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Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.

light aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian.

or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity! South.

Disinterestedness; impartiality; fairness. [Obs.] Prior.

Discord; dissension. [Obs.] Fairfax.

fraid, neither be thou dismayed. Josh. i. 9. What words be these What fears do you dismay Fairfax.

ares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.

To roam. [Obs.] In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser.

, dispatch we The business we have talked of. Shak. [The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work. Robynson (More's Utopia).

place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting; as, a disposal of property. A domestic affair of great importance, which is no less than the disposal of my sister Jenny for life. Tatler.

eparate. Nothing can dissolve us. Shak. Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder. Fairfax. For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. The Declaration of Independence.

ich the thread is drawn in spinning by hand. I will the distaff hold; come thou and spin. Fairfax.

e and the other. Prior. The writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years. Playfair.

Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions. Never was known a night of such distraction. Dryden.

ne or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson.

One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.

we may not; but we must do on the armor of God. Latimer. Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. W. Morris (Jason). Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. Milton. It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has…

In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

here he learned of things and haps to come, To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom. Fairfax.

Deceit; duplicity. Now cometh the sin of double-tongue, such as speak fair before folk and wickedly behind. Chaucer.