Part 364

Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened.

Macaulay.

Syn. -- To dispirit; discourage; depress; deject; deter; terrify.

Dis*heart"en*ment (?), n. Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

Dis*heir" (?), v. t. [Cf. Disherit.] To disinherit. [Obs.] Dryden.

Dis*helm" (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + helm helmet.] To deprive of the helmet. [Poetic]

Lying stark, Dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale.

Tennyson.

Dis*her"i*son (?), n. [See Disherit.] The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion. Bp. Hall.

Dis*her"it (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disherited; p. pr. & vb. n. Disheriting.] [F. déshériter; pref. dés- (L. dis-) + hériter to inherit. See Inherit, and cf. Dusheir, Disinherit.] To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance. [Obs.] Spenser.

Dis*her"it*ance (?), n. [Cf. OF. desheritance.] The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Dis*her"it*or (?), n. (Law) One who puts another out of his inheritance.

Di*shev"el (d*shv"'l or - l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disheveled (?) or Dishevelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Disheveling or Dishevelling.] [OF. descheveler, F. décheveler, LL. discapillare; dis- + L. capillus the hair of the head. See Capillary.] 1. To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle.

With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan.

Spenser.

2. To spread loosely or disorderly.

Like the fair flower disheveled in the wind.

Cowper.

Di*shev"el, v. i. To be spread in disorder or hang negligently, as the hair. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

Di*shev"ele (?), p. p. & a. Disheveled. [Obs.]

Dishevele, save his cap, he rode all bare.

Chaucer.

Di*shev"eled (?), a. 1. Hanging in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair.

2. Having the hair in loose disorder.

The dancing maidens are disheveled Mænads.

J. A. Symonds.

dish"ful (?), n.; pl. dishfuls (&?;). As much as a dish holds when full.

Dish"ing, a. Dish-shaped; concave.