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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Dis-crĭm'i-nā'tion, n.p. 383The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences. To make an anxious discrimination between the miracle absolute and providential. Trench. 2. The state of being…
  2. Dis-crim'i-na-tive, a.p. 383Marking a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic. “That peculiar and discriminative form of life.” Johnson. 2. Observing distinctions; making differences; discriminating.…
  3. Dis-crim'i-na-tive-ly, adv.p. 383With discrimination or distinction. Foster.
  4. Dis-crĭm′ĭ-nā′tor, n.p. 383One who discriminates.
  5. Dis-crim'i-na-to-ry, a.p. 383Discriminative.
  6. Dis-crim'i-noūs, a.p. 383Hazardous; dangerous. [Obs.] Harvey.
  7. Dis-crown', v. t.p. 383To deprive of a crown. The end had not crowned the work; it not unreasonably discrowned the workman. Motley.
  8. Dis-cru'ci-ā-ting, a.p. 383Excruciating. [Obs.] Browne.
  9. Dis-cūm'bi-to-ry, a.p. 383Leaning; inclining; suited or adapted to a reclining posture. [Obs.] Browne.
  10. Dis-cŭl'pāte, v. t.p. 383To free from blame or fault; to exculpate; to excuse. [Obs.] I almost fear you think I begged it, but I can disculpate myself. H. Walpole.
  11. Dis/cul-pā'tion, n.p. 384Exculpation. [Obs.] Burke.
  12. Dis-cŭl'pa-to-ry, a.p. 384Tending to exculpate.
  13. Dis-cūm'ben-cy, n.p. 384The act of leaning at meat, according to the manner of the ancients. Browne.
  14. Dis-cūm’ber, v. t.p. 384To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disengage from a troublesome weight; to disencumber. Pope.
  15. Dis-cūre', v. t.p. 384To discover; to reveal. [Obs.] I will, if please you it discure, assay To ease you of that ill. Spenser.
  16. Dis-cŭr'rent, a.p. 384Not current. [Obs.] Sandys.
  17. Dis-cūr'sion, n.p. 384Expatiation; discourse; rambling or desultory talk. Hobbes. 2. The act of discoursing or reasoning. Coleridge.
  18. Dis-cūr'sist, n.p. 384A discourser or disputer. [Obs.] L. Addison.
  19. Dis-cūr'sive, a.p. 384Capable of knowing and inferring by discourse; rational; discursive. Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. Milton. 2. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving…
  20. Dis-cŭr'sive-ly, adv.p. 384In a discursive manner; argumentatively; digressively. Hale.
  21. Dis-cûr'sive-ness, n.p. 384The state or quality of being discursive. Barrow.
  22. Dis-cûr'so-ry, a.p. 384Argumentative; discursive; reasoning. Ep. Hall.
  23. Dis'cus, n.p. 384A quoit; a circular and usually perforated plate of metal or stone, intended to be pitched or hurled at a mark. 2. A disk. See DISK.
  24. Dis-cūss', v. t.p. 384To break up; to disperse; to dissolve and remove; — said especially of tumors. “A pomade . . . of virtue to discuss pimples.” Rambler. 2. To shake off; to put away. [Obs.] “All regard of shame she…
  25. Dis-cūss'er, n.p. 384One who discusses; one who sifts or examines.
  26. Dis-cŭs'sion, n.p. 384The act or process of discussing, breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like. 2. The act of discussing or reasoning; examination by argument; debate; disputation. The liberty of discussion…
  27. Dis-cŭs'sion-al, a.p. 384Pertaining to discussion.
  28. Dis-cŭss'ive, a.p. 384Able or tending to discuss, resolve, or disperse tumors or coagulated matter. 2. Doubt-dispelling; decisive. [Rare.] “A kind of peremptory and discussive voice.” Hopkins.
  29. Dis-cūss'ive, n.p. 384(Med.) A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient.
  30. Dis-cū'tient, a.p. 384Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive.
  31. Dis-cū'tient, n.p. 384(Med.) A medicine or application serving to disperse a tumor or any coagulated fluid in the body. Coxe.
  32. Dis-dāin', v. t.p. 384To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming. Disdaining . . . that any should bear the armor of the best knight living. Sidney. 2. To reject as unworthy of one's self, or as not deserving…
  33. Dis-dāin', v. i.p. 384To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger. And when the chief priests and scribes saw the marvels that he did . . . they disdained. Genevan Test.
  34. Dis-dāin′, n.p. 384A feeling of contempt and aversion or abhorrence; the regarding any thing as beneath one; scorn. How my soul is moved with just disdain! Pope. 2. That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with…
  35. Dis-dāined', a.p. 384Disdainful. [Obs. and very rare.] Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt Of this proud king. Shak.
  36. Dis-dāin'ful, a.p. 384Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty. From these. Turning disdainful to an equal good. Akenside.
  37. Dis-dāin'ful-ly, adv.p. 384In a disdainful manner; contemptuously; with scorn.
  38. Dis-dāin'ful-ness, n.p. 384The state of being disdainful; contemptuousness; haughty scorn. Sidney.
  39. Dis-dāin'ish-ly, adv.p. 384Disdainfully. [Obs.] Vives.
  40. Dis-dāin'ous, a.p. 384Disdainful. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  41. Dis-dāin'ous-ly, adv.p. 384Disdainfully. [Obs.] Bale.
  42. Dis-dē'i-fy, v. t.p. 384To deprive of deity; to deny the deity of. Feltham.
  43. Dis-deign', v. t.p. 384To be shocked by; to disdain. [Obs.] Guyon much disdeigned so loathly sight. Spencer.
  44. Dis-dī/a-pāʹson, n.p. 384(Anc. Mus.) A scale of two octaves, or a fifteenth. [Written also bisdiapason.]
  45. Dis-ease’, n.p. 384Lack of ease; uneasiness; distress; trouble; trial. [Obs.] Labored long in that deep ford with long disease. Spenser. To shield thee from diseases of the world. Shak. 2. A derangement of any of the…
  46. Dis-ease', v. t.p. 384
  47. Dis-eas'ed-ness, n.p. 384The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. Burnet.}
  48. Dis-ease'ful, a.p. 384Occasioning uneasiness. [Obs.] Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate. [Obs.]
  49. Dis-ease'ful-ness, n.p. 384Trouble; trial. Sidney.
  50. Dis-ease'ment, n.p. 384Uneasiness; inconvenience. [Obs.] Bacon.
  51. Dis-édge', v. t.p. 384To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull. Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart. Tennyson.
  52. Dis-ĕd’i-fy, v. t.p. 384To fail of edifying; to injure.
  53. Dis-ēld'er, v. t.p. 384To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. [Obs.] Fuller.
  54. Dis'em-bärk', v. t.p. 384To remove from on board a ship to the land; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops at sunrise.
  55. Dis'em-bärk', v. i.p. 384To go on land; to debark; to quit a ship for the shore. And, making fast their moorings, disembarked. Cooper.
  56. Dis-ēm-bar-kāʹtion, n.p. 384The act of disembarking.
  57. Dis'em-bär'rass, v. t.p. 384To free from embarrassment or perplexity; to clear; to extricate. “To disembarrass himself of his companion.” W. Scott.
  58. Dis'em-bär'rass-ment, n.p. 384The act of disembarrassing or extricating from perplexity.
  59. Dis'em-bāy', v. t.p. 384To clear from a bay. Sherburne.
  60. Dis'em-bĕl'lish, v. t.p. 384To deprive of embellishment.