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Act of taking up plants from beds.

Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke. Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvant…

Injurious; disadvantageous. [Obs.] Bacon.

Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had been placed, he gave clear indications of future excellence. Prescott. -- D…

The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.

Disadvantageous. [Obs.] "Disadvantageous ground." Drayton.

Disenchantment by a countercharm. [Obs.] Gayton.

A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.

A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.

Filled with fancies or imaginations. [Obs.] Shak.

Same as Phantasm.

One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. [R.] Coleridge.

ndulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.

The quality of being fantastic.

Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.

Fantastically. [Obs.]

In a fantastic manner. the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.

The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.

Fantastically. [Obs.]

Fantasticalness. [Obs.]