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The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality. That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. Macaulay.

Uninteresting. [Obs.] "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.

The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.

he coast district. The term is used esp. with reference to the so-called doctrine of the hinterland, sometimes advanced, that occupation of the coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to time, the territory lying inland of the coast.

One who, or that which, joints.

One who engraves in mezzotint.

The middle of winter. Dryden.

One who mints.

To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.

Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.

The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.

One who interprets erroneously.

The state or habit of not intervening or interfering; as, the nonintervention of one state in the affairs of another.

presents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like. Painter's colic. (Med.) See Lead colic, under Colic. -- Painter stainer. (a) A painter of coats of arms. Crabb. (b) A member of a livery company or guild in London, bearing this name.

Like a painter's work. [Obs.] "A painterly glose of a visage." Sir P. Sidney.

The state or position of being a painter. [R.] Br. Gardiner.

One who, or that which, points. Specifically:

who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman. Printer's devil, Printer's gauge. See under Devil, and Gauge. -- Printer's ink. See Printing ink, below.

A place where cloth is printed; print works; also, a printing office. [R.]

To inter again.