Chapter Displaceable to Disposed of D by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Displaceable to Disposed

Displaceable
(Dis*place"a*ble) a. Capable of being displaced.

Displacement
(Dis*place"ment) n. [Cf. F. déplacement.]

1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

Unnecessary displacement of funds.

A. Hamilton.

The displacement of the sun by parallax.

Whewell.

2. The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.

3. (Chem.) The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.

Piston displacement (Mech.), the volume of the space swept through, or weight of steam, water, etc., displaced, in a given time, by the piston of a steam engine or pump.

Displacency
(Dis*pla"cen*cy) n. [LL. displacentia, for L. displicentia, fr. displicere to displease; dis- + placere to please. See Displease, and cf. Displeasance.] Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Displacer
(Dis*pla"cer) n.

1. One that displaces.

2. (Chem.) The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement.

Displant
(Dis*plant") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diplanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Displanting.] [Pref. dis- + plant: cf. OF. desplanter, F. déplanter.]

1. To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants.

I did not think a look,
Or a poor word or two, could have displanted
Such a fixed constancy.

Beau. & Fl.

2. To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants. Spenser.

Displantation
(Dis`plan*ta"tion) n. The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.

Displat
(Dis*plat") v. t. To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat. [Obs.] Hakewill.

Display
(Dis*play") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Displayed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Displaying.] [OE. displaien, desplaien, OF. despleier, desploier, F. déployer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + pleier, ploier, plier, F. ployer, plier, to fold, bend, L. plicare. See Ply, and cf. Deploy, Splay.]

1. To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.

The northern wind his wings did broad display.

Spenser.

2. (Mil.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line. Farrow.

3. To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest.

His statement . . . displays very clearly the actual condition of the army.

Burke.