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

(n.) One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

(n.) Pretended sleep.

(n.) The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress.

(n.) See Canine tooth, under Canine.

(n.) An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament.

(n.) A gentle trot, like that of a dog.

(n. pl.) See Doublet, 6 and 7.

(n. pl.) A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).

(n. pl.) A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.

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

(n.) A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

(n.) A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.

(a.) Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable.

(n.) A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one.

(v. t.) To cut to a dovetail.

(v. t.) To join by means of dovetails.

(v. t.) To fit in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly.

(n.) See Diarchy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to dinner.

(n.) Alt. of Dinosaurian

(a.) Like a dowdy.

() of Dowel

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.

(n.) A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.

(n.) The clergy or the people of a diocese.

(pl. ) of Diocese

(a.) Alt. of Dioecious

(n.) The condition of being dioecious.

(a.) See Dioecious.

(n.) A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.

(n.) A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.

(v. t.) To bear down; to depress.

(a.) Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.

(n.) Downcast or melancholy look.

(n.) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

(n.) Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow.

(n.) A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.

(n.) A sudden fall; a body of things falling.

(n.) A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.

(n.) A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.

(adv.) Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.

(a.) Declivous; descending; sloping.

(n.) Declivity; descent; slope.

(n.) A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.

(a.) Alt. of Downtrodden

(adv.) Alt. of Downwards

(a.) Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.

(a.) Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.

(a.) Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts.

(n.) Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.

(n.) In Christian worship: A hymn expressing praise and honor to God; a form of praise to God designed to be sung or chanted by the choir or the congregation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the dioptre, or to the metric system of numbering glasses.

(n.) A dioptre. See Dioptre.

(a.) Alt. of Dioptrical

(a.) Pertaining to a diorama.

(a.) Containing diorite.

(n.) The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

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

(a.) Somewhat drab in color.

(a.) Having the character of a drab or low wench.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drabble

(n.) A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

(pl. ) of Drachma

(pl. ) of Drachma

(n.) See Dabchick.

(n.) A white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.

(a.) Of or pertaining to two planes.

(n.) A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin.

(a.) Worthless; draffy.

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

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

(n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.

(imp. & p. p.) of Draggle

(n.) An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.

(n.) A little dragon.

(n.) A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie.

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

(n.) A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.

(n.) The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.

(n.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.

(n.) Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc.

(n.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.

(v. t.) The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land.

(a.) Alt. of Dramatical

(n.) The practice of drinking drams.

(n.) A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram.

(a.) Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.

(a.) Capable of being drawn.

(n.) A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.

(n.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.

(n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.

(n.) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together.

(v. t.) To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon.

(v. t.) To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.

(n.) A single cut with a knife.

(n.) Alt. of Diplomate

(n.) Alt. of Diplopy

(n.) One of the Diplopoda.

(pl. ) of Dipody

(n.) A harness for draught horses.

(n.) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.

(n.) The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.

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

(n.) The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl.

(n.) Same as Drawbar (b).

(n.) A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.

(n.) A species of damask made on the drawloom.

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

(n.) One of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. See Hexane.

(a.) Tending to produce thirst.

(n.) Excessive thirst produced by disease.

(a.) Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.

(a.) Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple.

(n.) An insect of the order Diptera.

(a.) Full of dread or terror; fearful.

(a.) Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm.

(a.) Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.

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

(a.) Full of dreams.

(adv.) As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Direct

(n.) One who directs; a director.

(adv.) Gloomily; dismally.

(n.) Sorrow.

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

(a.) Foul with lees; feculent.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drench

(n.) One who, or that which, west or steeps.

(n.) One who administers a drench.

(n.) The tenure by which a drench held land.

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

(adv.) In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.

(adv.) In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.

(adv.) Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.

(adv.) Exactly; just.

(adv.) Straightforwardly; honestly.

(adv.) Manifestly; openly.

(adv.) Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately.

(adv.) Immediately after; as soon as.

(n.) One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.

(n.) One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company.

(n.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.

(n.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.

(n.) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.

(n.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.

(n.) Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.

(n.) A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.

(n.) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.

(n.) Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.

(n.) An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.

(n.) Castigation; scolding; -- often with down.

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

(n.) Terribleness; horror; woefulness.

(a.) Funereal; moaning.

(a.) Directing.

(n.) The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix.

(a.) Absolute.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Dribble

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

(n.) One who dribbles.

(n.) Alt. of Driblet

(imp. & p. p.) of Disable

(v. t.) To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.

(n.) A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein.

(v. t.) To deprive of ornaments.

(n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.

(n.) Anything that drifts.

(n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.

(n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle.

(n.) Same as Drift, 11.

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

(v. i.) To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.

(v. i.) To differ in opinion; to hold discordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel.

(v. i.) To be unsuited; to have unfitness; as, medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste.

(v. t.) To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

(v. t.) To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of.

(v. t.) To annul completely; to render void or of no effect.

(n.) The act of piercing with a drill.

(n.) A training by repeated exercises.

(n.) The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.

(n.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.

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

(n.) The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.

(n.) The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.

(n.) An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.

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

(n.) A falling in drops, or the sound so made.

(n.) That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drivel

(n.) A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool.

(n.) A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.

(a.) Deprived of arms.

(a.) Deprived of claws, and teeth or beaks.

(n.) One who disarms.

(v. t.) To throw into disorder; to break the array of.

(v. t.) To take off the dress of; to unrobe.

(n.) Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.

(n.) Confused attire; undress.

(n.) An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.

(n.) An adverse or unfortunate event, esp. a sudden and extraordinary misfortune; a calamity; a serious mishap.

(v. t.) To blast by the influence of a baleful star.

(v. t.) To bring harm upon; to injure.

(v. t.) To drive from a bench or seat.

(v. t.) To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges.

(v. t.) To clear from blame.

(v. t.) To disembowel.

(v. t.) To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drizzle

(n.) See Dragoman.

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

(n.) The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.

(n.) Something which serves to raise mirth

(n.) A puppet show; also, a puppet.

(n.) A lively or comic picture.

(a.) Somewhat droll.

(n.) A droll.

(v. i.) To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.

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

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

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

(a.) Ungirded; loosely dressed.

(n.) One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior.

(v. t.) To teach; to train.

(v. t.) To punish; to discipline.

(v. t.) To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles.

(v. t.) To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.

(v. t.) To deny, as a claim; to refuse.

(v. t.) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.

(v. t.) To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share.

(v. t.) To take off a cloak from; to uncloak.

(v. t.) To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.

(v. t.) To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover.

(v. t.) To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal.

(v. t.) To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs.

(n.) Disclosure.

(v. t.) To clear from clouds.

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

(v. i.) To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated.

(v. t.) To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water.

(v. t.) To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon.

(v. t.) To discount. See Discount.

(v.) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

(v.) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.

(v.) To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

(v.) To leave out of account; to take no notice of.

(v. i.) To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

(v. t.) A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted.

(v. t.) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.

(v. t.) The rate of interest charged in discounting.

(v. t.) To uncover.

(v. t.) To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown).

(v. t.) To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect.

(v. t.) To manifest without design; to show.

(v. t.) To explore; to examine.

(v. i.) To discover or show one's self.

(superl.) Possessed of discernment, especially in avoiding error or evil, and in the adaptation of means to ends; prudent; sagacious; judicious; not rash or heedless; cautious.

(superl.) Differing; distinct.

(a.) Separate; distinct; disjunct.

(a.) Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, "I resign my life, but not my honor," is a discrete proposition.

(a.) Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent.

(v. t.) To separate.

(v. t.) To describe.

(v. t.) To deprive of a crown.

(pl. ) of Discus

(v. t.) To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines.

(v. t.) To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.

(v. t.) To pay for; to atone for.

(v. t.) To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from.

(v. i.) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.

(v. i.) To give dispensation.

(v. t.) Dispensation; exemption.

(n.) Expense; profusion; outlay.

(v. t.) To sprinkle.

(v. t.) To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

(v. t.) To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors.

(v. i.) To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse.

(v. i.) To distribute wealth; to share one's abundance with others.

(v. t.) To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.

(v. t.) To distill or infuse the spirit of.

(v. t.) To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.

(v. t.) To crowd out; to take the place of.

(v. t.) To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.

(v. t.) To dislodge; to drive away; to banish.

(v. t.) To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants.

(v. t.) To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants.

(v. t.) To discharge; to explode.

(v. i.) To burst with a loud report; to explode.

(v. t.) To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.

(n.) The person to whom any property is legally conveyed.

(n.) One who legally transfers property from himself to another.

(v. t.) To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge.

(n.) The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

(n.) Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction.

(n.) Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting; as, a disposal of property.

(n.) Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the disposal of.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dispose

(p. a.) Inclined; minded.

(p. a.) Inclined to mirth; jolly.

(n.) One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower.

(imp. & p. p.) of Depart

(n.) One who refines metals by separation.

(n.) One who departs.

(v. t.) To paint.

(imp. & p. p.) of Depend

(v. t.) To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams.

(v. i.) To extend or expand itself.

(v. t.) To depreciate.

(n.) A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.

(n.) One who depends; a dependent.

(v. t.) To depopulate.

(n.) That which is lost or destroyed.

(v. t.) To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

(v. t.) To disallow; to disapprove of.

(a.) Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous.

(v. t.) To expunge.

(v. t.) To expunge; to erase.

(v. t.) See Disponge.

(v. t.) To disburse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dispute

(v. t.) To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Depict

(v. t.) To strip of hair; to husk.

(a.) Hairless.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deplete

(n.) One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist.

(a.) Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.

(n.) Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety.

(v. t.) To render unquiet; to deprive of peace, rest, or tranquility; to make uneasy or restless; to disturb.

(v. t.) To disarrange.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deplore

(imp. & p. p.) of Deploy

(imp. & p. p.) of Deplume

(v. t.) To remove the polish or glaze from.

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

(v. t.) One who deposes or testifies under oath; one who gives evidence; usually, one who testifies in writing.

(v. t.) A deponent verb.

(a.) Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Disrobe

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

(v. t.) To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold.

(v. t.) To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.

(v. t.) To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse.

(v. i.) To part; to separate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deport

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Deprave

(n.) One who deprave or corrupts.

(v. t.) To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament.

(v. t.) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

(v. t.) To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.

(v. t.) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.

(v. t.) To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.

(v. t.) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.

(v. i.) To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

(v. i.) To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.

(v. i.) To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deprive

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

(v. t.) To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).

(v. t.) To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose.

(pl. ) of Distaff

(pl. ) of Distaff

(adv.) Toward a distal part.

(n.) The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place.

(n.) Remoteness of place; a remote place.

(n.) A space marked out in the last part of a race course.

(n.) Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left.

(n.) Space between two antagonists in fencing.

(n.) The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape.

(a. & n.) Depurative.

(a.) Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities.

(v. t.) To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse.

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

(v. t.) To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.

(pl. ) of Deputy

(n.) Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety.

(n.) Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events.

(n.) The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.

(n.) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve.

(n.) Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.

(n.) The interval between two notes; as, the distance of a fourth or seventh.

(v. t.) To place at a distance or remotely.

(v. t.) To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote.

(v. t.) To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.

(n.) Distance.

(n.) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.

(n.) Discomfort; uneasiness.

(n.) Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.

(v. t.) Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.

(v. t.) To offend; to disgust; to displease.

(v. t.) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.

(v. i.) To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.

(imp. & p. p.) of Derail

(imp. & p. p.) of Derange

(a.) Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane.

(n.) One who deranges.

(a.) Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.

(a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.

(n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.

(n.) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.

(n.) Darling.

(n.) Darling.

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

(n.) The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.

(n.) An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock.

(a.) Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision.

(n.) Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite.

(a.) Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.

(a.) Marked; variegated.

(a.) Separate in place; not conjunct; not united by growth or otherwise; -- with from.

(a.) Not identical; different; individual.

(a.) So separated as not to be confounded with any other thing; not liable to be misunderstood; not confused; well-defined; clear; as, we have a distinct or indistinct view of a prospect.

(v. t.) To distinguish.

(a.) Derisive; mocking.

(a.) Derived; derivative.

(n.) A thing derived; a derivative.

(v. t.) To derive.

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

(v. t.) To deprive of title or right.

(a.) Separated; drawn asunder.

(a.) Insane; mad.

(v. t.) To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.

(v. t.) To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention.

(v. t.) To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.

(v. t.) To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted.

(v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.

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

(v. t.) To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement.

(a.) Alt. of Dermatine

(v. t.) To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.

(v. i.) To levy a distress.

(a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

(v. i.) To flow.

(n.) Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.

(n.) That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.

(n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.

(n.) The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.

(n.) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

(n.) To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.

(n.) To compel by pain or suffering.

(n.) To seize for debt; to distrain.

(v. t.) To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law.

(v. t.) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; -- said of a person or thing.

(v. i.) To take away; to detract; to withdraw; -- usually with from.

(v. i.) To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate.

(n.) Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded.

(a.) Rigorous; stringent; harsh.

(n.) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.

(n.) A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc.

(n.) Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract.

(v. t.) To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.

(v. t.) To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.

(n.) Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc.

(n.) Suspicion of evil designs.

(n.) State of being suspected; loss of trust.

(v. t.) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.

(v. t.) To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.

(n.) The termination of union; separation; disjunction; as, the disunion of the body and the soul.

(n.) A breach of concord and its effect; alienation.

(n.) The termination or disruption of the union of the States forming the United States.

(v. t.) To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

(v. t.) To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of.

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

(n.) A state of separation or disunion; want of unity.

(n.) Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse.

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

(v. t.) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

(v. i.) To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.

(n.) One who descries.

(v. t.) To describe.

(imp. & p. p.) of Descry

(v. t.) To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Desert

(v. t.) To undervalue; to depreciate.

(n.) Disesteem; disregard.

(v. t.) To develop.

(v. t.) To discredit; to contradict.

(v. t.) To deprive of worth; to degrade.

(n.) The act of making rich; enrichment.

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

(a.) Alt. of Dithecous

(n.) The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism.

(n.) One who holds the doctrine of ditheism; a dualist.

(a.) Having two kinds of young, as certain annelids.

(n.) One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deserve

(n.) One who deserves.

(imp. & p. p.) of Design

(n.) One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.

(n.) One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.

(n.) A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense.

(v. t.) To deprive of silver; as, to desilver lead.

(a.) Ending; forming an end; lowermost.

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

(n.) Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.

(imp. & p. p.) of Desist

(n.) An end or ending.

(a.) Final; serving to complete; conclusive.

(n.) A proposition relating to or expressing an end or conclusion.

(a.) Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.

(a.) Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.

(a.) Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.

(a.) Lost to shame; dissolute.

(a.) Destitute of; lacking in.

(v. t.) To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.

(v. t.) To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.

(a.) Producing only two eggs for a clutch, as certain birds do.

(n.) An igneous rock composed of orthoclase, elaeolite, and sodalite.

(n.) One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide.

(n.) Free excretion of urine.

(a.) Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine.

(n.) A medicine with diuretic properties.

(n. & v.) Same as Dispatch.

(n.) A despising; contempt.

(imp. & p. p.) of Despise

(n.) One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Despite

(n.) The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot.

(a.) Alt. of Despotical

(a.) Determined by destiny; fated.

(imp. & p. p.) of Destine

(v. t.) To destroy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Detach

(a.) Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels.

(imp. & p. p.) of Detail

(n.) One who details.

(imp. & p. p.) of Detain

(n.) One who detains.

(n.) The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law.

(n.) A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.

(imp. & p. p.) of Detect

(n.) One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.

(n.) One who, or that which, detects; a detecter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deter

(imp. & p. p.) of Deterge

(imp. & p. p.) of Detest

(n.) One who detes//

(v. t.) To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.

(v. i.) To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur.

(v. t.) To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report.

(v. t. & i.) To explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate.

(v. t.) To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition.

(imp. & p. p.) of Disease

(a.) Afflicted with disease.

(n.) A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope.

(n.) The morning star; the star which ushers in the day.

(n.) The sun, as the orb of day.

(a.) Stillborn.

(n.) The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.

(n.) The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.

(n.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

(pl. ) of Diploma

(n.) The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.

(n.) That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals.

(a.) Diseased with drops.

(pl. ) of Dropsy

(adv.) After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops.

(n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm.

(n.) An Old World species of Spiraea (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves.

(pl. ) of Drosky

(a.) Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust.

(a.) Dry; thirsty; wanting drink.

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

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

(adv.) In a drowsy manner.

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

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

(n.) The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.

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

(n.) One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.

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

(n.) The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.

(n.) Any fish of the family Sciaenidae, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.

(n.) The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.

(n.) The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan.

(n.) The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides.

(n.) One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.

(n.) A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.

(v. t.) To beat severely.

(a.) Not having tears in the eyes.

(a.) Without wetting the feet.

(v. i.) To doubt.

(n.) A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values.

(n.) A young or little duck.

(n.) Alt. of Duck's-meat

(n.) A genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat.

(a.) Capable of being drawn out

(a.) Having to duct or outlet; as, a ductless gland.

(n.) A duet of short extent and concise form.

(n.) A little or insignificant duke.

(n.) The quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personality of a duke.

(n.) An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.

(n.) An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.

(n.) The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.

(a.) Dull.

(n.) The ring plover.

(n.) The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.

(a.) Dumose.

(v. t.) To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment.

(n.) One who feigns dumbness.

(n.) A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.

(n.) The realm or domain of dunces.

(a.) Like a dunce; duncish.

(n.) A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff.

(n.) A heap of dung.

(n.) Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode.

(n.) A yard where dung is collected.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion.

(n.) The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.

(n.) See Dandruff.

(n.) A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small or particles.

(a.) Like a dandy.

(n.) The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness.

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

(n.) A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Darken

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

(adv.) In the dark.

(p. pr. & a.) Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.

(p. pr. & a.) Dark; gloomy.

(n.) The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.

(n.) A state of privacy; secrecy.

(n.) A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.

(n.) Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.

(n.) A state of distress or trouble.

(a.) Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.

(v. t.) Alt. of Darrain

(a.) Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic.

(n.) Base timidity; cowardliness.

(a.) Without date; having no fixed time.

(n.) A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina).

(adv.) As a gift.

(n.) A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals.

(n.) The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

(n.) A female descendant; a woman.

(n.) A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.

(n.) A term of address indicating parental interest.

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

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

(n.) The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.

(n.) The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

(n.) The eyes.

(n.) The dawn.

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

(n.) See Deaconship.

(a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deaden

(n.) One who, or that which, deadens or checks.

(n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye.

(n.) One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc.

(n.) A buoy. See under Dead, a.

(n.) A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.

(n.) A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action.

(n.) The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deafen

(n.) Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.

(n.) Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.

(v. t.) To whiten.

(n.) A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).

(n.) The office of a dean.

(n.) A darling.

(n.) The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.

(n.) Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.

(a.) Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.

(a.) Liable to undergo death; mortal.

(a.) Gilded.

(v. t.) To gild.

(imp. & p. p.) of Debar

(imp. & p. p.) of Debark

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

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

(n.) The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.

(a.) The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.

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

(a.) Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant.

(n.) A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods.

(a.) Free from debt.

() Alt. of Debutante

(a.) Decaying; deteriorating.

(n.) A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist.

(n.) Alt. of Decagramme

(imp. & p. p.) of Decamp

(imp. & p. p.) of Decant

(n.) A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors; a kind of glass bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled.

(n.) One who decants liquors.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, decane.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Decease

(a.) Passed away; dead; gone.

(a.) Removing; departing.

(n.) A deceased person.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deceive

(n.) One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor.

(a.) Cleft into ten parts.

(n.) One of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome.

(n.) A member of any body of ten men in authority.

(pl. ) of Decennium

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

(n.) Alt. of Decigramme

(v. t.) To take the tenth part of; to tithe.

(v. t.) To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.

(v. t.) To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.

(v. t.) To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

(v. t.) To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.

(v. t.) To stamp; to detect; to discover.

(n.) A supposed rare element, said to be associated with cerium, yttrium, etc., in the mineral samarskite, and more recently called samarium. Symbol Dp. See Samarium.

(n.) Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.

(n.) The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion.

(n.) An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court.

(n.) The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision.

(a.) Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

(a.) Marked by promptness and decision.

(imp. & p. p.) of Declare

(n.) One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits.

(a.) Declining; sloping.

(imp. & p. p.) of Decline

(a.) Declinate.

(n.) He who declines or rejects.

(imp. & p. p.) of Decoct

(v. t.) To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.

(a.) Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.

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

(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.

(v. t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.

(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.

(v.) The wane of the moon.

(a.) Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.

(a.) Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle.

(a.) An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.

(a.) The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Decuple

(n.) A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers.

(pl. ) of Decury

(p. a.) Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.

(v. t.) To set apart and consecrate, as to a divinity, or for sacred uses; to devote formally and solemnly; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple, or a church, to a religious use.

(v. t.) To devote, set apart, or give up, as one's self, to a duty or service.

(v. t.) To inscribe or address, as to a patron.

(n.) The act of yielding; surrender.

(a.) Feeling no compunction; apathetic.

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

(a.) That deduces; inferential.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deduct

(a.) Not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive.

(n.) A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deepen

(n.) The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness.

(n.) Craft; insidiousness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.

(n.) The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.

(a.) Continuing; not completed; implying duration.

(n.) One who subjects another to duress

(n.) A small, nocturnal, South American monkey (Nyctipthecus trivirgatus).

(n.) Duskiness.

(a.) Without dust; as a dustless path.

(a.) Subject to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods.

(pl. ) of Duumvir

(pl. ) of Duumvir

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

(a.) Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub.

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

(n.) Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dwindle

(n.) A building in which dyeing is carried on.

(n.) A material used for dyeing.

(n.) That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of bodies (kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.

(n.) The moving moral, as well as physical, forces of any kind, or the laws which relate to them.

(n.) That department of musical science which relates to, or treats of, the power of tones.

(n.) The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force.

(n.) One who accounts for material phenomena by a theory of dynamics.

(n.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.

(a.) Of or relating to a dynasty or line of kings.

(n.) Dycrasia.

(n.) A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite.

(n.) A resinous substance formed in the decomposition of cholic acid of bile; -- so called because it is difficult to solve.

(n.) An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.

() A kind of indigestion; a state of the stomach in which its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases, or, if others are present, they are of minor importance. Its symptoms are loss of appetite, nausea, heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of weight or fullness in the stomach, etc.

(n.) Difficulty of breathing.

(a.) Affected with shortness of breath; relating to dyspnoea.

(n.) Difficult delivery pr parturition.

(a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus.

(n.) A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.

(n.) Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration.

(imp. & p. p.) of Detrude

(imp. & p. p.) of Devest

(a.) A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deviate

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

() of Devil

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

(n.) A she-devil.

(n.) A young devil.

(a.) Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.

(a.) Extreme; excessive.

(n.) The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils.

(v. t.) To make a devil of.

(n.) A little devil; a devilet.

(n.) Diabolical conduct; malignant mischief; devilry.

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

(v. t.) To devolve.

(imp. & p. p.) of Devolve

(n.) A votary.

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

(n.) The act of devoting; consecration.

(n.) The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness.

(n.) Act of devotedness or devoutness; manifestation of strong attachment; act of worship; prayer.

(n.) Disposal; power of disposal.

(n.) A thing consecrated; an object of devotion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Devour

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

(adv.) In a devout and reverent manner; with devout emotions; piously.

(adv.) Sincerely; solemnly; earnestly.

(n.) The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. caesius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries.

(n.) The plant which bears the fruit.

(n.) State of being dewy.

(n.) A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice.

(n.) Alt. of Dextrousness

(a.) Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.

(n.) A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal.

(a.) Alt. of Diabetical

(a.) Alt. of Diabolical

(a.) Of or pertaining to a deacon.

(imp. & p. p.) of Diverge

(pl. ) of Dieresis

(n.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synaeresis.

(n.) A mark consisting of two dots [/], placed over the second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters; as, cooperate, aerial.

(n.) An intaglio.

(v. t. & i.) To ascertain by diagnosis; to diagnosticate. See Diagnosticate.

(a.) Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides.

(n.) A right line drawn from one angle to another not adjacent, of a figure of four or more sides, and dividing it into two parts.

(n.) A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel.

(n.) A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.

(imp. & p. p.) of Divert

(n.) One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases.

(n.) A drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale.

() of Dial

(imp. & p. p.) of Divest

(a.) Different; distinct.

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

(n.) A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.

(n.) A number or quantity which is to be divided.

(n.) Dividend; share.

(n.) A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point.

(n.) A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.

(n.) A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.

(n.) A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato.

(v. i.) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.

(v. t.) To express as in dialogue.

(pl. ) of Dialysis

(n.) Diaeresis. See Diaeresis, 1.

(n.) Same as Asyndeton.

(n.) Debility.

(n.) A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts.

(n.) The separation of different substances in solution, as crystalloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes.

(a.) Having the quality of unloosing or separating.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dialyze

(a.) Prepared by diffusion through an animal membrane; as, dialyzed iron.

(n.) The instrument or medium used to effect chemical dialysis.

(a.) That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.

(a.) Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others.

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

(adv.) In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree.

(adv.) By the agency or influence of God.

(v. t.) To render divine; to deify.

(a.) That divines; for divining.

(n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve.

(n.) A diametral plane.

(n.) The length of a straight line through the center of an object from side to side; width; thickness; as, the diameter of a tree or rock.

(n.) The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module.

(a.) A prefix or combining form of Diamine. [Also used adjectively.]

(a.) The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead.

(a.) The Deity; the Supreme Being; God.

(a.) A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.

(a.) A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.

(a.) Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe.

(a.) The science of divine things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology.

(v. t.) To invest with a divine character; to deify.

(a.) Indicating division or distribution.

(a.) Creating, or tending to create, division, separation, or difference.

(n.) The interval of the fifth.

(n.) A composition of five ingredients.

(n.) A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.

(n.) An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph.

(imp. & p. p.) of Divorce

(n.) A person divorced.

(n.) The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce.

(imp. & p. p.) of Divulge

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

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

(a.) Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic.

(n.) A gentle diaphoretic.

(n.) Alt. of Diarrhoea

(n.) A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

(n.) A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.

(n.) A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.

(n.) The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.

(n.) See Dabchick.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius.

(n.) A foot of five syllables (usually / -- -/ -).

(n.) A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.

(n.) See under Intercolumniation.

(a.) Containing two atoms.

(a.) Having two replaceable atoms or radicals.

(a.) Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.

(n.) A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic.

(n.) teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness.

(n.) Willingness to be taught; tractableness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Docket

(n.) A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.

(imp. & p. p.) of Doctor

(a.) Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor.

(a.) Like a doctor or learned man.

(n.) A female doctor.

(n.) Teaching; instruction.

(n.) That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances.

(n.) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

(n.) An example for instruction or warning.

(n.) An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; -- in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol.

(v. t.) To teach; to school.

(v. t.) To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

(a.) Shattered; infirm.

(n.) Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.

(n.) The beaked whale (Balaenoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained.

(a.) Without a doge.

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

(n.) A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones.

(n.) Pertness; sauciness.

(a.) Having two atoms or equivalents of calcium to the molecule.

(a.) Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.

(a.) Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization.

(adv.) In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution.

(a.) Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.

(n.) A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.

(n.) One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.

(a.) Alt. of Dogmatical

(n.) A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.

(pl. ) of Dogtooth

(n.) A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m.

(n. pl.) A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors.

(n.) A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt.

(a.) Doleful; dismal; gloomy; sorrowful.

(a.) Alt. of Dicrotous

(a.) Of or pertaining to dicrotism; as, a dicrotic pulse.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave.

(n.) A dictation or dictate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dictate

(n.) One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.

(n.) One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.

(a.) Like or belonging to the Dicyemata.

(n.) One of the Dicyemata.

(a.) Alt. of Didactical

(n.) A treatise on teaching or education.

(n.) An animal having only two digits.

(n.) See Dabchick.

(n.) Alt. of Didrachma

(n.) A rare metallic substance usually associated with the metal cerium; -- hence its name. It was formerly supposed to be an element, but has since been found to consist of two simpler elementary substances, neodymium and praseodymium. See Neodymium, and Praseodymium.

(a.) Growing in pairs or twins.

(a.) See Dioecian, and Dioecious.

(n.) A narrative or history; a recital or relation.

(n.) Same as Diaeresis.

(n.) A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.

(a.) Alt. of Dietetical

(a.) Dietetic.

(imp. & p. p.) of Differ

(n.) A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar.

(v. t.) To convert into dolomite.

(a. & adv.) Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction.

(a.) Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.

(a.) Occasioning pain or grief; painful.

(a.) Of or relating to a domain or to domains.

(a.) Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions.

(a.) Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.

(a.) Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.

(a.) Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.

(n.) One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.

(n.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.

(n.) An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.

(n.) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.

(v. t.) To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate.

(a.) Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.

(n.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

(v. t.) To predominate over; to rule; to govern.

(v. i.) To be dominant.

(v. t.) To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a/ rays of light.

(imp. & p. p.) of Diffuse

(a.) Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse.

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

(n.) One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.

(a.) Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.

(a.) Sexually reproductive.

() Digesting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Digest

(v. t.) To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents.

(n.) Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.

(n.) Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.

(n.) That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.

(n.) A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3.

(pl. ) of Domino

(n.) See Donatory.

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

(n.) The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.

(n.) That which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift.

(n.) The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift.

(n.) A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present.

(n.) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.

(a.) Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson.

(n.) A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.

(n.) A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.

(n.) A judge; an umpire.

(n.) Same as Dempster.

(n.) The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.

(a.) Without a door.

(n.) The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."

(n.) The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.

(n.) The sill or threshold of a door.

(n.) The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.

(n.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.

(n.) A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.

(n.) The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.

(n.) One who digests.

(n.) A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.

(n.) A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them.

(n.) See Digester.

(a.) Capable of being dug.

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

(v. t.) To point out as with the finger.

(a.) Alt. of Digitated

(v. t.) To finger; as, to digitize a pen.

(n.) A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.

(a.) Having two angles.

(n.) A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter.

(adv.) On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.

(n.) Posology.

(a.) Foolish; weak.

(n.) The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.

(n.) Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.

(a.) Alt. of Digynous

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.

(a.) Having two plane faces; as, the dihedral summit of a crystal.

(n.) A figure with two sides or surfaces.

(n.) A double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (/ / / /).

(n.) A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine; -- called also biniodide.

(a.) Decayed.

(v. i.) A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias, / Charadrius, morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler.

(v. i.) A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull.

(n.) An officer of the French customs.

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

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

(n.) Delay.

(n.) The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.

(a.) Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive.

(a.) Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.

(a.) Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish; -- said of actions or measures.

(a.) Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.

(a.) Interestedly and perseveringly attentive; steady and earnest in application to a subject or pursuit; assiduous; industrious.

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

(n.) The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.

(a.) Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin.

(n.) A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.

(n.) The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled.

(n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice.

(n.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.

(n.) The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor.

(a.) A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon in Sup.

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

(a.) Composed of, or having, two parts of each kind.

(n.) Ethane; -- sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. See Ethane.

(a.) Same as Tetragonal.

(v. t.) To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

(v. t.) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.

(v. t.) To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.

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

(v. i.) To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.

(a.) Small; diminished; diminutive.

(a.) Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure.

(a.) Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear, or certain; questionable; not decided; not easy to be defined, classed, or named; as, a doubtful case, hue, claim, title, species, and the like.

(a.) Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful expression; a doubtful phrase.

(a.) Of uncertain issue or event.

(a.) Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious.

(a.) That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts.

(a.) Doubtful.

(v. t.) To fail of edifying; to injure.

(v. t.) To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder.

(v. t.) To clear from a bay.

(v. t.) To deprive of an endowment, as a church.

(v. t.) See Disinter.

(n.) Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.

(n.) The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court.

(n.) An unkindness; a disobliging act.

(v. t.) To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.

(v. t.) To injure the form or looks of.

(v. t.) To reduce the flesh or obesity of.

(v. t.) To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar.

(v. t.) To unfrock.

(v. t.) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands.

(n.) Dishonor.

(v. t.) To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place.

(v. t.) To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains.

(v. i.) To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution.

(n.) The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.

(n.) The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.

(n.) That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.

(n.) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.

(n.) To put out favor; to dismiss with dishonor.

(n.) To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation.

(n.) To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile.

(v. t.) To degrade.

(v. t.) To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.

(v. t.) To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.

(v. t.) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

(n.) A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties.

(n.) Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.

(n.) Change of manner by drink; intoxication.

(n.) A masque or masquerade.

(v. t.) To dislodge.

(v. t.) To disable.

(v. t.) To disparage.

(v. t.) To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt.

(v. t.) To dishearten.

(v. t.) To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance.

(v. t.) To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle.

(v. t.) To spread loosely or disorderly.

(v. i.) To be spread in disorder or hang negligently, as the hair.

(pl. ) of Dishful

(n.) Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.

(n.) The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn.

(v. t.) To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity, or as unworthy in the sight of others; to stain the character of; to lessen the reputation of; as, the duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor.

(v. t.) To violate the chastity of; to debauch.

(v. t.) To refuse or decline to accept or pay; -- said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exchange.

(v. t.) To dismount.

(v. t.) To deprive of house or home.

(n.) Ill humor.

(v. t.) To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor.

(v. t.) To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.

(v. t.) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.

(v. t.) To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar.

(a.) Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint.

(v. t.) Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.

(v. t.) To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving.

(v. t.) To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint and edifice.

(v. t.) To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.

(v. i.) To fall in pieces.

(a.) Disjoined; separated.

(a.) Having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by a deep constriction.

(n.) The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it.

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

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

(a.) Defamatory.

(imp. & p. p.) of Defeat

(a.) Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.

(v. t.) To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine.

(v. t.) To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes.

(v. i.) To become clear, pure, or free.

(v. i.) To void excrement.

(imp. & p. p.) of Defend

(n.) One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.

(n.) Defender.

(n.) A defender.

(n.) A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector.

(n.) The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church.

(imp. & p. p.) of Defer

(a.) Serving to carry; bearing.

(n.) That which carries or conveys.

(n.) An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.

(n.) One who defers or puts off.

(v. t.) To delineate.

(v. t.) To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.

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

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

(a.) Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval.

(a.) Having certain limits in signification; determinate; certain; precise; fixed; exact; clear; as, a definite word, term, or expression.

(a.) Determined; resolved.

(a.) Serving to define or restrict; limiting; determining; as, the definite article.

(n.) A thing defined or determined.

(a.) Bent abruptly downward.

(v. t.) Same as Deflour.

(a.) Flowing down; falling off.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deforce

(imp. & p. p.) of Deform

(a.) Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head.

(n.) One who deforms.

(imp. & p. p.) of Defray

(n.) The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.

(n.) One who pays off expenses.

(n.) The quality of being deft.

(v. i.) Alt. of Degener

(imp. & p. p.) of Degrade

(a.) Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base.

(a.) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.

(a.) Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also on degrees.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dehorn

(imp. & p. p.) of Dehort

(n.) A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.

(a.) Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making.

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

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

(a.) Haughty; disdainful.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deject

(a.) Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance.

(adv.) Dejectedly.

(v. i.) To swear solemnly; to take an oath.

(n.) A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation.

(n.) Same as Decagram.

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

(n.) Conveyance.

(n.) Accusation by an informer.

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

(n.) A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek.

(a.) The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power.

(a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.

(n.) Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

(n.) One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.

(n.) One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution.

(a.) Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.

(v. t.) To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.

(v. t.) To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.

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

(a.) Destructive; poisonous.

(n.) That which destroys.

(n.) Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.

(a.) Adapted to destroy or obliterate.

(n.) That which blots out.

(v. t.) To taste; to take a sip of; to dabble in.

(a.) The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.

(a.) Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.

(a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action.

(a.) Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.

(a.) Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.

(a.) The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.

(a.) That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.

(a.) Pleasure; gratification; delight.

(a.) Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.

(a.) Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as, a delicate dish; delicate flavor.

(a.) Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful; as, "a delicate creature."

(a.) Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton.

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

(n.) A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.

(a.) Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.

(a.) Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.

(n.) A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.

(n.) Dactylic meters.

(a.) Slight or smooth; light and yielding; -- said of texture; as, delicate lace or silk.

(a.) Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface; as, a delicate cheek; a delicate complexion.

(a.) Light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color; as, a delicate blue.

(a.) Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; -- said of manners, conduct, or feelings; as, delicate behavior; delicate attentions; delicate thoughtfulness.

(a.) Tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail; effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.; as, a delicate child; delicate health.

(a.) Requiring careful handling; not to be rudely or hastily dealt with; nice; critical; as, a delicate subject or question.

(a.) Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.

(a.) Nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite; as, a delicate taste; a delicate ear for music.

(a.) Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes; as, a delicate thermometer.

(n.) A choice dainty; a delicacy.

(n.) A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.

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

(a.) See Demon, Demonic.

(n.) The quality of being daft.

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

(n.) A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool.

(n.) A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails.

(v. t.) To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious.

(adv.) In a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously; deliciously; prettily.

(n.) Adelicacy.

(pl. ) of Dainty

(n.) Delirium.

(a.) Delirious.

(v. t. & i.) To madden; to rave.

(n.) A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.

(n.) Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness.

(n.) The business of conducting a dairy.

(pl. ) of Dairyman

(n.) A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.

(pl. ) of Dalesman

(n.) One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc.

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

(n.) The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

(n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.

(n.) The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.

(n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.

(n.) The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.

(n.) The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.

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

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

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

(n.) The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.

(n.) The state of being deluded or misled.

(n.) That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.

(a.) Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream.

(a.) Delusive; fallacious.

(n.) Demagogism.

(imp. & p. p.) of Demand

(n.) One who demands.

(imp. & p. p.) of Demean

(v. t.) Management; treatment; conduct.

(v. t.) Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien.

(a.) Insane; mad; of unsound mind.

(n.) Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Damask

(n.) A sword of Damask steel.

(n.) A kind of modified damask or brocade.

(n.) A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet.

(a.) Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.

(a.) Odious; pernicious; detestable.

(adv.) In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment.

(adv.) Odiously; detestably; excessively.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dampen

(n.) Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.

(n.) A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur.

(a.) Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.

(a.) Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.

(n.) A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork.

(n.) A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin.

(n.) A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.

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

(adv.) In a humble manner.

(n.) A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the thighs, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.

(imp. & p. p.) of Demit

(n.) That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light.

(n.) The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. Also called half tint.

(n.) Semitone.

(n.) A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.

(n.) A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.

(v. t.) To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.

(n.) A female demon.

(a.) Alt. of Demoniacal

(n.) A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon.

(n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a demon.

(a.) Relating to, or having the nature of, a demon.

(n.) The belief in demons or false gods.

(n.) A believer in, or worshiper of, demons.

(v. t.) To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.

(v. t.) To control or possess by a demon.

(n.) The dominion of demons.

(n.) Demurrage.

(imp. & p. p.) of Demur

(adv.) In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty.

(n.) Demureness; also, one who is demure.

(n.) Demur; delay in acting or deciding.

(n.) One who demurs.

(n.) A stop or pause by a party to an action, for the judgment of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defense, and hence whether the party resting is bound to answer or proceed further.

(n.) A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the "penny" of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.

(n.) A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

(a.) Alt. of Dendroidal

(v. t.) To deny.

(a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, denied.

(v. t.) To mark off; to denote.

(a.) Serving to denote.

(v. t.) To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).

(v. t.) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.

(v. t.) To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.

(a.) Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.

(v. t.) To deprive of leaves.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dislike

(v. t.) To make unlike; to disguise.

(n.) One who dislikes or disrelishes.

(v. t.) To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.

(v. t.) To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or an enemy.

(v. i.) To go from a place of rest.

(n.) Dwelling apart; separation.

(v. t.) To put at a distance; to remove.

(a.) Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife.

(a.) Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf.

(a.) Having teeth or toothlike points. See Illust. of Antennae.

(n.) An ornamental tooling like lace.

(n.) A small tooth or projecting point.

(adv.) In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

(v. i.) To march away.

(v. t.) To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dismay

(v. t.) To denude.

(v. i.) To come down; to descend.

(v. i.) To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.

(v. t.) To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.

(v. t.) To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.

(v. t.) To take down, or apart, as a machine.

(v. t.) To throw or remove from the carriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery.

(n.) Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

(n.) Neglect of order or system; irregularity.

(n.) Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult.

(n.) Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement.

(v. t.) To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.

(v. t.) To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach.

(v. t.) To depose from holy orders.

(imp. & p. p.) of Disown

(v. t.) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

(v. t.) To rid; to free.

(v. t.) To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.

(v. t.) To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.

(v. t.) To send out of the world; to put to death.

(v. i.) To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.

(v. t.) The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.

(v. t.) Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.

(v. t.) The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.

(v. t.) A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.

(v. t.) A message transmitted by telegraph.

(n.) Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy.

(v. i. & n.) See Dispense.

(n.) Alt. of Dryfland

(adv.) Alt. of Dropmele

(n.) See Duck mole, under Duck, n.

(n.) A blockhead; a dolt.