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To deprive of life. [Obs.] Telemachus dislived Amphimedon. Chapman.

To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the ar…

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. T. Burnet.

a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.

The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.

To put at a distance; to remove. [Obs.] Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze. Spenser.

government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife. Without a thought disloyal. Mrs. Browning.

In a disloyal manner.

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

To divest of coat of mail. Spenser.

Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.] An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser.

In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

The quality of being dismal; gloominess.

To unman. [Obs.] Feltham.

nd equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship. A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain. Macaulay.

To march away. [Obs.]

To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

To disarrange; to derange; to put in disorder. [R.] Drummond.

To divest of a mask. Shak.

To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.