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Displeasure; discontent; annoyance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To give displeasure or offense. [Obs.]

With displeasure. [R.]

Displeasure. [R.] South.

Causing displeasure or dissatisfaction; offensive; disagreeable. -- Dis*pleas"ing*ly, adv. -- Dis*pleas"ing*ness, n. Locke.

To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.

Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.

A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness. To reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance. P. Henry.

Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley.

te or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft.

To relax by pleasure; to make powerless. Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie. Dryden.

Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger. On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste. Milton.

Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.

costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.

thing that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment. My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag. J. D. Forbes.

to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.

evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. The secret dread of divine displeasure. Tillotson. The dread of something after death. Shak.

Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it. Men of pleasure, dress, and gallantry. Pope.

The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.

power; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound. Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. Sir J. Davies. My private voice is drowned amid the senate. Addison. To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] Holland.