Webster's Dictionary 1913

4942

Disvelop

Dis‐vel″op (?), v. t. To develop.

4943

Disventure

Dis‐ven″ture (?; 135), n. A disadventure. Shelton.

4944

Disvouch

Dis‐vouch″ (?), v. t. To discredit; to contradict. Shak.

4945

Diswarn

Dis‐warn″ (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- (intens.) + warn.] To dissuade from by previous warning.

4946

Diswitted

Dis‐wit″ted (?), a. Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted. Drayton.

4947

Diswont

Dis‐wont″ (?), v. t. To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom. Bp. Hall.

4948

Disworkmanship

Dis‐work″man‐ship (?), n. Bad workmanship. Heywood.

4949

Disworship

Dis‐wor″ship (?), v. t. To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy. Sir T. More.

4950

Disworship (2)

Dis‐wor″ship, n. A deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit. Milton.

4951

Disworth

Dis‐worth″ (?), v. t. To deprive of worth; to degrade. Feltham.

4952

Disyoke

Dis‐yoke″ (?), v. t. To unyoke; to free from a yoke; to disjoin. R. Browning.

4953

Dit

Dit (?), n. [Ditty.] 1. A word; a decree.2. A ditty; a song.

4954

Dit (2)

Dit, v. t. [AS. dyttan, akin to Icel. ditta.] To close up. Dr. H. More.

4955

Ditation

Di‐ta″tion (?), n. [L. ditare to enrich, fr. dis, ditis, same as dives, rich.] The act of making rich; enrichment. Bp. Hall.

4956

Ditch

Ditch (?; 224), n.; pl.Ditches (#). [OE. dich, orig. the same word as dik. See Dike.] 1. A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for ...

4957

Ditch (2)

Ditch, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Ditched (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Ditching.] 1. To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.2. To surround with a d...

4958

Ditch (3)

Ditch, v. i. To dig a ditch or ditches. Swift.

4959

Ditcher

Ditch″er (?), n. One who digs ditches.

4960

Dite

Dite (?), v. t. [See Dight.] To prepare for action or use; to make ready; to dight.His hideous club aloft he dites. Spenser.

4961

Diterebene

Di‐ter″e‐bene (?), n. [Pref. di- + terebene.] (Chem.) See Colophene.

4962

Dithecal

{ Di‐the″cal (?), Di‐the″cous (?), } a. [Pref. di- + theca.] (Bot.) Having two thecæ, cells, or compartments.

4963

Ditheism

Di″the‐ism (?), n. [Pref. di- + theism: cf. F. dithéisme.] The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one goo...

4964

Ditheist

Di″the‐ist, n. One who holds the doctrine of ditheism; a dualist. Cudworth.

4965

Ditheistic

{ Di′the‐is″tic (?), Di′the‐is″tic‐al (?), } a. Pertaining to ditheism; dualistic.

4966

Dithionic

Di′thi‐on″ic (?), a. [Pref. di- + -thionic.] (Chem.) Containing two equivalents of sulphur; as, dithionic acid.Dithionic acid(Chem.), an unstable substance, H2S2O6, known only i...

4967

Dithyramb

Dith″y‐ramb (?), n. [L. dithyrambus, Gr. � a kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus; also, a name of Bacchus; of unknown origin: cf. F. dithyrambe.] A kind of lyric poetry in ...

4968

Dithyrambic

Dith′y‐ram″bic (?), a. [L. dithyrambicus, Gr. �: cf. F. dithyrambique.] Pertaining to, or resembling, a dithyramb; wild and boisterous. “Dithyrambic sallies.” Longfellow. — n. A...