DISS, a market town in the Southern parliamentary division of Norfolk, England ; near the river Waveney (the boundary with Suffolk), 95 m. N.E. by N. from London by the L.N.E. railway. Pop. of urban district (1931) 3,422. The town lies pleasantly upon a hill rising above a mere, which drains to the Waveney, having its banks laid out as public gardens. The church of St. Mary exhibits Decorated and Perpendicular stone and flint work. There is a corn exchange and the agricultural trade is considerable; agricultural implements are manufactured. The poet and satirist, John Skelton (d. 1529), was rector here in the later part of his life, and is doubtfully considered a native of Diss.