Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-LODGE', v.i.

To go from a place of rest. – Milton.

DIS-LODGE', v.t. [dislodj'. dis and lodge.]

1. To remove or drive from a lodge or place of rest; to drive from the place where a thing naturally rests or inhabits. Shells resting in the sea at a considerable depth, are not dislodged by storms.
2. To drive from a place of retirement or retreat; as, to dislodge a cony 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. – Shak.

DIS-LODG'ED, pp.

Driven from a lodge or place of rest; removed from a place of habitation, or from any station.

DIS-LODG'ING, ppr.

Driving from a lodge, from a place of rest or retreat, or from any station.

DIS-LOY'AL, a. [dis and loyal; Fr. deloyal; Sp. desleal.]

1. Not true to allegiance; false to a sovereign; faithless; as, a disloyal subject.
2. False; perfidious; treacherous; as, a disloyal knave. – Shak.
3. Not true to the marriage bed. – Shak.
4. False in love; not constant. – Johnson.

DIS-LOY'AL-LY, adv.

In a disloyal manner; with violation of faith or duty to a sovereign; faithlessly; perfidiously.

DIS-LOY'AL-TY, 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. – Shak.

DIS'MAL, 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. – Milton.
3. Frightful; horrible; as, a dismal scream.

DIS'MAL-LY, adv.

Gloomily; horribly; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

DIS'MAL-NESS, n.

Gloominess; horror.

DIS-MAN'TLE, v.t. [dis and mantle; Fr. demanteler.]

1. To deprive of dress; to strip; to divest. – South.
2. To loose; to throw open. – Shak.
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. – Dryden.

DIS-MAN'TLED, pp.

Divested; stripped of furniture; unrigged.

DIS-MAN'TLING, ppr.

Stripping of dress; depriving of apparatus or furniture.

DIS-MASK', v.t. [dis and mask; Fr. demasquer.]

To strip off a mask; to uncover; to remove that which conceals. – Shak. Wotton.

DIS-MASK'ED, pp.

Divested of a mask; stripped of covering or disguise; uncovered.

DIS-MASK'ING, ppr.

Stripping of a mask or covering.

DIS-MAST', v.t. [dis and mast; Fr. demâter.]

To deprive of a mast or masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.

DIS-MAST'ED, pp.

Deprived of a mast or masts.

DIS-MAST'ING, ppr.

Stripping of masts.

DIS-MAST'MENT, n.

The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted. – Marshall.

DIS-MAY', n. [Sp. desmayo; Port. desmaio, a swoon or fainting fit.]

Fall or loss of courage; a sinking of the spirits; depression; dejection; a yielding to fear; that loss of firmness which is effected by fear or terror; fear impressed; terror felt. And each / In other's countenance read his own dismay. – Milton.

DIS-MAY', v.t. [Sp. desmayar; Port. desmaiar; probably formed by des and the Teutonic magan, to be strong or able. The sense then is to deprive of strength. Sp. desmayarse, to faint; It. smagarsi, to despond.]

To deprive of that strength or firmness of mind which constitutes courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to sink or depress the spirits or resolution; hence, to affright or terrify. Be strong, and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. – Josh. i.

DIS-MAY'ED, pp.

Disheartened; deprived of courage.

DIS-MAY'ED-NESS, n.

A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness. [A useless word, and not used.] – Sidney.

DIS-MAY'FUL, a.

Full of dismay.