Part 3332

<i>Sir T. More.</i>

<h1>Disworship</h1> <Xpage=436>

<hw>Dis*wor"ship</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Disworth</h1> <Xpage=436>

<hw>Dis*worth"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To deprive of worth; to degrade.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Feltham.</i>

<h1>Disyoke</h1> <Xpage=436>

<hw>Dis*yoke"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To unyoke; to free from a yoke; to disjoin.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<i>R. Browning.</i>

<h1>Dit</h1> <Xpage=436>

<hw>Dit</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<er>Ditty</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A word; a decree.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A ditty; a song.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Dit</h1> <Xpage=436>

<hw>Dit</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>dyttan</ets>, akin to Icel. <ets>ditta</ets>.]</ety> <def>To close up.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Dr. H. More.</i>

<h1>Ditation</h1> <Xpage=436>

<hw>Di*ta"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>ditare</ets> to enrich, fr. <ets>dis</ets>, <ets>ditis</ets>, same as <ets>dives</ets>, rich.]</ety> <def>The act of making rich; enrichment.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<h1>Ditch</h1> <Xpage=436>

<hw>Ditch</hw> <tt>(?; 224)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Ditches</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[OE. <ets>dich</ets>, orig. the same word as <ets>dik</ets>. See <er>Dike</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a <altname>moat</altname> or a <altname>fosse</altname>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.</def>

<h1>Ditch</h1> <Xpage=436>

<hw>Ditch</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Ditched</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Ditching</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; <as>as, to <ex>ditch</ex> moist land</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To surround with a ditch.</def>