Search the Dictionary

Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.

one of the small parts; a particular; an item; - - used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction. The details of the campaign in Italy. Motley.

One who details.

To keep back or from; to withhold. Detain not the wages of the hireling. Jer. Taylor.

A writ. See Detinue.

One who detains.

Detention. [R.] Blackstone.

To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. [Eng.] London Graphic.

To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. [Obs.] While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.

Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance. [Obs.] South.

To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject. He calls the gods to witness their offense; Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence. Dryden. He disclaims the authority of Jesus. Farmer.

One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.

garding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn. How my soul is moved with just disdain! Pope.

Disdainful. [Obs.] Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt Of this proud king. Shak.

Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty. From these Turning disdainful to an equal good. Akenside. -- Dis*dain"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*dain"ful*ness, n.

Disdainfully. [Obs.] Vives.

Disdainful. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Disdainfully. [Obs.] Bale.

Freed from restraint; unrestrained. [Archaic] E. A. Poe.

To free from entailment.