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DISH n. 10 definitions
late, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table. She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Judg. v. 25.
DISHABILITATE v.
To disqualify. [R.]
DISHABILLE n.
An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille. They breakfast in dishabille. Smollett.
DISHABIT v.
To dislodge. [Obs.] Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime Had been dishabited. Shak.
DISHABITED p.
Rendered uninhabited. "Dishabited towns." R. Carew.
DISHABITUATE v.
To render unaccustomed.
DISHABLE v. 2 definitions
To disparage. [Obs.] She oft him blamed . . . and him dishabled quite. Spenser.
DISHALLOW v.
To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams.
DISHARMONIOUS a.
Unharmonious; discordant. [Obs.] Hallywell.
DISHARMONY n.
Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [R.] A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature]. Coleridge.
DISHAUNT v.
To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt. Halliwell.
DISHCLOTH n.
A cloth used for washing dishes.
DISHCLOUT n.
A dishcloth. [Obsolescent]
DISHEART v.
To dishearten. [Obs.]
DISHEARTEN v.
and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject. Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened. Macaulay.
DISHEARTENMENT n.
Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
DISHEIR v.
To disinherit. [Obs.] Dryden.
DISHELM v.
To deprive of the helmet. [Poetic] Lying stark, Dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale. Tennyson.
DISHERISON n.
The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion. Bp. Hall.
DISHERIT v.
To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance. [Obs.] Spenser.
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