Word Meanings - DISINTEREST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Disinterested. The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor.

Related words: (words related to DISINTEREST)

• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• DISINTEREST
  Disinterested. The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor.
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• SHALLOT
  A small kind of onion growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.
• SHALL
  sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen, pres. zal, imp. zoude, zou, OHG. solan, scolan, pres. scal, sol. imp. scolta, solta, G. sollen, pres. soll,
• SHALLOW-PATED
  Shallow-brained.
• DISINTERESTED
  Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage; free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested decision or judge. The happiness of disinterested sacrifices. Channing.
• SHALLOWNESS
  Quality or state of being shallow.
• DISINTERESTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality. That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. Macaulay.
• SHALLON
  An evergreen shrub of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry.
• SHALLOW-HEARTED
  Incapable of deep feeling. Tennyson.
• DISINTERESTEDLY
  In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.
• SHALLI
  See CHALLIS
• SHALLOWLY
  In a shallow manner.
• SHALLOW-BODIED
  Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.
• DISHALLOW
  To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams.
• SHILLY-SHALLY
  To hesitate; to act in an irresolute manner; hence, to occupy one's self with trifles.