Search the Dictionary

To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle. "Dishorn the spirit." Shak.

To dismount. Tennyson.

To deprive of house or home. "Dishoused villagers." James White.

Ill humor. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, washes dishes.

Water in which dishes have been washed. "Suds and dishwater." Beau. & Fl.

To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.

To disenchant; to free from illusion. "The bitter disillusionizing experience of postnuptial life." W. Black.

The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.

To free from bitterness.

To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park. [R.] Spectator.

Free from warmth of passion or feeling.

To make worse; -- the opposite of improve. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth.

To liberate from prison. [R.] Harvey.

The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian.

To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined. Cowper.

To free from being inclosed.

Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; disincorporated. Bacon.

Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. T. Warton.