Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 59

Disavouch (v. t.) To disavow.

Disavowed (imp. & p. p.) of Disavow

Disavowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disavow

Disavow (v. t.) To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.

Disavow (v. t.) To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.

Disavowal (n.) The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial.

Disavowance (n.) Disavowal.

Disavower (n.) One who disavows.

Disavowment (n.) Disavowal.

Disbanded (imp. & p. p.) of Disband

Disbanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disband

Disband (v. t.) To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army.

Disband (v. t.) To divorce.

Disband (v. i.) To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.

Disbandment (n.) The act of disbanding.

Disbarred (imp. & p. p.) of Disbar

Disbarring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disbar

Disbar (v. t.) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.

Disbark (v. t.) To disembark.

Disbark (v. t.) To strip of bark; to bark.

Disbarment (n.) Act of disbarring.

Disbase (v. t.) To debase or degrade.

Disbecome (v. t.) To misbecome.

Disbelief (n.) The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief.

Disbelieved (imp. & p. p.) of Disbelieve

Disbelieving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disbelieve

Disbelieve (v. t.) Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.

Disbeliever (n.) One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion.

Disbench (v. t.) To drive from a bench or seat.

Disbench (v. t.) To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges.

Disbend (v. t.) To unbend.

Disbind (v. t.) To unbind; to loosen.

Disblame (v. t.) To clear from blame.

Disbodied (a.) Disembodied.

Disboscation (n.) Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest.

Disbowel (v. t.) To disembowel.

Disbranch (v.) To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off.

Disbud (v.) To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.

Disburden (v. t.) To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve.

Disburden (v. i.) To relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind.

Disburgeon (v. t.) To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud.

Disbursed (imp. & p. p.) of Disburse

Disbursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disburse

Disburse (v. t.) To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.

Disbursement (n.) The act of disbursing or paying out.

Disbursement (n.) That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.

Disburser (n.) One who disburses money.

Disburthened (imp. & p. p.) of Disburthen

Disburthening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disburthen

Disburthen (v. t.) To disburden; to relieve of a load.

Disc (n.) A flat round plate

Disc (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.

Discage (v. t.) To uncage.

Discal (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.

Discalceate (v. t.) To pull off shoes or sandals from.

Discalceated (a.) Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.

Discalced (a.) Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced.

Discalceation (n.) The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals.

Discamp (v. t.) To drive from a camp.

Discandy (v. i.) To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.

Discant (n.) See Descant, n.

Discapacitate (v. t.) To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate.

Discarded (imp. & p. p.) of Discard

Discarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discard

Discard (v. t.) To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).

Discard (v. t.) To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away.

Discard (v. t.) To put or thrust away; to reject.

Discard (v. i.) To make a discard.

Discard (n.) The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.

Discardure (n.) Rejection; dismissal.

Discarnate (a.) Stripped of flesh.

Discase (v. t.) To strip; to undress.

Discede (v. i.) To yield or give up; to depart.

Discept (v. i.) To debate; to discuss.

Disceptation (n.) Controversy; disputation; discussion.

Disceptator (n.) One who arbitrates or decides.

Discerned (imp. & p. p.) of Discern

Discerning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discern

Discern (v. t.) To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.

Discern (v. t.) To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference.

Discern (v. i.) To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.

Discern (v. i.) To make cognizance.

Discernance (n.) Discernment.

Discerner (n.) One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong.

Discernible (a.) Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding.

Discernibleness (n.) The quality of being discernible.

Discernibly (adv.) In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly.

Discerning (a.) Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.

Discerningly (adv.) In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely.

Discernment (n.) The act of discerning.

Discernment (n.) The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.

Discerp (v. t.) To tear in pieces; to rend.

Discerp (v. t.) To separate; to disunite.

Discerpibility (n.) Alt. of Discerptibility

Discerptibility (n.) Capability or liableness to be discerped.

Discerpible (a.) Alt. of Discerptible

Discerptible (a.) Capable of being discerped.

Discerption (n.) The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts.

Discerptive (a.) Tending to separate or disunite parts.

Discession (n.) Departure.

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