English Language Dictionary

D () The fourth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. The English letter is from Latin, which is from Greek, which took it from Ph/nician, the probable ultimate origin being Egyptian. It is related most nearly to t and th; as, Eng. deep, G. tief; Eng. daughter, G. tochter, Gr. qyga`thr, Skr. duhitr. See Guide to Pronunciation, Ã178, 179, 229.

D () The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F.

D () As a numeral D stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign / (or / ) the original Tuscan numeral for 1000.

Dab (n.) A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert.

Dab (n.) A name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.

Dabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Dab

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

Dab (v. i.) To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.

Dab (v. i.) To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.

Dab (n.) A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.

Dab (n.) A small mass of anything soft or moist.

Dabb (n.) A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhabb.

Dabber (n.) That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.

Dabbled (imp. & p. p.) of Dabble

Dabbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dabble

Dabble (v. t.) To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.

Dabble (v. i.) To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water.

Dabble (v. i.) To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle.

Dabbler (n.) One who dabbles.

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

Dabblingly (adv.) In a dabbling manner.

Dabchick (n.) A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.

Daboia (n.) A large and highly venomous Asiatic viper (Daboia xanthica).

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

Dacapo () From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated.

Dace (n.) A small European cyprinoid fish (Squalius leuciscus or Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dare.

Dachshund (n.) One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired.

Dacian (a.) Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians.

Dacian (n.) A native of ancient Dacia.

Dacoit (n.) One of a class of robbers, in India, who act in gangs.

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

Dacotahs (n. pl.) Same as Dacotas.

Dactyl (n.) A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.

Dactyl (n.) A finger or toe; a digit.

Dactyl (n.) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.

Dactylar (a.) Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.

Dactylar (a.) Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.

Dactylet (n.) A dactyl.

Dactylic (a.) Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.

Dactylic (n.) A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.

Dactylic (n.) Dactylic meters.

Dactylioglyph (n.) An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments.

Dactylioglyph (n.) The inscription of the engraver's name on a finger ring or gem.

Dactylioglyphi (n.) The art or process of gem engraving.

Dactyliography (n.) The art of writing or engraving upon gems.

Dactyliography (n.) In general, the literature or history of the art.

Dactyliology (n.) That branch of archaeology which has to do with gem engraving.

Dactyliology (n.) That branch of archaeology which has to do with finger rings.

Dactyliomancy (n.) Divination by means of finger rings.

Dactylist (n.) A writer of dactylic verse.

Dactylitis (n.) An inflammatory affection of the fingers.

Dactylology (n.) The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.

Dactylomancy (n.) Dactyliomancy.

Dactylonomy (n.) The art of numbering or counting by the fingers.

Dactylopterous (a.) Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards.

Dactylotheca (n.) The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds.

Dactylozooid (n.) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.

Dad (n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.

Daddled (imp. & p. p.) of Dadle

Daddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dadle

Dadle (v. i.) To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.

Daddock (n.) The rotten body of a tree.

Daddy (n.) Diminutive of Dad.

Daddy longlegs () An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs.

Daddy longlegs () A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs.

Dade (v. t.) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles.

Dade (v. i.) To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just learning to walk; to move slowly.

Dadoes (pl. ) of Dado

Dado (n.) That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.

Dado (n.) In any wall, that part of the basement included between the base and the base course. See Base course, under Base.

Dado (n.) In interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise specially decorated.

Daedal (a.) Alt. of Daedalian

Daedalian (a.) Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious.

Daedalian (a.) Crafty; deceitful.

Daedalous (a.) Having a variously cut or incised margin; -- said of leaves.

Daemon (a.) Alt. of Daemonic

Daemonic (a.) See Demon, Demonic.

Daff (v. t.) To cast aside; to put off; to doff.

Daff (n.) A stupid, blockish fellow; a numskull.

Daff (v. i.) To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy.

Daff (v. t.) To daunt.

Daffodil (n.) A plant of the genus Asphodelus.

Daffodil (n.) A plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Pseudo-narcissus). It has a bulbous root and beautiful flowers, usually of a yellow hue. Called also daffodilly, daffadilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly, etc.

Daft (a.) Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has gone daft.

Daft (a.) Gay; playful; frolicsome.

Daftness (n.) The quality of being daft.

Dag (n.) A dagger; a poniard.

Dag (n.) A large pistol formerly used.

Dag (n.) The unbranched antler of a young deer.

Dag (n.) A misty shower; dew.

Dag (n.) A loose end; a dangling shred.

Dag (v. t.) To daggle or bemire.

Dag (v. t.) To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment.

Dag (v. i.) To be misty; to drizzle.

Dagger (n.) A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.

Dagger (n.) A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [/]. It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk.

Dagger (v. t.) To pierce with a dagger; to stab.

Dagger (n.) A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.

Dagges (n. pl.) An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans.

Daggled (imp. & p. p.) of Daggle

Daggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daggle

Daggle (v. t.) To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.

Daggle (v. i.) To run, go, or trail one's self through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.

Daggle-tail (a.) Alt. of Daggle-tailed

Daggle-tailed (a.) Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.

Daggle-tail (n.) A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.

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

Dagos (pl. ) of Dago

Dago (n.) A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent.

Dagoba (n.) A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint.

Dagon () The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish.

Dagon (n.) A slip or piece.

Dagswain (n.) A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool.

Dag-tailed (a.) Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks.

Daguerrean (a.) Alt. of Daguerreian

Daguerreian (a.) Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype.

Daguerreotype (n.) An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.

Daguerreotype (n.) The process of taking such pictures.

Daguerreotyped (imp. & p. p.) of Daguerreotype

Daguerreotyping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daguerreotype

Daguerreotype (v. t.) To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.

Daguerreotype (v. t.) To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.

Daguerreotyper (n.) Alt. of Daguerreotypist

Daguerreotypist (n.) One who takes daguerreotypes.

Daguerreotypy (n.) The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre.

Dahabeah (n.) A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails.

Dahlias (pl. ) of Dahlia

Dahlia (n.) A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Compositae; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color.

Dahlin (n.) A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin.

Dailiness (n.) Daily occurence.

Daily (a.) Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.

Dailies (pl. ) of Daily

Daily (n.) A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.

Daily (adv.) Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily.

Daimios (pl. ) of Daimio

Daimio (n.) The title of the feudal nobles of Japan.

Daint (n.) Something of exquisite taste; a dainty.

Daint (a.) Dainty.

Daintified (imp. & p. p.) of Daintify

Daintifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daintify

Daintify (v. t.) To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious.

Daintily (adv.) In a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously; deliciously; prettily.

Daintiness (n.) The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness.

Daintrel (n.) Adelicacy.

Dainties (pl. ) of Dainty

Dainty (n.) Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.

Dainty (n.) That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.

Dainty (n.) A term of fondness.

Dainty (superl.) Rare; valuable; costly.

Dainty (superl.) Delicious to the palate; toothsome.

Dainty (superl.) Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.

Dainty (superl.) Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.

Dairies (pl. ) of Dairy

Dairy (n.) The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.

Dairy (n.) That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese.

Dairy (n.) A dairy farm.

Dairying (n.) The business of conducting a dairy.

Dairymaid (n.) A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.

Dairymen (pl. ) of Dairyman

Dairyman (n.) A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.

Dairywomen (pl. ) of Dairywoman

Dairywoman (n.) A woman who attends to a dairy.

Dais (n.) The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.

Dais (n.) A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.

Dais (n.) A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity.

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

Daisies (pl. ) of Daisy

Daisy (n.) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.

Daisy (n.) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.

Dak (n.) Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk.

Daker (n.) Alt. of Dakir

Dakir (n.) A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs.

Daker hen () The corncrake or land rail.

Dakoit (n.) Alt. of Dakoity

Dakoity (n.) See Dacoit, Dacoity.

Dakota group () A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.

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

Dal (n.) Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus.

Dale (n.) A low place between hills; a vale or valley.

Dale (n.) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.

Dalesmen (pl. ) of Dalesman

Dalesman (n.) One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc.

Dalf () imp. of Delve.

Dalliance (n.) The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.

Dalliance (n.) Delay or procrastination.

Dalliance (n.) Entertaining discourse.

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

Dallop (n.) A tuft or clump.

Dallied (imp. & p. p.) of Dally

Dallying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dally

Dally (v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

Dally (v. i.) To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.

Dally (v. t.) To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

Dalmania (n.) A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.

Dalmanites (n.) Same as Dalmania.

Dalmatian (a.) Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.

Dalmatica (n.) Alt. of Dalmatic

Dalmatic (n.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.

Dalmatic (n.) A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.

Dal segno () A direction to go back to the sign / and repeat from thence to the close. See Segno.

Daltonian (n.) One afflicted with color blindness.

Daltonism (n.) Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity.

Dam (n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.

Dam (n.) A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.

Dam (n.) A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.

Dam (n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.

Dammed (imp. & p. p.) of Dam

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

Dam (v. t.) To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.

Dam (v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.

Damage (n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

Damage (n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.

Damages (imp. & p. p.) of Damage

Damaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damage

Damage (n.) To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.

Damage (v. i.) To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.

Damageable (a.) Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.

Damageable (a.) Hurtful; pernicious.

Damage feasant () Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.

Daman (n.) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.

Damar (n.) See Dammar.

Damascene (a.) Of or relating to Damascus.

Damascene (n.) A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson.

Damascene (v. t.) Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t.

Damascus (n.) A city of Syria.

Damask (n.) Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.

Damask (n.) Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.

Damask (n.) A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.

Damask (n.) Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel.

Damask (n.) A deep pink or rose color.

Damask (a.) Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.

Damask (a.) Having the color of the damask rose.

Damasked (imp. & p. p.) of Damask

Damasking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damask

Damask (v. t.) To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or "water," as metal. See Damaskeen.

Damaskeen (v.) Alt. of Damasken

Damasken (v.) To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask.

Damaskin (n.) A sword of Damask steel.

Damasse (a.) Woven like damask.

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

Damassin (n.) A kind of modified damask or brocade.

Dambonite (n.) A white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc.

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

Dame (n.) A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.

Dame (n.) The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.

Dame (n.) A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.

Dame (n.) A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.

Damewort (n.) A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet.

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

Damianist (n.) A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

Dammar (n.) Alt. of Dammara

Dammara (n.) An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine.

Dammara (n.) A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia; -- called also Agathis. There are several species.

Damned (imp. & p. p.) of Damn

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

Damn (v. t.) To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

Damn (v. t.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

Damn (v. t.) To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.

Damn (v. i.) To invoke damnation; to curse.

Damnability (n.) The quality of being damnable; damnableness.

Damnable (a.) Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.

Damnable (a.) Odious; pernicious; detestable.

Damnableness (n.) The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.

Damnably (adv.) In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment.

Damnably (adv.) Odiously; detestably; excessively.

Damnation (n.) The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.

Damnation (n.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.

Damnation (n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.

Damnatory (a.) Dooming to damnation; condemnatory.

Damned (a.) Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.

Damned (a.) Hateful; detestable; abominable.

Damnific (a.) Procuring or causing loss; mischievous; injurious.

Damnification (n.) That which causes damage or loss.

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

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

Damningness (n.) Tendency to bring damnation.

damnum (n.) Harm; detriment, either to character or property.

Damosel (n.) Alt. of Damoiselle

Damosella (n.) Alt. of Damoiselle

Damoiselle (n.) See Damsel.

Damourite (n.) A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.

Damp (n.) Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.

Damp (n.) Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.

Damp (n.) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.

Damp (superl.) Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.

Damp (superl.) Dejected; depressed; sunk.

Damped (imp. & p. p.) of Damp

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

Damp (n.) To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.

Damp (n.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.

Dampened (imp. & p. p.) of Dampen

Dampening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dampen

Dampen (v. t.) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

Dampen (v. t.) To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.

Dampen (v. i.) To become damp; to deaden.

Damper (n.) That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.

Dampish (a.) Moderately damp or moist.

Dampne (v. t.) To damn.

Dampness (n.) Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.

Damp off () To decay and perish through excessive moisture.

Dampy (a.) Somewhat damp.

Dampy (a.) Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful.

Damsel (n.) A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.

Damsel (n.) A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.

Damsel (n.) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.

Damson (n.) A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.

Dan (n.) A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.

Dan (n.) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

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

Danaite (n.) A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.

Danalite (n.) A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur.

Danburite (n.) A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form.

Danced (imp. & p. p.) of Dance

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

Dance (v. i.) To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.

Dance (v. i.) To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.

Dance (v. t.) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.

Dance (v. i.) The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.

Dance (v. i.) A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.

Dancer (n.) One who dances or who practices dancing.

Danceress (n.) A female dancer.

Dancette (a.) Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.

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

Dancy (a.) Same as Dancette.

Dandelion (n.) A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.

Dander (n.) Dandruff or scurf on the head.

Dander (n.) Anger or vexation; rage.

Dander (v. i.) To wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently.

Dandi (n.) A boatman; an oarsman.

Dandie (n.) One of a breed of small terriers; -- called also Dandie Dinmont.

Dandified (a.) Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.

Dandified (imp. & p. p.) of Dandify

Dandifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dandify

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

Dandiprat (n.) A little fellow; -- in sport or contempt.

Dandiprat (n.) A small coin.

Dandled (imp. & p. p.) of Dandle

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

Dandle (v. t.) To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.

Dandle (v. t.) To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.

Dandle (v. t.) To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.

Dandler (n.) One who dandles or fondles.

Dandriff (n.) See Dandruff.

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

Dandies (pl. ) of Dandy

Dandy (n.) One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.

Dandy (n.) A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.

Dandy (n.) A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.

Dandy (n.) A dandy roller. See below.

Dandy-cock (n. fem.) Alt. of Dandy-hen

Dandy-hen (n. fem.) A bantam fowl.

Dandyish (a.) Like a dandy.

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

Dandyise (v. t. & i.) To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.

Dandyling (n.) A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.

Dane (n.) A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark.

Danegeld (n.) Alt. of Danegelt

Danegelt (n.) An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.

Danewort (n.) A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.]

Dang () imp. of Ding.

Dang (v. t.) To dash.

Danger (n.) Authority; jurisdiction; control.

Danger (n.) Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.

Danger (n.) Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.

Danger (n.) Difficulty; sparingness.

Danger (n.) Coyness; disdainful behavior.

Danger (v. t.) To endanger.

Dangerful (a.) Full of danger; dangerous.

Dangerless (a.) Free from danger.

Dangerous (a.) Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.

Dangerous (a.) Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.

Dangerous (a.) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.

Dangerous (a.) Hard to suit; difficult to please.

Dangerous (a.) Reserved; not affable.

Dangled (imp. & p. p.) of Dangle

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

Dangle (v. i.) To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.

Dangle (v. t.) To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet.

Dangleberry (n.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.

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

Daniel (n.) A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge.

Danish (a.) Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country.

Danish (n.) The language of the Danes.

Danite (n.) A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan.

Danite (n.) One of a secret association of Mormons, bound by an oath to obey the heads of the church in all things.

Dank (a.) Damp; moist; humid; wet.

Dank (n.) Moisture; humidity; water.

Dank (n.) A small silver coin current in Persia.

Dankish (a.) Somewhat dank.

Dannebrog (n.) The ancient battle standard of Denmark, bearing figures of cross and crown.

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

Dansk (a.) Danish.

Dansker (n.) A Dane.

Dantean (a.) Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings.

Dantesque (a.) Dantelike; Dantean.

Danubian (a.) Pertaining to, or bordering on, the river Danube.

Dap (v. i.) To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water.

Dapatical (a.) Sumptuous in cheer.

Daphne (n.) A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.

Daphne (n.) A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.

Daphnetin (n.) A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted from daphnin.

Daphnia (n.) A genus of the genus Daphnia.

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

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

Daphnomancy (n.) Divination by means of the laurel.

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

Dapper (a.) Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively.

Dapperling (n.) A dwarf; a dandiprat.

Dapple (n.) One of the spots on a dappled animal.

Dapple (a.) Alt. of Dappled

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

Dappled (imp. & p. p.) of Dapple

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

Dapple (v. t.) To variegate with spots; to spot.

Darbies (n. pl.) Manacles; handcuffs.

Darby (n.) A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc.

Darbyite (n.) One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; -- so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren.

Dardanian (a. & n.) Trojan.

Durst (imp.) of Dare

Dared () of Dare

Dared (p. p.) of Dare

Daring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dare

Dare (v. i.) To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.

Dared (imp. & p. p.) of Dare

Daring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dare

Dare (v. t.) To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.

Dare (v. t.) To challenge; to provoke; to defy.

Dare (n.) The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.

Dare (n.) Defiance; challenge.

Dare (v. i.) To lurk; to lie hid.

Dare (v. t.) To terrify; to daunt.

Dare (n.) A small fish; the dace.

Dare-devil (n.) A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as, dare-devil excitement.

Dare-deviltries (pl. ) of Dare-deviltry

Dare-deviltry (n) Reckless mischief; the action of a dare-devil.

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

Darer (n.) One who dares or defies.

Darg (n.) Alt. of Dargue

Dargue (n.) A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day.

Daric (n.) A gold coin of ancient Persia, weighing usually a little more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side the figure of an archer.

Daric (n.) A silver coin of about 86 grains, having the figure of an archer, and hence, in modern times, called a daric.

Daric (n.) Any very pure gold coin.

Daring (n.) Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.

Daring (a.) Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits.

Dark (a.) Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.

Dark (a.) Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.

Dark (a.) Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.

Dark (a.) Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.

Dark (a.) Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.

Dark (a.) Deprived of sight; blind.

Dark (n.) Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.

Dark (n.) The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.

Dark (n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.

Dark (v. t.) To darken to obscure.

Darkened (imp. & p. p.) of Darken

Darkening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Darken

Darken (a.) To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.

Darken (a.) To render dim; to deprive of vision.

Darken (a.) To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.

Darken (a.) To cast a gloom upon.

Darken (a.) To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

Darken (v. i.) To grow or darker.

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

Darkening (n.) Twilight; gloaming.

Darkful (a.) Full of darkness.

Darkish (a.) Somewhat dark; dusky.

Darkle (v. i.) To grow dark; to show indistinctly.

Darkling (adv.) In the dark.

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

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

Darkly (adv.) With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.

Darkly (adv.) With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.

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

Darkness (n.) A state of privacy; secrecy.

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

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

Darkness (n.) A state of distress or trouble.

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

Darky (n.) A negro.

Darling (n.) One dearly beloved; a favorite.

Darling (a.) Dearly beloved; regarded with especial kindness and tenderness; favorite.

Darlingtonia (n.) A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.

Darned (imp. & p. p.) of Darn

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

Darn (v. t.) To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.

Darn (n.) A place mended by darning.

Darn (v. t.) A colloquial euphemism for Damn.

Darnel (n.) Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay.

Darner (n.) One who mends by darning.

Darnex (n.) Alt. of Darnic

Darnic (n.) Same as Dornick.

Daroo (n.) The Egyptian sycamore (Ficus Sycamorus). See Sycamore.

Darr (n.) The European black tern.

Darraign (v. t.) Alt. of Darrain

Darrain (v. t.) To make ready to fight; to array.

Darrain (v. t.) To fight out; to contest; to decide by combat.

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

Dart (n.) A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.

Dart (n.) Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.

Dart (n.) A spear set as a prize in running.

Dart (n.) A fish; the dace. See Dace.

Darted (imp. & p. p.) of Dart

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

Dart (v. t.) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.

Dart (v. t.) To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.

Dart (v. i.) To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.

Dart (v. i.) To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.

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

Darter (n.) One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.

Darter (n.) The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird.

Darter (n.) A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid.

Dartingly (adv.) Like a dart; rapidly.

Dartle (v. t. & i.) To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart.

Dartoic (a.) Of or pertaining to the dartos.

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

Dartos (n.) A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.

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

Darwinian (a.) Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements.

Darwinian (n.) An advocate of Darwinism.

Darwinianism (n.) Darwinism.

Darwinism (n.) The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above.

Dase (v. t.) See Daze.

Dasewe (v. i.) To become dim-sighted; to become dazed or dazzled.

Dashed (imp. & p. p.) of Dash

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

Dash (v. t.) To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

Dash (v. t.) To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin.

Dash (v. t.) To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress.

Dash (v. t.) To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture.

Dash (v. t.) To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.

Dash (v. t.) To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.

Dash (v. i.) To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks.

Dash (n.) Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.

Dash (n.) A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash.

Dash (n.) A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple.

Dash (n.) A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain.

Dash (n.) Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.

Dash (n.) A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash.

Dash (n.) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis.

Dash (n.) The sign of staccato, a small mark [/] denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner.

Dash (n.) The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.

Dash (n.) A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.

Dashboard (n.) A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.

Dashboard (n.) The float of a paddle wheel.

Dashboard (n.) A screen at the bow af a steam launch to keep off the spray; -- called also sprayboard.

Dasher (n.) That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn.

Dasher (n.) A dashboard or splashboard.

Dasher (n.) One who makes an ostentatious parade.

Dashing (a.) Bold; spirited; showy.

Dashingly (adv.) Conspicuously; showily.

Dashism (n.) The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show.

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

Dashy (a.) Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.

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

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

Dastard (v. t.) To dastardize.

Dastardized (imp. & p. p.) of Dastardize

Dastardizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dastardize

Dastardize (v. t.) To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage.

Dastardliness (n.) The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.

Dastardly (a.) Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.

Dastardness (n.) Dastardliness.

Dastardy (n.) Base timidity; cowardliness.

Daswe (v. i.) See Dasewe

Dasymeter (n.) An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an atmosphere of known density.

Dasypaedal (a.) Dasypaedic.

Dasypaedes (n. pl.) Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.

Dasypaedic (a.) Pertaining to the Dasypaedes; ptilopaedic.

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

Dasyurine (a.) Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.

Data (n. pl.) See Datum.

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

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

Datary (n.) An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria.

Datary (n.) The office or employment of a datary.

Date (n.) The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.

Date (n.) That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc.

Date (n.) The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle.

Date (n.) Assigned end; conclusion.

Date (n.) Given or assigned length of life; dyration.

Dated (imp. & p. p.) of Date

Dating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Date

Date (v. t.) To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.

Date (v. t.) To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.

Date (v. i.) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.

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

Dater (n.) One who dates.

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

Dative (a.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.

Dative (a.) In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office.

Dative (a.) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer.

Dative (a.) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law.

Dative (n.) The dative case. See Dative, a., 1.

Datively (adv.) As a gift.

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

Data (pl. ) of Datum

Datum (n.) Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Datum (n.) The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem.

Datura (n.) A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.

Daturine (n.) Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.

Daubed (imp. & p. p.) of Daub

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

Daub (v. t.) To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

Daub (v. t.) To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.

Daub (v. t.) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.

Daub (v. t.) To flatter excessively or glossy.

Daub (v. t.) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.

Daub (v. i.) To smear; to play the flatterer.

Daub (n.) A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear.

Daub (n.) A picture coarsely executed.

Dauber (n.) One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

Dauber (n.) A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.

Dauber (n.) A low and gross flatterer.

Dauber (n.) The mud wasp; the mud dauber.

Daubery (n.) Alt. of Daubry

Daubry (n.) A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses.

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

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

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

Daubreelite (n.) A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.

Dauby (a.) Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive.

Daughters (pl. ) of Daughter

Daughtren (pl. ) of Daughter

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

Daughter (n.) A female descendant; a woman.

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

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

Daughters-in-law (pl. ) of Daughter-in-law

Daughter-in-law (n.) The wife of one's son.

Daughterliness (n.) The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.

Daughterly (a.) Becoming a daughter; filial.

Dauk (v. t.) See Dawk, v. t., to cut or gush.

Daun (n.) A variant of Dan, a title of honor.

Daunted (imp. & p. p.) of Daunt

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

Daunt (v. t.) To overcome; to conquer.

Daunt (v. t.) To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten.

Daunter (n.) One who daunts.

Dauntless (a.) Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid.

Dauphin (n.) The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued.

Dauphiness (n.) Alt. of Dauphine

Dauphine (n.) The title of the wife of the dauphin.

Dauw (n.) The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa (Asinus Burchellii); -- called also peechi, or peetsi.

Davenport (n.) A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.

Davidic (a.) Of or pertaining to David, the king and psalmist of Israel, or to his family.

Davit (n.) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit.

Davit (n.) Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits.

Davy Jones () The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors.

Davy lamp () See Safety lamp, under Lamp.

Davyne (n.) A variety of nephelite from Vesuvius.

Davyum (n.) A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.

Daw (n.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.

Daw (v. i.) To dawn.

Daw (v. t.) To rouse.

Daw (v. t.) To daunt; to terrify.

Dawdled (imp. & p. p.) of Dawdle

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

Dawdle (v. i.) To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.

Dawdle (v. t.) To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.

Dawdle (n.) A dawdler.

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

Dawe (n.) Day.

Dawish (a.) Like a daw.

Dawk (n.) See Dak.

Dawk (v. t.) To cut or mark with an incision; to gash.

Dawk (n.) A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber.

Dawned (imp. & p. p.) of Dawn

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

Dawn (v. i.) To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

Dawn (v. i.) To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

Dawn (n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.

Dawn (n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.

Dawsonite (n.) A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.

Day (n.) The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.

Day (n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.

Day (n.) Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.

Day (n.) A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.

Day (n.) (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc.

Dayaks (n. pl.) See Dyaks.

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

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

Day-coal (n.) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface.

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

Daydreamer (n.) One given to daydreams.

Dayflower (n.) A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.

Dayfly (n.) A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.

Day-labor (n.) Labor hired or performed by the day.

Day-laborer (n.) One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade.

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

Daylight (n.) The eyes.

Day lily () A genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers.

Day lily () A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers.

Daymaid (n.) A dairymaid.

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

Day-net (n.) A net for catching small birds.

Day-peep (n.) The dawn.

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

Dayspring (n.) The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning.

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

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

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

Daywoman (n.) A dairymaid.

Dazed (imp. & p. p.) of Daze

Dazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daze

Daze (v. t.) To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.

Daze (n.) The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze.

Daze (n.) A glittering stone.

Dazzled (imp. & p. p.) of Dazzle

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

Dazzle (v. t.) To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light.

Dazzle (v. t.) To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind.

Dazzle (v. i.) To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy.

Dazzle (v. i.) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

Dazzle (n.) A light of dazzling brilliancy.

Dazzlement (n.) Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light.

Dazzlingly (adv.) In a dazzling manner.

De- () A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.

Deacon (n.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church.

Deacon (n.) The chairman of an incorporated company.

Deacon (v. t.) To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off.

Deaconess (n.) A female deacon

Deaconess (n.) One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons.

Deaconess (n.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop.

Deaconess (n.) A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists.

Deaconhood (n.) The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.

Deaconry (n.) See Deaconship.

Deaconship (n.) The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.

Dead (a.) 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.

Dead (a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.

Dead (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.

Dead (a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.

Dead (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.

Dead (a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.

Dead (a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.

Dead (a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.

Dead (a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.

Dead (a.) Bringing death; deadly.

Dead (a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.

Dead (a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.

Dead (a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.

Dead (a.) 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.

Dead (a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.

Dead (adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.

Dead (n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.

Dead (n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.

Dead (v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.

Dead (v. i.) To die; to lose life or force.

Dead beat () See Beat, n., 7.

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

Deadborn (a.) Stillborn.

Deadened (imp. & p. p.) of Deaden

Deadening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deaden

Deaden (a.) 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.

Deaden (a.) To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.

Deaden (a.) To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.

Deaden (a.) To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.

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

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

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

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

Dead-hearted (a.) Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.

Deadhouse (n.) A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.

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

Deadlatch (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.

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

Deadlihood (n.) State of the dead.

Deadliness (n.) The quality of being deadly.

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

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

Deadly (a.) Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.

Deadly (a.) Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.

Deadly (a.) Subject to death; mortal.

Deadly (adv.) In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death.

Deadly (adv.) In a manner to occasion death; mortally.

Deadly (adv.) In an implacable manner; destructively.

Deadly (adv.) Extremely.

Deadness (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 (n.) Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.

Dead-reckoning (n.) See under Dead, a.

Deads (n. pl.) The substances which inclose the ore on every side.

Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.

Deadwood (n.) A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.

Deadwood (n.) Dead trees or branches; useless material.

Deadworks (n. pl.) The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.

Deaf (a.) Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.

Deaf (a.) Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.

Deaf (a.) Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.

Deaf (a.) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.

Deaf (a.) Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.

Deaf (v. t.) To deafen.

Deafened (imp. & p. p.) of Deafen

Deafening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deafen

Deafen (v. t.) To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.

Deafen (v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.

Deafening (n.) The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.

Deafly (adv.) Without sense of sounds; obscurely.

Deafly (a.) Lonely; solitary.

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.

Deaf-mutism (n.) The condition of being a deaf-mute.

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

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

Deal (n.) 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.

Deal (n.) The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed.

Deal (n.) Distribution; apportionment.

Deal (n.) An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains.

Deal (n.) 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.

Deal (n.) Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.

Dealt (imp. & p. p.) of Deal

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

Deal (n.) To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out.

Deal (n.) 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.) To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.

Deal (v. i.) 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.

Deal (v. i.) To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with.

Deal (v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.

Deal (v. i.) To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.

Dealbate (v. t.) To whiten.

Dealbation (n.) Act of bleaching; a whitening.

Dealer (n.) 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.

Dealer (n.) One who distributes cards to the players.

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

Dealing (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.

Dealth (n.) Share dealt.

Deambulate (v. i.) To walk abroad.

Deambulation (n.) A walking abroad; a promenading.

Deambulatory (a.) Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory.

Deambulatory (n.) A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.

Dean (n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.

Dean (n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.

Dean (n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.

Dean (n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.

Dean (n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.

Deaneries (pl. ) of Deanery

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

Deanery (n.) The residence of a dean.

Deanery (n.) The territorial jurisdiction of a dean.

Deanship (n.) The office of a dean.

Dear (superl.) Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.

Dear (superl.) Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.

Dear (superl.) Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious.

Dear (superl.) Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention.

Dear (superl.) Of agreeable things and interests.

Dear (superl.) Of disagreeable things and antipathies.

Dear (n.) A dear one; lover; sweetheart.

Dear (adv.) Dearly; at a high price.

Dear (v. t.) To endear.

Dearborn (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.

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

Deare () variant of Dere, v. t. & n.

Dearie (n.) Same as Deary.

Dearling (n.) A darling.

Dear-loved (a.) Greatly beloved.

Dearly (adv.) In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly.

Dearly (adv.) At a high rate or price; grievously.

Dearly (adv.) Exquisitely.

Dearn (a.) Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful.

Dearn (v. t.) Same as Darn.

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

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

Dearth (n.) Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

Dearticulate (v. t.) To disjoint.

Dearworth (a.) Precious.

Deary (n.) A dear; a darling.

Deas (n.) See Dais.

Death (v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

Death (v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

Death (v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

Death (v. i.) Cause of loss of life.

Death (v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

Death (v. i.) Danger of death.

Death (v. i.) Murder; murderous character.

Death (v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.

Death (v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

Deathbed (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.

Deathbird (n.) Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.

Deathblow (n.) A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.

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

Deathful (a.) Liable to undergo death; mortal.

Deathfulness (n.) Appearance of death.

Deathless (a.) Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.

Deathlike (a.) Resembling death.

Deathlike (a.) Deadly.

Deathliness (n.) The quality of being deathly; deadliness.

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

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

Death's-head (n.) A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.

Death's-herb (n.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).

Deathsman (n.) An executioner; a headsman or hangman.

Deathward (adv.) Toward death.

Deathwatch (n.) 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.

Deathwatch (n.) A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.

Deathwatch (n.) The guard set over a criminal before his execution.

Deaurate (a.) Gilded.

Deaurate (v. t.) To gild.

Deauration (n.) Act of gilding.

Deave (v. t.) To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen.

Debacchate (v. i.) To rave as a bacchanal.

Debacchation (n.) Wild raving or debauchery.

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

Debarred (imp. & p. p.) of Debar

Debarring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debar

Debar (v. t.) 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.

Debarb (v. t.) To deprive of the beard.

Debarked (imp. & p. p.) of Debark

Debarking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debark

Debark (v. t. & i.) To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.

Debarkation (n.) Disembarkation.

Debarment (n.) Hindrance from approach; exclusion.

Debarrass (v. t.) To disembarrass; to relieve.

Debased (imp. & p. p.) of Debase

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

Debase (a.) To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.

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

Debasement (n.) The act of debasing or the state of being debased.

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

Debasingly (adv.) In a manner to debase.

Debatable (a.) Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question.

Debated (imp. & p. p.) of Debate

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

Debate (v. t.) To engage in combat for; to strive for.

Debate (v. t.) To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.

Debate (v. i.) To engage in strife or combat; to fight.

Debate (v. i.) To contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate; to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; -- often followed by on or upon.

Debate (v. t.) A fight or fighting; contest; strife.

Debate (v. t.) Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress.

Debate (v. t.) Subject of discussion.

Debateful (a.) Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome.

Debatefully (adv.) With contention.

Debatement (n.) Controversy; deliberation; debate.

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

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

Debatingly (adv.) In the manner of a debate.

Debauched (imp. & p. p.) of Debauch

Debauching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debauch

Debauch (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.

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

Debauch (n.) An act or occasion of debauchery.

Debauched (a.) Dissolute; dissipated.

Debauchedly (adv.) In a profligate manner.

Debauchedness (n.) The state of being debauched; intemperance.

Debauchee (v. t.) One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

Debaucher (n.) One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.

Debaucheries (pl. ) of Debauchery

Debauchery (n.) Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.

Debauchery (n.) Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness.

Debauchment (n.) The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.

Debauchness (n.) Debauchedness.

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

Debel (v. t.) To conquer.

Debellate (v. t.) To subdue; to conquer in war.

Debellation (n.) The act of conquering or subduing.

De bene esse () Of well being; of formal sufficiency for the time; conditionally; provisionally.

Debenture (n.) 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.

Debenture (n.) A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.

Debentured (a.) Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.

Debile (a.) Weak.

Debilitant (a.) Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug.

Debilitated (imp. & p. p.) of Debilitate

Debilitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debilitate

Debilitate (v. t.) To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.

Debilitation (n.) The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.

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

Debit (n.) A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account.

Debited (imp. & p. p.) of Debit

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

Debit (v. t.) To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.

Debit (v. t.) To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; as, to debit the amount of goods sold.

Debitor (n.) A debtor.

Debituminization (n.) The act of depriving of bitumen.

Debituminize (v. t.) To deprive of bitumen.

Deblai (n.) The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.

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

Debonairity (n.) Debonairness.

Debonairly (adv.) Courteously; elegantly.

Debonairness (n.) The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.

Debosh (v. t.) To debauch.

Deboshment (n.) Debauchment.

Debouched (imp. & p. p.) of Debouch

Debouching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debouch

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

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

Debouchure (n.) The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait.

Debris (n.) Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.

Debris (n.) Rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of anything; remains; ruins.

Debruised (a.) Surmounted by an ordinary; as, a lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut.

Debt (n.) That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability.

Debt (n.) A duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass.

Debt (n.) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.

Debted (p. a.) Indebted; obliged to.

Debtee (n.) One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.

Debtless (a.) Free from debt.

Debtor (n.) One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor.

Debulliate (v. i.) To boil over.

Debulition (n.) A bubbling or boiling over.

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

Debuscope (n.) A modification of the kaleidoscope; -- used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs.

Debut (n.) A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.

Debutant () Alt. of Debutante

Debutante () A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public.

Deca- () A prefix, from Gr. de`ka, signifying ten; specifically (Metric System), a prefix signifying the weight or measure that is ten times the principal unit.

Decacerata (n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.

Decachord (n.) Alt. of Decachordon

Decachordon (n.) An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.

Decachordon (n.) Something consisting of ten parts.

Decucuminated (a.) Having the point or top cut off.

Decad (n.) A decade.

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

Decade (n.) 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.

Decadence (n.) Alt. of Decadency

Decadency (n.) A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence."

Decadent (a.) Decaying; deteriorating.

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

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

Decagonal (a.) Pertaining to a decagon; having ten sides.

Decagram (n.) Alt. of Decagramme

Decagramme (n.) A weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois.

Decagynia (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants characterized by having ten styles.

Decagynian (a.) Alt. of Deccagynous

Deccagynous (a.) Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles.

Decahedral (a.) Having ten sides.

Decahedrons (pl. ) of Decahedron

Decahedra (pl. ) of Decahedron

Decahedron (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.

Decalcification (n.) The removal of calcareous matter.

Decalcified (imp. & p. p.) of Decalcify

Decalcifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decalcify

Decalcify (v. t.) To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.

Decalcomania (n.) Alt. of Decalcomanie

Decalcomanie (n.) The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.

Decaliter (n.) Alt. of Decalitre

Decalitre (n.) 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.

Decalog (n.) Decalogue.

Decalogist (n.) One who explains the decalogue.

Decalogue (n.) The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.

Decameron (n.) A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian.

Decameter (n.) Alt. of Decametre

Decametre (n.) A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.

Decamped (imp. & p. p.) of Decamp

Decamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decamp

Decamp (v. i.) To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly.

Decamp (v. i.) Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; -- generally used disparagingly.

Decampment (n.) Departure from a camp; a marching off.

Decanal (a.) Pertaining to a dean or deanery.

Decandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants characterized by having ten stamens.

Decandrian (a.) Alt. of Decandrous

Decandrous (a.) Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens.

Decane (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.

Decangular (a.) Having ten angles.

Decani (a.) 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.

Decanted (imp. & p. p.) of Decant

Decanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decant

Decant (v. t.) 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.

Decantate (v. t.) To decant.

Decantation (n.) The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.

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

Decanter (n.) One who decants liquors.

Decaphyllous (a.) Having ten leaves.

Decapitated (imp. & p. p.) of Decapitate

Decapitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decapitate

Decapitate (v. t.) To cut off the head of; to behead.

Decapitate (v. t.) To remove summarily from office.

Decapitation (n.) The act of beheading; beheading.

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

Decapoda (n. pl.) The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.

Decapoda (n. pl.) A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.

Deccapodal (a.) Alt. of Deccapodous

Deccapodous (a.) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

Decarbonate (v. t.) To deprive of carbonic acid.

Decarbonization (n.) The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.

Decarbonized (imp. & p. p.) of Decarbonize

Decarbonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decarbonize

Decarbonize (v. t.) To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood.

Decarbonizer (n.) He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.

Decarburization (n.) The act, process, or result of decarburizing.

Decarburize (v. t.) To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.

Decard (v. t.) To discard.

Decardinalize (v. t.) To depose from the rank of cardinal.

Decastere (n.) A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.

Decastich (n.) A poem consisting of ten lines.

Decastyle (a.) Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc.

Decastyle (n.) A portico having ten pillars or columns in front.

Decasyllabic (a.) Having, or consisting of, ten syllables.

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

Decayed (imp. & p. p.) of Decay

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

Decay (v. i.) 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.

Decay (v. t.) To cause to decay; to impair.

Decay (v. t.) To destroy.

Decay (n.) 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.

Decay (n.) Destruction; death.

Decay (n.) Cause of decay.

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

Decayer (n.) A causer of decay.

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

Deceased (imp. & p. p.) of Decease

Deceasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decease

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

Deceased (a.) Passed away; dead; gone.

Decede (n.) To withdraw.

Decedent (a.) Removing; departing.

Decedent (n.) A deceased person.

Deceit (n.) 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.

Deceit (n.) 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.

Deceitful (a.) Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.

Deceitfully (adv.) With intent to deceive.

Deceitfulness (n.) The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.

Deceitfulness (n.) The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices.

Deceitfulness (n.) Tendency to mislead or deceive.

Deceitless (a.) Free from deceit.

Deceivable (a.) Fitted to deceive; deceitful.

Deceivable (a.) Subject to deceit; capable of being misled.

Deceivableness (n.) Capability of deceiving.

Deceivableness (n.) Liability to be deceived or misled; as, the deceivableness of a child.

Deceivably (adv.) In a deceivable manner.

Deceived (imp. & p. p.) of Deceive

Deceiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deceive

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

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

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

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

December (n.) The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice.

December (n.) Fig.: With reference to the end of the year and to the winter season; as, the December of his life.

Decemdentate (a.) Having ten points or teeth.

Decemfid (a.) Cleft into ten parts.

Decemlocular (a.) Having ten cells for seeds.

Decempedal (a.) Ten feet in length.

Decempedal (a.) Having ten feet; decapodal.

Decemvirs (pl. ) of Decemvir

Decemviri (pl. ) of Decemvir

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

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

Decemviral (a.) Pertaining to the decemvirs in Rome.

Decemvirate (n.) The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.

Decemvirate (n.) A body of ten men in authority.

Decemvirship (n.) The office of a decemvir.

Decence (n.) Decency.

Decencies (pl. ) of Decency

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

Decency (n.) That which is proper or becoming.

Decene (n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H20, of the ethylene series.

Decennaries (pl. ) of Decennary

Decennary (n.) A period of ten years.

Decennary (n.) A tithing consisting of ten neighboring families.

Decennial (a.) Consisting of ten years; happening every ten years; as, a decennial period; decennial games.

Decennial (n.) A tenth year or tenth anniversary.

Decenniums (pl. ) of Decennium

Decennia (pl. ) of Decennium

Decennium (n.) A period of ten years.

Decennoval (a.) Alt. of Decennovary

Decennovary (a.) Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years.

Decent (a.) Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.

Decent (a.) Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.

Decent (a.) Comely; shapely; well-formed.

Decent (a.) Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person.

Decentralization (n.) The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized.

Decentralize (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 (a.) Capable of being deceived; deceivable.

Deception (n.) The act of deceiving or misleading.

Deception (n.) The state of being deceived or misled.

Deception (n.) That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.

Deceptious (a.) Tending deceive; delusive.

Deceptive (a.) Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.

Deceptively (adv.) In a manner to deceive.

Deceptiveness (n.) The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive.

Deceptivity (n.) Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham.

Deceptory (a.) Deceptive.

Decern (v. t.) To perceive, discern, or decide.

Decern (v. t.) To decree; to adjudge.

Decerniture (n.) A decree or sentence of a court.

Decerp (v. t.) To pluck off; to crop; to gather.

Decerpt (a.) Plucked off or away.

Decerptible (a.) That may be plucked off, cropped, or torn away.

Decerption (n.) The act of plucking off; a cropping.

Decerption (n.) That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece.

Decertation (n.) Contest for mastery; contention; strife.

Decession (n.) Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion.

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

Dechristianized (imp. & p. p.) of Dechristianize

Dechristianizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dechristianize

Dechristianize (v. t.) To turn from, or divest of, Christianity.

Decidable (a.) Capable of being decided; determinable.

Decided (imp. & p. p.) of Decide

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

Decide (v. t.) To cut off; to separate.

Decide (v. t.) 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.

Decide (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.

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

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

Decidedly (adv.) In a decided manner; indisputably; clearly; thoroughly.

Decidement (n.) Means of forming a decision.

Decidence (n.) A falling off.

Decider (n.) One who decides.

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

Deciduata (n. pl.) A group of Mammalia in which a decidua is thrown off with, or after, the fetus, as in the human species.

Deciduate (a.) Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua.

Deciduity (n.) Deciduousness.

Deciduous (a.) 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.

Deciduousness (n.) The quality or state of being deciduous.

Decigram (n.) Alt. of Decigramme

Decigramme (n.) A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.

Decil (n.) Alt. of Decile

Decile (n.) An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36¡.

Deciliter (n.) Alt. of Decilitre

Decilitre (n.) A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.

Decillion (n.) According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.]

Decillionth (a.) Pertaining to a decillion, or to the quotient of unity divided by a decillion.

Decillionth (n.) The quotient of unity divided by a decillion.

Decillionth (n.) One of a decillion equal parts.

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

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

Decimalism (n.) The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights, measures, etc.

Decimalize (v. t.) To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency.

Decimally (adv.) By tens; by means of decimals.

Decimated (imp. & p. p.) of Decimate

Decimating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decimate

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

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

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

Decimation (n.) A tithing.

Decimation (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment.

Decimation (n.) The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war.

Decimator (n.) One who decimates.

Decime (n.) A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about two cents.

Decimeter (n.) Alt. of Decimetre

Decimetre (n.) A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.

Decimosexto (n.) A book consisting of sheets, each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 16mo or 16¡.

Decimosexto (a.) Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; as, a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size.

Decine (n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H15, of the acetylene series; -- called also decenylene.

Deciphered (imp. & p. p.) of Decipher

Deciphering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decipher

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

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

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

Decipherable (a.) Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.

Decipherer (n.) One who deciphers.

Decipheress (n.) A woman who deciphers.

Decipherment (n.) The act of deciphering.

Decipiency (n.) State of being deceived; hallucination.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Decisive (a.) Marked by promptness and decision.

Decisory (a.) Able to decide or determine; having a tendency to decide.

Decistere (n.) The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.

Decitizenize (v. t.) To deprive of the rights of citizenship.

Decivilize (v. t.) To reduce from civilization to a savage state.

Decked (imp. & p. p.) of Deck

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

Deck (v. t.) To cover; to overspread.

Deck (v. t.) To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.

Deck (v. t.) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.

Deck (v.) 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.

Deck (v.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.

Deck (v.) The roof of a passenger car.

Deck (v.) A pack or set of playing cards.

Deck (v.) A heap or store.

Deckel (n.) Same as Deckle.

Decker (n.) One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker.

Decker (n.) A vessel which has a deck or decks; -- used esp. in composition; as, a single-decker; a three-decker.

Deckle (n.) 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.

Declaimed (imp. & p. p.) of Declaim

Declaiming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Declaim

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

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

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

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

Declaimant (n.) A declaimer.

Declaimer (n.) One who declaims; an haranguer.

Declamation (n.) 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.

Declamation (n.) A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.

Declamation (n.) Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.

Declamator (n.) A declaimer.

Declamatory (a.) Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.

Declamatory (a.) Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.

Declarable (a.) Capable of being declared.

Declarant (n.) One who declares.

Declaration (n.) 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.

Declaration (n.) That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal.

Declaration (n.) The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington).

Declaration (n.) That part of the process 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.

Declarative (a.) Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory.

Declaratively (adv.) By distinct assertion; not impliedly; in the form of a declaration.

Declarator (n.) A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.

Declaratorily (adv.) In a declaratory manner.

Declaratory (a.) Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature.

Declared (imp. & p. p.) of Declare

Declaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Declare

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

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

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

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

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

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

Declaredly (adv.) Avowedly; explicitly.

Declaredness (n.) The state of being declared.

Declarement (n.) Declaration.

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

Declension (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

Declension (n.) A falling off towards