Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
DISHONEST — DISMASTMENT
DISHONEST, a. Dizonest. [dis and honest.]
1. Void of honesty; destitute of probity, integrity or good faith; faithless; fraudulent; knavish; having or exercising a disposition to deceive, cheat and defraud; applied to persons; as a dishonest man.
2. Proceeding from fraud or marked by it; fraudulent; knavish; as a dishonest transaction.
3. Disgraced; dishonored; from the sense in Latin.
Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears.
4. Disgraceful; ignominious; from the Latin sense.
Inglorious triumphs, and dishonest scars.
5. Unchaste; lewd.
DISHONESTLY, adv. Dizonestly.
1. In a dishonest manner; without good faith, probity or integrity; with fraudulent views; knavishly.
2. Lewdly; unchastely.
DISHONESTY, n. Dizonesty.
1. Want of probity, or integrity in principle; faithlessness; a disposition to cheat or defraud, or to deceive and betray; applied to persons.
2. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; treachery; any deviation from probity or integrity; applied to acts.
3. Unchastity; incontinence; lewdness.
4. Deceit; wickedness; shame. 2 Corinthians 4:2.
DISHONOR, n. Dizonor. [dis and honor.] Reproach; disgrace; ignominy; shame; whatever constitutes a stain or blemish in the reputation.
It was not meet for us to see the kings dishonor. Ezra 4:14.
It may express less than ignominy and infamy.
DISHONOR, v.t.
1. To disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to stain the character of; to lessen reputation. The duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor.
The impunity of the crimes of great men dishonors the administration of the laws.
2. To treat with indignity.
3. To violate the chastity of; to debauch.
4. To refuse or decline to accept or pay; as, to dishonor a bill of exchange.
DISHONORABLE, a.
1. Shameful; reproachful; base; vile; bringing shame on; staining the character, and lessening reputation. Every act of meanness, and every vice is dishonorable.
2. Destitute of honor; as a dishonorable man.
3. In a state of neglect or disesteem.
He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more in poverty?
DISHONORABLY, adv. Reproachfully; in a dishonorable manner.
DISHONORARY, a. Dizonorary. Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation.
DISHONORED, pp. Disgraced; brought into disrepute.
DISHONORER, n. One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another with indignity.
DISHONORING, ppr. Disgracing; bringing into disrepute; treating with indignity.
DISHORN, v.t. [dis and horn.] To deprive of horns.
DISHORNED, pp. Stripped of horns.
DISHUMOR, n. [dis and humor.] Peevishness; ill humor. [Little used.]
DISIMPARK, v.t. [dis, in and park.] To free from the barriers of a park; to free from restraints or seclusion. [Little used.]
DISIMPROVEMENT, n. [dis and improvement.] Reduction from a better to a worse state; the contrary to improvement or melioration; as the disimprovement of the earth. [Little used.]
DISINCARCERATE, v.t. [dis and incarcerate.] To liberate from prison; to set free from confinement. [Not much used.]
DISINCLINATION, n. [dis and inclination.] Want of inclination; want of propensity, desire or affection; slight dislike; aversion; expressing less than hate.
Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex.
DISINCLINE, v.t. [dis and incline.] To excite dislike or slight aversion; to make disaffected; to alienate from. His timidity disinclined him from such an arduous enterprise.
DISINCLINED, pp. Not inclined; averse.
DISINCLINING, ppr. Exciting dislike or slight aversion.
DISINCORPORATE, v.t.
1. To deprive of corporate powers; to disunite a corporate body, or an established society.
2. To detach or separate from a corporation or society.
DISINCORPORATION, n. Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation.
DISINFECT, v.t. [dis and infect.] To cleanse from infection; to purify from contagious matter.
DISINFECTED, pp. Cleansed from infection.
DISINFECTING, ppr. Purifying from infection.
DISINFECTION, n. Purification from infecting matter.
DISINGENUITY, n. [dis and ingenuity.] Meanness of artifice; unfairness; disingenuousness; want of candor. [This word is little used, or not at all, in the sense here explained. See Ingenuity. We now use in lieu of it disingenuousness.]
DISINGENUOUS, a. [dis and ingenuous.]
1. Unfair; not open, frank and candid; meanly artful; illiberal; applied to persons.
2. Unfair; meanly artful; unbecoming true honor and dignity; as disingenuous conduct; disingenuous schemes.
DISINGENUOUSLY, adv. In a disingenuous manner; unfairly; not openly and candidly; with secret management.
DISINGENUOUSNESS, n.
1. Unfairness; want of candor; low craft; as the disingenuousness of a man, or of his mind.
2. Characterized by unfairness, as conduct or practices.
DISINHERISON, n. [dis and inherit.]
1. The act of cutting off from hereditary succession; the act of disinheriting.
2. The state of being disinherited.
DISINHERIT, v.t. [dis and inherit.] To cut off from hereditary right; to deprive of an inheritance; 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. A father sometimes disinherits his children by will. In England, the crown is descendible to the eldest son, who cannot be disinherited by the will of his father.
DISINHERITED, pp. Cut off from an inheritance.
DISINHERITING, ppr. Depriving of an hereditary estate or right.
DISINTEGRABLE, a. [dis and integer.] That may be separated into integrant parts; capable of disintegration.
Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure to the atmosphere.
DISINTEGRATE, v.t. [dis and integer.] To separate the integrant parts of.
Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.
DISINTEGRATED, pp. Separated into integrant parts without chemical action.
DISINTEGRATION, n. The act of separating integrant parts of a substance, as distinguished from decomposition or the separation of constituent parts.
DISINTER, v.t. [dis and inter.]
1. To take out of a grave, or out of the earth; as, to disinter a dead body that is buried.
2. To take out as from a grave; to bring from obscurity into view.
The philosopher--may be concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred. [Unusual.]
DISINTERESSED, DISINTERESSMENT, [See Disinterested, etc.]
DISINTEREST, n. [dis and interest.]
1. What is contrary to the interest or advantage; disadvantage; injury. [Little used or not at all.]
2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage.
DISINTEREST, v.t. To disengage from private interest or personal advantage. [Little used.]
DISINTERESTED, a.
1. Uninterested; indifferent; free from self-interest; having no personal interest or private advantage in a question or affair. It is important that a judge should be perfectly disinterested.
2. Not influenced or dictated by private advantage; as a disinterested decision. [This word is more generally used than uninterested.]
DISINTERESTEDLY, adv. In a disinterested manner.
DISINTERESTEDNESS, n. The state or quality of having no personal interest or private advantage in a question or event; freedom from bias or prejudice, on account of private interest; indifference.
DISINTERESTING, a. Uninteresting. [The latter is the word now used.]
DISINTERMENT, n. The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth.
DISINTERRED, pp. Taken out of the earth or grave.
DISINTERRING, ppr. Taking out of the earth, or out of a grave.
DISINTHRALL, v.t. [dis and enthrall.] To liberate from slavery, bondage or servitude; to free or rescue from oppression.
DISINTHRALLED, pp. Set free from bondage.
DISINTHRALLING, ppr. Delivering from slavery or servitude.
DISINTHRALLMENT, n. Liberation from bondage; emancipation from slavery.
DISINURE, v.t. [dis and inure.] To deprive of familiarity or custom.
DISINVITE, v.t. To recall an invitation.
DISINVOLVE, v.t. disinvolv. [dis and involve.] To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
DISJOIN, v.t. [dis and join.] To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.
DISJOINED, pp. Disunited; separated.
DISJOINING, ppr. Disuniting; severing.
DISJOINT, v.t. [dis and joint.]
1. To separate a joint; to separate parts united by joints; as, to disjoint the limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving.
2. To put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate.
3. To separate at junctures; to break at the part where things are united by cement; as disjointed columns.
4. To break in pieces; to separate united parts; as, to disjoint an edifice; the disjointed parts of a ship.
5. To break the natural order and relations of a thing; to make incoherent; as a disjointed speech.
DISJOINT, v.i. To fall in pieces.
DISJOINT, a. Disjointed.
DISJOINTED, pp. Separated at the joints; parted limb from limb; carved; put out of joint; not coherent.
DISJOINTING, ppr. Separating joints; disjoining limb from limb; breaking at the seams or junctures; rendering incoherent.
DISJOINTLY, adv. In a divided state.
DISJUDICATION, n. [L.] Judgment; determination. [Not used.]
DISJUNCT, a. [L., to join.] Disjoined; separated.
DISJUNCTION, n. [L.] The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as the disjunction of soul and body.
DISJUNCTIVE, a.
1. Separating; disjoining.
2. Incapable of union. [Unusual.]
3. In grammar, a disjunctive conjunction or connective, is a word which unites sentences or the parts of discourse in construction, but disjoins the sense, noting an alternative or opposition; as, I love him, or I fear him; I neither love him, nor fear him.
4. In logic, a disjunctive proposition, is one in which the parts are opposed to each other, by means of disjunctive; as, it is either day or night. A disjunctive syllogism, is when the major proposition is disjunctive; as, the earth moves in a circle, or an ellipsis; but it does not move in a circle, therefore it moves in an ellipsis.
DISJUNCTIVE, n. A word that disjoins, as or, nor neither.
DISJUNCTIVELY, adv. In a disjunctive manner; separately.
DISK, n. [L. See Dish and Desk.]
1. The body and face of the sun, moon or a planet, as it appears to us on the earth; or the body and face of the earth, as it appears to a spectator in the moon.
2. A quoit; a piece of stone, iron or copper, inclining to an oval figure, which the ancients hurled by the help of a leathern thong tied round the persons hand, and put through a hole in the middle.
Some whirl the disk, and some the javlin dart.
3. In botany, the whole surface of a leaf; the central part of a radiate compound flower.
DISKINDNESS, n. [dis and kindness.]
1. Want of kindness; unkindness; want of affection.
2. Ill turn; injury; detriment.
DISLIKE, n. [dis and like.]
1. Disapprobation; disinclination; displeasure; aversion; a moderate degree of hatred. A man shows his dislike to measures which he disapproves, to a proposal which he is disinclined to accept, and to food which he does not relish. All wise and good men manifest their dislike to folly.
2. Discord; disagreement. [Not in use.]
DISLIKE, v.t.
1. To disapprove; to regard with some aversion or displeasure. We dislike proceedings which we deem wrong; we dislike persons of evil habit; we dislike whatever gives us pain.
2. To disrelish; to regard with some disgust; as, to dislike particular kinds of food.
DISLIKED, pp. Disapproved; disrelished.
DISLIKEFUL, a. Disliking; disaffected. [Not used.]
DISLIKEN, v.t. To make unlike.
DISLIKENESS, n. [dis and likeness.] Unlikeness; want of resemblance; dissimilitude.
DISLIKER, n. One who disapproves, or disrelishes.
DISLIKING, ppr. Disapproving; disrelishing.
DISLIMB, v.t. dislim. To tear the limbs from.
DISLIMN, v.t. dislim. To strike out of a picture. [Not in use.]
DISLOCATE, v.t. [dis and locate, L., place.] To displace; to put out of its proper place; particularly, to put out of joint; to disjoint; to move a bone from its socket, cavity or place of articulation.
DISLOCATED, pp. Removed from its proper place; put out of joint.
DISLOCATING, ppr. Putting out of its proper place or out of joint.
DISLOCATION, n.
1. The act of moving from its proper place; particularly, the act of removing or forcing a bone from its socket; luxation.
2. The sate of being displaced.
3. A joint displaced.
4. In geology, the displacement of parts of rocks, or portions of strata, from the situations which they originally occupied.
DISLODGE, v.t. dislodj. [dis and lodge.]
1. To remove or drive from a lodge or place or rest; to drive from the place where a thing naturally rests or inhabits. Shells resting int he sea at a considerable depth, are not dislodged by storms.
2. To drive from a place of retirement or retreat; as, to dislodge a coney or a deer.
3. To drive from any place of rest or habitation, or from any station; as, to dislodge the enemy from their quarters, from a hill or wall.
4. To remove an army to other quarters.
DISLODGE, v.i. To go from a place of rest.
DISLODGED, pp. Driven from a lodge or place of rest; removed from a place of habitation, or from any station.
DISLODGING, ppr. Driving from a lodge or place of rest; removed from a place of habitation, or from any station.
DISLODGING, ppr. Driving from a lodge, from a place of rest or retreat, or from any station.
DISLOYAL, a. [dis and loyal.]
1. Not true to allegiance; false to a sovereign; faithless; as a disloyal subject.
2. False; perfidious; treacherous; as a disloyal knave.
3. Not true to the marriage-bed.
4. False in love; not constant.
DISLOYALLY, adv. In a disloyal manner; with violation of faith or duty to a sovereign; faithlessly; perfidiously.
DISLOYALTY, n.
1. Want of fidelity to a sovereign; violation of allegiance, or duty to a prince or sovereign authority.
2. Want of fidelity in love.
DISMAL, a. s as z. [I am not satisfied with the etymologies of this word which I have seen.]
1. Dark; gloomy; as a dismal shade.
2. Sorrowful; dire; horrid; melancholy; calamitous; unfortunate; as a dismal accident; dismal effects.
3. Frightful; horrible; as a dismal scream.
DISMALLY, adv. Gloomily; horrible; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
DISMALNESS, n. Gloominess; horror.
DISMANTLE, v.t. [dis and mantle.]
1. To deprive of dress; to strip; to divest.
2. To loose; to throw open.
3. More generally, to deprive or strip of apparatus, or furniture; to unrig; as, to dismantle a ship.
4. To deprive or strip of military furniture; as, to dismantle a fortress.
5. To deprive of outworks or forts; as, to dismantle a town.
6. To break down; as, his nose dismantled.