One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.
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expressing a low opinion of; same as derogatory; as, disparaging remarks about the new house.
In a manner to disparage or dishonor; slightingly.
Unequal; dissimilar; separate.
Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.
Act of disappearing; disappearance.
Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color.
To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common.
To scatter abroad.
To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy.
Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed.
Free from passion; dispassionate.
The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.
One who dispatches.
Bent on haste; intent on speedy execution of business or any task; indicating haste; quick; as, dispatchful looks.
The act of dispatching.
Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy.
To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis.
To free a state of pauperism, or from paupers.
To send off with speed; to dispatch.
To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions.
See Dispense.
To spend; to lay out; to expend.
One who dispends or expends; a steward.
Capable of being dispensed or administered.
Quality of being dispensable.
A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.
The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.
Granting dispensation.
By dispensation.
A distributer; a dispenser.
In the way of dispensation; dispensatively.
A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacop/ia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government.
Expense; profusion; outlay.
distributed or weighed out in carefully determined portions; as, medicines dispensed to the sick.
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate.
One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.
To sprinkle.
Containing only two seeds; two-seeded.
To scatter; to sprinkle.
The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.
To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse.
Scattered.
Dispersedness.
One that disperses.
The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites and ceremonies; a great dispersion of the human family took place at the building of Babel.
Tending to disperse.
To deprive of personality or individuality.
To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.
Depressed in spirits; deprived of cheer or enthusiasm; disheartened; discouraged; daunted.
causing dejection; discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.
Depression of spirits; discouragement.
Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless.
To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.
Capable of being displaced.
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike.
One that displaces.
To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants.
The act of displanting; removal; displacement.
To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat.
An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation.
Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.
One who, or that which, displays.
To discipline; to correct.
Displeasure; discontent; annoyance.
Unpleasing; offensive; unpleasant.
To give displeasure or offense.
With displeasure.
Displeasure.
One who displeases.
Causing displeasure or dissatisfaction; offensive; disagreeable.
To displease.
To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock.
Dislike; dissatisfaction; discontent.
To burst with a loud report; to explode.
Explosion.
Explosive.
To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.
One of several isomeric organic bases of the quinoline series of alkaloids.
See Despond.
A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.
To dispose.
The person to whom any property is legally conveyed.
One who legally transfers property from himself to another.
To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge.
To refuse to consider as pope; to depose from the popedom.
Having two spores.
To divert or amuse; to make merry.
Act of disporting; diversion; play.
Subject to disposal; free to be used or employed as occasion may require; not assigned to any service or use.
that portion of income which is available for spending on discretionary purchases; for individuals, it is usually calculated as total income less taxes. National disposable income, which is the disposable income of all individuals and businesses, is calculated as total national income minus taxes plus transfer payments.
The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.
Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
Inclined; minded.
The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
Disposal.
One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower.
In a manner to dispose.
Disposed.
The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.
Pertaining to disposition.
Having (such) a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well-dispositioned.
Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive.
In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition.
A disposer.
To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.
physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security.
The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.
One who dispossesses.
To eject from a post; to displace.
The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction.
Blamable.
The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement.
One who blames or dispraises.
By way of dispraise.
To extend or expand itself.
One who spreads abroad.
To free from prejudice.
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