Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DIS-EM-BOGUE' – DIS-EN-CUM'BER-ED
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DIS-EM-BOGUE', v.i.
- To flow out at the mouth, as a river; to discharge waters into the ocean, or into a lake. Innumerable rivers disembogue into the ocean.
- To pass out of a gulf or bay.
DIS-EM-BOGUE', v.t. [disembog'; dis and the root of Fr. bouche, mouth. The French has emboucher and debouquer. Sp. boca, mouth, Port. id., It. bocca. See Voice.]
To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into the ocean or a lake. Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves, / And through nine channels disembogues his waves. – Addison.
DIS-EM-BOGU'ED, pp.
Discharged at the mouth of a river.
Discharge of waters into the ocean or a lake. – Mease.
DIS-EM-BO'SOM, v.t.
To separate from the bosom. – Young.
DIS-EM-BO'SOM-ED, pp.
Separated from the bosom.
DIS-EM-BOW'EL, v.t. [dis and embowel.]
To take out the bowels; to take or draw from the bowels, as the web of a spider.
DIS-EM-BOW'EL-ED, pp.
Taken, or drawn from the bowels. Disemboweled web. – Philips.
DIS-EM-BOW'EL-ING, ppr.
Taking or drawing from the bowels.
DIS-EM-BOW'ER-ED, a.
Removed from a bower, or deprived of a bower. – Bryant.
DIS-EM-BRAN'GLE, v.t.
To free from litigation. [Not used.]
DIS-EM-BROIL', v.t. [dis and embroil.]
To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. – Dryden. Addison.
DIS-EM-BROIL'ED, pp.
Disentangled; cleared from perplexity or confusion.
DIS-EM-BROIL'ING, ppr.
Disentangling; freeing from confusion.
DIS-EM-PLOY'ED, a.
Thrown out of employment.
DIS-EN-A'BLE, v.t. [dis and enable.]
To deprive of power, natural or moral; to disable; to deprive of ability or means. A man may be disenabled to walk by lameness; and by poverty he is disenabled to support his family.
DIS-EN-A'BLED, pp.
Deprived of power, ability or means.
DIS-EN-A'BLING, ppr.
Depriving of power, ability or means.
DIS-EN-CHANT', v.t. [dis and enchant.]
To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells. Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two / Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove. – Dryden.
DIS-EN-CHANT'ED, pp.
Delivered from enchantment, or the power of charms.
DIS-EN-CHANT'ER, n.
He or that which disenchants.
DIS-EN-CHANT'ING, ppr.
Freeing from enchantment, or the influence of charms.
Act of disenchanting.
DIS-EN-CUM'BER, v.t. [dis and encumber.]
- To free from encumbrance; to deliver from clogs and impediments; to disburden; as, to disencumber troops of their baggage; to disencumber the soul of its body of clay; to disencumber the mind of its cares and griefs.
- To free from any obstruction; to free from any thing heavy or unnecessary; as, a disencumbered building. – Addison.
DIS-EN-CUM'BER-ED, pp.
Freed from encumbrance.