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.
To render unprepared.
To make unlike a prince.
To let loose from prison, to set at liberty.
To deprive of a privilege or privileges.
To depreciate.
To renounce the profession or pursuit of.
To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.
Unprofitable.
A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.
To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of.
To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate.
Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be disproportional to their understanding.
The state of being disproportional.
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate.
Capable of being disproved or refuted.
Act of disproving; disproof.
To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
One who disproves or confutes.
Not to provide; to fail to provide.
To expunge.
See Disponge.
Without penal restraint; not punishable.
To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots.
To disfurnish; to strip.
Want of provisions; /ack of food.
Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions.
State of being disputable.
Proneness to dispute.
One who disputes; one who argues in opposition to another; one appointed to dispute; a controvertist; a reasoner in opposition.
The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.
Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper.
Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper.
Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.