To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse.

A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.

Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.

A writer of dissertations.

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.

See Disertly.

To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.

Injury; mischief.

Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable.

To unsettle.

The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.

To part; to separate.

The act of disserving; separation.

The act of disserving; disseverance.

Disseverance.

To free from shadow or shade.

To become unsheathed.

To dismiss from service on board ship.

To shiver or break in pieces.

Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion.

One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.

In a dissident manner.

The act of leaping or starting asunder.

Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp.

The act of bursting or springing apart.

Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.

Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms.

In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style.

To render dissimilar.

The act of making dissimilar.

Comparison or illustration by contraries.

Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

Feigning; simulating; pretending.

To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive.

The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

To dissemble.

A dissembler.

A dissembler.

Capable of being scattered or dissipated.

To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.

To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.

Squandered; scattered.

The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

Tending to dissipate.

The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.

Lying apart.

Slander.

Slanderous.

Want of sociability; unsociableness.

Not well associated or assorted; incongruous.

Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.

To render unsocial.

To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.

not connected or associated.

The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.

Tending or leading to dissociation.

The quality of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, and converted into a fluid.

Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid.

With nerves unstrung; weak.

In a dissolute manner.

State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation.

The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.

Capacity of being dissolved; solubility.

Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble.

Having the power to dissolve anything; solvent.

To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

changed from a solid to a liquid state by increase of temperature; melted. Opposite of unmelted.

Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.

That which has the power of dissolving or melting other substances, esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent.

One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate.

Melting; breaking up; vanishing.

A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.

Discord; dissonance.

Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.

See Dispirit.

To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).

One who dissuades; a dehorter.

The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation.

Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice. A dissuasive argument or counsel; dissuasion; dehortation.

A dissuasive.

To separate; to sunder; to destroy.

To deprive of sweetness.

Consisting of two syllables only; as, a dissyllabic foot in poetry.

A forming into two syllables.

To form into two syllables.

To form into two syllables; to dissyllabify.

A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.

Not having symmetry; asymmetrical; unsymmetrical.

Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.

Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference.

Toward a distal part; on the distal side of; distally.

The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.

To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry.

Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone.

Toward a distal part.

To place at a distance or remotely.

Distance.

Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.

Distant.

At a distance; remotely; with reserve.

To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.

Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.

Tending to excite distaste. That which excites distaste or aversion.

Something which excites distaste or disgust.

An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.

Distemperature.

Immoderate.

Unduly.

Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air.

Distempered state; distemperature.

To become expanded or inflated; to swell.

The quality or capacity of being distensible.

Capable of being distended or dilated.

Same as Distention.

Distending, or capable of being distended.

Breadth.

The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs.

To banish or drive from a country.