DIRECTER — DISAPPOINTING

DIRECTER — DISAPPOINTING NWAD DIRECTER.1

DIRECTER, n. A director, which see. NWAD DIRECTER.1

DIRECTING, ppr. Aiming; pointing; guiding; regulating; governing; ordering. NWAD DIRECTING.1

DIRECTION, n. [L.] NWAD DIRECTION.1

1. Aim at a certain point; a pointing towards, in a straight line or course; as, the direction of good works to a good end. NWAD DIRECTION.2

2. The line in which a body moves by impulse; course. Matter or body cannot alter the direction of its own motion. NWAD DIRECTION.3

3. A straight line or course. A star appeared int eh direction of a certain tower. The ship sailed in a south-easterly direction. NWAD DIRECTION.4

4. The act of governing; administration; management; guidance; superintendence; as the direction of public affairs; direction of domestic concerns; the direction of a bank. NWAD DIRECTION.5

5. Regularity; adjustment. NWAD DIRECTION.6

All chance, direction which thou canst not see. NWAD DIRECTION.7

6. Order; prescription; either verbal or written; instruction in what manner to proceed. The employer gives directions to his workmen; the physician, to his patient. NWAD DIRECTION.8

7. The superscription of a letter, including the name, title and place of abode of the person for whom it is intended. NWAD DIRECTION.9

8. A body or board of directors. NWAD DIRECTION.10

DIRECTIVE, a. NWAD DIRECTIVE.1

1. Having the power of direction; as a directive rule. NWAD DIRECTIVE.2

2. Informing; instructing; shewing way. NWAD DIRECTIVE.3

DIRECTLY, adv. NWAD DIRECTLY.1

1. In a straight lin or course; rectilineally; not in a winding course. Aim directly to the object. Gravity tends directly to the center of the earth. NWAD DIRECTLY.2

2. Immediately; soon; without delay; as, he will be with us directly. NWAD DIRECTLY.3

3. Openly; expressly, without circumlocution or ambiguity, or without a train or inferences. NWAD DIRECTLY.4

No man hath been so impious, as directly to condemn prayer. NWAD DIRECTLY.5

DIRECTNESS, n. Straightness; a straight course; nearness of way. NWAD DIRECTNESS.1

DIRECTOR, n. NWAD DIRECTOR.1

1. One who directs; one who superintends, governs or manages; one who prescribes to others, by virtue of authority; an instructor; a counselor. NWAD DIRECTOR.2

2. That which directs; a rule; an ordinance. NWAD DIRECTOR.3

3. One appointed to transact the affairs of a company; as the director of a bank, or of the India Company. NWAD DIRECTOR.4

4. That which directs or controls by influence. NWAD DIRECTOR.5

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. NWAD DIRECTOR.6

5. In surgery, a grooved probe, intended to direct the edge of the knife or scissors in opening sinuses or fistulae; a guide for and incision-knife. NWAD DIRECTOR.7

DIRECTORIAL, a. Pertaining to directors or direction; containing direction or command. NWAD DIRECTORIAL.1

DIRECTORY, a. Containing directions; enjoining; instructing. NWAD DIRECTORY.1

DIRECTORY, n. NWAD DIRECTORY.2

1. A guide; a rule to direct; particularly, a book containing directions for public worship, or religious services. The Bible is our best directory, in faith and practice. NWAD DIRECTORY.3

2. A book containing an alphabetical list of the inhabitants of a city, with their places of abode. NWAD DIRECTORY.4

3. The supreme council of France, in the late revolution. NWAD DIRECTORY.5

4. A board of directors. NWAD DIRECTORY.6

DIRECTRESS, n. A female who directs or manages. NWAD DIRECTRESS.1

DIRECTRIX, n. A female who governs or directs. NWAD DIRECTRIX.1

DIREFUL, a. [See Dire.] Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; as direful fiend; a direful misfortune. NWAD DIREFUL.1

DIREFULLY, adv. Dreadfully; terribly; woefully. NWAD DIREFULLY.1

DIREMPTION, n. [L.] A separation. NWAD DIREMPTION.1

DIRENESS, n. Terribleness; horror; dismalness. NWAD DIRENESS.1

DIREPTION, n. [L.] The act of plundering. NWAD DIREPTION.1

DIRGE, n. Durj. [L., a word used in the funeral service.] A song or tune intended to express grief, sorrow and mourning; as a funeral dirge. NWAD DIRGE.1

DIRIGENT, DIRECTRIX, n. [See Direct.] In geometry, the line of motion along which the describent line or surface is carried in the generation of any plane or solid figure. NWAD DIRIGENT.1

DIRK, n. Durk. A kind of dagger or poniard. NWAD DIRK.1

DIRK, a. Durk. Dark. NWAD DIRK.2

DIRK, v.t. durk. NWAD DIRK.3

1. To darken. NWAD DIRK.4

2. To poniard; to stab. NWAD DIRK.5

DIRT, n. durt. NWAD DIRT.1

1. Any foul or filthy substance; excrement; earth; mud; mire; dust; whatever adhering to any thing, renders it foul or unclean. NWAD DIRT.2

The fat closed, and the dirt came out. Judges 3:22. NWAD DIRT.3

Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Isaiah 57:20. NWAD DIRT.4

2. Meanness; sordidness. [Not in use.] NWAD DIRT.5

DIRT, v.t. durt. To make foul or filthy; to soil; to bedaub; to pollute; to defile. NWAD DIRT.6

DIRTILY, adv. Durtily. [from dirty.] NWAD DIRTILY.1

1. In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily. NWAD DIRTILY.2

2. Meanly; sordidly; by low means. NWAD DIRTILY.3

DIRTINESS, n. Durtiness. NWAD DIRTINESS.1

1. Filthiness; foulness; nastiness. NWAD DIRTINESS.2

2. Meanness; baseness; sordidness. NWAD DIRTINESS.3

DIRTY, a. Durty. NWAD DIRTY.1

1. Foul; nasty; filthy; not clean; as dirty hands. NWAD DIRTY.2

2. Not clean; not pure; turbid; as dirty water. NWAD DIRTY.3

3. Cloudy; dark; dusky; as a dirty white. NWAD DIRTY.4

4. Mean; base; low; despicable; groveling; as a dirty fellow; a dirty employment. NWAD DIRTY.5

DIRTY, v.t. durty. NWAD DIRTY.6

1. To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands. NWAD DIRTY.7

2. To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; applied to reputation. NWAD DIRTY.8

DIRUPTION, n. [L., to burst.] A bursting or rending asunder. [See Disruption.] NWAD DIRUPTION.1

DIS, a prefix or inseparable preposition, from the Latin, whence Fr. Des, Sp. Dis, and de may in some instances be the same word contracted. Dis denotes separation, a parting from; hence it has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. In some cases, it still signifies separation, as in distribute, disconnect. NWAD DIS.1

DISABILITY, n. [from disable.] NWAD DISABILITY.1

1. Want of competent natural or bodily power, strength or ability; weakness; impotence; as disability arising from infirmity or broken limbs. NWAD DISABILITY.2

2. Want of competent intellectual power or strength of mind; incapacity; as the disability of a deranged person to reason or to make contracts. NWAD DISABILITY.3

3. Want of competent means or instruments. [In this sense, inability is generally used.] NWAD DISABILITY.4

4. Want of legal qualifications; incapacity; as a disability to inherit an estate, when the ancestor has been attainted. [In this sense, it has a plural.] NWAD DISABILITY.5

Disability differs from inability, in denoting deprivation of ability; whereas inability denotes destitution of ability, either by deprivation or otherwise. NWAD DISABILITY.6

DISABLE, v.t. [dis and able.] NWAD DISABLE.1

1. To render unable; to deprive of competent natural strength or power. A man is disabled to walk by a broken or paralytic leg, by sickness, etc. NWAD DISABLE.2

2. To deprive of mental power, as by destroying or weakening the understanding. NWAD DISABLE.3

3. To deprive of adequate means, instruments or resources. A nation may be disabled to carry on war by want of money. The loss of a ship may disable a man to prosecute commerce, or to pay his debts. NWAD DISABLE.4

4. To destroy the strength; or to weaken and impair so as to render incapable of action, service or resistance. A fleet is disabled by a storm, or by a battle. A ship is disabled by the loss of her masts or spars. NWAD DISABLE.5

5. To destroy or impair and weaken the means which render any thing active, efficacious or useful; to destroy or diminish any competent means. NWAD DISABLE.6

6. To deprive of legal qualifications, or competent power; to incapacitate; to render incapable. NWAD DISABLE.7

An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood and disables his children to inherit. NWAD DISABLE.8

DISABLED, pp. Deprived of competent power, corporeal or intellectual; rendered incapable; deprived of means. NWAD DISABLED.1

DISABLEMENT, n. Weakness; disability; legal impediment. NWAD DISABLEMENT.1

DISABLING, ppr. Rendering unable or incapable; depriving of adequate power or capacity, or of legal qualifications. NWAD DISABLING.1

DISABUSE, v.t. disabuze. [See Abuse.] To free from mistake; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right. It is our duty to disabuse ourselves of false notions and prejudices. NWAD DISABUSE.1

If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, hypocrisy and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. NWAD DISABUSE.2

DISABUSED, pp. Disabuzed. Undeceived. NWAD DISABUSED.1

DISABUSING, ppr. Disabuzing. Undeceiving. NWAD DISABUSING.1

DISACCOMMODATE, v.t. [dis and accommodate.] To put to inconvenience. NWAD DISACCOMMODATE.1

DISACCOMMODATION, n. [dis and accommodation.] A state of being unaccommodated; a state of being unprepared. NWAD DISACCOMMODATION.1

DISACCORD, v.i. [dis and accord.] To refuse assent. [Not used.] NWAD DISACCORD.1

DISACCUSTOM, v.t. [dis and accustom.] To neglect familiar or customary practice; to destroy the force of habit by disuse. NWAD DISACCUSTOM.1

DISACCUSTOMED, pp. Disused; having neglected practice or familiar use. NWAD DISACCUSTOMED.1

DISACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. [dis and acknowledge.] To deny; to disown. NWAD DISACKNOWLEDGE.1

DISACKNOWLEDGED, pp. Denied; disowned. NWAD DISACKNOWLEDGED.1

DISACKNOWLEDGING, ppr. Denying; disowning. NWAD DISACKNOWLEDGING.1

DISACQUAINT, v.t. [See Acquaint.] To dissolve acquaintance. [Little used.] NWAD DISACQUAINT.1

DISACQUAINTANCE, n. Neglect or disuse of familiarity, or familiar knowledge of. NWAD DISACQUAINTANCE.1

DISADORN, v.t. To deprive of ornaments. NWAD DISADORN.1

DISADVANCE, v.t. or i. To check; to halt. [Not in use.] NWAD DISADVANCE.1

DISADVANTAGE, n. NWAD DISADVANTAGE.1

1. That which prevents success, or renders it difficult; a state not favorable to successful operation. The army commenced an attack on the enemy, notwithstanding the disadvantage of its position. NWAD DISADVANTAGE.2

2. Any unfavorable state; a state in which some loss or injury may be sustained. Hence, NWAD DISADVANTAGE.3

3. Loss; injury; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good; as, to sell goods to disadvantage. NWAD DISADVANTAGE.4

DISADVANTAGE, v.t. To injure in interest; to prejudice. NWAD DISADVANTAGE.5

DISADVANTAGEABLE, a. Not advantageous. [Not in use.] NWAD DISADVANTAGEABLE.1

DISADVANTAGEOUS, a. Unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; not adapted to promote interest, reputation or other good; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. We are apt to view characters int eh most disadvantageous lights. NWAD DISADVANTAGEOUS.1

DISADVANTAGEOUSLY, adv. In a manner not favorable to success, or to interest, profit or reputation; with loss or inconvenience. NWAD DISADVANTAGEOUSLY.1

DISADVANTAGEOUSNESS, n. Unfavorableness to success; inconvenience; loss. NWAD DISADVANTAGEOUSNESS.1

DISADVENTURE, n. Misfortune. [Not used.] NWAD DISADVENTURE.1

DISADVENTUROUS, a. Unprosperous. [Not used.] NWAD DISADVENTUROUS.1

DISAFFECT, v.t. [dis and affect.] NWAD DISAFFECT.1

1. To alienate affection; to make less friendly to; to make less faithful to a person, party or cause, or less zealous to support it; to make discontented or unfriendly; as, an attempt was made to disaffect the army. NWAD DISAFFECT.2

2. To disdain, or dislike. NWAD DISAFFECT.3

3. To throw into disorder. NWAD DISAFFECT.4

DISAFFECTED, pp. or a. Having the affections alienated; indisposed to favor or support; unfriendly; followed by with or to; as, these men are disaffected with the government, or disaffected to the king, or to the administration. NWAD DISAFFECTED.1

DISAFFECTEDLY, adv. In a disaffected manner. NWAD DISAFFECTEDLY.1

DISAFFECTEDNESS, n. The quality of being disaffected. NWAD DISAFFECTEDNESS.1

DISAFFECTING, ppr. Alienating the affections; making less friendly. NWAD DISAFFECTING.1

DISAFFECTION, n. NWAD DISAFFECTION.1

1. Alienation of affection, attachment or good will; want of affection; or more generally, positive enmity, dislike or unfriendliness; disloyalty. It generally signifies more than indifference; as the disaffection of people to their prince or government; the disaffection of allies; disaffection to religion. NWAD DISAFFECTION.2

2. Disorder; bad constitution; in a physical sense. [Little used.] NWAD DISAFFECTION.3

DISAFFECTIONATE, a. Not well disposed; not friendly. NWAD DISAFFECTIONATE.1

DISAFFIRM, v.t. disafferm. [dis and affirm.] NWAD DISAFFIRM.1

1. To deny; to contradict. NWAD DISAFFIRM.2

2. To overthrow or annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal. NWAD DISAFFIRM.3

DISAFFIRMANCE, n. NWAD DISAFFIRMANCE.1

1. Denial; negation; disproof; confutation. NWAD DISAFFIRMANCE.2

2. Overthrow or annulment, by the decision of a superior tribunal; as disaffirmance of judgment. NWAD DISAFFIRMANCE.3

DISAFFIRMED, pp. Denied; contradicted; overthrown. NWAD DISAFFIRMED.1

DISAFFIRMING, ppr. Denying; contradicting; annulling. NWAD DISAFFIRMING.1

DISAFFOREST, v.t. [dis and afforest.] To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to strip of forest laws and their oppressive privileges. NWAD DISAFFOREST.1

By Charter 9. Hen. III many forests were disafforested. NWAD DISAFFOREST.2

DISAFFORESTED, pp. Stripped of forest privileges. NWAD DISAFFORESTED.1

DISAFFORESTING, ppr. Depriving of forest privileges. NWAD DISAFFORESTING.1

DISAGGREGATE, v.t. [dis and aggregate.] To separate an aggregate mass into its component parts. NWAD DISAGGREGATE.1

DISAGGREGATED, pp. Separated, as an aggregate mass. NWAD DISAGGREGATED.1

DISAGGREGATING, ppr. Separating, as the parts of an aggregate body. NWAD DISAGGREGATING.1

DISAGGREGATION, n. The act or operation of separating an aggregate body into its component parts. NWAD DISAGGREGATION.1

DISAGREE, v.i. [dis and agree.] NWAD DISAGREE.1

1. To differ; to be not accordant or coincident; to be not the same; to be not exactly similar. Two ideas disagree, when they are not the same, or when they are not exactly alike. The histories of th same fact often disagree. NWAD DISAGREE.2

2. To differ, as in opinion; as, the best judges sometimes disagree. NWAD DISAGREE.3

Who shall decide when doctors disagree? NWAD DISAGREE.4

3. To be unsuitable. Medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste. NWAD DISAGREE.5

4. To differ; to be in opposition. NWAD DISAGREE.6

Men often reject the plainest sense of scripture, because it disagrees with their reason or preconceived opinions. NWAD DISAGREE.7

It is usually followed by with. But we say, I disagree to your proposal. The use of from after disagree is not common. NWAD DISAGREE.8

DISAGREEABLE, a. NWAD DISAGREEABLE.1

1. Contrary; unsuitable; not conformable; not congruous. [Little used.] NWAD DISAGREEABLE.2

This conduct was disagreeable to her natural sincerity. NWAD DISAGREEABLE.3

2. Unpleasing; offensive to the mind, or to the sense; but expressing less than disgusting and odious. Behavior may be disagreeable to our minds; food may be disagreeable to the taste; many things are disagreeable to the sight; sounds may be disagreeable to the ear, and odors to the smell. Whatever is disagreeable gives some pain or uneasiness. NWAD DISAGREEABLE.4

DISAGREEABLENESS, n. NWAD DISAGREEABLENESS.1

1. Unsuitableness; contrariety. NWAD DISAGREEABLENESS.2

2. Unpleasantness; offensiveness to the mind, or to the senses; as the disagreeableness of anothers manners; the disagreeableness of a taste, sound or smell. NWAD DISAGREEABLENESS.3

DISAGREEABLY, adv. Unsuitable; unpleasantly; offensively. NWAD DISAGREEABLY.1

DISAGREEING, ppr. Differing; not according or coinciding. NWAD DISAGREEING.1

DISAGREEMENT, n. NWAD DISAGREEMENT.1

1. Difference, either in form or essence; dissimilitude; diversity; as the disagreement of two ideas, of two pictures, of two stories or narrations. NWAD DISAGREEMENT.2

2. Difference of opinion or sentiments. NWAD DISAGREEMENT.3

3. Unsuitableness. NWAD DISAGREEMENT.4

DISALLIEGE, v.t. To alienate from allegiance. [Not in use.] NWAD DISALLIEGE.1

DISALLOW, v.t. [dis and allow.] To refuse permission, or not to permit; not to grant; not to make or suppose lawful; not to authorize; to disapprove. God disallows that Christians should conform to the immoral practices of the world. A good man disallows every kind of profaneness. NWAD DISALLOW.1

2. To testify dislike or disapprobation; to refuse assent. NWAD DISALLOW.2

But if her father shall disallow her int he day that he heareth, not nay of her vows or her bonds--shall stand. Numbers 30:5. NWAD DISALLOW.3

3. Not to approve; not to receive; to reject. NWAD DISALLOW.4

To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious. 1 Peter 2:4. NWAD DISALLOW.5

4. Not to allow or admit as just; to reject; as, to disallow an account or charge. NWAD DISALLOW.6

DISALLOWABLE, a. Not allowable; not to be suffered. NWAD DISALLOWABLE.1

DISALLOWANCE, n. Disapprobation; refusal to admit or permit; prohibition; rejection. NWAD DISALLOWANCE.1

DISALLOWED, pp. Not granted, permitted or admitted; disapproved; rejected. NWAD DISALLOWED.1

DISALLOWING, ppr. Not permitting; not admitting; disapproving; rejecting. NWAD DISALLOWING.1

DISALLY, v.t. [dis and ally.] To form an improper alliance. NWAD DISALLY.1

DISANCHOR, v.t. [dis and anchor.] To force from its anchors, as a ship. NWAD DISANCHOR.1

DISANGELICAL, a. Not angelical. [Not used.] NWAD DISANGELICAL.1

DISANIMATE, v.t. [dis and animate.] NWAD DISANIMATE.1

1. To deprive of life. [Not used.] NWAD DISANIMATE.2

2. To deprive of spirit or courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to deject. NWAD DISANIMATE.3

DISANIMATED, pp. Discouraged; dispirited. NWAD DISANIMATED.1

DISANIMATING, ppr. Discouraging; disheartening. NWAD DISANIMATING.1

DISANIMATION, n. NWAD DISANIMATION.1

1. The act of discouraging; depression of spirits. NWAD DISANIMATION.2

2. Privation of life. [Not used.] NWAD DISANIMATION.3

DISANNUL, v.t. [dis and annul. In this instance, the prefix dis is improperly used, and of no effect. But its use is well established.] To annul; to make void; to deprive of authority or force; to nullify; to abolish; as, to disannul a law or an ordinance. NWAD DISANNUL.1

Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? Job 40:8; Galatians 3:15. NWAD DISANNUL.2

DISANNULLED, pp. Annulled; vacated; made void. NWAD DISANNULLED.1

DISANNULLING, ppr. Making void; depriving of authority or binding force. NWAD DISANNULLING.1

DISANNULMENT, n. The act of making void; as the disannulment of a law or decree. NWAD DISANNULMENT.1

Disannual differs from repeal, as the genus from the species. A repeal makes a law void by the same power that enacted it. Annulment or disannulment destroys its force and authority by repeal or by other means. NWAD DISANNULMENT.2

DISANOINT, v.t. To render consecration invalid. NWAD DISANOINT.1

DISAPPAREL, v.t. To disrobe; to strip of raiment. NWAD DISAPPAREL.1

DISAPPEAR, v.i. [dis and appear.] NWAD DISAPPEAR.1

1. To vanish from the sight; to recede from the view; to become invisible by vanishing or departing, or by being enveloped in any thing that conceals, or by the interposition of an object. Darkness disappears at the access of light, and light disappears at the approach of darkness. A ship disappears by departure to a distance; the sun disappears in a fog, or behind a cloud, or in setting. NWAD DISAPPEAR.2

2. To cease; as, the epidemic has disappeared. NWAD DISAPPEAR.3

3. To withdraw from observation. The debtor disappears when he absconds. NWAD DISAPPEAR.4

DISAPPEARANCE, n. Cessation of appearance; a removal from sight. NWAD DISAPPEARANCE.1

DISAPPEARING, ppr. Vanishing; receding from the sight; becoming invisible. NWAD DISAPPEARING.1

DISAPPEARING, n. A vanishing or removal from sight. NWAD DISAPPEARING.2

DISAPPOINT, v.t. [dis and appoint; properly, to unfix or unsettle.] NWAD DISAPPOINT.1

1. To defeat of expectation, wish, hope, desire or intention; to frustrate; to balk; to hinder from the possession or enjoyment of that which was intended, desired, hoped or expected. We say, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions or expectations are disappointed. A bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil The man promised me a visit, by he disappointed me. NWAD DISAPPOINT.2

Without counsel purposes are disappointed. Proverbs 15:22. NWAD DISAPPOINT.3

2. To frustrate; to prevent an effect intended. NWAD DISAPPOINT.4

The retiring foe shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow. NWAD DISAPPOINT.5