n. The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness and dissatisfaction. Addison.

Syn. -- Discontent; discontentment; displeasure; disapprobation; distaste; dislike. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing. [ 1913 Webster ]

To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as difficult for the Convention. A. Hamilton.

-- Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness n. [1913 Webster]

adj. in a state of sulky dissatisfaction.
Syn. -- disgruntled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dissatisfied p. pr. & vb. n. Dissatisfying. ] To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To unseat. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dissected; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissecting. ] [ L. dissectus, p. p. of dissecare; dis- + secare to cut. See Section. ] 1. (Anat.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely. [ 1913 Webster ]

This paragraph . . . I have dissected for a sample. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Used for or in dissecting; as, a dissecting knife; a dissecting microscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dissection. ] 1. The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything dissected; especially, some part, or the whole, of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the structure; an anatomical so prepared. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dissection wound, a poisoned wound incurred during the dissection of a dead body. [ 1913 Webster ]