2. To disperse commonly applied to a humour or swelling. Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection. Wotton. Brown. 3. To break to pieces. Consider the three-fold effect of Jupiter's trisulk, to burn, discuss, and terebrate. DISCUSSER. . . [from discuss.] He that discusses; an examiner. DISCUSSION. n. s. [from discuss.] 1. Disquisition; examination; ventilation of a question. Truth cannot be found without some labour and intention of the mind, and the thoughts dwelling a considerable time upon the survey and discussion of each particular. Various discussions tear our heated brain: South. Opinions often turn; still doubts remain ; And who indulges thought, increases pain. Prior. 2. [In surgery.] Discussion or resolution is nothing else but breathing out the humours by insensible transpiration. Wiseman. DISCUSSIVE. adj. [from discuss.] Having the power to discuss or disperse any noxious matter. DISCUTIENT. n. s. [discutiens, Latin.] A medicine that has power to repel or drive back the matter of tumours in the blood. It sometimes means the same as carminative. The swellings arising from these require to be Quincy. treated, in their beginning, with moderate repellents and discutients. Wiseman. To DISDA'IN. v. a. [dedaigner, Fr.] To scorn; to consider as unworthy of one's character. There is nothing so great, which I will fear to do for you; nor nothing so small, which I will disdain to do for you. They do disdain as much beyond our thoughts, which makes me sweat with wrath. Shakespeare. Sidney. What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn. Shakspeare. Tell him, Cato Disdains a life which he has power to offer. DISDAIN. n. s. Addison. tempt; scorn; contemptuous anger; [sdegno, Ital.] Conindignation. A sweet Athenian lady is in love Shakspeare. wound. DISDAINFULLY, adv. [from disdainful.] Either greet him not It is not to insult and domineer, to look disdainfully, and revile imperiously, that procures DISDA'INFULNESS. n. s. [from disdainesteem from any one. South. ful.] Contempt; contemptuousness; haughty scorn. Can I forget, when they in prison placing her, With swelling heart, in spite and due disdainfulness, She lay for dead, till I help'd with unlacing her. Shakspeare. And Asa, in the thirty and ninth year of his reign, was diseased in his feet, and his disease was exceeding great; and in his disease he sought not the Lord, but to the physicians. Chron. It is idle to propose remedies before we are assured of the disease, or to be in pain till we are convinced of the danger. Swift. Intemperance In meats and drinks, which in the earth shall bring! Diseases dire. Milton. Then wasteful forth To DISEASE. v. a. [from the noun.] We are all diseased, And without surfeiting and wanton hours Shakspeare. Shakspeare. Children being haughty, through disdain and Want of nurture, do stain the nobility of their He was diseased in his feet. kindred. A lazar-house it seem'd, wherein were laid But against you, ye Greeks, ye coward train, Number's of all diseas'd, all maladies Gods! how my soul is mov'd with just disdain ! Ecclus. Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture. Milton. DISDA'INFUL. adj. [disdain and full.] 2. To put to pain; to pain; to make Pope's Odyssey. uneasy. Contemptuous; haughtily scornful; indignant. Though great light be insufferable to our eyes, yet the highest degree of darkness does not at all disease them. To land; to go on land. Shakspeare. There disembarking on the green sea-side, We land our cattle, and the spoil divide. Pope. To DISEMBITTER. v. a. [dis and embitter.] To sweeten; to free from bitterness; to clear from acrimony : an unusual word. Encourage such innocent amusements as may disembitter the minds of men, and make them mutually rejoice in the same agreeable satisfactions. Addison's Freeholder. DISEMBO DIED. adj. [dis and embodied.] Divested of the body. To DISEMBO GUE. v. a. [disemboucher, old French. Skinner.] To pour out at the mouth of a river; to vent, Rivers In ample oceans disembogu'd, or lost. Dryden. Rolling down the steep Timavus raves, And through nine channels disembogues his Addison. To DISEMBO GUE. v. n. To gain a vent; to flow. waves. By eminences placed up and down the globe, the rivers make innumerable turnings and windings, and at last disembogue in several mouths into the sea. Cheyne. DISEMBO WELLED. participial adj. [dis and embowel.] Taken from out the bowels. So her disemborell'd web Arachne in a hall or kitchen spreads Obvious to vagrant flies. Philips. TO DISEMBRO IL. v. a. [debouiller, Fr.] To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to reduce from confusion." Then earth from air, and seas from earth were And grosser air sunk from etherial heav'n; The system of his politicks is disembroiled, and cleared of all those incoherences and independent matters that are woven into this motley piece. Addison. To DISENA BLE. v. a. [dis and enable.] To deprive of power; to disable; to sink into weakness; to weaken. Now age has overtaken me; and want, a more insufferable evil, through the change of the times, has wholly disenabled me. To DISENCHANT. v. a. [dis and enchant.] Dryden. To free from the force of an enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells. Alas! let your own brain disenchant you. Sidney. Muse, stoop thy disenchanted wing to truth. Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove. Dryden. To DISENCUMBER. V. a. [dis and encumber.] 1. To discharge from encumbrances; to free from clogs and impediments; to disburden; to exonerate. It will need the actual intention, the particular stress and application of the whole soul, to disencumber and set it free, to scour off its rust, and remove those hindrances which would otherwise clog and check the freedom of its operations. Spratt. The disencumber'd soul Flew off, and left behind the clouds and starry pole. Dryden Dreams look like the amusements of the soul, when she is disencumber'd of her machine; her sports and recreations, when she has laid her charge asleep. Spectator. 2. To free from obstruction of any kind. Dim night had disencumber'd heav'n. Milton. The church of St. Justina, designed by Palladio, is the most handsome, luminous, disen cumbered building in the inside, that I have ever Addison on Italy. seen. DISENCUMBRANCE. n. s. [from the verb.] Freedom from encumbrance and obstruction. There are many who make a figure below what their fortune or merit entitles them to, out of mere choice, and an elegant desire of ease and disencumbrance. Spectator. To DISENGAGE. v. a. [dis and engage.] 1. To separate from any thing with which it is in union. Some others, being very light, would float up and down a good while, before they could wholly disengage themselves and descend. Burnet's Theory. 2. To disentangle; to clear from impediments or difficulties. From civil broils he did us disengage; Found nobler objects for our martial rage. Waller. In the next paragraph, I found my author pretty well disengaged from quotations. 3. To withdraw, applied to the affection; to wean; to abstract the mind. 4. Atterbury. It is requisite that we should acquaint ourselves with God, that we should frequently dis engage our hearts from earthly pursuits. Atterbury. The consideration that should disengage our fondness from worldly things, is, that they are uncertain in their foundation; fading, transient, and corruptible in their nature. Rogers. To free from any powerful detention. When our mind's eyes are disengag'd and free, They clearer, farther, and distinctly see. Denbam. 5. To release from an obligation. To DISENGAGE. v. n. To set one's self free from; to withdraw one's affec tions from. Providence gives us notice, by sensible declensions, that we may disengage from the world by degrees. Collier on Thought. DISENGA GED. participial adj. [from disengage.] 1. Disjoined; disentangled. 2. Vacant; at leisure; not fixed down to To DISESTEEM. v. a. [from the noun.]` any particular object of attention. 3. Released from obligation. 2. Freedom of attention; vacancy. 1. To unfold or loose the parts of any Though in concretions particles so entangle one another, that they cannot in a short time clear themselves, yet they do incessantly strive to disentangle themselves, and get away. Boyle. 2. To set free from impediments; to disembroil; to clear from perplexity or difficulty. Till they could find some expedient to explicate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth, they made no advance towards supplying their armies. Clarendon. The welfare of their souls requires a better judgment than their own, either to guide them in their duty, or to disentangle them from a temptation. South. 3. To disengage; to separate. Neither can God himself be otherwise understood by us than as a mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. To DISENTE RRE. V. a. [dis and enterrer, Stilling fleet. French.] To unbury; to take out of the grave. Though the blindness of some fanaticks have savaged on the bodies of the dead, and have been so injurious unto worms as to disenterre the bodies of the deceased, yet had they therein no design upon the soul. TO DISENTHRA L. v. a. [dis and enthral.] Brown. To set free; to restore to liberty; to rescue from slavery. But God my soul shall disentbral; For I upon his name will call. Sandys. If religion were false, bad men would set the utmost force of their reason on work to discover that falsity, and thereby disentbral themselves. South. To DISENTHRONE. v. a. [dis and en- Either to disenthrone the king of heav'n To DISENTRANCE. v. a. Milton, [dis and en trance]. To awaken from a trance, or deep sleep. Ralpho, by this time disentranc'd, Upon his bum himself advanc'd. Hudibras. TO DISESPOUSE. v.a. [dis and espouse.] To separate after faith plighted. Such was the rage Milton. To regard slightly; to consider with a slight degree of contempt. Should Mars see 't, That horrid hurrier of men, or she that betters him, Minerva, never so incens'd, they could not dis esteem. Chapman. But in this sacred gift your disesteem, Lat.] Disrespect; disesteem. Dict. cumstance. 2. A state of ungraciousness or unacceptableness; a state in which one is not favoured. Of Turnus, for Lavinia disespous'd. DISESTE EM. n. S. regard; a disregard more moderate than [dis and esteem.] Slight contempt. When any one, by miscarriages, falls into disesteem, he will fall under neglect and contempt. Locke While free from sacrilege, he was at peace, as it were, with God and man; but after his sacrilege he was in disfavour with both. Spelman. 3. Want of beauty. Dict. To DISFAVOUR. v. a. [from the noun.] To discountenance; to withhold or withdraw kindness. Might not those of higher rank, and nearer access to her majesty, receive her own commands, and be countenanced or disfavoured according as they obey? DISFAVOURER. n. s. [from disfavour.] Swift. Discountenancer; not a favourer. It was verily thought, that had it not been for four great disfavourers of that voyage, the enterprize had succeeded. Bacon. DISFIGURATION. n. s. [from disfigure.] 1. The act of disfiguring. 2. The state of being disfigured. 3. Deformity. DISFIGURE. v. a. [dis and figure.] To change any thing to a worse form; to deform; to mangle, You are but as a form in wax DISFRANCHISEMENT. n. s. [from dis-. Shakspeare He durst not disfurnish that country either of so great a commander, or of the wonted garrisons. Knolles History. To DISGA'RNISH. v. a. [dis and garnish.] 1. To strip of ornaments. Dict. 2. To take guns from a fortress. To DISGLORIFY. v. a. [dis and glorify.] To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compar'd with idols, Disglorified, blasphem'd, and had in scorn. Milton. To DISGO'RGE. v. a. [degorger, Fr. from gorge, the throat.] 1. To discharge by the mouth; to spew out; to vomit. So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard? And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up. Shakspeare. From the distant shore they loudly laught, To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. 2. To pour out with violence. Dryden. All th' embossed sores and headed evils, That thou with licence of free foot hast caught, Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world? Shakspeare. The deep-drawing barks do there disgorge Their warlike fraughtage. Shakspeare. They move along the banks Of four infernal rivers, that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams. Milton. Countries much annoyed with earthquakes, have volcanoes; and these are constantly all in flames whenever any earthquake happens; they disgorging that fire which was the cause of the disaster. Derham. DISGRACE. n. s. [disgrace, Fr.] 1. State of being out of favour. 2. State of ignominy; dishonour; state of shame. Like a dull actor, now I have forgot my part, and I am out Even to a full disgrace. Shaksp. Poetry, howsoever censured, is not fallen from the highest stage of honour to the lowest stair of disgrace. Peacham. 3. Act of unkindness. Obsolete. To such bondage he was for so many courses tied by her, whose disgraces to him were graced by her excellence. Sidney. 4. Cause of shame. And is it not a foul disgrace, To lose the boltsprit of thy face? Baynard. Brown. And he whose affluence disdain'd a place, To DISGRACE. v. a. [from the noun.] Brib'd by a title, makes it a disgrace. 1. To bring a reproach upon; to dishonour, as an agent. We may not so in any one special kind admire her, that we disgrace her in any other; but let all her ways be according unto their place and degree adored. Hooker. Men's passions will carry them far in misre presenting an opinion which they have a mind to disgrace. To put out of favour: as, the minister was disgraced. DISGRACEFUL. adj. [disgrace and full.] Shameful; ignominious; reproachful; procuring shame. Masters must correct their servants with gen-` tleness, prudence, and mercy; not with upbraiding and disgraceful language, but with such only as may express and reprove the fault, and amend the person. To retire behind their chariots, was as little Taylor's Holy Living. disgraceful then, as it is now to alight from one's horse in a battle. Pope. DISGRACEFULLY. adv. [from disgraceful.] In disgrace; with indignity; ignominiously. Ben Jonson The senate have cast you forth Disgracefully, to be the common tale DISGRACEFULNESS. n. s. [from disgraceOf the whole city. DISGRA CER. n. s. [from disgrace.] One ful.] Ignominy. that exposes to shame; one that causes ignominy. I have given good advice to those infamous disgracers of the sex and calling. Swift. DISGRACIOUS. adj. [dis and gracious.] Unpleasing. I do suspect I have done some offence, That seems disgracious in the city's eye. Shaksp To DISGUISE v. a. [deguiser, Fr. dis and guise.] 1. To conceal by an unusual dress. How might we disguise him? -Alas! I know not: there is no woman's gown big enough for him. Shaksp Disguis'd he came; but those his children Antickt us. Dress of concealment. Under that disguisement I should find opportunity to reveal myself to the owner of my Sidney. heart. The marquis thought best to dismask his beard, and told him, that he was going covertly to take a secret view of the forwardness of his majesty's feet: this did somewhat handsomely heal the disguisement. DISGUISER. n. s. [from disguise.] Wotton. 1. One that puts on a disguise. DIS 1. A broad wide vessel, in which food is served up at the table. Of these he murders one; he boils the fesh, And lays the mangled mortals in a dish. Dryd I saw among the ruins an old heathen altar, with this particularity in it, that it is hollowed like a dish at one end; but it was not this end in which the sacrifice was laid. Addison. 2. A deep hollow vessel for liquid food. I hope he is grown more disengaged from his intentness on his own affairs, which is quite the reverse to you, unless you are a very dexterous disguiser. 2. One that conceals another by a disSwift. guise; one that disfigures. Death's a great disguiser. DISGUST. n. s. [degout, French.] 1. Aversion of the palate from any thing. 2. Ill humour; malevolence; offence conceived. Shaksp. A ladle for our silver dish Milton. Prior. Is what I want, is what I wish. I have here a dish of doves, that I would be- Shakspeare's Julius Cæsar. wretch, One bred of alms and foster'd with cold dishes, More than another, that a pheasant is. Suckling. Many people would, with reason, prefer the griping of an hungry belly, to those dishes which are a feast to others. Locke. 4. A kind of measure among the tinners. They measure block-tin by the dish, which containeth a gallon. Carew. To DISH. v. a. [from the noun.] Το I know not how it tastes, though it be dish'd than the thing done, and upon that depends the Locke. Thence dark disgust and hatred, winding Thomson. Coward deceit, and ruffian violence. To DISGUST. v. a. distaste. 2. To strike with dislike; to offend. It is variously constructed with at or with. If a man were disgusted at marriage, he would never recommend it to his friend. Queens are not to be too negligently dressed Those unenlarged souls are disgusted with the or dishabille. wonders which the microscope has discovered. Atterbury. DISHABILLE. n. s. Undress; loose dress. Dryden's Dufresnoy. A woman who would preserve a lover's respect to her person, will be careful of her ap pearance before him when in dishabille. Watts. 3. To produce aversion: with from. What disgusts me from having to do with answer jobbers, is, that they have no conscience. DISGUSTFUL. adj. [disgust and full.] Savifte Nauseous; that causes aversion. I have finished the most disgustful task that ever I undertook. DISH. n. s. [dirc, Saxon; dyse, Erse; discus, Latin.] Swift. Clarista. To DISHA BIT. v. a. [This word I have But for our approach those sleeping stones, |