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<i>Tennyson.</i>

<blockquote>Nor can the unholiness of the priest <b>dishallow</b> the altar. <i>T. Adams.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disharmonious</h1> <Xpage=425>

<hw>Dis`har*mo"ni*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Unharmonious; discordant.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Hallywell.</i>

<h1>Disharmony</h1> <Xpage=425>

<hw>Dis*har"mo*ny</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Want of harmony; discord; incongruity.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>A <b>disharmony</b> in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature]. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dishaunt</h1> <Xpage=425>

<hw>Dis*haunt"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt.</def>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Dishcloth</h1> <Xpage=425>

<hw>Dish"cloth`</hw> <tt>(?; 115)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A cloth used for washing dishes.</def>

<h1>Dishclout</h1> <Xpage=425>

<hw>Dish"clout`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A dishcloth.</def> <mark>[Obsolescent]</mark>

<h1>Disheart</h1> <Xpage=425>

<hw>Dis*heart"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To dishearten.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Dishearten</h1> <Xpage=425>

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

<blockquote>Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and <b>disheartened</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To dispirit; discourage; depress; deject; deter; terrify.</syn>

<h1>Disheartenment</h1> <Xpage=425>

<hw>Dis*heart"en*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.</def>

<h1>Disheir</h1> <Xpage=425>

<hw>Dis*heir"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Disherit</er>.]</ety> <def>To disinherit.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Dishelm</h1> <Xpage=425>

<hw>Dis*helm"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>helm</ets> helmet.]</ety> <def>To deprive of the helmet.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

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