DISHONEST — DISMASTMENT

DISHONEST — DISMASTMENT NWAD DISHONEST.1

DISHONEST, a. Dizonest. [dis and honest.] NWAD DISHONEST.1

1. Void of honesty; destitute of probity, integrity or good faith; faithless; fraudulent; knavish; having or exercising a disposition to deceive, cheat and defraud; applied to persons; as a dishonest man. NWAD DISHONEST.2

2. Proceeding from fraud or marked by it; fraudulent; knavish; as a dishonest transaction. NWAD DISHONEST.3

3. Disgraced; dishonored; from the sense in Latin. NWAD DISHONEST.4

Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears. NWAD DISHONEST.5

4. Disgraceful; ignominious; from the Latin sense. NWAD DISHONEST.6

Inglorious triumphs, and dishonest scars. NWAD DISHONEST.7

5. Unchaste; lewd. NWAD DISHONEST.8

DISHONESTLY, adv. Dizonestly. NWAD DISHONESTLY.1

1. In a dishonest manner; without good faith, probity or integrity; with fraudulent views; knavishly. NWAD DISHONESTLY.2

2. Lewdly; unchastely. NWAD DISHONESTLY.3

DISHONESTY, n. Dizonesty. NWAD DISHONESTY.1

1. Want of probity, or integrity in principle; faithlessness; a disposition to cheat or defraud, or to deceive and betray; applied to persons. NWAD DISHONESTY.2

2. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; treachery; any deviation from probity or integrity; applied to acts. NWAD DISHONESTY.3

3. Unchastity; incontinence; lewdness. NWAD DISHONESTY.4

4. Deceit; wickedness; shame. 2 Corinthians 4:2. NWAD DISHONESTY.5

DISHONOR, n. Dizonor. [dis and honor.] Reproach; disgrace; ignominy; shame; whatever constitutes a stain or blemish in the reputation. NWAD DISHONOR.1

It was not meet for us to see the kings dishonor. Ezra 4:14. NWAD DISHONOR.2

It may express less than ignominy and infamy. NWAD DISHONOR.3

DISHONOR, v.t. NWAD DISHONOR.4

1. To disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to stain the character of; to lessen reputation. The duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor. NWAD DISHONOR.5

The impunity of the crimes of great men dishonors the administration of the laws. NWAD DISHONOR.6

2. To treat with indignity. NWAD DISHONOR.7

3. To violate the chastity of; to debauch. NWAD DISHONOR.8

4. To refuse or decline to accept or pay; as, to dishonor a bill of exchange. NWAD DISHONOR.9

DISHONORABLE, a. NWAD DISHONORABLE.1

1. Shameful; reproachful; base; vile; bringing shame on; staining the character, and lessening reputation. Every act of meanness, and every vice is dishonorable. NWAD DISHONORABLE.2

2. Destitute of honor; as a dishonorable man. NWAD DISHONORABLE.3

3. In a state of neglect or disesteem. NWAD DISHONORABLE.4

He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more in poverty? NWAD DISHONORABLE.5

DISHONORABLY, adv. Reproachfully; in a dishonorable manner. NWAD DISHONORABLY.1

DISHONORARY, a. Dizonorary. Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation. NWAD DISHONORARY.1

DISHONORED, pp. Disgraced; brought into disrepute. NWAD DISHONORED.1

DISHONORER, n. One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another with indignity. NWAD DISHONORER.1

DISHONORING, ppr. Disgracing; bringing into disrepute; treating with indignity. NWAD DISHONORING.1

DISHORN, v.t. [dis and horn.] To deprive of horns. NWAD DISHORN.1

DISHORNED, pp. Stripped of horns. NWAD DISHORNED.1

DISHUMOR, n. [dis and humor.] Peevishness; ill humor. [Little used.] NWAD DISHUMOR.1

DISIMPARK, v.t. [dis, in and park.] To free from the barriers of a park; to free from restraints or seclusion. [Little used.] NWAD DISIMPARK.1

DISIMPROVEMENT, n. [dis and improvement.] Reduction from a better to a worse state; the contrary to improvement or melioration; as the disimprovement of the earth. [Little used.] NWAD DISIMPROVEMENT.1

DISINCARCERATE, v.t. [dis and incarcerate.] To liberate from prison; to set free from confinement. [Not much used.] NWAD DISINCARCERATE.1

DISINCLINATION, n. [dis and inclination.] Want of inclination; want of propensity, desire or affection; slight dislike; aversion; expressing less than hate. NWAD DISINCLINATION.1

Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. NWAD DISINCLINATION.2

DISINCLINE, v.t. [dis and incline.] To excite dislike or slight aversion; to make disaffected; to alienate from. His timidity disinclined him from such an arduous enterprise. NWAD DISINCLINE.1

DISINCLINED, pp. Not inclined; averse. NWAD DISINCLINED.1

DISINCLINING, ppr. Exciting dislike or slight aversion. NWAD DISINCLINING.1

DISINCORPORATE, v.t. NWAD DISINCORPORATE.1

1. To deprive of corporate powers; to disunite a corporate body, or an established society. NWAD DISINCORPORATE.2

2. To detach or separate from a corporation or society. NWAD DISINCORPORATE.3

DISINCORPORATION, n. Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. NWAD DISINCORPORATION.1

DISINFECT, v.t. [dis and infect.] To cleanse from infection; to purify from contagious matter. NWAD DISINFECT.1

DISINFECTED, pp. Cleansed from infection. NWAD DISINFECTED.1

DISINFECTING, ppr. Purifying from infection. NWAD DISINFECTING.1

DISINFECTION, n. Purification from infecting matter. NWAD DISINFECTION.1

DISINGENUITY, n. [dis and ingenuity.] Meanness of artifice; unfairness; disingenuousness; want of candor. [This word is little used, or not at all, in the sense here explained. See Ingenuity. We now use in lieu of it disingenuousness.] NWAD DISINGENUITY.1

DISINGENUOUS, a. [dis and ingenuous.] NWAD DISINGENUOUS.1

1. Unfair; not open, frank and candid; meanly artful; illiberal; applied to persons. NWAD DISINGENUOUS.2

2. Unfair; meanly artful; unbecoming true honor and dignity; as disingenuous conduct; disingenuous schemes. NWAD DISINGENUOUS.3

DISINGENUOUSLY, adv. In a disingenuous manner; unfairly; not openly and candidly; with secret management. NWAD DISINGENUOUSLY.1

DISINGENUOUSNESS, n. NWAD DISINGENUOUSNESS.1

1. Unfairness; want of candor; low craft; as the disingenuousness of a man, or of his mind. NWAD DISINGENUOUSNESS.2

2. Characterized by unfairness, as conduct or practices. NWAD DISINGENUOUSNESS.3

DISINHERISON, n. [dis and inherit.] NWAD DISINHERISON.1

1. The act of cutting off from hereditary succession; the act of disinheriting. NWAD DISINHERISON.2

2. The state of being disinherited. NWAD DISINHERISON.3

DISINHERIT, v.t. [dis and inherit.] To cut off from hereditary right; to deprive of an inheritance; to prevent as an heir from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. A father sometimes disinherits his children by will. In England, the crown is descendible to the eldest son, who cannot be disinherited by the will of his father. NWAD DISINHERIT.1

DISINHERITED, pp. Cut off from an inheritance. NWAD DISINHERITED.1

DISINHERITING, ppr. Depriving of an hereditary estate or right. NWAD DISINHERITING.1

DISINTEGRABLE, a. [dis and integer.] That may be separated into integrant parts; capable of disintegration. NWAD DISINTEGRABLE.1

Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure to the atmosphere. NWAD DISINTEGRABLE.2

DISINTEGRATE, v.t. [dis and integer.] To separate the integrant parts of. NWAD DISINTEGRATE.1

Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. NWAD DISINTEGRATE.2

DISINTEGRATED, pp. Separated into integrant parts without chemical action. NWAD DISINTEGRATED.1

DISINTEGRATION, n. The act of separating integrant parts of a substance, as distinguished from decomposition or the separation of constituent parts. NWAD DISINTEGRATION.1

DISINTER, v.t. [dis and inter.] NWAD DISINTER.1

1. To take out of a grave, or out of the earth; as, to disinter a dead body that is buried. NWAD DISINTER.2

2. To take out as from a grave; to bring from obscurity into view. NWAD DISINTER.3

The philosopher--may be concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred. [Unusual.] NWAD DISINTER.4

DISINTERESSED, DISINTERESSMENT, [See Disinterested, etc.] NWAD DISINTERESSED.1

DISINTEREST, n. [dis and interest.] NWAD DISINTEREST.1

1. What is contrary to the interest or advantage; disadvantage; injury. [Little used or not at all.] NWAD DISINTEREST.2

2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage. NWAD DISINTEREST.3

DISINTEREST, v.t. To disengage from private interest or personal advantage. [Little used.] NWAD DISINTEREST.4

DISINTERESTED, a. NWAD DISINTERESTED.1

1. Uninterested; indifferent; free from self-interest; having no personal interest or private advantage in a question or affair. It is important that a judge should be perfectly disinterested. NWAD DISINTERESTED.2

2. Not influenced or dictated by private advantage; as a disinterested decision. [This word is more generally used than uninterested.] NWAD DISINTERESTED.3

DISINTERESTEDLY, adv. In a disinterested manner. NWAD DISINTERESTEDLY.1

DISINTERESTEDNESS, n. The state or quality of having no personal interest or private advantage in a question or event; freedom from bias or prejudice, on account of private interest; indifference. NWAD DISINTERESTEDNESS.1

DISINTERESTING, a. Uninteresting. [The latter is the word now used.] NWAD DISINTERESTING.1

DISINTERMENT, n. The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth. NWAD DISINTERMENT.1

DISINTERRED, pp. Taken out of the earth or grave. NWAD DISINTERRED.1

DISINTERRING, ppr. Taking out of the earth, or out of a grave. NWAD DISINTERRING.1

DISINTHRALL, v.t. [dis and enthrall.] To liberate from slavery, bondage or servitude; to free or rescue from oppression. NWAD DISINTHRALL.1

DISINTHRALLED, pp. Set free from bondage. NWAD DISINTHRALLED.1

DISINTHRALLING, ppr. Delivering from slavery or servitude. NWAD DISINTHRALLING.1

DISINTHRALLMENT, n. Liberation from bondage; emancipation from slavery. NWAD DISINTHRALLMENT.1

DISINURE, v.t. [dis and inure.] To deprive of familiarity or custom. NWAD DISINURE.1

DISINVITE, v.t. To recall an invitation. NWAD DISINVITE.1

DISINVOLVE, v.t. disinvolv. [dis and involve.] To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle. NWAD DISINVOLVE.1

DISJOIN, v.t. [dis and join.] To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder. NWAD DISJOIN.1

DISJOINED, pp. Disunited; separated. NWAD DISJOINED.1

DISJOINING, ppr. Disuniting; severing. NWAD DISJOINING.1

DISJOINT, v.t. [dis and joint.] NWAD DISJOINT.1

1. To separate a joint; to separate parts united by joints; as, to disjoint the limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving. NWAD DISJOINT.2

2. To put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate. NWAD DISJOINT.3

3. To separate at junctures; to break at the part where things are united by cement; as disjointed columns. NWAD DISJOINT.4

4. To break in pieces; to separate united parts; as, to disjoint an edifice; the disjointed parts of a ship. NWAD DISJOINT.5

5. To break the natural order and relations of a thing; to make incoherent; as a disjointed speech. NWAD DISJOINT.6

DISJOINT, v.i. To fall in pieces. NWAD DISJOINT.7

DISJOINT, a. Disjointed. NWAD DISJOINT.8

DISJOINTED, pp. Separated at the joints; parted limb from limb; carved; put out of joint; not coherent. NWAD DISJOINTED.1

DISJOINTING, ppr. Separating joints; disjoining limb from limb; breaking at the seams or junctures; rendering incoherent. NWAD DISJOINTING.1

DISJOINTLY, adv. In a divided state. NWAD DISJOINTLY.1

DISJUDICATION, n. [L.] Judgment; determination. [Not used.] NWAD DISJUDICATION.1

DISJUNCT, a. [L., to join.] Disjoined; separated. NWAD DISJUNCT.1

DISJUNCTION, n. [L.] The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as the disjunction of soul and body. NWAD DISJUNCTION.1

DISJUNCTIVE, a. NWAD DISJUNCTIVE.1

1. Separating; disjoining. NWAD DISJUNCTIVE.2

2. Incapable of union. [Unusual.] NWAD DISJUNCTIVE.3

3. In grammar, a disjunctive conjunction or connective, is a word which unites sentences or the parts of discourse in construction, but disjoins the sense, noting an alternative or opposition; as, I love him, or I fear him; I neither love him, nor fear him. NWAD DISJUNCTIVE.4

4. In logic, a disjunctive proposition, is one in which the parts are opposed to each other, by means of disjunctive; as, it is either day or night. A disjunctive syllogism, is when the major proposition is disjunctive; as, the earth moves in a circle, or an ellipsis; but it does not move in a circle, therefore it moves in an ellipsis. NWAD DISJUNCTIVE.5

DISJUNCTIVE, n. A word that disjoins, as or, nor neither. NWAD DISJUNCTIVE.6

DISJUNCTIVELY, adv. In a disjunctive manner; separately. NWAD DISJUNCTIVELY.1

DISK, n. [L. See Dish and Desk.] NWAD DISK.1

1. The body and face of the sun, moon or a planet, as it appears to us on the earth; or the body and face of the earth, as it appears to a spectator in the moon. NWAD DISK.2

2. A quoit; a piece of stone, iron or copper, inclining to an oval figure, which the ancients hurled by the help of a leathern thong tied round the persons hand, and put through a hole in the middle. NWAD DISK.3

Some whirl the disk, and some the javlin dart. NWAD DISK.4

3. In botany, the whole surface of a leaf; the central part of a radiate compound flower. NWAD DISK.5

DISKINDNESS, n. [dis and kindness.] NWAD DISKINDNESS.1

1. Want of kindness; unkindness; want of affection. NWAD DISKINDNESS.2

2. Ill turn; injury; detriment. NWAD DISKINDNESS.3

DISLIKE, n. [dis and like.] NWAD DISLIKE.1

1. Disapprobation; disinclination; displeasure; aversion; a moderate degree of hatred. A man shows his dislike to measures which he disapproves, to a proposal which he is disinclined to accept, and to food which he does not relish. All wise and good men manifest their dislike to folly. NWAD DISLIKE.2

2. Discord; disagreement. [Not in use.] NWAD DISLIKE.3

DISLIKE, v.t. NWAD DISLIKE.4

1. To disapprove; to regard with some aversion or displeasure. We dislike proceedings which we deem wrong; we dislike persons of evil habit; we dislike whatever gives us pain. NWAD DISLIKE.5

2. To disrelish; to regard with some disgust; as, to dislike particular kinds of food. NWAD DISLIKE.6

DISLIKED, pp. Disapproved; disrelished. NWAD DISLIKED.1

DISLIKEFUL, a. Disliking; disaffected. [Not used.] NWAD DISLIKEFUL.1

DISLIKEN, v.t. To make unlike. NWAD DISLIKEN.1

DISLIKENESS, n. [dis and likeness.] Unlikeness; want of resemblance; dissimilitude. NWAD DISLIKENESS.1

DISLIKER, n. One who disapproves, or disrelishes. NWAD DISLIKER.1

DISLIKING, ppr. Disapproving; disrelishing. NWAD DISLIKING.1

DISLIMB, v.t. dislim. To tear the limbs from. NWAD DISLIMB.1

DISLIMN, v.t. dislim. To strike out of a picture. [Not in use.] NWAD DISLIMN.1

DISLOCATE, v.t. [dis and locate, L., place.] To displace; to put out of its proper place; particularly, to put out of joint; to disjoint; to move a bone from its socket, cavity or place of articulation. NWAD DISLOCATE.1

DISLOCATED, pp. Removed from its proper place; put out of joint. NWAD DISLOCATED.1

DISLOCATING, ppr. Putting out of its proper place or out of joint. NWAD DISLOCATING.1

DISLOCATION, n. NWAD DISLOCATION.1

1. The act of moving from its proper place; particularly, the act of removing or forcing a bone from its socket; luxation. NWAD DISLOCATION.2

2. The sate of being displaced. NWAD DISLOCATION.3

3. A joint displaced. NWAD DISLOCATION.4

4. In geology, the displacement of parts of rocks, or portions of strata, from the situations which they originally occupied. NWAD DISLOCATION.5

DISLODGE, v.t. dislodj. [dis and lodge.] NWAD DISLODGE.1

1. To remove or drive from a lodge or place or rest; to drive from the place where a thing naturally rests or inhabits. Shells resting int he sea at a considerable depth, are not dislodged by storms. NWAD DISLODGE.2

2. To drive from a place of retirement or retreat; as, to dislodge a coney or a deer. NWAD DISLODGE.3

3. To drive from any place of rest or habitation, or from any station; as, to dislodge the enemy from their quarters, from a hill or wall. NWAD DISLODGE.4

4. To remove an army to other quarters. NWAD DISLODGE.5

DISLODGE, v.i. To go from a place of rest. NWAD DISLODGE.6

DISLODGED, pp. Driven from a lodge or place of rest; removed from a place of habitation, or from any station. NWAD DISLODGED.1

DISLODGING, ppr. Driving from a lodge or place of rest; removed from a place of habitation, or from any station. NWAD DISLODGING.1

DISLODGING, ppr. Driving from a lodge, from a place of rest or retreat, or from any station. NWAD DISLODGING.2

DISLOYAL, a. [dis and loyal.] NWAD DISLOYAL.1

1. Not true to allegiance; false to a sovereign; faithless; as a disloyal subject. NWAD DISLOYAL.2

2. False; perfidious; treacherous; as a disloyal knave. NWAD DISLOYAL.3

3. Not true to the marriage-bed. NWAD DISLOYAL.4

4. False in love; not constant. NWAD DISLOYAL.5

DISLOYALLY, adv. In a disloyal manner; with violation of faith or duty to a sovereign; faithlessly; perfidiously. NWAD DISLOYALLY.1

DISLOYALTY, n. NWAD DISLOYALTY.1

1. Want of fidelity to a sovereign; violation of allegiance, or duty to a prince or sovereign authority. NWAD DISLOYALTY.2

2. Want of fidelity in love. NWAD DISLOYALTY.3

DISMAL, a. s as z. [I am not satisfied with the etymologies of this word which I have seen.] NWAD DISMAL.1

1. Dark; gloomy; as a dismal shade. NWAD DISMAL.2

2. Sorrowful; dire; horrid; melancholy; calamitous; unfortunate; as a dismal accident; dismal effects. NWAD DISMAL.3

3. Frightful; horrible; as a dismal scream. NWAD DISMAL.4

DISMALLY, adv. Gloomily; horrible; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. NWAD DISMALLY.1

DISMALNESS, n. Gloominess; horror. NWAD DISMALNESS.1

DISMANTLE, v.t. [dis and mantle.] NWAD DISMANTLE.1

1. To deprive of dress; to strip; to divest. NWAD DISMANTLE.2

2. To loose; to throw open. NWAD DISMANTLE.3

3. More generally, to deprive or strip of apparatus, or furniture; to unrig; as, to dismantle a ship. NWAD DISMANTLE.4

4. To deprive or strip of military furniture; as, to dismantle a fortress. NWAD DISMANTLE.5

5. To deprive of outworks or forts; as, to dismantle a town. NWAD DISMANTLE.6

6. To break down; as, his nose dismantled. NWAD DISMANTLE.7