Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 67
Dishing (a.) Dish-shaped; concave.
Dish (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Dished; p. pr. & vb. n. Dishing.] To put in a dish, ready for the table.
Dish (v. t.) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
Dish (v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin. [Low]
Dish (v. t.) To talk about (a person) in a disparaging manner; to gossip about (a person); as, the secretaries spent their break time dishing the newest employee. [slang]
To dish out. (ph.) To serve out of a dish; to distribute in portions at table.
To dish out. (ph.) (Arch.) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.
To dish out. (ph.) To dispense freely; -- also used figuratively; as, to dish out punishment; to dish out abuse or insult.
To dish up, (ph.) To take (food) from the oven, pots, etc., and put in dishes to be served at table.
Dishonest (v. t.) To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid. [Obs.]
I will no longer dishonest my house. -- Chapman.
Dishonest (a.) Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. [Obs.]
Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. -- Pope.
Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women]. -- Sir T. North.
Dishonest (a.) Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [Obs.]
Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears. -- Dryden.
Dishonest (a.) Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man.
Dishonest (a.) Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust.
To get dishonest gain. -- Ezek. xxii. 27.
The dishonest profits of men in office. -- Bancroft.
Dishonest (a.) Deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive [syn: dishonest, dishonorable] [ant: honest, honorable].
Dishonest (a.) Capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer" [syn: corruptible, bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal].
Dishonestly (adv.) In a dishonest manner.
Dishonestly (adv.) In a corrupt and deceitful manner; "he acted dishonestly when he gave the contract to his best friend" [syn: dishonestly, venally, deceitfully] [ant: aboveboard, honestly].
Dishonesty (n.) Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. [Obs.] "The hidden things of dishonesty." -- 2 Cor. iv. 2.
Dishonesty (n.) Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
Dishonesty (n.) Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act.
Dishonesty (n.) Lewdness; unchastity. -- Shak.
Dishonesty (n.) The quality of being dishonest [ant: honestness, honesty].
Dishonesty (n.) Lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing [syn: dishonesty, knavery].
Dishonored (imp. & p. p.) of Dishonor.
Dishonoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dishonor.
Dishonor (v. t.) 使丟臉，使受恥辱；侮辱，不尊重；【商】拒付，拒絕承兌 To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity, or as unworthy in the sight of others; to stain the character of; to lessen the reputation of; as, the duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor.
Nothing . . . that may dishonor Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite. -- Milton.
Dishonor (v. t.) To violate the chastity of; to debauch. -- Dryden.
Dishonor (v. t.) To refuse or decline to accept or pay; -- said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exchange.
Syn: To disgrace; shame; debase; degrade; lower; humble; humiliate; debauch; pollute.
Dishonor (n.) 不名譽，丟臉 [U]；侮辱 [U]；丟臉的事（或人）[S] [（+to）] Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.
It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor. -- Ezra iv. 14.
His honor rooted in dishonor stood. -- Tennyson.
Dishonor (n.) (Law) The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn.
Syn: Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium.
Dishonor (n.) A state of shame or disgrace; "he was resigned to a life of dishonor" [syn: dishonor, dishonour] [ant: honor, honour, laurels].
Dishonor (n.) Lacking honor or integrity [syn: dishonor, dishonour] [ant: honor, honour].
Dishonor (v.) Bring shame or dishonor upon; "he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime" [syn: dishonor, disgrace, dishonour, attaint, shame] [ant: honor, honour, reward].
Dishonor (v.) Force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night" [syn: rape, ravish, violate, assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage].
Dishonor (v.) Refuse to accept; "dishonor checks and drafts" [syn: dishonor, dishonour] [ant: honor, honour].
Dishonorable (a.) 不名譽的，可恥的；卑鄙的，無恥的 Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.
Dishonorable (a.) Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed.
He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more in poverty! -- Ecclus. x. 31.
To find ourselves dishonorable graves. -- Shak. -- Dis*hon"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Dis*hon"or*a*bly, adv.
Dishonorable (a.) Lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed" [syn: dishonorable, dishonourable] [ant: honorable, honourable].
Dishonorable (a.) Deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive [syn: dishonest, dishonorable] [ant: honest, honorable].
Dishonorary (a.) Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation. -- Holmes.
Dishonorer (n.) One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity. -- Milton.
Dishorn (v. t.) To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle. "Dishorn the spirit." -- Shak.
Dishorse (v. t.) To dismount; to knock (a person) from a horse. -- Tennyson.
Dishouse (v. t.) To deprive of house or home. "Dishoused villagers." -- James White.
Dishumor (n.) Ill humor. [Obs.]
Dishumor (v. t.) To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Compare: Appliance
Appliance (n.) [C] 器具，用具；裝置，設備；【罕】使用，應用 [the S] [（+of）]；救火車 The act of applying; application.
Appliance (n.) Subservience; compliance. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Appliance (n.) A thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.
Appliance (n.) Specifically: An apparatus or device, usually powered electrically, used in homes to perform domestic functions.
An appliance is often categorized as a major appliance or a minor appliance by its cost. Common major appliances are the refrigerator, washing machine, clothes drier, oven, and dishwasher. Some minor appliances are a toaster, vacuum cleaner or microwave oven.
Dishwasher (n.) One who, or that which, washes dishes.
Dishwasher (n.) A European bird; the wagtail.
Dishwater (n.) Water in which dishes have been washed.
Disillusion (n.) The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
Disillusion (v. t.) To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.
Disillusionize (v. t.) To disenchant; to free from illusion.
Disillusionment (n.) The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
Disimbitter (v. t.) To free from bitterness.
Disimpark (v. t.) To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park.
Disimpassioned (a.) Free from warmth of passion or feeling.
Disimprove (v. t.) To make worse; -- the opposite of improve.
Disimprove (v. i.) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
Disimprovement (n.) Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth.
Disincarcerate (v. t.) To liberate from prison.
Disinclination (n.) The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.
Disinclination (n.) A feeling of not wanting to do something ; a tendency to avoid a particular activity.
Disinclined (imp. & p. p.) of Disincline.
Disinclining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disincline.
Disincline (v. t.) To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate.
Disinclose (v. t.) To free from being inclosed.
Disincorporated (imp. & p. p.) of Disincorporate.
Disincorporating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disincorporate.
Disincorporate (v. t.) To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body.
Disincorporate (v. t.) To detach or separate from a corporation.
Disincorporate (a.) Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; disincorporated.
Disincorporation (n.) Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation.
Disinfected (imp. & p. p.) of Disinfect.
Disinfecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinfect.
Disinfect (v. t.) 將……消毒（或殺菌） To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.
When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. -- Ure.
Disinfect (v.) Destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing; "disinfect a wound" [ant: infect, taint].
Disinfectant (n.) 消毒劑 That which disinfects, especially an agent for killing or removing the microorganisms which cause infection. Commonly used disinfectants are chlorine, sodium hypochlorite solution, hydrogen peroxide, and alcohol.
Disinfectant (a.) 消毒的 Preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms [syn: bactericidal, disinfectant, germicidal].
Disinfectant (n.) An agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease [syn: disinfectant, germicide, antimicrobic, antimicrobial].
Disinfection (n.) 消毒 The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.
Disinfection (n.) Treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms.
Disinfector (n.) 消毒者 One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.
Disinflame (v. t.) To divest of flame or ardor. -- Chapman.
Disinformation (n.) 任何在大眾傳播中散布、或公開宣布的不正確事項；故意在大眾傳播中散布、或公開宣布的有關一國（尤指是外國的）軍事力量或軍事計畫之不正確報導 Misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.).
Disingenuity (n.) Disingenuousness. [Obs.] -- Clarendon.
Disingenuous (a.) Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
Disingenuous (a.) Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
So disingenuous as not to confess them [faults]. -- Pope. -- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ly, adv. -- T. Warton. -- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ness, n. -- Macaulay.
Disingenuous (a.) Not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse" [syn: disingenuous, artful] [ant: artless, ingenuous].
Disinhabited (a.) Uninhabited. [Obs.]
Disinherison (n.) Same as Disherison. --Bacon.
Disinherison, () civil law. The act of depriving a forced heir of the inheritance which the law gives him.
Disinherison, () In Louisiana, forced heirs may be deprived of their legitime, or legal portion, and of the seisin granted them by law, for just cause. The disinherison must be made in proper form, by name and expressly, and for a just cause, otherwise it is null.
Disinherison, () The just causes for which parents may disinherit their children, are ten in number. 1. If the child has raised his or her hand to strike the parent, or if he or she has actually struck the parent; but a mere threat is not sufficient. 2. If the child has been guilty, towards a parent, of cruelty, of a crime, or grievous injury. 3. If the child has attempted to take away the life of either parent. 4. If the child has accused either parent of any capital crime, except, however, that of high treason. 5. If the child has refused sustenance to a parent, having the means to afford it. 6. If the child has neglected to take care of a parent, become insane. 7. If a child has refused to ransom them when detained in captivity. 8. If the child used any act of violence or coercion to hinder a parent from making a will. 9. If the child has refused to become security for a parent, having the means, in order to take him out of prison. 10. If the son. or daughter, being a minor, marries without the consent of his or her parents. Civil Code, art. 1609-1613.
Disinherison, () The ascendants may disinherit their legitimate descendants, coming to their succession for the first nine causes above expressed, when the, acts of ingratitude, there mentioned, have been committed towards them, instead of towards their parents; but they cannot disinherit their descendants for the last cause. Art. 1614.
Disinherison, () Legitimate children, dying without issue, and leaving a parent,. cannot disinherit him or her, unless for the seven following causes, to wit: 1. If the parent has accused the child of a capital crime, except, however, the crime of high treason. 2. If the parent has attempted to take the child's life. 3. If the parent has, by any violence or force, hindered the child from making a will. 4. If the parent has refused sustenance to the child in necessity, having the means of affording it. 5. If the parent has neglected to take care of the child when in a state of insanity. 6. If the parent has neglected to ransom the child when in captivity. 7. If the father or mother have attempted the life the one of the other, in which case the child or descendant, making a will, may disinherit the one who has attempted the life of the other. Art. 1615.
Disinherison, () The testator must express in the will for what reason he disinherited his forced heirs, or any of them, and the other heirs of the testator are moreover obliged to prove the facts on which the disinherison is founded, otherwise it is null. Art. 1616. Vide Nov 115 Ayl. Pand. B. 2, t. 29; Swinb. art 7, 22.
Disinherited (imp. & p. p.) of Disinherit.
Disinheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinherit.
Disinherit (v. t.) To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; 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.
Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity! -- South.
Disinherit (v. t.) To deprive of heritage; to dispossess.
And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here. -- Milton.
Disinherit (v.) Prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting [syn: disinherit, disown] [ant: bequeath, leave, will].
Disinheritance (n.) The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.
Disinheritance (n.) The act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit.
Disinhume (v. t.) To disinter. [R.]
Disinsure (v. t.) To render insecure; to put in danger. [Obs.] -- Fanshawe.
Disintegrable (a.) Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder.
Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure. -- Kirwan.
Disintegrable (a.) Capable of melting [syn: meltable, disintegrable].
Disintegrated (imp. & p. p.) of Disintegrate.
Disintegrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disintegrate.
Disintegrate (v. t.) To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences.
Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. -- Kirwan.
Disintegrate (v. i.) To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.
Disintegrate (v.) Break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died" [ant: incorporate, integrate].
Disintegrate (v.) Cause to undergo fission or lose particles.
Disintegrate (v.) Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process" [syn: disintegrate, decay, decompose].
Disintegration (n.) The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated.
Disintegration (n.) (Geol.) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
Society had need of further disintegration before it could begin to reconstruct itself locally. -- Motley.
Disintegration (n.) In a decomposed state [syn: decomposition, disintegration].
Disintegration (n.) A loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system; "a disintegration of personality".
Disintegration (n.) Separation into component parts [syn: dissolution, disintegration].
Disintegration (n.) The spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation [syn: decay, radioactive decay, disintegration].
Disintegration (n.) Total destruction; "bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll" [syn: annihilation, disintegration].
Disintegrator (n.) (Mech.) A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.
Disinterred (imp. & p. p.) of Disinter.
Disinterring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinter.
Disinter (v. t.) To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
Disinter (v. t.) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view. --Addison.
Disinter (v.) Dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies [syn: disinter, exhume].
Disinteress (v. t.) To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage. [Obs.]
Disinteressment (n.) Disinterestedness; impartiality; fairness. [Obs.] -- Prior.
Disinterest (p. a.) Disinterested. [Obs.]
The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. -- Jer. Taylor.
Disinterest (n.) What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage. [Obs.] -- Glanvill.
Disinterest (n.) 不關心；公正無私 Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Compare: Disinterestedness
Disinterestedness (n.) [U] 公正無私；不感興趣；漠不關心 See Disinterested.
Disinterestedness (n.) The quality or state of being objective or impartial.
Disinterest (v. t.) 使不關心 To divest of interest or interested motives. [Obs.] -- Feltham.
Disinterest (n.) Tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement [syn: disinterest, neutrality].
Disinterested (a.) 無私的；公正的；不感興趣的；不關心的；冷漠的 [（+in）]；disinterest 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage; free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested decision or judge.
The happiness of disinterested sacrifices. -- Channing.
Syn: Unbiased; impartial; uninterested; indifferent.
Disinterested (a.) Unaffected by self-interest.
Disinterestedly (adv.) 公正地；無偏見地；無私地 In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.
Disinterestedly (adv.) Without bias; without selfish motives; "he decided the case disinterestedly".
Disinterestedness (n.) The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality.
That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. -- Macaulay.
Disinteresting (a.) Uninteresting. [Obs.] "Disinteresting passages." -- Bp. Warburton.
Disinterment (n.) The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.
Disinterment (n.) The act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried [syn: exhumation, disinterment, digging up].
Disinthralled (imp. & p. p.) of Disinthrall.
Disinthralling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinthrall.
Disinthrall (v. t.) To free from thralldom; to disenthrall. [Written also disinthral.]
Disinthrallment (n.) A releasing from thralldom or slavery; disenthrallment. [Written also disinthralment.]
Disintricate (v. t.) To disentangle. [R.] "To disintricate the question." -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Disinured (imp. & p. p.) of Disinure.