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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



670 words match “BOY”

DISESTEEMER n.
One who disesteems. Boyle.
DISJUDICATION n.
Judgment; discrimination. See Dijudication. [Obs.] Boyle.
DISPOSITIVELY adv.
t Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. Boyle.
DISPROVABLE a.
Capable of being disproved or refuted. Boyle.
DISPROVIDE v.
Not to provide; to fail to provide. [Obs.] Boyle.
DISSERTATOR n.
One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses. Boyle.
DISSILITION n.
The act of bursting or springing apart. [R.] Boyle.
DISSIMILAR a.
mpers of men are as dissimilar as their features. This part very dissimilar to any other. Boyle.
DISSOLUBLENESS n.
The quality of being dissoluble; dissolubility. Boyle.
DISSUASION n.
exhortation against a thing; dehortation. In spite of all the dissuasions of his friends. Boyle.
DISTRUSTFUL a.
Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. Boyle. -- Dis*trust"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*trust"ful*ness, n.
DIURETICAL a.
Diuretic. [Obs.] Boyle.
DIVERSIFIABLE a.
Capable of being diversified or varied. Boyle.
DIVERSIFICATION n.
The act of making various, or of changing form or quality. Boyle.
DOCIBILITY; DOCIBLENESS n.
ocility. To persons of docibility, the real character may be easily taught in a few days. Boyle. The docibleness of dogs in general. Walton.
DRAKESTONE n.
es. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.
DRAWLOOM n.
A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.
DREGGY a.
Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent. Boyle.
DUCK v.
To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.
DULCIFICATION n.
The act of dulcifying or sweetening. Boyle.
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