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Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.

t of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.

Disorder; merriment. [Obs.]

Meanness; sordidness. Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy. Melmoth.

In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.

The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. The creature's at his dirty work again. Pope.

To disturb the functions of; to disorder. It disaffects the bowels. Hammond.

Disorder; bad constitution. [R.] Wiseman.

The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.

To throw into disorder; to break the array of. Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton.

Disorder. [R.] Feltham.

To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up. Or discomposed the headdress of a prude. Pope.

Disordered; disturbed; disquieted. -- Dis`com*pos"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`com*pos"ed*ness, n.

The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation. No discomposure stirred her features. Akenside.

To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

ns, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc. Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved. Shak. The instability, injustice, and confusion intro…

To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle. With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan. Spenser.

Having in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair.

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