disguisiness 
disguisinesst, [ME. dixgixint-x; < disguisy 
+ -ess.] Strangeness; extraordinary appear- 
ance. 
Precious clothyng is coupable for the derthe of it, and 
for his softiiesse and for his strangenesse and disgisinesse 
[var. deyisynesse]. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
disguising (dis-gi'zing), . [< ME. desgysyng; 
verbal n. of disguise, .] 1. The act of assum- 
ing a disguise, or of giving a false appearance. 
These & many such like disguising do we find in mans 
behauiour, & specially in the Courtiers of forraine Coun- 
treys. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 263. 
2f. Theatrical mummery or masking. 
At such a time 
As Christmas, when disguising is o' foot. 
B. Jonson, Masques. 
Sonday at night the fifteenth of June, 1523, in the great 
halle at Wyndsore, the emperor Maximilian and Henry 
VIII. being present, was a dwiuisiyng or play. 
Quoted in Strati's Sports and Pastimes, p. 235. 
disguisyt, a. [ME. disgisi, disgestje, < OF. des- 
guisc, pp. of desguiser, disguise: see disguise, 
.] 1. Disguised; masked. 
Daunces disyisi redy digt were. 
William, of Paleme (E. E. T. S.), I. 1621. 
2. Concealed; strange. 
Long thei caired ouer cuntres as that crist wold, 
Oner dales & downes & disyesye weyes. 
William of Palenui (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2715. 
disgust (dis-gusf), v. t. [< OP. dcsgouster, 
distaste, dislike, P. degouter = Sp. disgustar = 
Pg. desgostar = It. disgnstare, sgustare, disgust, 
< L. dis- priv. + gustare, taste, < gustus, a tast- 
ing: see dis- and gust 2 , ?>.] 1. To excite nau- 
sea or loathing in; offend the taste of. 2. To 
offend the mind or moral sense of : with at or 
with, formerly with front : as, to be disgusted at 
foppery or with vulgar pretension. 
What disfjusts me from having anything to do with this 
race of answer-jobbers is, that they have no sort of con- 
science. Swift. 
3f. To feel a distaste for; have an aversion 
to; disrelish. 
By our own fickleness and inconstancy disgusting the 
deliverance now it is come, which we so earnestly desired 
before it came. Tillotsoit, Sermons, xxxii. 
disgust (dis-gusf), n. [< OF. desgoust, F. de- 
gout = Sp. disgusto = Pg. desgosto = It. dis- 
gusto, disgust: see the verb.] 1. Strong dis- 
relish or distaste; aversion to the taste of food 
or drink; nausea; loathing. 
The term disgust, in its simplest sense, means some- 
thing offensive to the taste. 
Dariviii, Express, of Emotions, p. 257. 
2. Repugnance excited by something offensive 
or loathsome ; a strong feeling of aversion or 
repulsion; extreme distaste or dislike. 
In a vulgar hack-writer such oddities would have ex- 
cited only disgust. Macaulay. 
Noble too, of old blood thrice-refined 
That shrinks from clownish coarseness in disgust. 
Browning, Ring and Book, I. 174. 
= Syn. 2. Hatred, Dislike, etc. (see antipathy), loathing 
detestation abhorrence. 
disgustful (dis-gust'fiil), a. [< disgust + -ful, 
2.] Offensive to the taste; nauseous; hence, 
morally or esthetically offensive. 
The British waters are grown dull aud muddy 
The fruit disgustful. Fletcher, Bonduca, i. 2. 
If any lesson may be drawn from the tragical and too 
often disgustful history of witchcraft, it is not one of ex- 
ultation at our superior enlightenment, or shame at the 
shortcomings of the human intellect. It is rather one of 
chanty and self-distrust. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 148. 
disgustfulness (dis-gust'ful-nes), n. The char- 
1664 
pulpit, < Gr. (i/o-Kof, a discus, disk, dish, trencher, 
plate. From the same source are disk, disc, 
dish-clout 
pp. of *(/ixliabilitare (> OF. dcs- 
habiliter, F. deshabiliter = Pg. deshabilitar), < 
LflOiUC. X1U1L1 LUC Dtllllo O1711AVJC alt/ l*uon/, llvo^; i WOT l i (MWVWVtWtOT ^ -*-K* t<l<<5'fl' (-Kilt/ J, \ 
desk, and dais, which are thus doublets of dish.'] dis- priv. + habilitare, habilitate : see dis- and 
1 . Any rimmed and concave or hollow vessel, of 
earthenware, porcelain, glass, metal, or wood, 
used to contain food for consumption at meals. 
Originally applied to very shallow or flat vessels, as plates 
and platters, the term now usually includes any large 
htil>ilitate.~] To disqualify; in old Scots law, to 
corrupt the blood of; attaint. 
The Earl his father being forefault, and his posterity 
dishabilitated to bruik estate or dignity in Scotland. 
Stair. Suppl., Dec., p. 243. 
open vessel, more or less deep, and with or without a jj M i,i.iii4._4.j-_ /i- v v-i *-/ \. 
cover, used to contain food or table-drink, such as tea, aisnabllltation (dis-ha-bil-i-ta shon), n. [= F. 
coffee, or chocolate. The use of the term to include drink- ac>sh<winhitifin,<,Mi.*dishabiUtatio(n-),<.*disha- 
ing-vessels, as bowls and cups, is less common and seem! 
to be obsolescent, except as such vessels are included in the 
collective plural dishes. A set of dishes includes all the 
vessels (except drinking-glasses) requisite for furnishing a 
table, as platters, plates of various sizes, vessels for vege- 
tables, fruits, preserves, etc., tureens, bowls, and cups and 
saucers. 
bilitare, disqualify: see dislidbttitate.] Disquali- 
fication; in old Scots law, the corruption of 
blood consequent upon a conviction for treason. 
All prior acts of duthabilitatioun pronuncit againes the 
posteritie of the said . . . Francis sumtyme Erie Bothwell. 
Acts Charles I. (ed. 1814), V. 5S. 
Cinnamon-water. Congreve, Way of the World, i. 7. 
A porcelain dish, o'er which in many a cluster 
Plump grapes hung down, dead-ripe and without lustre. 
T. B. Aldrich, The Lunch. 
2. The food or drink served in a dish ; hence, 
any particular kind of food served at table ; a 
supply for a meal : as, a dish of veal or venison ; 
a cold dish. 
"I'is an ordinary thing to bestow twenty or thirty pounds 
on a di*h, some thousand crowns upon a dinner. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 142. 
If you please, let us walk up to supper ; and to-morrow, 
if the day be windy, as our days here commonly are, 'tis 
ten to one but we shall take a good dish of fish for dinner. 
Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 26a. 
and habiliment.] Undress, or negligent dress; 
specifically, a loose morning-dress. 
Her Dishabille, or Flame-colour Gown call d Indian, 
and Slippers of the same. 
Wycherley, Gentleman Dancing-Master, v. 
Two or three ladies, in an easy dishabille, were intro- 
duced. Goldsmith, Vicar, xijt. 
dishabitt (dis-hab'it), v. t. [< OF. deshaUter, 
F. deshabiter = Sp. Pg. deshabitar, desert a 
place, = It. disabitare, depopulate, < L. dis- 
priv. + habitare, dwell in, inhabit: see dis- and 
habit, v.J To drive from a habitation ; dislodge. 
Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime 
Had been duhabited. Shak., K. John, ii. 1. 
We were roused from a peaceful dish of tea by a loud dishabituate (dis-ha-bit'u-at), V. t. ; pret, and 
hubbub in the street. Beckford, Italy, II. 70. 
Nothing could be plainer than his table, yet his society 
often attracted the wealthy to share his single dish. 
Lady Holland, in Sydney Smith, iv. 
3. In Eng. mining: (a) A rectangular box about 
28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore 
is measured. [Lead-mines of Derbyshire.] 
The dish of the Low Peak is reputed to hold 14 Win- 
chester pints, when level-full ; while in the High Peak 16 
pints are reckoned to the dish. Farey. 
(b) Formerly, in Cornwall, a measure holding 
one gallon, used for tin ore dressed ready for 
the smelter. R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall 
(17G9). 4f. A discus. 
Thei hastiden for to be maad felawis of wrastlyng, and 
of dishe, or pleyinge with ledun dishe [var. in ocu- 
a ]< 
, 
paciouns of a disch, ether pleiyng with 
Pnrv.]. 
pp. dishabituated, ppr. dishabituating'. [< dis- 
priv. + habituate. Cf. F. deshabitiier = Sp. Pg. 
deshabituar.'] To render unaccustomed to or 
unfamiliar with. 
He had lived at Geneva so long that he had . . . be- 
come dishabituated to the American tone. 
II. Jamet, Jr., Daisy Miller. 
dishablet, *' ' [Same as disable; < dis- priv. 
+ liable for able*, v., q. v.] 1. To disable. 
2. To disparage. 
She oft him hlam'd 
For suffering such abuse as knighthood sham'd, 
And him diihabled quyte. Spenser, F. Q., II. v. 21. 
dishallow (dis-hal'6), v. t. [< dig- priv. + lial- 
low,v.~] To make unholy; desecrate; profane. 
Ye that so dishallow the holy sleep, 
Your sleep is death. 
Tennyson, Pelleas and Ettarre. 
But once a year, on the eve of All-Souls, 
Through these arches dishallowed the organ rolls. 
Lowell, The Black Preacher. 
ledun disch, 
Wyclif, 2 Mac. iv. 14 (Oxf.). 
5. The state of being concave or like a dish ; 
concavity : as, the dish of a wheel Brazen dish. 
See brazen. 
)r dish (dish), v. [= G. tischen, serve the table, disharmonic (dis-har-mon'ik), a. [= F. des- 
sit at table ; cf. ODan. diske, go to dinner, Dan. harmouique = It. disarmonico (cf . G. disharmo- 
diske (op), dish or serve (up), = Sw. diska, wash nisch, > Dan. Sw. disharmonisk) ; as dis- priv. + 
dishes; from the noun.] I. trans. 1. To put 
in a dish or dishes, as food; serve at table: 
often with up : as, to dish up the dinner. 
For conspiracy, 
I know not how it tastes ; though it be dish'd 
For me to try. Sha/c., W. T., iii. 2. 
Get me ... your best meat, and duh it in silver 
dishes. B. Joiuon, Epiccene, iii. 1. 
harmonic.'] Not harmonic ; anharmonic. An- 
throp. lust. Jour., XVII. 160. 
disharmonious (dis-har-mo'ni-us), a. [< dis- 
priv. + harmonious.'] Inharmonious; discor- 
dant; incongruous. 
The ego [according to Preuss] is composed of painful 
and disharmonious sensations. 
spokes (either by construction or as the result of accident) 
are inclined to the nave, so that the wheel is concave on 
one side. 
Seven hours' travelling over very rough ground dished 
a wheel, and lunch was taken while repairs were being 
made. A. W. Greely, Arctic Service, p. 370. 
The sliccr is hammered into a slightly arched or dished 
form. Byrne, Artisan's Handbook, p. 203. 
taste, physical, moral, or esthetic. 
of dis- 
to the 
disharmonize (dis-har'mo-mz), v. t. ; pret. and 
pp. disharmonized, ppr. disharmonizing. [= F. 
desharmoniser = Pg. desharmonizar, deprive of 
harmony, = It. disarmonizzare, want harmony ; 
as dis- priv. + harmonize."] To deprive of har- 
mony ; render inharmonious. 
Differences which disharmonize and retard and cripple 
the general work in hand. 
Penn. School Jour., XXXII. 381. 
ise up, as if by serving on a dish, or disharmony (dis-har'mo-ni), w. ; pi. disharmo- 
a r,^ J?Jt ^si? i r dlsa PP mt ; nies (-niz). [= F. desharmouie = Sp. desarmo- 
disgustingly (dis-gus'ting-li), adv. 
gusting manner. 
In a dis- 
damage; ruin; cheat. [Slang.] 
For of this be assured, if you " go it " too fast, 
You'll be dish'd. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 204. 
Where's Brummell? Dished. Byron. 
But in Canada, as in England, demagogues dish each 
other by extensions of the franchise. 
Nineteenth Century, XX. 27. 
4. To push or strike with the horns. Jamieson. 
It is really lamentable to observe in many families the 
aged parent slighted and neglected. . . . Such treatment 
is disgustingly unnatural. v. Knox, Essays, xxxix. rq , , 
disgustingness (dis-gus'ting-nes), . The qual- ' 
ity of being disgusting. Einasleii He would hae gart [made] me trow that they [London 
dish(dish)%. g [<ME g ^S,<AS.^c, Lt^^^t*1Lr aellke0 ' me ' miJ 
a dish, plate, = OS. disk, a table, = MD. D. disch 
'}. disk, disch, LG. disch = OHG. tisc, 
Sir A. Wi/lie, Works, I. 70. 
To dish out, to form (coves) by wooden ribs. 
nia = Pg. desharmonia = It. disarmonia = G. 
disharmonie = Dan. Sw. disharmoni; as dis- 
priv. + harmony.'] Want of harmony; discord; 
incongruity. 
A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute 
it [our nature]. Coleridge. 
The more disharmonies [according to Preuss], the more 
organisms ; hence, at first all matter was organized, and at 
last none will be. G. S. Hall, German Culture, p. 46. 
dish-catch (dish'kach), n. A rack for dishes. 
[Local.] 
My dish-catch, cupboard, boards, and bed, 
And all I have when we are wed. 
Comical Dialogue bi'twfi'n tif> C>^int>-ft Lore. 
tisch, disch, also tis, dis, G. tisch, a table, = II. intrans. To be concave or have a form dish-cloth (dish'kldth), n. A cloth used for 
Icel. aiskr, a dish, plate, = Sw. Dan. disk, a dish, resembling that of a dish : as, the wheel or the washing dishes, 
also a counter, = OF. dais, a table (> ME. dees, ground dishes. See I., 2. - 1 " 1 - - 1 "- L 
K dais, q. v. ), = Sp. Pg. disco, a disk, quoit, = We had much trouble with our wagon, the wheel 
It.rtisco, a disk, quoit, desco, a table, <-l,. discus, in ff frequently. A. W. Greely, Arctic Service, p. oo, . 
s, disk, plate dish, face of a sun-dial, dishabilitate (dis-ha-bil'i-tat), . t.; pret. and T1 t 
ML. also (with var. descus) a table, dais, desk, pp. debilitated, ppr. dishabilitati,^ [< ML Jbelhe oS lord* 
dish-clout (dish'klout), n. A dish-cloth. 
Thnse same hanging cheeks, . . . 
That look like frozen dish-clouts set on end ! 
B. Jonxon, Volpone, i. 1. 
dishclout ministry. Harry Furnese, is 
Waljiole, Letters, II. 493. 
