[ Named from Thomas Addison, M. D., of London, who first described it. ] (Med.) A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, hypotension, and loss of weight; it is due to insufficient secretion of adrenocortical hormones. Untreated disease is usually fatal. Called also chronic adrenocortical insufficiency [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. the doctrine or political position that opposes the withdrawal of state recognition of an established church; -- used especially concerning the Anglican Church in England. Opposed to disestablishmentarianism. [ PJC ]

[ Named for Dr. Basedow, a German physician. ] (Med.) A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter. Flint. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. Same as bastardize. [ chiefly Brit. ] [ PJC ]

(Zool.) The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Great emerald (Paradisea apoda) and the Lesser emerald (Paradisea minor) furnish many of the plumes used as ornaments by ladies; the Red bird of paradise is Paradisea rubra or Paradisea sanguinea; the Golden bird of paradise is Parotia aurea or Parotia sexsetacea; the King bird of paradise is Cincinnurus regius. The name is also applied to the longer-billed birds of another related group (Epimachinæ) from the same region. The Twelve-wired bird of paradise (Seleucides alba) is one of these. See Paradise bird, and Note under Apod. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) the popular name for a form of the chronic lung disease pneumoconiosis which is observed among coal miners, and is caused by the inhalation of coal dust. It is thus named because of the black appearance of the lungs (pneumomelanosis) of those affected with the disease. See also the related condition anthracosis. [ PJC. ]

v. i. [ Same word as Blandish. ] To blandish any one. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Dr. Bright of London, who first described it. ] (Med.) An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, and in the intensity and course of the morbid process. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Med.) A disease frequently induced by remaining for some time in an atmosphere of high pressure, as in caissons, diving bells, etc. It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms. It is caused by the release of bubbles of gas, usually nitrogen, from bodily fluids into the blood and tissues, when a person, having been in an environment with high air pressure, moves to a lower pressure environment too rapidly for the excess dissolved gases to be released through normal breathing. It may be fatal, but can be reversed or alleviated by returning the affected person to a high air pressure, and then gradually decreasing the pressure to allow the gases to be released from the body fluids. It is a danger well known to divers. It is also called the bends and decompression sickness. It can be prevented in divers by a slow return to normal pressure, or by using a breathing mixture of oxygen combined with a gas having low solubility in water, such as helium. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ Carlos Chagas, a physician in Brazil, 1879-1934 ] a form of trypanosomiasis caused by infection with Trypamosoma cruzi, found principally in South America. It is transmitted by certain species of reduviid bugs, and has natural reservoirs in dogs, armadillos, rodents and other domestic and wild mammals. Stedman's Med. Dict., Dorland's Illustr. Med. Dict.
Syn. -- South Amercian trypanosomiasis, Chagas-Cruz disease. [ PJC ]

. (Med.) A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient. Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases, and their communicability depends on the transmission of the living germs. Many germ diseases are not contagious, some special method of transmission or inoculation of the germs being required. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. disese, OF. desaise; des- (L. dis-) + aise ease. See Ease. ] 1. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So all that night they passed in great disease. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shield thee from diseases of the world. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliances are relieved. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. Madison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disease germ. See under Germ.

Syn. -- Distemper; ailing; ailment; malady; disorder; sickness; illness; complaint; indisposition; affection. -- Disease, Disorder, Distemper, Malady, Affection. Disease is the leading medical term. Disorder mean&unr_; much the same, with perhaps some slight reference to an irregularity of the system. Distemper is now used by physicians only of the diseases of animals. Malady is not a medical term, and is less used than formerly in literature. Affection has special reference to the part, organ, or function disturbed; as, his disease is an affection of the lungs. A disease is usually deep-seated and permanent, or at least prolonged; a disorder is often slight, partial, and temporary; malady has less of a technical sense than the other terms, and refers more especially to the suffering endured. In a figurative sense we speak of a disease mind, of disordered faculties, and of mental maladies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Diseased p. pr. & vb. n. Diseasing. ] 1. To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His double burden did him sore disease. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was diseased in body and mind. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Afflicted with disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is my own diseased imagination that torments me. W. Irving.

Syn. -- See Morbid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. [ R. ] T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Causing uneasiness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. [ R. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Uneasiness; inconvenience. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull. [ 1913 Webster ]

Served a little to disedge
The sharpness of that pain about her heart. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fail of edifying; to injure. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. di- + selenide. ] (Chem.) A selenide containing two atoms of selenium in each molecule. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disembarked p. pr. & vb. n. Disembarking. ] [ Pref. dis- + embark: cf. F. désembarquer. ] To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark. [ 1913 Webster ]

And, making fast their moorings, disembarked. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disembarking. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disembarkation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disembarrassed p. pr. & vb. n. Disembarrassing. ] [ Pref. dis- + embarrass: cf. F. désembarasser. ] To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate. [ 1913 Webster ]

To disembarrass himself of his companion. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disembayed p. pr. & vb. n. Disembaying. ] [ Pref. dis- + embay. ] To clear from a bay. Sherburne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + embellish: cf. F. désembellir. ] To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

The disembodied spirits of the dead. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disembodied p. pr. & vb. n. Disembodying. ] 1. To divest of the body or corporeal existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disembogued p. pr. & vb. n. Disemboguing. ] [ Sp. desembocar; pref. des- (L. dis-) + embocar to put into the mouth, fr. en (L. in) + boca mouth, fr. L. bucca cheek. Cf. Debouch, Embogue. ] 1. To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves,
And through nine channels disembogues his waves. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To eject; to cast forth. [ R. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become discharged; to flow out; to find vent; to pour out contents. [ 1913 Webster ]

Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disemboguing; discharge. Mease. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To separate from the bosom. [ R. ] Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Embowel. ] 1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. [ 1913 Webster ]

Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep
From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [ R. ] “Her disemboweled web.” J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [ Poetic ] Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + em = en (L. in) + brangle. ] To free from wrangling or litigation. [ Obs. ] Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disembroiled p. pr. & vb. n. Disembroiling. ] [ Pref. dis- + embroil. ] To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To throw out of employment. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. [ 1913 Webster ]

This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + enable. ] To disable; to disqualify. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak. State Trials (1640). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from the captivity of love. Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Freed from restraint; unrestrained. [ Archaic ] E. A. Poe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disenchanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disenchanting. ] [ Pref. dis- + enchant: cf. F. désenchanter. ] 1. To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells. [ 1913 Webster ]

Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two
Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to free (a person) from fascination or delusion; to destroy the false hopes or overoptimistic expectations of (a person); to disillusion; -- used with people or events as the agent (subject); as, the candidate was disenchanted by the low turnout at the rally. [ PJC ]