The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial.

Disavowal.

One who disavows.

Disavowal.

To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.

The act of disbanding.

To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.

To strip of bark; to bark.

Act of disbarring.

To debase or degrade.

To misbecome.

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, or credence; denial of belief.

Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.

One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion.

To drive from a bench or seat.

To unbend.

To unbind; to loosen.

To clear from blame.

Disembodied.

Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest.

To disembowel.

To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off.

To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.

To relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind.

To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud.

To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.

The act of disbursing or paying out.

One who disburses money.

To disburden; to relieve of a load.

A flat round plate A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.

a person who plays records or compact disks of recorded music; a person who selects and plays recorded music for broadcast over the radio, often making comments about the music or other topics and also announcing commercial advertising messages; also, one who plays recorded music at a dance or social gathering, especially as a profession.

To uncage.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.

To pull off shoes or sandals from.

Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.

The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals.

Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced.

To drive from a camp.

To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.

See Descant, n.

To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate.

The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.

Rejection; dismissal.

Stripped of flesh.

To strip; to undress.

To yield or give up; to depart.

To debate; to discuss.

Controversy; disputation; discussion.

One who arbitrates or decides.

To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.

Discernment.

One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong.

Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding.

The quality of being discernible.

In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly.

Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.

In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely.

The act of discerning.

To tear in pieces; to rend.

Capability or liableness to be discerped.

The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts.

Tending to separate or disunite parts.

Departure.

The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo.

One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.

Disheveled.

To deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church.

To divide; to cleave in two.

Bearing disks.

Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.

Discoid.

A genus of Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle.

Ungirded; loosely dressed.

To part; to divide.

To teach; to train.

The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.

A female disciple.

Capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training.

The quality of being improvable by discipline.

Relating to discipline.

A flagellant. See Flagellant.

One who disciplines; one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar.

Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training.

To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.

One who disciplines.

To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share.

One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.

A disavowing or disowning.

To disclaim; to expel.

To injure one's good name; to slander.

To take off a cloak from; to uncloak.

Disclosure.

Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey.

One who discloses.

The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.

To clear from clouds.

To divest of a clout.

A shutting off; exclusion.

To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated.

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.

A thrower of the discus. A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it.

One of the tree frogs.

A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

Having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

Incoherent.

Anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell.

Disk-shaped; discoid.

One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about / of an inch in its longest diameter.

To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water.

To discolor.

The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance.

Altered in color; stained; spotted or streaked with foreign matter.

same as discolor.

same as discolored; as, discoloured paneling.

to cause to be confused; confuse emotionally.

confused; upset; as, the hecklers pelted the discombobulated speaker with anything that came to hand.

Rout; overthrow; discomfiture.

people who are defeated.

thwarted; -- used especially of feelings of defeat and discouragement.

The act of discomfiting, or the state of being discomfited; rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection.