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DISGUISER n. 2 definitions
One who, or that which, disguises. Shak.
DISGUISING n.
A masque or masquerade. [Obs.]
DISGUST v. 2 definitions
To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing. J. H. Newman. Alarm…
DISGUSTFUL a.
Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke.
DISGUSTFULNESS n.
The state of being disgustful.
DISGUSTING a.
That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting. -- Dis*gust"ing*ly, adv.
DISH n. 10 definitions
late, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table. She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Judg. v. 25.
DISHABILITATE v.
To disqualify. [R.]
DISHABILLE n.
An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille. They breakfast in dishabille. Smollett.
DISHABIT v.
To dislodge. [Obs.] Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime Had been dishabited. Shak.
DISHABITED p.
Rendered uninhabited. "Dishabited towns." R. Carew.
DISHABITUATE v.
To render unaccustomed.
DISHABLE v. 2 definitions
To disable. [Obs.]
DISHALLOW v.
To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams.
DISHARMONIOUS a.
Unharmonious; discordant. [Obs.] Hallywell.
DISHARMONY n.
Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [R.] A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature]. Coleridge.
DISHAUNT v.
To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt. Halliwell.
DISHCLOTH n.
A cloth used for washing dishes.
DISHCLOUT n.
A dishcloth. [Obsolescent]
DISHEART v.
To dishearten. [Obs.]
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