disa
noun
any of several plants of the genus Disa in the orchid family, primarily found in Africa and Madagascar and having tuberous roots and usually white, purple, or red flowers.
disa
1 American
[dee-suh, dahy-]
/ ˈdi sə, ˈdaɪ- /
noun
DISA
2
American
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of disa
First recorded in 1810–20; from New Latin, of obscure origin
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“Janie, Lake Okechobee is forty miles wide and sixty miles long. Dat’s uh whole heap uh water. If dis wind is shovin’ dat whole lake disa way, dis house ain’t nothin’ tuh swaller.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
It is quite possible that the number of disa might have been altered from 8 to 10 when the formerly existing Virgo-Scorpio was split up into three separate signs.
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various
“No one on disa side da bridge, to see, disa time night.”
From The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity by Francis Lovell Coombs
I tink um you savvy plenty heap much disa bay.
From Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris
No odder peoples on da Nomber Twent’ disa day at night.
From The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity by Francis Lovell Coombs
It's working with computer chipmakers and smartphone developers to make the technology commercially available as early as 2020, said Steven Wallace, a systems innovation scientist at the Pentagon’s Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2019
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