Dictionary: DIS-HAR-MO'NI-OUS – DIS-HON'OR-A-BLY

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DIS-HAR-MO'NI-OUS, a.

Incongruous. [See Unharmonius.] – Hallywell.

DIS-HAR'MO-NY, n. [dis and harmony.]

Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [Not used.]

DISH'-CLOTH, or DISH'-CLOUT, n.

A cloth used for washing and wiping dishes. – Swift.

DIS-HEART'EN, v.t. [dishart'n; dis and heart.]

To discourage; to deprive of courage; to depress the spirits; to deject; to impress with fear; as, it is weakness to be disheartened by small obstacles.

DIS-HEART'EN-ED, pp. [dishart'ned.]

Discouraged; depressed in spirits; cast down.

DIS-HEART'EN-ING, ppr. [dishart'ning.]

Discouraging; depressing the spirits.

DISH'ED, pp.

Put in a dish or dishes.

DIS-HEIR', v.t. [diza're.]

To debar from inheriting. [Not in use.] – Dryden.

DIS-HER'I-SON, n. [See Disherit.]

The act of disinheriting or cutting off from inheritance. Bp. Hall.

DIS-HER'IT, v.t. [Fr. desheriter; des, dis, and heriter; Arm. diserita; It. diseredare; Sp. desheredar. See Heir.]

To disinherit; to cut off from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance. [See Disinherit, which is more generally used.]

DIS-HER'I-TANCE, n.

The state of disheriting, or of being disinherited. – Beaum.

DIS-HER'IT-ED, pp.

Cut off from an inheritance or hereditary succession.

DIS-HER'IT-ING, ppr.

Cutting off from an inheritance. – Spenser.

DI-SHEV'EL, v.i.

To spread in disorder. – Herbert.

DI-SHEV'EL, v.t. [Fr. decheveler; de, dis, and cheveu, haur, chevelu, hairy, L. capillus. Class Gb.]

To spread the hair loosely; to suffer the hair of the head to hang negligently, and to flow without confinement; used chiefly in the passive participle.

DI-SHEV'EL-ED, pp. [or a.]

Hanging loosely and negligently without confinement; flowing in disorder; as, disheveled locks.

DI-SHEV'EL-ING, ppr.

Spreading loosely.

DISH'ING, ppr. [See Dish.]

  1. Putting in a dish or dishes.
  2. adj. Concave; having the hollow form of a dish. – Mortimer.

DIS-HON'EST, a. [dizon'est. dis and honest.]

  1. Void of honesty; destitute of probity, integrity or good faith; faithless; fraudulent; knavish; having or exercising a disposition to deceive, cheat and defraud; applied to persons; as, a dishonest man.
  2. Proceeding from fraud or marked by it; fraudulent; knavish; as, a dishonest transaction.
  3. Disgraced; dishonored; from the sense in Latin. Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears. – Dryden.
  4. Disgraceful; ignominious; from the Latin sense. Inglorious triumphs, and dishonest scars. – Pope.
  5. Unchaste; lewd. – Shak.

DIS-HON'EST-LY, adv. [dizon'estly.]

  1. In a dishonest manner; without good faith, probity or integrity; with fraudulent views; knavishly. – Shak.
  2. Lewdly; unchastely. – Ecclesiasticus.

DIS-HON'ESTY, n. [dizon'esty.]

  1. Want of probity, or integrity in principle; faithlessness; a disposition to cheat or defraud, or to deceive and betray; applied to persons.
  2. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; treachery; any deviation from probity or integrity; applied to acts.
  3. Unchastity; incontinence; lewdness. – Shak.
  4. Deceit; wickedness; shame. – 2 Cor. iv.

DIS-HON'OR, n. [dizon'or; dis and honor.]

Reproach; disgrace; ignominy; shame; whatever constitutes a stain or blemish in the reputation. It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor. – Ezra iv. It may express less than ignominy and infamy.

DIS-HON'OR, v.t.

  1. To disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to stain the character of; to lessen reputation. The duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor. The impunity of the crimes of great men dishonors the administration of the laws.
  2. To treat with indignity. – Dryden.
  3. To violate the chastity of; to debauch. – Dryden.
  4. To refuse or decline to accept pay, as, to dishonor a bill of exchange.

DIS-HON'OR-A-BLE, a.

  1. Shameful; reproachful; base; vile; bringing shame on; staining the character, and lessening reputation. Every act of meanness, and every vice is dishonorable.
  2. Destitute of honor; as, a dishonorable man.
  3. In a state of neglect or disesteem. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more in poverty? – Ecclesiasticus.

DIS-HON'OR-A-BLY, adv.

Reproachfully; in a dishonorable manner.