dismantle

t. [Old Fr. desman teller; Fr. démanteler: O. Fr. des; Fr. de Lat, dis away, apart, and manteler =to cover with a cloak; O. Fr. mantel Fr. manteau =a cloak.] I. Ordinary Language : *1. Lit.: To deprive or strip of a dre or covering "Muffle your face, dismantle you." 2. Figuratively: Shakesp.: Winter's Tale , iv. 4. (1) To strip or deprive of furniture, apparatus, equipments, or outfit. "The playhouses were to be dismantled , the spectators fined, the actors whipped at the cart's tail."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. ii. *(2) To strip or deprive of anything. "Dismantling him of his honor, and seizing his reputation."-South. *(3) To cast off or away, to undo. "Commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle So many folds of favor." Shakesp.: Lear, i. 1. *(4) To tear, break, or pull down, or from its place. "His nose dismantled in his mouth is found; His jaws, cheeks, front, one undistinguished wound." Dryden: Ovid; Metamorphoses xii. II. Technically: 1. Mil .: To deprive or strip a fortre of its equipments; to render usele for purposes of offense or defense; to raze. "Lambert presently took care to dismantle the castle." -Clarendon: Civil War , iii. 192. 2. Ναυ .: Το strip a ve el of its sails, rigging, .; to unrig. "After something approaching to mutiny, the Thames was dismantled ." - Athenœum. For the difference between to dismantle and to demolish , see DEMOLISH. dismay dis-mănt-ling, pr. par., a. & s. [DISMANTLE.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of stripping of furniture, apparatus, equipment, . "It is not sufficient to po e our own fort, without the dismantling and demolishing of our enemy's." - Hake will . *dis-march', v. i. [Pref. dis , and Eng. march (q. v.).] To march away. *dis-măr-rỹ, *dis-măr -ỹ, v . t . [Pref. dis , and Eng. marry (q. v.).] To divorce. dis-mar-shal, v. t. [Pref. dis, and Eng. mar shal (q. v.).] To derange, to put in disorder or confusion. "What was dis marshall'd late In this my noble frame." IMG:content-0122.png:[blocks in formation] C. As subst.: The act of stripping or divesting of a mask; an unmasking. dis-mast', v . t . [Pref. dis , and Eng. mast (q. v.).] To strip or deprive of mast or masts; to carry away the masts of a ship. "At length the Dutch Admiral drew off, leaving one shattered and dismasted hull to the enemy."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xv. dis-mast-ěd, pa. par. or a. [DISMAST.] dis-mast-ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [DISMAST.] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of stripping, depriving, or carrying away the masts of a ve el. †dis-mast-ment, s. [Eng. dismast; -ment.] The act of dismasting a ve el; the state of being dismasted. *dis-match', v . t . [Pref. dis , and English match (q.v.).] To render or be unworthy of comparison with. "Thou happy witne of my happy watches, Blush not (my book) nor think it thee dis matches," Sylvester: Du Bartas . ( Nares .) dis-mâw', v . t . [Pref. dis , and Eng. maw (q. v.).] To eject from the maw, to disgorge, to discharge. "You may unrip yourself, and dismaw all that you have in your troubled heart and grieved entrails."-Shelton: Don Quixote, vol. iv., ch. vii. dis-may, s. [DISMAY, υ.] 1. An utter lo of courage or resolution; a sink ing of the spirits; a state of terror or fright; discouragement. "I, who know that enemy well, cannot think of such a battle without dismay ."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xxiii. *2. Ruin, destruction. "Like as a ship, whom cruell tempest drives Upon a rocke with horrible dismay ." Spenser: F. Q., V. ii. 50. dis-mā y, *de-may-en, *des-maie, *des-maye, *dis-maye, v . t. & i. [Sp. desmayar; Port. desmaiar; O. Fr. esmayer (probably originally des mayer ), from des Lat. dis =away, apart, and O. II. Ger. mag an ; Ger. mögen ; A. S. mag an to be able; Eng. may. Cf. O. Ital. dismagare : Ital. smagare = to lose courage. ( Skeat .)] A. Transitive : 1. To deprive of courage or spirit; utterly to discourage or dishearten; to terrify, to affright, to daunt. "It broke with thunder long and loud, Dismayed the brave, appalled the proud." Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel , vi. 26. *2. To subdue, to vanquish. "When the bold Cent aures made that bloody fray With the fierce Lapithes, which did them dismay . " Spenser . *B. Reflex.: To discourage, to affright, to allow to lose courage. "Desmaye you no longer." William of Palerne , 3,040. *C. In trans.: To be dismayed, discouraged, or dispirited; to be aghast; to lose heart or courage. "He bad hem not desmayghen." Joseph of A rima the a , 31. Crabb thus discriminates between to dismay, to daunt, and to appal : "The effect of fear on the spirit is strongly expre ed by all these terms; but dismayd dismay expre es le than daunt , and this than appal . We are dismayed by alarming circumstances; we are daunted by terrifying, we are appalled by horrid circumstances. A severe defeat will dismay so as to le en the force of resistance; the fiery glare from the eyes of a ferocious beast will daunt him who was venturing to approach; the sight of an apparition will appal the stoutest heart." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) *dis-mā yd (1), a. [Pref. dis , and Mid. Eng. mayd Eng. made.] Ugly, ill-shaped, deformed, hideous. "Whose hideous shapes were like to feendes of hell, Some like to houndes, some like to apes, dismayd , Some like to puttockes, all in plumes arayd, All shap't according their conditions." Spenser: F. Q., II. xi. 11.