Webster's Dictionary 1913

3808

Disciplinary

Dis″ci‐plin‐a‐ry (?), a. [LL. disciplinarius flogging: cf. F. disciplinaire.] Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training.Th...

3809

Discipline

Dis′ci‐pline (?), n. [F. discipline, L. disciplina, from discipulus. See Disciple.] 1. The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by ...

3810

Discipline (2)

Dis″ci‐pline (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disciplined (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Disciplining.] [Cf. LL. disciplinarian to flog, fr. L. disciplina discipline, and F. discipliner to discipli...

3811

Discipliner

Dis″ci‐plin‐er (?), n. One who disciplines.

3812

Disclaim

Dis‐claim″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disclaimed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Disclaiming.] 1. To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to ...

3813

Disclaim (2)

Dis‐claim″, v. t. To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share. Blackstone.Disclaim in, Disclaim from, to disown; to disavow. “Nature disclaims in thee.” Shak.

3814

Disclaimer

Dis‐claim″er (?), n. 1. One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.2. (Law) A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment ...

3815

Disclamation

Dis′cla‐ma″tion (?), n. A disavowing or disowning. Bp. Hall.

3816

Disclame

Dis‐clame″ (?), v. t. To disclaim; to expel. “Money did love disclame.” Spenser.

3817

Disclaunder

Dis‐claun″der (?), v. t. [From OE. disclaundre, n., for sclandre, esclandre, OF. esclandre. See Sclaundre, Slander.] To injure one's good name; to slander.

3818

Discloak

Dis‐cloak″ (?), v. t. To take off a cloak from; to uncloak. B. Jonson.

3819

Disclose

Dis‐close″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disclosed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Disclosing.] [OE. desclosen, disclosen, fr. disclos, desclos, not shut in, open, OF. desclos, p. p. of desclore ...

3820

Disclose (2)

Dis‐close″, n. Disclosure. Shak. Young.

3821

Disclosed

Dis‐closed″ (?), p. a.(Her.) Represented with wings expanded; — applied to doves and other birds not of prey. Cussans.

3822

Discloser

Dis‐clos″er (?), n. One who discloses.

3823

Disclosure

Dis‐clo″sure (?; 135), n. [See Disclose, v. t., and cf. Closure.] 1. The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.He feels it beating at his hear...

3824

Discloud

Dis‐cloud″ (?), v. t. To clear from clouds. Fuller.

3825

Disclout

Dis‐clout″ (?), v. t. To divest of a clout.

3826

Disclusion

Dis‐clu″sion (?), n. [L. disclusio, fr. discludere, disclusum, to separate. See Disclose.] A shutting off; exclusion. Dr. H. More.

3827

Discoast

Dis‐coast″ (?), v. i. [Pref. dis- + coast: cf. It. discostare.] To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated.As far as heaven and eart...

3828

Discoblastic

Dis′co‐blas″tic (?), a.(Biol.) Applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.

3829

Discobolus

‖Dis‐cob″o‐lus (?), n.; pl.Discoboli (#). (Fine Arts) (a) A thrower of the discus. (b) A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it.☞ The Discobolus of Myron ...

3830

Discodactyl

Dis′co‐dac″tyl (?), n. [See Discodactylia.] (Zoöl.) One of the tree frogs.

3831

Discodactylia

‖Dis′co‐dac‐tyl″i‐a (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

3832

Discodactylous

Dis′co‐dac″tyl‐ous (?), a.(Zoöl.) Having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

3833

Discoherent

Dis′co‐her″ent (?), a. Incoherent.

3834

Discoid

Dis″coid (?), a. [Gr. � quoit-shaped, � a round plate, quoit + � form, shape: cf. F. discoïde. See Disk.] Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whor...