dispose

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To place or set in a particular order; arrange.
2. v. To put (business affairs, for example) into correct, definitive, or conclusive form.
3. v. To put into a willing or receptive frame of mind; incline. See Synonyms at incline.
4. v. To settle or decide a matter.
5. n. Obsolete Disposal.
6. n. Obsolete Disposition; demeanor.
7. dispose of To attend to; settle: disposed of the problem quickly.
8. dispose of To transfer or part with, as by giving or selling.
9. dispose of To get rid of; throw out.
10. dispose of To kill or destroy: a despot who disposed of all his enemies, real or imagined.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To set in order; place or distribute in a particular order; put; arrange: as, the ships were disposed in the form of crescent; the trees are disposed in the form of quincunx.
2. Specifically To regulate; adjust; set in right order.
3. To place, locate, or settle suitably: chiefly reflexive.
4. To give direction or tendency to; set, place, or turn (toward a particular end, consequence, or result, or in a particular direction); adapt.
5. To incline the mind or heart of.
6. To make over or part with, as by gift, sale, or other means of alienation; alienate or bestow: as, “he disposed all church preferments to the highest bidder,”
7. Synonyms To range, rank, group.
8. Order, regulate, fit.
9. Lead, induce.
10. To make disposition; determine the arrangement or settlement of something.
11. To bargain; make terms.
12. To exercise control over; direct the disposal or course of: as, they have full power to dispose of their possessions.
13. n. Disposal; power of disposing; management.
14. n. Dispensation; act of government; management.
15. n. Cast of behavior; demeanor.
16. n. Disposition; cast of mind; inclination.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To eliminate or to get rid of something.
2. v. To distribute and put in place.
3. v. To deal out; to assign to a use.
4. v. To incline

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order.
2. v. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
3. v. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.
4. v. To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object.
5. v. obsolete To bargain; to make terms.
6. n. obsolete Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
7. n. obsolete Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. throw or cast away
2. v. give, sell, or transfer to another
3. v. make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief
4. v. place or put in a particular order
5. v. make fit or prepared