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DISAFFORESTING

Volume 8 · 83 words · 1860 Edition

the depriving of forest laws and their oppressive privileges, or the act of reducing from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground.

DISC or DISK (Lat. discus, a quoit), the face of the sun or any planet as it appears to the eye. In optics it denotes the width of the aperture of telescope glasses. In botany it is applied to the central part of a radiate compound flower. It is also used generally for any circular plane surface.