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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-dāin'ful-ly, adv.p. 384In a disdainful manner; contemptuously; with scorn.
  2. Dis-dāin'ful-ness, n.p. 384The state of being disdainful; contemptuousness; haughty scorn. Sidney.
  3. Dis-dāin'ish-ly, adv.p. 384Disdainfully. [Obs.] Vives.
  4. Dis-dāin'ous, a.p. 384Disdainful. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  5. Dis-dāin'ous-ly, adv.p. 384Disdainfully. [Obs.] Bale.
  6. Dis-dē'i-fy, v. t.p. 384To deprive of deity; to deny the deity of. Feltham.
  7. Dis-deign', v. t.p. 384To be shocked by; to disdain. [Obs.] Guyon much disdeigned so loathly sight. Spencer.
  8. Dis-dī/a-pāʹson, n.p. 384(Anc. Mus.) A scale of two octaves, or a fifteenth. [Written also bisdiapason.]
  9. 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…
  10. Dis-ease', v. t.p. 384
  11. Dis-eas'ed-ness, n.p. 384The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. Burnet.}
  12. 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.]
  13. Dis-ease'ful-ness, n.p. 384Trouble; trial. Sidney.
  14. Dis-ease'ment, n.p. 384Uneasiness; inconvenience. [Obs.] Bacon.
  15. 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.
  16. Dis-ĕd’i-fy, v. t.p. 384To fail of edifying; to injure.
  17. Dis-ēld'er, v. t.p. 384To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. [Obs.] Fuller.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Dis-ēm-bar-kāʹtion, n.p. 384The act of disembarking.
  21. 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.
  22. Dis'em-bär'rass-ment, n.p. 384The act of disembarrassing or extricating from perplexity.
  23. Dis'em-bāy', v. t.p. 384To clear from a bay. Sherburne.
  24. Dis'em-bĕl'lish, v. t.p. 384To deprive of embellishment.
  25. Dis'em-bit'ter, v. t.p. 384To free from bitterness; to clear from acrimony; to disimbitter. See DISIMBITTER. Addison.
  26. Dis'em-bŏd'y, v. t.p. 384To divest of the body; to free from the flesh. “Devils embodied and disembodied.” W. Scott. 2. To discharge from military organization.
  27. Dis’em-bōgue’, v. t.p. 384To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into the ocean or a lake. Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves, And through nine channels disembogues his waves. Addison.
  28. Dis'em-bōgue', v. i.p. 384To become discharged; to find vent; to pour out contents. Volcanoes bellow ere they disembogue. Young.
  29. Dis'em-bōgue'ment, n.p. 384The act of disemboguing; discharge. Mease.
  30. Dis’em-bos’om, v. t.p. 384To separate from the bosom. Young.
  31. Dis'em-bow'el, v. t.p. 384To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate. 2. To take or draw from the bowels, as the web of a spider. “Her disembowled web.” Philips.
  32. Dis'em-bow'ered, a.p. 384Removed from a bower, or deprived of a bower. Bryant.
  33. Dis’em-brăn’gle, v. t.p. 384To free from litigation. [Obs.] Berkeley.
  34. Dis'em-broil', v. t.p. 384To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Valliant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
  35. Dis-ēm'pīre, v. t.p. 384To deprive of empire or command. [Obs.] Speed.
  36. Dis'em-ploy', v. t.p. 384To throw out of employment. Bp. Taylor.
  37. Dis'em-ploy'ment, n.p. 384The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. “This glut of leisure and disemployment.” Bp. Taylor.
  38. Dis'em-pow'er, v. t.p. 384To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
  39. Dis'en-ā'ble, v. t.p. 384To deprive of power, natural or moral; to disable; to disqualify. The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak. State Trials.
  40. Dis'en-ăm'or, v. t.p. 384To free from the captivity of love. Shelton.
  41. Dis'en-chänt', v. t.p. 384To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells; to free from fascination or delusion. Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove.…
  42. Dis'en-chänt'er, n.p. 384One who, or that which, disenchants.
  43. Dis'en-chänt'ment, n.p. 384Act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted. Shelton.
  44. Dis'en-chärm', v. t.p. 384To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant. Bp. Taylor.
  45. Dis'en-clōse', v. t.p. 384See DISINCLOSE.
  46. Dis'en-cou'r'age-ment, n.p. 384Discouragement; depression. [Obs.] Spectator.
  47. Dis'en-cŭm'ber, v. t.p. 384To free from encumbrance, or from any thing which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
  48. Dis'en-cŭm'brance, n.p. 385Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or any thing burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.
  49. Dis'en-dow'ment, n.p. 385The act of depriving of an endowment.
  50. Dis'en-fran'chise, v. t.p. 385To deprive of the privileges of citizenship, especially that of suffrage; to disfranchise. Ogilvie.
  51. Dis'en-frăn'chīse-ment, n.p. 385The act of disenfranchising.
  52. Dis'en-gā'ge', v. t.p. 385To release from that with which any thing is engaged, engrossed, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and…
  53. Dis'en-gā'ge', v. i.p. 385To release one's self; to become detached. From a friend's grave how soon we disengage! Young.
  54. Dis'en-gā'ged-ness, n.p. 385The state of being disengaged; freedom from occupation. 2. Vacuity of attention.
  55. Dis'en-gā'ge'ment, n.p. 385The act of disengaging, releasing, setting free, or detaching; extrication. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. Lavoisier, Trans. 2. The state of being…
  56. Dis'en-gā'ging, p. a.p. 385Separating; loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See ENGAGING.
  57. Dis'en-nō'ble, v. t.p. 385To deprive of that which ennobles; to lower; to degrade. An unworthy behavior degrades and disennobles a man. Guardian.
  58. Dis'en-rōll', v. i.p. 385To erase from a roll or list. Donne.
  59. Dis'en-sān'i-ty, n.p. 385Insanity; folly. [Obs.] What tediosity and disensanity Is here among you! Beau. & Fl.
  60. Dis'en-slāve', v. t.p. 385To free from bondage; to disenthrall. South.