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To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands. Burrill.

To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. [R.] Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton.

To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject. Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened. Macaulay.

To deprive of the helmet. [Poetic] Lying stark, Dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale. Tennyson.

To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity, or as unworthy in the sight of others; to stain the character of; to lessen the reputation of; as, the duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor. Nothing . . . that may dishonor Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite. Milton.…

To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle. "Dishorn the spirit." Shak.

To deprive of house or home. "Dishoused villagers." James White.

To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body.

To deprive of heritage; to dispossess. And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here. Milton.

To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage. [Obs.]

To deprive of leaves. [R.] The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.

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

To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

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

To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. Josh. i. 9. What words be these What fears do you dismay Fairfax.

To deprive of membership. [Obs.] They were dismembered by vote of the house. R. North.

t on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery.

To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Locke.

Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. [Obs.] Shak.