DIS, an inseparable article prefixed to divers words; the effect whereof is either to give them a signification contrary to what the simple words have, as disoblige, disobey, &c.; or to signify a separation, detachment, &c. as disposing, distributing.
Dis, a town of Norfolk, seated on the river Waveney, on the side of a hill. It is a neat flourishing town, with one large church, a Presbyterian and a Quaker meeting. It has about 600 good houses; the streets are well paved, pretty wide, and always clean. At the west end of the town is a large meer or lake; but so muddy, that the inhabitants can make no other use of it but in catching of eels. In the town are carried on manufactures of sail-cloth, hose, and the making of stays. E. Long. 1. 16. N. Lat. 52. 25.
Dis, a god of the Gauls, the same as Pluto the god of hell. The inhabitants of Gaul supposed themselves descended from that deity.