Dictionary: DIS-GRAC'ED – DIS-HAB'IT

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DIS-GRAC'ED, pp.

Put out of favor; brought under reproach; dishonored.

DIS-GRACE'FUL, a.

Shameful; reproachful; dishonorable; procuring shame; sinking reputation. Cowardice is disgraceful to a soldier. Intemperance and profaneness are disgraceful to a man, but more disgraceful to a woman.

DIS-GRACE'FUL-LY, adv.

  1. With disgrace. The senate have cast you forth disgracefully. – B. Jonson.
  2. Shamefully; reproachfully; ignominiously; in a disgraceful manner; as, the troops fled disgracefully.

DIS-GRACE'FUL-NESS, n.

Ignominy; shamefulness.

DIS-GRAC'ER, n.

One who disgraces; one who exposes to disgrace; one who brings into disgrace, shame or contempt.

DIS-GRAC'ING, ppr.

Bringing reproach on; dishonoring.

DIS-GRA'CIOUS, a. [dis and gracious.]

Ungracious; unpleasing. – Shak.

DIS'GRE-GATE, v.t.

To separate; to disperse. [Little used.] – More.

DIS-GUISE', n.

  1. A counterfeit habit; a dress intended to conceal the person who wears it. By the laws of England, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subjected to heavy penalties, and in some cases, declared felons.
  2. A false appearance; a counterfeit show; an artificial or assumed appearance intended to deceive the beholder. A treacherous design is often concealed under the disguise of great candor.
  3. Change of manner by drink; intoxication. – Shak.

DIS-GUISE', v.t. [disgi'ze. Fr. deguiser; de, dis, and guise, manner.]

  1. To conceal by an unusual habit, or mask. Men sometimes disguise themselves for the purpose of committing crimes without danger of detection. They disguise their faces in a masquerade.
  2. To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloke by a false show, by false language, or an artificial manner; as, to disguise anger, sentiments or intentions.
  3. To disfigure; to alter the form, and exhibit an unusual appearance. They saw the faces, which too well they knew, / Though then disguised in death. – Dryden.
  4. To disfigure or deform by liquor; to intoxicate. – Spectator.

DIS-GUIS'ED, pp.

Concealed by a counterfeit habit or appearance; intoxicated.

DIS-GUISE'MENT, n.

Dress of concealment; false appearance.

DIS-GUIS'ER, n.

  1. One who disguises himself or another.
  2. He or that which disfigures.

DIS-GUIS'ING, n.

  1. The act of giving a false appearance.
  2. Theatrical mummery or masking.

DIS-GUIS'ING, ppr.

Concealing by a counterfeit dress, or by a false show; intoxicating.

DIS-GUST', n. [Fr. degoût; de, dis, and goût, taste, L. gustus.]

  1. Disrelish; distaste; aversion to the taste of food or drink; an unpleasant sensation excited in the organs of taste by something disagreeable, and when extreme, producing lothing or nausea.
  2. Dislike; aversion; an unpleasant sensation in the mind excited by something offensive in the manners, conduct, language or opinions of others. Thus, obscenity in language and clownishness in behavior excite disgust.

DIS-GUST', v.t.

  1. To excite aversion in the stomach; to offend the taste.
  2. To displease; to offend the mind or moral taste; with at or with; as, to be disgusted at foppery, or with vulgar manners. To disgust from is unusual and hardly legitimate.

DIS-GUST'ED, pp.

Displeased; offended.

DIS-GUST'FUL, a.

Offensive to the taste; nauseous; exciting aversion in the natural or moral taste.

DIS-GUST'ING, ppr.

  1. Provoking aversion; offending the taste.
  2. adj. Provoking dislike; odious; hateful; as, disgusting servility.

DIS-GUST'ING-LY, adv.

In a manner to give disgust. – Swinburne.

DISH, n. [Sax. disc, a dish, and dixas, dishes; L. discus; Gr. δισκος; Fr. disque; Arm. disg; W. disgyl; Sp. It. disco. It is the same word as disk and desk, and seems to signify something flat, plain or extended.]

  1. A broad open vessel, made of various materials, used for serving up meat and various kinds of food at the table. It is sometimes used for a deep hollow vessel for liquors. – Addison. Milton.
  2. The meat or provisions served in a dish. Hence, any particular kind of food. I have here a dish of doves. – Shak. We say, a dish of veal or venison; a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish.
  3. Among miners, a trough in which ore is measured, about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide. – Encyc.

DISH, v.t.

To put in a dish; as, the meat is all dished, am ready for the table.

DISH-A-BILLE', or DISH-A-BIL', n. [disabil'; Fr. deshabillé; des and habiller, to dress. See Habit.]

An undress; a loose negligent dress for the morning. But see Deshabille, the French and more correct orthography. Dryden uses the word as a participle, “Queens are not to be too negligently dressed or dishabille.” In this use he is not followed.

DIS-HAB'IT, v.t.

To drive from a habitation. [Not in use.] – Shak.