DISHING
DISHING, participle passive [See Dish.]1. Putting in a dish or dishes.2.adjective Concave; having the hollow form of a dish.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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DISHONEST
DISHONEST, adjective Dizonest. [dis and honest.]1. Void of honesty; destitute of probity, integrity or good faith; faithless; fraudulent; knavish; having or exercising a disposi...
DISHONESTLY
DISHONESTLY, adverb Dizonestly.1. In a dishonest manner; without good faith, probity or integrity; with fraudulent views; knavishly.2. Lewdly; unchastely.
DISHONESTY
DISHONESTY, noun Dizonesty.1. Want of probity, or integrity in principle; faithlessness; a disposition to cheat or defraud, or to deceive and betray; applied to persons.2. Viola...
DISHONOR
DISHONOR, noun Dizonor. [dis and honor.] Reproach; disgrace; ignominy; shame; whatever constitutes a stain or blemish in the reputation.It was not meet for us to see the kings d...
DISHONORABLE
DISHONORABLE, adjective1. Shameful; reproachful; base; vile; bringing shame on; staining the character, and lessening reputation. Every act of meanness, and every vice is dishon...
DISHONORABLY
DISHONORABLY, adverb Reproachfully; in a dishonorable manner.
DISHONORARY
DISHONORARY, adjective Dizonorary. Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation.
DISHONORED
DISHONORED, participle passive Disgraced; brought into disrepute.
DISHONORER
DISHONORER, noun One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another with indignity.
DISHONORING
DISHONORING, participle present tense Disgracing; bringing into disrepute; treating with indignity.
DISHORN
DISHORN, verb transitive [dis and horn.] To deprive of horns.
DISHORNED
DISHORNED, participle passive Stripped of horns.
DISHUMOR
DISHUMOR, noun [dis and humor.] Peevishness; ill humor. [Little used.]
DISIMPARK
DISIMPARK, verb transitive [dis, in and park.] To free from the barriers of a park; to free from restraints or seclusion. [Little used.]
DISIMPROVEMENT
DISIMPROVEMENT, noun [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.]
DISINCARCERATE
DISINCARCERATE, verb transitive [dis and incarcerate.] To liberate from prison; to set free from confinement. [Not much used.]
DISINCLINATION
DISINCLINATION, noun [dis and inclination.] Want of inclination; want of propensity, desire or affection; slight dislike; aversion; expressing less than hate.Disappointment gave...
DISINCLINE
DISINCLINE, verb transitive [dis and incline.] To excite dislike or slight aversion; to make disaffected; to alienate from. His timidity disinclined him from such an arduous ent...
DISINCLINED
DISINCLINED, participle passive Not inclined; averse.
DISINCLINING
DISINCLINING, participle present tense Exciting dislike or slight aversion.
DISINCORPORATE
DISINCORPORATE, verb transitive1. To deprive of corporate powers; to disunite a corporate body, or an established society.2. To detach or separate from a corporation or society.
DISINCORPORATION
DISINCORPORATION, noun Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation.
DISINFECT
DISINFECT, verb transitive [dis and infect.] To cleanse from infection; to purify from contagious matter.
DISINFECTED
DISINFECTED, participle passive Cleansed from infection.
DISINFECTING
DISINFECTING, participle present tense Purifying from infection.
DISINFECTION
DISINFECTION, noun Purification from infecting matter.