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Lacking ability; unable. [Obs.] "Our disable and unactive force." Daniel.

To lack affection for; to be alienated from, or indisposed toward; to dislike. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

nd; to exempt from forest laws. By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. Blackstone.

To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance. They reject the plainest sense of Scripture, because it seems disagree with what they call reason. Atterbury.

ation. The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone.

To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share. Blackstone. Disclaim in, Disclaim from, to disown; to disavow. [Obs.] "Nature disclaims in thee." Shak.

Discoid flower (Bot.), a compound flower, consisting of tubular florets only, as a tansy, lacking the rays which are seen in the daisy and sunflower.

A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship. Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent. Darwin.

Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.

Lack of courage; cowardliness.

istinguishing. -- Dis*crim"i*na`ting*ly, adv. And finds with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black; -- nor white so very white. Canning.

Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. [Obs.] So all that night they passed in great disease. Spenser. To shield thee from diseases of the world. Shak.

Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach. It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor. Ezra iv. 14. His honor rooted in dishonor stood. Tennyson.

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

Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.

Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy. [R.] Many discrepancies and some dispathies between us. Southey.

Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.

as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.

Wanting in respect; manifesting disesteem or lack of respect; uncivil; as, disrespectful behavior. -- Dis`re*spect"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis`re*spect"ful*ness, n.