To tear in pieces; to rend.

Capability or liableness to be discerped.

Capable of being discerped.

The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts.

Tending to separate or disunite parts.

Departure.

The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo.

One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.

Disheveled.

To deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church.

To divide; to cleave in two.

Bearing disks.

Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.

Discoid.

A genus of Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle.

Ungirded; loosely dressed.

To part; to divide.

To teach; to train.

The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.

A female disciple.

Capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training.

The quality of being improvable by discipline.

Relating to discipline.

A flagellant. See Flagellant.

One who disciplines; one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar.

Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training.

To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.

One who disciplines.

To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share.

One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.

A disavowing or disowning.

To disclaim; to expel.

To injure one's good name; to slander.

To take off a cloak from; to uncloak.

Disclosure.

Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey.

One who discloses.

The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.

To clear from clouds.

To divest of a clout.

A shutting off; exclusion.

To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated.

Applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.

A thrower of the discus. A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it.

One of the tree frogs.

A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

Having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

Incoherent.

Anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell.

Disk-shaped; discoid.

One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about / of an inch in its longest diameter.

To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water.

To discolor.

The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance.

Altered in color; stained; spotted or streaked with foreign matter.

same as discolor.

same as discolored; as, discoloured paneling.

to cause to be confused; confuse emotionally.

confused; upset; as, the hecklers pelted the discombobulated speaker with anything that came to hand.

Rout; overthrow; discomfiture.

thwarted; -- used especially of feelings of defeat and discouragement.

The act of discomfiting, or the state of being discomfited; rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection.

Discouragement.

Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad.

To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove.

Deserving, disapprobation or blame.

Blame; censure; reproach.

One who discommends; a dispraiser.

To deprive of a commission or trust.

To discommode.

To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

Inconvenient; troublesome; incommodious.

Disadvantage; inconvenience.

To deprive of the right of common.

A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship.

To free from company; to dissociate.

To change the complexion or hue of.

Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance.

To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.

Disordered; disturbed; disquieted.

Inconsistency; discordance.

The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation.

To discount. See Discount.

Want of concert; disagreement.

hard to deal with; causing uncertainty or confusion about how to act or react.

The act of disconcerting, or state of being disconcerted; discomposure; perturbation.

Not conductive; impeding; disadvantageous.

Not conformable.

Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement.

Incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness.

To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse.

marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds.

the state of being disconnected.

The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union.

To deprive of consecration or sacredness.

To differ; to disagree; to dissent.

The state of being disconsolate.

Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent.

Disconsolate.

Dejection; grief.

Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet.

Discontent.

Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent.

Full of discontent.

Discontented.

Relating or tending to discontent.

The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude.

Admitting of being discontinued.

The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel.

Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.

To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.

One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.

One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee.

Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts.

One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.

Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.

Unsuitableness; incongruity.

Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted.

A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species.

To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.