Dictionary: DIS-MAY'ING – DIS-NA'TUR-ED

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DIS-MAY'ING, ppr.

Depriving of courage.

DISME, or DIME, n. [Fr.]

A tenth part; a tithe. – Ayliffe.

DIS-MEM'BER, v.t. [dis and member.]

  1. To divide limb from limb; to separate a member from the body; to tear or cut in pieces; to dilacerate; to mutilate. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. – Pope.
  2. To separate a part from the main body; to divide; to sever; as, to dismember an empire, kingdom, or republic. Poland was dismembered by the neighboring powers.

DIS-MEM'BER-ED, pp.

Divided member from member; torn or cut in pieces; divided by the separation of a part from the main body.

DIS-MEM'BER-ING, n.

Mutilation. – Blackstone.

DIS-MEM'BER-ING, ppr.

Separating a limb or limbs from the body; dividing by taking a part or parts from the body.

DIS-MEM'BER-MENT, n.

The act of severing a limb or limbs from the body; the act of tearing or cutting in pieces; mutilation; the act of severing a part from the main body; division; separation. He pointed out the danger of a dismemberment of the republic. – Hist. of Poland. Encyc.

DIS-MET'TLED, a.

Destitute of fire or spirit. [Not much used.] – Llewellyn.

DIS-MISS', n.

Discharge; dismission. [Not used.]

DIS-MISS', v.t. [L. dimissus, dimitto; di, dis, and mitto, to send; Fr. demettre.]

  1. To send away; properly, to give leave of departure; to permit to depart; implying authority in a person to retain or keep. The town clerk dismissed the assembly. – Acts xix.
  2. To discard; to remove from office, service, or employment. The king dismisses his ministers; the master dismisses his servant; and the employer his workmen. Officers are dismissed from service, and students from college.
  3. To send; to dispatch. He dismissed ambassadors from Pekin to Tooshoo Loomboo. [Improper.] – Encyc.
  4. To send or remove from a docket; to discontinue; as, to dismiss a bill in chancery.

DIS-MISS'AL, n.

Dismission.

DIS-MISS'ED, pp.

Sent away; permitted to depart; removed from office or employment.

DIS-MISS'ING, ppr.

Sending away; giving leave to depart; removing from office or service.

DIS-MIS'SION, n. [L. dimissio.]

  1. The act of sending away; leave to depart; as, the dismission of the grand jury.
  2. Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or disgrace.
  3. An act requiring departure. [Not usual.] – Shak.
  4. Removal of a suit in equity.

DIS-MISS'IVE, a.

Giving dismission.

DIS-MORT'GAGE, v.t. [dismor'gage.]

To redeem from mortgage. – Howell.

DIS-MORT'GAG-ED, pp.

Redeemed from mortgage.

DIS-MORT'GAG-ING, ppr.

Redeeming from mortgate.

DIS-MOUNT', v.i. [dis and mount; Fr. demonter; Sp. desmontar; It. smontare.]

  1. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from a beast; as, the officer ordered his troops to dismount.
  2. To descend from an elevation. – Spenser.

DIS-MOUNT', v.t.

  1. To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.
  2. To throw or bring down from any elevation. – Sackville.
  3. To throw or remove cannon or other artillery from their carriages; or to break the carriages or wheels, and render guns useless.

DIS-MOUNT'ED, pp.

  1. Thrown from a horse, or from an elevation; unhorsed, or removed from horses by order; as, dismounted troops. Applied to horses, it signifies unfit for service.
  2. Thrown or removed from carriages.

DIS-MOUNT'ING, ppr.

Throwing from a horse; unhorsing; removing from an elevation; throwing or removing from carriages.

DIS-NAT'UR-AL-IZE, v.t.

To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth.

DIS-NAT'UR-AL-IZ-ED, pp.

Deprived of the privileges of birth.

DIS-NA'TUR-ED, a.

Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. – Shak.