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<i>Mease.</i>

<h1>Disembossom</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis`em*bos"som</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To separate from the bosom.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Young.</i>

<h1>Disembowel</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis`em*bow"el</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Embowel</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.</def>

<blockquote>Soon after their death, they are <b>disemboweled</b>. <i>Cook.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From <b>disemboweled</b> earth the virgin gold. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "Her <i>disemboweled</i> web."

<i>J. Philips.</i>

<h1>Disembowelment</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis`em*bow"el*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.</def>

<h1>Disembowered</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis`em*bow"ered</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Deprived of, or removed from, a bower.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<i>Bryant.</i>

<h1>Disembrangle</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis`em*bran"gle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>em</ets> = <ets>en</ets> (L. <ets>in</ets>) + <ets>brangle</ets>.]</ety> <def>To free from wrangling or litigation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Berkeley.</i>

<h1>Disembroil</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis`em*broil"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Disembroiled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Disembroiling</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Pref. <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>embroil</ets>.]</ety> <def>To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.</def>

<blockquote>Vaillant has <b>disembroiled</b> a history that was lost to the world before his time. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disemploy</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis`em*ploy"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To throw out of employment.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<h1>Disemployment</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis`em*ploy"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment.</def>

<blockquote>This glut of leisure and <b>disemployment</b>. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

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