Definition of dispose

• v. t. - To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.
• v. t. - To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
• v. t. - To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time.
• v. i. - To bargain; to make terms.
• n. - Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
• n. - Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor.