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95 words match “SHAB”

SHAB v. 3 definitions
To play mean tricks; to act shabbily. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.]
SHABBED a.
Shabby. [Obs.] Wood.
SHABBILY adv.
In a shabby manner.
SHABBINESS n.
The quality or state of being sghabby.
SHABBLE; SHABBLE n.
A kind of crooked sword or hanger. [Scot.]
SHABBY a. 3 definitions
Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged. Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts. Macaulay.
SHABRACK n.
The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse.
ABOLISHABLE a.
Capable of being abolished.
ACCOMPLISHABLE a.
Capable of being accomplished; practicable. Carlyle.
DESHABILLE n.
An undress; a careless toilet.
DIMINISHABLE a.
Capable of being diminished or lessened.
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.
DISPUNISHABLE a.
Without penal restraint; not punishable. [R.] Swift.
DISTINGUISHABLE a. 2 definitions
ble; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. Locke.
DISTINGUISHABLENESS n.
The quality of being distinguishable.
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