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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-jŭnc'tion, n. p. 387The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body. 2. A disjunctive proposition. Coleridge.Dis-jŭnct'ive, a. p. 387Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining. 2. (Mus.) Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords, “Disjunctive notes.” Moore. Disjunctive conjunction (Gram.), one connecting grammatically two words or…Dis-jūnct'ive, n. p. 387(Gram.) (a.) A disjunctive conjunction. (b.) A disjunctive proposition.Dis-jūnct'ive-ly, adv. p. 387In a disjunctive manner; separately.Dis-jŭnct'ūre, n. p. 387The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined; separation. Fuller.Disk, n. p. 387A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal, or of paper. 2. A discus; a quoit. Some whirl the disk; and some the javelin dart. Pope. 3. (Astron.) The face or visible projection of a celestial body.…Dis-kĭnd'ness, n. p. 387Want of kindness or affection; injury; detriment.Dis-lāde', v. t. p. 387To unlade. [Obs.] Heywood.Dis-lā'dy, v. t. p. 387To deprive of the title or reputation of a lady. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Dis-lēal', a. p. 387Disloyal; dishonorable. [Obs.] “Disleal knight.” Spenser.Dis-like', n. p. 387Positive and usually permanent aversion; displeasure; disapprobation; repugnance. Of their doings great dislike declared, And testified against their ways. Milton. 2. Discord; disagreement. [Obs.]…Dis-like', v. t. p. 387To regard with dislike; to have an aversion to; to disapprove of; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. “Disliking countenance.” Marston. “It…Dis-like'ful, a. p. 387Full of dislike; displeased; disagreeable. [Obs.] Spenser.Dis-līke'li-hōōd, n. p. 387The want of likelihood; improbability. W. Scott.Dis-lik'en, v. t. p. 387To make unlike. Shak.Dis-like'ness, n. p. 387Unlikeness; want of resemblance; dissimilitude. [Obs.] Locke.Dis-lik'er, n. p. 387One who dislikes or disrelishes.Dis-limb', v. t. p. 387To tear the limbs from. [Obs.] Bailey.Dis-lĭmn', v. t. p. 387To strike out of a picture; to disfigure. [Obs. and very rare.] The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water. Shak.Dis-lĭnk', v. t. p. 387To unlink or separate. Whom the electric shock dislinked with shrieks and laughter. Tennyson.Dis-lĭve′, v. t. p. 387To deprive of life. [Obs.] Telemachus dislived Amphimedon. Chapman.Dis'lo-cate, a. p. 387Dislocated. Montgomery.Dis'lo-cāte, v. t. p. 387To displace; to put out of its proper place; especially, to put out of joint; to disjoint; to move from the proper socket, cavity, or place of articulation. And thus the archbishop’s see, dislocated…Dis'lo-cā'tion, n. p. 387The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. Burnet. 2. (Geol.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situations which they originally occupied. Slips, faults…Dis-lŏdge', v. t. p. 387To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerable depth are not dislodged by storms. 2. To drive out from a place of…Dis-lŏdge', v. i. p. 387To go from a place of rest. Milton.Dis-lŏdg'ment, n. p. 387The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.Dis'lo-gis'tic, a. p. 387Not according to logical forms or principles; illogical. [Rare.] 2. Serving to disprove; refutatory. [Rare.]Dis-loign′, v. t. p. 387To put at a distance; to remove. [Obs.] Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze. Spenser.Dis-loy'al, a. p. 387Not loyal; not true in fact or feeling to a sovereign or lawful superior; false to allegiance; faithless; treacherous; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife. “Disloyal…Dis-loy'al-ly, adv. p. 387In a disloyal manner.Dis-loy'al-ty, n. p. 387Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.Dis-māil', v. t. p. 387To deprive of a coat of mail; to cleave off.Dis'mal, a. p. 387Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dark. “A dismal description of an English November.” Southey. Syn.—Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark…Dis'mal-ly, adv. p. 387In a dismal manner; gloomily; horribly; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.Dis'mal-ness, n. p. 387The state of being dismal; gloominess; horror.Dis-mān', v. t. p. 387To deprive of the strength or character of a man; to unman. [Obs.] Feltham.Dis-măn’tle, v. t. p. 387To deprive of dress; to divest; to strip. South. 2. To deprive of apparatus, furniture, equipments, or fortifications; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship. “A dismantled house, without windows…Dis-märch’, v. i. p. 387To march away. [Obs.] Holland.Dis-mār'ry, v. t. p. 387To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.Dis-mär'shal, v. t. p. 387To derange; to disorder. [Rare.] Drummond.Dis-māsk', v. t. p. 387To strip a mask from; to remove a concealment or disguise from; to uncover. Shak.Dis-māst', v. t. p. 387To deprive of a mast or masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.Dis-māst'ment, n. p. 387The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted. [Rare.] Marshall.Dis-māw', v. t. p. 387To eject from the maw; to vomit forth; to disgorge. [Obs.] Shelton.Dis-māy', v. t. p. 387To disable with alarm or apprehension; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to disquiet. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.…Dis-māy', v. i. p. 388To be disheartened or disabled with fear; to be appalled. [Obs.] It was pure dismaying and fear that made them all run. Pepys.Dis-māy', n. p. 388Loss of firmness and energy through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; failure of spirits; utter dejection; yielding to fright. 2. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. Spenser. E'en hell's grim…Dis-māy'ed-ness, n. p. 388A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness. Sidney.Dis-māy'ful, a. p. 388Full of dismay. [Obs.] Spenser.Disme, n. p. 388A tenth part; a tithe. Ayliffe. 2. The number ten. [Obs. and rare.] “Many thousand dismes.” Shak.Dis-mēm'ber, v. t. p. 388To divide limb from limb; to separate the members of; to tear or cut in pieces; to mutilate. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. 2. To strip of its essential parts; to sever and distribute…Dis-mēm'ber-ment, n. p. 388The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in pieces; mutilation; division; separation. Those germs of domestic corruption which gradually led to its dismemberment and decay.…Dis-mĕt'tled, a. p. 388Destitute of fire or spirit. [Rare.] Llewellyn.Dis-miss', v. t. p. 388To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go. “He dismissed the assembly.” Acts xix. 41. 2. To discard; to remove from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his…Dis-miss', n. p. 388Dismission. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.Dis-miss'al, n. p. 388Dismission; discharge. Office-holders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Malley.Dis-mis’sion, n. p. 388The act of dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; as, the dismission of the grand jury. 2. Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or disgrace. 3. A…Dis-miss'ive, a. p. 388Giving dismission. Milton.Dis-môrt'gage p. 38845), v. t. [imp. & p. p. DISMORTGAGED; p. pr. & vb. n. DISMORTGAGING.] To redeem from mortgage. [Obs.] Howell.