Hanging in loose disorder; disarranged; in disarray; not made neat; -- used especially of hair or clothing; as, disheveled hair.

As much as a dish holds when full.

Dish-shaped; concave.

To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid.

In a dishonest manner.

Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame.

To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity, or as unworthy in the sight of others; to stain the character of; to lessen the reputation of; as, the duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor.

Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation.

One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity.

To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle.

To dismount; to knock (a person) from a horse.

To deprive of house or home.

a large pan for washing dishes.

a cloth for washing dishes.

To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor.

eating and serving dishes collectively.

One who, or that which, washes dishes.

Water in which dishes have been washed.

good-looking; -- used of persons.

To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.

freeing from illusion or false belief.

To disenchant; to free from illusion.

The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.

To free from bitterness.

To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park.

Free from warmth of passion or feeling.

To grow worse; to deteriorate.

Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth; specific features which are worse than former features; disimprovements in the new Windows operating system.

To liberate from prison.

The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.

To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate.

To free from being inclosed.

Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; disincorporated.

Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation.

To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.

That which disinfects, especially an agent for killing or removing the microorganisms which cause infection. Commonly used disinfectants are chlorine, sodium hypochlorite solution, hydrogen peroxide, and alcohol.

The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.

One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.

To divest of flame or ardor.

a reduction in the rate of price increases; a lessening of inflationary pressure.

Disingenuousness.

Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.

Uninhabited.

Same as Disherison.

To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent.

The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.

To disinter.

To render insecure; to put in danger.

Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder.

To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.

The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated. The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.

A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.

To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.

To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage.

Disinterestedness; impartiality; fairness.

To divest of interest or interested motives.

Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage; free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested decision or judge.

In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.

The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality.

The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.

To free from thralldom; to disenthrall.

A releasing from thralldom or slavery; disenthrallment.

To disentangle.

To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar.

The act of depriving of investiture.

To enervate; to weaken.

To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.

Destruction; dispersion.

To become separated; to part.

unconnected, detached.

To fall in pieces.

Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent.

In a disjointed state.

Judgment; discrimination. See Dijudication.

Disjoined; separated.

The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.

A disjunctive conjunction. A disjunctive proposition.

In a disjunctive manner; separately.

The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation.

A discus; a quoit.

same as disc jockey.

a data-storage medium consisting of a small plastic disk coated with a thin layer of magnetizable material on one or both sides, enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit. It is used in a specially designed disk drive, in which the disk is rotated at high speed, and which stores data on the disk by causing changes in the direction of magnetization of the magnetic layer as the disk spins and as sequential locations on the disk pass under the read-write head of the drive. Reading of the data occurs in the reverse process, by detection of the patterns of magnetization of the disk. Such disks are used to store data or programs for a microcomputer.

Unkindness; disservice.

to comment on music to be played.

Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.

resembling a disk in shape; circular and having a height considerably smaller than the diameter.

To unlade.

Disloyal; perfidious.

To deprive of leaves.

To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.

A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness.

Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable.

The want of likelihood; improbability.

To make unlike; to disguise.

Unlikeness.

One who dislikes or disrelishes.

To tear limb from limb; to dismember.

To efface, as a picture.

To unlink; to disunite; to separate.

To deprive of life.

Dislocated.

separated at the joint; -- used especially of limbs; as, a dislocated knee.

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.

Dwelling apart; separation.

forced removal from a position of advantage.

The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.

To put at a distance; to remove.

Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife.

In a disloyal manner.

Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.

To divest of coat of mail.

Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.

In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

The quality of being dismal; gloominess.

To unman.

To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

To march away.

To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce.

To disarrange; to derange; to put in disorder.