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2. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.

3. To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.

To dish out. 1. To serve out of a dish; to distribute in portions at table. 2. (Arch.) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood. -- To dish up, to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc., and put in dishes to be served at table.

Dis`ha*bil"i*tate (?), v. t. [Cf. Disability.] To disqualify. [R.]

Dis`ha*bille" (?), n. [See Deshabille.] An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.

They breakfast in dishabille.

Smollett.

Dis*hab"it (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + habit to inhabit.] To dislodge. [Obs.]

Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime Had been dishabited.

Shak.

Dis*hab"it*ed, p. a. Rendered uninhabited. "Dishabited towns." R. Carew.

Dis`ha*bit"u*ate (?; 135), v. t. To render unaccustomed.

Dis*ha"ble (?), v. t. 1. To disable. [Obs.]

2. To disparage. [Obs.]

She oft him blamed . . . and him dishabled quite.

Spenser.

Dis*hal"low (?), v. t. To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson.

Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar.

T. Adams.

Dis`har*mo"ni*ous (?), a. Unharmonious; discordant. [Obs.] Hallywell.

Dis*har"mo*ny (?), n. Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [R.]

A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature].

Coleridge.

Dis*haunt" (?), v. t. To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt. Halliwell.

Dish"cloth` (?; 115), n. A cloth used for washing dishes.

Dish"clout` (?), n. A dishcloth. [Obsolescent]

Dis*heart" (?), v. t. To dishearten. [Obs.]

Dis*heart"en (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disheartened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disheartening.] [Pref. dis- + hearten.] To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.