dissever, desever

t. & i. [O. Fr. dis sevrer, desevrer; Ital. di eperare, from Lat. dis = away, apart, and separo = to separate.] A. Transitive : 1. To part, to separate, to divide into parts, to disunite, to sunder. "Di evering with my knife A waxen cake." Cowper: Homer's Ody ey, bk. xii. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0185.png:[blocks in formation] dis-sěv-ered, pa . par . or a . [DISSEVER.] dis-sěv-er-ing, pr . par . , a. & s. [DISSEVER.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip . adj . (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of severing, separating, dividing, or disuniting. "The di evering of fleets hath been the overthrow of many actions.- Raleigh : Hist. of the World. dis-sěv-er-měnt, s. [Eng. di ever; -ment.] The act of di evering, dividing, or disuniting. "The di everment of bone and vein."-C. Brontè: Jane Eyre, ch. xxvii. *dis-shadow, v . t . [Pref. dis , and Eng. shadow (q. v.).] To free or clear from shadow or shade, or anything which darkens or blinds. "Soon as he again dis shadowed is." G. Fletcher: Christ's Victory and Triumph. *dis-sheath, v.t. & i . [Pref. dis , and Eng. sheath (q. v.).) A. Trans.: To draw out of a sheath; to unsheath. B. In trans.: To fall or drop out of the sheath. "His sword di heathing pierced his own thigh."Raleigh: Hist. of the World , bk. iii., ch. iv., § 3. *dis-ship, v . t . Pref. dis , and Eng. ship (q. v.).] To remove from a ship, to unship. artificer "The captaine shal from time to time di hip any out of the Primrose into any of the other three ships."-Hackluyt: Voyages , i. 297. *dis-shiv-er, v. t . & i . [Pref. dis , and English shiver (q. v.).] A. Trans.: To shiver or break in pieces. B. In trans.: To become shivered or broken in pieces. "And shieldes di hyuering cracke." Webbe: Eng. Poetrie , p. 50. (Davies.) *dis-shiv-ered, a . [Pref. dis , and Eng. shivered (q. v.).] Shivered in pieces. "Di hivered speares, and shields ytorne in twaine." Spenser: F. Q., IV. i. 21. *dis-shroud, dis-shrowd', v. t. [Pref. dis, and Eng. shroud (q. v.).] To make open, plain, or manifest. ( Stan i hurst .)