(p. a. & vb. n.) from Dance.

(v. t.) To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dandle

(n.) A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.

(n.) The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin.

(n.) The burbot of Lake Erie.

(n.) The skin of a dog, or leather made of the skin. Also used adjectively.

(n.) A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind.

(n.) An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.

(n.) A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.

(n.) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.

(n.) A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet.

(n.) Same as Cyma/recta, under Cyma.

(v. t.) A grebe or diver; -- applied also to the golden-eye, pochard, scoter, and other ducks.

(a.) Alt. of Dimmy

(n.) The state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.

(n.) Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception.

(n.) Either one of the two forms of a dimorphous substance; as, calcite and aragonite are dimorphs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dimple

(a. & n.) Same as Dimyarian.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Din

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Douse

(n.) Alt. of Dovecote

(n.) A guillemot (Uria grylle), of the arctic regions. Also applied to the little auk or sea dove. See under Dove.

(n.) A young or small dove.

(v. t.) Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower.

(n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ding

(adv.) In a dingy manner.

(n.) A wether sheep between one and two years old.

(n.) A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank.

(pl. ) of Dowdy

(imp. & p. p.) of Dowel

(p. a.) Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion.

(a.) Full of din.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dint

(n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.

(a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Diodon.

(n.) A fish of the genus Diodon, or an allied genus.

(n.) Alt. of Dioptra

(n.) An optical instrument, invented by Hipparchus, for taking altitudes, leveling, etc.

(n.) A woman entitled to dower.

(pl. ) of Dowry

(n.) A unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.

(n.) A dioptre.

(n.) A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced.

(n.) A building used for such an exhibition.

(n.) Definition; logical direction.

(n.) An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.

(n.) An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide.

(n.) An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dip

(a.) Twelfth.

(a.) Stupid; heavy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drab

(n.) One who associates with drabs; a wencher.

(n.) A coarse linen fabric, or duck.

(v. t.) To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak.

(v. i.) To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.

(n.) A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents.

(n.) A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents.

(n.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram.

(imp. & p. p.) of Draft

(imp. & p. p.) of Drag

(n.) Same as Drawbar (b). Called also draglink, and drawlink.

(n. pl.) Sugar-coated medicines.

(v. t.) To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail.

(v. i.) To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass.

(n.) A fisherman who uses a dragnet.

(n.) A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drain

(n.) One who, or that which, drains.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drape

(n.) The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.

(n.) Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general.

(n.) A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed.

(a.) Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.

(n.) A violent purgative. See Cathartic.

(n.) The act of drawing or pulling

(n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.

(n.) The drawing of a bowstring.

(n.) Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.

(n.) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.

(n.) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.

(n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)

(n.) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.

(n.) That which is drawn

(n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net.

(n.) The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft.

(n.) The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.

(n.) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.

(n.) An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.

(n.) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.

(n.) That which draws

(n.) A team of oxen or horses.

(n.) A sink or drain; a privy.

(n.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.

(n.) Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.

(n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.

(n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.

(n.) A move, as at chess or checkers.

(n.) The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.

(n.) See Draft, n., 7.

(a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.

(a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.

(a.) Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.

(a.) Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.

(v. t.) To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.

(v. t.) To diminish or exhaust by drawing.

(v. t.) To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Draw

(a.) Of or pertaining to the diploe.

(n.) A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.

(n.) A letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution.

(n.) The act or state of seeing double.

(a.) Having two poles, as a magnetic bar.

(n.) The act of pulling, or attracting.

(n.) The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.

(n.) The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.

(n.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

(n.) The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drawl

(n.) A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.

(n.) Use of a dray.

(n.) The charge, or sum paid, for the use of a dray.

(pl. ) of Drayman

(n.) A man who attends a dray.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dread

(n.) The act or process of immersing.

(n.) The act of inclining downward.

(n.) The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.

(n.) The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.

(n.) The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.

(n.) A noun which has only two cases.

(n.) Anything consisting of two leaves.

(n.) A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.

(n.) A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.

(n.) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.

(n.) One who fears, or lives in fear.

(a.) Dreadful.

(adv.) With dread.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dream

(n.) One who dreams.

(n.) A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dredge

(n.) One who fishes with a dredge.

(n.) A dredging machine.

(n.) A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dress

(a.) Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.

(a.) Divided; separated.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drib

(v. t.) To separate by force; to tear apart.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dirk

(adv.) In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dirty

(n.) One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly.

(v. i.) To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

(v. i.) To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.

(v. i.) To fall weakly and slowly.

(v. t.) To let fall in drops.

(n.) A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops.

(n.) A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.

(a.) Lacking ability; unable.

(v. t.) To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair.

(v. t.) To deprive of legal right or qualification; to render legally incapable.

(v. t.) To deprive of that which gives value or estimation; to declare lacking in competency; to disparage; to undervalue.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drift

(imp. & p. p.) of Drill

(v. t.) To part, as an alliance; to sunder.

(n.) One who, or that which, drills.

() of Drink

(n.) One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drip

(a.) Weak or rare.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drive

(a.) Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.

(a.) Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.

(v. t.) To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.

(v. t.) To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.

(v. t.) To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army.

(v. t.) To divorce.

(v. i.) To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.

(v. t.) To disembark.

(v. t.) To strip of bark; to bark.

(v. t.) To debase or degrade.

(v. t.) To unbend.

(v. t.) To unbind; to loosen.

(v. t.) To uncage.

(n.) The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.

(n.) Tendency; drift.

(v. i.) To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.

(v. t.) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.

(n.) Fine rain or mist.

(a.) Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable.

(n.) A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher.

(imp. & p. p.) of Droll

(n.) A jester; a droll.

() Alt. of Dromon

(v. t.) To drive from a camp.

(n.) See Descant, n.

(v. t.) To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).

(v. t.) To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away.

(v. t.) To put or thrust away; to reject.

(v. i.) To make a discard.

(n.) The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.

(v. t.) To strip; to undress.

(v. i.) To yield or give up; to depart.

(v. i.) To debate; to discuss.

(v. t.) To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.

(v. t.) To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference.

(v. i.) To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.

(v. i.) To make cognizance.

(v. t.) To tear in pieces; to rend.

(v. t.) To separate; to disunite.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drone

(pl. ) of Drongo

(a.) Like a drone; indolent; slow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drool

(imp. & p. p.) of Droop

(n.) One who, or that which, droops.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drop

(v. t.) To divide; to cleave in two.

(v. t.) To part; to divide.

(a.) Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus.

(n.) Anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell.

(v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.

(v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.

(n.) To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.

(v. i.) Same as Discoast.

(a.) Disklike; discoid.

(v. t.) To discover; to reveal; to discoure.

(v. t.) To break to pieces; to shatter.

(v. t.) To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors.

(v. t.) To shake; to put away; to finish.

(v. t.) To examine in detail or by disputation; to reason upon by presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate.

(v. t.) To deal with, in eating or drinking.

(v. t.) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.

(v. t.) A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

(v. t.) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.

(v. t.) The state of being despised; shame.

(v. t.) To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat.

(v. t.) To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.

(v. t.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.

(v. t.) To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest.

(v. t.) To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade.

(v. t.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.

(v. t.) To discover; to descry.

(v. i.) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.

(n.) An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation.

(n.) Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade.

(n.) See Despond.

(v. t.) To dispose.

(v. t.) To dispose of.

(v. t.) To make over, or convey, legally.

(v. t.) To refuse to consider as pope; to depose from the popedom.

(v. i.) Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness.

(v. i.) To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self.

(v. i.) To divert or amuse; to make merry.

(v. i.) To remove from a port; to carry away.

(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.

(v. t.) To discharge.

(v. t.) To eject from a post; to displace.

(v. i.) To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle.

(v. t.) To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.

(v. t.) To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute assertions or arguments.

(v. t.) To strive or contend about; to contest.

(v. t.) To struggle against; to resist.

(v. t.) To take up (plants); to transplant.

(a.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

(a.) To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.

(v. i.) Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.

(v. i.) Contest; struggle; quarrel.

(v. t.) To degrade from rank.

(v. t.) To throw out of rank or into confusion.

(v. t.) To reduce to a lower rating or rank; to degrade.

(v. t.) To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.

(v. t.) To complain of.

(v. t.) To regard as hopeless; to give up.

(v. i.) To lament.

(v. t.) To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.

(v. t.) To lay bare; to expose.

(imp. & p. p.) of Depone

(v. t. & i.) To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure.

(v. t.) To unroof.

(v. t.) To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot.

(v. i.) To put to rout.

(a.) Unruly; disorderly.

(a.) Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

(v. t.) To break asunder; to rend.

(v. t.) To unseat.

(v. t.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.

(v. t.) To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.

(v. i.) To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.

(v. i.) To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.

(v. i.) To differ; to be of a contrary nature.

(n.) The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement.

(n.) Separation from an established church, especially that of England; nonconformity.

(n.) Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality.

(v. i.) To discourse or dispute; to discuss.

(v. t.) To dismiss from service on board ship.

(n.) The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne.

(imp. & p. p.) of Depose

(n.) One who deposes or degrades from office.

(n.) One who testifies or deposes; a deponent.

(n.) To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium.

(n.) To lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse.

(n.) To lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order.

(n.) To lay aside; to rid one's self of.

(v. t.) That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river).

(v. t.) A natural occurrence of a useful mineral under the conditions to invite exploitation.

(v. t.) That which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security.

(v. t.) A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor.

(v. t.) Money lodged with a party as earnest or security for the performance of a duty assumed by the person depositing.

(a.) Lying apart.

(v. t.) A place of deposit; a depository.

(n. t.) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.

(n. t.) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.

(v. t.) To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.

(v. t.) To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.

(v. t.) To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.

(v. t.) To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.

(v. t.) To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.

(v. t.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

(a.) Having the middle lower than the border; concave.

(v. t.) To take away; to put an end; to destroy.

(v. t.) To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.

(v. t.) To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.

(n.) The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.

(n.) Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively.

(v. t.) To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry.

(v. t.) To deepen.

(v. t.) To drive away.

(imp. & p. p.) of Depute

(a.) Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.

(a.) Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.

(a.) Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.

(a.) Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.

(a.) Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.

(v. t.) Alt. of Derain

(v. t.) To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.

(v. t.) To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism.

(v. t.) To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deride

(n.) One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.

(v. t.) To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.

(v. t.) To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc.

(v. i.) To become expanded or inflated; to swell.

(a.) Distended.

(n.) Breadth.

(n.) A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.

(n.) Alt. of Distichous

(n. & v) To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.

(n. & v) To flow gently, or in a small stream.

(n. & v) To practice the art of distillation.

(v. t.) To let fall or send down in drops.

(v. t.) To obtain by distillation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; to distill alcoholic spirits from grain; to distill essential oils from flowers, etc.; to distill fresh water from sea water.

(v. t.) To subject to distillation; as, to distill molasses in making rum; to distill barley, rye, corn, etc.

(v. t.) To dissolve or melt.

(n.) Derivation.

(imp. & p. p.) of Derive

(a.) Distorted; misshapen.

(v. t.) To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.

(v. t.) To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.

(v. t.) To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.

(n.) One who derives.

(a.) Same as Dermatoid.

(a.) Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful.

(a.) Last; final.

(n.) Alt. of Dervis

(v. i.) Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.

(v. i.) The upper voice in part music.

(v. i.) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble.

(v. i.) A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments.

(v. i.) To sing a variation or accomplishment.

(v. i.) To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.

(v. i.) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend.

(v. i.) To enter mentally; to retire.

(v. i.) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.

(v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.

(v. i.) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.

(v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.

(v. i.) To move toward the south, or to the southward.

(v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

(v. t.) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.

(n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

(n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.

(n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.

(n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.

(n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.

(n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.

(n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue.

(n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

(n.) Lowest place; extreme downward place.

(n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.

(v. t.) To put out of tune.

(v. t.) To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.

(v. t.) To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy.

(v. t.) To turn from a regular or designed course.

(n.) Disturbance.

(v. t.) To turn aside.

(a.) Having two columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or the like.

(imp. & p. p.) of Disuse

(v. t.) To dissuade from by previous warning.

(v. t.) To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom.

(v. t.) To unyoke; to free from a yoke; to disjoin.

(pl. ) of Ditch

(imp. & p. p.) of Ditch

(n.) One who digs ditches.

(v. t.) To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.

(v. t.) To serve; to treat; to benefit.

(v. i.) To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.

(n.) An unsightly object.

(imp. & p. p.) of Desire

(n.) One who desires, asks, or wishes.

(n.) Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.

(a.) Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.

(v. i.) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.

(v. t.) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.

(n.) A white, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C14H14, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene.

(n.) A plant of the Mint family (Origanum Dictamnus), a native of Crete.

(n.) The Dictamnus Fraxinella. See Dictamnus.

(n.) In America, the Cunila Mariana, a fragrant herb of the Mint family.

(a.) Set, sung, or composed as a ditty; -- usually in composition.

(pl. ) of Ditty

(a.) Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.

(a.) Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.

(a.) Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.

(a.) Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects.

(v. t.) To cause to despair.

(n.) Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.

(n.) That which is despaired of.

(n.) Contempt.

(v. t.) To send hastily.

(v. t.) To spend; to squander. See Dispend.

(v. t.) To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.

(n.) Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.

(n.) An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt.

(n.) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.

(prep.) In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices.

(v. t.) To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.

(v. t.) To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of.

(n.) Spoil.

(v. i.) To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.

(n.) Despondency.

(v. t.) To free from spume or scum.

(n.) A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.

(v. t.) To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for.

(n.) Alt. of Dextrer

(n.) A war horse.

(v. t.) To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

(v. t.) To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume.

(v. t.) To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill.

(a.) Disused; out of use.

(v. t.) To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer.

(n.) A person or thing detained

(n.) A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.

(v. t.) To take away; to withdraw.

(v. t.) To take credit or reputation from; to defame.

(v. i.) To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from.

(v. t.) To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as, to disdain to do a mean act.

(v. t.) To reject as unworthy of one's self, or as not deserving one's notice; to look with scorn upon; to scorn, as base acts, character, etc.

(v. i.) To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.

(n.) Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

(n.) An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc.

(v. t.) To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.

(v. t.) To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.

(n.) A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.

(n.) The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.

(n.) A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.

(n.) In any animal, esp. of the Herbivora, a rudimentary claw or small hoof not reaching the ground.

(n.) The falling of dew; the time when dew begins to fall.

(n.) A volatile, pungent, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H10, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series.

(n.) A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.

(pl. ) of Dictum

(n.) A little drop; a tear.

(n.) One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.

(n.) A dropping tube.

(n.) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.

(n.) A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.

(n.) A slut; a hussy; a drazel.

(n.) Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.

(n.) Thirst; want of drink.

(n.) Scarcity; lack.

(a.) Droughty.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drown

(n.) One who, or that which, drowns.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drowse

(imp. & p. p.) of Drub

(n.) One who drubs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drudge

(n.) One who drudges; a drudge.

(n.) A dredging box.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drug

(n.) A druggist.

(n.) A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.

(n.) By extension, any material used for the same purpose.

(a.) Alt. of Druidical

(imp. & p. p.) of Drum

(v. i.) To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.

(v. i.) To mumble in speaking.

(n.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.

(n.) One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.

(n.) One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler.

(n.) A fish that makes a sound when caught

(n.) The squeteague.

(n.) A California sculpin.

(n.) A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.

(v. i.) Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.

(v. i.) Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.

(v. i.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.

(pl. ) of Dryas

(n.) The state of being dry. See Dry.

(v. t.) To rub and cleanse without wetting.

(n.) State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction

(n.) A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit.

(n.) A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil.

(n.) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.

(n.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.

(n.) One who believes in dualism; a ditheist.

(n.) One who administers two offices.

(n.) The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.

(n.) Government by two persons.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dub

(n.) The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.

(n.) The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.

(n.) A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.

(n.) The body substance of an angler's fly.

(n.) Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.

(a.) Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.

(a.) Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.

(a.) Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.

(adv.) In the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke.

(pl. ) of Duchy

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Duck

() n. & a., from Duck, v. t. & i.

(a.) Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.

(a.) Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.

(n.) Guidance.

(n.) Guidance.

(n.) A place where rags are bought and kept for sale.

(n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.

(n.) The haft of a dagger.

(n.) A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.

(n.) Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.

(a.) Homely; rude; coarse.

(n.) The act or practice of fighting in single combat. Also adj.

(n.) One who fights in single combat.

(n.) Quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming.

(pl. ) of Duenna

(n.) The territory of a duke.

(n.) The title or dignity of a duke.

(v. t.) To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.

(v. t.) Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please.

(n.) A white, sugarlike substance, C6H8.(OH)2, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.

(n.) One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dull

(n.) A stupid person; a dunce.

(a.) Stupid.

(a.) Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome.

(pl. ) of Dummy

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dump

(n.) The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.

(n.) A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads.

(a.) Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy.

(n.) The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre.

(n.) An American duck; the ruddy duck.

(n.) Dullness; stupidity.

(v. t.) To make stupid in intellect.

(a.) Somewhat like a dunce.

(n.) Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dung

(n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.

(v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon.

(n.) Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.

(a.) Inclined to a dun color.

(a.) The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor.

(a.) Capable of being duped.

(n.) One who dandles or fondles.

(pl. ) of Dandy

(imp. & p. p.) of Dangle

(n.) One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler.

(a.) Somewhat dank.

(n.) A Dane.

(n.) A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant.

(n.) A white, crystalline, bitter substance, regarded as a glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and D. alpina.

(n.) One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.

(a.) Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dapple

(n. pl.) Manacles; handcuffs.

(a.) Full of daring or of defiance; adventurous.

(a.) Full of darkness.

(a.) Somewhat dark; dusky.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Darn

(a.) Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dart

(n.) A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the dartos.

(a.) Like the dartos; dartoic; as, dartoid tissue.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dash

(a.) Bold; spirited; showy.

(n.) A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.

(n.) One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.

(a.) Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.

(v. t.) To dastardize.

(n.) A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species.

(a.) That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date.

(n.) Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor).

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daub

(n.) Alt. of Daubry

(n.) The act of one who daubs; that which is daubed.

(n.) A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast.

(n.) In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing.

(imp. & p. p.) of Daunt

(n.) One who daunts.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dawdle

(n.) One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dawn

(n.) A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.

(n.) A net for catching small birds.

(n.) An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dazzle

(a.) Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deal

(n.) The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person.

(n.) The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.

(n.) The residence of a dean.

(n.) The territorial jurisdiction of a dean.

(a.) Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.

(adv.) Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.

(n.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris.

(imp. & p. p.) of Debase

(a.) Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.

(n.) One who, or that which, debases.

(imp. & p. p.) of Debate

(n.) One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.

(n.) To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army.

(n.) Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.

(n.) An act or occasion of debauchery.

(n.) A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods.

(imp. & p. p.) of Debit

(n.) A debtor.

(v. i.) To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.

(v. t. & i.) To disburse.

(a.) Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.

(n.) A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.

(n.) Decalogue.

(a.) Pertaining to a dean or deanery.

(n.) A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.

(imp. & p. p.) of Decay

(a.) Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman.

(n.) A causer of decay.

(n.) Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

(v. i.) To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.

(v. t.) To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare.

(v. t.) To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception.

(v. t.) To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud.

(n.) Decency.

(n.) The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.

(n.) That which is proper or becoming.

(v. t.) To free from a charm; to disenchant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Decide

(a.) Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided advantage.

(a.) Free from doubt or wavering; determined; of fixed purpose; fully settled; positive; resolute; as, a decided opinion or purpose.

(n.) One who decides.

(n.) The inner layer of the wall of the uterus, which envelops the embryo, forms a part of the placenta, and is discharged with it.

(a.) Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.

(n.) A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deck

(v. i.) To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week.

(v. i.) To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.

(v. t.) To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.

(v. t.) To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.

(v. t.) To make clear; to free from obscurity.

(v. t.) To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce.

(v. t.) To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false.

(v. t.) To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc.

(v. i.) To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; -- often with for or against; as, victory declares against the allies.

(v. i.) To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.

(v. i.) To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

(v. i.) To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.

(v. i.) To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.

(v. i.) To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.

(v. t.) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

(v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish.

(v. t.) To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.

(v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.

(v. t.) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.

(v. i.) A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.

(v. i.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.

(v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.

(v. t.) To deprive of color; to bleach.

(n.) Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.

(imp. & p. p.) of Decoy

(n.) One who decoys another.

(imp. & p. p.) of Decree

(n.) One who decrees.

(n.) The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.

(n.) A decree.

(n.) A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.

(n.) One who decries.

(v. t.) To deprive of a crown; to discrown.

(imp. & p. p.) of Decry

(a.) Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively.

(a.) Tenfold.

(n.) A number ten times repeated.

(v. t.) To make tenfold; to multiply by ten.

(a.) Allied to, or containing, the radical decyl.

(n.) A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deduce

(a.) Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deem

(a.) Able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness.

(adv.) In a lasting manner; with long continuance.

(n.) The heartwood of an exogenous tree.

(a.) Lasting.

(adv.) In a dusky manner.

(a.) Somewhat dusky.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dust

(pl. ) of Dustman

(n.) A shovel-like utensil for conveying away dust brushed from the floor.

(a.) Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a duteous son or daughter.

(a.) Subservient; obsequious.

(a.) Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.

(a.) Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection.

(n.) One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dwarf

(imp. & p. p.) of Dwell

(n.) An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller.

(v. i.) To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.

(v. t.) To make less; to bring low.

(v. t.) To break; to disperse.

(n.) The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy.

(n.) Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.

(adv.) In a dying manner; as if at the point of death.

(a.) Alt. of Dynamical

(n.) Sovereignty; lordship; dominion.

(n.) A race or succession of kings, of the same line or family; the continued lordship of a race of rulers.

(n.) Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.

(a.) Cleaving with difficulty.

(n.) Alt. of Dysury

(a.) Pertaining to, or afflicted with, dysury.

(v. i. & t.) To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.

(v. t.) To refuse; to decline.

(v. t.) To thrust down or out; to push down with force.

(n.) The European swift.

(v. t.) To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.

(v. t.) To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.

(v. t.) To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.

(v. t.) To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

(v. t.) To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.

(v. i.) To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year.

(v. i.) To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.

(a.) Deviating.

(v. i.) To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.

(v. t.) To cause to deviate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Devil

(n.) A little devil.

(n.) Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry.

(n.) The whole body of evil spirits.

(a.) Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.

(a.) Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step.

(n.) A devising.

(imp. & p. p.) of Devise

(n.) One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.

(n.) One who devises.

(n.) One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee.

(v. t.) To roll onward or downward; to pass on.

(v. t.) To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.

(v. i.) To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank.

(imp. & p. p.) of Devote

(a.) Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout; as, a devoted admirer.

(n.) One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.

(n.) One who devotes; a worshiper.

(n.) A drop of dew.

(a.) Having no dew.

(n.) See Earthworm.

(n.) A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.

(adv.) Toward the right side; dextrally.

(a.) Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left.

(n.) A war horse; a destrer.

(n.) A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained from starch by the action of heat, acids, or diastase. It is of somewhat variable composition, containing several carbohydrates which change easily to their respective varieties of sugar. It is so named from its rotating the plane of polarization to the right; -- called also British gum, Alsace gum, gommelin, leiocome, etc. See Achroodextrin, and Erythrodextrin.

() A prefix, from L. dexter, meaning, pertaining to, or toward, the right

() having the property of turning the plane of polarized light to the right; as, dextrotartaric acid.

(n.) Alt. of Dhurra

(n.) A light one-horse carriage, commonly two-wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box at the back for carrying dogs.

(a.) A daybook; a journal.

(a.) A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.

(a.) A diurnal bird or insect.

(n.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.

(n.) Tmesis.

(v. i.) To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.

(v. i.) To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.

(a.) Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.

(a.) Capable of various forms; multiform.

(adv.) In different directions; diversely.

(v. i.) To turn aside.

(n.) A complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of a pendulum.

(n.) A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.

(n.) Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one.

(v. t.) To put into the form of a diagram.

() of Dial

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dial

(n.) Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.

(n.) The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.

(n.) The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials.

(n.) A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Divide

(a.) Parted; disunited; distributed.

(a.) Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; -- said of a leaf.

(n.) One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.

(n.) A maker of dials; one skilled in dialing.

(a.) Meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel; -- opposed to parallel.

(v. t.) To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis.

(n.) One who deals out to each his share.

(n.) One who, or that which, causes division.

(n.) An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses.

(imp. & p. p.) of Divine

(n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.

(n.) A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things.

(n.) Any compound containing two amido groups united with one or more acid or negative radicals, -- as distinguished from a diamine. Cf. Amido acid, under Amido, and Acid amide, under Amide.

(n.) A compound containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals, -- as contrasted with a diamide.

(n.) The number by which the dividend is divided.

(n.) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.

(n.) Same as Diapason.

(n.) Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together.

(n.) The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board."

(n.) The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.

(n.) Separation; disunion of things closely united.

(n.) That which separates.

(n.) To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.

(n.) To separate or disunite; to sunder.

(n.) To make away; to put away.

(v. t.) To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret.

(v. t.) To indicate publicly; to proclaim.

(v. t.) To impart; to communicate.

(v. i.) To become publicly known.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dizen

(n.) A blockhead. [Obs.] [Written also dizard, and disard.]

(adv.) In a dizzy manner or state.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dizzy

(n.) A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons.

(a.) Alt. of Diarian

(a.) Pertaining to a diary; daily.

(n.) One who keeps a diary.

(pl. ) of Diary

(n.) Intervening space; interval.

(n.) An interval.

(n.) A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis.

(a.) Easily taught or managed; teachable.

(a.) Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dock

(n.) A charge for the use of a dock.

(n. & v.) See Docket.

(n.) A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dodge

(n.) trickery; artifice.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the doegling; as, doeglic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid.

(n.) The skin of the doe.

(n.) A firm woolen cloth with a smooth, soft surface like a doe's skin; -- made for men's wear.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doff

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dog

(n.) A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

(n.) The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon.

(n.) A male fox. See the Note under Dog, n., 6.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dibble

(n.) One who, or that which, dibbles, or makes holes in the ground for seed.

(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the marsh-gas series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane.

(n.) The Arctic or blue fox; -- a name also applied to species of the genus Cynalopex.

(a.) Like a dog; having the bad qualities of a dog; churlish; growling; brutal.

(a. & n.) Same as Doggerel.

(n.) A place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation or apartment.

(pl. ) of Dogma

(n.) The character, or individuality, of a dog.

(n.) The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes.

(n.) A very small coin; a doit.

(n.) A rude ancient ax or hatchet, seen in museums.

(n.) Alt. of Dulcino

(a.) Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.

(a. & adv.) Plaintively. See Doloroso.

(v. t.) To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis.

(v. t.) To say; to utter; to communicate authoritatively; to deliver (a command) to a subordinate; to declare with authority; to impose; as, to dictate the terms of a treaty; a general dictates orders to his troops.

(v. i.) To speak as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on).

(v. i.) To compose literary works; to tell what shall be written or said by another.

(v. t.) A statement delivered with authority; an order; a command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription; as, listen to the dictates of your conscience; the dictates of the gospel.

(n.) Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems.

(n.) A cheat.

(n.) The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area.

(a.) The same as Dihedral.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diet

(a.) Pertaining to diet, or to the rules of diet.

(n.) A rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc.

(n.) A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.

(n.) Alt. of Dietitian

(n.) Evil name; bad reputation; defamation.

(pl. ) of Dolly

(a.) Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown.

(a.) Capable of being tamed; tamable.

(v. i.) To be distrustful.

(a.) Irregular in form; -- opposed to uniform; anomalous; hence, unlike; dissimilar; as, to difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; difform leaves.

(a.) Relating to, or shaped like, a dome.

(v. t.) To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.

(v. i.) To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.

(a.) Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dig

(n.) A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse.

(n.) A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

(n.) A clergyman. See Domine, 1.

(pl. ) of Domino

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Don

(a.) Capable of being donated or given.

(imp. & p. p.) of Donate

(n.) One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.

(pl. ) of Donkey

(n) Self-importance; loftiness of carriage.

(n.) The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight.

(pl. ) of Dooly

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doom

(n.) A penalty or fine for neglect.

(a.) Full of condemnation or destructive power.

(n.) The frame of a door.

(n.) The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

(n.) The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.

(a.) Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.

(a.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.

(n.) The act or the place of excavating.

(n.) Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.

(n.) Region; locality.

() of Dight

(n.) One who dights.

(a.) Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.

(n.) A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.

(v. t.) To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.

(n.) The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.

(n.) Elevation; grandeur.

(n.) Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.

(n.) Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of //en, manner, style, etc.

(n.) One holding high rank; a dignitary.

(n.) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.

(n.) Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.

(v. i.) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.

(v. i.) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.

(n.) Digression.

(a.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep."

(pl. ) of Dormouse

(n.) Alt. of Dornock

(n.) A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland.

(n.) Same as Dorsal, n.

(n.) Alt. of Dorture

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dot

(n.) An old, decayed tree.

(n.) See Dotterel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Double

(imp. & p. p.) of Dilate

(a.) Expanded; enlarged.

(a.) Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.

(a.) Having the margin wide and spreading.

(n.) One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.

(n.) One who, or that which, widens or expands.

(n.) A muscle that dilates any part.

(n.) An instrument for expanding a part; as, a urethral dilator.

(n.) An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses.

(n.) A state of things in which evils or obstacles present themselves on every side, and it is difficult to determine what course to pursue; a vexatious alternative or predicament; a difficult choice or position.

(n.) A darling; a favorite.

(a.) Clear; lucid.

(a.) Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, esp. of water.

(n.) That which dilutes.

(n.) An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dilute

(a.) Reduced in strength; thin; weak.

(n.) One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.

(pl. ) of Diluvium

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dim

(a.) Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.

(a.) A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.

(a.) A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.

(a.) A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.

(a.) An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.

(a.) Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.

(a.) A game somewhat like backgammon.

(a.) One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.

(n.) One of the Dimera.

(a.) Having two poetical measures or meters.

(n.) A verse of two meters.

(n.) One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.

(n.) Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness.

(n.) A gift for service done or to be done; an honorarium; a present; sometimes, a bribe.

(v. t.) To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull.

(n.) Disrepute.

(v. t.) To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage.

(v. t.) To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.

(v. t.) Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dish

(v. t.) To disinherit.

(v. t.) To deprive of the helmet.

(n.) As much as a dish holds when full.

(a.) Dish-shaped; concave.

(v. t.) To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle.

(v. t.) To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.

(v. i.) To become separated; to part.

(n.) A chevrotain. See Kanchil, and Napu.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deface

(n.) One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures.

(imp. & p. p.) of Defame

(n.) One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.

(n.) A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default.

(n.) Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom.

(n.) A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc.

(v. i.) To fail in duty; to offend.

(v. i.) To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty.

(v. i.) To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.

(v. t.) To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend.

(v. t.) To call a defendant or other party whose duty it is to be present in court, and make entry of his default, if he fails to appear; to enter a default against.

(v. t.) To leave out of account; to omit.

(n. & v. t.) See Defense.

(n.) Alt. of Defence

(n.) The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger.

(n.) That which defends or protects; anything employed to oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection.

(n.) Protecting plea; vindication; justification.

(n.) The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.

(n.) Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc.

(n.) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.

(v. t.) To furnish with defenses; to fortify.

(a.) Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.

(n.) Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Defile

(n.) One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Define

(n.) One who defines or explains.

(v. t.) To reduce from an inflated condition.

(v. t.) To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.

(v. i.) To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.

(v.) To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.

(v.) To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty.

(v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.

(a.) Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.

(n.) A dead person; one deceased.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defy

(v. i.) To degenerate.

(v. t.) To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.

(v. t.) To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man.

(v. t.) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

(v. i.) To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.

(v. i.) To gape; to open by dehiscence.

(n.) The act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ.

(n.) One concerned in putting Christ to death.

(a.) Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.

(a.) Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.

(n.) One who deifies.

(a.) Godlike, or of a godlike form.

(a.) Conformable to the will of God.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deify

(imp. & p. p.) of Deign

(a.) Alt. of Deistical

(a.) Deified.

(pl. ) of Deity

(n. pl.) Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.

(n.) A dejeuner.

(v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Delate

(n.) An accuser; an informer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Delay

(n.) One who delays; one who lingers.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dele

(a.) Capable of being blotted out or erased.

(n. pl.) Things to be erased or blotted out.

(imp. & p. p.) of Delete

(v. t. & i.) To deliberate.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dab

(imp. & p. p.) of Dabble

(n.) One who dabbles.

(n.) One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler.

(n.) One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept.

(n.) The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dadle

(n.) The rotten body of a tree.

(imp. & p. p.) of Daggle

(v. t.) To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.

(pl. ) of Dahlia

(pl. ) of Daily

(pl. ) of Daimio

(v. t.) To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.

(v. t.) To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into.

(v. t.) To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.

(v. t.) To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.

(v. t.) To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.

(v. t.) To discover; to show.

(v. t.) To deliberate.

(v. t.) To admit; to allow to pass.

(v. t.) Free; nimble; sprightly; active.

(pl. ) of Dairy

(a.) Full of daisies; adorned with daisies.

(pl. ) of Daisy

(n.) See Dacoit, Dacoity.

(n. pl) An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux.

(n.) One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dally

(a.) Relating to, or like, a delta.

(a.) Shaped like the Greek / (delta); delta-shaped; triangular.

(imp. & p. p.) of Delude

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dam

(imp. & p. p.) of Damage

(n.) One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deluge

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delve

(n.) Demagogue.

(n.) March; walk; gait.

(n.) A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece.

(n.) Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.

(v. t.) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.

(n.) That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.

(a.) Woven like damask.

(n.) A damasse fabric, esp. one of linen.

(n.) A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite.

(n.) A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damn

(v. t.) To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair.

(a.) That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.

(n.) Alt. of Damoiselle

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damp

(a.) Moderately damp or moist.

(n.) A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.

(n.) A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dance

(n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.

(n.) The state of one who deserves ill.

(n.) To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame.

(n.) To depreciate or cry down.

(v. i.) To deserve praise or blame.

(v. t.) To immerse.

(n.) A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.

(n.) A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.

(n.) A half man.

(imp. & p. p.) of Demise

(a.) Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac.

(n.) Demoniacal influence or possession.

(v. i.) To dismount.

(v. t.) To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften.

(pl. ) of Denarius

(n.) A dweller; an inhabitant.

(n.) One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.

(n.) One admitted to residence in a foreign country.

(v. t.) To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.

(v. t.) To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

(imp. & p. p.) of Denote

(adv.) In a dense, compact manner.

(n.) The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.

(n.) The ratio of mass, or quantity of matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared with the mass and volume of a portion of some substance used as a standard.

(v. t.) To unlade.

(a.) Disloyal; perfidious.

(v. t.) To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.

(v. t.) To awaken dislike in; to displease.

(n.) A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness.

(n.) Discord; dissension.

(v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dismember.

(v. t.) To efface, as a picture.

(v. t.) To unlink; to disunite; to separate.

(v. t.) To deprive of life.

(n.) Depth of shade.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dent

(a.) Pertaining to, or bearing, teeth.

(n.) The distal bone of the lower jaw in many animals, which may or may not bear teeth.

(a.) Alt. of Dentated

(v. t.) To divest of coat of mail.

(v. t.) To divest of a mask.

(v. t.) To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.

(v. t.) To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

(v. t.) To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

(v. t.) To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.

(n.) A small tooth, like that of a saw.

(n.) The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel.

(n.) One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

(a.) Shaped like a tooth; tooth-shaped.

(n.) An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deny

(n.) Dismission.

(v. t.) Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws.

(v. i.) To refuse or neglect to obey; to violate commands; to be disobedient.

(n.) A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.

(n.) A gift or offering to God.

(p. p.) Painted.

(v. t.) To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict.

(v. t.) To mark with, or as with, color; to color.

(v. i.) To roam.

(v. t.) To separate (a pair).

(v. t.) To spread out; to expand.

(v. t.) To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common.

(v. t.) To set at large; to release from inclosure.

(v. t.) To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers.

(v. i.) To separate, to open; to cleave.

(n.) The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.

(n.) A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight.

(v. t.) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.

(v. t.) To furnish with a dispart sight.

(v. t.) To send off with speed; to dispatch.

(v. t.) To spend; to lay out; to expend.

(n.) The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced.