Webster's Dictionary 1913

3727

Disbelief

Dis‐be‐lief″ (?), n. The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit...

3728

Disbelieve

Dis′be‐lieve″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disbelieved (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Disbelieving.] Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.Assertions...

3729

Disbeliever

Dis′be‐liev″er (?), n. One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion. I. Watts.

3730

Disbench

Dis‐bench″ (?), v. t. 1. To drive from a bench or seat. Shak.2. (Eng. Law) To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges. Mozley & W.

3731

Disbend

Dis‐bend (?), v. t. To unbend. Stirling.

3732

Disbind

Dis‐bind″ (?), v. t. [Cf. Disband.] To unbind; to loosen. Mede.

3733

Disblame

Dis‐blame″ (?), v. t. [OE. desblamen, OF. desblasmer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + blasmer, F. blâmer, to blame.] To clear from blame. Chaucer.

3734

Disbodied

Dis‐bod″ied (?), a. Disembodied.

3735

Disboscation

Dis′bos‐ca″tion (?), n. [Pref. dis- + F. bosquet grove.] Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest. Sir W. Scott.

3736

Disbowel

Dis‐bow″el (?), v. t. [See Bowel, v. t.] To disembowel. Spenser.

3737

Disbranch

Dis‐branch″ (?), v. t. [See Branch, v.] To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off. Shak.

3738

Disbud

Dis‐bud″ (?), v. t. [See Bud, v.] (Hort.) To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.

3739

Disburden

Dis‐bur″den (?), v. t. [See Burden, v. t.] [Cf. Disburthen.] To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve.He...

3740

Disburden (2)

Dis‐bur″den, v. i. To relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind. Milton.

3741

Disburgeon

Dis‐bur″geon (?), v. t. To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud. Holland.

3742

Disburse

Dis‐burse″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disbursed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Disbursing.] [OF. desbourser, F. débourser; pref. des- (L. dis-) + bourse purse. See Burse, and cf. Dispurse.] T...

3743

Disbursement

Dis‐burse″ment (?), n. [Cf. F. déboursement.] 1. The act of disbursing or paying out.The disbursement of the public moneys. U. S. Statutes.2. That which is disbursed or paid out...

3744

Disburser

Dis‐burs″er (?), n. One who disburses money.

3745

Disburthen

Dis‐bur″then (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disburthened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Disburthening.] [Cf. Disburden.] To disburden; to relieve of a load.

3746

Disc

Disc (?), n. [See Disk, Dish.] A flat round plate; (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.

3747

Discage

Dis‐cage″ (?), v. t. To uncage. Tennyson.

3748

Discal

Disc″al (?), a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.

3749

Discalceate

Dis‐cal″ce‐ate (?), v. t. [L. discalceatus unshod; dis- + calceus shoe.] To pull off shoes or sandals from. Cockeram.

3750

Discalceated

Dis‐cal″ce‐at′ed (?), a. Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.

3751

Discalceation

Dis‐cal′ce‐a″tion (?), n. The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals. Sir T. Browne.

3752

Discalced

Dis‐calced″ (?), a. Unshod; barefooted; — in distinction from calced. “The foundation of houses of discalced friars.” Cardinal Manning's St. Teresa.

3753

Discamp

Dis‐camp″ (?), v. t. [See Decamp.] To drive from a camp. Holland.