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which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals. Calcareous sinter, a loose banded variety of calcite formed by deposition from lime-bearing waters; calcareous tufa; travertine. -- Ceraunian sinter, fulgurite. -- Siliceous sinter, a light cellular or fibrous opal; especially, geyserite (…

See under Calcite.

To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.

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

Disinterestedness; impartiality; fairness. [Obs.] Prior.

Disinterested. [Obs.] The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor.

fish motive; having no relation of interest or feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested decision or judge. The happiness of disinterested sacrifices. Channing.

In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.

The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality. That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. Macaulay.

Uninteresting. [Obs.] "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.

The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.

To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.

Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.

The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.

One who interprets erroneously.

A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.

See Disinter.

To take out from a tomb; a disinter.

To disinter. [R.]

Disinterred. [Obs.]