adv. & a. Sprawling. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n.;
v. t.
The carpet which bespread
His rich pavilion's floor. Glover. [ 1913 Webster ]
p. p. [ OE. bespreynt, p. p. of besprengen, bisprengen, to besprinkle, AS. besprengan, akin to D. & G. besprengen; pref. be- + sprengan to sprinkle. See Sprinkle. ] Sprinkled over; strewed. [ 1913 Webster ]
His face besprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, besprinkles. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ A corruption of bowsprit. ] (Naut.) See Bowsprit. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Bow + sprit; akin to D. boegspriet; boeg bow of a ship + spriet, E. sprit, also Sw. bogspröt, G. bugspriet. ] (Naut.) A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Widespread. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Spreading widely. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A receptacle for clothes. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Arch.) One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [ See Illustr. of Groined vault. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
The tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us. Luke i. 78. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. & i. See Dispread. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Blamable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Dispraising the power of his adversaries. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. OF. despris. See Dispraise, v. t. ] The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
In praise and in dispraise the same. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who blames or dispraises. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. By way of dispraise. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Pref. dis- + spread. ] To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open;
v. i. To extend or expand itself. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
While tyrant Heat, dispreading through the sky. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who spreads abroad. [ 1913 Webster ]
Dispreaders both of vice and error. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To free from prejudice. [ Obs. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To render unprepared. [ Obs. ] Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To make unlike a prince. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . .
And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To let loose from prison, to set at liberty. [ R. ] Bulwer. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To deprive of a privilege or privileges. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Cf. Dispraise. ] To depreciate. [ R. ] Cotton (Ode to Lydia). [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To renounce the profession or pursuit of. [ 1913 Webster ]
His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. & i. To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit. [ Obs. or Archaic ] Bale. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Loss; damage. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Unprofitable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Pref. dis- + proof. Cf. Disprove. ] A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation;
I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Pref. dis- + proportion: cf. F. disproportion. ]
v. t.
To shape my legs of an unequal size;
To disproportion me in every part. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
A degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. --
a. Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal;
n. The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate;
v. t. [ L. dis- + propriare to appropriate, fr. proprius one's own, proper. ] To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being disproved or refuted. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Act of disproving; disproof. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
That false supposition I advanced in order to disprove it. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who disproves or confutes. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. Not to provide; to fail to provide. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Railroad) The spring to which a drawbar is attached. [ 1913 Webster ]