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Dint

DINT, noun

1. A blow; a stroke.

2. Force; violence; power exerted; as, to win by dint of arms, by dint of war, by dint of argument or importunity.

3. The mark made by a blow; a cavity or impression made by a blow or by pressure on a substance; often pronounced dent.

His hands had made a dint

DINT, verb transitive To make a mark or cavity on a substance by a blow or by pressure. [See Indent.]

Dinted

DINTED, participle passive Marked by a blow or by pressure; as deep-dinted furrows.

Dinting

DINTING, participle present tense Impressing marks or cavities.

Dinumeration

DINUMERATION, noun The act of numbering singly. [Little used.]

Diocesan

DIOCESAN, adjective [See Diocese. The accent on the first and on the third syllable is nearly equal. The accent given to this word int he English books is wrong, almost to ridiculousness.] Pertaining to a diocese.

DIOCESAN, noun A bishop; one in possession of a diocese, and having the ecclesiastical jurisdiction over it.

Diocese

DIOCESE, noun [Gr., administration, a province or jurisdiction; residence; to dwell; a house. diocese is a very erroneous orthography.] The circuit or extent of a bishops jurisdiction; an ecclesiastical division of a kingdom or state, subject to the authority of a bishop. In England there are two provinces or circuits of archbishops jurisdiction, Canterbury and York. The province of Canterbury contains twenty-one dioceses, and that of York three, besides the isle of Man. Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries, of which there are sixty; and each archdeaconry, into rural deaneries; and every deanery, into parishes. A diocese was originally a division of the Roman empire for the purpose of civil government, a prefecture. But the term is now exclusively appropriated to ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

Dioctahedral

DIOCTAHEDRAL, adjective [Dis and octahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of an octahedral prism with tetrahedral summits.

Diodon

DIODON, noun The sun-fish; a genus of fishes of a singular form, appearing like the fore part of the body of a deep fish amputated in the middle.

Diomede

DIOMEDE, noun An aquatic fowl of the webfooted kind, about the size of a common domestic hen, but its neck and legs much longer.

Diopside

DIOPSIDE, noun [Gr.] A rare mineral, regarded by Hauy as a variety of augite, and called by Jameson a subspecies of oblique-edged augite, occurring in prismatic crystals, of a vitreous luster, and of a pale green, or a greenish or yellowish white. The variety with four-sided prims has been called Mussite, from Mussa in Piedmont. It resembles the Sahlite.

Dioptase

DIOPTASE, noun Emerald copper ore, a translucent mineral, occurring crystalized in six-sided prisms.

Dioptric

DIOPTRIC, DIOPTRICAL, adjective [Gr., to see through; to see.]

Dioptrical

DIOPTRIC, DIOPTRICAL adjective [Gr., to see through; to see.]

1. Affording a medium for the sight; assisting the sight in the view of distant objects; as a dioptric glass.

2. Pertaining to dioptrics, or the science of refracted light.

Dioptrics

DIOPTRICS, noun That part of optics which treats of the refractions of light passing through different mediums, as through air, water or glass.

Diorism

DIORISM, noun [Gr.] Definition. [Rarely used.]

Dioristic

DIORISTIC, adjective Distinguishing; defining. [Rarely used.]

Dioristically

DIORISTICALLY, adverb In a distinguishing manner. [Rarely used.]

Dip

DIP, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive dipped or dipt. [G.]

1. To plunge or immerse, for a moment or short time, in water or other liquid substance; to put into a fluid and withdraw.

The priest shall dip his finger int he blood. .

Let him dip his foot in oil. .

One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre.

2. To take with a ladle or other vessel by immersing it in a fluid, as to dip water from a boiler; often with out, as to dip out water.

3. To engage; to take concern; used intransitively, but the passive participle is used.

He was a little dipt in the rebellion of the commons.

4. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Little used.]

5. To moisten; to wet. [Unusual.]

6. To baptize by immersion.

DIP, verb intransitive

1. To sink; to emerge in a liquid.

2. To enter; to pierce.

3. To engage; to take a concern; as, to dip into the funds.

4. To enter slightly; to look cursorily, or here and there; as, to dip into a volume of history.

5. To choose by chance; to thrust and take.

6. To incline downward; as, the magnetic needle dips. [See Dipping.]

DIP, noun Inclination downward; a sloping; a direction below a horizontal line; depression; as the dip of the needle. The dip of a stratum, in geology, is its greatest inclination to the horizon, or that on a line perpendicular to its direction or course; called also the pitch.

Dip-Chick

DIP-CHICK, noun A small bird that dives.

Dipetalous

DIPETALOUS, adjective [Gr., a leaf or petal.] Having two flower-leaves or petals; two-petaled.

Diph-Thong

DIPH-THONG, noun [Gr., sound; Latin ] A coalition or union of two vowels pronounced in one syllable. In uttering a diphthong, both vowels are pronounced; the sound is not simple, but the two sounds are so blended as to be considered as forming one syllable, as in joy, noise, bound, out. [The pronunciation dipthong is vulgar.]

Diphthongal

DIPHTHONGAL, adjective Belonging to a diphthong; consisting of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable.

Diphyllous

DIPHYLLOUS, adjective [Gr., a leaf.] In botany, having two leaves, as a calyx, etc.

Diploe

DIPLOE, noun [Gr., double.] The soft meditullium, medullary substance, or porous part, between the plates of the skull.

Diploma

DIPLOMA, noun [Gr., to double or fold. Anciently, a letter or other composition written on paper or parchment and folded; afterwards, an y letter, literary monument, or public document.] A letter or writing conferring some power, authority, privilege or honor. Diplomas are given to graduates of colleges on their receiving the usual degrees; to clergymen who are licensed to exercise the ministerial functions; to physicians who are licensed to practice their profession; and to agents who are authorized to transact business fro their principals. A diploma then is a writing or instrument, usually under seal and signed by the proper person or officer, conferring merely honor, as int he case of graduates, or authority, as int he case of physicians, agents, etc.

Diplomacy

DIPLOMACY, noun [This word, like supremacy, retains the accent of its original.]

1. The customs, rules and privileges of embassadors, envoys and other representatives of princes and states at foreign courts; forms of negotiation.

2. A diplomatic body the whole body of ministers at a foreign court.

3. The agency or management of ministers at a foreign court.

Diplomated

DIPLOMATED, adjective Made by diplomas.

Diplomatic

DIPLOMATIC, adjective

1. Pertaining to diplomas; privileged.

2. Furnished with a diploma; authorized by letters or credentials to transact business for a sovereign at a foreign court. Ministers at a court are denominated a diplomatic body.

3. Pertaining to ministers at a foreign court, or to men authorized by diploma; as a diplomatic character; diplomatic management.

DIPLOMATIC, noun A minister, official agent or envoy to a foreign court.

Diplomatics

DIPLOMATICS, noun The science of diplomas, or of ancient writings, literary and public documents, letters, decrees, charters, codicils, etc., which has for its object to decipher old writings, to ascertain their authenticity, their dat, signatures, etc.

Dipper

DIPPER, noun

1. One that dips; he or that which dips.

2. A vessel used to dip water or other liquor; a ladle.

Dipping

DIPPING, participle present tense

1. Plunging or immersing into a liquid and speedily withdrawing, as to ascertain the temperature of water by dipping the finger int it; baptizing by immersion.

2. Engaging or taking a concern in.

3. Looking into here and there; examining in a cursory, slight or hasty manner.

4. Inclining downward, as the magnetic needle.

5. Breaking; inclining; as a vein of ore.

DIPPING, noun

1. The act of plunging or immersing.

2. The act of inclining towards the earth; inclination downwards; as the dipping of the needle.

3. The interruption of a vein of ore, or stratum of a fossil, in a mine; or a sloping downwards.

4. The act of baptizing by the immersion of the whole body in water.

Dipping-Needle

DIPPING-NEEDLE, noun A needle that dips; a magnetic needle which dips or inclines to the earth; an instrument which shows the inclination of the magnet, at the different points of the earths surface. In the equatorial regions, the needle takes a horizontal position; but as we recede from the equator towards either pole, it dips or inclines one end to the earth, the north end, as we proceed northward, and the south end, as we proceed southward, and the farther north or south we proceed, the greater is the dip or inclination. This is on the supposition that the poles of the earth and the magnetic poles coincide, which is not the case. The above statement is strictly true, only of the magnetic equator and its poles.

Diprismatic

DIPRISMATIC, adjective [di and prismatic.] Doubly prismatic.

Dipsas

DIPSAS, noun [gr., dry, thirsty; to thirst.] A serpent whose bite produces a mortal thirst. See .

Dipter

DIPTER, DIPTERA, noun [Gr., a wing.] The dipters are an order of insects having only two wings, and two poisers, as the fly.

Diptera

DIPTER, DIPTERA noun [Gr., a wing.] The dipters are an order of insects having only two wings, and two poisers, as the fly.

Dipteral

DIPTERAL, adjective Having two wings only.

Diptote

DIPTOTE, noun [Gr., to fall.] In grammar, a noun which has only two cases; as, suppetiae, supetias.

Diptych

DIPTYCH, noun [Gr., to fold.] A public register of the names of consuls and other magistrates among pagans; and of bishops, martyrs and others, among Christians; so called because it sometimes two leaves folded, but is sometimes contained three or more leaves. The sacred diptych was a double catalogue, in one of which were registered the names of the living, and in the other the names of the dead, which were to be rehearsed during the office.

Dipyre

DIPYRE, noun A mineral occurring in minute prisms, either single or adhering to each other in fascicular groups. Before the blowpipe, it melts with ebullition or intumescence, and its powder on hot coals phosphoresces with a feeble light. Its name, from Gr., two; fire, indicates the double effect of fire, in producing fusion and phosphorescence.

Dire

DIRE, adjective [Latin] Dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; evil in a great degree.

DIRE was the tossing, deep the groans.

Direct

DIRECT, adjective [Latin , to make straight. See Right.]

1. Straight; right; as, to pass in a direct line from one body or place to another. It is opposed to crooked, winding, oblique. It is also opposed to refracted; as a direct ray of light.

2. In astronomy, appearing to move forward in the zodiac, in the direction of the sign; opposed to retrograde; as, the motion of a planet is direct

3. In the line of father and sons; opposed to collateral; as a descendant in the direct line.

4. Leading or tending to an end, as by a straight line or course; not circuitous. Thus we speak of direct means to effect an object; a direct course; a direct way.

5. Open; not ambiguous or doubtful.

6. Plain; express; not ambiguous; as, he said this in direct words; he made a direct acknowledgment.

7. In music, a direct interval is that which forms any kind of harmony on the fundamental sound which produces it; as the fifth, major third and octave.

DIRECT tax, is a tax assess on real estate, as houses and lands.

DIRECT, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To point or aim in a straight line, towards a place or object; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance; to direct the eye; to direct a course or flight.

2. To point; to show the right road or course; as, he directed me to the left hand road.

3. To regulate; to guide or lead; to govern; to cause to proceed in a particular manner; as, to direct the affairs of a nation.

Wisdom is profitable to direct .

4. To prescribe a course; to mark out a way. .

5. To order; to instruct; to point out a course of proceeding, with authority; to command. But direct is a softer term than command.

DIRECT, noun In music, a character placed at the end of a stave to direct the performer to the first note of the next stave.

Directed

DIRECTED, participle passive Aimed; pointed; guided; regulated; governed; ordered; instructed.

Directer

DIRECTER, noun A director, which see.

Directing

DIRECTING, participle present tense Aiming; pointing; guiding; regulating; governing; ordering.

Direction

DIRECTION, noun [Latin]

1. Aim at a certain point; a pointing towards, in a straight line or course; as, the direction of good works to a good end.

2. The line in which a body moves by impulse; course. Matter or body cannot alter the direction of its own motion.

3. A straight line or course. A star appeared int eh direction of a certain tower. The ship sailed in a south-easterly direction

4. The act of governing; administration; management; guidance; superintendence; as the direction of public affairs; direction of domestic concerns; the direction of a bank.

5. Regularity; adjustment.

All chance, direction which thou canst not see.

6. Order; prescription; either verbal or written; instruction in what manner to proceed. The employer gives directions to his workmen; the physician, to his patient.

7. The superscription of a letter, including the name, title and place of abode of the person for whom it is intended.

8. A body or board of directors.

Directive

DIRECTIVE, adjective

1. Having the power of direction; as a directive rule.

2. Informing; instructing; shewing way.

Directly

DIRECTLY, adverb

1. In a straight lin or course; rectilineally; not in a winding course. Aim directly to the object. Gravity tends directly to the center of the earth.

2. Immediately; soon; without delay; as, he will be with us directly

3. Openly; expressly, without circumlocution or ambiguity, or without a train or inferences.

No man hath been so impious, as directly to condemn prayer.

Directness

DIRECTNESS, noun Straightness; a straight course; nearness of way.

Director

DIRECTOR, noun

1. One who directs; one who superintends, governs or manages; one who prescribes to others, by virtue of authority; an instructor; a counselor.

2. That which directs; a rule; an ordinance.

3. One appointed to transact the affairs of a company; as the director of a bank, or of the India Company.

4. That which directs or controls by influence.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.

5. In surgery, a grooved probe, intended to direct the edge of the knife or scissors in opening sinuses or fistulae; a guide for and incision-knife.

Directorial

DIRECTORIAL, adjective Pertaining to directors or direction; containing direction or command.

Directress

DIRECTRESS, noun A female who directs or manages.

Directrix

DIRECTRIX, noun A female who governs or directs.

Direful

DIREFUL, adjective [See Dire.] Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; as direful fiend; a direful misfortune.

Direfully

DIREFULLY, adverb Dreadfully; terribly; woefully.

Diremption

DIREMPTION, noun [Latin] A separation.

Direness

DIRENESS, noun Terribleness; horror; dismalness.

Direption

DIREPTION, noun [Latin] The act of plundering.

Dirge

DIRGE, noun Durj. [Latin , a word used in the funeral service.] A song or tune intended to express grief, sorrow and mourning; as a funeral dirge

Dirigent

DIRIGENT, DIRECTRIX, noun [See Direct.] In geometry, the line of motion along which the describent line or surface is carried in the generation of any plane or solid figure.

Dirk

DIRK, noun Durk. A kind of dagger or poniard.

DIRK, adjective Durk. Dark.

DIRK, verb transitive durk.

1. To darken.

2. To poniard; to stab.

Dirt

DIRT, n durt.

1. Any foul or filthy substance; excrement; earth; mud; mire; dust; whatever adhering to any thing, renders it foul or unclean.

The fat closed, and the dirt came out. .

Whose waters cast up mire and dirt .

2. Meanness; sordidness. [Not in use.]

DIRT, verb transitive durt. To make foul or filthy; to soil; to bedaub; to pollute; to defile.

Dirtily

DIRTILY, adverb Durtily. [from dirty.]

1. In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily.

2. Meanly; sordidly; by low means.

Dirtiness

DIRTINESS, noun Durtiness.

1. Filthiness; foulness; nastiness.

2. Meanness; baseness; sordidness.

Dirty

DIRTY, adjective Durty.

1. Foul; nasty; filthy; not clean; as dirty hands.

2. Not clean; not pure; turbid; as dirty water.

3. Cloudy; dark; dusky; as a dirty white.

4. Mean; base; low; despicable; groveling; as a dirty fellow; a dirty employment.

DIRTY, verb transitive durty.

1. To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.

2. To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; applied to reputation.

Diruption

DIRUPTION, noun [Latin , to burst.] A bursting or rending asunder. [See Disruption.]

Dis

DIS, a prefix or inseparable preposition, from the Latin, whence Fr. Des, Sp. dis and de may in some instances be the same word contracted. dis denotes separation, a parting from; hence it has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. In some cases, it still signifies separation, as in distribute, disconnect.

Disability

DISABILITY, noun [from disable.]

1. Want of competent natural or bodily power, strength or ability; weakness; impotence; as disability arising from infirmity or broken limbs.

2. Want of competent intellectual power or strength of mind; incapacity; as the disability of a deranged person to reason or to make contracts.

3. Want of competent means or instruments. [In this sense, inability is generally used.]

4. Want of legal qualifications; incapacity; as a disability to inherit an estate, when the ancestor has been attainted. [In this sense, it has a plural.]

DISABILITY differs from inability, in denoting deprivation of ability; whereas inability denotes destitution of ability, either by deprivation or otherwise.

Disable

DISABLE, verb transitive [dis and able.]

1. To render unable; to deprive of competent natural strength or power. A man is disabled to walk by a broken or paralytic leg, by sickness, etc.

2. To deprive of mental power, as by destroying or weakening the understanding.

3. To deprive of adequate means, instruments or resources. A nation may be disabled to carry on war by want of money. The loss of a ship may disable a man to prosecute commerce, or to pay his debts.

4. To destroy the strength; or to weaken and impair so as to render incapable of action, service or resistance. A fleet is disabled by a storm, or by a battle. A ship is disabled by the loss of her masts or spars.

5. To destroy or impair and weaken the means which render any thing active, efficacious or useful; to destroy or diminish any competent means.

6. To deprive of legal qualifications, or competent power; to incapacitate; to render incapable.

An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood and disables his children to inherit.

Disabled

DISABLED, participle passive Deprived of competent power, corporeal or intellectual; rendered incapable; deprived of means.

Disablement

DISABLEMENT, noun Weakness; disability; legal impediment.

Disabling

DISABLING, participle present tense Rendering unable or incapable; depriving of adequate power or capacity, or of legal qualifications.

Disabuse

DISABUSE, verb transitive disabuze. [See Abuse.] To free from mistake; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right. It is our duty to disabuse ourselves of false notions and prejudices.

If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, hypocrisy and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history.

Disabused

DISABUSED, participle passive Disabuzed. Undeceived.

Disabusing

DISABUSING, participle present tense Disabuzing. Undeceiving.

Disaccommodate

DISACCOMMODATE, verb transitive [dis and accommodate.] To put to inconvenience.

Disaccommodation

DISACCOMMODATION, noun [dis and accommodation.] A state of being unaccommodated; a state of being unprepared.

Disaccord

DISACCORD, verb intransitive [dis and accord.] To refuse assent. [Not used.]

Disaccustom

DISACCUSTOM, verb transitive [dis and accustom.] To neglect familiar or customary practice; to destroy the force of habit by disuse.

Disaccustomed

DISACCUSTOMED, participle passive Disused; having neglected practice or familiar use.

Disacknowledge

DISACKNOWLEDGE, verb transitive [dis and acknowledge.] To deny; to disown.

Disacknowledged

DISACKNOWLEDGED, participle passive Denied; disowned.

Disacknowledging

DISACKNOWLEDGING, participle present tense Denying; disowning.

Disacquaint

DISACQUAINT, verb transitive [See Acquaint.] To dissolve acquaintance. [Little used.]

Disacquaintance

DISACQUAINTANCE, noun Neglect or disuse of familiarity, or familiar knowledge of.

Disadorn

DISADORN, verb transitive To deprive of ornaments.

Disadvance

DISADVANCE, verb transitive or I. To check; to halt. [Not in use.]

Disadvantage

DISADVANTAGE, noun

1. That which prevents success, or renders it difficult; a state not favorable to successful operation. The army commenced an attack on the enemy, notwithstanding the disadvantage of its position.

2. Any unfavorable state; a state in which some loss or injury may be sustained. Hence,

3. Loss; injury; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good; as, to sell goods to disadvantage

DISADVANTAGE, verb transitive To injure in interest; to prejudice.

Disadvantageable

DISADVANTAGEABLE, adjective Not advantageous. [Not in use.]

Disadvantageous

DISADVANTAGEOUS, adjective Unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; not adapted to promote interest, reputation or other good; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. We are apt to view characters int eh most disadvantageous lights.

Disadvantageously

DISADVANTAGEOUSLY, adverb In a manner not favorable to success, or to interest, profit or reputation; with loss or inconvenience.

Disadvantageousnes

DISADVANTAGEOUSNESS, noun Unfavorableness to success; inconvenience; loss.

Disadventure

DISADVENTURE, noun Misfortune. [Not used.]

Disadventurous

DISADVENTUROUS, adjective Unprosperous. [Not used.]

Disaffect

DISAFFECT, verb transitive [dis and affect.]

1. To alienate affection; to make less friendly to; to make less faithful to a person, party or cause, or less zealous to support it; to make discontented or unfriendly ; as, an attempt was made to disaffect the army.

2. To disdain, or dislike.

3. To throw into disorder.

Disaffected

DISAFFECTED, participle passive or adjective Having the affections alienated; indisposed to favor or support; unfriendly; followed by with or to; as, these men are disaffected with the government, or disaffected to the king, or to the administration.

Disaffectedly

DISAFFECTEDLY, adverb In a disaffected manner.

Disaffectedness

DISAFFECTEDNESS, noun The quality of being disaffected.

Disaffecting

DISAFFECTING, participle present tense Alienating the affections; making less friendly.

Disaffection

DISAFFECTION, noun

1. Alienation of affection, attachment or good will; want of affection; or more generally, positive enmity, dislike or unfriendliness; disloyalty. It generally signifies more than indifference; as the disaffection of people to their prince or government; the disaffection of allies; disaffection to religion.

2. Disorder; bad constitution; in a physical sense. [Little used.]

Disaffectionate

DISAFFECTIONATE, adjective Not well disposed; not friendly.

Disaffirm

DISAFFIRM, verb transitive disafferm. [dis and affirm.]

1. To deny; to contradict.

2. To overthrow or annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal.

Disaffirmance

DISAFFIRMANCE, noun

1. Denial; negation; disproof; confutation.

2. Overthrow or annulment, by the decision of a superior tribunal; as disaffirmance of judgment.

Disaffirmed

DISAFFIRMED, participle passive Denied; contradicted; overthrown.

Disaffirming

DISAFFIRMING, participle present tense Denying; contradicting; annulling.

Disafforest

DISAFFOREST, verb transitive [dis and afforest.] To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to strip of forest laws and their oppressive privileges.

By Charter 9. Hen. III many forests were disafforested.

Disafforested

DISAFFORESTED, participle passive Stripped of forest privileges.

Disafforesting

DISAFFORESTING, participle present tense Depriving of forest privileges.

Disaggregate

DISAGGREGATE, verb transitive [dis and aggregate.] To separate an aggregate mass into its component parts.

Disaggregated

DISAGGREGATED, participle passive Separated, as an aggregate mass.

Disaggregating

DISAGGREGATING, participle present tense Separating, as the parts of an aggregate body.

Disaggregation

DISAGGREGATION, noun The act or operation of separating an aggregate body into its component parts.

Disagree

DISAGREE, verb intransitive [dis and agree.]=

1. To differ; to be not accordant or coincident; to be not the same; to be not exactly similar. Two ideas disagree when they are not the same, or when they are not exactly alike. The histories of th same fact often disagree

2. To differ, as in opinion; as, the best judges sometimes disagree

Who shall decide when doctors disagree?

3. To be unsuitable. Medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste.

4. To differ; to be in opposition.

Men often reject the plainest sense of scripture, because it disagrees with their reason or preconceived opinions.

It is usually followed by with. But we say, I disagree to your proposal. The use of from after disagree is not common.

Disagreeable

DISAGREEABLE, adjective

1. Contrary; unsuitable; not conformable; not congruous. [Little used.]

This conduct was disagreeable to her natural sincerity.

2. Unpleasing; offensive to the mind, or to the sense; but expressing less than disgusting and odious. Behavior may be disagreeable to our minds; food may be disagreeable to the taste; many things are disagreeable to the sight; sounds may be disagreeable to the ear, and odors to the smell. Whatever is disagreeable gives some pain or uneasiness.

Disagreeableness

DISAGREEABLENESS, noun

1. Unsuitableness; contrariety.

2. Unpleasantness; offensiveness to the mind, or to the senses; as the disagreeableness of anothers manners; the disagreeableness of a taste, sound or smell.

Disagreeably

DISAGREEABLY, adverb Unsuitable; unpleasantly; offensively.

Disagreeing

DISAGREEING, participle present tense Differing; not according or coinciding.

Disagreement

DISAGREEMENT, noun

1. Difference, either in form or essence; dissimilitude; diversity; as the disagreement of two ideas, of two pictures, of two stories or narrations.

2. Difference of opinion or sentiments.

3. Unsuitableness.

Disalliege

DISALLIEGE, verb transitive To alienate from allegiance. [Not in use.]

Disallow

DISALLOW, verb transitive [dis and allow.] To refuse permission, or not to permit; not to grant; not to make or suppose lawful; not to authorize; to disapprove. God disallows that Christians should conform to the immoral practices of the world. A good man disallows every kind of profaneness.

2. To testify dislike or disapprobation; to refuse assent.

But if her father shall disallow her int he day that he heareth, not nay of her vows or her bonds--shall stand. .

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

To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious. .

4. Not to allow or admit as just; to reject; as, to disallow an account or charge.

Disallowable

DISALLOWABLE, adjective Not allowable; not to be suffered.

Disallowance

DISALLOWANCE, noun Disapprobation; refusal to admit or permit; prohibition; rejection.

Disallowed

DISALLOWED, participle passive Not granted, permitted or admitted; disapproved; rejected.

Disallowing

DISALLOWING, participle present tense Not permitting; not admitting; disapproving; rejecting.

Disally

DISALLY, verb transitive [dis and ally.] To form an improper alliance.

Disanchor

DISANCHOR, verb transitive [dis and anchor.] To force from its anchors, as a ship.

Disangelical

DISANGELICAL, adjective Not angelical. [Not used.]

Disanimate

DISANIMATE, verb transitive [dis and animate.]

1. To deprive of life. [Not used.]

2. To deprive of spirit or courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to deject.

Disanimated

DISANIMATED, participle passive Discouraged; dispirited.

Disanimating

DISANIMATING, participle present tense Discouraging; disheartening.

Disanimation

DISANIMATION, noun

1. The act of discouraging; depression of spirits.

2. Privation of life. [Not used.]

Disannul

DISANNUL, verb transitive [dis and annul. In this instance, the prefix dis is improperly used, and of no effect. But its use is well established.] To annul; to make void; to deprive of authority or force; to nullify; to abolish; as, to disannul a law or an ordinance.

Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? . .

Disannulled

DISANNULLED, participle passive Annulled; vacated; made void.

Disannulling

DISANNULLING, participle present tense Making void; depriving of authority or binding force.

Disannulment

DISANNULMENT, noun The act of making void; as the disannulment of a law or decree.

Disannual differs from repeal, as the genus from the species. A repeal makes a law void by the same power that enacted it. Annulment or disannulment destroys its force and authority by repeal or by other means.

Disanoint

DISANOINT, verb transitive To render consecration invalid.

Disapparel

DISAPPAREL, verb intransitive To disrobe; to strip of raiment.

Disappear

DISAPPEAR, verb intransitive [dis and appear.]

1. To vanish from the sight; to recede from the view; to become invisible by vanishing or departing, or by being enveloped in any thing that conceals, or by the interposition of an object. Darkness disappears at the access of light, and light disappears at the approach of darkness. A ship disappears by departure to a distance; the sun disappears in a fog, or behind a cloud, or in setting.

2. To cease; as, the epidemic has disappeared.

3. To withdraw from observation. The debtor disappears when he absconds.

Disappearance

DISAPPEARANCE, noun Cessation of appearance; a removal from sight.

Disappearing

DISAPPEARING, participle present tense Vanishing; receding from the sight; becoming invisible.

DISAPPEARING, noun A vanishing or removal from sight.

Disappoint

DISAPPOINT, verb transitive [dis and appoint; properly, to unfix or unsettle.]

1. To defeat of expectation, wish, hope, desire or intention; to frustrate; to balk; to hinder from the possession or enjoyment of that which was intended, desired, hoped or expected. We say, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions or expectations are disappointed. A bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil The man promised me a visit, by he disappointed me.

Without counsel purposes are disappointed. .

2. To frustrate; to prevent an effect intended.

The retiring foe shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow.

Disappointed

DISAPPOINTED, participle passive Defeated of expectation, hope, desire, or design; frustrated.

Disappointing

DISAPPOINTING, participle present tense Defeating of expectation, hope, desire or purpose; frustrating.

Disappointment

DISAPPOINTMENT, noun Defeat or failure of expectation, hope, wish, desire or intention; miscarriage of design or plan.

We are apt to complain of the disappointment of our hopes and schemes, but disappointments often prove blessings and save us from calamity or ruin.

Disappreciate

DISAPPRECIATE, verb transitive [dis and appreciate.] To undervalue; not to esteem.

Disapprobation

DISAPPROBATION, noun [dis and approbation.] A disapproving; dislike; the act of the mind which condemns what is supposed to be wrong, whether the act is expressed or not. We often disapprove, when we do not express disapprobation

Disapprobatory

DISAPPROBATORY, adjective Containing disapprobation; tending to disapprove.

Disappropriate

DISAPPROPRIATE, adjective [dis and appropriate.] Not appropriated, or not having appropriated church property; a disappropriate church is one from which the appropriated parsonage, glebe and tithes are severed.

The appropriation may be severed and the church become disappropriate two ways.

DISAPPROPRIATE, verb transitive

1. To sever or separate, as an appropriation; to withdraw from an appropriate use.

The appropriations of the several parsonages would have been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated.

2. To deprive of appropriated property, as a church.

Disapproval

DISAPPROVAL, noun Disapprobation; dislike.

Disapprove

DISAPPROVE, verb transitive

1. To dislike; to condemn in opinion or judgment; to censure as wrong. We often disapprove the conduct of others, or public measures, whether we express an opinion or not. It is often followed by of; as, to disapprove of behavior. But modern usage inclines to omit of.

2. To manifest dislike or disapprobation; to reject, as disliked, what is proposed for sanction.

The sentence of the court-marital was disapproved by the commander in chief.

Disapproved

DISAPPROVED, participle passive Disliked; condemned; rejected.

Disapproving

DISAPPROVING, participle present tense Disliking; condemning; rejecting from dislike.

Disard

DISARD, noun A prattler; a boasting talkier.

Disarm

DISARM, verb transitive s as z.

1. To deprive of arms; to take the arms or weapons from , usually by force or authority; as, he disarmed his foes; the prince gave orders to disarm his subjects. With of before the thing taken away; as, to disarm one of his weapons.

2. To deprive of means of attack or defense; as, to disarm a venomous serpent.

3. To deprive of force, strength, or means of annoyance; to render harmless; to quell; as, to disarm rage or passion.

4. To strip; to divest of any thing injurious or threatening; as, piety disarms death of its terrors.

Disarmed

DISARMED, participle passive Deprived of arms; stripped of the means of defense or annoyance; rendered harmless; subdued.

Disarming

DISARMING, participle present tense Stripping of arms or weapons; subduing; rendering harmless.

Disarrange

DISARRANGE, verb transitive [dis and arrange.] To put out of order; to unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of parts. [See Derange, which is more generally used.]

Disarrangement

DISARRANGEMENT, noun The act of disturbing order or method; disorder.

Disarray

DISARRAY, verb transitive [dis and array.]

1. To undress; to divest of clothes.

2. To throw into disorder; to rout, as troops.

DISARRAY, noun

1. Disorder; confusion; loss or want of array or regular order.

2. Undress.

Disarrayed

DISARRAYED, participle passive Divested of clothes or array; disordered.

Disarraying

DISARRAYING, participle present tense Divesting of clothes; throwing into disorder.

Disassiduity

DISASSIDUITY, noun Want of assiduity or care. [Not used.]

Disassociate

DISASSOCIATE, verb transitive To disunite; to disconnect things associated.

Disaster

DISASTER, noun Dizaster. [Gr., a star; a word of astrological origin.]

1. A blast or stroke of an unfavorable planet.

2. Misfortune; mishap; calamity; any unfortunate event, especially a sudden misfortune; as, we met with many disasters on the road.

DISASTER, verb transitive To blast by the stroke of an unlucky planet; also, to injure; to afflict.

Disastered

DISASTERED, participle passive Blasted; injured; afflicted.

Disastrous

DISASTROUS, adjective

1. Unlucky; unfortunate; calamitous; occasioning loss or injury; as, the day was disastrous; the battle proved disastrous; their fate was disastrous

Fly the pursuit of my disastrous love.

2. Gloomy; dismal; threatening disaster.

The moon, in dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds.

Disastrously

DISASTROUSLY, adverb Unfortunately; in a dismal manner.

Disastrousness

DISASTROUSNESS, noun Unfortunateness; calamitousness.

Disauthorize

DISAUTHORIZE, verb transitive [dis and authorize.] To deprive of credit or authority. [Little used.]

Disavouch

DISAVOUCH, verb transitive [dis and avouch. See Vow.] To retract profession; to deny; to disown. [Little used.]

Disavow

DISAVOW, verb transitive [dis and avow. See Vow.]

1. To deny; to disown; to deny to be true, as a fact or charge respecting ones self; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the fact. A man may disavow his name or signature; he may disavow a knowledge of a fact, or his concern in a transaction. Opposed to own or acknowledge.

2. To deny; to disown; to reject.

3. To dissent from; not to admit as true or justifiable; not to vindicate.

The Envoy disavowed some parts of the Presidents proclamation.

Disavowal

DISAVOWAL, noun

1. Denial; a disowning.

A disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear.

2. Rejection; a declining to vindicate.

Disavowed

DISAVOWED, participle passive Denied; disowned.

Disavowing

DISAVOWING, participle present tense Denying; disowning; rejecting as something not to be maintained or vindicated.

Disavowment

DISAVOWMENT, noun Denial; a disowning.

Disband

DISBAND, verb transitive [dis and band.]

1. To dismiss from military service; to break up a band, or body of men enlisted; as, to disband an army or a regiment; to disband troops.

2. To scatter; to disperse.

DISBAND, verb intransitive

1. To retire from military service; to separate; to break up; as, the army, at the close of the war, disbands.

2. To separate; to dissolve connection.

Human society may disband [Improper.]

3. To be dissolved. [Not used.]

When both rocks and all things shall disband

Disbanded

DISBANDED, participle passive Dismissed from military service; separated.

Disbanding

DISBANDING, participle present tense Dismissing from military service; separating; dissolving connection.

Disbark

DISBARK, verb transitive To land from a ship; to put on shore.

Disbelief

DISBELIEF, noun [dis and belief.] Refusal of credit or faith; denial of belief.

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

Disbelieve

DISBELIEVE, verb transitive [dis and believe.] Not to believe; to hold not to be true or not to exist; to refuse to credit. Some men disbelieve the inspiration of the scriptures, and the immortality of the soul.

Disbelieved

DISBELIEVED, participle passive Not believed; discredited.

Disbeliever

DISBELIEVER, noun One who refuses belief; one who denies to be true or real.

Disbelieving

DISBELIEVING, participle present tense Withholding belief; discrediting.

Disbench

DISBENCH, verb transitive [dis and bench.] To drive from a bench or seat.

Disblame

DISBLAME, verb transitive To clear from blame. [Not used.]

Disbodied

DISBODIED, adjective Disembodied, which is the word now used.

Disbowel

DISBOWEL, verb transitive [dis and bowel.] To take out the intestines.

Disbranch

DISBRANCH, verb transitive [dis and branch.]

1. To cut off or separate, as the branch of a tree. [Little used.]

2. To deprive of branches. [Little used.]

Disbud

DISBUD, verb transitive To deprive of buds or shoots.

Disburden

DISBURDEN, verb transitive [dis and burden. See Burden.]

1. To remove a burden from ; to unload; to discharge.

2. To throw off a burden; to disencumber; to clear of any thing weighty, troublesome or cumbersome; as, to disburden ones self of grief or care; to disburden of superfluous ornaments.

DISBURDEN, verb intransitive To ease the mind; to be relieved.

Disburdened

DISBURDENED, participle passive Eased of a burden; unloaded; disencumbered.

Disburdening

DISBURDENING, participle present tense Unloading; discharging; throwing off a burden; disencumbering.

Disburse

DISBURSE, verb transitive disburs. To pay out, as money; to spend or lay out; primarily, to pay money from a public chest or treasury, but applicable to a private purse.

Disbursed

DISBURSED, participle passive Paid out; expended.

Disbursement

DISBURSEMENT, noun Disbursment.

1. The act of paying out, as money from a public or private chest.

2. The money or sum paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.

Disburser

DISBURSER, noun One who pays out or disburses money.

Disbursing

DISBURSING, participle passive Paying out, or expending.

Disc

DISC, noun [Latin See Disk.] The face or breadth of the sun or moon; also, the width of the aperture of a telescope glass.

Discalceate

DISCALCEATE, verb transitive [Latin , a shoe.] To pull off the shoes or sandals.

Discalceated

DISCALCEATED, participle passive Stripped of shoes.

Discalceation

DISCALCEATION, noun The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals.

Discandy

DISCANDY, verb intransitive [dis and candy.] To melt; to dissolve.

Discard

DISCARD, verb transitive

1. To throw out of the hand such cards as are useless.

2. To dismiss from service or employment, or from society; to cast off; as, to discard spies and informers; to discard an old servant; to discard an associate.

3. To thrust away; to reject; as, to discard prejudices.

Discarded

DISCARDED, participle passive Thrown out; dismissed from service; rejected.

Discarding

DISCARDING, participle present tense Throwing out; dismissing from employment; rejecting.

Discarnate

DISCARNATE, adjective [dia and Latin , flesh.] Stripped of flesh.

Discase

DISCASE, verb transitive [dis and case.] To take off a covering from; to strip; to undress.

Disceptator

DISCEPTATOR, noun [Latin] One who arbitrates or decides. [Not used.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.