De facto
De• fac"to [L.] Actually; in fact; in reality; as a king de facto, — distinguished from a king de jure, or by right.

De jure
De• ju"re [L.] By right; of right; by law; — often opposed to de facto.

De rigueur
De ri•gueur" [F. See 2d Rigor.] According to strictness (of etiquette, rule, or the like); obligatory; strictly required.

Deaconess
Dea´con•ess, n. (Eccl.) A female deacon; as: (a) (Primitive Ch.) One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons. (b) (Ch. of Eng. and Prot. Epis. Ch.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop. (c) A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists.

Deaconhood
Dea´con•hood, n. The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.

Deaconry
Dea´con•ry, n. See Deaconship.

Dead (ded), a. [OE. ded, dead, deed, AS. deád; akin to OS. dod, D. dood, G. todt, tot, Icel. dauðr, Sw. & Dan. död, Goth. daubs; prop. p. p. of an old verb meaning to die. See Die, and cf. Death.]
1. Deprived of life; — opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as a dead tree; a dead man. "The queen, my lord, is dead." Shak.
"The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger." Arbuthnot.
"Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living." Shak.
2. Destitute of life; inanimate; as dead matter.
3. Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as a dead sleep.
4. Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as dead calm; a dead load or weight.
5. So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as a dead floor.
6. Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as dead capital; dead stock in trade.
7. Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
8. Monotonous or unvaried; as a dead level or pain; a dead wall. "The ground is a dead flat." C. Reade.
9. Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as a dead shot; a dead certainty.
"I had them a dead bargain." Goldsmith.
10. Bringing death; deadly. Shak.
11. Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as dead faith; dead works. "Dead in trespasses." Eph. ii. 1.
12. (Paint.) (a) Flat; without gloss; — said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect. (b) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
13. (Law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
14. (Mach.) Not imparting motion or power; as the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle. Dead ahead (Naut.), directly ahead; - - said of a ship or any object, esp. of the wind when blowing from that point toward which a vessel would go. — Dead angle (Mil.), an angle or space which can not be seen or defended from behind the parapet. — Dead block, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car. — Dead calm (Naut.), no wind at all. — Dead center, or Dead point (Mach.), either of two points in the orbit of a crank, at which the crank and connecting rod lie a straight line. It corresponds to the end of a stroke; as A and B are dead centers of the crank mechanism in which the crank C drives, or is driven by, the lever L. — Dead color (Paint.), a color which has no gloss upon it. — Dead coloring (Oil paint.), the layer of colors, the preparation for what is to follow. In modern painting this is usually in monochrome. — Dead door (Shipbuilding), a storm shutter fitted to the outside of the quarter-gallery door. — Dead flat (Naut.), the widest or midship frame. — Dead freight (Mar. Law), a sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity. Abbott. — Dead ground (Mining), the portion of a vein in which there is no ore. — Dead hand, a hand that can not alienate, as of a person civilly dead. "Serfs held in dead hand." Morley. See Mortmain. — Dead head (Naut.), a rough block of wood used as an anchor buoy. — Dead heat, a heat or course between two or more race horses, boats, etc., in which they come out exactly equal, so that neither wins. — Dead horse, an expression applied to a debt for wages paid in advance. [Law] — Dead language, a language which is no longer spoken or in common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. — Dead letter. (a) A letter which, after lying for a certain fixed time uncalled for at the post office to which it was directed, is then sent to the general post office to be opened. (b) That which has lost its force or authority; as the law has become a dead letter. — Dead-letter office, a department of the general post office where dead letters are examined and disposed of. — Dead level, a term applied to a flat country. — Dead lift, a direct lift, without assistance from mechanical advantage, as from levers, pulleys, etc.; hence, an extreme emergency. "(As we say) at a dead lift." Robynson (More’s Utopia). — Dead line (Mil.), a line drawn within or around a military prison, to cross which involves for a prisoner the penalty of being instantly shot. — Dead load (Civil Engin.), a constant, motionless load, as the weight of a structure, in distinction from a moving load, as a train of cars, or a variable pressure, as of wind. — Dead march (Mus.), a piece of solemn music intended to be played as an accompaniment to a funeral procession. — Dead nettle (Bot.), a harmless plant with leaves like a nettle ( Lamium album). — Dead oil (Chem.), the heavy oil obtained in the distillation of coal tar, and containing phenol, naphthalus, etc. — Dead plate (Mach.), a solid covering over a part of a fire grate, to prevent the entrance of air through that part. — Dead pledge, a mortgage. See Mortgage. — Dead point. (Mach.) See Dead center. — Dead reckoning (Naut.), the method of determining the place of a ship from a record kept of the courses sailed as given by compass, and the distance made on each course as found by log, with allowance for leeway, etc., without the aid of celestial observations. — Dead rise, the transverse upward curvature of a vessel’s floor. — Dead rising, an elliptical line drawn on the sheer plan to determine the sweep of the floorheads throughout the ship’s length. — Dead-Sea apple. See under Apple. — Dead set. See under Set. — Dead shot. (a) An unerring marksman. (b) A shot certain to be made. — Dead smooth, the finest cut made; — said of files. — Dead wall (Arch.), a blank wall unbroken by windows or other openings. — Dead water (Naut.), the eddy water closing in under a ship’s stern when sailing. — Dead weight. (a) A heavy or oppressive burden. Dryden. (b) (Shipping) A ship’s lading, when it consists of heavy goods; or, the heaviest part of a ship’s cargo. (c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live weight being the load. Knight. — Dead wind (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship’s course. — To be dead, to die. [Obs.]
"I deme thee, thou must algate be dead." Chaucer.
Syn. — Inanimate; deceased; extinct. See Lifeless.

Dead, adv. To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly. [Colloq.]
"I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy." Dickens. Dead drunk, so drunk as to be unconscious.

Dead (ded), n.
1. The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as the dead of winter.
"When the drum beat at dead of night." Campbell.
2. One who is dead; — commonly used collectively.
"And Abraham stood up from before his dead." Gen. xxiii. 3.

Dead, v. t. To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor. [Obs.]
"Heaven’s stern decree, With many an ill, hath numbed and deaded me." Chapman.

Dead, v. i. To die; to lose life or force. [Obs.]
"So iron, as soon as it is out of the fire, deadeth straightway." Bacon.

Dead, a.
1. (Elec.) Carrying no current, or producing no useful effect; — said of a conductor in a dynamo or motor, also of a telegraph wire which has no instrument attached and, therefore, is not in use.
2. Out of play; regarded as out of the game; — said of a ball, a piece, or a player under certain conditions in cricket, baseball, checkers, and some other games.
"[In golf], a ball is said to lie dead when it lies so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke." Encyc. of Sport.

Dead beat
Dead• beat" See Beat, n. , 7. [Low, U.S.]

Deaden
Dead´en (ded"’n), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deadened (-’nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Deadening.] [From Dead; cf. AS. ddan to kill, put to death. See Dead, a. ]
1. To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
"As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations." Longfellow.
2. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as to deaden a ship’s headway.
3. To make vapid or spiritless; as to deaden wine.
4. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as to deaden gilding by a coat of size.

Deaden
Dead´en, v. t. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen.

Deadener
Dead´en•er (ded"’n•er), n. One who, or that which, deadens or checks.

Dead-eye
Dead´-eye (ded"i•), n. (Naut.) 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. Totten.

Deadhead
Dead´head, n.
1. One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc. [Colloq. U. S.]
2. (Naut.) A buoy. See under Dead, a.

Deadhouse
Dead´house, n. A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.

Deadish
Dead´ish, a. Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.
"The lips put on a deadish paleness." A. Stafford.

Deadlatch
Dead´latch, n. A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key. Knight.

Deadlight
Dead´light, n. (Naut.) A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm.

Deadlihood
Dead´li•hood, n. State of the dead. [Obs.]

Deadliness
Dead´li•ness, n. The quality of being deadly.

Deadlock
Dead´lock, n.
1. A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.
2. A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action.
"Things are at a deadlock." London Times.
"The Board is much more likely to be at a deadlock of two to two." The Century.

Deadly
Dead´ly, a.
1. Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as a deadly blow or wound.
2. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as deadly enemies.
"Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly." Shak.
3. Subject to death; mortal. [Obs.]
"The image of a deadly man." Wyclif (Rom. i. 23).Deadly nightshade (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under Nightshade.

Deadly
Dead´ly, adv.
1. In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death. "Deadly pale." Shak.
2. In a manner to occasion death; mortally.
"The groanings of a deadly wounded man." Ezek. xxx. 24.
3. In an implacable manner; destructively.
4. Extremely. [Obs.] "Deadly weary." Orrery. "So deadly cunning a man." Arbuthnot.

Deadness
Dead´ness, 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.

Dead-pay
Dead´-pay, n. Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
"O you commanders, That, like me, have no dead-pays." Massinger.

Dead-reckoning
Dead´-reck•on•ing, n. (Naut.) See under Dead, a.

Dead-stroke
Dead´-stroke, a. (Mech.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat. Dead-stroke hammer (Mach.), a power hammer having a spring interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism.

Deadwood
Dead´wood, n.
1. (Naut.) A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.
2. Dead trees or branches; useless material.

Deadworks
Dead´works, n. pl. (Naut.) The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.

Deaf ( 277), a. [OE. def, deaf, deef, AS. deáf; akin to D. doof, G. taub, Icel. daufr, Dan. döv, Sw. döf, Goth. daubs, and prob. to E. dumb (the original sense being, dull as applied to one of the senses), and perh. to Gr. (for ) blind, smoke, vapor, folly, and to G. toben to rage. Cf. Dumb.]
1. Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as a deaf man.
"Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf." Shak.
2. Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; — with to; as deaf to reason.
"O, that men’s ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!" Shak.
3. Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.
"Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight." Dryden.
4. Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. [R.]
"A deaf murmur through the squadron went." Dryden.
5. Decayed; tasteless; dead; as a deaf nut; deaf corn. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
"If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf, void, light, and naught." Holland. Deaf and dumb, without the sense of hearing or the faculty of speech. See Deaf-mute.

Deaf ( 277), v. t. To deafen. [Obs.] Dryden.

Deafen
Deaf´en, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deafened p. pr. & vb. n. Deafening.] [From Deaf.]
1. To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
"Deafened and stunned with their promiscuous cries." Addison.
2. (Arch.) To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.

Deafly
Deaf´ly, adv. Without sense of sounds; obscurely.

Deafly
Deaf´ly, a. Lonely; solitary. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Deaf-mute
Deaf´-mute, n. A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it. [See Illust. of Dactylology.]
"Deaf-mutes are still so called, even when, by artificial methods, they have been taught to speak imperfectly."

Deafness
Deaf´ness, n.
1. Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.
2. Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding. Nervous deafness, a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve.

Deal (del), n. [OE. del, deel, part, AS. dael; akin to OS. del, D. & Dan. deel, G. theil, teil, Icel. deild, Sw. del, Goth. dails. rad.65. Cf. 3d Dole.]
1. A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
"Three tenth deals [parts of an ephah] of flour." Num. xv. 9.
"As an object of science it [the Celtic genius] may count for a good deal … as a spiritual power." M. Arnold.
"She was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect." W. Black. It was formerly limited by some, every, never a, a thousand, etc.; as some deal; but these are now obsolete or vulgar. In general, we now qualify the word with great or good, and often use it adverbially, by being understood; as a great deal of time and pains; a great (or good) deal better or worse; that is, better by a great deal, or by a great part or difference.
2. The process of dealing cards to the players; also the portion disturbed.
"The deal, the shuffle, and the cut." Swift.
3. Distribution; apportionment. [Colloq.]
4. An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; — applied to stock speculations and political bargains. [Slang]
5. [Prob. from D. deel a plank, threshing floor. See Thill.] The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end. Whole deal is a general term for planking one and one half inches thick.
6. Wood of the pine or fir; as a floor of deal. Deal tree, a fir tree. Dr. Prior.

Deal, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dealt (delt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dealing.] [OE. delen, AS. daelan, fr. dael share; akin to OS. delian, D. deelen, G. theilen, teilen, Icel. deila, Sw. dela, Dan. dele, Goth. dailjan. See Deal, n. ]
1. To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; — sometimes with out.
"Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry?" Is. lviii. 7.
"And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold." Tickell.
"The nightly mallet deals resounding blows." Gay.
"Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt." Dryden.
2. Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.

Deal, v. i.
1. To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.
2. To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as he deals in flour.
"They buy and sell, they deal and traffic." South.
"This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels." Dr. H. More.
3. To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; — followed by between or with.
"Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either." Bacon.
4. To conduct one’s self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.
"If he will deal clearly and impartially, … he will acknowledge all this to be true." Tillotson.
5. To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as he has turbulent passions to deal with. To deal by, to treat, either well or ill; as to deal well by servants. "Such an one deals not fairly by his own mind." Locke. — To deal in. (a) To have to do with; to be engaged in; to practice; as they deal in political matters. (b) To buy and sell; to furnish, as a retailer or wholesaler; as they deal in fish. — To deal with. (a) To treat in any manner; to use, whether well or ill; to have to do with; specifically, to trade with. "Dealing with witches." Shak. (b) To reprove solemnly; to expostulate with.
"The deacons of his church, who, to use their own phrase, "dealt with him" on the sin of rejecting the aid which Providence so manifestly held out." Hawthorne.
"Return … and I will deal well with thee." Gen. xxxii. 9.

Dealbate
De•al´bate, v. t. [L. dealbatus, p. p. of dealbare. See Daub.] To whiten. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Dealer
Deal´er, n.
1. One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.
2. One who distributes cards to the players.

Dealfish
Deal´fish, n. [From deal a long, narrow plank.] (Zoöl.) A long, thin fish of the arctic seas ( Trachypterus arcticus).

Dealing
Deal´ing, n. The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as to have dealings with a person. Double dealing, insincere, treacherous dealing; duplicity. — Plain dealing, fair, sincere, honorable dealing; honest, outspoken expression of opinion.

Dealth, n. Share dealt. [Obs.]

Deambulate
De•am´bu•late, v. i. [L. deambulare, deambulatum; de- + ambulare to walk.] To walk abroad. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Deambulation
De•am•bu•la´tion, n. [L. deambulatio.] A walking abroad; a promenading. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

Deambulatory
De•am´bu•la•to•ry, a. [Cf. LL. deambulator a traveler.] Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory. [Obs.] "Deambulatory actors." Bp. Morton.

Deambulatory
De•am´bu•la•to•ry, n. [L. deambulatorium.] A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.

Dean, n. [OE. dene, deene, OF. deien, dien, F. doyen, eldest of a corporation, a dean, L. decanus the chief of ten, one set over ten persons, e. g., over soldiers or over monks, from decem ten. See Ten, and cf. Decemvir.]
1. A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop. Dean of cathedral church, the chief officer of a chapter; he is an ecclesiastical magistrate next in degree to bishop, and has immediate charge of the cathedral and its estates. — Dean of peculiars, a dean holding a preferment which has some peculiarity relative to spiritual superiors and the jurisdiction exercised in it. [Eng.] — Rural dean, one having, under the bishop, the especial care and inspection of the clergy within certain parishes or districts of the diocese.
2. The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college. Shipley.
3. The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
4. A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department. [U.S.]
5. The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as the dean of the diplomatic corps; — so called by courtesy. Cardinal dean, the senior cardinal bishop of the college of cardinals at Rome. Shipley. — Dean and chapter, the legal corporation and governing body of a cathedral. It consists of the dean, who is chief, and his canons or prebendaries. — Dean of arches, the lay judge of the court of arches. — Dean of faculty, the president of an incorporation or barristers; specifically, the president of the incorporation of advocates in Edinburgh. — Dean of guild, a magistrate of Scotch burghs, formerly, and still, in some burghs, chosen by the Guildry, whose duty is to superintend the erection of new buildings and see that they conform to the law. — Dean of a monastery, Monastic dean, a monastic superior over ten monks. — Dean’s stall. See Decanal stall, under Decanal.

Dear (der), a. [ Compar. Dearer (-er); superl. Dearest (-est).] [OE. dere, deore, AS. deóre; akin to OS. diuri, D. duur, OHG. tiuri, G. theuer, teuer, Icel. dyrr, Dan. & Sw. dyr. Cf. Darling, Dearth.]
1. Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.
"The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear." Shak.
2. Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as a dear year.
3. Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious. "Hear me, dear lady." Shak.
"Neither count I my life dear unto myself." Acts xx. 24.
"And the last joy was dearer than the rest." Pope.
"Dear as remember’d kisses after death." Tennyson.
4. Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention. (a) Of agreeable things and interests.
"[I’ll] leave you to attend him: some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up awhile." Shak.
"His dearest wish was to escape from the bustle and glitter of Whitehall." Macaulay. (b) Of disagreeable things and antipathies.
"In our dear peril." Shak.
"Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day." Shak.

Dear, n. A dear one; lover; sweetheart.
"That kiss I carried from thee, dear." Shak.

Dear, adv. Dearly; at a high price.
"If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear." Shak.

Dear, v. t. To endear. [Obs.] Shelton.

Dearborn
Dear´born, n. A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.

Dear-bought
Dear´-bought, a. Bought at a high price; as dear-bought experience.

Deare, variant of Dere, v. t. & n. [Obs.]

Dear-loved
Dear´-loved, a. Greatly beloved. Shak.

Dearly
Dear´ly, adv.
1. In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as to love one dearly.
2. At a high rate or price; grievously.
"He buys his mistress dearly with his throne." Dryden.
3. Exquisitely. [Obs.] Shak.

Dearn, a. [AS. derne, dyrne, dierne, hidden, secret. Cf. Derne.] Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful. [Obs.] Shak. — Dearn´ly, adv. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dearn, v. t. Same as Darn. [Obs.]

Dearth, n. [OE. derthe, fr. dere. See Dear.] Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
"There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt." Acts vii. 11.
"He with her press’d, she faint with dearth." Shak.
"Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination." Dryden.

Dearworth
Dear´worth, a. [See Derworth.] Precious. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Deas
De´as, n. See Dais. [Scot.]

Death’s-herb
Death’s´-herb, n. The deadly nightshade ( Atropa belladonna). Dr. Prior.

Deathbed
Death´bed, 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.
"That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen’s deathbed is described." Thackeray.

Deathbird
Death´bird, n. (Zoöl.) Tengmalm’s or Richardson’s owl ( Nyctale Tengmalmi); — so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.

Deathblow
Death´blow, n. A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.
"The deathblow of my hope." Byron.

Deathful
Death´ful, a.
1. Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
"These eyes behold The deathful scene." Pope.
2. Liable to undergo death; mortal.
"The deathless gods and deathful earth." Chapman.

Deathfulness
Death´ful•ness, n. Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.

Deathless
Death´less, a. Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as deathless beings; deathless fame.

Deathlike
Death´like, a.
1. Resembling death.
"A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose." Pope.
2. Deadly. [Obs.] "Deathlike dragons." Shak.

Deathliness
Death´li•ness, n. The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.

Deathly
Death´ly, a. Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.

Deathly
Death´ly, adv. Deadly; as deathly pale or sick.

Deathsman
Deaths´man, n. An executioner; a headsman or hangman. [Obs.] Shak.

Deathward
Death´ward, adv. Toward death.

Deathwatch
Death´watch ( 224), n.
1. (Zoöl.) (a) A small beetle ( Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. (b) A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; — called also deathtick.
"She is always seeing apparitions and hearing deathwatches." Addison.
"I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat." Tennyson.
2. The guard set over a criminal before his execution.

Deaurate
De•au´rate, a. [L. deauratus, p. p. of deaurare to gild; de- + aurum gold.] Gilded. [Obs.]

Deaurate
De•au´rate, v. t. To gild. [Obs.] Bailey.

Deauration
De•au•ra´tion, n. Act of gilding. [Obs.]

Deave, v. t. [See Deafen.] To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen. [Scot.]

Debacchation
De•bac•cha´tion, n. [L. debacchatio.] Wild raving or debauchery. [R.] Prynne.

Debacle
De•ba´cle, n. [F. debâcle, fr. debâcler to unbar, break loose; pref. de- (prob. = L. dis) + bâcler to bolt, fr. L. baculum a stick.] (Geol.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris.

Debacle
De•ba´cle, n. A sudden breaking up or breaking loose; a violent dispersion or disruption; impetuous rush; outburst.

Debar
De•bar´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Debarred p. pr. & vb. n. Debarring.] [Pref. de- + bar.] To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; — with from, and sometimes with of.
"Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed Labor, as to debar us when we need Refreshment." Milton.
"Their wages were so low as to debar them, not only from the comforts but from the common decencies of civilized life." Buckle.

Debark
De´bark´, v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Debarked p. pr. & vb. n. Debarking.] [F. debarquer; pref. de- (L. dis-) + barque. See Bark the vessel, and cf. Disbark.] To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.

Debarment
De•bar´ment, n. Hindrance from approach; exclusion.

Debarrass
De•bar´rass, v. t. [Cf. F. debarrasser. See Embarrass.] To disembarrass; to relieve. [R.]

Debasement
De•base´ment, n. The act of debasing or the state of being debased. Milton.

Debaser
De•bas´er, n. One who, or that which, debases.

Debasingly
De•bas´ing•ly, adv. In a manner to debase.

Debatable
De•bat´a•ble, a. [Cf. OF. debatable. See Debate.] Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as a debatable question. The Debatable Land or Ground, a tract of land between the Esk and the Sark, claimed by both England and Scotland; the Batable Ground.

Debatefully
De•bate´ful•ly, adv. With contention. [Obs.]

Debatement
De•bate´ment, n. [Cf. OF. debatement a beating.] Controversy; deliberation; debate. [R.]
"A serious question and debatement with myself." Milton.

Debater
De•bat´er, n. One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.
"Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters." Shak.

Debating
De•bat´ing, n. The act of discussing or arguing; discussion. Debating society or club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.

Debatingly
De•bat´ing•ly, adv. In the manner of a debate.

Debauch
De•bauch´, v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Debauched p. pr. & vb. n. Debauching.] [F. debaucher, prob. originally, to entice away from the workshop; pref. de- (L. dis- or de) + OF. bauche, bauge, hut, cf. F. bauge lair of a wild boar; prob. from G. or Icel., cf. Icel. balkr. See Balk, n. ] To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as to debauch one’s self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army.
"Learning not debauched by ambition." Burke.
"A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin." South.
"Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes." Cowley.

Debauch
De•bauch´, n. [Cf. F. debauche.]
1. Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.
"The first physicians by debauch were made." Dryden.
2. An act or occasion of debauchery.
"Silenus, from his night’s debauch, Fatigued and sick." Cowley.

Debauched
De•bauched´, a. Dissolute; dissipated. "A coarse and debauched look." Ld. Lytton.

Debauchedly
De•bauch´ed•ly, adv. In a profligate manner.

Debauchedness
De•bauch´ed•ness, n. The state of being debauched; intemperance. Bp. Hall.

Debauchee
Deb•au•chee´, n. [F. debauche, n. , properly p. p. of debaucher. See Debauch, v. t.] One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

Debauchery
De•bauch´er•y, n. ; pl. Debaucheries .
1. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.
"The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army." Burke.
2. Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness.
"Oppose … debauchery by temperance." Sprat.

Debauchment
De•bauch´ment, n. The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.

Debauchness
De•bauch´ness, n. Debauchedness. [Obs.]

Debeige
De•beige´, n. [F. de of + beige the natural color of wool.] A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods. [Written also debage.]

Debel
De•bel´, v. t. [Cf. F. debeller. See Debellate.] To conquer. [Obs.] Milton.

Debellation
Deb•el•la´tion, n. [LL. debellatio.] The act of conquering or subduing. [Obs.]

Debenture
De•ben´ture ( 135), n. [L. debentur they are due, fr. debere to owe; cf. F. debentur. So called because these receipts began with the words Debentur mihi.]
1. A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.
2. A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation. Burrill. It is applied in England to deeds of mortgage given by railway companies for borrowed money; also to municipal and other bonds and securities for money loaned.

Debenture
De•ben´ture, n. Any of various instruments issued, esp. by corporations, as evidences of debt. Such instruments (often called debenture bonds are generally, through not necessarily, under seal, and are usually secured by a mortgage or other charge upon property; they may be registered or unregistered. A debenture secured by a mortgage on specific property is called a mortgage debenture; one secured by a floating charge (which see), a floating debenture; one not secured by any charge a naked debenture. In general the term debenture in British usage designates any security issued by companies other than their shares, including, therefore, what are in the United States commonly called bonds. When used in the United States debenture generally designates an instrument secured by a floating charge junior to other charges secured by fixed mortgages, or, specif., one of a series of securities secured by a group of securities held in trust for the benefit of the debenture holders.

Debenture stock. (Finance) The debt or series of debts, collectively, represented by a series of debentures; a debt secured by a trust deed of property for the benefit of the holders of shares in the debt or of a series of debentures. By the terms of much debenture stock the holders are not entitled to demand payment until the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the case of railway debentures, they cannot demand payment of the principal, and the debtor company cannot redeem the stock, except by authority of an act of Parliament. [Eng.]

Debentured
De•ben´tured ( 135), a. Entitled to drawback or debenture; as debentured goods.

Debile
Deb´ile, a. [L. debilis: cf. F. debile. See Debility.] Weak. [Obs.] Shak.

Debilitate
De•bil´i•tate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Debilitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Debilitating.] [L. debilitatus, p. p. of debilitare to debilitate, fr. debilis. See Debility.] To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as to debilitate the body by intemperance.
"Various ails debilitate the mind." Jenyns.
"The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort." Sir W. Scott.

Debility
De•bil´i•ty, n. [L. debilitas, fr. debilis weak, prob. fr. de- + habilis able: cf. F. debilite. See Able, a. ] The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.
"The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death." Arbuthnot.
Syn. — Debility, Infirmity, Imbecility. An infirmity belongs, for the most part, to particular members, and is often temporary, as of the eyes, etc. Debility is more general, and while it lasts impairs the ordinary functions of nature. Imbecility attaches to the whole frame, and renders it more or less powerless. Debility may be constitutional or may be the result or superinduced causes; Imbecility is always constitutional; infirmity is accidental, and results from sickness or a decay of the frame. These words, in their figurative uses, have the same distinctions; we speak of infirmity of will, debility of body, and an Imbecility which affects the whole man; but Imbecility is often used with specific reference to feebleness of mind.

Debituminize
De•bi•tu´mi•nize, v. t. To deprive of bitumen.

Deblai
De•blai´, n. [F.] (Fort.) The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.

Debonair
Deb•o•nair´, a. [OE. debonere, OF. de bon aire, debonaire, of good descent or lineage, excellent, debonair, F. debonnaire debonair; de of (L. de) + bon good (L. bonus) + aire. See Air, and Bounty, and cf. Bonair.] Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant.
"Was never prince so meek and debonair." Spenser.

Debonairly
Deb•o•nair´ly, adv. Courteously; elegantly.

Debonairness
Deb•o•nair´ness, n. The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy. Sterne.

Debosh
De•bosh´, v. t. [Old form of debauch.] To debauch. [Obs.] "A deboshed lady." Beau. & Fl.

Deboshment
De•bosh´ment, n. Debauchment. [Obs.]

Debouch
De•bouch´, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Debouched p. pr. & vb. n. Debouching.] [F. deboucher; pref. de- (L. dis- or de) + boucher to stop up, fr. bouche mouth, fr. L. bucca the cheek. Cf. Disembogue.] To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.
"Battalions debouching on the plain." Prescott.

Debouch
De•bouch´, v. i. (Geog.) To issue; — said of a stream passing from a gorge out into an open valley or a plain.

Debouche
De•bou•che´, n. [F.] A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods.
"The debouches were ordered widened to afford easy egress." The Century.

Debouchure
De•bou•chure´, n. [F.] The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait.

Debris
De•bris´, n. [F., fr. pref. de- (L. dis) + briser to break, shatter; perh. of Celtic origin.]
1. (Geol.) Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.
2. Rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of anything; remains; ruins.

Debruised
De•bruised´, a. [Cf. OF. debruisier to shatter, break. Cf. Bruise.] (Her.) Surmounted by an ordinary; as a lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut.
"The lion of England and the lilies of France without the baton sinister, under which, according to the laws of heraldry, they where debruised in token of his illegitimate birth." Macaulay.

Debtee
Debt•ee´, n. (Law) One to whom a debt is due; creditor; — correlative to debtor. Blackstone.

Debtless
Debt´less, a. Free from debt. Chaucer.

Debtor
Debt´or, n. [OE. dettur, dettour, OF. detor, detur, detour, F. debiteur, fr. L. debitor, fr. debere to owe. See Debt.] One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; — correlative to creditor.
"[I ’ll] bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first." Shak.
"In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor." Mitford.
"Debtors for our lives to you." Tennyson.

Debullition
Deb•ul•li´tion, n. [See Debulliate.] A bubbling or boiling over. [Obs.] Bailey.

Debuscope
De´bu•scope, n. [From the inventor, Debus, a French optician + -scope.] (Opt.) A modification of the kaleidoscope; — used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs.

Debut
De•but´, n. [F. debut, prop., the first cast or throw at play, fr. but aim, mark. See Butt an end.] A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.

Decadal
Dec´a•dal, a. Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.

Decade
Dec´ade, n. [F. decade, L. decas, -adis, fr. Gr., fr. de•ka ten. See Ten.] A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy. [Written also decad.]
"During this notable decade of years." Gladstone. { De•ca´dence, De•ca´den•cy } n. [LL. decadentia; L. de- + cadere to fall: cf. F. decadence. See Decay.] A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence." Sir W. Scott.

Decadist
Dec´a•dist, n. A writer of a book divided into decades; as Livy was a decadist. [R.]

Decagon
Dec´a•gon, n. [Pref. deca- + Gr. a corner or angle: cf. F. decagone.] (Geom.) A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.

Decagonal
De•cag´o•nal, a. Pertaining to a decagon; having ten sides. { Dec´a•gram, Dec´a•gramme }, n. [F. decagramme; Gr. de•ka ten + F. gramme. See Gram.] A weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois.

Decahedral
Dec•a•he´dral, a. Having ten sides.

Decahedron
Dec•a•he´dron, n. ; pl. E. Decahedrons (#), L. Decahedra (#). [Pref. deca- + Gr. ’e•dra a seat, a base, fr. ’e•zesthai to sit: cf. F. decaèdre.] (Geom.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. [Written also less correctly, decaedron.]

Decalcification
De•cal•ci•fi•ca´tion, n. The removal of calcareous matter.

Decalcify
De•cal´ci•fy, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decalcified p. pr. & vb. n. Decalcifying.] To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin. { De•cal•co•ma´ni•a, De•cal•co•ma´nie } n. [F. decalcomanie.] The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto. { Dec´a•li•ter, Dec´a•li•tre }, n. [F. decalitre; Gr. de•ka ten + F. litre. See Liter.] A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons.

Decalogist
De•cal´o•gist, n. One who explains the decalogue. J. Gregory.

Decalogue
Dec´a•logue ( 115), n. [F. decalogue, L. decalogus, fr. Gr. ; de•ka ten + speech, to speak, to say. See Ten.] The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.

Decanal
Dec´a•nal ( 277), a. [Cf. F. decanal. See Dean.] Pertaining to a dean or deanery.
"His rectorial as well as decanal residence." Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean’s tall is placed. — Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side of the chancel. Shipley.

Decane
Dec´ane, n. [See Deca-.] (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C₁₀H₂₂, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.

Decani
De•ca´ni, a. [L., lit., of the dean.] Used of the side of the choir on which the dean’s stall is placed; decanal; — correlative to cantoris; as the decanal, or decani, side.

Decant
De•cant´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Decanting.] [F. decanter (cf. It. decantare), prop., to pour off from the edge of a vessel; pref. de- (L. de) + OF. cant (It. canto) edge, border, end. See Cant an edge.] To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as to decant wine.

Decantation
De•can•ta´tion ( 277), n. [Cf. F. decantation.] The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.

Decanter
De•cant´er, n.
1. 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.
2. One who decants liquors.

Decaphyllous
De•caph´yl•lous, a. [Pref. deca- + Gr. leaf: cf. F. decaphylle.] (Bot.) Having ten leaves.

Decapitate
De•cap´i•tate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decapitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Decapitating.] [LL. decapitatus, p. p. of decapitare; L. de- + caput head. See Chief.]
1. To cut off the head of; to behead.
2. To remove summarily from office. [Colloq. U. S.]

Decapod
Dec´a•pod (dek"a•pod), n. [Cf. F. decapode.] (Zoöl.) A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.

Decapoda
De•cap´o•da (de•kap"o•da), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. de•ka ten + poy•s, podo•s, foot.]
1. (Zoöl.) The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc. They have a carapace, covering and uniting the somites of the head and thorax and inclosing a gill chamber on each side, and usually have five (rarely six) pairs of legs. They are divided into two principal groups: Brachyura and Macrura. Some writers recognize a third (Anomura) intermediate between the others.
2. (Zoöl.) A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera. { De•cap´o•dal, De•cap´o•dous } a. (Zoöl.) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

Decarbonization
De•car•bon•i•za´tion, n. The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.

Decarbonize
De•car´bon•ize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decarbonized p. pr. & vb. n. Decarbonizing.] To deprive of carbon; as to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood. Decarbonized iron. See Malleable iron. — Decarbonized steel, homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron.

Decarburization
De•car•bu•ri•za´tion, n. The act, process, or result of decarburizing.

Decarburize
De•car´bu•rize, v. t. To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.

Decard
De•card´, v. t. To discard. [Obs.]
"You have cast those by, decarded them." J. Fletcher.

Decardinalize
De•car´di•nal•ize, v. t. To depose from the rank of cardinal.

Decastere
Dec´a•stere, n. [L. decastère; Gr. de•ka ten + F. stère a stere.] (Metric System) A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.

Decastich
Dec´a•stich, n. [Pref. deca- + Gr. sti•chos a row, a line of writing, a verse.] A poem consisting of ten lines.

Decastyle
Dec´a•style, a. [Gr. ; de•ka ten + sty•los a column.] (Arch.) Having ten columns in front; — said of a portico, temple, etc. — n. A portico having ten pillars or columns in front.

Decasyllabic
Dec•a•syl•lab´ic, a. [Pref. deca- + syllabic: cf. F. decasyllabique, decasyllable.] Having, or consisting of, ten syllables.

Decathlon
De•cath´lon, n. [See Deca-; Pentathlon.] In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest consisting of a 100-meter run, a broad jump, putting the shot, a running high-jump, a 400-meter run, throwing the discus, a 100-meter hurdle race, pole vaulting, throwing the javelin, and a 1500-meter run.

Decay
De•cay´, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Decayed p. pr. & vb. n. Decaying.] [OF. decaeir, dechaer, decheoir, F. dechoir, to decline, fall, become less; L. de- + cadere to fall. See Chance.] To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay.
"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay." Goldsmith.

Decay
De•cay´, v. t.
1. To cause to decay; to impair. [R.]
"Infirmity, that decays the wise." Shak.
2. To destroy. [Obs.] Shak.

Decay
De•cay´, n.
1. Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay.
"Perhaps my God, though he be far before, May turn, and take me by the hand, and more - May strengthen my decays." Herbert.
"His [Johnson’s] failure was not to be ascribed to intellectual decay." Macaulay.
"Which has caused the decay of the consonants to follow somewhat different laws." James Byrne.
2. Destruction; death. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. Cause of decay. [R.]
"He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers, is the decay of the whole age." Bacon.
Syn. — Decline; consumption. See Decline.

Decayer
De•cay´er, n. A causer of decay. [R.]

Decease
De•cease´, n. [OE. deses, deces, F. decès, fr. L. decessus departure, death, fr. decedere to depart, die; de- + cedere to withdraw. See Cease, Cede.] Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
"His decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem." Luke ix. 31.
"And I, the whilst you mourn for his decease, Will with my mourning plaints your plaint increase." Spenser.
Syn. — Death; departure; dissolution; demise; release. See Death.

Decease
De•cease´, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Deceased p. pr. & vb. n. Deceasing.] To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.
"She’s dead, deceased, she’s dead." Shak.
"When our summers have deceased." Tennyson.
"Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature." Emerson.

Decede
De•cede´, v. i. [L. decedere. See Decease, n. ] To withdraw. [Obs.] Fuller.

Deceit
De•ceit´, n. [OF. deceit, desçait, decept (cf. deceite, deçoite), fr. L. deceptus deception, fr. decipere. See Deceive.]
1. An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.
"Making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit." Amos viii. 5.
"Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile." Milton.
"Yet still we hug the dear deceit." N. Cotton.
2. (Law) Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.
Syn. — Deception; fraud; imposition; duplicity; trickery; guile; falsifying; double-dealing; stratagem. See Deception.

Deceitfully
De•ceit´ful•ly, adv. With intent to deceive.

Deceitfulness
De•ceit´ful•ness, n.
1. The disposition to deceive; as a man’s deceitfulness may be habitual.
2. The quality of being deceitful; as the deceitfulness of a man’s practices.
3. Tendency to mislead or deceive. "The deceitfulness of riches." Matt. xiii. 22.

Deceitless
De•ceit´less, a. Free from deceit. Bp. Hall.

Deceivable
De•ceiv´a•ble, a. [F. decevable.]
1. Fitted to deceive; deceitful. [Obs.]
"The fraud of deceivable traditions." Milton.
2. Subject to deceit; capable of being misled.
"Blind, and thereby deceivable." Milton.

Deceivableness
De•ceiv´a•ble•ness, n.
1. Capability of deceiving.
"With all deceivableness of unrighteousness." 2 Thess. ii. 10.
2. Liability to be deceived or misled; as the deceivableness of a child.

Deceivably
De•ceiv´a•bly, adv. In a deceivable manner.

Deceive
De•ceive´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deceived p. pr. & vb. n. Deceiving.] [OE. deceveir, F. decevoir, fr. L. decipere to catch, insnare, deceive; de- + capere to take, catch. See Capable, and cf. Deceit, Deception.]
1. To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare.
"Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." 2 Tim. iii. 13.
"Nimble jugglers that deceive the eye." Shak.
"What can ’scape the eye Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart?" Milton.
2. To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception.
"These occupations oftentimes deceived The listless hour." Wordsworth.
3. To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud. [Obs.]
"Plant fruit trees in large borders, and set therein fine flowers, but thin and sparingly, lest they deceive the trees." Bacon.
Syn. — Deceive, Delude, Mislead. Deceive is a general word applicable to any kind of misrepresentation affecting faith or life. To delude, primarily, is to make sport of, by deceiving, and is accomplished by playing upon one’s imagination or credulity, as by exciting false hopes, causing him to undertake or expect what is impracticable, and making his failure ridiculous. It implies some infirmity of judgment in the victim, and intention to deceive in the deluder. But it is often used reflexively, indicating that a person’s own weakness has made him the sport of others or of fortune; as he deluded himself with a belief that luck would always favor him. To mislead is to lead, guide, or direct in a wrong way, either willfully or ignorantly.

Decemdentate
De•cem•den´tate, a. [L. decem ten + E. dentate.] Having ten points or teeth.

Decemfid
De•cem´fid (de•sem"fid), a. [L. decem ten + root of findere to cleave.] (Bot.) Cleft into ten parts.

Decemlocular
De•cem•loc´u•lar, a. [L. decem ten + E. locular.] (Bot.) Having ten cells for seeds.

Decempedal
De•cem´pe•dal (de•sem"pe•d al), a. [L. decem ten + E. pedal.]
1. Ten feet in length.
2. (Zoöl.) Having ten feet; decapodal. [R.] Bailey.

Decemvir
De•cem´vir, n. ; pl. E. Decemvirs (#), L. Decemviri (#). [L., fr. decem ten + vir a man.]
1. One of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome. The title of decemvirs was given to various bodies of Roman magistrates. The most celebrated decemvirs framed "the laws of the Twelve Tables," about 450 B. C., and had absolute authority for three years.
2. A member of any body of ten men in authority.

Decemvirate
De•cem´vi•rate, n. [L. decemviratus.]
1. The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.
2. A body of ten men in authority.

Decemvirship
De•cem´vir•ship, n. The office of a decemvir. Holland.

Decence
De´cence, n. Decency. [Obs.] Dryden.

Decency
De´cen•cy, n. ; pl. Decencies (#). [L. decentia, fr. decens: cf. F. decence. See Decent.]
1. The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.
"Observances of time, place, and of decency in general." Burke.
"Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of decency is want of sense." Roscommon.
2. That which is proper or becoming.
"The external decencies of worship." Atterbury.
"Those thousand decencies, that daily flow From all her words and actions." Milton.

Decennary
De•cen´na•ry, n. ; pl. Decennaries (#). [L. decennium a period of ten years; decem ten + annus a year.]
1. A period of ten years.
2. (O. Eng. Law) A tithing consisting of ten neighboring families. Burrill.

Decennial
De•cen´ni•al, a. [See Decennary.] Consisting of ten years; happening every ten years; as a decennial period; decennial games. Hallam.

Decennial
De•cen´ni•al, n. A tenth year or tenth anniversary.

Decennium
De•cen´ni•um, n. ; pl. Decenniums (#), L. Decennia (#). [L.] A period of ten years. "The present decennium." Hallam. "The last decennium of Chaucer’s life." A. W. Ward. { De•cen´no•val, De•cen´no•va•ry } a. [L. decem ten + novem nine.] Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years. [R.] Holder.

Decent
De´cent (de"s ent), a. [L. decens, decentis, p. pr. of decere to be fitting or becoming; akin to decus glory, honor, ornament, Gr. dokei^n to seem good, to seem, think; cf. Skr. daç to grant, to give; and perh. akin to E. attire, tire: cf. F. decent. Cf. Decorate, Decorum, Deign.]
1. Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as decent conduct; decent language. Shak.
"Before his decent steps." Milton.
2. Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.
3. Comely; shapely; well-formed. [Archaic]
"A sable stole of cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn." Milton.
"By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed." Pope.
4. Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as a decent fortune; a decent person.
"A decent retreat in the mutability of human affairs." Burke. — De´cent•ly, adv. — De´cent•ness, n.

Decentralize
De•cen´tral•ize, v. t. To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); — esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.

Deceptible
De•cep´ti•ble, a. Capable of being deceived; deceivable. Sir T. Browne. — De•cep•ti•bil´i•ty, n.

Deception
De•cep´tion, n. [F. deception, L. deceptio, fr. decipere, deceptum. See Deceive.]
1. The act of deceiving or misleading. South.
2. The state of being deceived or misled.
"There is one thing relating either to the action or enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to deception." South.
3. That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
"There was of course room for vast deception." Motley.
Syn. — Deception, Deceit, Fraud, Imposition. Deception usually refers to the act, and deceit to the habit of the mind; hence we speak of a person as skilled in deception and addicted to deceit. The practice of deceit springs altogether from design, and that of the worst kind; but a deception does not always imply aim and intention. It may be undesigned or accidental. An imposition is an act of deception practiced upon some one to his annoyance or injury; a fraud implies the use of stratagem, with a view to some unlawful gain or advantage.

Deceptive
De•cep´tive, a. [Cf. F. deceptif. See Deceive.] Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as a deceptive countenance or appearance.
"Language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes." Trench. Deceptive cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or in some foreign key, postponing the final close.

Deceptiveness
De•cep´tive•ness, n. The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive.

Deceptivity
De•cep•tiv´i•ty, n. Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham. [R.] Carlyle.

Deceptory
De•cep´to•ry, a. [L. deceptorius, from decipere.] Deceptive. [R.]

Decern
De•cern´, v. t. [L. decernere. See Decree.]
1. To perceive, discern, or decide. [Obs.] Granmer.
2. (Scots Law) To decree; to adjudge.

Decerp
De•cerp´, v. t. [L. decerpere; de- + carpere to pluck.] To pluck off; to crop; to gather. [Obs.]

Decerpt
De•cerpt´, a. [L. decerptus, p. p. of decerpere.] Plucked off or away. [Obs.]

Decerptible
De•cerp´ti•ble, a. That may be plucked off, cropped, or torn away. [Obs.] Bailey.

Decerption
De•cerp´tion, n.
1. The act of plucking off; a cropping.
2. That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece. Glanvill.

Decertation
De•cer•ta´tion, n. [L. decertatio, fr. decertare, decertatum; de- + certare to contend.] Contest for mastery; contention; strife. [R.] Arnway.

Decession
De•ces´sion, n. [L. decessio, fr. decedere to depart. See Decease, n. ] Departure; decrease; — opposed to accesion. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Decide
De•cide´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decided; p. pr. & vb. n. Deciding.] [L. decidere; de- + caedere to cut, cut off; prob. akin to E. shed, v.: cf. F. decider. Cf. Decision.]
1. To cut off; to separate. [Obs.]
"Our seat denies us traffic here; The sea, too near, decides us from the rest." Fuller.
2. To bring to a termination, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment concerning; to determine; to settle.
"So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it." 1 Kings xx. 40.
"The quarrel toucheth none but us alone; Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then." Shak.

Decide
De•cide´, v. i. To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision; as the court decided in favor of the defendant.
"Who shall decide, when doctors disagree?" Pope.

Decided
De•cid´ed, a.
1. Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; clear; evident; as a decided advantage. "A more decided taste for science." Prescott.
2. Free from doubt or wavering; determined; of fixed purpose; fully settled; positive; resolute; as a decided opinion or purpose.
Syn. — Decided, Decisive. We call a thing decisive when it has the power or quality of deciding; as a decisive battle; we speak of it as decided when it is so fully settled as to leave no room for doubt; as a decided preference, a decided aversion. Hence, a decided victory is one about which there is no question; a decisive victory is one which ends the contest. Decisive is applied only to things; as a decisive sentence, a decisive decree, a decisive judgment. Decided is applied equally to persons and things. Thus we speak of a man as decided in his whole of conduct; and as having a decided disgust, or a decided reluctance, to certain measures. "A politic caution, a guarded circumspection, were among the ruling principles of our forefathers in their most decided conduct." Burke. "The sentences of superior judges are final, decisive, and irrevocable. Blackstone.

Decidement
De•cide´ment, n. Means of forming a decision. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Decidence
Dec´i•dence, n. [L. decidens falling off.] A falling off. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Decider
De•cid´er, n. One who decides.

Decidua
De•cid´u•a ( 135), n. [NL., fr. L. deciduus. See Deciduous.] (Anat.) The inner layer of the wall of the uterus, which envelops the embryo, forms a part of the placenta, and is discharged with it.

Deciduate
De•cid´u•ate ( 135), a. (Anat.) Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua.

Deciduity
Dec•i•du´i•ty, n. Deciduousness. [R.]

Deciduous
De•cid´u•ous ( 135), a. [L. deciduus, fr. decdere to fall off; de- + cadere to fall. See Chance.] (Biol.) Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals, such as hair, teeth, antlers, etc.; also shedding leaves or parts at certain seasons, stages, or intervals; as deciduous trees; the deciduous membrane.

Decimal
Dec´i•mal, a. [F. decimal (cf. LL. decimalis), fr. L. decimus tenth, fr. decem ten. See Ten, and cf. Dime.] Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as decimal notation; a decimal coinage. Decimal arithmetic, the common arithmetic, in which numeration proceeds by tens. — Decimal fraction, a fraction in which the denominator is some power of 10, as &frac2x10;, &fract25x100;, and is usually not expressed, but is signified by a point placed at the left hand of the numerator, as .2, .25. — Decimal point, a dot or full stop at the left of a decimal fraction. The figures at the left of the point represent units or whole numbers, as 1.05.

Decimal
Dec´i•mal, n. A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction. Circulating, or Circulatory, decimal, a decimal fraction in which the same figure, or set of figures, is constantly repeated; as 0.354354354; - - called also recurring decimal, repeating decimal, and repetend.

Decimalism
Dec´i•mal•ism, n. The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights, measures, etc.

Decimalize
Dec´i•mal•ize, v. t. To reduce to a decimal system; as to decimalize the currency. — Dec•i•mal•i•za´tion (#), n.

Decimally
Dec´i•mal•ly, adv. By tens; by means of decimals.

Decimate
Dec´i•mate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decimated p. pr. & vb. n. Decimating ] [L. decimatus, p. p. of decimare to decimate (in senses 1 & 2), fr. decimus tenth. See Decimal.]
1. To take the tenth part of; to tithe. Johnson.
2. To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny. Macaulay.
3. To destroy a considerable part of; as to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.

Decimator
Dec´i•ma•tor, n. [Cf. LL. decimator.] One who decimates. South.

Decime
De•cime´, n. [F.] A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about two cents. { Dec´i•me•ter, Dec´i•me•tre }, n. [F. decimètre; pref. deci- tenth (fr. L. decimus) + mètre. See Meter.] A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.

Decine
De´cine ( 104), n. [From L. decem ten.] (Chem.) One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H15, of the acetylene series; — called also decenylene.

Decipher
De•ci´pher, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deciphered p. pr. & vb. n. Deciphering.] [Pref. de- + cipher. Formed in imitation of F. dechiffrer. See Cipher.]
1. To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as to decipher a letter written in secret characters.
2. 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.
3. To stamp; to detect; to discover. [R.]
"You are both deciphered, … For villains." Shak.

Decipherer
De•ci´pher•er, n. One who deciphers.

Decipheress
De•ci´pher•ess, n. A woman who deciphers.

Decipherment
De•ci´pher•ment, n. The act of deciphering.

Decipiency
De•cip´i•en•cy, n. [L. decipiens, p. pr. of decipere. See Deceive.] State of being deceived; hallucination. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Decivilize
De•civ´i•lize, v. t. To reduce from civilization to a savage state. [R.] Blackwood’s Mag.

Deck, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decked p. pr. & vb. n. Decking.] [D. dekken to cover; akin to E. thatch. See Thatch.]
1. To cover; to overspread.
"To deck with clouds the uncolored sky." Milton.
2. To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.
"Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency." Job xl. 10.
"And deck my body in gay ornaments." Shak.
"The dew with spangles decked the ground." Dryden.
3. To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.

Deck, n. [D. dek. See Deck, v. ]
1. The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks. The following are the more common names of the decks of vessels having more than one. Berth deck (Navy), a deck next below the gun deck, where the hammocks of the crew are swung. — Boiler deck (River Steamers), the deck on which the boilers are placed. — Flush deck, any continuous, unbroken deck from stem to stern. — Gun deck (Navy), a deck below the spar deck, on which the ship’s guns are carried. If there are two gun decks, the upper one is called the main deck, the lower, the lower gun deck; if there are three, one is called the middle gun deck. — Half-deck, that portion of the deck next below the spar deck which is between the mainmast and the cabin. — Hurricane deck (River Steamers, etc.), the upper deck, usually a light deck, erected above the frame of the hull. — Orlop deck, the deck or part of a deck where the cables are stowed, usually below the water line. — Poop deck, the deck forming the roof of a poop or poop cabin, built on the upper deck and extending from the mizzenmast aft. — Quarter-deck, the part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. — Spar deck. (a) Same as the upper deck. (b) Sometimes a light deck fitted over the upper deck. — Upper deck, the highest deck of the hull, extending from stem to stern.
2. (arch.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.
3. (Railroad) The roof of a passenger car.
4. A pack or set of playing cards.
"The king was slyly fingered from the deck." Shak.
5. A heap or store. [Obs.]
"Who … hath such trinkets Ready in the deck." Massinger. Between decks. See under Between. — Deck bridge (Railroad Engineering), a bridge which carries the track upon the upper chords; — distinguished from a through bridge, which carries the track upon the lower chords, between the girders. — Deck curb (Arch.), a curb supporting a deck in roof construction. — Deck floor (Arch.), a floor which serves also as a roof, as of a belfry or balcony. — Deck hand, a sailor hired to help on the vessel’s deck, but not expected to go aloft. — Deck molding (Arch.), the molded finish of the edge of a deck, making the junction with the lower slope of the roof. — Deck roof (Arch.), a nearly flat roof which is not surmounted by parapet walls. — Deck transom (Shipbuilding), the transom into which the deck is framed. — To clear the decks (Naut.), to remove every unnecessary incumbrance in preparation for battle; to prepare for action. — To sweep the deck (Card Playing), to clear off all the stakes on the table by winning them.

Deck, n. (Aëronautics) A main aëroplane surface, esp. of a biplane or multiplane.

Deckel
Deck´el, n. (Paper Making) Same as Deckle.

Deckle
Dec´kle (dek"k’l), n. [Cf. G. deckel cover, lid.] (Paper Making) A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper. [Spelt also deckel, and dekle.]

Deckle edge
Dec"kle edge. The rough, untrimmed edge of paper left by the deckle; also a rough edge in imitation of this.

Deckle-edged
Dec´kle-edged, a. Having a deckle edge; as deckle-edged paper; a deckle-edged book.

Declaim
De•claim´, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Declaimed p. pr. & vb. n. Declaiming.] [L. declamare; de- + clamare to cry out: cf. F. declamer. See Claim.]
1. To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as the students declaim twice a week.
2. To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
"Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act." Bancroft.

Declaim
De•claim´, v. t.
1. To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.
2. To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly. [Obs.] "Declaims his cause." South.

Declaimant
De•claim´ant, n. A declaimer. [R.]

Declaimer
De•claim´er, n. One who declaims; an haranguer.

Declamation
Dec•la•ma´tion, n. [L. declamatio, from declamare: cf. F. declamation. See Declaim.]
1. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as the practice declamation by students.
"The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation." Macaulay.
2. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
3. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as mere declamation.

Declamatory
De•clam´a•to•ry, a. [L. declamatorius: cf. F. declamatoire.]
1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as a declamatory theme.
2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as a declamatory way or style.

Declarable
De•clar´a•ble, a. Capable of being declared. Sir T. Browne.

Declarant
De•clar´ant, n. [Cf. F. declarant, p. pr. of declarer.] (Law) One who declares. Abbott.

Declaration
Dec•la•ra´tion, n. [F. declaration, fr. L. declaratio, fr. declarare. See Declare.]
1. The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.
2. That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal.
"Declarations of mercy and love … in the Gospel." Tillotson.
3. The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington).
"In 1776 the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace." Buckle.
4. (Law) That part of the process or pleadings in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff’s case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n. , 3. Declaration of Independence. (Amer. Hist.) See under Independence. — Declaration of rights. (Eng. Hist) See Bill of rights, under Bill. — Declaration of trust (Law), a paper subscribed by a grantee of property, acknowledging that he holds it in trust for the purposes and upon the terms set forth. Abbott.

Declaratively
De•clar´a•tive•ly, adv. By distinct assertion; not impliedly; in the form of a declaration.
"The priest shall expiate it, that is, declaratively." Bates.

Declarator
Dec´la•ra•tor, n. [L., an announcer.] (Scots Law) A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.

Declaratorily
De•clar´a•to•ri•ly, adv. In a declaratory manner.

Declaratory
De•clar´a•to•ry, a. [Cf. F. declaratoire.] Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature. Declaratory act (Law), an act or statute which sets forth more clearly, and declares what is, the existing law.

Declare
De•clare´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Declared (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Declaring.] [F. declarer, from L. declarare; de + clarare to make clear, clarus, clear, bright. See Clear.]
1. To make clear; to free from obscurity. [Obs.] "To declare this a little." Boyle.
2. To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce.
"This day I have begot whom I declare My only Son." Milton.
"The heavens declare the glory of God." Ps. xix. 1.
3. To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as he declares the story to be false.
"I the Lord … declare things that are right." Isa. xlv. 19.
4. (Com.) To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc. To declare off, to recede from an agreement, undertaking, contract, etc.; to renounce. — To declare one’s self, to avow one’s opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses.

Declare
De•clare´, v. i.
1. To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one’s self; — often with for or against; as victory declares against the allies.
"Like fawning courtiers, for success they wait, And then come smiling, and declare for fate." Dryden.
2. (Law) To state the plaintiff’s cause of action at law in a legal form; as the plaintiff declares in trespass.

Declaredly
De•clar´ed•ly, adv. Avowedly; explicitly.

Declaredness
De•clar´ed•ness, n. The state of being declared.

Declarement
De•clare´ment, n. Declaration. [Obs.]

Declarer
De•clar´er, n. One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits. Udall.

Declass
De•class´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Declassed p. pr. & vb. n. Declassing.] [Cf. F. declasser.] To remove from a class; to separate or degrade from one’s class. North Am. Rev.

Declinable
De•clin´a•ble, a. [Cf. F. declinable. See Decline.] Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as declinable parts of speech.

Declinate
Dec´li•nate, a. [L. declinatus, p. p. of declinare. See Decline.] Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.

Declinature
De•clin´a•ture ( 135), n. The act of declining or refusing; as the declinature of an office.

Decline
De•cline´, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Declined p. pr. & vb. n. Declining.] [OE. declinen to bend down, lower, sink, decline (a noun), F. decliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect (a part of speech), avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. See Lean, v. i.]
1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend. "With declining head." Shak.
"He … would decline even to the lowest of his family." Lady Hutchinson.
"Disdaining to decline, Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries." Byron.
"The ground at length became broken and declined rapidly." Sir W. Scott.
2. To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.
"That empire must decline Whose chief support and sinews are of coin." Waller.
"And presume to know … Who thrives, and who declines." Shak.
3. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
"Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies." Ps. cxix. 157.
4. To turn away; to shun; to refuse; — the opposite of accept or consent; as he declined, upon principle.

Decline
De•cline´, v. t.
1. To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
"In melancholy deep, with head declined." Thomson.
"And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste His weary wagon to the western vale." Spenser.
2. To cause to decrease or diminish. [Obs.] "You have declined his means." Beau. & Fl.
"He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it." Burton.
3. To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.
"Could I Decline this dreadful hour?" Massinger.
4. (Gram.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as to decline a noun or an adjective. Now restricted to such words as have case inflections; but formerly it was applied both to declension and conjugation.
"After the first declining of a noun and a verb." Ascham.
5. To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun. [R.] Shak.

Decline
De•cline´, n. [F. declin. See Decline, v. i.]
1. A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.
"Their fathers lived in the decline of literature." Swift.
2. (Med.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as the decline of a fever.
3. A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as to die of a decline. Dunglison.
Syn. — Decline, Decay, Consumption. Decline marks the first stage in a downward progress; decay indicates the second stage, and denotes a tendency to ultimate destruction; consumption marks a steady decay from an internal exhaustion of strength. The health may experience a decline from various causes at any period of life; it is naturally subject to decay with the advance of old age; consumption may take place at almost any period of life, from disease which wears out the constitution. In popular language decline is often used as synonymous with consumption. By a gradual decline, states and communities lose their strength and vigor; by progressive decay, they are stripped of their honor, stability, and greatness; by a consumption of their resources and vital energy, they are led rapidly on to a completion of their existence.

Decliner
De•clin´er, n. He who declines or rejects.
"A studious decliner of honors." Evelyn.

Declinometer
Dec•li•nom´e•ter, n. [ Decline + -meter.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.

Declinous
De•clin´ous, a. Declinate. { De•cliv´i•tous, De•cli´vous } a. Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.

Declivity
De•cliv´i•ty, n. ; pl. Declivities (#). [L. declivitas, fr. declivis sloping, downhill; de + clivus a slope, a hill; akin to clinare to incline: cf. F. declivite. See Decline.]
1. Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; — opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.
2. A descending surface; a sloping place.
"Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters." Derham.

Decoction
De•coc´tion, n. [F. decoction, L. decoctio.]
1. The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
"In decoction … it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom." Bacon.
2. An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
"If the plant be boiled in water, the strained liquor is called the decoction of the plant." Arbuthnot.
"In pharmacy decoction is opposed to infusion, where there is merely steeping." Latham.

Decocture
De•coc´ture ( 135), n. A decoction. [R.]

Decoherer
De•co•her´er, n. [Pref. de- + coherer.] (Elec.) A device for restoring a coherer to its normal condition after it has been affected by an electric wave, a process usually accomplished by some method of tapping or shaking, or by rotation of the coherer.

Decollate
De•col´late, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decollated; p. pr. & vb. n. Decollating.] [L. decollatus, p. p. of decollare to behead; de- + collum neck.] To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.
"The decollated head of St. John the Baptist." Burke.

Decollation
De•col•la´tion, n. [L. decollatio: cf. F. decollation.]
1. The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; — especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.
2. A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist.

Decolletage
De•col•le•tage´ (da•ko•l’•tazh), n. [F. See Decollete.] (Costume) The upper border or part of a decollete corsage.

Decolling
De•col´ling, n. Beheading. [R.]
"By a speedy dethroning and decolling of the king." Parliamentary History (1648).

Decolor
De•col´or, v. t. [Cf. F. decolorer, L. decolorare. Cf. Discolor.] To deprive of color; to bleach.

Decolorate
De•col´or•ate, a. [L. decoloratus, p. p. of decolorare.] Deprived of color.

Decolorate
De•col´or•ate, v. t. To decolor.

Decoloration
De•col•or•a´tion, n. [L. decoloratio: cf. F. decoloration.] The removal or absence of color. Ferrand.

Decolorize
De•col´or•ize, v. t. To deprive of color; to whiten. Turner. — De•col•or•i•za´tion (#), n.

Decomplex
De´com•plex, a. [Pref. de- (intens.) + complex.] Repeatedly compound; made up of complex constituents.

Decomposable
De•com•pos´a•ble, a. Capable of being resolved into constituent elements.

Decompose
De•com•pose´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decomposed p. pr. & vb. n. Decomposing.] [Cf. F. decomposer. Cf. Discompose.] To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.

Decompose
De•com•pose´, v. i. To become resolved or returned from existing combinations; to undergo dissolution; to decay; to rot.

Decomposed
De•com•posed´, a. (Zoöl.) Separated or broken up; — said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.

Decomposite
De•com•pos´ite, a. [Pref. de- (intens.) + composite.]
1. Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.
2. (Bot.) See Decompound, a. , 2.

Decomposite
De•com•pos´ite, n. Anything decompounded.
"Decomposites of three metals or more." Bacon.

Decomposition
De•com•po•si´tion, n. [Pref. de- (in sense 3 intensive) + composition: cf. F. decomposition. Cf. Decomposition.]
1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.
2. The state of being reduced into original elements.
3. Repeated composition; a combination of compounds. [Obs.] Decomposition of forces. Same as Resolution of forces, under Resolution. — Decomposition of light, the division of light into the prismatic colors.

Decompoundable
De•com•pound´a•ble, a. Capable of being decompounded.

Deconcentrate
De•con•cen´trate, v. t. To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize. [R.]

Deconcentration
De•con•cen•tra´tion, n. Act of deconcentrating. [R.]

Deconcoct
De•con•coct´, v. t. To decompose. [R.] Fuller.

Deconsecrate
De•con´se•crate, v. t. To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. — De•con•se•cra´tion (#), n.

Decorament
Dec´o•ra•ment, n. [L. decoramentum. See Decorate, v. t.] Ornament. [Obs.] Bailey.

Decoration Day. = Memorial Day. [U. S.]

Decorator
Dec´o•ra•tor (-ra"ter), n. [Cf. F. decorateur.] One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.

Decore
De•core´, v. t. [Cf. F. decorer. See Decorate.] To decorate; to beautify. [Obs.]
"To decore and beautify the house of God." E. Hall.

Decorous
De•co´rous ( 277), a. [L. decorus, fr. decor comeliness, beauty; akin to decere. See Decent, and cf. Decorum.] 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.
"A decorous pretext the war." Motley. — De•co´rous•ly, adv. — De•co´rous•ness, n.

Decorticator
De•cor´ti•ca•tor, n. A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.

Decorum
De•cor´um, n. [L. decorum, fr. decorus. See Decorous.] Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one’s own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.
"Negligent of the duties and decorums of his station." Hallam.
"If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him, That majesty, to keep decorum, must No less beg than a kingdom." Shak.
Syn. — Decorum, Dignity. Decorum, in accordance with its etymology, is that which is becoming in outward act or appearance; as the decorum of a public assembly. Dignity springs from an inward elevation of soul producing a corresponding effect on the manners; as dignity of personal appearance.

Decoy-duck
De•coy´-duck, n. A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger. Beau. & Fl.

Decoyer
De•coy´er, n. One who decoys another.

Decoy-man
De•coy´-man, n. ; pl. Decoy-men . A man employed in decoying wild fowl.

Decrease
De•crease´, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Decreased p. pr. & vb. n. Decreasing.] [OE. decrecen, fr. OF. decreistre, F. decroître, or from the OF. noun (see Decrease, n. ), fr. L. decrescere to grow less; de + crescere to grow. See Crescent, and cf. Increase.] 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.
"He must increase, but I must decrease." John iii. 30.
Syn. — To Decrease, Diminish. Things usually decrease or fall off by degrees, and from within, or through some cause which is imperceptible; as the flood decreases; the cold decreases; their affection has decreased. Things commonly diminish by an influence from without, or one which is apparent; as the army was diminished by disease; his property is diminishing through extravagance; their affection has diminished since their separation their separation. The turn of thought, however, is often such that these words may be interchanged.
"The olive leaf, which certainly them told The flood decreased." Drayton.
"Crete’s ample fields diminish to our eye; Before the Boreal blasts the vessels fly." Pope.

Decrease
De•crease´, v. t. To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as extravagance decreases one’s means.
"That might decrease their present store." Prior.

Decrease
De•crease´, n. [OE. decrees, OF. decreis, fr. decreistre. See Decrease, v. ]
1. A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as a decrease of revenue or of strength.
2. The wane of the moon. Bacon.

Decreasing
De•creas´ing, a. Becoming less and less; diminishing. — De•creas´ing•ly, adv. Decreasing series (Math.), a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term.

Decreation
De•cre•a´tion, n. Destruction; — opposed to creation. [R.] Cudworth.

Decree
De•cree´, n. [OE. decre, F. decret, fr. L. decretum, neut. decretus, p. p. of decernere to decide; de- + cernere to decide. See Certain, and cf. Decreet, Decretal.]
1. An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru decision. "The decrees of Venice." Sh.
"There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed." Luke ii. 1.
"Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree?" Shak.
2. (Law) (a) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty. (b) A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him. Brande.
3. (Eccl.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
Syn. — Law; regulation; edict; ordinance. See Law.

Decree
De•cree´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decreed p. pr. & vb. n. Decreeing.]
1. To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as a court decrees a restoration of property.
"Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee." Job xxii. 28.
2. To ordain by fate.

Decree
De•cree´, v. i. To make decrees; - - used absolutely.
"Father eternal! thine is to decree; Mine, both in heaven and earth to do thy will." Milton.

Decreeable
De•cree´a•ble, a. Capable of being decreed.

Decreer
De•cre´er, n. One who decrees. J. Goodwin.

Decreet
De•creet´, n. [Cf. Decree.] (Scots Law) The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.

Decrepitation
De•crep•i•ta´tion, n. [Cf. F. decrepitation.] The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.

Decrepitness
De•crep´it•ness, n. Decrepitude. [R.] Barrow.

Decrepitude
De•crep´i•tude, n. [Cf. F. decrepitude.] The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.

Decrescendo
De•cres•cen´do, a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.) With decreasing volume of sound; — a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.

Decrescent
De•cres´cent, a. [L. decrescens, p. pr. of decrescere. See Decrease.] Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as a decrescent moon.

Decrescent
De•cres´cent, n. (Her.) A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister. Cussans.

Decretal
De•cre´tal, a. [L. decretalis, fr. decretum. See Decree.] Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as a decretal epistle. Ayliffe.

Decretal
De•cre´tal, n. [LL. decretale, neut. of L. decretalis. See Decretal, a. ]
1. (R. C. Ch.) 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.
2. (Canon Law) The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.

Decretorily
Dec´re•to•ri•ly, adv. In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree.

Decretory
Dec´re•to•ry, a. [L. decretorius, from decretum. See Decree.]
1. Established by a decree; definitive; settled.
"The decretory rigors of a condemning sentence." South.
2. Serving to determine; critical. "The critical or decretory days." Sir T. Browne.

Decrown
De•crown´, v. t. To deprive of a crown; to discrown. [R.] Hakewill.

Decrustation
De•crus•ta´tion, n. [Cf. OF. decrustation.] The removal of a crust.

Decry
De•cry´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decried p. pr. & vb. n. Decrying.] [F. decrier, OF. descrier; pref. des- (L. dis-) + crier to cry. See Cry, and cf. Descry.] To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage.
"For small errors they whole plays decry." Dryden.
"Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried by the other." Addison.
Syn. — To Decry, Depreciate, Detract, Disparage. Decry and depreciate refer to the estimation of a thing, the former seeking to lower its value by clamorous censure, the latter by representing it as of little worth. Detract and disparage also refer to merit or value, which the former assails with caviling, insinuation, etc., while the latter willfully underrates and seeks to degrade it. Men decry their rivals and depreciate their measures. The envious detract from the merit of a good action, and disparage the motives of him who performs it.

Deculassement
De•cu•lasse•ment´, n. [F.] also sometimes, Anglicized Dec•u•lass´ment . (Ordnance) An accidental blowing off of or other serious damage to the breechblock of a gun also a removal of the breechblock for the purpose of disabling the gun.

Decuman
Dec´u•man, a. [L. decumanus of the tenth, and by metonymy, large, fr. decem ten.] Large; chief; — applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively. "Such decuman billows." Gauden. "The baffled decuman." Lowell. { De•cum´bence, De•cum´ben•cy } n. The act or posture of lying down.
"The ancient manner of decumbency." Sir T. Browne.

Decumbent
De•cum´bent, a. [L. decumbens, -entis, p. pr. of decumbere; de- + cumbere (only in comp.), cubare to lie down.]
1. Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
"The decumbent portraiture of a woman." Ashmole.
2. (Bot.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as a decumbent stem. Gray.

Decumbently
De•cum´bent•ly, adv. In a decumbent posture.

Decumbiture
De•cum´bi•ture ( 135), n.
1. Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one’s bed from sickness. Boyle.
2. (Astrol.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one’s sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.

Decuple
Dec´u•ple, a. [F. decuple, L. decuplus, fr. decem ten.] Tenfold. [R.]

Decuple
Dec´u•ple, n. A number ten times repeated. [R.]

Decuple
Dec´u•ple, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decupled p. pr. & vb. n. Decupling ] To make tenfold; to multiply by ten. [R.]

Decurionate
De•cu´ri•on•ate, n. [L. decurionatus, fr. decurio.] The office of a decurion.

Decurrence
De•cur´rence, n. The act of running down; a lapse. [R.] Gauden.

Decurrent
De•cur´rent, a. [L. decurrens, -entis, p. pr. of decurrere to run down; de- + currere to run: cf. F. decurrent.] (Bot.) Extending downward; — said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem. — De•cur´rent•ly, adv.

Decursion
De•cur´sion, n. [L. decursio, fr. decurrere. See Decurrent.] A flowing; also a hostile incursion. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Decurt
De•curt´, v. t. [L. decurtare; de- + curtare.] To cut short; to curtail. [Obs.] Bale.

Decurtation
De•cur•ta´tion, n. [L. decurtatio.] Act of cutting short. [Obs.]

Decury
Dec´u•ry, n. ; pl. Decuries (#). [L. decuria, fr. decem ten.] A set or squad of ten men under a decurion. Sir W. Raleigh.

Decussate
De•cus´sate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decussated; p. pr. & vb. n. Decussating.] [L. decussatus, p. p. of decussare to cross like an X, fr. decussis (orig. equiv. to decem asses) the number ten, which the Romans represented by X.] To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; — said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc. { De•cus´sate, De•cus´sa•ted } a.
1. Crossed; intersected.
2. (Bot.) Growing in pairs, each of which is at right angles to the next pair above or below; as decussated leaves or branches.
3. (Rhet.) Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other; as a decussated period.

Decussation
De•cus•sa´tion, n. [L. decussatio.] Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.

Decussative
De•cus´sa•tive, a. Intersecting at acute angles. Sir T. Browne.

Decussatively
De•cus´sa•tive•ly, adv. Crosswise; in the form of an X. "Anointed decussatively." Sir T. Browne.

Decyl
De´cyl, n. [L. decem ten + -yl.] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon radical, C₁₀H₂₁, never existing alone, but regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of the paraffin series.

Decylic
De•cyl´ic, a. (Chem.) Allied to, or containing, the radical decyl.

Dedalian
De•dal´ian, a. See Daedalian.

Dede, a. Dead. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dedecorate
De•dec´o•rate, v. t. [L. dedecoratus, p. p. of dedecorare to disgrace. See Decorate.] To bring to shame; to disgrace. [Obs.] Bailey.

Dedecorous
De•dec´o•rous, a. [L. dedecorus. See Decorous.] Disgraceful; unbecoming. [R.] Bailey.

Dedicate
Ded´i•cate, p. a. [L. dedicatus, p. p. of dedicare to affirm, to dedicate; de- + dicare to declare, dedicate; akin to dicere to say. See Diction.] Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated. "Dedicate to nothing temporal." Shak.
Syn. — Devoted; consecrated; addicted.

Dedicate
Ded´i•cate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dedicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dedicating.]
1. 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.
"Vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, … which also king David did dedicate unto the Lord." 2 Sam. viii. 10, 11.
"We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live… . But in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground." A. Lincoln.
2. To devote, set apart, or give up, as one’s self, to a duty or service.
"The profession of a soldier, to which he had dedicated himself." Clarendon.
3. To inscribe or address, as to a patron.
"He complied ten elegant books, and dedicated them to the Lord Burghley." Peacham.
Syn. — See Addict.

Dedication
Ded•i•ca´tion, n. [L. dedicatio.]
1. The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as the dedication of Solomon’s temple.
2. A devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose; as a dedication of lands to public use.
3. An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor.

Dedicator
Ded´i•ca•tor, n. [L.: cf. F. dedicateur.] One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.

Dedicatorial
Ded•i•ca•to´ri•al, a. Dedicatory.

Dedicatory
Ded´i•ca•to•ry, a. [Cf. F. dedicatoire.] Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental. "An epistle dedicatory." Dryden.

Dedicatory
Ded´i•ca•to•ry, n. Dedication. [R.] Milton.

Dedimus
Ded´i•mus, n. [L. dedimus we have given, fr. dare to give. So called because the writ began, Dedimus potestatem, etc.] (Law) A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc. Bouvier.

Dedition
De•di´tion, n. [L. deditio, fr. dedere to give away, surrender; de- + dare to give.] The act of yielding; surrender. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Dedolent
Ded´o•lent, a. [L. dedolens, p. pr. of dedolere to give over grieving; de- + dolere to grieve.] Feeling no compunction; apathetic. [R.] Hallywell.

Deduce
De•duce´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deduced p. pr. & vb. n. Deducing.] [L. deducere; de- + ducere to lead, draw. See Duke, and cf. Deduct.]
1. To lead forth. [A Latinism]
"He should hither deduce a colony." Selden.
2. To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as to deduce a part from the whole. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
3. To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; — with from or out of.
"O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times?" Pope.
"Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known." Locke.
"See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors." Sir W. Scott.

Deducibility
De•du•ci•bil´i•ty, n. Deducibleness.

Deducible
De•du´ci•ble, a.
1. Capable of being deduced or inferred; derivable by reasoning, as a result or consequence.
"All properties of a triangle depend on, and are deducible from, the complex idea of three lines including a space." Locke.
2. Capable of being brought down. [Obs.]
"As if God [were] deducible to human imbecility." State Trials (1649).

Deducibleness
De•du´ci•ble•ness, n. The quality of being deducible; deducibility.

Deducibly
De•du´ci•bly, adv. By deduction.

Deducive
De•du´cive, a. That deduces; inferential.

Deduct
De•duct´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deducted; p. pr. & vb. n. Deducting.] [L. deductus, p. p. of deducere to deduct. See Deduce.]
1. To lead forth or out. [Obs.]
"A people deducted out of the city of Philippos." Udall.
2. To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; — often with from or out of.
"Deduct what is but vanity, or dress." Pope.
"Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops." Bp. Burnet.
"We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in … infancy." Norris.
3. To reduce; to diminish. [Obs.] "Do not deduct it to days." Massinger.

Deduction
De•duc´tion, n. [L. deductio: cf. F. deduction.]
1. Act or process of deducing or inferring.
"The deduction of one language from another." Johnson.
"This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction." J. R. Seely.
2. Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.
3. That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.
"Make fair deductions; see to what they mount." Pope.
4. That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as a deduction from the yearly rent.
Syn. — See Induction.

Deductively
De•duct´ive•ly, adv. By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence. Sir T. Browne.

Deductor
De•duc´tor, n. [L., a guide. See Deduce.] (Zoöl.) The pilot whale or blackfish.