:[blocks in formation] Ditriglyph, ( dit're - glif ,) n. [Gr. di , for dis , and TRI- GLYPH, q. e. ( Arch . ) An interval between two col- umns, admitting two triglyphs in the entablature; used in the Doric order. Ditrochean, ( di - tro - ke'an ,) a. Comprising two tro- chees. Ditrochee, (di-tro'kee,) n. [Fr., from Gr. ditrochaios .] (Pros.) A double trochee. See TROCHEE. Dittan'der, n. ( Bot . ) See LEPIDIUM. Dit'tany,n. ( Bot . ) See CUNILA. Dit'tied, a. [See DITTY.] Sung after the manner of a ditty; set or adapted to music; as, "smooth- dittied IMG:content-0648.png:[blocks in formation] those canonical hours of the Roman Catholic breviary which are to be said during the day. It is intended es- pecially for the clergy of the Roman Church, and con- sists generally of four volumes, one for each season of the year. ( Zool .) A name applied to those wild animals and birds which seek their food during the day, in oppos i- tion to those that feed at night, and are called noctur- nal. It is also sometimes used to designate such in- sects as the ephemeræ, which do not live more than twenty-four hours; but most generally it is applied to the first of the three large families into which Latreille divided the lepidoptera, and which corresponds to the genus papilio of Linnæus, or the true butterflies. One of the chief characteristics of this division of insects is their having the antennæ club-shaped. They only show themselves during the day, and generally only when -adv . In different directions. Diverse', a . [Lat. divers us .] Set over against each other; contrary; different; differing; unlike; different from itself. the sun shines bright, and in a cloudle sky. Doris erippus (Fig. 766) will give a good idea of the D. lep i- doptera . Diurnally, adv . Daily; every day; as, to make in- quiries diurnally . Diurnal ne , n. State of being diurnal or quotidian. Diuturnal, a. [From Lat. diuturnus .] Of long or lasting continuance. Diutur'nity, n. [Lat. diuturnitus .] Long duration. Divaga'tion, n. [Fr., from Lat. divagare.] Act of going astray, or wandering. Divan', n. [ Ar.dīwān ; Pers. diwán ; Hind. deewan , a council.] In Oriental countries, a muster-roll, or a register of payments or accounts. Also, a collection of poems er songs by one and the same author. Gæthe uses it in this sense in his Westöstliche Divan. D. , again, is applied to an administrative board; the highest council of state at Constantinople is called Divân humäjûn , "most ill us- trio us divan." Finally, D. is the name for the state recep- tion room in palaces, and the private houses of the richer citizens. Along the walls of the room are ranged low sofas, covered with rich carpets, and provided with many cushions; -hence, in Western countries, an ottoman; a -A smoking-room; a tabagie; a snuggery. Divaricate, v . n. [Lat. divarico , divaricatus - dis , and varico , from varicus , with feet spread apart, from varus , grown apart.] To stretch or open apart; to fork; to shoot off into two branches, -v. a. To cause to branch apart, or into two divisions. -a. ( Bot .) Spreading widely in different directions. (Zool.) Applied to the divisions of a part, when spread- ing out widely. Divar'icately, adv . Having divarication. Divarication, n . [L. Lat. divaricatio .] A forking; a parting; a separating apart into two branches; as, "a divarication of the way." - A wide divergence or ( Bot .) A cro ing or intersection of fibres at different angles. Dive, v. n. [A. S. dufian , gedufian ; Du. doopen . See DIP. To dip; to sink; to penetrate; to depart from observation. -To descend or plunge into water head foremost, as an animal; to thrust the body into water or other fluid, or if already in water, to plunge deeper, so as to sink below the surface; as, to dive for sunken treasure. go deep into any subject, question, doctrine, theory, or Diversification, n. Act of diversifying, or of chang- ing forms or qualities, or of making various. - Varia- tion; change; variegation; alteration; as, a divers if i- cation of the will. Diversified, a . Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of objects; as, a diversified landscape. Diversiform, a. [Lat. divers us, and form a , form.] Having a variety of forms. Diversify, v . a . [Fr. diversifier ; Lat. divers us , and facio, to make.] To make different or various in form, aspect, or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to give diversity to; to distinguish by a change of appear- Diversil'oquent, a . Having the faculty of speaking in diverse ways. Diversion, ( de -vur's hun,) n. [Fr., from L. Lat., diversio, -diver to , divers us . Act of diverting, or turning aside from any course, duty, or occupation; as, the diversion of a river-channel, diversion of the attention from serious cares, . - That which diverts; that which allures or unbends the mind from care, study, busine , ., and thus affords relaxation and relief; amusement; pastime; sport; play; frolic; as, a boyish diversion .