Word Meanings - DISHABIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To dislodge. Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime Had been dishabited. Shak.

Related words: (words related to DISHABIT)

• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• FIXTURE
  Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
• SLEEP-AT-NOON
  A plant which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior.
• SLEEPLESS
  1. Having no sleep; wakeful. 2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. "Biscay's sleepless bay." Byron. -- Sleep"less*ly, adv. -- Sleep"less*ness, n.
• SLEEPWAKING
  The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
• SLEEPWAKER
  On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
• FIXING
  Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. (more info) 1. The act or process of making fixed. 2. That which is fixed; a fixture. 3. pl.
• DISHABITED
  Rendered uninhabited. "Dishabited towns." R. Carew.
• SLEEPMARKEN
  See 4
• FIXURE
  Fixed position; stable condition; firmness. Shak.
• FIXEDLY
  In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.
• SLEEPFUL
  Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy. -- Sleep"ful*ness, n.
• SLEEPISH
  Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy. Your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security. Ford.
• DISLODGE
  1. To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms. 2. To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or
• DISHABITUATE
  To render unaccustomed.
• SLEEPING
  from Sleep. Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping. -- Sleeping partner , a dormant partner. See under Dormant. -- Sleeping table , a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized
• FIXATION
  1. The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed. An unalterable fixation of resolution. Killingbeck. To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of
• SLEEPILY
  In a sleepy manner; drowsily.
• SLEEPINESS
  The quality or state of being sleepy.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• CONFIXURE
  Act of fastening.
• PREFIX
  prae before + figere to fix: cf. F. préfix fixed beforehand, 1. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement. 2. To set or appoint beforehand; to settle
• OUTSLEEP
  To exceed in sleeping. Shak.
• SUFFIX
  A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a. (more info) 1. A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
• TRANSFIX
  To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.
• FIX
  Fixed; solidified. Chaucer.