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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,656 words match “RIP”

DISCARNATE a.
Stripped of flesh. [Obs.] "Discarnate bones." Glanvill.
DISCASE v.
To strip; to undress. Shak.
DISFURNISH v.
To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
DISGARLAND v.
To strip of a garland. [Poetic] "Thy locks disgarland." Drummond.
DISGRADATION n.
Degradation; a stripping of titles and honors.
DISK CLUTCH n.
A friction clutch in which the gripping surfaces are disks or more or less resemble disks.
DISMAL a.
per, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.
DISMANTLE v. 2 definitions
To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
DISPENSATORY n.
A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacopoeia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government.
DISPLANT v.
To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants. Spenser.
DISPLENISH v.
To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock. [Scot.]
DISPLUME v.
To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. Burke.
DISPURVEY v.
To disfurnish; to strip. [Obs.] Heywood.
DISROBE v.
To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.
DISTANCE v.
To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly. He distanced the most skillful of his contemporaries. Milner.
DISTORT v.
To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.
DITTOLOGY n.
A double reading, or twofold interpretation, as of a Scripture text. [R.]
DIVEST v. 2 definitions
To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
DIVESTITURE n.
The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
DOFF v.
To strip; to divest; to undress. Heaven's King, who doffs himself our flesh to wear. Crashaw.
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