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.
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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.
Uninteresting.
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.
To divest of a mask.
To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.
The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted.
To eject from the maw; to disgorge.
Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.
Terrifying.
A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe.
To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m/tilation; division; separation.
Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit.
Dismission.
Dismission; discharge.
subject to dismissal.
The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.
Giving dismission.
To redeem from mortgage.
To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.
To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth.
Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural.
Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.
Disobedience.
Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts.
In a disobedient manner.
Disobedience.
Disobedient.
To refuse or neglect to obey; to violate commands; to be disobedient.
One who disobeys.
The act of disobliging.
Releasing from obligation.
To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.
Release from obligation.
One who disobliges.
Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act.
To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude.
The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
Want or difference of belief; disbelief.
To open.
To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere.
Disorder.
Inordinate; irregular; vicious.
To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.
Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment.
The state of being disorderly.
In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly.
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