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sion, and is probably always indicative of applied to seeds which have their margins another. It is opposed to crooked, circuitous, some kind of physical disorder. prolonged in the form of wings.

oblique. It is also opposed to refracted; as, Dipsomaniac (dip-so-ma'ni-ak), n. A victim Dipterus (dip'ter-us), n. A genus of old red a direct ray of light. -2. In astron. appearof the so-called disease dipsomania.

sandstone fishes, of which there are two ing to move forward in the zodiac, according Dipsomaniacal (dip-so-må'ni-ak-al), a. Per- species, and which derive their name from to the natural order and succession of the taining to dipsomania.

their most distinguishing characteristic, signs, or from west to east: opposed to reDipsosis (dip-so'sis), n. (Gr., from dipsa, their double anal and dorsal fins.

trograde; as, the motion of a planet is direct. thirst.] In med. morbid thirst; excessive or Dipterygian (dip'ter-ij-i-an), n. pl. [Gr. di 3. In the line of father and son: opposed to impaired desire of dri ng.

for dis, twice, and pterygion, a fin.) One of collateral; as, a descendant in the direct Diptera (dip'ter-a), n. pl. (Gr. di, dis, double, a family of fishes, comprising those which line. - 4. Leading or tending to an end, as and pteron, a wing ) An order of insects have only two dorsal fins.

by a straight line or course; not circuitous; having only two wings, with two halteres or Diptote (dip'tot), n. [Gr. from di, dis, twice, as, a direct course; a direct way. poisers instead of the hinder pair. The and ptosis, a case, from pipto, to fall.] In It was no time by direct means to seek her. common house - fly and the blue-bottle fly gram, a noun which has only two cases; as,

Sir P. Sidury. are examples. They have six legs, furnished L. suppetiæ, suppetias, assistance.

5. Not given to equivocation or ambiguouswith five-jointed tarsi, two maxillary palpi, Diptych (dip'tik), n. [Gr. diptychos - di ness; straightforward; open; ingenuous; two antennæ, three ocelli or simple eyes, for dis, and ptyssó, ptyző, to fold.) In Greek sincere.

and Rom. antiq. a public register of the There be that are in nature faithful and sincere,
names of consuls and other magistrates; in and plain and direct; not crafty and involved.
later times a list of bishops, martyrs, and

Bacon. others among Christians; so called because

6. Plain; express; not ambiguous; as, he it consisted usually of two leaves folded.

made a direct acknowledgment. The sacred diptych consisted of two tables, He nowhere says it in direct words. Locke. in one of which were registered the names - Direct interval, in music, an interval which of the living, and in the other the names of forms any kind of harmony on the fundathe dead, which were to be mentioned in the mental sound which produces it, as the prayers of the church.

fifth, major third, and octave.- Direct tax, Diptychum, Diptychus (dip'tik-um, dip'- a tax assessed directly on real estate, as tik-us), n. Same as Diptych.

houses and lands, or on income; and is opDipus (di'pus), n. (Gr. di for dis, twice, and posed to indirect tax, which is imposed on pous, a foot.) The jerboas proper, a genus marketable articles, such as tea and tobacco, of rodents of the family Dipodidæ, so and is paid by the purchaser indirectly. named from the fact that, like the kan- Direct ratio or direct proportion. See RATIO, garoos, they generally stand on their hind- PROPORTION. legs, which are disproportionally long, and Direct (di-rekt'), v. t. (See the adjective.)

move by bounds. See DIPODIDÆ, JERBOA. 1. To point or aim in a straight line toward Diptera (Ctenophora

festiva): a a, Halteres, Dip-working (dip'werk-ing), n. In mining, Balancers, or Poisers.

a place or object; to make to act, or work, a working in mineral lying at a lower level towards a certain end or object; as, to direct placed upon the crown of the head, and a than the pit bottom. Called in Scotland an arrow or a piece of ordnance; to direct mouth formed for suction. The true eyes are Dook,

the eye; to direct a course or flight. large and compound, often containing thou- Dipyre (di-pir), n. [Gr. di for dis, twice,

The increased ardour in the common pursuit, the sands of facets. The power, which many of and pyr, fire. ) A mineral occurring in min- co-operation, the division of labour, the mutual regu. these animals have, of walking on smooth sur- ute prisms, either single or adhering to each lation, and submission to a common leader, when faces with the back downwards, is probably other in fascicular groups. Before the blow- directed to a worthy purpose, must be instruments of

good. due to the fact that the feet are beset with pipe it melts with ebullition or intumes

Sir G. C. Lewis. hairs each terminating in a minute disc which cence, and its powder on hot coals phospho

2. To show; to show the right road or course acts as a sucker, the discs at the same time resces with a feeble light. Its name indi

to; as, he directed me to the left-hand road. exuding a liquid which renders adhesion cates the double effect of fire upon it in

Direct me where Aufidius lives. Shah more perfect. The metamorphosis is com- producing first phosphorescence and then 3. To prescribe a course to; to regulate; to plete.

fusion. It consists chiefly of silicate of guide or lead; to govern; to cause to proceed Dipteracea, Dipterocarpeæ (dip-tér-.'. alumina, with small proportions of the in a particular manner; as, to direct the sé-ē, dip"tér--kärp'é-ē), n.pl. [Gr. di for dis, silicates of soda and lime.

affairs of a nation. two, pteron, a wing, and karpos, fruit, in allu- Dipyrenous (di-pi-rē'nus), a. (Gr. di for

And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, sion to the calycine wings to the fruit.) An dis, twice, and pyrën, the stone of stone- Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. important order of Asiatic exogenous polype- fruit.] In bot. containing two stones or

Addison, talous trees, allied to Malvaceæ. The differ- pyrenes.

4. To order; to instruct; to point out to, as ent species produce a number of resinous, Diradiation (di-rā'di-ā"shon), n. [L. dira- a course of proceeding, with authority; to oily, and other substances; one a sort of diatio-di for dis, asunder, and radius, a prescribe to. camphor; another a fragrant resin used in ray.) The emission and diffusion of rays of I'll first direct my men what they shall do. Shak. temples; a third, light from a luminous body.

5. To inscribe with the address; to supergum anime; and

Dirca (dérka), n. An American genus of scribe with the name, or with the name and others, varnishes of plants, nat. order Thymelaceæ. There is

abode of the person to whom a letter or India; while some

only a single species, D. palustris, which other thing is to be sent; to address. (Rare, of the commonest

grows in watery places. It is remarkably address being now more commonly used.] produce pitches.

tough in all its parts; the twigs are used for 6. To aim or point at, as discourse; to adDipteral (dip'ter

making rods, the bark for ropes, baskets, dress. Words sweetly placed and modestly al), a. 1. In entom.

&c. The bark is acrid, and produces heat directed.' Shak.-Guide, Direct, Suay. See having two wings

in the stomach, and brings on vomiting; in under GUIDE. --SYN. To point, aim, show, only; dipterous. small doses it acts as a cathartic. The fruit

guide, lead, conduct, dispose, manage, re2. In arch. a term possesses narcotic properties.

gulate, govern, rule, order, instruct, comapplied to a temple

Dirdum (dir'dum), n. [Scotch.] 1. Tumult; mand. having a double uproar.

Direct (di-rekt), v.1. To act as a guide; to row of columns on

There is such a dirdum forsooth for the loss of point out a course. “Wisdom is profitable each of its flanks.

your gear and your means.

Guthrie.

to direct.' Eccl. x. 10. It usually had eight

2. A blow; hence, a stroke of misfortune; Direct (di- rekt), n. In music, the sign W or ten in the front evil consequences or result.

placed at the end of a stave to direct the row of the end por

This is a waur dirdum than we got frae Mr. Gud. performer to the first note of the next stave. ticos, and fifteen at

yill when yegarr'd me refuse to eat the plumb-parridge Directer (di-rekt'ér), n. A director (which the sides. on Yule eve, as if it were ony matter to God or man

see). Dipteral (dip'ter

whether a ploughman lad supped on minced pies or

Sir W. Scott.

Directing Plane (di-rekt'ing plān), n. In al), n. In arch. a dipteral temple.

persp. a plane passing through the point of Plan of Dipteral Temple. 3. A scolding; severe reprehension.

sight parallel to the plane of the picture. Dipteran (dip'ter

My word! but she's no blate to show her nose here. Directing Point (di-rekt’ing point), n. In an), n. A dipterous insect; a member of the I gied her such a dirdum the last time I got her sit. order Diptera ting in our laundry as might hae served her for a

persp. the point where any original line twelvemonth.

Petticoat Tales.

meets the directing plane. Dipterix, Dipteryx (dip'ter-iks), n. [Gr.

di for dis, twice, and pteryx, a 'wing.] A Dire (dir), a. (L. dirus, terrible.) Dreadful; Direction (di-rek'shon), n. [L. directio, genus of Leguminosæ found in the forests of dismal; horrible; terrible; evil in a great

a setting straight, from dirigo, directum. degree. Brazil, Guiana, &c., and yielding the Ton

See DIRECT.) 1. The act of directing, aimquin or Tonka bean used for scenting snuff.

Arms on armour clashing bray'd

ing, or pointing; as, the direction of good Horrible discord, and the madding wheels

works to a good end. –2. The end or object The tree grows 60 to 80 feet high.

Of brazen chariots rag'd; dire was the noise towards which anything is directed. Dipterocarpeæ. See DIPTERACEÆ.

Of conflict.

Millon.

Demand for commodities is not demand for labour. Dipterocarpus (dip'tėr-ő-kärp-us), n. A Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts

The demand for commodities determines in what par. genus of East Indian, and chiefly insular Strange and uncouth; dire faces, figures dire, ticular branch of production the labour and capital trees, nat. order Dipterocarpere. The spe

Sharp-knee'd, sharp-elbowed. Wordsworth. shall be employed; it determines the direction of the

labour, but not the more or less of the labour itself, cies are enormous trees, abounding in resin- SYN. Dreadful, dismal, fearful, terrible,

or of the maintenance or payment of the labour. ous juice, with erect trunks, an ash-col- horrible, portentous, tremendous, terrific,

7. S. Mill. oured bark, strong spreading limbs, and oval gloomy, mournful, woeful, disastrous, cal- 3. The line in which a body moves, or to which leathery entire leaves with pinnated veins. amitous, destructive.

its position is referred; course; as, matter Dipteros (dip'ter-os), n. In arch. a dipteral Direct (di-rekt), a. [L. dirigo, directum, to cannot alter the direction of its own motion; temple.

set in a straight line, to direct-di for dis, a star appeared in the direction of a certain Dipterous (dip'ter-us), a. 1. In entom. hav- intens., and rego, rectum, to make straight. tower; the ship sailed in a south-easterly

ing two wings; pertaining to the order of See RIGHT.) 1. Straight; right; as, to pass direction.-4. The act of governing; admini. insects called Diptera.--2. In bot. a term in a direct line from one body or place to stration; management; guidance; superin

sour sowens.

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tendence; as, the direction of public affairs; Directorial (di - rek - to'ri-al), a. 1. That Dirigent n. [See DIRGE.] A service for direction of domestic concerns; the direc- directs; containing direction or command. the dead; a dirge. tion of a bank.

The emperor's power in the collective body, or the Resort, I pray you, unto my sepulture I will put myself to thy direction. Shak. diet, is not directorial, but executive. Gidthrie. To sing my dirige with great devotion. Chaucer. All nature is but art unknown to thee.

2. Belonging to directors, or the French Dirigent (di'ri-jent), n. [L. dirigens, diriAll chance, direction which thou canst not see. Pope. Directory

gentis, ppr. of dirigo, to direct. See DIRECT.) 5. Eecles, especially in the R. Cath. Ch. Directorship (di-rekt'ér-ship), n.

The con

In geom. the line of modition or office of a director.

tion along which the dethe guidance of a spiritual adviser; the function of a director. See DIRECTOR, 2. Directory (di-rek'to-ri), n. 1. A guide;

scribent line or surface is 6. Order; prescription, either verbal or a rule to direct; particularly, a book con

carried in the generation written; instruction in what manner to taining directions for public worship or reli

of any plane or solid proceed. gious services; as, the Bible is our best

figure; directrix. lago hath direction what to do.

Dirigent (di'ri-jent), a.
Shak.

directory in faith and practice. --2. ^ Eccles.
the title of a book containing the systematic

Directing
7. The superscription of a letter, including
list to be inquired into at confession. - 3. A

Dirk (dérk), n. (Ir. and the name, title, and place of abode of the book containing an alphabetical list of the

Gaelduire, a dirk, a dagperson for whom it is intended.--8. A body inhabitants of a city, town, district, and

ger. Cog. G. dolch, D. or board of directors; directorate. --Line of the like, with their places of business and

Dan, and Sw. dolk, a dagdirection, (a) in gun. the direct line in which abode.--4. The executive power of the

ger, which are derived a piece is pointed. (6) In mech. the line in French Republic, A.D. 1795–96. It consisted

from the Boh, and Pol. which a body moves or endeavours to proof five persons called directors, and was

tulich, a dagger. The inceed according to the force impressed upon quashed by Napoleon Bonaparte at the

terchange of l and r beit: thus, if a body fall freely by gravity its suggestion of Sièyes, and the Consulate esta

fore a final gutturalis line of direction is a line perpendicular to blished on its ruin.--5. Board of directors;

very common.) A kind the horizon, or one which, if produced, would directorate.

of dagger or poniard; a pass through the earth's centre; also, a line Directory (di-rek’to-ri), a. [L. directorius,

weapon formerly much drawn from the centre of gravity of any body serving to direct, from dirigo, directum.

used in the Highlands of perpendicular to the horizon. - Angle of See DIRECT.] 1. That guides or directs.

Scotland, and still worn direction, see under ANGLE.--SYN. AdminiThis needle the mariners call their directory

as essential to complete stration, guidance, management, superin

needle.

Gregory.

the Highland costume. tendence, oversight, government, control, 2. Directing; commanding; enjoining; in

Dirk (dérk), v.t.

To order, command, instruction. structing Blackstone.

Dirk (front and Directive (di-rektiv), a. Having the power Directress (di-rekt'res), n.

poniard; to stab. A female who

profile). Dirkt(dérk), a. Dark. “The of direction; pointing out the direction; directs or manages.

dirke night.' Spenser, showing the way; instructing; informing: Directrix (di-rekt'riks), n. 1. A female who

Dirkt (dérk), v.t. To darken. Spenser, guiding. Precepts directive of our practice in relation to God.' Barrow.

governs or directs.-2. In math. a line per- Dirl (dirl), v.i. [Onomatopoetic, expressive pendicular to the axis of a conic section, and

of the sound produced by rapid vibrations.) Nor visited by one directive ray. so placed that the distance from it of any

To vibrate or shake, especially with a reverFrom cottage streaming, or from airy hall. Thomson. point in the curve is to the distance of the

berating noise: to have tremulous motion; Directly (di-rekt'li), adv. 1. In a straight same point from the fo

to tingle; to thrill. (Scotch.) line or course, literally or figuratively; not cus in a constant ratio;

He screwed his pipes and gart them skirl, also, the name given in a winding course; as, aim directly at the

Burns.

Till roof and rafters a' did diri. object; gravity tends directly to the centre to any line, whether

Dirl (dirl), n. A blow such as produces a

E of the earth. --2. Straightway; immediately; straight or not, that is

tingling sensation or sound; the sensation soon; without delay; as, he will be with us required for the descrip

or sound itself; vibration. (Scotch.) directly. tion of a curve. -Direc

It just played durl on the bane. Burns. He will directly to the lords, I fear. Milton. trix of a parabola, a line

Dirt (dért), n. (Icel. drit, dirt, excrement; 3. Openly; expressly; without circumlocution perpendicular to the

drita, Sc. drite, A. Sax. (ge)dritan, to go to axis

produced, and orambiguity,or without a train of inferences.

stool.) 1. Any foul or filthy substance, as whose distance from the

Directrix of a excrement, earth, mud, mire, dust; whatNoman hath been so impious as directly to condemn

vertex is equal to the Parabola. prayer. Hooker.

ever, adhering to anything, renders it foul distance of the vertex

or unclean. 4. On the instant that; as soon as; imme- from the focus. Thus A B is the directrix of diately when. [Incorrect. )

Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Is. Ivii. 20. the parabola V ED, of which F is the focus.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, Directly he stopped, the coffin was removed by four Direful (dir'fyl), a. [See DIRE.]

Dire;

As sages in all times assert; men.

Dickens.

dreadful; terrible; calamitous; as, direful The happy man's without a shirt. Heywood, - In math. quantities are said to be directly fiend; a direful misfortune.

2. A gold-miner's name for the material, as proportional when the proportion is acc dAchilles' wrath to Greece, the direful spring

earth, gravel, &c., put into his cradle to be ing to the order of the terms, in contradis- Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing! Pope. washed.--3. Meanness; sordidness. tinction to inversely or reciprocally propor- Direfully (dir'ful-li), adv. Dreadfully; ter- Honours which are thus sometimes thrown away tional, which is taking the proportion conribly; wofully

upon dirt and infamy.

Melmoth. trary to the order of the terms. See RATIO, PROPORTION. -- In mech. a body is

Direfulness (dir'ful-nes), n. The state of 4. Abusive or scurrilous language. said to strike or impinge directly against

being direful; dreadfulness; calamitousness; Dirt (dert), v.t. To make foul or filthy; to

horror. another body when the stroke is in a direc

soil; to bedauh; to pollute; to defile; to

The direfulness of this pestilence is more emphati. tion perpendicular to the surface at the cally set forth in these few words than in forty such

dirty. point of contact. Also, a sphere is said to odes as Sprat's on the plague at Athens. Warton.

Il company is like a dog, who dirts those most whoin he loves best.

Swift. strike directly against another when the Direly (dirli), adv. In a dire manner. line of direction passes through both their

A bed or layer of centres. -SYN. Immediately, soon, prompt. Diremptt (di-remt'), a. Parted; separated. And of his death he direly had forethought. Drayton. Dirt-bed (dért bed), n.

mould with the remains of trees and plants, ly, instantly, instantaneously, openly, ex

found especially in working the freestone in Stow. pressly

the oolite formation of Portland. They are Directness (di-rekt'nes), n. Straightness; Diremptt (di-remt'), v.t. (L. dirimo, diremp

evidently the soil in which the cycad", a straight course; nearness of way; straighttum, to take apart, from dis, asunder, and

zamias, and conifers of the period grew. forwardness; immediateness.

eino, to buy, originally to take.] To take
asunder; to separate by violence; to break

The thickest layer is from 12 to 18 inches I like much their robust simplicity, their veracity,

thick. off. Holinshed. diredness of conception. Cariyle.

Dirt-eating (dert'ét-ing), n. 1. Cachexia Diremption (di-rem'shon), n. A separation. Director (di-rekt'ér), n. 1. One who directs; Direness (dir'nes), n. Terribleness; horror;

Africana, a disorder of the nutritive funcone who superintends, governs, or manages;

tions among negroes, and in certain kinds dismalness. one who prescribes to others by virtue of

of disturbance of the feminine health, in

Direness, familiar to my slaught'rous thoughts, which there is an irresistible desire to eat authority; an instructor; a counsellor.

Cannot once start ine.

Shak. 2. Eccles., especially in the R. Cath. Ch., Direption (di-rep'shon), n.

dirt. -2. The practice of certain tribes of

[L. direptio, one who directs another in affairs of the

South America, as the Ottomacs, of using from diripio,direptum, to tear asunder, from certain kinds of clay for food. spirit or conscience; a spiritual guide. –

di, for dis, asunder, and rapio, to snatch.] Dirtily (dert'i-li), adv. (From dirty) 1. In 3. That which directs; a rule; an ordinance. The act of plundering.

a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily. --Common forms were not design'd

This lord for some direptions being cast 2. Meanly; sordidly; by low means.
Diredors to a noble mind.

Swin.
Into close prison.

Heytvood.

Dirtiness (dert'i-nes), n. 1. Filthiness; foul4. One appointed to transact the affairs of a Direptitiously + (di-rep-ti'shus-li), adv. By ness; nastiness. --- 2. Meanness; baseness; company; as, the director of a bank or of a

way of direption or robbery. “Grants sur- sordidness.-3. Moistness; sloppiness; unrailway company.--5. That which directs or

reptitiously and direptitiously obtained. comfortableness; as, dirtiness of the weacontrols by influence. Strype.

ther. Safety from external danger is the inost powerful Dirge (derj), n. (Believed to be a contrac- Dirt-pie (dért'pi), n. Clay moulded by chil. director of national conduct.

Hamilton, tion of L dirige (' direct,' imperative of dren in imitation a pie. 8. In surg. a grooved probe, intended to dirigere to direct), a word holding a pro- Dirty (dert'i), a. 1. Foul; nasty; filthy; not direct the edge of the knife or scissors in minent place in some psalm or hymn for- clean; impure; turbid; as, dirty hands; dirty opening sinuses or fistula; a guide for an merly sung at funerals--the particular psalm water; a dirty employment. -- 2. Dark-colincision-knife, --7. In elect a metallic in- or hymn being doubtful.] A song or tune in- oured; impure; dusky; as, a dirty white. strument on a glass handle connected by tended to express grief, sorrow, and mourn

Pound an almond, and the clear white colour will & chain with the pole of a battery, and ap- ing; as, a funeral dirge.

be altered to a dirty one.

Locke. plied to a part of the body to which a shock With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, 3. Mean; base; low; despicable; grovelling; is to be sent.

In equal scale weighing delight and dole. Shak.

as, a dirty fellow; a dirty job or trick. Directorate (di-rek'tėr-at), n. 1. The office Dirgee (dėr'jē), n. In the East Indies, a

Marriages should be made upon more natural mo. of a director.--2. A body of directors. native domestic tailor or seamster.

tives than mere dirty interests. Sir W. Temple.

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4. (Applied to the weather) foul; sleety; themselves of artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition, Disadventuret (dis-ad-ven'tür), n. {Prefix rainy; sloppy; uncomfortable. they will consider this event as an era in their history.

dis, in a bad sense, equivalent to mis, and

dams. When this snow is dissolved a great deal of dirty Dr. Horne justly supposed that the admirers of

adventure.) Misfortune. weather will follow.

Jer. Trylor.

Hume were more likely to be disabused of their Such as esteem themselves most secure, even then Dirty (dert'i), v.t. pret, & pp. dirtied; ppr.

error by the fear of derision, than by any force of fall soonest into disadventure, Sir W. Raleigh. argumentation,

nar. dirtying. 1. To denile; to make filthy; to soil;

Disadventuroust (dis-ad-ven'tūr-us), a. as, to dirty the clothes or hands. Disaccommodate (dis-ak-kom'mo-dat), v.t.

Unprosperous. Spenser, pret. & pp. disaccominovated; ppr. disac- Disadvise (dis-ad-viz'), v. t. (Prefix dis, and For thine, my dear Dick, give me leave to speak plain,

commodating. [Prefix dis, priv., and accom- advise.) To advise against; to dissuade from; Like a very foul mop, dirty more than they clean. modate.) To put to inconvenience. (Rare.) to deter by advice. (Rare.)

Swi, 1.

I hope this will not disaccommodate you. 2. To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize: ap

I had a clear reason to disadvise the purchase of Rall'arburton, it.

Boyle. plied to reputation.

Disaccommodation (dis'ak-kom-mo-da". Diruption (li-rup'shon), n. [L. diruptio. shon), n. [Prefix dis, priv., and accommoda

Disaffect (dis-af-fekt), v. t. (Prefix dis, and See DISRUPT.) A bursting or rending asun- tion.] State of being unfit, unsuited, or un

ajjeet.] 1. To alienate affection; to make less der. See DISRUPTION. prepared. Hale.

friendly to; to make less faithful to a person, Dis-(dis), a prefix or inseparable preposition, Disaccord + (dis-ak-kord), v.i. (Prefix dis,

party, or cause, or less zealous to support it; from the Latin, denoting separation, a part

to make discontented or unfriendly; as, an nez., and accord.) To disagree; to refuse ing from; hence it has the force of a priva- assent.

attempt was made to disatfect the army. tive and negative, or reversal of the action

But she did disaccord,

2. To lack affection or esteem for; to disimplied in the word to which it is prefixed,

Ne could her liking to his love apply. Spenser.

dain; to dislike. as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. In many Disaccordant (dis-ak-kord'ant), a. Not ac

Making plain that truth, which my charity per. cases it retains its primary sense of separa- cordant; not agreeing.

suades me the most part of them dis.iffect, only be.

cause it hath not been well represented to them. tion, as in distribute, disconnect. Disaccustom (dis-ak-kus'tum), v. t. (Prefix

Chillingworti. Disability (dis-a-bil'i-ti), n. {Prefix dis, neg. dis, priv., and accustoin.) To destroy the 3. To throw into disorder. or priv., and ability.] 1. Want of compe- force of habit in by disuse; to render un- It disaffects the bowels, entangles and distorts the tent natural or bodily power, strength, or accustomed; as, he has disaccustomed him- entrails.

Homond. ability; weakness; impotence; as, disability self to exercise,

4. + To shun; as, to disaffect society. arising from infirmity or broken limbs. Disacidify (dis-a-sid'i-fī), v. t. [Prefix dis, Disaffected (dis-af-fekted), p. and a. (PreChatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. priv., and acidify.) To deprive of the qua

fix dis, priv., and affected] 1. Having the Bancroft. lity of acidity; to free from acid; to neu

affections alienated; indisposed to favour 2. Want of competent intellectual power or tralize the acid present in

or support; unfriendly; discontented: usustrength of mind; incapacity; as, the dis- Disacknowledget (dis-ak-no'lej), v.t. [Pre

ally applied to persons who are hostile to ability of a deranged person to reason or to fix dis, priv., and acknowledge.) To deny;

an existing government. make contracts. – 3. Want of competent

to disown. means or instruments; inability.-4. Want

By words and oral expressions verbally to deny

By denying civil worship to the emperor's statues, and disacknowledge it.

South.

which the custom then was to give, they were proof legal qualifications; legal incapacity; the

ceeded against as disaffected to the emperor. state of being legally incapacitated; incapa- Disacquaintt (dis-ak-kwānt'), v.t. [Prefix

Salling fleet. city to do any legal act. It is divided into dis, priv., and acquaint.) To render unfa- 2. Morbid; diseased. Hudibras. two classes, absolute and partial. Absolute miliar or unacquainted; to estrange. Disaffectedly (dis-af-fekt'ed-li), adv. disability, as outlawry, excommunication, Ye must now disacquaint and estrange yourselves disaffected manner. attainder, while it continues, wholly dis

from the sour old wine of Moses' law. Udall.

Disaffectedness (dis-af-fekt'ed-nes), n. The ables the person; partial disability incluies

My sick heart with dismal smart

quality of being disaffected,

Herrick. infancy, idiotcy, lunacy, drunkenness, and

Is disacquainted never.

Disaffection (dis-af-fek’shon), n. 1. Alienacoverture.

Disacquaintance (dis-ak-kwānt'ans), n. tion of affection, attachment, or good-will: This disadvantage which the Dissenters at present

Neglect or disuse of familiarity or familiar want of affection; or more generally, posilie under, of a disability to receive Church prefer. knowledge.

tive enmity, dislike, or unfriendliness; disments, will be easily remedied by the repeal of the Conscience by a long neglect of, and disacquaint.

loyalty; as, the dixaffection of people to test.

Swift. ance with itself, contracts an inveterate rust or soil. - Disability, Inability. Disability implies Disadorn (dis-ad-orn), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv.,

South

their prince or government, the disasjection

of allies; disaffection to religion. -2. ^ In a deprivation or loss of power, inability indicates rather inherent want of power. and adorn.) To deprive of ornaments.

physical sense, disorder; bad constitution.

(Rare.) One declines an office from inability to disDeform his beard and disadorn thy head. Congreve.

The disease took its origin merely from the disip. charge its duties, but is not elected to it Disadvance † (dis-ad-vans), v.t. or i. To

section of the part.

Hiseman from some external disability disqualifying check; to halt; to lower; to draw back.

SYN. Unfriendliness, ill-will, alienation, dishim for being chosen. --SYN. Weakness, in- Forced him his shield to disadvance. Spenser.

loyalty, enmity, hostility. ability, incompetence, impotence, incapa. Disadvantage (dis-ad-van'tāj), n. (Prefix Disaffectionate (dis-af-fek'shon-át), a. (Precity.

dis, priv., and adva ige. 1. Absence or fix dis, priv., and affectionate.) Not well Disable (dis-a'bl), v.t. pret. & pp. disabled;

deprivation of advantage; that which pre- disposed; not friendly; disaffected. ppr. disabling. (Prefix dis, priv., and able]

vents success or renders it ditficult; a state 1. To render unable; to deprive of compe

A beautiful but disaffectionate and disobedient wife. not favourable to successful operation; any

Hayley tent natural strength or power; to weaken unfavourable circumstance or state; as, the Disaffirm (dis-af-fèrm'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., so as to render i capable of action; as, a fleet is disabled by a storm or by a battle; a

army commenced an attack on the enemy, and affirm.] 1. To deny; to contradict. -2. In

notwithstanding the disadvantage of its lau, to overthrow or annul, as a judicial ship is disabled by the loss of her masts or position.

decision, by a contrary judgment of a suspars,

I was. under the disadvantage of being un. perior tribunal. A Christian's life is a perpetual exercise, a wrestl. known by sight to any of you.

Burke, Disaffirmance (dis-af-fèrm’ans), n. 1. Deing and warfare, for which sensual pleasure disables

2. Loss; injury; prejudice to interest, fame, nial; negation; refutation. him.

'A demonstra. Ter. Taylor.

credit, profit, or other good; as, to sell goods 2. To deprive of mental power, as by de

tion in disaffirmance of anything that is to disadvantage.

affirmed.' Sir M. Hale. --- 2. In law, overstroying or weakening the understanding. 3. To deprive of adequate means, instru

They would throw a construction on his conduct to throw or annulment, by the decision of a

his disadvantage before the public. Bancroft. superior tribunal; as, disaffirmance of judgments, or resources; as, a nation is disabled

ment. to carry on war by want of money; the loss

SYN. Detriment, injury, hurt, drawback, of a sh may disable a man

Disaffirmation (dis-af férm-ā"shon), n. Act harm, loss, damage. prosecute

To of disaffirming; disaffirmance. commerce or to pay his debts.-4. To im- Disadvantage + (dis-ad-van’taj), v.t. pair; to diminish; to impoverish.

injure in interest; to do something preju. Disafforest (ulis-af-fo'rest), v. t. [Prefix dis, dicial or injurious to.

and afforest.) To reduce from the priI have disabled mine estate By showing something a more swelling port

Violences, so far from advancing Christianity, ex

vileges of a forest to the state of common Than my faint ineans would grant continuance. tremely weaken and disadvantage it. Dr. H. More.

ground; to strip of forest laws and their Shak. 5. To deprive of legal qualifications or comDisadvantageablet (dis-ad-van'tāj-a-bl), a.

oppressive privileges. Not advantageous; contrary to profit; pro

By Charter , Henry III., many forests were dispetent power; to incapacitate; to render

afforested

Blackstone. ducing loss. incapable.

Disaggregate (dis-ag'grē-gāt), v.t. (Prefix An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood,

Hasty selling is commonly as disadvantageable as
.

.

dis, and aggregate.) To separate an aggreand disables his children to inherit. Blackstone.

gate mass into its component parts. Disadvantageous (dis-ad'van-tāj"us), a. 6. To pronounce incapable; hence, to de

1. Attended with disadvantage; unfavour: Disaggregation (dis-ag'grē.gă"shon), n. The tract from; to disparage; to undervalue. able to success or prosperity; inconvenient;

act or operation of separating an aggregate * He disabled my judgment.' Shak. -- SYN. not adapted to promote interest, reputa: Disagree (dis-a-gri'), v.i. pret. & pp. dis

body into its component parts. To weaken, unfit, disqualify, incapacitate.

tion, or other good; as, the situation of an Disablet (dis-a'bl), a. Wanting ability. Our army is disadvantageous for attack or de

agreed; ppr. disagreeing. [Prefix dis, neg., disable and unactive force.' Danieil. fence; we are apt to view characters in the

and agree.] 1. To differ; to be not accordDisablement (clis-ă'bl-ment), n. Depriva

ant or coincident; to be not the same; to most disadvantageous lights. -- 2. Unfavourtion or want of power; legal impediment; able; biassed or characterized by prejudice.

be not exactly similar; as, two ideas disagree disability; weakness. Disablement to take

when they are not the same, or when they

Whatever disadvantageous sentimients we may any promotion.' Bacon. "Disablement of

are not exactly alike; narratives of the same entertain of mankind, they are always found to be the (judging) faculty.' South. prodigal both of blood and treasure in the mainten.

fact often disagree. Disabuse (dis-a-buz'), v.t. pret. & pp. dis- ance of public justice.

Hume. The mind clearly and infallibly perceives all disabused; ppr. disabusing. [Fr. désabuser, to Disadvantageously (dis-ad'van-tāj"us-li),

tinct ideas to disagree; that is, the one not to be the disabuse.

other,

Locke. See ABUSE.) To free from mis- adv. In a manner not favourable to suctake; to undeceive; to disentangle from cess or to interest, profit, or reputation;

2. To differ, as in opinion; as, the best judges fallacy or deception; to set right; as, it is with loss or inconvenience.

sometimes disagree. our duty to disabuse ourselves of false no- Disadvantageousness (dis-ad'van-tāj"us.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree! Poge. tions and prejudices.

nes), n. Unfavourableness to success; in- 3. To be unsuitable; as, medicine sometimes If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse convenience; loss.

disagrees with the patient; food often disDISAGREEABLE

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agrees with the stomach or the taste.- Disanchort (dis-angk'èr), v.t. (Dis and an- We have ever expressed the most unqualified dis4. To differ; to be in opposition; not to ac- chor.) To force from its anchors, as a ship;

approbation of all the steps.

Burke. cord or harmonize.

to raise the anchor of; to free from the Disapprobatory (lis-ap'pro-bā-to-ri), a. They reject the plainest sense of Scripture, because anchor.

Containing disapprobation; tending to disit seems to disagree with what they call reason. Disangelicalt (dis-an-jel'ik-al), a. (Prefix approve.

Atterbury. 5. To be in a state of discord; to quarrel.

dis, neg., and angelical.) Not angelical. Disappropriate (dis-ap-pro'pri-āt), a. [Dis

Disanimate (dis-an'i-māt), v.t. (Prefx dis, and appropriate.) Not appropriated, or not United thus, we will hereafter use

priv., and animate.] 1. To deprive of life. possessing appropriated church property; a Mutual concession, and the gods, induc'd

Cudworth.--2. To deprive of spirit or cour- disappropriate church is one from which
By our accord, shall disagree no more. Cowper.
Sex. To differ, vary,

age; to discourage; to dishearten; to deject. the appropriated parsonage, glebe, and
dissent
(Rare.)

tithes are severed. Disagreeable (dis-a-gré'a-bl), a. (Prefix dis,

The presence of a king engenders love among his The appropriation may be severed and the church priv., and agreeable.) 1. Not agreeable; un- subjects, as it disanimates his enemies. Shak. become disappropriate, two ways

Blackstone. suitable; not conformable; not congruous. Disanimation (dis-an'i-mā"shon), n. 1. Pri. Disappropriate (dis-ap-proʻpri-āt), v. t. 1. To

Some demon had forced her to a conduct disagree. vation of life. Affections which depend on remove from individual possession or ownererle to her sincerity.

Broome.

life, and depart upon disanimation. Sir T. ship 2. Unpleasing; offensive to the mind or to Browne.-2. The act of discouraging; de

How much more law-like were it to assist nature the senses; repugnant; as, behaviour may pression of spirits. (Rare.)

in disappropriating that evil, which by continuing proper becomes destructive.

Milton. be disagreeable to our minds; food may be Disannex (dis-an-neks'), v.t. (Prefix dis, and disagreeable to the taste. annex.) To separate; to disunite.

2. Specifically, to sever or separate, as an That which is disagreeable to one is many times Disannul (dis-an-nul'), v.t. (Prefix dis, in

appropriation; to withdraw from an approagrecable to another, or disagreeable in a less de- tens., and annul.) To make void; to annul;

priate use.
gree.

Wollastun.
to deprive of force or authority; to cancel.

The appropriations of the several parsonages

would have been, by the rules of the common law, 3+ Not agreeing; discordant, discrepant.

Now trust me were it not against our laws,

disappropriated.

Blackstone. Disagreeableness (dis-a-grē'a-bl-nes), n. Against my crown, my oath, iny dignity, 1. The state or quality of being disagreeable; Which princes, would they, may not disannul,

3. To deprive of appropriated property, as

My soul should sue as advocate for thee. Shak. a church; to release from possession. unsuitableness, contrariety. - 2. Unpleasantness; offensiveness to the mind or to the Disannuller (dis-an-nul'ér), n.

One who Disappropriation (dis-ap-prö'pri-ā"shon), senses; as, the disagreeableness of another's makes null. Beau. & FI.

n. 1. The act of withdrawing from its apmanners; the disagreeableness of a taste, Disannulment (dis-an-nulment), n. An

propriate use. Specifically-2. The act of sound, or smell. nulment.

alienating church property from the purDisagreeably (dis-a-grē'a-bli), adv. Unsuit- Disanoint (dis-an-oint'), v.t.

pose for which it was designed.

[Prefix dis, ably; unpleasantly; offensively.

priv., and anoint.) To render consecration

Disapproval (dis-ap-pröv'al), n. Disapproof invalid; to deprive of the effects of being

bation; dislike. Disagreeancet (uis-a-gré-ans), n. Disagree

*There being not a word ment. anointed. (Rare or obsolete.)

let fall from them in disapproval of that

opinion' Glanvill.
There is no disagreeance where is faith in Jesus After they have juggled and paltered with the
Christ, and consent of mind together in one accord. world, banded and borne arms against their king. di.

Disapprovę (dis-ap-pröv), v.t. pret. & pp. Udall. vested him, disanointed him, nay cursed him, all over disapproved; ppr. disapproving. [Prefix Disagreement (dis-a-grē'ment), n. [Prefix

in their pulpits.

Milton. dis, priv., and approve; Fr. désapprouver. ] dis, priv., and agreement.) 1. Want of Disapparel (dis-ap-pa'rel), v.t. (Prefix dis,

1. To dislike; to condemn in opinion or judgagreement; difference, either inform or priv., and apparel.) To disrobe; to strip of ment; to censure as wrong; as, we often dis. essence; dissimilitude; diversity, as, the raiment.

approve the conduct of others or public disagreement of two ideas, of two pictures, Disappear (dis-ap-pēr'), v.i. [Dis and ap. measures, whether we express an opinion of two stories or narrations.

pear.] 1. To vanish from the sight; to recede or not. It is generally followed by of; as, They carry plain and evident notes either of dis. from the view; to go away or out of sight;

to disapprove of behaviour.—2. To refuse agreement or affinity.

Iloodward. to cease to appear or to be perceived; to be official approbation to; to reject, as not 2. Difference of opinion or sentiments. no longer seen.

approved of; to decline to sanction; as, the As touching their several opinions about the ne. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading

sentence of the court-martial was disapcessity of sacraments, in truth their disagreement is

colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and proved by the commander-in-chief.

Hooker, not great.

disappear.

Locke. Disapprove (dis-ap-próv'), v.i. To express 3. Unsuitableness; unfitness.

The black earth yawns: the mortal disappears: or feel disapproval.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Tennyson,
From these different relations of different things

There is no reason to believe that they ever dis.
there necessarily arises an agreement or disagree. 2. To cease, or seem to cease, to be or approve where the thing objected to is the execution
ment of some things to others.
Clarke. exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared.

of some order unquestionably proceeding from the Disappearance (dis-ap-pèr'ans), n.

Emperor. 4. A falling out; a quarrel; discord. -SYN.

Act of

Brougham. Difference, diversity, unlikeness, discrep- disappearing; removal from sight.

Disapprovingly (dis-ap-pröv'ing-li), adv. ancy, variance, dissent, misunderstanding, Disappendency (lis-ap-pend'en-si), n. De- By disapprobation. dissension, division, dispute, discord. tachment from a former connection; sepa

Disard + (dis-ard'), n. [A. Sax. dysig, foolish.) Disallieget (dis-al-lēj'), v.t.

ration. (Prefix dis,

A foolish fellow; a dizzard.

Burn.
priv., and allegiance, influenced by liege. Disappoint (dis-ap-point'), v.t. (Dis and

Disarm (dis-arm'), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., and
To alienate from allegiance.
appoint; properly, to unfix or unsettle.)

arm.] 1. To deprive of arms; to take the And what greater dividing than by a pernicious 1. To defeat of expectation, wish, hope, de

arms or weapons from, usually by force or and hostile pence, to disalliege a whole feudary sire, or intention; to frustrate; to balk; to

authority; as, he dısarmed his foes; the kingdom from the ancient dominion of England? hinder from the possession or enjoyment of

prince gave orders to disarm his subjects: Milton. that which was intended, desired, hoped,

with of before the thing taken away; as, to Disallow (dis-al-lou), v.t. (Prefix dis, neg.,

or expected; as, a man is disappointed

disarm one of his weapons. Specificallyand alloc.] 1. To refuse permission; not of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes,

2. To reduce to a peace footing, as an army or to permit; to refuse to sanction; not to desires, intentions, or expectations are dis

navy.--3. To deprive of means of attack or grant; not to make or regard as lawful; not appointed; a bad season disappoints the

defence; to render innocuous or defenceto authorize; to disapprove. farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an

less; as, to disarm a venomous serpent. They disallowed self-defence, second marriages, enemy of his spoil.

Security disarms the best appointed army. and usury, Bentley.

Fuller. Without counsel purposes are disappointed. 2. To testify dislike or disapprobation; to

Prov. xv. 22.

4. To deprive of force, strength, means of refuse assent. 2. To frustrate; to hinder of intended effect;

annoyance, or power to terrify; to render But if he father shall disallow her in the day that to foil.

harmless; to quell; as, to disarm rage or he hearcth; not any of her vows or her bonds

The retiring foe

passion; religion disarms death of its tershall stand. Num. XXX. 5. Shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the

rors. 3. Not to approve; not to receive; to reject;

blow.

Addison. Disarm (dis-ärm'), v.i. To lay down arms: to disown.

Syn. To frustrate, balk, baffle, delude, foil, specifically, to reduce armaments to a peace To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed defeat.

footing; to dismiss or disband troops; as, the indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious. Disappointed (dis-ap-point'ed), p. and a.

nations were then disarming. I Pet. ii. 4.

Defeated of expectation, hope, desire, or Disarmament (dis-arm'a-ment), n. 4. Not to allow; to reject or strike out, as

Act of design; having suffered disappointment.

disarming; the reduction of military and illegal, unnecessary, unauthorized, and the

naval forces from a war to a peace footing. like; as, the auditor disallowed a number of Disappointedt (dis-ap-point'ed), a. (Prefix dis, neg., and appointed.) Not or ill ap

Disarmature (dis-arm'a-tur), n. itenis in ihe account.--SYN. To disapprove,

The act prohibit, censure, condemn, reject.

pointed or prepared; unprepared.

of disarming; the act of divesting one's self

or another of any equipment; divestiture. Disallow (dis-al-lou'), v.i. To refuse per- Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,

Shak.

Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd. mission or assent; not to permit.

On the universities, which have illegally dropt

philosophy and its training from their course of disWhat follows if we disallow of this? Shak. Disappointment (dis-ar-pointment), n.

cipline, will lie the responsibility of this singular and Disallowable (dis-al-lou'a-bl), a. [Prefix Defeat or failure of expectation, hope, wish,

Sir W. Hamilton.

dangerous disarmature. desire, or intention; miscarriage of design or Disarmed (dis-ärmd'), p. and a. 1. Depriveil dix, neg., and allowable.) Not allowable;

plan. able; not to be suffered.

of arms; stripped of the means of defence

If we hope for things, of which we have not thor. Disallowableness (dis-al-lou'a-bl-nes), n. oughly considered the value, our disappointment

or annoyance; rendered harmless; subdued. The state of being disallowable. will be greater than our pleasure in the fruition of

2. In her, a term applied to an animal or Disallowance (dis-al-lou'ans), n. Disappro

them.

Addison bird of prey without claws, teeth, or beak. bation; refusal to admit or permit; prohi- Disappreciate (dis-ap-prē'shi-āt), v.t. (Pre- Disarmer (dis-arm'er), n. One who disarms. bition; rejection.

fix dis, and appreciate.] To undervalue; not Disarrange (dis-a-ranj), v. t. [Prefix dis, God accepts of a thing suitable for him to receive. to appreciate.

priv., and arrange.) To put out of order; ant for us to give, where he does not declare his Disapprobation (dis-ap' pro-bā"shon), n.

to unsettle or disturb the order or due arrefusal and disallonance of it.

South.

(Prefix dis, priv., and approbation.) The act rangement of; to derange. Disally (dis-al-li'), v.t. [Prefix dis = mis, in of disapproving: disapproval; the act of the This disarranges all our established ideas. a bad sense) To join in, or as in, an unholy mind which condemns what is supposed to

Warton.

We could hardly alter one word, or disarrange one or illegal alliance. So loosely disallied be wrong, whether the act is expressed or

meinber without spoiling it. Few sentences are to their nuptials.' Milton, Sams. Agon. 1. 1022. not; censure, expressed or unexpressed. be found more finished or more happy. Blair.

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Disarrangement (dis-a-rānj'ment), n. The Disavowal (dis-a-vou’al), n. Denial; dis- Disbord + (dis- bord'), v. i. [Fr, déborder, to act of disturbing order or method; disorder. owning; rejection; repudiation.

disembark - de, and bord, a bank, border.) Disarray (ilis-a-rā'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv.,

An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from

To disembark. Chapman. and array.) 1. To undress; to divest of

fear.

Richardson.

Disboscationt (dis-bos-ka'shon), n. The act clothes. Half disarrayed as to her rest.' Disavowance (dis - a - vou'ans), n.

of disatforesting; the act of converting

DisTennyson.--2. To throw into disorder; to avowal. · Denial and disa rouance of this

woodland into arable land. Scott. rout, as troops. point.' South

Disbowel (dis-bou'el), v. t. pret. & pp disGreat Amythaon, who with fiery steeds Disavower (dis-a-vou'ér), n. One who dis

burelled; ppr. disbouelling. (Prefix dis, and Oft disarnayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton,

bowel ] To take out the intestines; to disavows. Disarray (dis-a-rā'), v.i. To undress or strip Disavowment+ (dis-a-vou'ment), n.

embowel De

Spenser. (Rare.) one's self. nial; a disowning.

Disbranch (dis-bransh'), v.t. (Prefix dis, and Disarray (dis-a-rā'), n. 1. Disorder; confuDisband (dis-band), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv.,

branch.) To cut off or separate, as the sion; loss or want of array or regular order.

branch of a tree. (Rare.] and band; Fr. débander.] 1. To dismiss Disarray and shameful rout ensue. Dryden. from military service; to break up, as a band

Disbud (dis-bud'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and 2. Undress. or body of men enlisted; as, to dixband an

bud.) To deprive of buds or shoots; to reAnd him behold a wicked hag did stalke, army or a regiment; to disband troops.

move the buds of, as a tree, before they have In ragged robes and filthy disaray, Spenser. 2. To scatter; to disperse.

had time to grow into young branches. This

is done not only for the purpose of training, Disarticulate (dis-är-tik'ü-lāt), v. t. To Some imagine that a quantity of water, sufficient

but also in order that there may be a greater divide, separate, or sunder the joints of.

to make such a deluge, was created upon that occa.

sion; and when the business was done, all disbanded supply of nourishment for the development Disassent+ (dis-as-sent'), n. Dissent. “As.

again, and annihilated.

Woodward. of those buds which are allowed to remain. sent or disassent.' Ilall. Disassentert (cis-as-sent'er), n. One who

3. To loosen; to unbind; to set free; to Disburden (dis-hér'den ), ot. [Prefix dis, refuses to assent or concur; a dissenter. divorce; to dismiss; to discard.

priv., and burden. See BURDEN) 1. To re

move a burden from; to rid of a burden; to State Trials.

And therefore . . . she ought to be disbanded, Disassiduitył (dis-as-si-dū'i-ti), n. (Prefix Disband (dis-band'), v.i.

Millon.

relieve of anything weighty, oppressive, or

1. To retire from annoying; to disencumber; to unburden; dis, neg., and assiduity.) Want of assiduity or care; want of attention; inatten

military service; to separate; to break up; to unload. tion; carelessness.

as, the army, at the close of the war, dis- He did it to disburden a conscience. Feltham,

bands. He came in ... and, through disassiduity, drew

My meditations ... will, I hope, be more calm, the curtain between himself and her grace.

Our navy was upon the point of disbanding;

being thus disburdened.

Sidney.

Bacon.
Sir R. Naunton.
Disassociate (dis-as-so'shi-āt), v.t. [Prefix
2. To separate; to dissolve connection.

2. To lay off or aside as oppressive or an. [Rare.) dis, priv., and associate.) To disunite; to

noying; to get rid of; to relieve one's self

of. disconnect things associated. 'Our mind

Human society may disband. Tillotson,

I yet may disburden a passion. Shak. disa ssociating herself from the body.' Florio. 3. To be dissolved.

Disburden all thy cares on me.

Addison. Disaster (diz-as'ter), n. [Fr. désastre; It.

When both rocks and all things shall dishand, disastro-dis, and L. astrum, Gr. astron, a

3. To discharge the fæces; to ease by stool.

G. Herbert star. A word of astrological origin. Com- Disbandment (dis-band'ment), n. The act

Swift. --SYN. To unload, discharge, disenpare the adj. disastrous with ill-starred; and of disbanding

cumber, lighten, disembarrass, free, relieve. see STAR.) 1.1 An unfavourable aspect of Disbar (dis-bar), v.t. pret. & pp. disbarred; Disburden (dis-ber den), v.i. To ease the a star or planet; an ill portent; a blast or ppr. disbarring In lau, to expel from the

mind; to be relieved.

Adam stroke of an unfavourable planet. Dis- bar, as a barrister; as, the benchers of the

Thus to disburden sought with sad complaint. asters in the sun.' Shak.--2. Misfortune; four Inns of Court have the power of dis

Wilton mishap; calamity; any unfortunate event, barring a barrister, subject to an appeal to Disburgeon (dis-ber'jon), e.t. (Prefix dis, especially a sudden misfortune; as, we met the juilges; in Scotland the Faculty of Ad- priv., and burgeon.) To strip of buds or with many disasters on the road. vocates can disbar a member.

burgeons. Nor will it be less my duty faithfully to record dis: Disbark (ilis-bark'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., Disburse (dis-bers'), v.t. pret. & pp. disaster's mingled with iriumphs, and great national and bark, a small ship; Fr. débarquer.] To bursed; ppr. disbursing. [Prefix dis, and crimes and follies far more humiliating than any dis.

land from a ship; to put on shore; to dis- burse, Fr. bourse, a purse. See BURSE.) To

Macaulay. aster. embark. (Rare.)

pay out, as money; to spend or lay out; to - Misfortune, Calamity, Disaster. See under

Disbark (dis-bark'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., expend MISFORTUNE.-SYN. Misfortune, mishap,

and baik.) To strip off the bark; to divest Disbursement (dis-bers'ment), n. (See Discalamity, mischance, misadventure, adver- of bark. Fir-trees unsquared and only BURSE.] 1. The act of paying out, as money sity, blow, infliction, catastrophe, reverse. disbarked.' Boyle.

from a public or private chest. -- 2. The Disaster (diz-as'ter), v.t. 1. To blast by the Disbecomet (dis-be-kum'), v.t. To misbe- money or sum paid out; expenditure; as, the stroke of an unlucky planet. Spenser.

Massinger.

annual disbursements exceed the income. 2. To injure; to afflict. Thomson.—3. To Disbelief (dis-De-lēf'), n. [Prefix dis, neg., Disburser (dis-bers'ér), n. One who pays blemish; to disfigure.

and belief. 1 1. Refusal of credit or faith; out or disburses money. The holes where eyes should be which pitifully denial of belief; unbelief.

Disburthen (dis-bêr'then), v.t. and i. To disaster the checks.

Shak.
Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the

disburden (which see). Disasterlyt (diz-as'tėr-li), adv. Disastrously. nature of the thing.

Tillotson. Disc, Disk (disk), n. (L. discus. See DISH Drayton.

2. A system of error. Nugatory disbeliefs and DESK.) 1. À quoit; a circular piece of Disastrous (diz-as'trus), a. 1. Gloomy; dis- wound off and done with' J. Taylor. stone, iron, or copper, used by the ancients mal; threatening disaster. [Rare.)

in games. As when the sun

Disbelieve (dis-he-lēv'), v.t. pret. & pp. dis- Some whirl the disk, and some the jav'lin dart. In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton. believed; ppr. disbelieving. (Prefix dis, neg.,

Pope. 2. Unlucky; unfortunate; calamitous; oc- and believe. ] Not to believe; to hold not to 2. Any flat, circular plate or surface, as of a casioning loss or injury ; as, the day was be true or not to exist; to refuse to credit; piece of metal, the face of the sun, moon, disastrous; the battle proved disastrous. as, some men disbelieve the inspiration of or a planet, as it appears projected in the Fly the pursuit of my disastrous love. Dryden. the Scriptures and the immortality of the

heavens, the width of the aperture of a Disastrously (diz-as'trus-li), adv. Unforsoul.

telescope glass, &c. tunately, in a dismal manner.

Disbelieve (dis-bē-lēv), v.i. Not to believe; So through the Plymouth woods John Alden went on Disastrousness (diz-as'trus-nes), n. Unforto deny the truth of any position; to refuse

his errand, tunateness; calamitousness. to believe in anything; especially, to refuse

Came to an open space and saw the disk of the ocean,

Longfellow Disattach (dis-at-tach'), v.t. (Prefix dis,

belief in a divine revelation. priv., and attach.) To unfasten; to unloose; As doubt attacked faith, unbelief has avenged faith

3. In bot. (a) the name given to the markings to sever; to break the connection of.

by destroying doubt, Men cease to doubt when on the woody fibre of certain trees, as the they disbelieve outright.

Card. Manning. conifers, as seen in a longitudinal section of Disattachment (dis-at-tach'ment), n. The

One who the wood. These discs sometimes appear act of unfixing, or state of being unfixed; Disbeliever (dis-be-lēv'ér), n. disengagement; separation; detachment. refuses belief; one who denies a thing to be

as simple discs, and Disauthorize (dis-a'thor-īz), v.t. (Prefix dis, true or real; an unbeliever.

sometimes with smal

ler circles in the cenpriv., and authorize.) To deprive of credit An humble soul is frighted into sentiments, because or authority. (Rare. ) a man of great name pronounces heresy upon the

tre. They are formed Disavaunce, t v. t.

by concavities on the (Fr.) To drive back.

contrary sentiments, and casts the disbeliever out
of the Church.

Watts.

outside of the walls Chaucer. Disbench (dis-bensh), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv.,

of contiguous tubes, Disaventure, t n. (Fr.) Misfortune. Chauand bench.] 1. To drive from, or cause to

closely applied to each leave, a bench or seat. (Rare.]

other so as to form Disavoucht (dis-a-vouch'), v.t. [Prefix dis,

Shak.

Sir, I hope my words disbench'd you not. priv., and avouch. See Vow.) To disavow.

lenticular cavities beDisavow (dis-a-vou), v.t. [Prefix dis, 2. In law, to deprive of the status and privi

tween the vessels, like and avow. See Vow.) 1. To deny; to deny leges of a bencher.

two watch-glasses in

apposition In the to be true, as a fact or charge respecting Disbend ! (dis bend'), y.t. [Prefix dis, priv., one's self; as, he was charged with embez-, and bend. ] To unbend; to relax; hence, fig.

centre of the depres. zlement, but he disa rows the fact; he may to render unfit for efficient action.

sion there is a canal, disa row his name or signature. Opposed to

often funnel - shaped, As liberty a courage doth impart, own or acknowledge.-2. To disclaim or deny

So bordage doth disbend, else break, the heart. Disc-bearing Wood-cells and the part of the

Stirling:

of the Pine. responsibility for; to disown; to reject.

tube corresponding to Disbind 1 (dis-bind'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv.,

it being thus thinner Kings may say, We cannot trust this ambassador's

and bind.] To unbind; to loosen. Mede. than the surrounding texture gives the undertakings, because his senate may disruow him.

Rrougham.

Disblamet (dis-blām'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., aspect of the smaller circle in the centre. 3. To disprove; to prove the contrary of.

and blame.) To exonerate from blame. When this smaller circle appears in the

Disbodiedt (dis-bo'did), a. (Prefix dis, priv., centre of the discs the woody tissue is said Yet can they never Toss into air the freedom of my birth,

and body.] Disembodied. 'Disbodied souls. to be glandular or punctated. Figs. a a Or disavow my blood Plantagenet's. Ford. Glanvill.

show the discs. When a thin section is

come.

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