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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Dis-hā'ble, v. t. p. 386To disparage. [Obs.] She oft him blamed and him dishabled. Spencer.Dis'har-mō'ni-ōûs, a. p. 386Unharmonious; discordant. [Obs.] Hallywell.Dis-hār'mo-ny, n. p. 386Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it (our nature). Coleridge.Dis-hāunt', v. t. p. 386To leave; to quit. Halliwell.Dish'-cātch, n. p. 386A rack for dishes. Nares.Dish'cloth or Dish'clout, n. p. 386A cloth used for wiping dishes after they have been washed. Swift.Dis-heärt', v. t. p. 386To dishearten. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.Dis-heärt’en, v. t. p. 386To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject. “His astonished and disheartened colleagues.” Bancroft. Syn.—To dispirit; discourage; depress; deject; deter…Dis-heir', v. t. p. 386To disinherit. [Obs.] Dryden.Dis-hĕlm', v. t. p. 386To deprive of the helmet; to take the helmet from. Lying stark, Dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale. Tennyson.Dis-hĕr′i-son, n. p. 386The act of disheriting, or cutting off from inheritance; disinherison. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.Dis-hĕr'it, v. t. p. 386To disinherit; to cut off, or detain from the possession or enjoyment of, an inheritance. [Obs.] Spenser.Dis-hēr'it-ance, n. p. 386The state of disheriting, or of being disinherited. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.Dís-hěr'it-or, n. p. 386One who puts another out of his inheritance.Dĭ-shĕv'el, v. t. p. 386To suffer to hang in a loose or negligent manner, or to flow without confinement; to put in disorder;—said of the hair, and used chiefly in the passive participle.Dĭ-shĕv'el, v. i. p. 386To be spread in disorder, as the hair. [Rare.] Herbert.Dish'ful, n. p. 386As much as a dish holds or can hold.Dis-hŏn'est, a. p. 386Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; fraudulent; disposed to deceive or cheat; as, a dishonest man. 2. Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish. “The dishonest…Dis-hŏn'est, v. t. p. 386To bring shame upon; to disgrace. [Obs.] I will no longer dishonest my house. Chapman.Dĭs-hŏn'est-ly, adv. p. 386In a dishonest manner.Dĭs-hŏn'es-ty, n. p. 386Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; faithlessness; a disposition to deceive or betray. 2. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; treachery; any deviation from probity or integrity.…Dis-hŏn'or, n. p. 386Want of honor; reproach; disgrace; ignominy; shame. It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor. Ezra iv. 14. Syn. — Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium.Dis-hŏn’or, v. t. p. 386To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity; to stain the character of; to lessen the reputation of; as, the duelist dishonors himself to maintain his…Dis-hŏn'or-a-ble, a. p. 386Bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; base; vile. 2. Wanting in honor; disgraced; as, a dishonorable man. He that is dishonorable in riches…Dis-hŏn'or-a-ble-ness, n. p. 386The quality of being dishonorable.Dis-hŏn’or-a-bly, adv. p. 386In a dishonorable manner.Dĭs-hŏn'or-a-ry, a. p. 386Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation. Holmes.Dís-hōn'or-er, n. p. 386One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another with indignity. Milton.Dis-hôrn', v. t. p. 386To deprive of horns. Shak.Dis-house', v. t. p. 386To deprive of house or home. “Dishoused villagers.” White.Dis-hū'mor, n. p. 386Peevishness; ill humor. Spectator.Dis-hü'mor, v. t. p. 386To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor. B. Jonson.Dish'-wash'er, n. p. 386A kind of bird; the Mergus, or wagtail.Dish'-wa'ter, n. p. 386Water in which dishes are washed.Dis/im-bit'ter, v. t. p. 386To free from bitterness; to clear from acrimony.Dĭs'im-pärk', v. t. p. 386To free from the barriers of a park; to free from restraints or seclusion. [Rare.] Spectator.Dĭs'im-prove', v. t. p. 386To make worse. [Obs.] Bp. Taylor.Dĭs'im-prove', v. i. p. 386To grow worse.Dĭs'im-prove'ment, n. p. 386Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, the disimprovement of the earth. [Rare.]Dis·in-câr'çer-ate, v. t. p. 386To liberate from prison; to set free from confinement. [Rare.] Harvey.Dis-in`cli-nā'tion, n. p. 386The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; dislike; aversion. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Syn.—Unwillingness; disaffection…Dis/in-cline', v. t. p. 386To excite the dislike or aversion of; to make disaffected; to alienate from; as, his timidity disinclined him from so arduous an enterprise.Dis/in-clōse′, v. t. p. 386To free from being inclosed; to dispark.Dis-in-côr'po-rāte, v. t. p. 386To deprive of corporate powers; to disunite from being a corporate body, or an established society. Hume. 2. To detach or separate from a corporation or society. Bacon.Dis’in-côr’po-rate, a. p. 386Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; not united as a society or corporate body. Bacon.Dis·in-côr'po-rā'tion, n. p. 386Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. Warton.Dis'in-fêct', v. t. p. 386To cleanse from infection; to purify from contagious matter.Dis'in-fĕct'ant, n. p. 386That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.Dis'in-fĕc'tion, n. p. 386The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.Dis-in’ge-nu’i-ty, n. p. 386Disingenuousness. [Obs.] Clarendon.Dis-in-gên'ū-ous, a. p. 386Not noble or high toned; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes. 2. Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful. “So…Dis'in-gĕn'ū-ous-ly, adv. p. 386In a disingenuous manner; unfairly; not openly and candidly.Dis'in-gĕn'ū-ous-ness, n. p. 386The state or quality of being disingenuous; unfairness; want of candor; low craft; as, the disingenuousness of a man, or of his mind or conduct.Dis'/in-hăb'it-ed, a. p. 386Uninhabited. [Obs.] Hakluyt.Dis'in-hēr'i-son, n. p. 386The act of disinheriting, or the state of being disinherited. Bacon.Dis/in-hēr'it, v. t. p. 386To cut off from hereditary right; to deprive of an inheritance; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the…Dis/in-hĕr'it-ance, n. p. 386Act of disinheriting, or condition of being disinherited; disinherison.Dis'in-hūme', v. t. p. 386To disinter. [Rare.]Dis'in-sure', v. t. p. 386To render insecure; to put in danger. [Obs.] Fanshawe.Dis-in'te-gra-ble, a. p. 386Capable of being disintegrated; liable to separation into parts. Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure to the atmosphere. Kirwan.