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ID Word Definition

14114

dab
DAB, v.t.1. To strike gently with the hand; to slap; to box.2. To strike gently with some soft or ...

14115

dabble
DAB'BLE, v.t. [Heb. tabal, or from the root of dip. See dip.] Literally, to dip a little or ...

14116

dabbler
DAB'BLER, n.1. One who plays in water or mud.2. One who dips slightly into any thing; one who ...

14117

dabbling
DAB'BLING, ppr. Dipping superficially or often; playing in water, or in mud; meddling.

14118

dabchick
DAB'CHICK, n. [dab or dip and chick.] A small water-fowl.

14119

dabster
DABSTER, n. One who is skilled; one who is expert; a master of his business.

14120

dace
DACE, n. A fish, the Cyprinus leuciscus; a small river fish, resembling the roach.

14121

dactyl
DACTYL, n. [Gr. A finger; L. probably a shoot.] A poetical foot consisting of three syllables, ...

14122

dactylar
DACTYLAR, a. Pertaining to a dactyl; reducing from three to two syllables.

14123

dactylet
DACTYLET, n. A dactyl.

14124

dactylic
DAC'TYLIC, a. Pertaining to or consisting of dactyls; as dactylic verses; a dactylic flute, a ...

14125

dactylist
DAC'TYLIST, n. One who writes flowing verse.

14126

dactylology
DACTYLOL'OGY, n. The act or the art of communicating ideas or thoughts by the fingers. Deaf and ...

14127

dad
DAD

14128

daddle
DAD'DLE, v.i. To walk with tottering, like a child or an old man.

14129

daddy
DADDY, n. Father; a word used by infants, from whom it is taken. The first articulations of ...

14130

dade
DADE, v.t. To hold up by leading strings.

14131

dado
D'ADO, n. The plain part of a column between the base and the cornice; the die; a cubical base of ...

14132

daedal
DAE'DAL, a. [Gr., an ingenious artist.] 1. Various; variegated.2. Skilful.

14133

daedalian
DAEDALIAN, [See Dedalian]

14134

daff
DAFF, or DAFFE, A stupid blockish fellow.DAFF, v.t. To daunt.DAFF, v.t. To toss aside; to put ...

14135

daffodil
DAF'FODIL, n. A plant of the genus Narcissus, of several species. These have a bulbous root, and ...

14136

dag
DAG, n. A dagger; a hand-gun; a pistol.DAG, n. Dew.DAG, n.1. a loose end, as of locks of wool; ...

14137

dagger
DAG'GER, n. 1. A short sword; a poniard.2. In fencing schools, a blunt blade of iron with a ...

14138

daggers-drawing
DAG'GERS-DRAWING, n. The act of drawing daggers; approach to open attack or to violence; a ...

14139

daggle
DAG'GLE, v.t. To trail in mud or wet grass; to befoul; to dirty, as the lower end of a ...

14140

daggle-tail
DAG'GLE-TAIL, a. Having the lower ends of garments defiled with mud.

14141

daggled
DAG'GLED, pp. Dipped or trailed in mud or foul water; befouled.

14142

daggling
DAG'GLING, ppr. Drawing along in mud or foul water.

14143

daily
DA'ILY, a. Happening or being every day; done day by day; bestowed or enjoyed every day; as daily ...

14144

daintily
DA'INTILY, adv. 1. Nicely; elegantly; as a hat daintily made.2. Nicely; fastidiously; with nice ...

14145

daintiness
DA'INTINESS, n. 1. Delicacy; softness; elegance; nicety; as the daintiness of the limbs.2. ...

14146

dainty
DA'INTY, a. 1. Nice; pleasing to the palate; of exquisite taste; delicious; as dainty food.2. ...

14147

dairy
DA'IRY, n. 1. Milk, and all that concerns it, on a farm; or the business of managing milk, and of ...

14148

dairyhouse
DA'IRYHOUSE, or DAIRYROOM, n. A house or room appropriated to the management of milk.

14149

dairymaid
DA'IRYMAID, n. A female servant whose business is to manage milk.

14150

daisied
DA'ISIED, a. Full of daisies; adorned with daisies.

14151

daisy
DA'ISY, n. A plant of the genus Bellis, of several varieties. The blue daisy belongs to the genus ...

14152

daker-hen
DA'KER-HEN, n. A fowl of the gallinaceous kind, somewhat like a patridge or quail. The corn-crake ...

14153

dakir
DA'KIR, n. In English statutes, ten hides, or the twentieth part of a last of hides.

14154

dale
DALE, n. A low place between hills; a vale or valley.

14155

dalliance
DAL'LIANCE, n. 1. Literally, delay; a lingering; appropriately, acts of fondness; interchange of ...

14156

dallier
DAL'LIER, n. One who fondles; a trifler; as a dallier with pleasant words.

14157

dalling
DAL'LING, ppr. Delaying; procrastinating; trifling; wasting time in idle amusement; toying; ...

14158

dally
DAL'LY, v.i.1. Literally, to delay; to linger; to wait. Hence.2. To trifle; to lose time in ...

14159

dam
DAM, n.1. A female parent; used of beasts, particularly of quadrupeds.2. A human mother, in ...

14160

damage
DAM'AGE, n.[This word seems to be allied to the Greek, a fine or mulet.]1. Any hurt, injury or ...

14161

damage-feasant
DAMAGE-FEASANT, a. Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.

14162

damageable
DAM'AGEABLE, a.1. That may be injured or impaired; susceptible of damage; as damageable goods.2. ...

14163

damaged
DAM'AGED, pp. Hurt; impaired; injured.

14164

damaging
DAM'AGING, ppr. Injuring; impairing.

14165

damascene
DAM'ASCENE, n.1. A particular kind of plum, now pronounced damson, which see.2. It may be locally ...

14166

damask
DAM'ASK, n.1. A silk stuff, having some parts raised above the ground, representing flowers and ...

14167

damask-plum
DAM'ASK-PLUM, n. A small black plum.

14168

damask-rose
DAM'ASK-ROSE, n. A species of rose which is red, and another which is white.

14169

damaskeened
DAMASKEE'NED, pp. Carved into figures and inlaid with gold or silver wire.

14170

damaskeening
DAMASKEE'NING, ppr. Engraving and adorning with gold or silver wire inlaid.DAMASKEE'NING, n. The ...

14171

damasken
DAM'ASKEN or DAM'ASKEEN, v.t. To make incisions in iron, steel, &c., and fill them with gold or ...

14172

damaskin
DAM'ASKIN, n. A saber, so called from the manufacture of Damascus.

14173

dame
DAME, n. [Gr., to subdue] Literally, a mistress; hence, a lady; a title of honor to a woman. It ...

14174

dames-violet
DAME'S-VIOLET or DAME-WORT, n. A plant of the genus Hesperis; called also queen's gilliflower, or ...

14175

damianists
DA'MIANISTS, in church history, a sect who denied any distinction in the Godhead; believing in one ...

14176

damn
DAMN, v.t.1. To sentence to eternal torments in a future state; to punish in hell.2. To condemn; ...

14177

damnable
DAM'NABLE, a. 1. That may be damned or condemned; deserving damnation; worthy of eternal ...

14178

damnableness
DAM'NABLENESS, n. The state or quality of deserving damnation.

14179

damnably
DAM'NABLY, adv. 1. In a manner to incur eternal punishment, or so as to exclude mercy.2. In a low ...

14180

damnation
DAMNA'TION, n. 1. Sentence or condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state; or the ...

14181

damnatory
DAM'NATORY, a. Containing a sentence of condemnation.

14182

damned
DAM'NED, pp.1. Sentenced to everlasting punishment in a future state; condemned.2. a. Hateful; ...

14183

damnific
DAMNIF'IC, a. Procuring loss; mischievous.

14184

damnified
DAM'NIFIED, pp. Injured; endamaged.

14185

damnify
DAM'NIFY, v.t.1. To cause loss or damage to; to hurt in estate or interest; to injure; to ...

14186

damnifying
DAM'NIFYING, ppr. Hurting; injuring; impairing.

14187

damning
DAM'NING, ppr.1. Dooming to endless punishment; condemning.2. a. That condemns or exposes to ...

14188

damningness
DAM'NINGNESS, n. Tendency to bring damnation.

14189

damp
DAMP, a.1. Moist; humid; being in a state between dry and wet; as a damp cloth; damp air; ...

14190

damped
DAMP'ED, pp. Chilled; depressed; abated; weakened; checked; discouraged.

14191

damper
DAMP'ER, n. 1. That which damps or checks; a valve or sliding plate in a furnace to stop or lessen ...

14192

damping
DAMP'ING, ppr. Chilling; deadening; dejecting; abating; checking; weakening.

14193

dampish
DAMP'ISH, a. Moderately damp, or moist.

14194

dampishness
DAMP'ISHNESS, n. A moderate degree of dampness, or moistness; slight humidity.

14195

dampness
DAMP'NESS, n. Moisture; fogginess; moistness; moderate humidity; as the dampness of the air, of ...

14196

damps
DAMPS, n. [See Damp]

14197

dampy
DAMP'Y, a. Dejected; gloomy.

14198

damsel
DAM'SEL, n. A young woman. Formerly, a young man or woman of noble or genteel extraction; as ...

14199

damson
DAM'SON, n. The fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; a small black plum.

14200

dan
DAN, n. A title of honor equivalent to master; used by Shakspeare, Prior, &c., but now obsolete.

14201

dance
D'ANCE, v.i.1. Primarily, to leap or spring; hence, to leap or move with measured steps, regulated ...

14202

dancer
D'ANCER, n. One who practices dancing, or is skilful in the performance.

14203

dancing
D'ANCING, ppr. Leaping and stepping to the sound of the voice or of an instrument; moving in ...

14204

dancing-master
D'ANCING-MASTER, n. One who teaches the art of dancing.

14205

dancing-school
D'ANCING-SCHOOL, n. A school in which the art of dancing is taught.

14206

dandelion
DAN'DELION, n. A well known plant of the genus Leontodon, having a naked stalk, with one large ...

14207

dandiprat
DAN'DIPRAT, n. A fellow; an urchin; a word of fondness or contempt.

14208

dandled
DAN'DLED, pp. Danced on the knee, or in the arms; fondled; amused by trifles or play.

14209

dandler
DAN'DLER, n. One who dandles or fondles children.

14210

dandling
DAN'DLING, ppr. Shaking and jolting on the knee; moving about in play or for amusement, as an ...

14211

dandruff
DANDRUFF, n. A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small scales or particles.

14212

dandy
DAN'DY, n. In modern usage, a male of the human species, who dresses himself like a doll and who ...

14213

dandyism
DAN'DYISM, n. The manners and dress of a dandy.

14214

dane
DANE, n. A native of Denmark.

14215

danegelt
DA'NEGELT, n. In England, an annual tax formerly laid on the English nation, for maintaining ...

14216

danewort
DA'NEWORT, n. A plant of the genus Sambucus; a species of elder, called dwarf-elder or wall-wort.

14217

danger
DANGER, n. Peril; risk; hazard; exposure to injury, loss, pain or other evil.Our craft is in ...

14218

dangerless
DANGERLESS, a. Free from danger; without risk.

14219

dangerous
DANGEROUS, a. 1. Perilous; hazardous; exposing to loss; unsafe; full of risk; as a dangerous ...

14220

dangerousness
DANGEROUSNESS, n. Danger; hazard; peril; a state of being exposed to evil; as the dangerousness of ...

14221

dangle
DAN'GLE, v.i.1. To hang loose, flowing, shaking or waving; to hang and swing.He'd rather on a ...

14222

dangler
DAN'GLER, n. One who dangles or hangs about.

14223

dangling
DAN'GLING, ppr. Hanging loosely; busily or officiously adhering to.

14224

danish
DA'NISH, n. The language of the Danes.

14225

dank
DANK, a. Damp; moist; humid; wet.DANK, n. Moisture; humidity.

14226

dankish
DANK'ISH, a. Somewhat damp.

14227

dankishness
DANK'ISHNESS, n. Dampness; humidity.

14228

daourite
DA'OURITE, n. A mineral, called rubellite, resembling shorl, but differing from it in chimical ...

14229

dap
DAP, v.i. To drop or let fall into the water; a word used by anglers.

14230

daphnate
DAPH'NATE, n. A compound of the bitter principle of the Daphne Alpina with a base.

14231

daphnin
DAPH'NIN, n. The bitter principle of the Daphne Alpina, discovered by Vauquelin. It is obtained ...

14232

dapifer
DAP'IFER, n. One who brings meat to the table. Formerly, the title or office of the grand-master ...

14233

dapper
DAP'PER, a. Active; nimble; brisk; or little and active; neat; tight; as a dapper fellow; a dapper ...

14234

dapperling
DAP'PERLING, n. A dwarf; a dandiprat.

14235

dapple
DAP'PLE, a. Marked with spots; spotted; variegated with spots of different colors or shades of ...

14236

dappled
DAP'PLED, pp. Spotted; variegated with spots of different colors or shades of color.

14237

dappling
DAP'PLING, ppr. Variegating with spot.

14238

dar
DAR or DART, n. A fish found in the Severn.

14239

dare
DARE, v.i. pret. durst. To have courage to any purpose; to have strength of mind or hardihood to ...

14240

dared
DA'RED, pp. Challenged; defied.

14241

dareful
DA'REFUL, a. Full of defiance.

14242

darer
DA'RER, n. One who dares or defies.

14243

daric
DAR'IC, n. A gold coin of Darius the Mede, value about 556 cents.

14244

daring
DA'RING, ppr.1. Having courage sufficient for a purpose; challenging; defying. 2. a. Bold; ...

14245

daringly
DA'RINGLY, adv. Boldly; courageously; fearlessly; impudently.The principles of our holy religion ...

14246

daringness
DA'RINGNESS, n. Boldness; courageousness; audaciousness.

14247

dark
D'ARK, a.1. Destitute of light; obscure. A dark atmosphere is one which prevents vision.2. ...

14248

dark-house
D'ARK-HOUSE, n. An old word for a madhouse.

14249

dark-working
D'ARK-WORKING, a. Working in darkness or in secrecy.

14250

darken
D'ARKEN, v.i. To grow dark or darker; also, to grow less white or clear.

14251

darkened
D'ARKENED, pp. Deprived of light; obscured; rendered dim; made black; made ignorant.

14252

darkening
D'ARKENING, ppr. Depriving of light; obscuring; making black or less white or clear; clouding.

14253

darkish
D'ARKISH, a. Dusky; somewhat dark.

14254

darkling
D'ARKLING, a. Being in the dark, or without light; a poetical word.

14255

darkly
D'ARKLY, adv. Obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly; with imperfect light, clearness or ...

14256

darkness
D'ARKNESS, n.1. Absence of light.And darkness was on the face of the deep. Gen. i.2. Obscurity; ...

14257

darksome
D'ARKSOME, a. Dark; gloomy; obscure; as a darksome house; a darksome cloud.

14258

darling
D'ARLING, a. Dearly beloved; favorite; regarded with great kindness and tenderness; as a darling ...

14259

darn
D'ARN, v.t. To mend a rent or hole, by imitating the texture of the cloth or stuff with yarn or ...

14260

darnel
D'ARNEL, n. A plant of the genus Lolium, a kind of grass; the most remarkable species are the red ...

14261

darner
D'ARNER, n. One who mends by darning.

14262

darning
D'ARNING, ppr. Mending in imitation of the original texture; sewing together; as a torn stocking, ...

14263

darrain
DAR'RAIN, v.t. To prepare, or to order; or to try; to endeavor; to prove; to apply to the ...

14264

dart
D'ART, n. [Gr., a spear or lance.] 1. A pointed missile weapon to be thrown by the hand; a short ...

14265

darted
D'ARTED, pp. Thrown or hurled as a pointed instrument; sent with velocity.

14266

darter
D'ARTER, n. One who throws a dart.

14267

darting
D'ARTING, ppr. Throwing, as a dart; hurling darts; flying rapidly.

14268

dash
DASH, v.t.1. To strike suddenly or violently, whether throwing or falling; as, to dash one stone ...

14269

dashed
DASH'ED, pp. Struck violently; driven against; bruised, broken or scattered by collision; ...

14270

dashing
DASH'ING, ppr.1. Driving and striking against; striking suddenly or violently; breaking or ...

14271

dastard
DAS'TARD, n. A coward; a poltroon; one who meanly shrinks from danger.DAS'TARD, a. Cowardly; ...

14272

dastardize
DAS'TARDIZE, v.t. To make cowardly.

14273

dastardliness
DAS'TARDLINESS, n. Cowardliness.

14274

dastardly
DAS'TARDLY, Cowardly; meanly timid; base; sneaking.

14275

dastardness
DAS'TARDNESS, n. Cowardliness; mean timorousness.

14276

dastardy
DAS'TARDY, n. Cowardliness; base timidity.

14277

data
DA'TA, n. plu. Things given, or admitted; quantities, principles or facts given, known, or ...

14278

datary
DA'TARY, n.1. An officer of the chancery of Rome, who affixes the datum Roma to the pope's ...

14279

date
DATE, n.1. That addition to a writing which specifies the year, month and day when it was given or ...

14280

date-tree
DA'TE-TREE, n. The tree that bears dates; the great palm-tree.

14281

dated
DA'TED, pp. Having the time of writing or execution specified; having the time of happening ...

14282

dateless
DA'TELESS, a. Having no date; having no fixed term.DA'TER, n. One that dates.DA'TING, ppr. ...

14283

dater
DA'TER, n. One that dates.DA'TING, ppr. Expressing the time of writing or of executing a paper or ...

14284

dating
DA'TING, ppr. Expressing the time of writing or of executing a paper or instrument; noting the ...

14285

dative
DA'TIVE, a. In grammar, the epithet of the case of nouns, which usually follows verbs that express ...

14286

datolite
DAT'OLITE or DATH'OLITE, n. The siliceous borate of lime, a mineral of two subspecies, the common ...

14287

datum
DA'TUM, n. Something given or admitted.DATU'RA, n. A vegeto-alkali obtained from Datura ...

14288

datura
DATU'RA, n. A vegeto-alkali obtained from Datura stramonium.DAUB, v.t.

14289

daub
DAUB, v.t.

14290

daubed
DAUB'ED, pp. Smeared with soft adhesive matter; plastered; painted coarsely; disguised; loaded ...

14291

dauber
DAUB'ER, n. One who daubs; a coarse painter; a low and gross flatterer. DAUB'ING, ppr. ...

14292

daubing
DAUB'ING, ppr. Plastering; painting coarsely; disguising clumsily; decking ostentatiously; ...

14293

daubry
DAUB'RY or DAUB'ERY, n, A daubing; any thing artful.DAUB'Y, a. Viscous; glutinous; slimy; ...

14294

dauby
DAUB'Y, a. Viscous; glutinous; slimy; adhesive.DAUGHTER, n,

14295

daughter
DAUGHTER, n,

14296

daughterliness
DAUGH'TERLINESS, n.

14297

daughterly
DAUGH'TERLY, a. Becoming a daughter; dutiful.D'AUNT, v.t. To repress or subdue courage; to ...

14298

daunt
D'AUNT, v.t. To repress or subdue courage; to intimidate; to dishearten; to check by fear of ...

14299

daunted
D'AUNTED, pp. Checked by fear; intimidated.D'AUNTING, ppr. Repressing courage; intimidating; ...

14300

daunting
D'AUNTING, ppr. Repressing courage; intimidating; disheartening.D'AUNTLESS, a. Bold; fearless; ...

14301

dauntless
D'AUNTLESS, a. Bold; fearless; intrepid; not timid; not discouraged; as a dauntless hero; a ...

14302

dauntlessness
D'AUNTLESSNESS, n. Fearlessness; intrepidity.DAU'PHIN, n. The eldest son of the king of France, ...

14303

dauphin
DAU'PHIN, n. The eldest son of the king of France, and presumptive heir of the crown.DAU'PHINESS, ...

14304

dauphiness
DAU'PHINESS, n. The wife or lady of the dauphin.DAVINA, n. A new Vesuvian mineral of a hexahedral ...

14305

davina
DAVINA, n. A new Vesuvian mineral of a hexahedral form and laminar texture; so called in honor of ...

14306

davit
DAV'IT, n. A beam used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top ...

14307

daw
DAW, v.i. To dawn.DAW'DLE, v.i. To waste time; to trifle.DAW'DLER, n. A trifler.DAWK, v.t. To ...

14308

dawdle
DAW'DLE, v.i. To waste time; to trifle.DAW'DLER, n. A trifler.DAWK, v.t. To cut or mark with an ...

14309

dawdler
DAW'DLER, n. A trifler.DAWK, v.t. To cut or mark with an incision.DAWN, v.i.

14310

dawk
DAWK, v.t. To cut or mark with an incision.DAWN, v.i.

14311

dawn
DAWN, v.i.

14312

dawning
DAWN'ING, ppr. 1. Growing light; first appearing luminous; opening; as the dawning day.

14313

day
DAY, n.

14314

daybed
DA'YBED, n. A bed used for idleness, indulgence, or rest during the day.DA'YBOOK, n. A journal of ...

14315

daybook
DA'YBOOK, n. A journal of accounts; a book in which are recorded the debts and credits or accounts ...

14316

daybreak
DA'YBREAK, n. The dawn or first appearance of light in the morning.DA'YCOAL, n. A name given by ...

14317

daycoal
DA'YCOAL, n. A name given by miners to the upper stratum of coal.DA'YDREAM, n. A vision to the ...

14318

daydream
DA'YDREAM, n. A vision to the waking senses.DA'YFLOWER, n. A genus of plants, the ...

14319

dayflower
DA'YFLOWER, n. A genus of plants, the Commelina.DA'YFLY, n. A genus of insects that live one day ...

14320

dayfly
DA'YFLY, n. A genus of insects that live one day only, or a very short time called Ephemera. The ...

14321

daylabor
DA'YLABOR, n. Labor hired or performed by the day.DAYLABORER, n. One who works by the ...

14322

daylaborer
DAYLABORER, n. One who works by the day.DAY'LIGHT, n. The light of the day; the light of the sun, ...

14323

daylight
DAY'LIGHT, n. The light of the day; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or of a ...

14324

daylily
DA'YLILY, n. The same with asphodel. A species of Hemerocallis.DA'YLY, a. The more regular ...

14325

dayly
DA'YLY, a. The more regular orthography of daily.DA'YSMAN, n. An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.

14326

daysman
DA'YSMAN, n. An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.

14327

dayspring
DA'YSPRING, n. The dawn; the beginning of the day, or first appearance of light.

14328

daystar
DA'YSTAR, n. The morning star, Lucifer, Venus; the star which precedes the morning light.DA'YTIME, ...

14329

dayswork
DA'Y'SWORK, n. The work of one day. Among seamen, the account or reckoning of a ship's course for ...

14330

daytime
DA'YTIME, n. The time of the sun's light on the earth; as opposed to night.DA'YWEARIED, a. ...

14331

daywearied
DA'YWEARIED, a. Wearied with the labor of the day.DA'YWORK, Work by the day; daylabor. DA'Y'SWORK, ...

14332

daywork
DA'YWORK, Work by the day; daylabor. DA'Y'SWORK, n. The work of one day. Among seamen, the ...

14333

daze
DAZE, v.t. To overpower with light; to dim or blind by too strong a light, or to render the sight ...

14334

dazzle
DAZ'ZLE, v.t.

14335

dazzled
DAZ'ZLED, pp. Made wavering, as the sight; overpowered or dimmed by a too strong ...

14336

dazzlement
DAZ'ZLEMENT, n. The act or power of dazzling.DAZ'ZLING, ppr. Rendering unsteady or wavering as ...

14337

dazzling
DAZ'ZLING, ppr. Rendering unsteady or wavering as the sight; overpowering by a strong light; ...

14338

dazzlingly
DAZ'ZLINGLY, adv. In a dazzling manner.DE, a Latin prefix, denotes a moving from, separation; as ...

14339

de
DE, a Latin prefix, denotes a moving from, separation; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, ...

14340

deacon
DE'ACON, n. [Gr., a minister or servant.]

14341

deaconess
DE'ACONESS, n. A female deacon in the primitive church.DE'ACONRY or DE'ACONSHIP, n. The office, ...

14342

deaconry
DE'ACONRY or DE'ACONSHIP, n. The office, dignity or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.DEAD,

14343

dead
DEAD,

14344

dead-drunk
DEAD-DRUNK, a. So drunk as to be incapable of helping one's self.DEAD'EN, v.t. ded'n.

14345

dead-heartedness
DEAD-HEARTEDNESS, n. Having a dull, faint heart.DEAD'-LIFT, n. A heavy weight; a hopeless ...

14346

dead-reckoning
DEAD-RECKONING, n. In navigation, the judgment or estimation of the place of a ship, without any ...

14347

deaden
DEAD'EN, v.t. ded'n.

14348

deadlihood
DEAD'LIHOOD, n. The state of the dead.DEAD'LINESS, n. ded'liness. The quality of being ...

14349

deadliness
DEAD'LINESS, n. ded'liness. The quality of being deadly.DEAD'LY, a. ded'ly.

14350

deadly
DEAD'LY, a. ded'ly.

14351

deadly-carrot
DEADLY-CARROT, n. A plant of the genus Thapsia.DEADLY-NIGHTSHADE, n. A plant of the genus ...

14352

deadly-nightshade
DEADLY-NIGHTSHADE, n. A plant of the genus Atropa.DEAD'NESS, n. ded'ness.

14353

deadness
DEAD'NESS, n. ded'ness.

14354

deadnettle
DEAD'NETTLE, n. A plant of the genus Lamium, and another of the genus Galeopsis.DEAD'PLEDGE, n. ...

14355

deadpledge
DEAD'PLEDGE, n. A mortgage or pawning of things, or thing pawned.DEAD-RECKONING, n. In ...

14356

deadwater
DEAD'WATER, n. The eddy water closing in with a ship's stern, as she passes through the ...

14357

deadwood
DEAD'WOOD, n. Blocks of timber laid on the keel of a ship, particularly at the ...

14358

deadworks
DEAD'WORKS, n. The parts of a ship which are above the surface of the water, when she is balanced ...

14359

deaf
DEAF, n. deef.

14360

deafen
DE'AFEN, v.t. dee'fn.

14361

deafly
DE'AFLY, adv. dee'fly. Without sense of sounds; obscurely heard.DE'AFNESS, n, dee'fness.

14362

deafness
DE'AFNESS, n, dee'fness.

14363

deal
DEAL, v.t. pret. and pp. dealt, pron. delt.

14364

dealbate
DEAL'BATE, n.t. To whiten.DEALBA'TION, n. The act of bleaching; a whitening.DE'ALER, n.

14365

dealbation
DEALBA'TION, n. The act of bleaching; a whitening.DE'ALER, n.

14366

dealer
DE'ALER, n.

14367

dealing
DE'ALING, ppr.

14368

deambulation
DEAMBULA'TION, n. The act of walking abroad.DEAM'BULATORY, a. Pertaining to walks.DEAM'BULATORY, ...

14369

deambulatory
DEAM'BULATORY, a. Pertaining to walks.DEAM'BULATORY, n. A place to walk in.DEAN, n.

14370

dean
DEAN, n.

14371

deanery
DE'ANERY, n.

14372

deanship
DEAN'SHIP, n. The office of a dean.DEAR, a.

14373

dear
DEAR, a.

14374

dearbought
DE'ARBOUGHT, a. Purchased at a high price; as dearbought experience; dearbought ...

14375

dearling
DE'ARLING, (See Darling)DE'ARLOVED, a. Greatly beloved.DE'ARLY, adv.

14376

dearloved
DE'ARLOVED, a. Greatly beloved.DE'ARLY, adv.

14377

dearly
DE'ARLY, adv.

14378

dearn
DEARN, a. Lonely; solitary; melancholy.DE'ARNESS, n.

14379

dearness
DE'ARNESS, n.

14380

dearnly
DEARNLY, adv. Secretly; privately.DEARTH, n. derth.

14381

dearth
DEARTH, n. derth.

14382

dearticulate
DEARTIC'ULATE, v.t. To disjoint.DEATH, n. deth.

14383

death
DEATH, n. deth.

14384

death-bed
DEATH-BED, n. deth'-bed. The bed on which a person dies or is confined in his last ...

14385

death-darting
DEATH-DARTING, a. Darting or inflicting death.DEATH'S-DOOR, n. A near approach to death; the ...

14386

death-watch
DEATH'-WATCH, n. A small insect whose ticking is weakly supposed, by superstitious and ignorant ...

14387

deathful
DEATH'FUL, a. Full of slaughter; murderous; destructive.

14388

deathfulness
DEATH'FULNESS, n. Appearance of death.DEATH'LESS, a. Immortal; not subject to death, destruction ...

14389

deathless
DEATH'LESS, a. Immortal; not subject to death, destruction or extinction; as deathless beings; ...

14390

deathlike
DEATH'LIKE, a.

14391

deaths-door
DEATH'S-DOOR, n. A near approach to death; the gates of death.DEATH'FUL, a. Full of slaughter; ...

14392

deaths-man
DEATH'S-MAN, n. An executioner; a hangman.DEATH'-SHADOWED, a. Surrounded by the shades of death.

14393

deathward
DEATH'WARD, adv. Toward death.DEATH'-WATCH, n. A small insect whose ticking is weakly supposed, ...

14394

deaurate
DEAU'RATE, v.t. To gild.DEAU'RATE, a. Gilded.DEBAC'LE, n. A breaking or bursting forth.

14395

debacle
DEBAC'LE, n. A breaking or bursting forth.

14396

debar
DEB'AR, v.t. To cut off from entrance; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry or enjoyment; ...

14397

debark
DEB'ARK, v.t. To land from a ship or boat; to remove from on board any water-craft, and place on ...

14398

debarkation
DEBARKA'TION, n. The act of disembarking.DEB'ARKED, pp. Removed to land from on board a ship or ...

14399

debarked
DEB'ARKED, pp. Removed to land from on board a ship or boat.DEB'ARKING, ppr. Removing from a ship ...

14400

debarking
DEB'ARKING, ppr. Removing from a ship to the land; going from on board a vessel.DEB'ARRED, pp. ...

14401

debarred
DEB'ARRED, pp. Hindered from approach, entrance or possession.DEB'ARRING, ppr. Preventing from ...

14402

debarring
DEB'ARRING, ppr. Preventing from approach, entrance or enjoyment.DEBA'SE, v.t.

14403

debase
DEBA'SE, v.t.

14404

debased
DEBA'SED, pp. Reduced in estimated rank; lowered in estimation; reduced in purity, fineness, ...

14405

debasement
DEBA'SEMENT, n. The act of debasing; degradation; reduction of purity, fineness, quality or value; ...

14406

debaser
DEBA'SER, n. One who debases or lowers in estimation, or in value; one who degrades or renders ...

14407

debasing
DEBA'SING, ppr.

14408

debatable
DEBA'TABLE, a. That may be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; as a ...

14409

debate
DEBATE, n.

14410

debated
DEBA'TED, pp. Disputed; argued; discussed.DEBA'TEFUL, a.

14411

debateful
DEBA'TEFUL, a.

14412

debatefully
DEBA'TEFULLY, adv. With contention.DEBA'TEMENT, n. Controversy; deliberation.DEBA'TER, n. One ...

14413

debatement
DEBA'TEMENT, n. Controversy; deliberation.DEBA'TER, n. One who debates; a disputant; a ...

14414

debater
DEBA'TER, n. One who debates; a disputant; a controvertist.DEBA'TING, ppr. Disputing; discussing; ...

14415

debating
DEBA'TING, ppr. Disputing; discussing; contending by arguments.DEBAUCH', v.t. [The general sense ...

14416

debauch
DEBAUCH', v.t. [The general sense of debauch, in English, is to lead astray, like seduce.]

14417

debauched
DEBAUCH'ED, pp. Corrupted; vitiated in morals or purity of character.DEBAUCH'EDLY, adv. In a ...

14418

debauchedly
DEBAUCH'EDLY, adv. In a profligate manner.DEBAUCH'EDNESS, n. Intemperance.DEBAUCHEE', n. A man ...

14419

debauchedness
DEBAUCH'EDNESS, n. Intemperance.DEBAUCHEE', n. A man given to intemperance, or bacchanalian ...

14420

debauchee
DEBAUCHEE', n. A man given to intemperance, or bacchanalian excesses. But chiefly, a man ...

14421

debaucher
DEBAUCH'ER, n. One who debauches or corrupts others; a seducer to lewdness, or to any dereliction ...

14422

debauchery
DEBAUCH'ERY, n.

14423

debauchment
DEBAUCH'MENT, n. The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.

14424

debellation
DEBELLA'TION, n. The act of conquering or subduing.DEBEN'TURE, n. [Fr. from L. debeo, to owe.]

14425

debenture
DEBEN'TURE, n. [Fr. from L. debeo, to owe.]

14426

debentured
DEBEN'TURED, a. Debentured goods are those for which a debenture has been given, as being entitled ...

14427

debile
DEB'ILE, a. Relaxed; weak; feeble; languid; faint; without strength.DEBIL'ITATE, v.t. To weaken; ...

14428

debilitate
DEBIL'ITATE, v.t. To weaken; to impair the strength of; to enfeeble; to make faint or languid. ...

14429

debilitated
DEBIL'ITATED, pp. Weakened; enfeebled; relaxed.DEBIL'ITATING, ppr. Weakening; enfeebling; ...

14430

debilitating
DEBIL'ITATING, ppr. Weakening; enfeebling; impairing strength.DEBILITA'TION, n. The act of ...

14431

debilitation
DEBILITA'TION, n. The act of weakening; relaxation.DEBIL'ITY, n. Relaxation of the solids; ...

14432

debility
DEBIL'ITY, n. Relaxation of the solids; weakness; feebleness; languor of body; faintness; ...

14433

debit
DEB'IT, n. [L. debitum, from debeo, to owe.] Debt. It is usually written debt. But it is used ...

14434

debited
DEB'ITED, pp.

14435

debiting
DEB'ITING, ppr.

14436

debitor
DEB'ITOR, n. A debtor.DEBOISE,DEBOISH, for debauch.DEBONNA'IR, a. Civil; wellbred; complaisant; ...

14437

deboise
DEBOISE,DEBOISH, for debauch.DEBONNA'IR, a. Civil; wellbred; complaisant; elegant.DEBOUCH, v.i. ...

14438

deboish
DEBOISH, for debauch.DEBONNA'IR, a. Civil; wellbred; complaisant; elegant.DEBOUCH, v.i. To issue ...

14439

debonnair
DEBONNA'IR, a. Civil; wellbred; complaisant; elegant.DEBOUCH, v.i. To issue or march out of a ...

14440

debouch
DEBOUCH, v.i. To issue or march out of a narrow place, or from defiles, as troops.DEBRIS, n. ...

14441

debris
DEBRIS, n. debree'. Fragments; rubbish; ruins; applied particularly to the fragments of ...

14442

debt
DEBT, n. det. [L. debitum, contracted.]

14443

debted
DEBT'ED, pp. det'ted. Indebted; obliged to.DEBTEE', n. dettee'. A creditor; one to whom a debt ...

14444

debtee
DEBTEE', n. dettee'. A creditor; one to whom a debt is due.DEBT'LESS, a. det'less. Free from ...

14445

debtless
DEBT'LESS, a. det'less. Free from debt.DEBT'OR, n. det'tor.

14446

debtor
DEBT'OR, n. det'tor.

14447

decachord
DEC'ACHORD,DECACHORD'ON, n. [Gr. ten or string]

14448

decachordon
DECACHORD'ON, n. [Gr. ten or string]

14449

decadal
DEC'ADAL, a. Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.DEC'ADE, n. [Gr., ten.] The sum or number of ...

14450

decade
DEC'ADE, n. [Gr., ten.] The sum or number of ten; an aggregate consisting of ten; as a decade of ...

14451

decadence
DECA'DENCE,DECA'DENCY, n. Decay. DEC'AGON, n. [Gr., ten and corner.] In geometry, a plane figure ...

14452

decadency
DECA'DENCY, n. Decay. DEC'AGON, n. [Gr., ten and corner.] In geometry, a plane figure having ten ...

14453

decagon
DEC'AGON, n. [Gr., ten and corner.] In geometry, a plane figure having ten sides and ten ...

14454

decagram
DEC'AGRAM, n. [Gr., ten and a weight.] A French weight of ten grams, or 154 grains, 44 decimals, ...

14455

decagyn
DEC'AGYN, n. [Gr., ten and female.] In botany, a plant having ten pistils.DECAGYN'IAN, a. Having ...

14456

decagynian
DECAGYN'IAN, a. Having ten pistils.DECAHE'DRAL, a. Having ten sides.DECAHE'DRON, n. [Gr., ten ...

14457

decahedral
DECAHE'DRAL, a. Having ten sides.DECAHE'DRON, n. [Gr., ten and a base.] In geometry, a figure or ...

14458

decahedron
DECAHE'DRON, n. [Gr., ten and a base.] In geometry, a figure or body having ten sides.DEC'ALITER, ...

14459

decaliter
DEC'ALITER, n. [Gr., ten and liter.] A French measure of capacity, containing ten liters, or ...

14460

decalogist
DECAL'OGIST, n. One who explains the decalogue.DEC'ALOGUE, n. dec'alog. [Gr., ten and speech.] ...

14461

decalogue
DEC'ALOGUE, n. dec'alog. [Gr., ten and speech.] The ten commandments or precepts given by God to ...

14462

decameter
DECAM'ETER, n. [Gr., ten and measure.] A French measure of length, consisting of ten meters, and ...

14463

decamp
DECAMP', v.i. To remove or depart from a camp; to march off; as, the army decamped at six ...

14464

decampment
DECAMP'MENT, n. Departure from a camp; a marching off.DEC'ANAL, a. Pertaining to a ...

14465

decanal
DEC'ANAL, a. Pertaining to a deanery.DECAN'DER, n. [Gr., ten and a male.] In botany, a plant ...

14466

decander
DECAN'DER, n. [Gr., ten and a male.] In botany, a plant having ten stamens.

14467

decangular
DECAN'GULAR, a. [Gr., ten and angular.] Having ten angles.DECANT', v.t. [L., to sing; literally, ...

14468

decant
DECANT', v.t. [L., to sing; literally, to throw.] To pour off gently, as liquor from its ...

14469

decantation
DECANTA'TION, n. The act of pouring liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel ...

14470

decanted
DECANT'ED, pp. Poured off, or from one vessel into another.DECANT'ER, n.

14471

decanter
DECANT'ER, n.

14472

decanting
DECANT'ING, ppr. Pouring off, as liquor from its lees, or from one vessel to another.DECAP'ITATE, ...

14473

decaphyllous
DECAPH'YLLOUS, a. [Gr. ten and a leaf.] Having ten leaves.DEC'ARBONIZE, v.t. To deprive of ...

14474

decapitate
DECAP'ITATE, v.t. [L., head.] To behead; to cut off the head.DECAPITA'TION, n. The act of ...

14475

decapitation
DECAPITA'TION, n. The act of beheading.DECAPH'YLLOUS, a. [Gr. ten and a leaf.] Having ten ...

14476

decarbonize
DEC'ARBONIZE, v.t. To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel.DEC'ARBONIZED, pp. Deprived of ...

14477

decarbonized
DEC'ARBONIZED, pp. Deprived of carbon.DEC'ARBONIZING, ppr. Depriving of carbon.DEC'ASTICH, n. ...

14478

decarbonizing
DEC'ARBONIZING, ppr. Depriving of carbon.DEC'ASTICH, n. [Gr. ten and a verse.] A poem consisting ...

14479

decastich
DEC'ASTICH, n. [Gr. ten and a verse.] A poem consisting of ten lines.DEC'ASTYLE, n. [Gr. ten ...

14480

decastyle
DEC'ASTYLE, n. [Gr. ten and a column.] A building with an ordnance of ten columns in ...

14481

decay
DECA'Y, v.i. [Fr. dechoir, from L. de and cado, to fall, or decedo.]

14482

decayed
DECA'YED, pp. Having fallen from a good or sound state; impaired; weakened; ...

14483

decayedness
DECA'YEDNESS, n. A state of being impaired; decayed state.DECA'YER, n. That which causes ...

14484

decayer
DECA'YER, n. That which causes decay.DECA'YING, ppr. Failing; declining; passing from a good, ...

14485

decaying
DECA'YING, ppr. Failing; declining; passing from a good, prosperous or sound state, to a worse ...

14486

decease
DECE'ASE, n. [L. to depart or to withdraw.] Literally, departure; hence, departure from this ...

14487

deceased
DECE'ASED, pp. or a. Departed from life. This is used as a passive participle. He is deceased, ...

14488

deceasing
DECE'ASING, ppr. Departing from life; dying. DECE'DENT, n. A deceased person.DECE'IT,

14489

decedent
DECE'DENT, n. A deceased person.DECE'IT,

14490

deceit
DECE'IT,

14491

deceitful
DECE'ITFUL, a.

14492

deceitfully
DECE'ITFULLY, adv. In a deceitful manner; fraudulently; with deceit; in a manner or with a view to ...

14493

deceitfulness
DECE'ITFULNESS, n.

14494

deceitless
DECE'ITLESS, a. Free from deceit.DECE'IVABLE, a.

14495

deceivable
DECE'IVABLE, a.

14496

deceivableness
DECE'IVABLENESS, n.

14497

deceive
DECE'IVE, v.t. [L to take asid, to ensnare.]

14498

deceived
DECE'IVED, pp. Misled; led into error; beguiled; cheated; deluded.DECE'IVER, n. One who deceives; ...

14499

deceiver
DECE'IVER, n. One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor.

14500

deceiving
DECE'IVING, ppr. Misleading; ensnaring; beguiling; cheating.DECEM'BER, n. [L. december, from ...

14501

december
DECEM'BER, n. [L. december, from decem, ten; this being the tenth month among the early Romans, ...

14502

decemdentate
DECEMDEN'TATE, a. [L. decem, ten, and dentatus, toothed.] Having ten points or teeth.DEC'EMFID, ...

14503

decemfid
DEC'EMFID, a. [L. decem, ten, and fido, to divide.]

14504

decemlocular
DECEMLOC'ULAR, a. [L. decem, ten, and loculus, a little bag or cell.] Having ten cells for ...

14505

decempedal
DEC'EMPEDAL, a. [L. decem, ten, and pes, a foot.] Ten feet in length.DEC'EMVIR, n. [L. decem, ...

14506

decemvir
DEC'EMVIR, n. [L. decem, ten, and vir, a man.] One of ten magistrates, who had absolute ...

14507

decemviral
DECEM'VIRAL, a. Pertaining to the decemvirs in Rome.DECEM'VIRATE, n.

14508

decemvirate
DECEM'VIRATE, n.

14509

decency
DE'CENCY, n. [L. to be fit or becoming; Gr. to be good, or fit for.]

14510

decennary
DEC'ENNARY, n. [L. from decem, ten, and annus, a year.]

14511

decennial
DECEN'NIAL, a. [L. as above.] Continuing for ten years; consisting of ten years; or happening ...

14512

decennoval
DEC'ENNOVAL,DECEN'NOVARY, a. [L. decem, ten, and novem, nine.] Pertaining to the number ...

14513

decennovary
DECEN'NOVARY, a. [L. decem, ten, and novem, nine.] Pertaining to the number nineteen; ...

14514

decent
DE'CENT, a. [L. decens; Fr. decent.]

14515

decentness
DE'CENTNESS, n. Decency.DECEPTIBIL'ITY, n. The quality or state of being capable or liable to be ...

14516

deceptibility
DECEPTIBIL'ITY, n. The quality or state of being capable or liable to be deceived.DECEP'TIBLE, a. ...

14517

deceptible
DECEP'TIBLE, a. That may be deceived.DECEP'TION, n.

14518

deception
DECEP'TION, n.

14519

deceptious
DECEP'TIOUS, a. Tending to deceive; deceitful.DECEP'TIVE, a. Tending to deceive; having power to ...

14520

deceptive
DECEP'TIVE, a. Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress false opinions; as a ...

14521

deceptory
DECEP'TORY, a. Tending to deceive; containing qualities or means adapted to mislead.DECERPT, a. ...

14522

decerpt
DECERPT, a. Cropped.DECERP'TION, n. [L. to pluck off.] A pulling or plucking off; a ...

14523

decerption
DECERP'TION, n. [L. to pluck off.] A pulling or plucking off; a cropping.DECERTA'TION, n. [L. ...

14524

decertation
DECERTA'TION, n. [L. To strive.] Strife; contest for mastery.DECES'SION, n. [L. to pass.] ...

14525

decession
DECES'SION, n. [L. to pass.] Departure.DECH'ARM, v.t. To remove a spell or enchantment; to ...

14526

decharm
DECH'ARM, v.t. To remove a spell or enchantment; to disenchant.DECH'ARMED, pp. ...

14527

decharmed
DECH'ARMED, pp. Disenchanted.DECH'ARMING, ppr. Removing a spell.DECHRIS'TIANIZE, v.t. To turn ...

14528

decharming
DECH'ARMING, ppr. Removing a spell.DECHRIS'TIANIZE, v.t. To turn from christianity; to banish ...

14529

dechristianize
DECHRIS'TIANIZE, v.t. To turn from christianity; to banish christian belief and principles ...

14530

decidable
DECI'DABLE, a. That may be decided.

14531

decide
DECI'DE, v.i. To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion.

14532

decided
DECI'DED, pp. Determined; ended; concluded.DECI'DED, a. That implies decision; clear; ...

14533

decidedly
DECI'DEDLY, adv. In a decided or determined manner; clearly; indisputable; in a manner to preclude ...

14534

decidence
DECI'DENCE, n. A falling off.DECI'DER, n. One who determines a cause or contest.DECI'DING, ppr. ...

14535

decider
DECI'DER, n. One who determines a cause or contest.DECI'DING, ppr. Determing; ending; ...

14536

deciding
DECI'DING, ppr. Determing; ending; concluding.DECID'UOUS, a. [L. to fall.] Falling; not ...

14537

deciduous
DECID'UOUS, a. [L. to fall.] Falling; not perennial or permanent. In botany, a deciduous leaf ...

14538

deciduousness
DECID'UOUSNESS, n. The quality of falling once a year.DEC'IGRAM, n. A French weight of one tenth ...

14539

decigram
DEC'IGRAM, n. A French weight of one tenth of a gram.DE'CIL, n. An aspect or position of two ...

14540

decil
DE'CIL, n. An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth ...

14541

deciliter
DEC'ILITER, n. A French measure of capacity equal to one tenth of a liter.

14542

decimally
DEC'IMALLY, adv. By tens; by means of decimals.DEC'IMATE, v.t. [L. decimo, from decem, ten.]

14543

decimate
DEC'IMATE, v.t. [L. decimo, from decem, ten.]

14544

decimation
DECIMA'TION, n.

14545

decimator
DEC'IMATOR, n. One who selects every tenth man, in a company or regiment, &c.DECIM'ETER, n. A ...

14546

decimeter
DECIM'ETER, n. A French measure of length equal to the tenth part of a meter, or 3 inches and ...

14547

decimo-sexto
DECIMO-SEXTO, n. A book is in decimo-sexto, when a sheet is folded into sixteen leaves.DECI'PHER, ...

14548

decipher
DECI'PHER, v.t.

14549

deciphered
DECI'PHERED, pp. Explained; unraveled; marked.DECI'PHERER, n. One who explains what is written in ...

14550

decipherer
DECI'PHERER, n. One who explains what is written in ciphers.DECI'PHERING, ppr. Explaining; ...

14551

deciphering
DECI'PHERING, ppr. Explaining; detecting the letters represented by ciphers; unfolding; ...

14552

decision
DECIS'ION, n.

14553

decisive
DECI'SIVE, a.

14554

decisively
DECI'SIVELY, adv. In a conclusive manner; in a manner to end deliberation, controversy, doubt or ...

14555

decisiveness
DECI'SIVENESS, n.

14556

decisory
DECI'SORY, a. Able to decide or determine.DECK, v.t.

14557

deck
DECK, v.t.

14558

decked
DECK'ED, pp. Covered; adorned; furnished with a deck.DECK'ER, n.

14559

decker
DECK'ER, n.

14560

decking
DECK'ING, ppr. Covering; arraying; adorning.

14561

declaim
DECLA'IM, v.i. [L. to cry out.]

14562

declaimant
DECLA'IMANT or DECLA'IMER, n.

14563

declaiming
DECLA'IMING, ppr. Speaking rhetorically; haranguing.DECLA'IMING, n. A harangue.DECLAMA'TION, n.

14564

declamation
DECLAMA'TION, n.

14565

declamator
DECLAMA'TOR, n. A declaimer.DECLAM'ATORY, a.

14566

declamatory
DECLAM'ATORY, a.

14567

declaration
DECLARA'TION, n.

14568

declarative
DECLAR'ATIVE, a.

14569

declaratorily
DECLAR'ATORILY, adv. By declaration, or exhibition.DECLAR'ATORY, a. Making declaration, clear ...

14570

declaratory
DECLAR'ATORY, a. Making declaration, clear manifestation, or exhibition; expressive; as, this ...

14571

declare
DECLA'RE, v.t. [L. to make clear.]

14572

declared
DECLA'RED, pp. Made known; told explicitly; avowed; exhibited; manifested; published; proclaimed; ...

14573

declaredly
DECLA'REDLY, adv. Avowedly; explicitly.DECLA'RER, n. One who makes known or publishes; that which ...

14574

declarer
DECLA'RER, n. One who makes known or publishes; that which exhibits.DECLA'RING, ppr. Making known ...

14575

declaring
DECLA'RING, ppr. Making known by words or by other means; manifesting; publishing; affirming; ...

14576

declatable
DECLA'TABLE, a. That may be declared, or proved.DECLARA'TION, n.

14577

declension
DECLEN'SION, n.

14578

declinable
DECLI'NABLE, a. That may be declined; changing its termination in the oblique cases; as a ...

14579

declinate
DEC'LINATE, a. In botany, bending or bent downwards, in a curve; declining.DECLINA'TION, n.

14580

declination
DECLINA'TION, n.

14581

declinator
DECLINA'TOR,DECLIN'ATORY, n. An instrument for taking the declination, or inclination of a plane; ...

14582

declinatory
DECLIN'ATORY, n. An instrument for taking the declination, or inclination of a plane; an ...

14583

decline
DECLI'NE, v.i. [L. to lean.]

14584

declined
DECLI'NED, pp. Bent downward or from; inflected.DECLI'NING, ppr. Leaning; deviating; falling; ...

14585

declining
DECLI'NING, ppr. Leaning; deviating; falling; failing; decaying; tending to a worse state; ...

14586

declivitous
DECLIV'ITOUS, a. Gradually descending; not precipitous; sloping.DECOCT', v.t. [L. to boil.]

14587

declivity
DECLIV'ITY, n. [L. sloping.] Declination from a horizontal line; descent of land; inclination ...

14588

declivous
DECLI'VOUS,DECLIV'ITOUS, a. Gradually descending; not precipitous; sloping.DECOCT', v.t. [L. to ...

14589

decoct
DECOCT', v.t. [L. to boil.]

14590

decoctible
DECOCT'IBLE, a. That may be boiled or digested.DECOC'TION, n.

14591

decoction
DECOC'TION, n.

14592

decoctive
DECOCT'IVE, a. That may be easily decocted.DECOCT'URE, n. A substance drawn by ...

14593

decocture
DECOCT'URE, n. A substance drawn by decoction.DE'COLLATE, v.t. To behead.DE'COLLATED, pp. ...

14594

decollate
DE'COLLATE, v.t. To behead.DE'COLLATED, pp. Beheaded.DECOLLA'TION, n. [L. to behead; the neck.] ...

14595

decollated
DE'COLLATED, pp. Beheaded.DECOLLA'TION, n. [L. to behead; the neck.] The act of beheading; the ...

14596

decollation
DECOLLA'TION, n. [L. to behead; the neck.] The act of beheading; the act of cutting off the neck ...

14597

decoloration
DECOLORA'TION, n. Absence of color.DE'COMPLEX, a. Compounded of complex ideas.DECOMPO'SABLE, a. ...

14598

decomplex
DE'COMPLEX, a. Compounded of complex ideas.DECOMPO'SABLE, a. That may be decomposed; capable of ...

14599

decomposable
DECOMPO'SABLE, a. That may be decomposed; capable of being resolved into its constituent ...

14600

decompose
DECOMPO'SE, v.t. To separate the constituent parts of a body or substance; to disunite elementary ...

14601

decomposed
DECOMPO'SED, pp. Separated or resolved into the constituent parts.DECOMPO'SING, ppr. Separating ...

14602

decomposing
DECOMPO'SING, ppr. Separating into constituent parts.DECOMPOS'ITE, a. Compounded a second time; ...

14603

decomposite
DECOMPOS'ITE, a. Compounded a second time; compounded with things already ...

14604

decomposition
DECOMPOSI'TION, n.

14605

decompound
DECOMPOUND', v.t.

14606

decompoundable
DECOMPOUND'ABLE, a. That may be decompounded.DECOMPOUND'ED, pp. Compounded a second time; ...

14607

decompounded
DECOMPOUND'ED, pp. Compounded a second time; composed of things already compounded.DECOMPOUND'ING, ...

14608

decompounding
DECOMPOUND'ING, ppr. Compounding a second time.DEC'ORATE, v.t. [L. comeliness, grace.]

14609

decorate
DEC'ORATE, v.t. [L. comeliness, grace.]

14610

decorated
DEC'ORATED, pp. Adorned; beautified; embellished.DEC'ORATING, ppr. Adorning; embellishing; ...

14611

decorating
DEC'ORATING, ppr. Adorning; embellishing; rendering beautiful to the eye, or lovely to the ...

14612

decoration
DECORA'TION, n.

14613

decorator
DEC'ORATOR, n. One who adorns or embellishes.DEC'OROUS, a. Decent; suitable to a character, or to ...

14614

decorous
DEC'OROUS, a. Decent; suitable to a character, or to the time, place and occasion; becoming; ...

14615

decorously
DEC'OROUSLY, adv. In a becoming manner.DECOR'TICATE, v.t. [L. bark.] To strip off bark; to ...

14616

decorticate
DECOR'TICATE, v.t. [L. bark.] To strip off bark; to peel; to husk; to take off the exterior ...

14617

decorticated
DECOR'TICATED, pp. Stripped of bark; peeled; husked.DECOR'TICATING, ppr. Stripping off bark or ...

14618

decorticating
DECOR'TICATING, ppr. Stripping off bark or the external coat; peeling. DECORTICA'TION, n. The act ...

14619

decortication
DECORTICA'TION, n. The act of stripping off bark or husk.DECO'RUM, n. [L. to become.]

14620

decorum
DECO'RUM, n. [L. to become.]

14621

decoy
DECOY, n. 1. Any thing intended to lead into a snare; any lure or allurement that deceives and ...

14622

decoy-duck
DECOY-DUCK, n. A duck employed to draw others into a net or situation to be taken.

14623

decoy-man
DECOY-MAN, n. A man employed in decoying and catching fowls.

14624

decoyed
DECOYED, pp. Lured or drawn into a snare or net; allured into danger by deception.

14625

decoying
DECOYING, ppr. Luring into a snare or net by deception; leading into evil or danger.

14626

decrease
DECREASE, v.i. [L. To grow.] To become less; to be diminished gradually, in extent, bulk, ...

14627

decreased
DECREASED, pp. Lessened; diminished.

14628

decreasing
DECREASING, ppr. Becoming less; diminishing; waning.

14629

decree
DECREE, n. [L. To judge; to divide.]1. Judicial decision, or determination of a litigated cause; ...

14630

decreed
DECREED, pp. Determined judicially; resolved; appointed; established in purpose.

14631

decreeing
DECREEING, ppr. Determining; resolving; appointing; ordering.

14632

decrement
DECREMENT, n.1. Decrease; waste; the state of becoming less gradually.Rocks and mountains suffer a ...

14633

decrepit
DECREPIT, a. [L. to break.] Broken down with age; wasted or worn by the infirmities of old age; ...

14634

decrepitate
DECREPITATE, v.t. [L. To break or burst, to crackle.] To roast or calcine in a strong heat, with a ...

14635

decrepitated
DECREPITATED, pp. Roasted with a crackling noise.

14636

decrepitating
DECREPITATING, ppr. Crackling; roasting with a crackling noise; suddenly bursting when exposed to ...

14637

decrepitation
DECREPITATION, n. The act of roasting with a continual crackling; or the separation of parts with ...

14638

decrepitness
DECREPITNESS,

14639

decrepitude
DECREPITUDE, n. The broken, crazy state of the body, produced by decay and the infirmities of age.

14640

decrescent
DECRESCENT, a. Decreasing; becoming less by gradual diminution; as a decrescent moon.

14641

decretal
DECRETAL, n.1. A letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. ...

14642

decretion
DECRETION, n. A decreasing.

14643

decretist
DECRETIST, n. One who studies or professes the knowledge of the decretals.

14644

decretorily
DECRETORILY, adv. In a definitive manner.

14645

decretory
DECRETORY, a.1. Judicial; definitive; established by a decree.The decretory rigors of a condemning ...

14646

decrew
DECREW, v.i. To decrease.

14647

decrial
DECRIAL, n. A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.

14648

decried
DECRIED, pp. Cried down; descredited; brought into disrepute.

14649

decrier
DECRIER, n. One who decries.

14650

decrown
DECROWN, v.t. To deprive of a crown.

14651

decry
DECRY, v.t. 1. To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean or worthless; to clamor against; to ...

14652

decubation
DECUBATION, n. The act of lying down.

14653

decumbence
DECUMBENCE,

14654

decumbency
DECUMBENCY, n. [L. To lie down.] The act of lying down; the posture of lying down.

14655

decumbent
DECUMBENT, a. In botany, declined or bending down; having the stamens and pistils bending down to ...

14656

decumbiture
DECUMBITURE, n.1. The time at which a person takes to his bed in a disease.2. In astrology, the ...

14657

decuple
DECUPLE, a. [L. Ten.] Tenfold; containing ten times as many.DECUPLE, n. A number ten times ...

14658

decurion
DECURION, n. [L. Ten] An officer in the Roman army, who commanded a decuria, or ten soldiers, which ...

14659

decurrent
DECURRENT, a. [L. To run down; to run.] Extending downwards. A decurrent leaf is a sessile leaf ...

14660

decursion
DECURSION, n. [L. To run.] The act of running down, as a stream.

14661

decursive
DECURSIVE, a. Running down.Decursively pinnate, in botany, applied to a leaf, having the leaflets ...

14662

decurt
DECURT, v.t. To shorten by cutting off.

14663

decurtation
DECURTATION, n. [L. To shorten.] Tha act of shortening, or cutting short.

14664

decury
DECURY, n. [L. Ten.] A set of ten men under an officer called decurio.

14665

decussate
DECUSSATE, v.t. [L. To cut or strike across.] To intersect at acute angles, thus X; or in general, ...

14666

decussated
DECUSSATED, a. Crossed; intersected. In botany, decussated leaves and branches, are such as grow ...

14667

decussating
DECUSSATING, ppr. Intersecting at acute angles; crossing.

14668

decussation
DECUSSATION, n. The act of crossing at unequal angles; the crossing of two lines, rays or nerves, ...

14669

dedalian
DEDALIAN, a. Various; variegated; intricate; complex; expert.

14670

dedalous
DEDALOUS, a. Having a margin with various windings and turnings; of a beautiful and delicate ...

14671

dedecorate
DEDECORATE, v.t. To disgrace.

14672

dedecoration
DEDECORATION, n. A disgracing.

14673

dedentition
DEDENTITION, n. The shedding of teeth.

14674

dedicate
DEDICATE, v.t. [L. To vow, promise, devote, dedicate. See Class Dg. No. 12, 15, 45. The sense is ...

14675

dedicated
DEDICATED, pp. Devoted to a divine Being, or to a sacred use; consecrated; appropriated; given ...

14676

dedicating
DEDICATING, ppr. Devoting to a divine Being, or to a sacred purpose; consecrating; appropriating; ...

14677

dedication
DEDICATION, n.1. The act of consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with ...

14678

dedicator
DEDICATOR, n. One who dedicates; one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron.

14679

dedicatory
DEDICATORY, a. Composing a dedication; as an epistle dedicatory.

14680

dedition
DEDITION, n. [L. To yield.] The act of yielding any thing; surrendry.

14681

dedolent
DEDOLENT, a. Feeling no compunction.

14682

deduce
DEDUCE, v.t. [L. To lead, bring or draw.]1. To draw from; to bring from.O goddess, say, shall I ...

14683

deduced
DEDUCED, pp. Drawn from; inferred; as a consequence from principles or premises.

14684

deducement
DEDUCEMENT, n. The thing drawn from or deduced; inference; that which is collected from premises.

14685

deducible
DEDUCIBLE, a. That may be deduced; inferable; collectible by reason from premises; ...

14686

deducing
DEDUCING, ppr. Drawing from; inferring; collecting from principles or facts already established or ...

14687

deducive
DEDUCIVE, a. Performing the act of deduction.

14688

deduct
DEDUCT, v.t. To take from; to subtract; to separate or remove, in numbering, estimating or ...

14689

deducted
DEDUCTED, pp. Taken from; subtracted.

14690

deducting
DEDUCTING, ppt. Taking from; subtracting.

14691

deduction
DEDUCTION, n. 1. The act of deducting.2. That which is deducted; sum or amount taken from ...

14692

deductive
DEDUCTIVE, a. Deducible; that is or may be deduced from premises.All knowledge is deductive.

14693

deductively
DEDUCTIVELY, adv. By regular deduction; by way of inference; by consequence.

14694

deed
DEED, n.1. That which is done, acted or effected; an act; a fact; a word of extensive application, ...

14695

deed-achieving
DEED-ACHIEVING, a. That accomplishes great deeds.

14696

deed-poll
DEED-POLL, n. A deed not indented, that is, shaved or even, made by one party only.

14697

deedless
DEEDLESS, a. Inactive; not performing or having performed deeds or exploits.

14698

deem
DEEM, v.t.1. To think; to judge; to be of opinion; to conclude on consideration; as, he deems it ...

14699

deemed
DEEMED, pp. Thought; judged; supposed.

14700

deeming
DEEMING, ppr. Thinking; judging; believing.

14701

deemster
DEEMSTER, n. A judge in the Isle of Man and in Jersey.

14702

deep
DEEP, a.1. Extending or being far below the surface; descending far downward; profound ; opposed ...

14703

deep-mouthed
DEEP-MOUTHED, a. Having a hoarse, loud, hollow voice; as a deep-mouthed dog.

14704

deep-musing
DEEP-MUSING, a. Contemplative; thinking closely or profoundly.

14705

deep-read
DEEP-READ, a. Having fully read; profoundly versed.

14706

deep-revolving
DEEP-REVOLVING, a. Profoundly revolving or meditating.

14707

deep-throated
DEEP-THROATED, a. With deep throats.

14708

deep-toned
DEEP-TONED, a. Having a very low or grave tone.

14709

deep-vaulted
DEEP-VAULTED, a. Formed like a deep vault or arch.

14710

deep-waisted
DEEP-WAISTED, a. Having a deep waist, as a ship when the quarter deck and forecastle are raised ...

14711

deepen
DEEPEN, v.t.1. To make deep or deeper; to sink lower; as, to deepen the channel of a river or ...

14712

deepened
DEEPENED, pp. Made more deep.

14713

deepening
DEEPENING, ppr. Sinking lower; making more deep.

14714

deeply
DEEPLY, adv. 1. At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as a passion deeply rooted in our ...

14715

deepness
DEEPNESS, n. 1. Depth; remoteness from the surface in a descending line; interior distance from ...

14716

deer
DEER, n. Sing. And plu. [Gr. A wild beast. The primary sense is simply roving, wild, untamed; ...

14717

deer-stealer
DEER-STEALER, n. One who steals deer.

14718

deer-stealing
DEER-STEALING, n. The act or crime of stealing deer.

14719

deess
DEESS, n. A goddess.

14720

deface
DEFACE, v.t.1. To destroy or mar the face or surface of a thing; to injure the superficies or ...

14721

defacer
DEFACER, n. He or that which defaces; one who injures, mars or disfigures.

14722

defacing
DEFACING, ppr. Injuring the face or surface; marring; disfiguring; erasing.De facto. [L.] ...

14723

defailance
DEFAILANCE, n. Failure; miscarriage.

14724

defalcate
DEFALCATE, v.t. To cut off; to take away or deduct a part; used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, ...

14725

defalcation
DEFALCATION,. N. 1. The act of cutting off, or deducting a part; deduction; diminution; ...

14726

defalk
DEFALK, v.t. To defalcate.

14727

defamation
DEFAMATION, n. The uttering of slanderous words with a view to injure anothers reputation; the ...

14728

defamatory
DEFAMATORY, a. Calumnious; slanderous; containing defamation; false and injurious to reputation; ...

14729

defame
DEFAME,1. To slander; falsely and maliciously to utter words respecting another which tend to ...

14730

defamed
DEFAMED, pp. Slandered; dishonored or injured by evil reports.

14731

defamer
DEFAMER, n. A slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.

14732

defaming
DEFAMING, ppr. Slandering; injuring the character by false reports.DEFAMING, n. Defamation; ...

14733

defaticate
DEFATICATE, v.t. [L. To tire.] To weary or tire.

14734

defatigable
DEFATIGABLE, a. Liable to be wearied.

14735

defatigation
DEFATIGATION, n. Weariness.

14736

default
DEFAULT, n.1. A failing, or failure; an omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do ...

14737

defaulted
DEFAULTED, pp. 1. Called out of court, as a defendant or his cause.2. A. Having defect.

14738

defaulter
DEFAULTER, n.1. One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when called.2. One who ...

14739

defaulting
DEFAULTING, ppr.1. Failing to fulfil a contract; delinquent.2. Failing to perform a duty or legal ...

14740

defeasance
DEFEASANCE,, n. S as z.1. Literally, a defeating; a rendering null; the preventing of the ...

14741

defeasible
DEFEASIBLE, a. S as z. That may be defeated, or annulled; as a defeasible title; a defeasible ...

14742

defeasibleness
DEFEASIBLENESS, n. The quality of being defeasible.

14743

defeat
DEFEAT, n.1. Overthrow; loss of battle; the check, rout, or destruction of an army by the victory ...

14744

defeating
DEFEATING, ppr. Vanquishing; subduing; opposing successfully; overthrowing; frustrating; ...

14745

defeature
DEFEATURE, n. 1. Change of feature.2. Overthrow; defeat.

14746

defecate
DEFECATE, v.t. [L. Dregs.]1. To purify; to refine; to clear from dregs or impurities; to clarify; ...

14747

defecated
DEFECATED, pp. Purtified; clarified; refined.

14748

defecating
DEFECATING, ppr. Purifying; purging of lees or impurities.

14749

defecation
DEFECATION, n. The act of separating from lees or dregs; purification from impurities or foreign ...

14750

defect
DEFECT, n. [L. To fail; to make or do.]1. Want or absence of something necessary or useful ...

14751

defectibility
DEFECTIBILITY, n. Deficiency; imperfection.

14752

defectible
DEFECTIBLE, a. Imperfect; deficient; wanting.

14753

defection
DEFECTION, n.1. Want or failure of duty; particularly, a falling away; apostasy; the act of ...

14754

defective
DEFECTIVE, a.1. Wanting either in substance, quantity or quality, or in any thing necessary; ...

14755

defectively
DEFECTIVELY, adv. In a defective manner; imperfectly.

14756

defectiveness
DEFECTIVENESS, n. Want; the state of being imperfect; faultiness.

14757

defectuosity
DEFECTUOSITY, n. Defectiveness; faultiness.

14758

defectuous
DEFECTUOUS, a. Full of defects.

14759

defedation
DEFEDATION, n. Pollution.

14760

defend
DEFEND, v.t.1. To drive from; to thrust back; hence, to deny; to repel a demand, charge, or ...

14761

defendable
DEFENDABLE, a. That may be defended.

14762

defendant
DEFENDANT, a. 1. Defensive; proper for defense.2. Making defense; being in the character of a ...

14763

defended
DEFENDED, pp. Opposed; denied; prohibited; maintained by resistance; vindicated; preserved ...

14764

defender
DEFENDER, n. One who defends by oppostition; one who maintains, supports, protects or vindicates; ...

14765

defending
DEFENDING, ppr. Denying; opposing; resisiting; forbidding; maintaining uninjured by force or by ...

14766

defensative
DEFENSATIVE, n. Guard; defense; a bandage, plaster, or the like, to secure a wound from external ...

14767

defense
DEFENSE, n.1. Any thing that opposes attack, violence, danger or injury; any thing that secures ...

14768

defensed
DEFENSED, pp. Fortified.

14769

defenseless
DEFENSELESS, a. Being without defense, or without means of repelling assault or injury; applied to ...

14770

defenselessness
DEFENSELESSNESS, n. The state of being unguarded or unprotected.

14771

defensible
DEFENSIBLE, a.1. That may be defended; as a defensible city.2. That may be vindicated, maintained ...

14772

defensive
DEFENSIVE, a.1. That serves to defend; proper for defense; as defensive armor, which repels ...

14773

defensively
DEFENSIVELY, adv. In a defensive manner; on the defensive; in defense.

14774

defer
DEFER, v.t. [L. To bear.]1. To delay; to put off; to postpone to a future time; as, to defer the ...

14775

deference
DEFERENCE, n. 1. A yielding in opinion; submission of judgment to the opinion or judgment of ...

14776

deferent
DEFERENT, a. Bearing; carrying; conveying.DEFERENT, n.1. That which carries or conveys. The ...

14777

deferential
DEFERENTIAL,, a. Expressing deference.

14778

deferment
DEFERMENT, n. Delay.

14779

deferrer
DEFERRER, n. One who delays or puts off.

14780

deferring
DEFERRING, ppr. Delaying; postponing.

14781

defiance
DEFIANCE, n.1. A daring; a challenge to fight; invitation to combat; a call to an adversary to ...

14782

defiatory
DEFIATORY, a. Bidding or bearing defiance.

14783

deficience
DEFICIENCE,

14784

deficiency
DEFICIENCY, n. [L. To fail to do.]1. A failing; a falling short; imperfection; as a deficiency in ...

14785

deficient
DEFICIENT, a.1. Wanting; defective; imperfect; not sufficient or adequate; as deficient estate; ...

14786

deficit
DEFICIT, n. Want; deficiency; as a deficit in the taxes or revenue.

14787

defier
DEFIER, n. A challenger; one who dares to combat or encounter; one who braves; one who acts in ...

14788

defiguration
DEFIGURATION, n. A disfiguring.

14789

defigure
DEFIGURE, v.t. To delineate.

14790

defile
DEFILE, v.t.1. To make unclean; to render foul or dirty; in a general sense.2. To make impure; to ...

14791

defiled
DEFILED, pp. Made dirty, or foul; polluted; soiled; corrupted; violated; vitiated.

14792

defilement
DEFILEMENT, n.1. The act of defiling, or state of being defiled; foulness; dirtiness; ...

14793

defiler
DEFILER, n. One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes.

14794

defiling
DEFILING, ppr.1. Polluting; making impure.2. Marching in a file, or with a narrow front.

14795

definable
DEFINABLE, a.1. Literally, that may be limited, or have its limits ascertained. Hence, capable of ...

14796

define
DEFINE, v.t. [L. To end, to limit, from finis, end.]1. To determine or describe the end or limit; ...

14797

defined
DEFINED, pp.1. Determined; having the extent ascertained; having the signification determined.2. ...

14798

definer
DEFINER, n. He who defines; he who ascertains or marks the limits; he who determines or explains ...

14799

defining
DEFINING, ppr. Determining the limits; ascertaining the extent; explaining the meaning; describing ...

14800

definite
DEFINITE, a.1. Having certain limits; bounded with precision; determinate; as a definite extent of ...

14801

definiteness
DEFINITENESS, n. Certainty of extent; certainty of signification; determinateness.

14802

definition
DEFINITION, n.1. A brief description of a thing by its properties; as a definition of wit or of a ...

14803

definitive
DEFINITIVE, a. 1. Limiting the extent; determinate; positive; express; as a definitive term.2. ...

14804

definitively
DEFINITIVELY, adv. 1. Determinately; positively; expressly.2. Finally; conclusively; ...

14805

definitiveness
DEFINITIVENESS, n. Determinateness; decisiveness; conclusiveness.

14806

defix
DEFIX, v.t. To fix; to fasten.

14807

deflagrability
DEFLAGRABILITY, n. Combustibility; the quality of taking fire and burning away, as a metallic ...

14808

deflagrable
DEFLAGRABLE, a. Combustible; having the quality of taking fire and burning, as alcohol, oils, &c.

14809

deflagrate
DEFLAGRATE, v.t. [L. To burn.] To set fire to; to burn; to consume; as, to deflagrate oil or ...

14810

deflagration
DEFLAGRATION, n. A kindling or setting fire to a substance; burning; combustion.The strength of ...

14811

deflagrator
DEFLAGRATOR, n. A galvanic instrument for producing combustion, particularly the combustion of ...

14812

deflect
DEFLECT, v.i. [L. To turn or bend.] To turn from or aside; to deviate from a true course or right ...

14813

deflected
DEFLECTED, pp. Turned aside, or from a direct line or course. In botany, bending downward ...

14814

deflecting
DEFLECTING, ppr. Turning aside; turning from a right line or regular course.

14815

deflection
DEFLECTION, n.1. Deviation; the act of turning aside; a turning from a true line or the regular ...

14816

deflexure
DEFLEXURE, n. A bending down; a turning aside; deviation.

14817

deflorate
DEFLORATE, a. [L. To deflour.] In botany, having cast its farin, pollen, or fecundating dust.

14818

defloration
DEFLORATION, n.1. The act of deflouring; the act of depriving of the flower or prime beauties; ...

14819

deflour
DEFLOUR, v.t. [L. A flower.] 1. To deprive a woman of her virginity, either by force or with ...

14820

defloured
DEFLOURED, pp. Deprived of maidenhood; ravished; robbed or prime beauty .

14821

deflourer
DEFLOURER, n. One who deprives a woman of her virginity.

14822

deflouring
DEFLOURING, ppr. Depriving of virginity or maidenhood; robbing of prime beauties.

14823

deflow
DEFLOW, v.i. To flow down.

14824

defluous
DEFLUOUS, a. [L. To flow.] Flowing down; falling off.

14825

deflux
DEFLUX, n. A flowing down; a running downward; as a deflux of humors.

14826

defluxion
DEFLUXION, n. [L. To flow down.]1. A flowing, running or falling of humors or fluid matter, from ...

14827

defly
DEFLY, adv. Dextrously; skilfully.

14828

defoliation
DEFOLIATION, n. [L. Foliage; a leaf.] Literally, the fall of the leaf or shedding of leaves; but ...

14829

deforce
DEFORCE, v.t. To disseize and keep out of lawful possession of an estate; to withhold the ...

14830

deforced
DEFORCED, pp. Kept out of lawful possession.

14831

deforcement
DEFORCEMENT, n. 1. The holding of lands or tenements to which another person has a right; a ...

14832

deforciant
DEFORCIANT, n. He that keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate; he against whom a ...

14833

deforcing
DEFORCING, ppr. Keeping out of lawful possession.

14834

deform
DEFORM, v.t. [L. Form.]1. To mar or injure the form; to alter that form or disposition of parts ...

14835

deformation
DEFORMATION, n. A disfiguring or defacing.

14836

deformed
DEFORMED, pp. 1. Injured in the form; disfigured; distorted; ugly; wanting natural beauty, or ...

14837

deformedly
DEFORMEDLY, adv. In an ugly manner.

14838

deformedness
DEFORMEDNESS, n. Ugliness; a disagreeable or unnatural form.

14839

deformer
DEFORMER, n. One who deforms.

14840

deforming
DEFORMING, ppr. Marring the natural form or figure; rendering ugly or disppleasing; destroying ...

14841

deformity
DEFORMITY, n.1. Any unnatural state of the shape or form; want of that uniformity or symmetry ...

14842

deforser
DEFORSER, n. One that casts out by force.

14843

defraud
DEFRAUD, v.t. [L. To cheat.] 1. To deprive of right, either by obtaining something by deception ...

14844

defrauded
DEFRAUDED, pp. Deprived of property or right by trick, artifice or deception; injured by the ...

14845

defrauder
DEFRAUDER, n. One who defrauds; one who takes from another his right by deception, or withholds ...

14846

defrauding
DEFRAUDING, ppr. Depriving another of his property or right by deception or artifice; injuring by ...

14847

defraudment
DEFRAUDMENT, n. Tha act of defrauding.

14848

defray
DEFRAY, v.t.1. To pay; to discharge, as cost or expense; to bear, as charge, cost or expense. It ...

14849

defrayed
DEFRAYED, pp. Paid; discharged; as expense, or cost.

14850

defrayer
DEFRAYER, n. One who pays or discharges expenses.

14851

defraying
DEFRAYING, ppr. Paying; discharging.

14852

defrayment
DEFRAYMENT, n. Payment.

14853

deft
DEFT, a. Neat; handsome; spruce; ready; dextrous; fit; convenient.

14854

deftly
DEFTLY, adv. Neatly; dextrously; in a skilful manner.

14855

deftness
DEFTNESS, n. Neatness; beauty.

14856

defunct
DEFUNCT, a. [L. To perform and discharge.] Having finished the course of life; dead; ...

14857

defunction
DEFUNCTION, n. Death.

14858

defy
DEFY, v.t.1. To dare; to provoke to combat or strife, by appealing to the courage of another; to ...

14859

defyer
DEFYER, [See defier.]

14860

degarnish
DEGARNISH, v.t.1. To unfurnish; to strip of furniture, ornaments or apparatus.2. To deprive of a ...

14861

degarnished
DEGARNISHED, pp. Stripped of furniture or apparatus; deprived of troops for defense.

14862

degarnishing
DEGARNISHING, ppr. Stripping of furniture, dress, apparatus or a garrison.

14863

degarnishment
DEGARNISHMENT, n. The act of depriving of furniture, apparatus or a garrison.

14864

degender
DEGENDER, v.i. To degenerate.

14865

degeneracy
DEGENERACY, n.1. A growing worse or inferior; a decline in good qualities; or a state of being ...

14866

degenerate
DEGENERATE, v.i. [L. Grown worse, ignoble, base.]1. To become worse; to decay in good qualities; ...

14867

degenerately
DEGENERATELY, adv. In a degenerate or base manner.

14868

degenerateness
DEGENERATENESS, n. A degenerate state; a state in which the natural good qualities of the species ...

14869

degeneration
DEGENERATION, n. 1. A growing worse, or losing of good qualities; a decline from the virtue and ...

14870

degenerous
DEGENEROUS, a.1. Degenerated; fallen from a state of excellence, or from the virtue and merit of ...

14871

degenerously
DEGENEROUSLY, adv. In a degenerous manner; basely; meanly.

14872

deglutinate
DEGLUTINATE,, v.t. [L. To glue.] To unglue; to loosen or separate substances glued together.

14873

deglutition
DEGLUTITION, n. [L. To swallow.]1. The act of swallowing; as, deglutition is difficult.2. The ...

14874

degradation
DEGRADATION, n.1. A reducing in rank; the act of depriving one of a degree of honor, of dignity, ...

14875

degrade
DEGRADE, v.t. [L. A step, a degree.]1. To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to ...

14876

degraded
DEGRADED, pp. Reduced in rank; deprived of an office or dignity; lowered; sunk; reduced in ...

14877

degradement
DEGRADEMENT, n. Deprivation of rank or office.

14878

degrading
DEGRADING, ppr.1. Reducing in rank; depriving of honors or offices; reducing in value or ...

14879

degradingly
DEGRADINGLY, adv. In a degrading manner, or in a way to depreciate.

14880

degree
DEGREE, n.1. A step; a distinct portion of space of indefinite extent; a space in progression; as, ...

14881

degustation
DEGUSTATION, n. A tasting.

14882

dehiscence
DEHISCENCE, n. [L. To gape.] A gaping. In botany, the opening of capsules; the season when ...

14883

dehiscent
DEHISCENT, a. Opening, as the capsule of a plant.

14884

dehort
DEHORT, v.t. [L. To dissuade; to advise.] To dissuade; to advise to the contrary; to counsel not ...

14885

dehortation
DEHORTATION, n. Dissuasion; advice or counsel against something.

14886

dehortatory
DEHORTATORY, a. Dissuading; belonging to dissuasion

14887

dehorter
DEHORTER, n. A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.

14888

dehorting
DEHORTING, ppr. Dissuading.

14889

deicide
DEICIDE, n. [L. God and to slay.]1. The act of putting to death Jesus Christ, our Savior.2. One ...

14890

deific
DEIFIC, a. [L. To make.]1. Divine; pertaining to the gods.2. Making divine.

14891

deification
DEIFICATION, n. The act of deifying; the act of exalting to the rank of, or enrolling among the ...

14892

deified
DEIFIED, pp. Exalted or ranked among the gods; regarded or praised as divine.

14893

deifier
DEIFIER, n. One that deifies.

14894

deiform
DEIFORM, a. [L. A god, and form.] Like a god; of a godlike form.These souls exhibit a deiform ...

14895

deify
DEIFY, v.t. [L. A god, and to make.]1. To make a god; to exalt to the rank of a heathen deity; to ...

14896

deifying
DEIFYING, ppr. Exalting to the rank of a deity; treating as divine.

14897

deign
DEIGN, v.i. Dane. To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend.O deign to visit our foraken ...

14898

deigning
DEIGNING, ppr. Daning. Vouchsafing; thinking worthy.

14899

deintgrate
DEINTGRATE, v.t. To disintegrate.

14900

deiparous
DEIPAROUS, a. Bearing or bringing forth a god; an epithet applied the Virgin Mary.

14901

deipnosophist
DEIPNOSOPHIST, n. [Gr. A feast; a sophist.] One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who were famous ...

14902

deism
DEISM, n. [L. God.] The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of religious opinions ...

14903

deist
DEIST, n. One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion, but follows ...

14904

deistic
DEISTIC,

14905

deistical
DEISTICAL, a. Pertaining to deism or to deists; embracing deism, as a deistical writer; or ...

14906

deity
DEITY, n.1. Godhead; divinity; the nature and essence of the Supreme Being; as, the deity of the ...

14907

deject
DEJECT, v.t. [L. To throw.]1. To cast down; usually, to cast down the countenance; to cause to ...

14908

dejected
DEJECTED, pp. Cast down; depressed; grieved; discouraged.

14909

dejectedly
DEJECTEDLY, adv. In a dejected manner; sadly; heavily.

14910

dejectedness
DEJECTEDNESS, n. The state being cast down; lowness of spirits.

14911

dejecting
DEJECTING, ppr. Casting down; depressing; dispiriting.

14912

dejection
DEJECTION, n. 1. A casting down; depression of mind; melancholy; lowness of spirits, occasioned ...

14913

dejectly
DEJECTLY, adv. In a downcast manner.

14914

dejectory
DEJECTORY, a. Having power or tending to cast down, or to promote evacuations by stool.

14915

dejecture
DEJECTURE, n. That which is ejected; excrements.

14916

delacrymation
DELACRYMATION, n. [L. A weeping.] A preternatural discharge of watery humors from the eyes; ...

14917

delactable
DELACTABLE, a. [L. To delight.] Delightful; highly pleasing; that gives great joy or pleasure; as ...

14918

delactation
DELACTATION, n. A weaning.

14919

delapsation
DELAPSATION, n. A falling down.

14920

delapse
DELAPSE, v.i. [L. To slide. ] To fall or slide down.

14921

delapsed
DELAPSED, pp. Fallen down.

14922

delapsion
DELAPSION, n. A falling down of the uterus, anus, &c.

14923

delate
DELATE, v.t. [L. To bear.] 1. To carry; to convey.2. To accuse; to inform against; that is, to ...

14924

delation
DELATION, n.1. Carriage; conveyance; as the delation of sound.2. To accuse; to inform against; ...

14925

delator
DELATOR, n. An accuser; an informer.

14926

delay
DELAY, v.t.1. To prolong the time of acting, or proceeding; to put off; to defer.My lord delayeth ...

14927

delayed
DELAYED, pp. Deferred; detained; hindered for a time; retarded.

14928

delayer
DELAYER, n. One who defers; one who lingers.

14929

delaying
DELAYING, ppr. Putting off; deferring; procrastinating; retarding; detaining.

14930

delayment
DELAYMENT, n. Hinderance.

14931

dele
DELE, v.t. Blot out; erase.

14932

deleble
DELEBLE, a. That can be blotted out.

14933

delectableness
DELECTABLENESS, n. Delightfulness.

14934

delectably
DELECTABLY, adv. Delightfully.

14935

delectation
DELECTATION, n. Great pleasure; delight.

14936

delegacy
DELEGACY, n. A number of persons delegated.

14937

delegate
DELEGATE, v.t. [L. To send.]1. To send away; appropriately, to send on an embassy; to send with ...

14938

delegated
DELEGATED, pp. Deputed; sent with a trust or commission to act for another; appointed a judge; ...

14939

delegating
DELEGATING, ppr. Deputing; sending with a commission to act for another; appointing; committing; ...

14940

delegation
DELEGATION, n.1. A sending away; the act of putting in commission, or investing with authority to ...

14941

delete
DELETE, v.t. To blot out.

14942

deleterious
DELETERIOUS, a. [L. To blot out or destroy.] 1. Having the quality of destroying, or ...

14943

deletery
DELETERY, a. Destructive; poisonous.

14944

deletion
DELETION, n. [L. To blot out.]1. The act of blotting out or erasing.2. Destruction.

14945

deletory
DELETORY, n. That which blots out.

14946

delf
DELF, n. 1. A mine; a quarry; a pit dug.2. Earthern ware, covered with enamel or white glazing ...

14947

delibate
DELIBATE, v.t. [L. To taste.] To taste; to take a sip.

14948

delibation
DELIBATION, n. A taste; an essay.

14949

deliberate
DELIBERATE, v.i. [L. To weigh.] To weigh in the mind; to consider and examine the reasons for and ...

14950

deliberately
DELIBERATELY, adv. With careful consideration, or deliberation;circumspectly; not hastily or ...

14951

deliberateness
DELIBERATENESS, n. Calm consideration; circumspection; due attention to the arguments for and ...

14952

deliberation
DELIBERATION, 1. The act of deliberating; the act of weighing and examining the reasons for and ...

14953

deliberative
DELIBERATIVE, a.1. Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by mutual ...

14954

deliberatively
DELIBERATIVELY, adv. By deliberation.

14955

delicacy
DELICACY, n. In a general sense, that which delights or pleases. Hence,1. Fineness of texture; ...

14956

delicate
DELICATE, a. [L. Connected with delight; to delight.]1. Of a fine texture; fine; soft; smooth; ...

14957

delicately
DELICATELY, adv. 1. In a delicate manner; with nice regard to propriety and the feelings of ...

14958

delicateness
DELICATENESS, n. The state of being delicate; tenderness; softness; effeminacy. Deut. 28.

14959

delicious
DELICIOUS, a.1. Highly pleasing to the taste; most sweet or grateful to the senses; affording ...

14960

deliciously
DELICIOUSLY, adv. In a delicious manner; in a manner to please the taste or gratify the mind; ...

14961

deliciousness
DELICIOUSNESS, n. 1. The quality of being delicious, or very grateful to the taste or mind; as ...

14962

deligation
DELIGATION, n. [L. To bind.] In surgery, a binding up; a bandaging.

14963

delight
DELIGHT, n.1. A high degree of pleasure, or satisfaction of mind; joy.His delight is in the law of ...

14964

delighted
DELIGHTED, pp. 1. Greatly pleased; rejoiced; followed by with.That ye may be delighted with the ...

14965

delighter
DELIGHTER, n. One who takes delight.

14966

delightful
DELIGHTFUL, a. Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction; as a delightful ...

14967

delightfully
DELIGHTFULLY, adv.1. In a manner to receive great pleasure; very agreeable; as, we were ...

14968

delightfulness
DELIGHTFULNESS, n.1. The quality of being delightful, or of affording great pleasure; as the ...

14969

delightless
DELIGHTLESS, a. Affording no pleasure or delight.

14970

delightsome
DELIGHTSOME, a. Very pleasing; delightful.

14971

delightsomely
DELIGHTSOMELY, adv. Very pleasantly; in a delightful manner.

14972

delightsomeness
DELIGHTSOMENESS, n. Delightfulness; pleasantness in a high degree.

14973

delineament
DELINEAMENT, n. Representation by delineation.

14974

delineate
DELINEATE, v.t. [L. A line.]1. To draw the lines which exhibit the form of a thing; to mark out ...

14975

delineated
DELINEATED, pp. Drawn; marked with lines exhibiting the form or figure; sketched; designed; ...

14976

delineating
DELINEATING, ppr. Drawing the form; sketching; painting; describing.

14977

delineation
DELINEATION, n. 1. First draught of a thing; outline; representation of a form or figure by ...

14978

delineature
DELINEATURE, n. Delineation.

14979

deliniment
DELINIMENT, n. Mitigation.

14980

delinquency
DELINQUENCY, n. [L. To fail or omit duty; to leave.] Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a ...

14981

delinquent
DELINQUENT, a. Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.DELINQUENT, n. One who fails to ...

14982

deliquate
DELIQUATE, v.t. or I. [L. To melt.] To melt or be dissolved.

14983

deliquation
DELIQUATION, n. A melting.

14984

deliquesce
DELIQUESCE, v.i. [L. To melt; to melt or become soft.] To melt gradually and become liquid by ...

14985

deliquescence
DELIQUESCENCE, n. Spontaneous liquefaction in the air; a gradual melting or becoming liquid by ...

14986

deliquescent
DELIQUESCENT, a. Liquefying in the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and ...

14987

deliquiate
DELIQUIATE, v.i. To melt and become liquid by imbibing water from the air.

14988

deliquiation
DELIQUIATION, n. A melting by attracting water from the air.

14989

deliquium
DELIQUIUM, n. 1. In chimistry, a melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place.2. A ...

14990

delirament
DELIRAMENT, n. A wandering of the mind; foolish fancy.

14991

delirious
DELIRIOUS, a. Roving in mind; light-headed; disordered in intellect; having ideas that are wild, ...

14992

deliriousness
DELIRIOUSNESS, n. The state of being delirious; delirium.

14993

delirium
DELIRIUM, n. [L. To wander in mind, to rave; to make balks in plowing, that is, to err, wander, ...

14994

delitescence
DELITESCENCE, n. Retirement; obscurity.

14995

deliver
DELIVER, v.t. [L. Free, disengaged; to free, to peel.]1. To free; to release, as from restraint; to ...

14996

deliverable
DELIVERABLE, a. That may be or is to be delivered.A bill of lading may state that the goods are ...

14997

deliverance
DELIVERANCE, n.1. Release from captivity, slavery, oppression, or any restraint.He hath sent me to ...

14998

delivered
DELIVERED, pp. Freed; released; transferred or transmitted; passed from one to another; committed; ...

14999

deliverer
DELIVERER, n.1. One who delivers; one who releases or rescues; a preserver.The Lord raised up a ...

15000

delivering
DELIVERING, ppr. Releasing; setting free; rescuing; saving; surrendering; giving over; yielding; ...

15001

delivery
DELIVERY, n.1. The act of delivering.2. Release; rescue; as from slavery, restraint, oppression ...

15002

dell
DELL, n. A pit, or a hollow place; a cavity or narrow opening.

15003

delph
DELPH, [See Delf. No. 2.]

15004

delphia
DELPHIA or DELPHINIA, n. A vegetable alkali lately discovered in the Delphinium staphysagria. It ...

15005

delphian
DELPHIAN or DELPHIC, a. Relating to Delphi, and to the celebrated oracle of that place.

15006

delphine
DELPHINE, a.1. Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes.2. Pertaining to the dauphin of ...

15007

delphinite
DELPHINITE, n. A mineral called also pistacite and epidote.

15008

deltoid
DELTOID, n.1. Triangular; an epithet applied to a muscle of the shoulder which moves the arm ...

15009

deludable
DELUDABLE, a. That may be deluded or deceived; liable to be imposed on.

15010

delude
DELUDE, v.t.1. To deceive; to impose on; to lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or ...

15011

deluded
DELUDED, pp. Deceived; misled; led into error.

15012

deluder
DELUDER, n. One who deceives; a deceiver; an imposter; one who holds out false pretenses.

15013

deluding
DELUDING, ppr. Deceiving; leading astray; misleading the opinion or judgment.DELUDING, n. The act ...

15014

deluge
DELUGE, n. [L. To wash.]1. Any overflowing of water; an inundation; a flood; a swell of water ...

15015

deluged
DELUGED, pp. Overflowed; inundated; overwhelmed.

15016

deluging
DELUGING, ppr. Overflowing; inundating; overwhelming.

15017

delusion
DELUSION, n. S as z.1. The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. We are all ...

15018

delusive
DELUSIVE, a. Apt to deceive; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; as delusive arts; ...

15019

delusiveness
DELUSIVENESS, n. The quality of being delusive; tendency to deceive.

15020

delusory
DELUSORY, a. Apt to deceive; deceptive.

15021

delve
DELVE, v.t. Delv. [L. A mole, perhaps the delver.]1. To dig; to open the ground with a ...

15022

delver
DELVER, n. One who digs, as with a spade.

15023

delving
DELVING, ppr. Digging.

15024

demagogue
DEMAGOGUE, n. Demagog. [Gr. The populas, and to lead.]1. A leader of the people; an orator who ...

15025

demain
DEMAIN, n. 1. A manor-house and the land adjacent or near, which a lord keeps in his own hands or ...

15026

demand
DEMAND, v.t. [L. To command; to send; hence, to commit or entrust. To ask is to press or urge.]1. ...

15027

demandable
DEMANDABLE, a. That may be demanded, claimed, asked for, or required; as, payment is demandable at ...

15028

demandant
DEMANDANT, n. One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.

15029

demanded
DEMANDED, pp. Called for; claimed; challenged as due; requested; required; interrogated.

15030

demander
DEMANDER, n. One who demands; one who requires with authority; one who claims as due; one who ...

15031

demanding
DEMANDING, ppr. Claiming or calling for as due, or by authority; requiring; asking; pursuing a ...

15032

demandress
DEMANDRESS, n. A female demandant.

15033

demarch
DEMARCH, n. March; walk; gait.

15034

demarkation
DEMARKATION, n.1. The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit.2. A limit or bound ...

15035

demean
DEMEAN, v.t.1. To behave; to carry; to conduct; with the reciprocal pronoun; as, it is our duty to ...

15036

demeanor
DEMEANOR, n. Behavior; carriage; deportment; as decent demeanor; sad demeanor.

15037

demeanure
DEMEANURE, n. Behavior.

15038

demency
DEMENCY, n. Madness.

15039

dementate
DEMENTATE, a. Mad; infatuated.DEMENTATE, v.t. To make mad.

15040

dementation
DEMENTATION, n. The act of making frantic.

15041

demephitization
DEMEPHITIZATION, n. The act of purifying from mephitic or foul air.

15042

demephitize
DEMEPHITIZE, v.t. To purify from foul unwholesome air.

15043

demephitized
DEMEPHITIZED, pp. Purified; freed from foul air.

15044

demephitizing
DEMEPHITIZING, ppr. Purifying from foul air.

15045

demerit
DEMERIT, n. [ L. To earn or deserve.]1. That which deserves punishment, the opposite of merit; an ...

15046

demersed
DEMERSED, a. Plunged; situated or growing under water.

15047

demersion
DEMERSION, n. [L. To plunge or drown.]1. A plunging into a fluid; a drowning.2. The state of ...

15048

demesne
DEMESNE, [See Demain.]

15049

demi
DEMI, a prefix, Fr. Demi, from the L. Dimidium, signifies half. It is used only in composition.

15050

demi-brigade
DEMI-BRIGADE, n. A half-brigade.

15051

demi-cadence
DEMI-CADENCE, n. In music, an imperfect cadence, or one that falls on any other than the key note.

15052

demi-cannon
DEMI-CANNON, n. A cannon of different sizes; the lowest carries a ball of thirty pounds weight, ...

15053

demi-cross
DEMI-CROSS, n. An instrument for taking the altitude of the sun and stars.

15054

demi-culverin
DEMI-CULVERIN, n. A large gun, or piece of ordnance; the least is ten feet long, and carries a ...

15055

demi-devil
DEMI-DEVIL, n. Half a devil.

15056

demi-distance
DEMI-DISTANCE, n. In fortification, the distance between the outward polygons and the flank.

15057

demi-ditone
DEMI-DITONE, n. In music, a minor third.

15058

demi-god
DEMI-GOD, n. Half a god; one partaking of the divine nature; a fabulous hero, produced by the ...

15059

demi-gorge
DEMI-GORGE, n. In fortification, that part of the polygon which remains after the flank is raised, ...

15060

demi-groat
DEMI-GROAT, n. A half-groat.

15061

demi-lance
DEMI-LANCE, n. A light lance; a short spear; a half-pike.

15062

demi-lune
DEMI-LUNE, n. A half-moon.

15063

demi-man
DEMI-MAN, n. Half a man; a term of reproach.

15064

demi-natured
DEMI-NATURED, a. Having half the nature of another animal.

15065

demi-premises
DEMI-PREMISES, n. Plu. Half-premises.

15066

demi-quaver
DEMI-QUAVER, n. A note in music, of half the length of the quaver.

15067

demi-semi-quaver
DEMI-SEMI-QUAVER, n. The shortest note in music, two of which are equal to a semi-quaver.

15068

demi-tone
DEMI-TONE, n. In music, an interval of half a tone; a semi-tone.

15069

demi-vill
DEMI-VILL, n. A half-vill, consisting of five freemen or frank pledges.

15070

demi-volt
DEMI-VOLT, n. One of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in ...

15071

demi-wolf
DEMI-WOLF, n. Half a wolf; a mongrel dog between a dog and a wolf; lycisca.

15072

demigrate
DEMIGRATE or DEMIGRATION, [Not used. See Migrate.]

15073

demirep
DEMIREP, n. A woman of suspicious chastity. [Demi-reputation.]

15074

demisable
DEMISABLE, a. S sa z. That may be leased; as an estate demisable by copy of court roll.

15075

demise
DEMISE, n. S as z. [L. Literally, a laying down, or sending from; a removing.]1. In England, a ...

15076

demission
DEMISSION, n. A lowering; degradation; depression.

15077

demissive
DEMISSIVE or DEMISS, a. Humble.

15078

demissly
DEMISSLY, adv. In a humble manner.

15079

demit
DEMIT, v.t. To let fall; to depress; to submit.

15080

demiurge
DEMIURGE, n. [Gr., a public servant, and work.] In the mythology of Eastern Philosophers, an eon ...

15081

demiurgic
DEMIURGIC, a. Pertaining to a demiurge, or to creative power.

15082

democracy
DEMOCRACY, n. [Gr. People, and to possess, to govern.] Government by the people; a form of ...

15083

democrat
DEMOCRAT, n. One who adheres to a government by the people, or favors the extension of the right ...

15084

democratic
DEMOCRATIC,

15085

democratical
DEMOCRATICAL, a. Popular; pertaining to democracy or government by the people; as a democratical ...

15086

democratically
DEMOCRATICALLY, adv. In a democratical manner.

15087

demolish
DEMOLISH, v.t. [L. To build.] To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy, as a heap or structure; ...

15088

demolished
DEMOLISHED, pp. Pulled down; thrown down; razed; destroyed, as a fabric or structure.

15089

demolisher
DEMOLISHER, n. One who pulls or throws down; one who destroys or lays waste; as a demolisher of ...

15090

demolishing
DEMOLISHING, ppr. Pulling or throwing down; destroying.

15091

demolishment
DEMOLISHMENT, n. Ruin; overthrow.

15092

demolition
DEMOLITION, n. The act of overthrowing, pulling down or destroying a pile or structure; ruin; ...

15093

demon
DEMON, n. A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and the celestial ...

15094

demoness
DEMONESS, n. A female demon.

15095

demoniac
DEMONIAC or DEMONIACAL or DEMONIAN, a. 1. Pertaining to demons or evil spirits.2. Influenced by ...

15096

demoniacs
DEMONIACS, n. In church history, a branch of the Anabaptists, whose distinguishing tenet is, that ...

15097

demonocracy
DEMONOCRACY, n. [Gr. Demon and to hold.] The power or government of demons.

15098

demonolatry
DEMONOLATRY, n. [Gr. Demon and worship.] The worship of demons, or of evil spirits.

15099

demonology
DEMONOLOGY, n. [Gr. Demon and discourse.] A discourse on demons; a treatise on evil spirits. So ...

15100

demonomist
DEMONOMIST, n. [Gr. Demon and law.] One that lives in subjection to the devil, or to evil spirits.

15101

demonomy
DEMONOMY, n. The dominion of demons, or of evil spirits.

15102

demonship
DEMONSHIP, n. The state of a demon.

15103

demonstrable
DEMONSTRABLE, a. That may be demonstrated; that may be proved beyond doubt or contradiction; ...

15104

demonstrableness
DEMONSTRABLENESS, n. The quality of being demonstrable.

15105

demonstrably
DEMONSTRABLY, adv. In a manner to preclude doubt; beyond the possibility of contradiction.

15106

demonstrate
DEMONSTRATE, v.t. [L. To show.]1. To show or prove to be certain; to prove beyond the possibility ...

15107

demonstrated
DEMONSTRATED, pp. Proved beyond the possibility of doubt; rendered certain to the mind.

15108

demonstrating
DEMONSTRATING, ppr. Proving to be certain; evincing beyond the possibility of doubt.

15109

demonstration
DEMONSTRATION, n.1. The act of demonstrating, or of exhibiting certain proof.2. The highest ...

15110

demonstrative
DEMONSTRATIVE, a. 1. Showing or proving by certain evidence; having the power of demonstration; ...

15111

demonstratively
DEMONSTRATIVELY, adv. With certain evidence; with proof which cannot be questioned; certainly; ...

15112

demonstrator
DEMONSTRATOR, n. 1. One who demonstrates; one who proves any thing with certainty, or with ...

15113

demonstratory
DEMONSTRATORY, a. Tending to demonstrate; having a tendency to prove beyond a possibility of ...

15114

demoralization
DEMORALIZATION, n. The act of subverting or corrupting morals; destruction of moral principles.

15115

demoralize
DEMORALIZE, v.t. To corrupt or undermine the morals of ; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral ...

15116

demoralized
DEMORALIZED, pp. Corrupted in morals.

15117

demoralizing
DEMORALIZING, ppr. 1. Corrupting or destroying morals or moral principles.2. A. Tending to ...

15118

demulce
DEMULCE, v.t. Demuls. To sooth; to soften or pacify.

15119

demulcent
DEMULCENT, a. [L. To stroke, to soften; allied perhaps to mollis, mellow.] Softening; mollifying; ...

15120

demur
DEMUR, v.i. [L. To stay or delay.]1. To stop; to pause; to hesitate; to suspend proceeding; to ...

15121

demure
DEMURE, a. Sober; grave; modest; downcast; as a demure countenance; a demure abasing of the ...

15122

demurely
DEMURELY, adv. With grave, solemn countenance; with a fixed look; with a solemn gravity.Esops ...

15123

demureness
DEMURENESS, n. Gravity of countenance; soberness; a modest look.

15124

demurrage
DEMURRAGE, n. An allowance made to the master of a trading vessel, for delay or detention in port ...

15125

demurrer
DEMURRER, n.1. One who demure.2. In law, a stop at some point in the pleadings, and a resting of ...

15126

demurring
DEMURRING, ppr. Stopping; pausing; suspending proceedings or decision; resting or abiding on a ...

15127

demy
DEMY,1. A particular size of paper; a kind of paper of small size.2. A half fellow at Magdalen ...

15128

den
DEN, n.1. A cave or hollow place in the earth; usually applied to a cave, pit, or subterraneous ...

15129

denarcotize
DENARCOTIZE, v.t. [de and narcotic.] To deprive of the narcotic principle or quality; as, to ...

15130

denary
DENARY, a. Containing ten.DENARY, n. The number ten.

15131

denationalize
DENATIONALIZE, v.t. To divest of national character or rights, by transferrence to the service of ...

15132

denay
DENAY, n. Denial; refusal.DENAY, v.t. To deny.

15133

dendrachate
DENDRACHATE, n. [Gr. A tree, and agate.] Arborescent agate; agate containing the figures of shrubs ...

15134

dendrite
DENDRITE, n. [Gr. A tree.] A stone or mineral on or in which are the figures of shrubs or trees; ...

15135

dendritic
DENDRITIC,

15136

dendritical
DENDRITICAL, a. Containing the figures of shrubs or trees.

15137

dendroid
DENDROID, a. [Gr. A tree, and form.] Resembling a shrub.

15138

dendroit
DENDROIT, n. A fossil which has some resemblance in form to the branch of a tree.

15139

dendrolite
DENDROLITE, n. [Gr. A tree and a stone.] A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.

15140

dendrology
DENDROLOGY, n. [Gr. A tree and a discourse.] A discourse or treatise on trees; the natural ...

15141

dendrometer
DENDROMETER, n. [Gr. Tree and to measure.] An instrument to measure the highth and diameter of ...

15142

denegate
DENEGATE, v.t. To deny.

15143

denegation
DENEGATION, n. Denial.

15144

deniable
DENIABLE, a. That may be denied, or contradicted.

15145

denial
DENIAL, n.1. An affirmation to the contrary; an assertion that a declaration or fact stated is not ...

15146

denier
DENIER, n. One who denies, or contradicts; one who refuses or rejects; a disowner; one who does ...

15147

denigrate
DENIGRATE, v.t. [L. Black.] To blacken; to make black.

15148

denigration
DENIGRATION, n. The act of making black; a blackening.

15149

denitration
DENITRATION, n. A disengaging of nitric acid.

15150

denization
DENIZATION, n. The act of making one a denizen, subject or citizen. This in England is done by ...

15151

denizen
DENIZEN, n. 1. In England, an alien who is made a subject by the kings letters patent, holding a ...

15152

denomiinable
DENOMIINABLE, a. That may be denominated, or named.

15153

denominate
DENOMINATE, v.t. [L. To name.] To name; to give a name or epithet to; as, a race of intelligent ...

15154

denominated
DENOMINATED, pp. Named; called.

15155

denominating
DENOMINATING, ppr. Naming.

15156

denomination
DENOMINATION, n.1. The act of naming.2. A name or appellation; a vocal sound, customarily used to ...

15157

denominative
DENOMINATIVE, a. That gives a name; that confers a distinct appellation.

15158

denominator
DENOMINATOR, n. 1. He that gives a name.2. In arithmetic, that number placed below the line in ...

15159

denotable
DENOTABLE, a. That may be denoted or marked.

15160

denotation
DENOTATION, n. The act of denoting.

15161

denotative
DENOTATIVE, a. Having power to denote.

15162

denote
DENOTE, v.t. [L. To note or mark.]1. To mark; to signify by a visible sign; to indicate; to ...

15163

denoted
DENOTED, pp. Marked; signified, indicated.

15164

denotement
DENOTEMENT, n. Sign; indication.

15165

denoting
DENOTING, ppr. Marking; expressing; indicating.

15166

denouement
DENOUEMENT, n. The unraveling or discovery of a plot.

15167

denounce
DENOUNCE, v.t. [L. To tell, or declare.]1. To declare solemnly; to proclaim in a threatening ...

15168

denounced
DENOUNCED, pp. 1. Threatened by open declaration; as, punishment is denounced against the ...

15169

denouncement
DENOUNCEMENT, n. The declaration of a menace, or of evil; denunciation.

15170

denouncer
DENOUNCER, n. One who denounces, or declares a menace.Here comes the sad denouncer of my fate.

15171

denouncing
DENOUNCING, ppr. Declaring, as a threat; threatening; accusing.

15172

dense
DENSE, a.1. Close; compact; having its constituent parts closely united; applied to solids or ...

15173

denseness
DENSENESS, n. The same as density.

15174

density
DENSITY, n. 1. Closeness of constituent parts; compactness. Density is opposed to rarity; and in ...

15175

dent
DENT, n.1. Literally, a tooth or projecting point. But it is used to express a gap or notch, or ...

15176

dental
DENTAL, a. Pertaining to the teeth. In grammar, formed or pronounced by the teeth, with the aid ...

15177

dentalite
DENTALITE, n. A fossil shell of the genus Dentalium.

15178

dentate
DENTATE,

15179

dentated
DENTATED, a. Toothed; notched.In botany, a dentated root is one that consists of a concatenation ...

15180

dentato-sinuate
DENTATO-SINUATE, a. Having points like teeth with hollows about the edge.

15181

dented
DENTED, a. Indented; impressed with little hollows.

15182

dentelli
DENTELLI, n. Modillions.

15183

denticle
DENTICLE, n. A small tooth or projecting point.

15184

denticulate
DENTICULATE,

15185

denticulated
DENTICULATED, a. [L. A tooth.] Having small teeth or notches; as a denticulate leaf, calyx or ...

15186

denticulation
DENTICULATION, n. The state of being set with small teeth, or prominences or points, resembling ...

15187

dentiform
DENTIFORM, a. [L. A tooth and form.] Having the form of a tooth.

15188

dentifrice
DENTIFRICE, n. [L. A tooth and to rub] A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the ...

15189

dentil
DENTIL, n. [L. A tooth.] In architecture, an ornament in cornices bearing some resemblance to ...

15190

dentist
DENTIST, n. One whose occupation is to clean and extract teeth, or repair the loss of them.

15191

dentition
DENTITION, n. [L. To breed teeth.]1. The breeding or cutting of teeth in infancy.2. The time of ...

15192

dentize
DENTIZE, v.t. To renew the teeth, or have them renewed.

15193

dentoid
DENTOID, a. [L. A tooth and form.] Having a form of teeth.

15194

denudate
DENUDATE or DENUDE, v.t. [L. To make bare; naked.] To strip; to divest of all covering; to make ...

15195

denudation
DENUDATION, n. 1. The act of stripping off covering; a making bare.2. In geology, the act of ...

15196

denuded
DENUDED, pp. Stripped; divested of covering; laid bare.

15197

denuding
DENUDING, ppr. Stripping of covering; making bare.

15198

denunciate
DENUNCIATE, v.t. To denounce, which see.

15199

denunciation
DENUNCIATION, n. 1. Publication; proclamation; annunciation; preaching; as a faithful ...

15200

denunciator
DENUNCIATOR, n. 1. He that denounces; one who publishes or proclaims, especially intended evil; ...

15201

deny
DENY, v.t.1. To contradict; to gainsay; to declare a statement or position not to be true. We ...

15202

deobstruct
DEOBSTRUCT, v.t. [L. To stop; to pile.]To remove obstructions, or impediments to a passage; to ...

15203

deobstructed
DEOBSTRUCTED, pp. Cleared of obstructions; opened.

15204

deobstructing
DEOBSTRUCTING, ppr. Removing impediments to a passage.

15205

deobstruent
DEOBSTRUENT, a. Removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the ...

15206

deodand
DEODAND, n. [L. To be given to God.] In England, a personal chattel which is the immediate ...

15207

deonerate
DEONERATE, v.t. To unload.

15208

deoppilate
DEOPPILATE, v.t. To free from obstructions; to clear a passage.

15209

deoppilation
DEOPPILATION, n. The removal of obstructions.

15210

deoppilative
DEOPPILATIVE, a. Deobstruent; aperient.

15211

deordination
DEORDINATION, n. Disorder.

15212

deosculate
DEOSCULATE, v.t. To kiss.

15213

deosculation
DEOSCULATION, n. A kissing.

15214

deosydated
DEOSYDATED, pp. Reduced from the state of an oxyd.

15215

deoxydate
DEOXYDATE, v.t. To deprive of oxygen, or reduce from the state of an oxyd.

15216

deoxydating
DEOXYDATING, ppr. Reducing from the state of an oxyd.

15217

deoxydation
DEOXYDATION, n. The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxyd.

15218

deoxydization
DEOXYDIZATION, n. Deoxydation.

15219

deoxydize
DEOXYDIZE, v.t. To deoxydate.

15220

deoxydized
DEOXYDIZED, pp. Deoxydated.

15221

deoxydizing
DEOXYDIZING, ppr. Deoxydating.NOTE. Deoxydate and deoxydize are synonymous; but the former is ...

15222

deoxygenate
DEOXYGENATE, v.t. To deprive of oxygen.

15223

deoxygenated
DEOXYGENATED, v.t. Deprived of oxygen.

15224

deoxygenating
DEOXYGENATING, ppr. Depriving of oxygen.

15225

deoxygenation
DEOXYGENATION, n. The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.

15226

depaint
DEPAINT, v.t. [L. To paint.]1. To paint; to picture; to represent in colors, as by painting the ...

15227

depainted
DEPAINTED, pp. Painted; represented in colors; described.

15228

depainter
DEPAINTER, n. A painter.

15229

depainting
DEPAINTING, ppr. Painting; representing in colors; describing.

15230

depart
DEPART, v.i.1. To go or move from.Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire. Matt. 25.It ...

15231

departer
DEPARTER, n. One who refines metals by separation.

15232

departing
DEPARTING, ppr. Going from; leaving; desisting; forsaking; vanishing; dying.DEPARTING, n. A going ...

15233

department
DEPARTMENT, n.1. Literally, a separation or division; hence, a separate part, or portion; a ...

15234

departmental
DEPARTMENTAL, a. Pertaining to a department, or division.

15235

departure
DEPARTURE, n.1. The act of going away; a moving from or leaving a place; as a departure from ...

15236

depascent
DEPASCENT, a. [L. To feed.] Feeding.

15237

depasture
DEPASTURE, v.t. To eat up; to consume.DEPASTURE, v.i. To feed; to graze.If a man takes in a ...

15238

depasturing
DEPASTURING, ppr. Feeding; grazing; eating up.

15239

depauperate
DEPAUPERATE, v.t. [L. To beggar.] To make poor; to impoverish; to deprive of fertility or ...

15240

depauperated
DEPAUPERATED, pp. Impoverished; made poor.

15241

depauperating
DEPAUPERATING, ppr. Impoverishing; making poor.

15242

depectible
DEPECTIBLE, a. [L. To comb.] Tough; thick.

15243

depeinct
DEPEINCT, v.t. To paint.

15244

depend
DEPEND, v.i. [L. To hang.] 1. To hang; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to ...

15245

dependable
DEPENDABLE, a. That may be depended on; as dependable friendships.

15246

dependence
DEPENDENCE,

15247

dependency
DEPENDENCY, n. 1. A state of hanging down from a supporter.2. Any thing hanging down; a series ...

15248

dependent
DEPENDENT, a. 1. Hanging down; as a dependent leaf.The furs in the tails were dependent.2. ...

15249

depender
DEPENDER, n. One who depends; a dependent.

15250

depending
DEPENDING, ppr. 1. Hanging down; relying.2. A. Pending; undecided; as a suit or question.

15251

deperdit
DEPERDIT, a. That which is lost or destroyed.

15252

deperdition
DEPERDITION, n. Loss; destruction.

15253

dephlegmate
DEPHLEGMATE, v.t. [Gr. To burn.] To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or ...

15254

dephlegmation
DEPHLEGMATION, n. The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or ...

15255

dephlegmedness
DEPHLEGMEDNESS, n. A state of being freed from water.

15256

dephlogisticate
DEPHLOGISTICATE, v.t. [Gr. Burnt, inflammable.] To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed ...

15257

dephlogisticated
DEPHLOGISTICATED, pp. Deprived of phlogiston. Dephlogisticated air, is an elastic fluid capable of ...

15258

depict
DEPICT, v.t. [L. To paint.] 1. To paint; to portray; to form a likeness in colors; as, to depict ...

15259

depicted
DEPICTED, pp. Painted; represented in colors; described.

15260

depicting
DEPICTING, ppr. Painting; representing in colors, or in words.

15261

depicture
DEPICTURE, v.t. To paint; to picture; to represent in colors.

15262

depilate
DEPILATE, v.t. [L. Hair.] To strip of hair.

15263

depilation
DEPILATION, n. The act of pulling off the hair.

15264

depilatory
DEPILATORY, a. Having the quality or power to take off hair and make bald.DEPILATORY, n. Any ...

15265

depilous
DEPILOUS, a. Without hair.

15266

deplantation
DEPLANTATION, n. The act of taking up plants from beds.

15267

depletion
DEPLETION, n. [L. To fill.] The act of emptying; particularly, in the medical art, the act of ...

15268

deplorable
DEPLORABLE, a.1. That may be deplored or lamented; lamentable; that demands or causes lamentation; ...

15269

deplorableness
DEPLORABLENESS, n. The state of being deplorable; misery; wretchedness; a miserable state.

15270

deplorably
DEPLORABLY, adv. In a manner to be deplored; lamentably; miserable; as, manners are deplorably ...

15271

deploration
DEPLORATION, n. The act of lamenting. In music, a dirge or mournful strain.

15272

deplore
DEPLORE, v.t. [L. To howl; to wail.] To lament; to bewail; to mourn; to feel or express deep and ...

15273

deplored
DEPLORED, pp. Lamented; bewailed; deeply regretted.

15274

deploredly
DEPLOREDLY, adv. Lamentably.

15275

deplorer
DEPLORER, n. One who deplores, or deeply laments; a deep mourner.

15276

deploring
DEPLORING, ppr. Bewailing; deeply lamenting.

15277

deploy
DEPLOY, v.t. To display; to open; to extend; a military term.DEPLOY, v.i. To open; to extend; to ...

15278

deploying
DEPLOYING, ppr. Opening; extending; displaying.

15279

deplumation
DEPLUMATION, n. 1. The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.2. A tumor of the eye-lids ...

15280

deplume
DEPLUME, v.t. [L. A feather.] To strip or pluck off feathers; to deprive of plumage.

15281

deplumed
DEPLUMED, pp. Stripped of feathers or plumes.

15282

depluming
DEPLUMING, ppr. Stripping off plumes or feathers.

15283

depolarize
DEPOLARIZE, v.t. To deprive of polarity.

15284

depone
DEPONE, v.t. To lay down as a pledge; to wage.

15285

deponent
DEPONENT, a.1. Laying down.2. A deponent verb, in the Latin Grammar, is a verb which has a ...

15286

depopulate
DEPOPULATE, v.t. [L. To ravage or lay waste.] To dispeople; to unpeople; to deprive of ...

15287

depopulated
DEPOPULATED, pp. Dispeopled; deprived of inhabitants.

15288

depopulating
DEPOPULATING, ppr. Dispeopling; depriving of inhabitants.

15289

depopulation
DEPOPULATION, n. The act of dispeopling; destruction or expulsion of inhabitants.

15290

depopulator
DEPOPULATOR, n. One who depopulates; one who destroys or expels the inhabitants of a city, town or ...

15291

deport
DEPORT, v.t. [L. To carry.]1. With the reciprocal pronoun, to carry; to demean; to behave.Let an ...

15292

deportation
DEPORTATION, n. Transportation; a carrying away; a removal from one country to another, or to a ...

15293

deported
DEPORTED, pp. Carried away; transported; banished.

15294

deporting
DEPORTING, ppr. Carrying away; removing to a distant place or country; transporting; banishing.

15295

deportment
DEPORTMENT, n. Carriage; manner of acting in relation to the duties of life; behavior; demeanor ; ...

15296

deposable
DEPOSABLE, a. That may be deposed, or deprived of office.

15297

deposal
DEPOSAL, n. The act of deposing, or divesting of office.

15298

depose
DEPOSE, v.t. [L. To lay or put.]1. To lay down; to throw; to let fall; as, the flood deposed fine ...

15299

deposed
DEPOSED, pp. Dethroned; degraded; testified.

15300

deposer
DEPOSER, n. One who deposes or degrades from office.

15301

deposing
DEPOSING, ppr. Dethroning; degrading; bearing witness.DEPOSING, n. The act of dethroning.

15302

deposit
DEPOSIT, v.t.1. To lay down; to lay; to throw down. A crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand. A ...

15303

depositary
DEPOSITARY, n. 1. A person with whom any thing is left or lodged in trust; one to whom a thing is ...

15304

depositing
DEPOSITING, ppr. Laying down; pledging; repositing.

15305

deposition
DEPOSITION, n. 1. The act of laying or throwing down; as, soil is formed by the deposition of ...

15306

depository
DEPOSITORY, n. A place where any thing is lodged for safe-keeping. A warehouse is a depository ...

15307

depositum
DEPOSITUM, n. A deposit.

15308

depot
DEPOT. [A french word. See deposit.]

15309

depravation
DEPRAVATION, n.1. The act of making bad or worse; the act of corrupting.2. The state of being made ...

15310

deprave
DEPRAVE, v.t. [L. Crooked, perverse, wicked.]1. To make bad or worse; to impair good qualities; ...

15311

depraved
DEPRAVED, pp. 1. Made bad or worse; vitiated; tainted; corrupted.2. A. Corrupt; wicked; ...

15312

depravedly
DEPRAVEDLY, adv. In a corrupt manner.

15313

depravedness
DEPRAVEDNESS, n. Corruption; taint; a vitiated state.

15314

depravement
DEPRAVEMENT, n. A vitiated state.

15315

depraver
DEPRAVER, n. A corrupted; he who citiates; a vilifier.

15316

depraving
DEPRAVING, n. A traducing.

15317

depravity
DEPRAVITY, n.1. Corruption; a vitiated state; as the depravity of manners and morals.2. A ...

15318

deprecate
DEPRECATE, v.t. [L. To pray.]1. To pray against; to pray or intreat that a present evil may be ...

15319

deprecated
DEPRECATED, pp. Prayed against; deeply regretted.

15320

deprecating
DEPRECATING, ppr. Praying against; regretting.

15321

deprecation
DEPRECATION, n.1. A praying against; a praying that an evil may be removed or prevented.2. ...

15322

deprecative
DEPRECATIVE, a. 1. That serves to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; as ...

15323

deprecator
DEPRECATOR, n. One who deprecates.

15324

deprecatory
DEPRECATORY,

15325

depreciate
DEPRECIATE, v.t. [Low L. Price.]1. To lessen the price of a thing; to cry down the price or ...

15326

depreciated
DEPRECIATED, pp. Lessened in value or price; undervalued.

15327

depreciating
DEPRECIATING, ppr. 1. Lessening the price or worth; undervaluing.2. Falling in value.

15328

depreciation
DEPRECIATION, n.1. The act of lessening or crying down price or value.2. The falling of value; ...

15329

depredate
DEPREDATE,v.t. [L. To plunder; prey.]1. To plunder; to rob; to pillage; to take the property of an ...

15330

depredated
DEPREDATED, pp. Spoiled; plundered; wasted; pillaged.

15331

depredating
DEPREDATING, ppr. Plundering; robbing; pillaging.

15332

depredation
DEPREDATION, n. 1. The act of plundering; a robbing; a pillaging.2. Waste; consumption; a taking ...

15333

depredator
DEPREDATOR, n. One who plunders, or pillages; a spoiler; a waster.

15334

depredatory
DEPREDATORY, a. Plundering; spoiling; consisting in pillaging.

15335

deprehend
DEPREHEND, v.t. [L. To take or seize.]1. To catch; to take unawares or by surprise; to seize, as ...

15336

deprehended
DEPREHENDED, pp. Taken by surprise; caught; seized; discovered.

15337

deprehending
DEPREHENDING, ppr. Taking unawares; catching; seizing; discovering.

15338

deprehensible
DEPREHENSIBLE, a. That may be caught, or discovered.

15339

deprehensibleness
DEPREHENSIBLENESS, n. Capableness of being caught or discovered.

15340

deprehension
DEPREHENSION, n. A catching or seizing; a discovery.

15341

depress
DEPRESS, v.t. [L. To press.]1. To press down; to press to a lower state or position; as, to ...

15342

depressing
DEPRESSING, ppr. Pressing down; lowering in place; letting fall; sinking; dejecting; abasing; ...

15343

depression
DEPRESSION, n.1. The act of pressing down; or the state of being pressed down; a low state.2. A ...

15344

depressive
DEPRESSIVE, a. Able or tending to depress or cast down.

15345

depressor
DEPRESSOR, n.1. He that presses down; an oppressor.2. In anatomy, a muscle that depresses or ...

15346

deprivable
DEPRIVABLE, a. That may be deprived.A chaplain shall be deprivable by the founder, not by the ...

15347

deprivation
DEPRIVATION, n.1. The act of depriving; a taking away.2. A state of being deprived; loss; want; ...

15348

deprive
DEPRIVE, v.t. [L. To take away.]1. To take from; to bereave of something possessed or enjoyed; ...

15349

deprived
DEPRIVED, pp. Bereft; divested; hindered; stripped of office or dignity; deposed; degraded.

15350

deprivement
DEPRIVEMENT, n. The state of losing or being deprived.

15351

depriver
DEPRIVER, n. He or that which deprives or bereaves.

15352

depriving
DEPRIVING, ppr. Bereaving; taking away what is possessed; divesting; hindering from enjoying; ...

15353

depth
DEPTH, n.1. Deepness; the distance or measure of a thing from the surface to the bottom, or to the ...

15354

depulsion
DEPULSION, n. [L. To drive.] A driving or thrusting away.

15355

depulsory
DEPULSORY, a. Driving or thrusting away; averting.

15356

depurate
DEPURATE, v.t. To purify; to free from impurities, heterogeneous matter or feculence; a chimical ...

15357

depurated
DEPURATED, pp. Purified from heterogeneous matter, or from impurities.

15358

depurating
DEPURATING, ppr. Purifying; freeing from impurities.

15359

depuration
DEPURATION, n.1. The act of purifying or freeing fluids from heterogeneous matter. This is done ...

15360

depuratory
DEPURATORY, a. Cleansing; purifying; or tending to purify. A depuratory fever, is a fever that ...

15361

depure
DEPURE, v.t. To depurate.

15362

deputation
DEPUTATION, n.1. The act of appointing a substitute or representative to act for another; the act ...

15363

depute
DEPUTE, v.t. To appoint as a substitute or agent to act for another; to appoint and send with a ...

15364

deputed
DEPUTED, pp. Appointed as a substitute; appointed and sent with special authority to act for ...

15365

deputing
DEPUTING, ppr. Appointing as a substitute; appointed and sent with special authority to act for ...

15366

deputize
DEPUTIZE, v.t. To appoint a deputy; to empower to act for another, as a sheriff.

15367

deputy
DEPUTY, n.1. A person appointed or elected to act for another, especially a person sent with a ...

15368

deputy-collector
DEPUTY-COLLECTOR, n. A person appointed to perform the duties of a collector of the customs, in ...

15369

deputy-marshall
DEPUTY-MARSHALL, n. One appointed to act in the place of the marshal.

15370

deputy-post-master
DEPUTY-POST-MASTER, n. A person who is appointed to act as post-master, in subordination to the ...

15371

deputy-sheriff
DEPUTY-SHERIFF, n. A person deputed or authorized to perform the duties of the sheriff, as his ...

15372

der
DER, prefixed to names of places, may be from Sax. deor, a wild beast, or from dur, water.

15373

deracinate
DERACINATE, v.t. To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

15374

deracinated
DERACINATED, pp. Plucked up by the roots; extirpated.

15375

deracinating
DERACINATING, ppr. Tearing up by the roots; extirpating.

15376

deraign
DERAIGN or DERAIN, v.t. To prove; to justify; to vindicate, as an assertion; to clear ones self.

15377

deraignment
DERAIGNMENT,

15378

derainment
DERAINMENT, n. The act of deraining; proof; justification. A like word was formerly used in the ...

15379

derange
DERANGE, v.t.1. To put out of order; to disturb the regular order of; to throw into confusion; as, ...

15380

deranged
DERANGED, pp. Put out of order; disturbed; embarrassed; confused; disordered in mind; delirious; ...

15381

derangement
DERANGEMENT, n.1. A putting out of order; disturbance of regularity or regular course; ...

15382

deranging
DERANGING, ppr. 1. Putting out of order; disturbing regularity or regular course; embarrassment; ...

15383

deray
DERAY, v.t. Tumult; disorder; merriment.

15384

dere
DERE, v.t. To hurt.

15385

derelict
DERELICT, a. [L. To leave.] Left; abandoned.DERELICT, n.1. In law, an article of goods, or any ...

15386

dereliction
DERELICTION, n.1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim; an utter forsaking; ...

15387

deride
DERIDE, v.t. [L. To laugh.] To laugh at in contempt; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to ...

15388

derided
DERIDED, pp. Laughed at in contempt; mocked; ridiculed.

15389

derider
DERIDER, n. 1. One who laughs at another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.2. A droll or buffoon.

15390

deriding
DERIDING, ppr. Laughing at with contempt; mocking; ridiculing.

15391

deridingly
DERIDINGLY, adv. By way of derision or mockery.

15392

derision
DERISION, n.1. The act of laughing at in contempt.2. Contempt manifested by laughter; scorn.I am ...

15393

derisive
DERISIVE, a. Containing derision; mocking; ridiculing.Derisive taunts.

15394

derisively
DERISIVELY, adv. With mockery or contempt.

15395

derisory
DERISORY, a. Mocking; ridiculing.

15396

derivable
DERIVABLE, a. 1. That may be derived; that may be drawn, or received, as from a source. Income is ...

15397

derivate
DERIVATE, n. A word derived from another.

15398

derivation
DERIVATION, n.1. The act of deriving, drawing or receiving from a source; as the derivation of an ...

15399

derivative
DERIVATIVE, a.1. Derived; taken or having proceeded from another or something preceding; ...

15400

derivatively
DERIVATIVELY, adv. In a derivative manner; by derivation.

15401

derive
DERIVE, v.t. [L. A stream.]1. To draw from, as in a regular course or channel; to receive from a ...

15402

derived
DERIVED, pp. Drawn, as from a source; deduced; received; regularly conveyed; descended; ...

15403

deriver
DERIVER, n. One who derives, or draws from a source.

15404

deriving
DERIVING, ppr. Drawing; receiving; deducing; communicating; diverting or turning into another ...

15405

dermal
DERMAL, a. Pertaining to skin; consisting of skin.

15406

dermoid
DERMOID, a. Pertaining to the skin; a medical term.

15407

dern
DERN, a. Solitary; sad; cruel.

15408

dernful
DERNFUL, a. Sad; mournful.

15409

dernier
DERNIER, a. Last; final; ultimate; as the dernier resort.

15410

dernly
DERNLY, adv. Sadly; mournfully.

15411

derogate
DEROGATE, v.t. [L. To ask, to propose. In ancient Rome, rogo was used in proposing new laws, and ...

15412

derogated
DEROGATED, pp. Diminished in value; degraded; damaged.

15413

derogately
DEROGATELY, adv. In a manner to lessen or take from.

15414

derogating
DEROGATING, ppr. Annulling a part. Lessening by taking from.

15415

derogation
DEROGATION, n. 1. The act of annulling or revoking a law, or some part of it. More generally, ...

15416

derogative
DEROGATIVE, a. Derogatory.

15417

derogatorily
DEROGATORILY, adv. In a detracting manner.

15418

derogatoriness
DEROGATORINESS, n. The quality of being derogatory.

15419

derogatory
DEROGATORY, a. 1. Detracting or tending to lessen by taking something from; that lessens the ...

15420

derring
DERRING, a. Daring.

15421

dervis
DERVIS, n. A turkish priest or monk, who professes extreme poverty, and leads an austere life.

15422

descant
DESCANT, n. 1. A song or tune composed in parts.2. A song or tune with various modulations.The ...

15423

descanting
DESCANTING, ppr. Singing in parts or with various modulations; discoursing freely; ...

15424

descend
DESCEND, v.i. [L. To climb.]1. To move or pass from a higher to a lower place; to move, come or go ...

15425

descendant
DESCENDANT, n. Any person proceeding from an ancestor in any degree; issue; offspring, in the line ...

15426

descendent
DESCENDENT, a. 1. Descending; falling; sinking.2. Proceeding from an original or ancestor.

15427

descendibility
DESCENDIBILITY, n. The quality of being descendible, or capable of being trnasmitted from ...

15428

descendible
DESCENDIBLE, a.1. That may be descended, or passed down; as, the hill is descendible.2. That may ...

15429

descension
DESCENSION, n.1. The act of going downwards; descent; a falling or sinking; declension; ...

15430

descensional
DESCENSIONAL, a. Pertaining to descent.

15431

descensive
DESCENSIVE, a. Tending downwards; having power to descend.

15432

descent
DESCENT, n.1. The act of descending; the act of passing from a higher to a lower place, by any ...

15433

describable
DESCRIBABLE, a. That may be described; capable of description.

15434

describe
DESCRIBE, v.t. [L. To write.]1. To delineate or mark the form or figure; as, to describe a circle ...

15435

described
DESCRIBED, pp. Represented in form by marks or figures; delineated; represented by words or signs.

15436

describer
DESCRIBER, n. One who describes by marks, words or signs.

15437

describing
DESCRIBING, ppr. Representing the form or figure of, by lines or marks; communicating a view of, ...

15438

descried
DESCRIED, pp. Espied; discovered; seen.

15439

descrier
DESCRIER, n. One who espies, or discovers; a discoverer; a detecter.

15440

description
DESCRIPTION, n.1. The act of delineating, or representing the figure of any thing by a plan, to be ...

15441

descriptiv
DESCRIPTIV,E, a. Containing description; tending to describe; having the quality of representing; ...

15442

descry
DESCRY, v.t.1. To espy; to explore; to examine by observation.The house of Joseph sent to descry ...

15443

descrying
DESCRYING, ppr. Descovering; espying.

15444

desecrate
DESECRATE, v.t. [L. To consecrate, from sacred.]1. To divert from a sacred purpose or ...

15445

desecrated
DESECRATED, pp. Diverted from a sacred purpose or appropriation; divested of a sacred character or ...

15446

desecrating
DESECRATING, ppr. Diverting from a purpose to which a thing is consecrated; divested of a sacred ...

15447

desecration
DESECRATION, n. The act of diverting from a sacred purpose or use to which a thing had been ...

15448

desert
DESERT, a. S as z [L. To sow, plant or scatter.]1. Literally, forsaken; hence, uninhabited; as a ...

15449

deserted
DESERTED, pp. Wholly forsaken; abandoned; left.

15450

deserter
DESERTER, n. A person who forsakes his cause, his post, or his party or friend; particularly, a ...

15451

desertful
DESERTFUL, a. High in desert; meritorious.

15452

deserting
DESERTING, ppr. Forsaking utterly; abandoning.

15453

desertion
DESERTION, n. 1. The act of forsaking or abandoning, as a party, a friend, a country, an army or ...

15454

desertless
DESERTLESS, a. Without merit or claim to favor or reward.

15455

desertlessly
DESERTLESSLY, adv. Undeservedly.

15456

desertrice
DESERTRICE,

15457

desertrix
DESERTRIX, n. A female who deserts.

15458

deserve
DESERVE, v.t. [L. To serve.]1. To merit; to be worthy of; applied to good or evil.2. To merit by ...

15459

deserved
DESERVED, pp. Merited; worthy of.

15460

deservedly
DESERVEDLY, adv. Justly; according to desert, whether of good or evil. A man may be deservedly ...

15461

deserver
DESERVER, n. He who deserves or merits; one who is worthy of; used generally in a good sense.

15462

deserving
DESERVING, ppr. 1. Meriting; having a just claim to reward; justly meriting punishment.2. Worthy ...

15463

deservingly
DESERVINGLY, adv. Meritoriously; with just desert.

15464

deshabille
DESHABILLE or DESHABIL, n. An undress; a loose morning dress; hence, any home dress; as, the lady ...

15465

desiccant
DESICCANT, a. Drying.DESICCANT, n. A medicine or application that dries a sore.

15466

desiccate
DESICCATE, v.t. [L. To dry.] to dry; to exhaust of moisture; to exhale or remove moisture ...

15467

desiccated
DESICCATED, pp. Dried.

15468

desiccating
DESICCATING, ppr. Drying; exhausting moisture.

15469

desiccation
DESICCATION, n. The act of making dry; the state of being dried.

15470

desiccative
DESICCATIVE, a. Drying; tending to dry; that has the power to dry.

15471

desiderate
DESIDERATE,v.t. [from the L.] To want; to miss.

15472

desideratum
DESIDERATUM, n. Plu. Desiderata. [L. To desire.] That which is desired; that which is not ...

15473

design
DESIGN, v.t.[L. To seal or stamp, that is, to set or throw.]1. To delineate a form or figure by ...

15474

designable
DESIGNABLE, a. 1. Capable of being designed or marked out.2. Distinguishable.

15475

designate
DESIGNATE, v.t.1. To mark out or show, so as to make known; to indicate by bisible lines, marks, ...

15476

designated
DESIGNATED, pp. Marked out; indicated; shown; pointed out appointed.

15477

designating
DESIGNATING, ppr. Marking out; indicating; pointing out; appointing.

15478

designation
DESIGNATION, n.1. The act of pointing or marking out by signs or objects; as the designation of an ...

15479

designative
DESIGNATIVE, a. Serving to designate or indicate.

15480

designator
DESIGNATOR, n. A Roman officer who assigned to each person his rank and place in public shows and ...

15481

designed
DESIGNED, pp. Marked out; delineated; planned; intended.

15482

designedly
DESIGNEDLY, adv. By design; purposely; intentionally; opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or ...

15483

designer
DESIGNER, n.1. One who designs, marks out or plans; one who frames a scheme or project; a ...

15484

designfulness
DESIGNFULNESS, n. Abundance of design.

15485

designing
DESIGNING, ppr.1. Forming a design; plnning; delineating the outline; drawing figures on a ...

15486

designless
DESIGNLESS, a. Without design or intention; inadvertent.

15487

designlessly
DESIGNLESSLY, adv. Without design; inadvertently; ignorantly.

15488

designment
DESIGNMENT, n.1. Design; sketch; delineation.2. Design; purpose; aim; intent; scheme.

15489

desinence
DESINENCE, n. End; close.

15490

desinent
DESINENT, a. Ending; extreme; lower-most.

15491

desipient
DESIPIENT, a. [L. To dote; to be wise.] trifling; foolish; playful.

15492

desirable
DESIRABLE, a.1. Worthy of desire; that is to be wished for with sincerity or earnestness. An easy ...

15493

desirableness
DESIRABLENESS,n. The quality of being desirable.

15494

desire
DESIRE, n.1. An emotion or excitement of the mind, directed to the attainment or possession of an ...

15495

desired
DESIRED, pp. Wished for; coveted; requested; entreated.

15496

desireless
DESIRELESS, a. Free from desire.

15497

desirer
DESIRER, n. One who desires or asks; one who wishes.

15498

desiring
DESIRING, ppr. Wishing for; coveting; asking; expressing a wish; soliciting.

15499

desirous
DESIROUS, a. Wishing for; wishing to obtain; coveting; solicitous to possess and enjoy.Be not ...

15500

desirously
DESIROUSLY, adv. With desire; with earnest wishes.

15501

desirousness
DESIROUSNESS, n. The state or affection of being desirous.

15502

desist
DESIST, v.i. [L. To stand.] To stop; to cease to act or proceed; to forbear; with from; as, he ...

15503

desistance
DESISTANCE, n. A ceasing to act or proceed; a stopping.

15504

desisting
DESISTING, ppr. Ceasing to act or proceed.

15505

desitive
DESITIVE, a. Final; conclusive.

15506

desk
DESK, n.1. An inclining table for the use of writers and readers; usually made with a box or ...

15507

desmine
DESMINE, n. A mineral that crystalizes in little silken tufts, which accompany spinellane in the ...

15508

desolate
DESOLATE, a. 1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; desert; uninhabited; denoting either ...

15509

desolated
DESOLATED, pp. Deprived of inhabitants; wasted; ruined.

15510

desolately
DESOLATELY, adv. In a desolate manner.

15511

desolater
DESOLATER, n. One who lays waste or desolates; that which desolates.

15512

desolating
DESOLATING, ppr. Depriving of inhabitants; wasting; ravaging.

15513

desolation
DESOLATION, n.1. The act of desolating destruction or expulsion of inhabitants; destruction; ruin; ...

15514

desolatory
DESOLATORY, a. Causing desolation.

15515

despair
DESPAIR, n.1. Hopelessness; a hopeless state; a destitution of hope or expectation.We are ...

15516

despairer
DESPAIRER, n. One without hope.

15517

despairful
DESPAIRFUL, a. Hopeless.

15518

despairing
DESPAIRING, ppr. Giving up all hope or expectation.

15519

despairingly
DESPAIRINGLY, adv. In a despairing manner; in a manner indicating hopelessness; as, he speaks ...

15520

despatch
DESPATCH, [See Dispatch.]

15521

despection
DESPECTION, n. A looking down; a despising.

15522

desperado
DESPERADO, n. A desperate fellow; a furious man; a madman; a person urged by furious passions; one ...

15523

desperate
DESPERATE, a. [L. To despair.]1. Without hope.I am desperate of obtaining her.2. Without care of ...

15524

desperately
DESPERATELY, adv. 1. In a desperate manner; as in despair; hence, furiously; with rage; madly; ...

15525

desperateness
DESPERATENESS, n. Madness; fury; rash precipitance.

15526

desperation
DESPERATION, n.1. A despairing; a giving up of hope; as desperation of success.2. Hopelessness; ...

15527

despicable
DESPICABLE, a. [Low L. To look down, to despise; to look.] That may be or deserves to be despised; ...

15528

despicableness
DESPICABLENESS, n. The quality or state of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.

15529

despicably
DESPICABLY, adv. Meanly; vilely; contemptibly; as despicably poor.

15530

despisable
DESPISABLE, a. Despicable; contemptible.

15531

despisal
DESPISAL, n. Contempt.

15532

despise
DESPISE, .v.t.1. To contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have the lowest opinion of.Fools despise ...

15533

despised
DESPISED, pp. Contemned; disdained; abhorred.

15534

despisedness
DESPISEDNESS, n. The state of being despised.

15535

despiser
DESPISER, n. A contemner; a scorner.

15536

despising
DESPISING, ppr. Contemning; scorning; disdaining.DESPISING, n. Contempt.

15537

despisingly
DESPISINGLY, adv. With contempt.

15538

despite
DESPITE, n.1. Extreme malice; violent hatred; malignity; malice irritated or enraged; active ...

15539

despiteful
DESPITEFUL, a. Full of spite; malicious; malignant; as a despiteful enemy.Hater of God, ...

15540

despitefully
DESPITEFULLY, adv. With despite; maliciously; contemptuously.Pray for them that despitefully use ...

15541

despitefulness
DESPITEFULNESS, n. Malice; extreme hatred; malignity.

15542

despiteous
DESPITEOUS, a. Malicious.

15543

despiteously
DESPITEOUSLY, adv.. Furiously.

15544

despoil
DESPOIL,v.t. [L. To spoil.]1. To strip; to take from by force; to rob; to deprive; followed by of; ...

15545

despoiled
DESPOILED, pp. Stripped; robbed; bereaved; deprived.

15546

despoiler
DESPOILER, n. One who strips by force; a plunderer.

15547

despoiling
DESPOILING, ppr. Depriving; stripping; robbing.

15548

despoliation
DESPOLIATION, n. The act of despoiling; a stripping.

15549

despond
DESPOND, v.i.[L. To promise; literally, to throw to or forward.]1. To be cast down; to be ...

15550

despondency
DESPONDENCY, n. A sinking or dejection of spirits at the loss of hope; loss of courage at the ...

15551

despondent
DESPONDENT, a. Losing courage at the loss of hope; sinking into dejection; depressed and inactive ...

15552

desponder
DESPONDER, n. One destitute of hope.

15553

desponding
DESPONDING, ppr. Losing courage to act, in consequence of loss of hope, or of deep calamity, or of ...

15554

despondingly
DESPONDINGLY, adv. In a desponding manner; with dejection of spirits; despairingly.

15555

desponsate
DESPONSATE, v.t. To betroth.

15556

desponsation
DESPONSATION, n. A betrothing.

15557

despot
DESPOT, n. An emperor, king or price invested with absolute power, or ruling without any control ...

15558

despotic
DESPOTIC,

15559

despotical
DESPOTICAL, a.1. Absolute in power; independent of control from men, constitution or laws; ...

15560

despotically
DESPOTICALLY, adv. With unlimited power; arbitrarily; in a despotic manner.

15561

despoticalness
DESPOTICALNESS, n. Absolute or arbitrary authority.

15562

despotism
DESPOTISM, n.1. Absolute power; authority unlimited and uncontrolled by men, constitution or laws, ...

15563

despumate
DESPUMATE, v.i. [L. Froth or scum.] To foam; to froth; to form froth or scum.

15564

despumation
DESPUMATION, n. The act of throwing off excrementitious matter and forming a froth or scum on the ...

15565

desquamation
DESQUAMATION, n. [L. A scale.] A scaling or exfoliation of bone; the separation of the cuticle in ...

15566

dess
DESS, for desk.

15567

dessert
DESSERT, n. A service of fruits and sweetmeats, at the close of an entertainment; the last course ...

15568

destinate
DESTINATE, v.t. To design or appoint.DESTINATE, a. Appointed; destined; determined.

15569

destination
DESTINATION, n. 1. The act of destining, or appointing.2. The purpose for which any thing is ...

15570

destine
DESTINE, v.t. [L.]1. To set, ordain or appoint to a use, purpose, state or place. We destine a son ...

15571

destined
DESTINED, pp. Ordained; appointed by previous determination; devoted; fixed unalterably.

15572

destining
DESTINING, ppr. Ordaining; appointing.

15573

destiny
DESTINY, n. 1. State or condition appointed or predetermined; ultimate fate; as, men are ...

15574

destitute
DESTITUTE, a. [L. To set. Literally, set from or away.]1. Not having or possessing; wanting; as ...

15575

destitution
DESTITUTION, n. Want; absence of a thing; a state in which something is wanted or not possessed; ...

15576

destroy
DESTROY, v.t. [L. To pile, to build.]1. To demolish; to pull down; to separate the parts of an ...

15577

destroyable
DESTROYABLE, a. That may be destroyed.Plants scarcely destroyable by the weather.

15578

destroyed
DESTROYED, pp. Demolished; pulled down; ruined; annihilated; devoured; swept away; &c.

15579

destroyer
DESTROYER, n. One who destroys, or lays waste; one who kills a man, or an animal, or who ruins a ...

15580

destroying
DESTROYING, ppr. Demolishing; laying waste; killing; annihilating; putting an end to.DESTROYING, ...

15581

destruct
DESTRUCT, fro destroy, is not used.

15582

destructibility
DESTRUCTIBILITY, n. The quality of being capable of destruction.

15583

destructible
DESTRUCTIBLE, a. [L.] Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.

15584

destruction
DESTRUCTION, n.1. The act of destroying; demolition; a pulling down; subversion; ruin, by whatever ...

15585

destructive
DESTRUCTIVE, a. Causing destruction; having the quality of destroying; ruinous; mischievous; ...

15586

destructively
DESTRUCTIVELY, adv. With destruction; ruinously; mischievously; with power to destroy; as ...

15587

destructiveness
DESTRUCTIVENESS, n. The quality of destroying or ruining.

15588

destructor
DESTRUCTOR, n. A destroyer; a consumer. [Not used.]

15589

desudation
DESUDATION, n. [L., to sweat.] A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, succeeded by an eruption ...

15590

desuetude
DESUETUDE, n. [L.] The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom or fashion. ...

15591

desulphurate
DESULPHURATE, v.t. To deprive of sulphur.

15592

desulphurated
DESULPHURATED, pp. Deprived of sulphur.

15593

desulphurating
DESULPHURATING, ppr. Depriving of sulphur.

15594

desulphuration
DESULPHURATION, n. The act or operation of depriving of sulphur.

15595

desultorily
DESULTORILY, adv. [See Desultory.] In a desultory manner; without method; loosely.

15596

desultoriness
DESULTORINESS, n. A desultory manner; unconnectedness; a passing from one thing to another without ...

15597

desultory
DESULTORY, a. [L., to leap.]1. Leaping; passing from one thing or subject to another, without order ...

15598

desume
DESUME, v.t. [L.] To take from; to borrow. [Not in use.]

15599

detach
DETACH, v.t. [See Attach.]1. To separate or disunite; to disengage; to part from; as, to detach the ...

15600

detached
DETACHED, pp. 1. Separated; parted from ; disunited; drawn and sent on a separate service.2. a. ...

15601

detaching
DETACHING, ppr. Separating; parting from; drawing and sending on a separate employment.

15602

detachment
DETACHMENT, n. 1. The act of detaching.2. A body of troops, selected or taken from the main army, ...

15603

detail
DETAIL, v.t. 1. To relate, report or narrate in particulars; to recite the particulars of; to ...

15604

detailed
DETAILED, pp. Related in particulars; minutely recited; selected.

15605

detailer
DETAILER, n. One who details.

15606

detailing
DETAILING, ppr. 1. Relating minutely; telling the particulars.2. Selecting from the rosters.

15607

detainder
DETAINDER, n. A writ. [See Detinue.]

15608

detained
DETAINED, pp. Withheld; kept back; prevented from going or coming; held; restrained.

15609

detainer
DETAINER, n. 1. One who withholds what belongs to another; one who detains, stops or prevents from ...

15610

detaing
DETAING, v.t. [L., to hold. See Tenant.]1. To keep back or from; to withhold; to keep what belongs ...

15611

detaining
DETAINING, ppr. Withholding what belongs to another; holding back; restraining from going or ...

15612

detainment
DETAINMENT, n. The act of detaining; detention.

15613

detect
DETECT, v.t. [L., to cover.] Literally, to uncover; hence, to discover; to find out; to bring to ...

15614

detected
DETECTED, pp. Discovered; found out; laid open; brought to light.

15615

detecter
DETECTER, n. A discoverer; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal.

15616

detecting
DETECTING, ppr. Discovering; finding out.

15617

detection
DETECTION, n. The act of detecting; discovery of a person or thing attempted to be concealed; as ...

15618

detenebrate
DETENEBRATE, v.t. [L.] To remove darkness. [Not in use.]

15619

detent
DETENT, n. [L.] A stop in a clock, which by being lifted up or let down, locks and unlocks the ...

15620

detention
DETENTION, n. [See Detain.]1. The act of detaining; a withholding from another his right; a keeping ...

15621

deter
DETER, v.t. [L., to frighten.] 1. To discourage and stop by fear; to stop or prevent from acting or ...

15622

deterge
DETERGE, v.t. deterj. [L., to wipe or scour.] To cleanse; to purge away foul or offending matter, ...

15623

deterged
DETERGED, pp. Cleansed; purged.

15624

detergent
DETERGENT, a. Cleansing; purging.DETERGENT, n. A medicine that has the power of cleansing the ...

15625

deterging
DETERGING, ppr. Cleansing; carrying off obstructions or foul matter.

15626

deteriorate
DETERIORATE, v.i. [L.] To grow worse; to be impaired in quality to degenerate; opposed to ...

15627

deteriorated
DETERIORATED, pp. Made worse; impaired in quality.

15628

deteriorating
DETERIORATING, ppr. Becoming worse or inferior in quality.

15629

deterioration
DETERIORATION, n. A growing or making worse; the state of growing worse.

15630

deteriority
DETERIORITY, n. Worse sate or quality; as deteriority of diet.

15631

determent
DETERMENT, n. [See Deter.] The act of deterring; the cause of deterring; that which deters.

15632

determinable
DETERMINABLE, a. [See Determine.]1. That may be decided with certainty.2. That may end or be ...

15633

determinate
DETERMINATE, a. [L.]1. Limited; fixed; definite; as a determinate quantity of matter.2. ...

15634

determinately
DETERMINATELY, adv. 1. With certainty.The principles of religion are determinately true or false.2. ...

15635

determinateness
DETERMINATENESS, n. The state of being determinate, certain, or precise.

15636

determination
DETERMINATION, n. 1. The act of determining or deciding.2. Decision of a question in the mind; firm ...

15637

determinative
DETERMINATIVE, a. 1. That uncontrollably directs to a certain end.The determinative power of a just ...

15638

determinator
DETERMINATOR, n. One who determines.

15639

determine
DETERMINE, v.t. [L., to bound; a boundary or limit. Gr. See Term.]1. To end; particularly, to end ...

15640

determined
DETERMINED, pp. 1. Ended; concluded; decided; limited; fixed; settled; resolved; directed.2. a. ...

15641

determining
DETERMINING, ppr. Ending; deciding; fixing; settling; resolving; limiting; directing.

15642

deterration
DETERRATION, n. [L., de and terra, earth.] The uncovering of any thing which is buried or covered ...

15643

deterred
DETERRED, pp. [See Deter.] Discouraged or prevented from proceeding or acting, by fear, difficulty ...

15644

deterring
DETERRING, pp. 1. Discouraging or influencing not to proceed or act, by fear, difficulty, danger, ...

15645

detersion
DETERSION, n. [L. See Deterge.] The act of cleansing, as a sore.

15646

detersive
DETERSIVE, a. [See Deterge.] Cleansing; having power to cleanse from offending matter.DETERSIVE, n. ...

15647

detest
DETEST, v.t. [L., to affirm or bear witness. The primary sense of testor is to set, throw or ...

15648

detestable
DETESTABLE, a. Extremely hateful; abominable; very odious; deserving abhorrence.Thou hast defiled ...

15649

detestableness
DETESTABLENESS, n. Extreme hatefulness.

15650

detestably
DETESTABLY, adv. Very hatefully; abominably.

15651

detestation
DETESTATION, n. Extreme hatred; abhorrence; with of. The good man entertains uniformly a ...

15652

detested
DETESTED, pp. Hated extremely; abhorred.

15653

detester
DETESTER, n. One who abhors.

15654

detesting
DETESTING, ppr. Hating extremely; abhorring; abominating.

15655

dethrone
DETHRONE, v.t. [L.] 1. To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of royal authority ...

15656

dethroned
DETHRONED, pp. Removed from a throne; deposed.

15657

dethronement
DETHRONEMENT, n. Removal from a throne; deposition of a king, emperor or prince.

15658

dethroner
DETHRONER, n. One who dethrones.

15659

dethroning
DETHRONING, ppr. Driving from a throne; depriving of regal power.

15660

detinue
DETINUE, n. In law, a writ of detinue is one that lies against him who wrongfully detains goods or ...

15661

detonate
DETONATE, v.t. [L., to thunder.] In chemistry, to cause to explode; to burn or inflame with a ...

15662

detonated
DETONATED, pp. Exploded; burnt with explosion.

15663

detonating
DETONATING, ppr. Exploding; inflaming with a sudden report.

15664

detonation
DETONATION, n. An explosion or sudden report made by the inflammation of certain combustible ...

15665

detonization
DETONIZATION, n. The acct of exploding, as certain combustible bodies.

15666

detonize
DETONIZE, v.t [See Detonate.] To cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to calcine with ...

15667

detonized
DETONIZED, pp. Exploded, as a combustible body.

15668

detonizing
DETONIZING, ppr. Exploding with a sudden report.

15669

detorsion
DETORSION, n. A turning or wresting; perversion.

15670

detort
DETORT, v.t. [L., to twist.] To twist; to wrest; to pervert; to turn from the original or plain ...

15671

detorted
DETORTED, pp. Twisted; wrested; perverted.

15672

detorting
DETORTING, ppr. Wresting; perverting.

15673

detour
DETOUR, n. A turning; a circuitous way.

15674

detract
DETRACT, v.t. [L., to draw. See Draw and Drag.]1. Literally, to draw from. Hence, to take away from ...

15675

detraction
DETRACTION, n. [L.] The act of taking something from the reputation or worth of another, with the ...

15676

detractious
DETRACTIOUS, a. Containing detraction; lessening reputation. [Not in use.]

15677

detractive
DETRACTIVE, a. Having the quality or tendency to lessen the worth or estimation.

15678

detractor
DETRACTOR, n. One who takes away or impairs the reputation of another injuriously; one who attempts ...

15679

detractory
DETRACTORY, a. Derogatory; defamatory by denial of desert; with from.

15680

detractress
DETRACTRESS, n. A female detractor; a censorious woman.

15681

detrect
DETRECT, v.t. [L.] To refuse. [Not in use.]

15682

detriment
DETRIMENT, n. [L., worn off.] Loss; damage; injury; mischief; harm; diminution. We speak of ...

15683

detrimental
DETRIMENTAL, a. Injurious; hurtful; causing loss or damage.A spirit of speculation may be ...

15684

detrition
DETRITION, n. [L.] A wearing off.

15685

detritus
DETRITUS, n. [L., worn; to wear.] In geology, a mass of substances worn off or detached from solid ...

15686

detrude
DETRUDE, v.t. [L., to thrust.] To thrust down; to push down with force.

15687

detruded
DETRUDED, pp. Thrust or forced down.

15688

detruding
DETRUDING, ppr. Thrusting or forcing down.

15689

detruncate
DETRUNCATE, v.t. [L., to cut shorter; cut short. See Trench.] To cut off; to lop; to shorten by ...

15690

detruncation
DETRUNCATION, n. The act of cutting off.

15691

detrusion
DETRUSION, n. s as z. [See Detrude.] The act of thrusting or driving down.

15692

deturpate
DETURPATE, v.t. [L.] To defile. [Little used.]

15693

deuce
DEUCE, n. Two; a card with two spots; a die with two spots; a term used in gaming.DEUCE, n. A ...

15694

deuterogamist
DEUTEROGAMIST, n. [infra.] One who marries the second time.

15695

deuterogamy
DEUTEROGAMY, n. [Gr., second; marriage.] A second marriage after the death of the first husband or ...

15696

deuteronomy
DEUTERONOMY, n. [Gr., second; law.] The second law, or second giving of the law by Moses; the name ...

15697

deutoxyd
DEUTOXYD, n. [Gr., second; strictly.] In chemistry, a substance oxydized in the second degree.

15698

devaporation
DEVAPORATION, n. [L.] The change of vapor into water, as in the generation of rain.

15699

devast
DEVAST, v.t. [L.] To lay waste; to plunder. [Not in use.]

15700

devastate
DEVASTATE, v.t. [L., to waste. See Waste.] To lay waste; to waste; to ravage; to desolate; to ...

15701

devastated
DEVASTATED, pp. Laid waste; ravaged.

15702

devastating
DEVASTATING, ppr. Laying waste; desolating.

15703

devastation
DEVASTATION, n. [L.] 1. Waste; ravage; desolation; destruction of works of art and natural ...

15704

develop
DEVELOP, v.t. 1. To uncover; to unfold; to lay open; to disclose or make known something concealed ...

15705

developed
DEVELOPED, pp. Unfolded; laid open; unraveled.

15706

development
DEVELOPMENT, n. 1. An unfolding; the discovering of something secret or withheld from the knowledge ...

15707

devest
DEVEST, v.t. [L., a vest, a garment. Generally written divest.]1. To strip; to deprive of clothing ...

15708

devested
DEVESTED, pp. Stripped of clothes; deprived; freed from; alienated or lost, as title.

15709

devesting
DEVESTING, ppr. Stripping of clothes; depriving; freeing from ; alienating.

15710

devex
DEVEX, a. [L.] Bending down. [Not in use.]

15711

devexity
DEVEXITY, n. [L., to carry.] A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward.

15712

deviate
DEVIATE, v.i. [L., way.]1. To turn aside or wander from the common or right way, course or line, ...

15713

deviation
DEVIATION, n. 1. A wandering or turning aside from the right way, course or line.2. Variation from ...

15714

device
DEVICE, n. [L.]1. That which is formed by design, or invented; scheme; artificial contrivance; ...

15715

deviceful
DEVICEFUL, a. Full of devices; inventive.

15716

devicefully
DEVICEFULLY, adv. In a manner curiously contrived.

15717

devil
DEVIL, n. Devl. [L., to calumniate.]1. In the Christian theology, an evil spirit or being; a fallen ...

15718

deviling
DEVILING, n. A young devil. [Not in use.]

15719

devilish
DEVILISH, a. 1. Partaking of the qualities of the devil; diabolical; very evil and mischievous; ...

15720

devilishly
DEVILISHLY, adv. 1. In a manner suiting the devil; diabolically; wickedly.2. Greatly; excessively; ...

15721

devilishness
DEVILISHNESS, n. The qualities of the devil.

15722

devilism
DEVILISM, n. The state of devils. [Not used.]

15723

devilize
DEVILIZE, v.t. To place among devils. [Not used.]

15724

devilkin
DEVILKIN, n. A little devil.

15725

devilship
DEVILSHIP, n. The character of a devil.

15726

devious
DEVIOUS, a. [L., way.]1. Out of the common way or track; as a devious course.2. Wandering; roving; ...

15727

devirginate
DEVIRGINATE, v.t. [Low L.] To deflour.

15728

devisable
DEVISABLE, a. s as z. [See the Verb.]1. That may be bequeathed or given by will.2. That can be ...

15729

devise
DEVISE, v.t. s as z. [L.] 1. To invent; to contrive; to form in the mind by new combinations of ...

15730

devised
DEVISED, pp. Given by will; bequeathed; contrived.

15731

devisee
DEVISEE, n. The person to whom a devise is made; one to whom real estate is bequeathed.

15732

deviser
DEVISER, n. One who contrives or invents; a contriver; an inventor.

15733

devising
DEVISING, ppr. 1. Contriving; inventing; forming a scheme or plan.2. Giving by will; bequeathing.

15734

devisor
DEVISOR, n. One who gives by will; one who bequeaths lands or tenements.

15735

devitable
DEVITABLE, a. Avoidable. [Not in use.]

15736

devitation
DEVITATION, n. An escaping. [Not in use.]

15737

devocation
DEVOCATION, n. [L.] A calling away; seduction. [Not in use.]

15738

devoid
DEVOID, a. [See Void.]1. Void; empty; vacant; applied to place.2. Destitute; not possessing; as ...

15739

devoir
DEVOIR, n. [L., to owe.] Primarily, service or duty. Hence, an act of civility or respect; ...

15740

devolution
DEVOLUTION, n. [L.]1. The act of rolling down; as the devolution of earth into a valley.2. Removal ...

15741

devolve
DEVOLVE, v.t. devolv. [L., to roll.]1. To roll down; to pour or flow with windings.Through splendid ...

15742

devolved
DEVOLVED, pp. Rolled down; passed over to another.

15743

devolving
DEVOLVING, ppr. Rolling down; falling to a successor.

15744

devotary
DEVOTARY, n. A votary. [Not in use.]

15745

devote
DEVOTE, v.t. [L., to vow.]1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart ro dedicate by a solemn act; to ...

15746

devoted
DEVOTED, pp. Appropriated by vow; solemnly set apart or dedicated; consecrated; addicted; given up; ...

15747

devotedness
DEVOTEDNESS, n. The state of being devoted or given; addictedness; as devotedness to religion.

15748

devotee
DEVOTEE, n. One who is wholly devoted; particularly, one given wholly to religion; one who is ...

15749

devotement
DEVOTEMENT, n. 1. Devotedness; devotion.2. Vowed dedication.

15750

devoter
DEVOTER, n. One that devotes; also, a worshiper.

15751

devoting
DEVOTING, ppr. Giving or appropriating by vow; solemnly setting apart or dedicating; consecrating; ...

15752

devotion
DEVOTION, n. 1. The state of being dedicated, consecrated, or solemnly set apart for a particular ...

15753

devotional
DEVOTIONAL, a. 1. Pertaining to devotion; used in devotion; as a devotional posture; devotional ...

15754

devotionalist
DEVOTIONALIST, DEVOTIONIST, n. A person given to devotion; or one superstitiously or formally ...

15755

devotionist
DEVOTIONALIST, DEVOTIONIST, n. A person given to devotion; or one superstitiously or formally ...

15756

devoto
DEVOTO, n. A devotee. [Not in use.]

15757

devotor
DEVOTOR, n. One who reverences or worships.

15758

devour
DEVOUR, v.t. [L., to eat.] 1. To eat up; to eat with greediness; to eat ravenously, as a beast of ...

15759

devoured
DEVOURED, pp. Eaten; swallowed with greediness; consumed; destroyed; wasted; slain.

15760

devourer
DEVOURER, n. One who devours; he or that which eats, consumes or destroys; he that preys on.

15761

devouring
DEVOURING, ppr. Eating greedily; consuming; wasting; destroying; annihilating.

15762

devouringly
DEVOURINGLY, adv. In a devouring manner.

15763

devout
DEVOUT, a. [L. See Devote.]1. Yielding a solemn and reverential attention to God in religious ...

15764

devoutless
DEVOUTLESS, a. Destitute of devotion.

15765

devoutlessness
DEVOUTLESSNESS, n. Want of devotion.

15766

devoutly
DEVOUTLY, adv. 1. With solemn attention and reverence to God; with ardent devotion.He was devoutly ...

15767

devoutness
DEVOUTNESS, n. The quality or state of being devout.

15768

devow
DEVOW, v.t. To give up. [Not in use.]

15769

dew
DEW, n. [G. To thaw.] The water or moisture collected or deposited on or near the surface of the ...

15770

dew-berry
DEW-BERRY, n. The fruit of a species of brier or bramble, that creeps along the ground, of the ...

15771

dew-bespangled
DEW-BESPANGLED, a. Spangled with dew-drops.

15772

dew-besprent
DEW-BESPRENT, a. Sprinkled with dew.

15773

dew-besprinkled
DEW-BESPRINKLED, a. Sprinkled with dew.

15774

dew-drop
DEW-DROP, n. A drop of dew, which sparkles at sunrise; a spangle of dew.

15775

dew-dropping
DEW-DROPPING, a. Wetting as with dew.

15776

dew-impearled
DEW-IMPEARLED, a. [See Pearl.] Covered with dew-drops, like pearls.

15777

dew-lap
DEW-LAP, n. [dew and lap, to lick.]1. The flesh that hangs from the throat of oxen, which laps or ...

15778

dew-lapt
DEW-LAPT, a. Furnished with a dew-lap.

15779

dew-worm
DEW-WORM, n. A worm, called otherwise earth-worm, a species of Lumbricus, which lives just under ...

15780

dewbent
DEWBENT, a. Bent by the dew.

15781

dewed
DEWED, pp. Moistened with dew.

15782

dewing
DEWING, ppr. Wetting or moistening the dew.

15783

dewy
DEWY, a. 1. Partaking of dew; like dew; as dewy mist.2. Moist with dew; as dewy fields.His dewy ...

15784

dexter
DEXTER, a. [L., Gr.] Right, as opposed to left; a term used in heraldry, to denote the right side ...

15785

dexterity
DEXTERITY, n. [L., right, fit, prompt.]1. Readiness of limbs; adroitness; activity; expertness; ...

15786

dextral
DEXTRAL, a. Right, as opposed to left.

15787

dextrality
DEXTRALITY, n. The state of being on the right side.

15788

dextrorsal
DEXTRORSAL, a. Rising from right to left, as a spiral line or helix.

15789

dextrous
DEXTROUS, a. 1. Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active in manual ...

15790

dextrously
DEXTROUSLY, adv. With dexterity; expertly; skillfully; artfully; adroitly; promptly.

15791

dextrousness
DEXTROUSNESS, n. Dexterity; adroitness.

15792

dey
DEY, n. The title of the governor or sovereign of Algiers, under the protection of the Grand ...

15793

di
DI, a prefix, a contraction of dis, denotes from, separation or negation, or two.

15794

dia
DIA, Greek, a prefix, denotes through.

15795

diabase
DIABASE, n. Another name of greenstone.

15796

diabaterial
DIABATERIAL, a. [Gr.] Border-passing.

15797

diabetes
DIABETES, n. [Gr., to pass through; to go or pass.] A long continued increased quantity of urine; ...

15798

diabetic
DIABETIC, a. Pertaining to diabetes.

15799

diabolic
DIABOLIC, DIABOLICAL, a. [L., the devil.] Devilish; pertaining to the devil; hence, extremely ...

15800

diabolical
DIABOLIC, DIABOLICAL, a. [L., the devil.] Devilish; pertaining to the devil; hence, extremely ...

15801

diabolically
DIABOLICALLY, adv. In a diabolical manner; very wickedly; nefariously.

15802

diabolicalness
DIABOLICALNESS, n. The qualities of the devil.

15803

diabolism
DIABOLISM, n. 1. The actions of the devil.2. Possession by the devil.

15804

diacaustic
DIACAUSTIC, a. [G., to burn or inflame.] Belonging to curves formed by refraction.

15805

diachylon
DIACHYLON, n. [Gr.] An emollient plaster.

15806

diaconal
DIACONAL, a. [L.] Pertaining to a deacon.

15807

diacoustic
DIACOUSTIC, a. [Gr., to hear.] Pertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds.

15808

diacoustics
DIACOUSTICS, n. The science or doctrine of refracted sounds; the consideration of the properties of ...

15809

diacritical
DIACRITICAL, a. [Gr., to separate.] That separates or distinguishes; distinctive; as a diacritical ...

15810

diadelph
DIADELPH, n. [Gr., twice; a brother.] In botany, a plant whose stamens are united into two bodies ...

15811

diadelphian
DIADELPHIAN, a. Having its stamens united into two bodies by their filaments.

15812

diadem
DIADEM, n. [Gr., to gird; to bind. L.]1. Anciently, a head-band or fillet worn by kings as a badge ...

15813

diademed
DIADEMED, a. Adorned with a diadem; crowned; ornamented.

15814

diadrom
DIADROM, n. [Gr., a running about; to run.] A course or passing; a vibration; the time in which the ...

15815

diagnostic
DIAGNOSTIC, a. [Gr., to know.] Distinguishing; characteristic; indicating the nature of a ...

15816

diagonal
DIAGONAL, a. [Gr. A corner.] 1. In geometry, extending from one angle to another of a quadrilateral ...

15817

diagonally
DIAGONALLY, adv. In a diagonal direction.

15818

diagram
DIAGRAM, n. [Gr., to write.] In geometry, a figure, draught or scheme delineated for the purpose of ...

15819

diagraphic
DIAGRAPHIC, DIAGRAPHICAL, a. [Gr., to describe.] Descriptive.

15820

diagraphical
DIAGRAPHIC, DIAGRAPHICAL, a. [Gr., to describe.] Descriptive.

15821

dial
DIAL, n. An instrument for measuring time, by the aid of the sun; being a plate or plain surface, ...

15822

dial-plate
DIAL-PLATE, n. The plate of a dial on which the lines are drawn, to show the hour or time of the ...

15823

dialect
DIALECT, n. [Gr.]1. The form or idiom of a language, peculiar to a province, or to a kingdom or ...

15824

dialectical
DIALECTICAL, a. 1. Pertaining to a dialect, or dialects; not radical.2. Logical; argumental.

15825

dialectically
DIALECTICALLY, adv. In the manner of dialect.

15826

dialectician
DIALECTICIAN, n. A logician; a reasoner.

15827

dialectics
DIALECTICS, n. That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning.

15828

dialing
DIALING, n. The art of constructing dials, or of drawing dials on a plane. The sciateric science, ...

15829

dialist
DIALIST, n. A constructor of dials; one skilled in dialing.

15830

diallage
DIALLAGE, n. [Gr., difference, alluding to the difference of luster between its natural joints.] A ...

15831

dialogism
DIALOGISM, n. A feigned speech between two or more.

15832

dialogist
DIALOGIST, n. [See Dialogue.] A speaker in a dialogue; also, a writer of dialogues.

15833

dialogistic
DIALOGISTIC, a. Having the form of a dialogue.

15834

dialogistically
DIALOGISTICALLY, adv. In the manner of dialogue.

15835

dialogize
DIALOGIZE, v.i. [See Dialogue.] To discourse in dialogue.

15836

dialogue
DIALOGUE, n. Dialog. [Gr., to dispute; to speak.]1. A conversation or conference between two or ...

15837

dialogue-writer
DIALOGUE-WRITER, n. A writer of dialogues or feigned conversations.

15838

dialysis
DIALYSIS, n. [Gr., to dissolve.] 1. A mark in writing or printing, consisting of two points placed ...

15839

diamantine
DIAMANTINE, for adamantine. [Not in use.]

15840

diameter
DIAMETER, n. [Gr., measure through.]1. A right line passing through the center of a circle or other ...

15841

diametral
DIAMETRAL, a. Diametrical, which see.

15842

diametrally
DIAMETRALLY, adv. Diametrically.

15843

diametrical
DIAMETRICAL, a. 1. Describing a diameter.2. Observing the direction of a diameter; direct; as ...

15844

diametrically
DIAMETRICALLY, adv. In a diametrical direction; directly; as diametrically opposite.

15845

diamond
DIAMOND, n. Dimond. [L., Gr. See Adamant.]1. A mineral, gem or precious stone, of the most valuable ...

15846

diamond-mine
DIAMOND-MINE, n. A mine in which diamonds are found.

15847

diamonded
DIAMONDED, a. Having the figure of an oblique angled parallelogram, or rhombus.

15848

diander
DIANDER, n. [Gr., twice; a male.] In botany, a plant having two stamens.

15849

diandrian
DIANDRIAN, a. Having two stamens.

15850

diapase
DIAPASON, DIAPASE, n. [Gr., through all.] 1. In music, the octave or interval which includes all ...

15851

diapasm
DIAPASM, n. [Gr., to sprinkle.] A perfume.

15852

diapason
DIAPASON, DIAPASE, n. [Gr., through all.] 1. In music, the octave or interval which includes all ...

15853

diapente
DIAPENTE, n. [Gr., five.]1. A fifth; an interval making the second of the concords, and with the ...

15854

diaper
DIAPER, n. Figured linen cloth; a cloth wove in flowers or figures; much used for towels or ...

15855

diaphaned
DIAPHANED, a. Transparent. [Little used.]

15856

diaphaneity
DIAPHANEITY, n. [Gr., to shine through; to shine.] The power of transmitting light; transparency; ...

15857

diaphanic
DIAPHANIC, a. [Gr. See supra.] Having power to transmit light; transparent.

15858

diaphanous
DIAPHANOUS, a. [See supra.] Having power to transmit rays of light, as glass; pellucid; ...

15859

diaphoresis
DIAPHORESIS, n. [Gr., to carry through; to carry.] Augmented perspiration; or an elimination of the ...

15860

diaphoretic
DIAPHORETIC, a. [supra.] Having the power to increase perspiration; sudorific; ...

15861

diaphragm
DIAPHRAGM, n. Diafram. [Gr., to break off, to defend.]1. In anatomy, the midriff, a muscle ...

15862

diaporesis
DIAPORESIS, n. [Gr., to doubt.] In rhetoric, doubt; hesitation.

15863

diaresis
DIARESIS, DIARESY, n. [Gr., a division; to take away.] The dissolution of a diphthong; the mark ...

15864

diaresy
DIARESIS, DIARESY, n. [Gr., a division; to take away.] The dissolution of a diphthong; the mark ...

15865

diarian
DIARIAN, a. [See Diary.] Pertaining to a diary; daily.

15866

diarist
DIARIST, n. One who keeps a diary.

15867

diarrhea
DIARRHEA, n. [Gr., to flow through; to flow.] Purging or flux; a frequent and copious evacuation of ...

15868

diarrhetic
DIARRHETIC, a. Promoting evacuation by stool; purgative.

15869

diary
DIARY, n. [L., a day.] An account of daily events or transactions; a journal; a register of daily ...

15870

diaschism
DIASCHISM, n. [Gr., a piece cut off; to cut off.] In music, the difference between the comma and ...

15871

diaspore
DIASPORE, n. [Gr., to disperse.] A mineral occurring in lamellar concretions, of a pearly gray ...

15872

diastaltic
DIASTALTIC, a. [Gr., dilating.] Dilated; noble; bold; an epithet given by the Greeks to certain ...

15873

diastem
DIASTEM, n. [Gr.] In music, a simple interval.

15874

diastole
DIASTOLE, DIASTOLY, n. [Gr., to set or send from.]1. Among physicians, a dilation of the heart, ...

15875

diastoly
DIASTOLE, DIASTOLY, n. [Gr., to set or send from.]1. Among physicians, a dilation of the heart, ...

15876

diastyle
DIASTYLE, n. [Gr.] An edifice in which three diameters of the columns are allowed for ...

15877

diatessaron
DIATESSARON, n. [Gr., four.] Among musicians, a concord or harmonic interval, composed of a greater ...

15878

diatonic
DIATONIC, a. [Gr., by or through, sound.] Ascending or descending, as in sound, or from sound to ...

15879

diatribe
DIATRIBE, n. [Gr.] A continued discourse or disputation.

15880

diazeutic
DIAZEUTIC, a. [Gr., to disjoin.] A diazeutic tone, in ancient Greek music, disjoined two fourths, ...

15881

dibble
DIBBLE, n. [probably from the root of top, tip, a point, and denoting a little sharp point; or ...

15882

dibstone
DIBSTONE, n. A little stone which children throw at another stone.

15883

dicacity
DICACITY, n. [L.] Pertness. [Little used.]

15884

dicast
DICAST, n. [Gr., to judge; justice.] In ancient Greece, an officer answering nearly to our juryman.

15885

dice
DICE, n. plu. of die; also, a game with dice.DICE, v.i. To play with dice.

15886

dice-box
DICE-BOX, n. A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.

15887

dice-maker
DICE-MAKER, n. A maker of dice.

15888

dicer
DICER, n. A player at dice.

15889

dichotomize
DICHOTOMIZE, v.t. [See the next word.] To cut into two parts; to divide into pairs.

15890

dichotomous
DICHOTOMOUS, a. [Gr., doubly, by pairs; to cut.] In botany, regularly dividing by pairs from top to ...

15891

dichotomous-corymb
DICHOTOMOUS-CORYMBED, a. Composed of corymbs, in which the pedicles divide and subdivide by pairs.

15892

dichotomy
DICHOTOMY, n. [Gr., a division into two parts; to cut.]1. Division or distribution of ideas by ...

15893

dichroit
DICHROIT, n. [See Iolite.]

15894

dicing-house
DICING-HOUSE, n. A house where dice is played; a gaming house. [Little used.]

15895

dicker
DICKER, n. [Gr., ten. L.] In old authors, the number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or ...

15896

dicoccous
DICOCCOUS, a. [Gr., L., a grain.] Two-grained; consisting of two cohering grains or cells, with one ...

15897

dicotyledon
DICOTYLEDON, n. [Gr., two; a cavity.] A plant whose seeds divide into two lobes in germinating.

15898

dicotyledonous
DICOTYLEDONOUS, a. Having two lobes. A dicotyledonous plant is one whose seeds have two lobes, and ...

15899

dictate
DICTATE, v.t. [L., to speak.]1. To tell with authority; to deliver, as an order, command, or ...

15900

dictated
DICTATED, pp. Delivered with authority; ordered; directed; suggested.

15901

dictating
DICTATING, ppr. Uttering or delivering with authority; instructing what to say or write; ordering; ...

15902

dictation
DICTATION, n. The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing.It affords security against ...

15903

dictator
DICTATOR, n. [L.]1. One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims for the direction of ...

15904

dictatorial
DICTATORIAL, a. 1. Pertaining to a dictator; absolute; unlimited; uncontrollable.2. Imperious; ...

15905

dictatorship
DICTATORSHIP, n. 1. The office of a dictator; the term of a dictators office.2. Authority; ...

15906

dictatory
DICTATORY, a. Overbearing; dogmatical.

15907

dictature
DICTATURE, n. 1. The office of a dictator; dictatorship.2. Absolute authority; the power that ...

15908

diction
DICTION, n. [L., to speak.] Expression of ideas by words; style; manner of expression.

15909

dictionary
dictionary, n. [L., a word, or a speaking.] A book containing the words of a language arranged in ...

15910

did
DID, pret of do, contracted from doed. I did, thou didst, he did; we did, you or ye did, they ...

15911

didactic
DIDACTIC, DIDACTICAL, a. [Gr., to teach.] Adapted to teach; preceptive; containing doctrines, ...

15912

didactical
DIDACTIC, DIDACTICAL, a. [Gr., to teach.] Adapted to teach; preceptive; containing doctrines, ...

15913

didactically
DIDACTICALLY, adv. In a didactic manner; in a form to teach.

15914

didapper
DIDAPPER, n. [from dip.] A bird that dives into the water, a species of Colymbus.

15915

didascalic
DIDASCALIC, a. [Gr., to teach.] Didactic; preceptive; giving precepts. [Little used.]

15916

didder
DIDDER, v.i. To totter, as a child in walking.

15917

diddle
DIDDLE, v.i. To totter, as a child in walking.

15918

didecahedral
DIDECAHEDRAL, a. [di and decahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of a dodecahedral prism ...

15919

didodecahedral
DIDODECAHEDRAL, a. [di and dodecahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of a dodecahedral ...

15920

didrachma
DIDRACHMA, n. [Gr.] A piece of money, the fourth of an ounce of silver.

15921

diduction
DIDUCTION, n. [L., to draw.] Separation by withdrawing one part from the other.

15922

didynam
DIDYNAM, n. [Gr., power.] In botany, a plant of four stamens, disposed in two pairs, one being ...

15923

didynamian
DIDYNAMIAN, a. Containing four stamens, disposed in pairs, one shorter than the other.

15924

die
DIE, v.i. [See Day.]1. To be deprived of respiration, of the circulation of blood, and other bodily ...

15925

diecian
DIECIAN, n. [Gr., two; house.] In botany, one of a class of plants, whose male and female flowers ...

15926

dier
DIER. [See Dyer.]

15927

diesis
DIESIS, n. [Gr., a division.] In music, the division of a tone, less than a semitone; or an ...

15928

diet
DIET, n. [L., Gr., manner of living, mode of life prescribe by a physician, food, a room, parlor or ...

15929

diet-drink
DIET-DRINK, n. Medicated liquors; drink prepared with medicinal ingredients.

15930

dietary
DIETARY, a. Pertaining to diet or the rules of diet.

15931

dieted
DIETED, pp. Fed; boarded; fed by prescribed rules.

15932

dieter
DIETER, n. One who diets; one who prescribes rules for eating; one who prepares food by rules.

15933

dietetic
DIETETIC, DIETETICAL, a. [Gr.] Pertaining to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and ...

15934

dietetical
DIETETIC, DIETETICAL, a. [Gr.] Pertaining to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and ...

15935

dietine
DIETINE, n. A subordinate or local diet; a cantonal convention.

15936

dieting
DIETING, n. A subordinate or local diet; a cantonal convention.DIETING, ppr. Taking food; ...

15937

diffarreation
DIFFARREATION, n. [L.] The parting of a cake; a ceremony among the Romans, at the divorce of man ...

15938

differ
DIFFER, v.i. [L., to bear or move apart. See Bear.]1. Literally, to be separate. Hence, to be ...

15939

difference
DIFFERENCE, n. 1. The state of being unlike or distinct; distinction; disagreement; want of ...

15940

different
DIFFERENT, a. 1. Distinct; separate; not the same; as, we belong to different churches or ...

15941

differential
DIFFERENTIAL, a. An epithet applied to an infinitely small quantity, so small as to be less than ...

15942

differently
DIFFERENTLY, adv. In a different manner; variously. Men are differently affected with the same ...

15943

differing
DIFFERING, ppr. Being unlike or distinct; disagreeing; contending.

15944

difficile
DIFFICILE, a. [L.] Difficult; hard; scrupulous. [Not used.]

15945

difficileness
DIFFICILENESS, n. Difficulty to be persuaded. [Not used.]

15946

difficult
DIFFICULT, a. [L., easy to be made or done; to make or do.]1. Hard to be made, done or performed; ...

15947

difficulty
DIFFICULTY, n. [L.]1. Hardness to be done or accomplished; the state of any thing which renders its ...

15948

diffide
DIFFIDE, v.i. [L., to trust.] To distrust; to have no confidence in. [Little used.]

15949

diffidence
DIFFIDENCE, n. [L., to trust. See Faith.]1. Distrust; want of confidence; any doubt of the power, ...

15950

diffident
DIFFIDENT, a. 1. Distrustful; wanting confidence; doubting of anothers power, disposition, ...

15951

diffidently
DIFFIDENTLY, adv. With distrust; in a distrusting manner; modestly.

15952

diffluence
DIFFLUENCE, DIFFLUENCY, n. [L.] A flowing or falling away on all sides.

15953

diffluency
DIFFLUENCE, DIFFLUENCY, n. [L.] A flowing or falling away on all sides.

15954

diffluent
DIFFLUENT, a. Flowing away on all sides; not fixed.

15955

difform
DIFFORM, a. [L.]1. Irregular in form; not uniform; anomalous; as a difform flower or corol, the ...

15956

difformity
DIFFORMITY, n. Irregularity of form; want of uniformity.

15957

diffranchise
DIFFRANCHISE, DIFFRANCHISEMENT, [See Disfranchise, which is the word in use.]

15958

diffuse
DIFFUSE, v.t. diffuze. [L., to pour, to spread.]1. To pour out and spread, as a fluid; to cause to ...

15959

diffused
DIFFUSED, pp. Diffuzed. 1. Spread; dispersed.2. Loose; flowing; wild.

15960

diffusedly
DIFFUSEDLY, adv. Diffuzedly. In a diffused manner; with wide dispersion.

15961

diffusedness
DIFFUSEDNESS, n. Diffuzedness. The state of being widely spread.

15962

diffusely
DIFFUSELY, adv. 1. Widely; extensively.2. Copiously; with many words; fully.

15963

diffusibility
DIFFUSIBILITY, n. Diffuzibility. The quality of being diffusible, or capable of being spread; as ...

15964

diffusible
DIFFUSIBLE, a. Diffuzible. That may flow or be spread in all directions; that may be dispersed; as ...

15965

diffusibleness
DIFFUSIBLENESS, n. S as z. Diffusibility.

15966

diffusion
DIFFUSION, n. S as z. 1. A spreading or flowing of a liquid substance or fluid, in a lateral as ...

15967

diffusive
DIFFUSIVE, a. Having the quality of diffusing, or spreading by flowing, as liquid substances or ...

15968

diffusively
DIFFUSIVELY, adv. Widely; extensively; every way.

15969

diffusiveness
DIFFUSIVENESS, n. 1. The power of diffusing, or state of being diffused; dispersion.2. Extension, ...

15970

dig
DIG, v.t. pret. Digger or dug; pp. Digged or dug. [G.]1. To open and break or turn up the earth ...

15971

digamma
DIGAMMA, n. [Gr., double gamma.] The name of F, most absurdly given to that letter, when first ...

15972

digamy
DIGAMY, n. Second marriage. [Not in use.]

15973

digastric
DIGASTRIC, a. [Gr., belly.] Having a double belly; an epithet given to a muscle of the lower jaw.

15974

digerent
DIGERENT, a. [L.] Digesting. [Not in use.]

15975

digest
DIGEST, n. [L., put in order.] 1. A collection or body of Roman laws, digested or arranged under ...

15976

digested
DIGESTED, pp. Reduced to method; arranged in due order; concocted or prepared in the stomach or by ...

15977

digester
DIGESTER, n. 1. He that digests or disposes in order.2. One who digests his food.3. A medicine or ...

15978

digestibility
DIGESTIBILITY, n. The quality of being digestible.

15979

digestible
DIGESTIBLE, a. Capable of being digested.

15980

digesting
DIGESTING, ppr. Arranging in due order, or under proper heads; dissolving and preparing for ...

15981

digestion
DIGESTION, n. [L.] 1. The conversion of food into chyme, or the process of dissolving aliment in ...

15982

digestive
DIGESTIVE, a. 1. Having the power to cause digestion in the stomach; as a digestive preparation or ...

15983

digesture
DIGESTURE, n. Concoction; digestion. [Little used.]

15984

digged
DIGGED, pret. and pp. of dig.

15985

digger
DIGGER, n. One who digs; one who opens, throws up and breaks the earth; one who opens a well, pit, ...

15986

dight
DIGHT, v.t. dite. [L.] To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn. ...

15987

digit
DIGIT, n. [L., a finger, that is, a shoot; Gr.]1. The measure of a fingers breadth, or three ...

15988

digital
DIGITAL, a. [L.] Pertaining to the fingers, or to digits.

15989

digitate
DIGITATE, DIGITATED, a. In botany, a digitate leaf is one which branches into several distinct ...

15990

digladiate
DIGLADIATE, v.t. [L.] To fence; to quarrel. [Little used.]

15991

digladiation
DIGLADIATION, n. A combat with swords; a quarrel.

15992

dignification
DIGNIFICATION, n. [See Dignify.] The act of dignifying; exaltation; promotion.

15993

dignified
DIGNIFIED, pp. [See Dignify.]1. Exalted; honored; invested with dignity; as the dignified clergy.2. ...

15994

dignify
DIGNIFY, v.t. [L., worthy; to make.]1. To invest with honor or dignity; to exalt in rank; to ...

15995

dignitary
DIGNITARY, n. An ecclesiastic who holds a dignity, or a benefice which gives him some pre-eminence ...

15996

dignity
DIGNITY, n. [L., worthy.]1. True honor; nobleness or elevation of mind, consisting in a high sense ...

15997

dignotion
DIGNOTION, n. [L.] Distinguishing mark; distinction. [Not in use.]

15998

digonous
DIGONOUS, a. [Gr., an angle.] In botany, having two angles, as a stem.

15999

digraph
DIGRAPH, n. [Gr., to write.] A union of two vowels, of which one only is pronounced, as in head, ...

16000

digress
DIGRESS, v.i. [L., to step. See Grade.]1. Literally, to step or go from the way or road; hence, to ...

16001

digressing
DIGRESSING, ppr. Departing from the main subject.

16002

digression
DIGRESSION, n. [L.]1. The act of digressing; a departure from the main subject under consideration; ...

16003

digressional
DIGRESSIONAL, a. Pertaining to or consisting in digression; departing from the main purpose or ...

16004

digressive
DIGRESSIVE, a. Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression.

16005

digressively
DIGRESSIVELY, adv. By way of digression.

16006

digyn
DIGYN, n. [Gr., two; a female.] In botany, a plant having two pistils.

16007

digynian
DIGYNIAN, a. Having two pistils.

16008

dihedral
DIHEDRAL, a. [Gr., supra; a seat or face.] Having two sides, as a figure.

16009

dihedron
DIHEDRON, n. [Supra.] A figure with two sides or surfaces.

16010

dihexahedral
DIHEXAHEDRAL, a. [di and hexahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of a hexahedral prism with ...

16011

dijudicate
DIJUDICATE, v.t. [L.] To judge or determine by censure.

16012

dijudication
DIJUDICATION, n. Judicial distinction.

16013

dike
DIKE, n. [G. See Dig. It is radically the same word as ditch, and this is its primary sense; but by ...

16014

dilacerate
DILACERATE, v.t. [L., to tear.] To tear; to rend asunder; to separate by force.

16015

dilacerated
DILACERATED, pp. Torn; rent asunder.

16016

dilacerating
DILACERATING, ppr. Tearing; rending in two.

16017

dilaceration
DILACERATION, n. The act of rending asunder; a tearing, or rending. [In lieu of these words, ...

16018

dilaniate
DILANIATE, v.t. [L., to rend in pieces.] To tear; to rend in pieces; to mangle. [Little used.]

16019

dilaniation
DILANIATION, n. A tearing in pieces.

16020

dilapidate
DILAPIDATE, v.i. [L., to stone; a stone. It seems originally to have signified to pull down ...

16021

dilapidated
DILAPIDATED, pp. Wasted; ruined; pulled down; suffered to go to ruin.

16022

dilapidating
DILAPIDATING, ppr. Wasting; pulling down; suffering to go to ruin.

16023

dilapidation
DILAPIDATION, n. 1. Ecclesiastical waste; a voluntary wasting or suffering to go to decay any ...

16024

dilapidator
DILAPIDATOR, n. One who causes dilapidation.

16025

dilatability
DILATABILITY, n. [See Dilate.] The quality of admitting expansion by the elastic force of the body ...

16026

dilatable
DILATABLE, a. Capable of expansion; possessing elasticity; elastic. A bladder is dilatable by the ...

16027

dilatation
DILATATION, n. The act of expanding; expansion; a spreading or extending in all directions; the ...

16028

dilate
DILATE, v.t. [L. See Delay.]1. To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; ...

16029

dilated
DILATED, pp. Expanded; distended; enlarge so as to occupy a greater space.

16030

dilater
DILATER, n. One who enlarges; that which expands.

16031

dilating
DILATING, ppr. Expanding; enlarging; speaking largely.

16032

dilator
DILATOR, n. That which widens or expands; a muscle that dilates.

16033

dilatorily
DILATORILY, adv. With delay; tardily.

16034

dilatoriness
DILATORINESS, n. [from dilatory.] The quality of being dilatory or late; lateness; slowness in ...

16035

dilatory
DILATORY, a. [L. See Delay and Dilate.]1. Literally, drawing out or extending in time; hence, slow; ...

16036

dilection
DILECTION, n. [L.] A loving.

16037

dilemma
DILEMMA, n. [Gr., a syllogism which strikes on each side; an assumption; to take.]1. In logic, an ...

16038

dilettante
DILETTANTE, n. One who delights in promoting science or the fine arts.

16039

diligence
DILIGENCE, n. [L., to love earnestly; to choose.]1. Steady application in business of any kind; ...

16040

diligent
DILIGENT, a. [L.] 1. Steady in application to business; constant in effort or exertion to ...

16041

diligently
DILIGENTLY, adv. With steady application and care; with industry or assiduity; not carelessly; not ...

16042

dill
DILL, n. [G.] An annual plant of the genus Anethum, the seeds of which are moderately warming, ...

16043

dilucid
DILUCID, a. [L.] Clear. [Not in use.]

16044

dilucidate
DILUCIDATE, v.t. To make clear. [Not in use. See Elucidate.]

16045

diluent
DILUENT, a. [L. See Dilute.]1. Making liquid or more fluid; making thin; attenuating.2. Weakening ...

16046

dilute
DILUTE, v.t. [L., to wash. See Deluge.]1. Literally, to wash; but appropriately, to render liquid, ...

16047

diluted
DILUTED, pp. Made liquid; rendered more fluid; weakened, made thin, as liquids.

16048

diluter
DILUTER, n. That which makes thin, or more liquid.

16049

diluting
DILUTING, ppr. Making thin or more liquid; weakening.

16050

dilution
DILUTION, n. The act of making thin, weak, or more liquid. Opposite to dilution is coagulation or ...

16051

diluvial
DILUVIAL, DILUVIAN, a. [L., a deluge. See Dilute.]1. Pertaining to a flood or deluge, more ...

16052

diluvian
DILUVIAL, DILUVIAN, a. [L., a deluge. See Dilute.]1. Pertaining to a flood or deluge, more ...

16053

diluviate
DILUVIATE, v.i. To run as a flood. [Not much used.]

16054

diluvium
DILUVIUM, n. [L.] In geology, a deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, &c., caused by the ...

16055

dim
DIM, a. [See Damp.]1. Not seeing clearly; having the vision obscured and indistinct.When Isaac was ...

16056

dim-sighted
DIM-SIGHTED, a. Having dim or obscure vision.

16057

dimble
DIMBLE, n. A bower; a cell or retreat. [Not in use.]

16058

dime
DIME, n. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.

16059

dimension
DIMENSION, n. [L., to measure; Gr. See Mete and Measure.] In geometry, the extent of a body, or ...

16060

dimensionless
DIMENSIONLESS, a. Without any definite measure or extent; boundless.

16061

dimensity
DIMENSITY, n. Extent; capacity.

16062

dimensive
DIMENSIVE, a. That marks the boundaries or outlines.Who can draw the souls dimensive lines?

16063

dimeter
DIMETER, a. [L.] Having two poetical measures.DIMETER, n. A verse of two measures.

16064

dimiciliary
DIMICILIARY, a. Pertaining to an abode, or the residence of a person or family. A domiciliary visit ...

16065

dimidiate
DIMIDIATE, v.t. [L.] To divide into two equal parts.

16066

dimidiated
DIMIDIATED, a. [L., middle.] Divided into two equal parts; halved.

16067

dimidiation
DIMIDIATION, n. The act of having; division into two equal parts.

16068

diminish
DIMINISH, v.t. [L., to lessen; less.]1. To lessen; to make less or smaller, by any means; opposed ...

16069

diminishable
DIMINISHABLE, a. Capable of being reduced in size or quantity.

16070

diminished
DIMINISHED, pp. Lessened; made smaller; reduced in size; contracted; degraded.

16071

diminishing
DIMINISHING, ppr. Lessening; contracting; degrading.

16072

diminishingly
DIMINISHINGLY, adv. In a manner to lessen reputation.

16073

diminuent
DIMINUENT, a. Lessening. [Little used.]

16074

diminute
DIMINUTE, a. Small. [Not in use.]

16075

diminution
DIMINUTION, n. [L.] 1. The act of lessening; a making smaller; opposed to augmentation; as the ...

16076

diminutive
DIMINUTIVE, a. Small; little; narrow; contracted; as a diminutive race of men or other animals; a ...

16077

diminutively
DIMINUTIVELY, adv. In a diminutive manner; in a manner to lessen; as, to speak diminutively of ...

16078

diminutiveness
DIMINUTIVENESS, n. Smallness; littleness; want of bulk; want of dignity.

16079

dimish
DIMISH, a. [from dim.] Somewhat dim, or obscure.

16080

dimissory
DIMISSORY, a. [L. See Dismiss.]1. Sending away; dismissing to another jurisdiction. A letter ...

16081

dimit
DIMIT, v.t. [L.] To permit to go; to grant to farm; to let. [Not in use.]

16082

dimity
DIMITY, n. A kind of white cotton cloth, ribbed or figured.

16083

dimly
DIMLY, adv. [See Dim.]1. In a dim or obscure manner; with imperfect sight.2. Not brightly, or ...

16084

dimming
DIMMING, ppr. Obscuring.DIMMING, n. Obscurity.

16085

dimness
DIMNESS, n. 1. Dullness of sight; as the dimness of the eyes.2. Obscurity of vision; imperfect ...

16086

dimple
DIMPLE, n. [G., to reel, to indent.] A small natural cavity or depression in the cheek or other ...

16087

dimpled
DIMPLED, a. Set with dimples; as a dimpled cheek.

16088

dimply
DIMPLY, a. Full of dimples, or small depressions; as the dimply flood.

16089

din
DIN, n. [L. This word probably belongs to the root of tone and thunder, and denotes a rumbling or ...

16090

dine
DINE, v.i. [L., to cease. Gr., to feast.] To eat the chief meal of the day. This meal seems ...

16091

dinetical
DINETICAL, a. [Gr.] Whirling round. [Not used.]

16092

ding
DING, v.t. pret. dung or dinged. To thrust or dash with violence. [Little used.]DING, v.i. To ...

16093

ding-dong
DING-DONG, Words used to express the sound of bells.

16094

dinginess
DINGINESS, n. [See Dingy.] A dusky or dark hue; brownness.

16095

dingle
DINGLE, n. A narrow dale or valley between hills.

16096

dingle-dangle
DINGLE-DANGLE. Hanging loosely, or something dangling.

16097

dingy
DINGY, a. Soiled; sullied; of a dark color; brown; dusky; dun.

16098

dining
DINING, ppr. Eating the principal meal in the day.

16099

dining-room
DINING-ROOM, n. A room for a family or for company to dine in; a room for entertainments.

16100

dinner
DINNER, n. [See Dine.]1. The meal taken about the middle of the day; or the principal meal of the ...

16101

dinner-time
DINNER-TIME, n.. The usual time of dining.

16102

dint
DINT, n. 1. A blow; a stroke.2. Force; violence; power exerted; as, to win by dint of arms, by dint ...

16103

dinted
DINTED, pp. Marked by a blow or by pressure; as deep-dinted furrows.

16104

dinting
DINTING, ppr. Impressing marks or cavities.

16105

dinumeration
DINUMERATION, n. The act of numbering singly. [Little used.]

16106

diocesan
DIOCESAN, a. [See Diocese. The accent on the first and on the third syllable is nearly equal. The ...

16107

diocese
DIOCESE, n. [Gr., administration, a province or jurisdiction; residence; to dwell; a house. Diocese ...

16108

dioctahedral
DIOCTAHEDRAL, a. [Dis and octahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of an octahedral prism ...

16109

diodon
DIODON, n. The sun-fish; a genus of fishes of a singular form, appearing like the fore part of the ...

16110

diomede
DIOMEDE, n. An aquatic fowl of the webfooted kind, about the size of a common domestic hen, but its ...

16111

diopside
DIOPSIDE, n. [Gr.] A rare mineral, regarded by Hauy as a variety of augite, and called by Jameson a ...

16112

dioptase
DIOPTASE, n. Emerald copper ore, a translucent mineral, occurring crystalized in six-sided prisms.

16113

dioptric
DIOPTRIC, DIOPTRICAL, a. [Gr., to see through; to see.]1. Affording a medium for the sight; ...

16114

dioptrical
DIOPTRIC, DIOPTRICAL, a. [Gr., to see through; to see.]1. Affording a medium for the sight; ...

16115

dioptrics
DIOPTRICS, n. That part of optics which treats of the refractions of light passing through ...

16116

diorism
DIORISM, n. [Gr.] Definition. [Rarely used.]

16117

dioristic
DIORISTIC, a. Distinguishing; defining. [Rarely used.]

16118

dioristically
DIORISTICALLY, adv. In a distinguishing manner. [Rarely used.]

16119

dip
DIP, v.t. pret. and pp. dipped or dipt. [G.]1. To plunge or immerse, for a moment or short time, in ...

16120

dip-chick
DIP-CHICK, n. A small bird that dives.

16121

dipetalous
DIPETALOUS, a. [Gr., a leaf or petal.] Having two flower-leaves or petals; two-petaled.

16122

diph-thong
DIPH-THONG, n. [Gr., sound; L.] A coalition or union of two vowels pronounced in one syllable. In ...

16123

diphthongal
DIPHTHONGAL, a. Belonging to a diphthong; consisting of two vowel sounds pronounced in one ...

16124

diphyllous
DIPHYLLOUS, a. [Gr., a leaf.] In botany, having two leaves, as a calyx, &c.

16125

diploe
DIPLOE, n. [Gr., double.] The soft meditullium, medullary substance, or porous part, between the ...

16126

diploma
DIPLOMA, n. [Gr., to double or fold. Anciently, a letter or other composition written on paper or ...

16127

diplomacy
DIPLOMACY, n. [This word, like supremacy, retains the accent of its original.]1. The customs, rules ...

16128

diplomated
DIPLOMATED, a. Made by diplomas.

16129

diplomatic
DIPLOMATIC, a. 1. Pertaining to diplomas; privileged.2. Furnished with a diploma; authorized by ...

16130

diplomatics
DIPLOMATICS, n. The science of diplomas, or of ancient writings, literary and public documents, ...

16131

dipper
DIPPER, n. 1. One that dips; he or that which dips.2. A vessel used to dip water or other liquor; a ...

16132

dipping
DIPPING, ppr. 1. Plunging or immersing into a liquid and speedily withdrawing, as to ascertain the ...

16133

dipping-needle
DIPPING-NEEDLE, n. A needle that dips; a magnetic needle which dips or inclines to the earth; an ...

16134

diprismatic
DIPRISMATIC, a. [di and prismatic.] Doubly prismatic.

16135

dipsas
DIPSAS, n. [gr., dry, thirsty; to thirst.] A serpent whose bite produces a mortal thirst. See ...

16136

dipter
DIPTER, DIPTERA, n. [Gr., a wing.] The dipters are an order of insects having only two wings, and ...

16137

diptera
DIPTER, DIPTERA, n. [Gr., a wing.] The dipters are an order of insects having only two wings, and ...

16138

dipteral
DIPTERAL, a. Having two wings only.

16139

diptote
DIPTOTE, n. [Gr., to fall.] In grammar, a noun which has only two cases; as, suppetiae, supetias.

16140

diptych
DIPTYCH, n. [Gr., to fold.] A public register of the names of consuls and other magistrates among ...

16141

dipyre
DIPYRE, n. A mineral occurring in minute prisms, either single or adhering to each other in ...

16142

dire
DIRE, a. [L.] Dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; evil in a great degree.Dire was the tossing, ...

16143

direct
DIRECT, a. [L., to make straight. See Right.]1. Straight; right; as, to pass in a direct line from ...

16144

directed
DIRECTED, pp. Aimed; pointed; guided; regulated; governed; ordered; instructed.

16145

directer
DIRECTER, n. A director, which see.

16146

directing
DIRECTING, ppr. Aiming; pointing; guiding; regulating; governing; ordering.

16147

direction
DIRECTION, n. [L.]1. Aim at a certain point; a pointing towards, in a straight line or course; as, ...

16148

directive
DIRECTIVE, a. 1. Having the power of direction; as a directive rule. 2. Informing; instructing; ...

16149

directly
DIRECTLY, adv. 1. In a straight lin or course; rectilineally; not in a winding course. Aim directly ...

16150

directness
DIRECTNESS, n. Straightness; a straight course; nearness of way.

16151

director
DIRECTOR, n. 1. One who directs; one who superintends, governs or manages; one who prescribes to ...

16152

directorial
DIRECTORIAL, a. Pertaining to directors or direction; containing direction or command.

16153

directory
DIRECTORY, a. Containing directions; enjoining; instructing.DIRECTORY, n. 1. A guide; a rule to ...

16154

directress
DIRECTRESS, n. A female who directs or manages.

16155

directrix
DIRECTRIX, n. A female who governs or directs.

16156

direful
DIREFUL, a. [See Dire.] Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; as direful fiend; a direful ...

16157

direfully
DIREFULLY, adv. Dreadfully; terribly; woefully.

16158

diremption
DIREMPTION, n. [L.] A separation.

16159

direness
DIRENESS, n. Terribleness; horror; dismalness.

16160

direption
DIREPTION, n. [L.] The act of plundering.

16161

dirge
DIRGE, n. Durj. [L., a word used in the funeral service.] A song or tune intended to express grief, ...

16162

dirigent
DIRIGENT, DIRECTRIX, n. [See Direct.] In geometry, the line of motion along which the describent ...

16163

dirk
DIRK, n. Durk. A kind of dagger or poniard.DIRK, a. Durk. Dark.DIRK, v.t. durk.1. To darken.2. To ...

16164

dirt
DIRT, n durt.1. Any foul or filthy substance; excrement; earth; mud; mire; dust; whatever adhering ...

16165

dirtily
DIRTILY, adv. Durtily. [from dirty.]1. In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily.2. Meanly; ...

16166

dirtiness
DIRTINESS, n. Durtiness.1. Filthiness; foulness; nastiness.2. Meanness; baseness; sordidness.

16167

dirty
DIRTY, a. Durty.1. Foul; nasty; filthy; not clean; as dirty hands.2. Not clean; not pure; turbid; ...

16168

diruption
DIRUPTION, n. [L., to burst.] A bursting or rending asunder. [See Disruption.]

16169

dis
DIS, a prefix or inseparable preposition, from the Latin, whence Fr. Des, Sp. Dis, and de may in ...

16170

disability
DISABILITY, n. [from disable.]1. Want of competent natural or bodily power, strength or ability; ...

16171

disable
DISABLE, v.t. [dis and able.] 1. To render unable; to deprive of competent natural strength or ...

16172

disabled
DISABLED, pp. Deprived of competent power, corporeal or intellectual; rendered incapable; deprived ...

16173

disablement
DISABLEMENT, n. Weakness; disability; legal impediment.

16174

disabling
DISABLING, ppr. Rendering unable or incapable; depriving of adequate power or capacity, or of legal ...

16175

disabuse
DISABUSE, v.t. disabuze. [See Abuse.] To free from mistake; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy ...

16176

disabused
DISABUSED, pp. Disabuzed. Undeceived.

16177

disabusing
DISABUSING, ppr. Disabuzing. Undeceiving.

16178

disaccommodate
DISACCOMMODATE, v.t. [dis and accommodate.] To put to inconvenience.

16179

disaccommodation
DISACCOMMODATION, n. [dis and accommodation.] A state of being unaccommodated; a state of being ...

16180

disaccord
DISACCORD, v.i. [dis and accord.] To refuse assent. [Not used.]

16181

disaccustom
DISACCUSTOM, v.t. [dis and accustom.] To neglect familiar or customary practice; to destroy the ...

16182

disaccustomed
DISACCUSTOMED, pp. Disused; having neglected practice or familiar use.

16183

disacknowledge
DISACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. [dis and acknowledge.] To deny; to disown.

16184

disacknowledged
DISACKNOWLEDGED, pp. Denied; disowned.

16185

disacknowledging
DISACKNOWLEDGING, ppr. Denying; disowning.

16186

disacquaint
DISACQUAINT, v.t. [See Acquaint.] To dissolve acquaintance. [Little used.]

16187

disacquaintance
DISACQUAINTANCE, n. Neglect or disuse of familiarity, or familiar knowledge of.

16188

disadorn
DISADORN, v.t. To deprive of ornaments.

16189

disadvance
DISADVANCE, v.t. or I. To check; to halt. [Not in use.]

16190

disadvantage
DISADVANTAGE, n. 1. That which prevents success, or renders it difficult; a state not favorable to ...

16191

disadvantageable
DISADVANTAGEABLE, a. Not advantageous. [Not in use.]

16192

disadvantageous
DISADVANTAGEOUS, a. Unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; not adapted to promote ...

16193

disadvantageously
DISADVANTAGEOUSLY, adv. In a manner not favorable to success, or to interest, profit or reputation; ...

16194

disadvantageousnes
DISADVANTAGEOUSNESS, n. Unfavorableness to success; inconvenience; loss.

16195

disadventure
DISADVENTURE, n. Misfortune. [Not used.]

16196

disadventurous
DISADVENTUROUS, a. Unprosperous. [Not used.]

16197

disaffect
DISAFFECT, v.t. [dis and affect.] 1. To alienate affection; to make less friendly to; to make less ...

16198

disaffected
DISAFFECTED, pp. or a. Having the affections alienated; indisposed to favor or support; unfriendly; ...

16199

disaffectedly
DISAFFECTEDLY, adv. In a disaffected manner.

16200

disaffectedness
DISAFFECTEDNESS, n. The quality of being disaffected.

16201

disaffecting
DISAFFECTING, ppr. Alienating the affections; making less friendly.

16202

disaffection
DISAFFECTION, n. 1. Alienation of affection, attachment or good will; want of affection; or more ...

16203

disaffectionate
DISAFFECTIONATE, a. Not well disposed; not friendly.

16204

disaffirm
DISAFFIRM, v.t. disafferm. [dis and affirm.] 1. To deny; to contradict.2. To overthrow or annul, as ...

16205

disaffirmance
DISAFFIRMANCE, n. 1. Denial; negation; disproof; confutation.2. Overthrow or annulment, by the ...

16206

disaffirmed
DISAFFIRMED, pp. Denied; contradicted; overthrown.

16207

disaffirming
DISAFFIRMING, ppr. Denying; contradicting; annulling.

16208

disafforest
DISAFFOREST, v.t. [dis and afforest.] To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of ...

16209

disafforested
DISAFFORESTED, pp. Stripped of forest privileges.

16210

disafforesting
DISAFFORESTING, ppr. Depriving of forest privileges.

16211

disaggregate
DISAGGREGATE, v.t. [dis and aggregate.] To separate an aggregate mass into its component parts.

16212

disaggregated
DISAGGREGATED, pp. Separated, as an aggregate mass.

16213

disaggregating
DISAGGREGATING, ppr. Separating, as the parts of an aggregate body.

16214

disaggregation
DISAGGREGATION, n. The act or operation of separating an aggregate body into its component parts.

16215

disagree
DISAGREE, v.i. [dis and agree.]= 1. To differ; to be not accordant or coincident; to be not the ...

16216

disagreeable
DISAGREEABLE, a. 1. Contrary; unsuitable; not conformable; not congruous. [Little used.]This ...

16217

disagreeableness
DISAGREEABLENESS, n. 1. Unsuitableness; contrariety.2. Unpleasantness; offensiveness to the mind, ...

16218

disagreeably
DISAGREEABLY, adv. Unsuitable; unpleasantly; offensively.

16219

disagreeing
DISAGREEING, ppr. Differing; not according or coinciding.

16220

disagreement
DISAGREEMENT, n. 1. Difference, either in form or essence; dissimilitude; diversity; as the ...

16221

disalliege
DISALLIEGE, v.t. To alienate from allegiance. [Not in use.]

16222

disallow
DISALLOW, v.t. [dis and allow.] To refuse permission, or not to permit; not to grant; not to make ...

16223

disallowable
DISALLOWABLE, a. Not allowable; not to be suffered.

16224

disallowance
DISALLOWANCE, n. Disapprobation; refusal to admit or permit; prohibition; rejection.

16225

disallowed
DISALLOWED, pp. Not granted, permitted or admitted; disapproved; rejected.

16226

disallowing
DISALLOWING, ppr. Not permitting; not admitting; disapproving; rejecting.

16227

disally
DISALLY, v.t. [dis and ally.] To form an improper alliance.

16228

disanchor
DISANCHOR, v.t. [dis and anchor.] To force from its anchors, as a ship.

16229

disangelical
DISANGELICAL, a. Not angelical. [Not used.]

16230

disanimate
DISANIMATE, v.t. [dis and animate.]1. To deprive of life. [Not used.]2. To deprive of spirit or ...

16231

disanimated
DISANIMATED, pp. Discouraged; dispirited.

16232

disanimating
DISANIMATING, ppr. Discouraging; disheartening.

16233

disanimation
DISANIMATION, n. 1. The act of discouraging; depression of spirits.2. Privation of life. [Not ...

16234

disannul
DISANNUL, v.t. [dis and annul. In this instance, the prefix dis is improperly used, and of no ...

16235

disannulled
DISANNULLED, pp. Annulled; vacated; made void.

16236

disannulling
DISANNULLING, ppr. Making void; depriving of authority or binding force.

16237

disannulment
DISANNULMENT, n. The act of making void; as the disannulment of a law or decree.Disannual differs ...

16238

disanoint
DISANOINT, v.t. To render consecration invalid.

16239

disapparel
DISAPPAREL, v.t To disrobe; to strip of raiment.

16240

disappear
DISAPPEAR, v.i. [dis and appear.]1. To vanish from the sight; to recede from the view; to become ...

16241

disappearance
DISAPPEARANCE, n. Cessation of appearance; a removal from sight.

16242

disappearing
DISAPPEARING, ppr. Vanishing; receding from the sight; becoming invisible.DISAPPEARING, n. A ...

16243

disappoint
DISAPPOINT, v.t. [dis and appoint; properly, to unfix or unsettle.]1. To defeat of expectation, ...

16244

disappointed
DISAPPOINTED, pp. Defeated of expectation, hope, desire, or design; frustrated.

16245

disappointing
DISAPPOINTING, ppr. Defeating of expectation, hope, desire or purpose; frustrating.

16246

disappointment
DISAPPOINTMENT, n. Defeat or failure of expectation, hope, wish, desire or intention; miscarriage ...

16247

disappreciate
DISAPPRECIATE, v.t. [dis and appreciate.] To undervalue; not to esteem.

16248

disapprobation
DISAPPROBATION, n. [dis and approbation.] A disapproving; dislike; the act of the mind which ...

16249

disapprobatory
DISAPPROBATORY, a. Containing disapprobation; tending to disapprove.

16250

disappropriate
DISAPPROPRIATE, a. [dis and appropriate.] Not appropriated, or not having appropriated church ...

16251

disapproval
DISAPPROVAL, n. Disapprobation; dislike.

16252

disapprove
DISAPPROVE, v.t. 1. To dislike; to condemn in opinion or judgment; to censure as wrong. We often ...

16253

disapproved
DISAPPROVED, pp. Disliked; condemned; rejected.

16254

disapproving
DISAPPROVING, ppr. Disliking; condemning; rejecting from dislike.

16255

disard
DISARD, n. A prattler; a boasting talkier.

16256

disarm
DISARM, v.t. s as z.1. To deprive of arms; to take the arms or weapons from , usually by force or ...

16257

disarmed
DISARMED, pp. Deprived of arms; stripped of the means of defense or annoyance; rendered harmless; ...

16258

disarming
DISARMING, ppr. Stripping of arms or weapons; subduing; rendering harmless.

16259

disarrange
DISARRANGE, v.t. [dis and arrange.] To put out of order; to unsettle or disturb the order or due ...

16260

disarrangement
DISARRANGEMENT, n. The act of disturbing order or method; disorder.

16261

disarray
DISARRAY, v.t. [dis and array.]1. To undress; to divest of clothes.2. To throw into disorder; to ...

16262

disarrayed
DISARRAYED, pp. Divested of clothes or array; disordered.

16263

disarraying
DISARRAYING, ppr. Divesting of clothes; throwing into disorder.

16264

disassiduity
DISASSIDUITY, n. Want of assiduity or care. [Not used.]

16265

disassociate
DISASSOCIATE, v.t. To disunite; to disconnect things associated.

16266

disaster
DISASTER, n. Dizaster. [Gr., a star; a word of astrological origin.]1. A blast or stroke of an ...

16267

disastered
DISASTERED, pp. Blasted; injured; afflicted.

16268

disastrous
DISASTROUS, a. 1. Unlucky; unfortunate; calamitous; occasioning loss or injury; as, the day was ...

16269

disastrously
DISASTROUSLY, adv. Unfortunately; in a dismal manner.

16270

disastrousness
DISASTROUSNESS, n. Unfortunateness; calamitousness.

16271

disauthorize
DISAUTHORIZE, v.t. [dis and authorize.] To deprive of credit or authority. [Little used.]

16272

disavouch
DISAVOUCH, v.t. [dis and avouch. See Vow.] To retract profession; to deny; to disown. [Little ...

16273

disavow
DISAVOW, v.t. [dis and avow. See Vow.]1. To deny; to disown; to deny to be true, as a fact or ...

16274

disavowal
DISAVOWAL, n. 1. Denial; a disowning.A disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear.2. Rejection; a ...

16275

disavowed
DISAVOWED, pp. Denied; disowned.

16276

disavowing
DISAVOWING, ppr. Denying; disowning; rejecting as something not to be maintained or vindicated.

16277

disavowment
DISAVOWMENT, n. Denial; a disowning.

16278

disband
DISBAND, v.t. [dis and band.] 1. To dismiss from military service; to break up a band, or body of ...

16279

disbanded
DISBANDED, pp. Dismissed from military service; separated.

16280

disbanding
DISBANDING, ppr. Dismissing from military service; separating; dissolving connection.

16281

disbark
DISBARK, v.t. To land from a ship; to put on shore.

16282

disbelief
DISBELIEF, n. [dis and belief.] Refusal of credit or faith; denial of belief.Our belief or ...

16283

disbelieve
DISBELIEVE, v.t. [dis and believe.] Not to believe; to hold not to be true or not to exist; to ...

16284

disbelieved
DISBELIEVED, pp. Not believed; discredited.

16285

disbeliever
DISBELIEVER, n. One who refuses belief; one who denies to be true or real.

16286

disbelieving
DISBELIEVING, ppr. Withholding belief; discrediting.

16287

disbench
DISBENCH, v.t. [dis and bench.] To drive from a bench or seat.

16288

disblame
DISBLAME, v.t. To clear from blame. [Not used.]

16289

disbodied
DISBODIED, a. Disembodied, which is the word now used.

16290

disbowel
DISBOWEL, v.t. [dis and bowel.] To take out the intestines.

16291

disbranch
DISBRANCH, v.t. [dis and branch.]1. To cut off or separate, as the branch of a tree. [Little ...

16292

disbud
DISBUD, v.t. To deprive of buds or shoots.

16293

disburden
DISBURDEN, v.t. [dis and burden. See Burden.]1. To remove a burden from ; to unload; to ...

16294

disburdened
DISBURDENED, pp. Eased of a burden; unloaded; disencumbered.

16295

disburdening
DISBURDENING, ppr. Unloading; discharging; throwing off a burden; disencumbering.

16296

disburse
DISBURSE, v.t. disburs. To pay out, as money; to spend or lay out; primarily, to pay money from a ...

16297

disbursed
DISBURSED, pp. Paid out; expended.

16298

disbursement
DISBURSEMENT, n. Disbursment.1. The act of paying out, as money from a public or private chest.2. ...

16299

disburser
DISBURSER, n. One who pays out or disburses money.

16300

disbursing
DISBURSING, pp. Paying out, or expending.

16301

disc
DISC, n. [L. See Disk.] The face or breadth of the sun or moon; also, the width of the aperture of ...

16302

discalceate
DISCALCEATE, v.t. [L., a shoe.] To pull off the shoes or sandals.

16303

discalceated
DISCALCEATED, pp. Stripped of shoes.

16304

discalceation
DISCALCEATION, n. The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals.

16305

discandy
DISCANDY, v.i. [dis and candy.] To melt; to dissolve.

16306

discard
DISCARD, v.t. 1. To throw out of the hand such cards as are useless.2. To dismiss from service or ...

16307

discarded
DISCARDED, pp. Thrown out; dismissed from service; rejected.

16308

discarding
DISCARDING, ppr. Throwing out; dismissing from employment; rejecting.

16309

discarnate
DISCARNATE, a. [dia and L., flesh.] Stripped of flesh.

16310

discase
DISCASE, v.t. [dis and case.] To take off a covering from; to strip; to undress.

16311

disceptator
DISCEPTATOR, n. [L.] One who arbitrates or decides. [Not used.]

16312

discern
DISCERN, v.t. s as z. [L., to separate or distinguish, Gr.]1. To separate by the eye, or by the ...

16313

discerned
DISCERNED, pp. Distinguished; seen; discovered.

16314

discerner
DISCERNER, n. 1. One who sees, discovers or distinguishes; an observer.2. One who knows and judges; ...

16315

discernible
DISCERNIBLE, a. That may be seen distinctly; discoverable by the eye or the understanding; ...

16316

discernibleness
DISCERNIBLENESS, n. Visibleness.

16317

discernibly
DISCERNIBLY, adv. In a manner to be discerned, seen or discovered; visibly.

16318

discerning
DISCERNING, ppr.1. Distinguishing; seeing; discovering; knowing; judging.2. a. Having power to ...

16319

discerningly
DISCERNINGLY, adv. With discernment; acutely; with judgment; skillfully.

16320

discernment
DISCERNMENT, n. The act of discerning; also, the power or faculty of the mind, by which it ...

16321

discerp
DISCERP, v.t. [L.] To tear in pieces; to separate. [Not used.]

16322

discerpibility
DISCERPIBILITY, n. Capability or liableness to be torn asunder or disunited.

16323

discerpible
DISCERPIBLE, a. [L., to seize, to tear. In some dictionaries it is written discerptible, on the ...

16324

discerption
DISCERPTION, n. The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts.

16325

discession
DISCESSION, n. [L.] Departure. [Not used.]

16326

discharge
DISCHARGE, v.t. 1. To unload, as a ship; to take out, as a cargo; applied both to the ship and the ...

16327

discharged
DISCHARGED, pp. Unloaded; let off; shot; thrown out; dismissed from service; paid; released; ...

16328

discharger
DISCHARGER, n. 1. He that discharges in any manner.2. One who fires a gun.3. In electricity, an ...

16329

discharging
DISCHARGING, pp. Unlading; letting fly; shooting; throwing out; emiting; dismissing from service; ...

16330

dischurch
DISCHURCH, v.t. To deprive of the rank of a church.

16331

discide
DISCIDE, v.t. To divide; to cut in pieces. [Not used.]

16332

discinct
DISCINCT, a. Ungirded.

16333

discind
DISCIND, v.t. To cut in two. [Not used.]

16334

disciple
DISCIPLE, n. [L., to learn.]1. A learner; a scholar; one who receives or professes to receive ...

16335

disciple-like
DISCIPLE-LIKE, a. Becoming a disciple.

16336

discipled
DISCIPLED, pp. Taught; trained; brought up; made a disciple.

16337

discipleship
DISCIPLESHIP, n. The state of a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.

16338

disciplinable
DISCIPLINABLE, a. [See Discipline.]1. Capable of instruction, and improvement in learning.2. That ...

16339

disciplinableness
DISCIPLINABLENESS, n. 1. Capacity of receiving instruction by education.2. The state of being ...

16340

disciplinant
DISCIPLINANT, n. One of a religious order, so called from their practice of scourging themselves, ...

16341

disciplinarian
DISCIPLINARIAN, a. Pertaining to discipline.DISCIPLINARIAN, n. One who disciplines; one versed in ...

16342

disciplinary
DISCIPLINARY, a. 1. Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline or government; promoting ...

16343

discipline
DISCIPLINE, n. [L., to learn.]1. Education; instruction; cultivation and improvement, comprehending ...

16344

disciplined
DISCIPLINED, pp. Instructed; educated; subjected to rules and regulations; corrected; chastised; ...

16345

disciplining
DISCIPLINING, pp. Instructing; educating; subjecting to order and subordination; correcting; ...

16346

disclaim
DISCLAIM, v.t. [dis and claim.]1. To disown; to disavow; to deny the possession of; to reject as ...

16347

disclaimation
DISCLAIMATION, n. The act of disclaiming; a disavowing. [Not used.]

16348

disclaimed
DISCLAIMED, pp. Disowned; disavowed; rejected; denied.

16349

disclaimer
DISCLAIMER, n. 1. A person who disclaims, disowns or renounces.2. In law, an express or implied ...

16350

disclaiming
DISCLAIMING, ppr. Disowning; disavowing; denying; renouncing.

16351

disclose
DISCLOSE, v.t. discloze. [dis and close; L. See Close.]1. To uncover; to open; to remove a cover ...

16352

disclosed
DISCLOSED, pp. Uncovered; opened to view; made known; revealed; told; uttered.

16353

discloser
DISCLOSER, n. One who discloses or reveals.

16354

disclosing
DISCLOSING, ppr. Uncovering; opening to view; revealing; making known; telling.

16355

disclosure
DISCLOSURE, n. Disclozhur.1. The act of disclosing; an uncovering and opening to view; discovery.2. ...

16356

disclusion
DISCLUSION, n. Discluzhun. [L.] An emission; a throwing out. [Little used.]

16357

discoast
DISCOAST, v.i. To depart from; to quit the coast. [Not used.]

16358

discoherent
DISCOHERENT, a. Incoherent. The latter is generally used.

16359

discoid
DISCOID, n. Something in form of a discus or disk.

16360

discoidal
DISCOID, DISCOIDAL, a. Having the form of a disk. Discoid or discous flowers, are compound ...

16361

discolor
DISCOLOR, v.t. [L.]1. To alter the natural hue or color of; to stain; to tinge. A drop of wine will ...

16362

discoloration
DISCOLORATION, n. 1. The act of altering the color; a staining.2. Alteration of color; stain; as ...

16363

discolored
DISCOLORED, pp. 1. Altered in color; stained.2. a. Variegated; being of divers colors.

16364

discoloring
DISCOLORING, ppr. Altering the color of hue; staining; changing the complexion.

16365

discomfit
DISCOMFIT, v.t. [L., to fasten, to nail; to fix.] To rout; to defeat; to scatter in fight; to cause ...

16366

discomfited
DISCOMFITED, pp. Routed; defeated; overthrown.

16367

discomfiting
DISCOMFITING, ppr. Routing; defeating.

16368

discomfiture
DISCOMFITURE, n. Rout; defeat in battle; dispersion; overthrow.Every mans sword was against his ...

16369

discomfort
DISCOMFORT, n. [dis and comfort.] Uneasiness; disturbance of peace; pain; grief; ...

16370

discomfortable
DISCOMFORTABLE, a. 1. Causing uneasiness; unpleasant; giving pain; making sad. [Little used.]2. ...

16371

discomforted
DISCOMFORTED, pp. Made uneasy; disturbed; pained; grieved.

16372

discomforting
DISCOMFORTING, ppr. Disturbing peace and happiness; making uneasy; grieving.

16373

discommend
DISCOMMEND, v.t. [dis and commend.] To blame; to censure; to mention with disapprobation.I do not ...

16374

discommendable
DISCOMMENDABLE, a. Blamable; censurable; deserving disapprobation.

16375

discommendableness
DISCOMMENDABLENESS, n. Blamableness; the quality of being worthy of disapprobation.

16376

discommendation
DISCOMMENDATION, n. Blame; censure; reproach.

16377

discommender
DISCOMMENDER, n. One who discommends; a dispraiser.

16378

discommending
DISCOMMENDING, ppr. Blaming; censuring.

16379

discommode
DISCOMMODE, v.t. To put to inconvenience; to incommode; to molest; to trouble. [Discommodate is not ...

16380

discommoded
DISCOMMODED, pp. Put to inconvenience; molested; incommoded.

16381

discommoding
DISCOMMODING, ppr. Putting to inconvenience; giving trouble to.

16382

discommodious
DISCOMMODIOUS, a. Inconvenient; troublesome.

16383

discommodity
DISCOMMODITY, n. Inconvenience; trouble; hurt; disadvantage.

16384

discommon
DISCOMMON, v.t. [dis and common.] 1. To appropriate common land; to separate and inclose common.2. ...

16385

discomplexion
DISCOMPLEXION, v.t. To change the complexion or color. [Not used.]

16386

discompose
DISCOMPOSE, v.t. discompoze. [dis and compose.]1. To unsettle; to disorder; to disturb; applied to ...

16387

discomposed
DISCOMPOSED, pp. Unsettled; disordered; ruffled; agitated; disturbed.

16388

discomposing
DISCOMPOSING, ppr. Unsettling; putting out of order; ruffling; agitating; disturbing tranquility.

16389

discomposition
DISCOMPOSITION, n. Inconsistency. [Not used.]

16390

discomposure
DISCOMPOSURE, n. Discompozhur. Disorder; agitation; disturbance; perturbation; as discomposure of ...

16391

disconcert
DISCONCERT, v.t. [dis and concert.]1. To break or interrupt any order, plan or harmonious scheme; ...

16392

disconcerted
DISCONCERTED, pp. Broken; interrupted; disordered; defeated; unsettled; discomposed; confused.

16393

disconcerting
DISCONCERTING, ppr. Disordering; defeating; discomposing; disturbing.

16394

disconcertion
DISCONCERTION, n. The act of disconcerting.

16395

disconformity
DISCONFORMITY, n. [dis and conformity.] Want of agreement or conformity; inconsistency.

16396

discongruity
DISCONGRUITY, n. [dis and congruity.] Want of congruity; incongruity; disagreement; inconsistency.

16397

disconnect
DISCONNECT, v.t. [dis and connect.] To separate; to disunite; to dissolve connection.The ...

16398

disconnected
DISCONNECTED, pp. Separated; disunited. This word is not synonymous with unconnected, though often ...

16399

disconnecting
DISCONNECTING, ppr. Separating; disuniting.

16400

disconnection
DISCONNECTION, n. The act of separating, or state of being disunited; separation; want of ...

16401

disconsent
DISCONSENT, v.i.[dis and consent.] To differ; to disagree; not to consent.

16402

disconsolate
DISCONSOLATE, a. [dis and L.] [See Console.]1. Destitute of comfort or consolation; sorrowful; ...

16403

disconsolately
DISCONSOLATELY, adv. In a disconsolate manner; without comfort.

16404

disconsolateness
DISCONSOLATENESS, n. The state of being disconsolate or comfortless.

16405

disconsolation
DISCONSOLATION, n. Want of comfort.

16406

discontent
DISCONTENT, n. [dis and content.] Want of content; uneasiness or inquietude of mind; ...

16407

discontented
DISCONTENTED, pp. or a. Uneasy in mind; dissatisfied; unquiet; as, discontented citizens make bad ...

16408

discontentedly
DISCONTENTEDLY, adv. In a discontented manner or mood.

16409

discontentedness
DISCONTENTEDNESS, n. Uneasiness of mind; inquietude; dissatisfaction.

16410

discontenting
DISCONTENTING, a. Giving uneasiness.

16411

discontentment
DISCONTENTMENT, n. The state of being uneasy in mind; uneasiness; inquietude; discontent.

16412

discontinuance
DISCONTINUANCE, n. [See Discontinue.]1. Want of continuance; cessation; intermission; interruption ...

16413

discontinuation
DISCONTINUATION, n. Breach or interruption of continuity; disruption of parts; separation of parts ...

16414

discontinue
DISCONTINUE, v.t. [dis and continue.]1. To leave off; to cause to cease, as a practice or habit; to ...

16415

discontinued
DISCONTINUED, pp. Left off; interrupted; broken off.

16416

discontinuer
DISCONTINUER, n. One who discontinues a rule or practice.

16417

discontinuing
DISCONTINUING, ppr. Ceasing; interrupting; breaking off.

16418

discontinuity
DISCONTINUITY, n. Disunion of parts; want of cohesion.

16419

discontinuous
DISCONTINUOUS, a. 1. Broken off; interrupted.2. Separated; wide; gaping.

16420

disconvenience
DISCONVENIENCE, n. [dis and convenience.] Incongruity; disagreement. [Little used.]

16421

disconvenient
DISCONVENIENT, a. Incongruous.

16422

discord
DISCORD, n. [L.]1. Disagreement among persons or things. Between persons, difference of opinions; ...

16423

discordance
DISCORDANCE, DISCORDANCY, n. [L.] Disagreement; opposition; inconsistency; as a discordance of ...

16424

discordancy
DISCORDANCE, DISCORDANCY, n. [L.] Disagreement; opposition; inconsistency; as a discordance of ...

16425

discordant
DISCORDANT, a. [L.]1. Disagreeing; incongruous; contradictory; being at variance; as discordant ...

16426

discordantly
DISCORDANTLY, adv. Dissonantly; in a discordant manner; inconsistently; in a manner to jar or ...

16427

discordful
DISCORDFUL, a. Quarrelsome; contentious.

16428

discounsel
DISCOUNSEL, v.t. To dissuade. [Not in use.]

16429

discount
DISCOUNT, n. [See Count. Literally, a counting back or from.]1. A sum deducted for prompt or ...

16430

discount-day
DISCOUNT-DAY, n. The day of the week on which a bank discounts notes and bills.

16431

discountable
DISCOUNTABLE, a. That may be discounted. Certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable ...

16432

discounted
DISCOUNTED, pp. 1. Deducted from a principal sum; paid back; refunded or allowed; as, the sum of ...

16433

discountenance
DISCOUNTENANCE, v.t. [dis and countenance.] 1. To abash; to ruffle or discompose the countenance; ...

16434

discountenanced
DISCOUNTENANCED, pp. Abashed; discouraged; checked; frowned on.

16435

discountenancer
DISCOUNTENANCER, n. One who discourages by cold treatment, frowns, censure or expression of ...

16436

discountenancing
DISCOUNTENANCING, ppr. Abashing; discouraging; checking by disapprobation or unfriendly regards.

16437

discounter
DISCOUNTER, n. One who advances money on discounts.

16438

discounting
DISCOUNTING, ppr. 1. Deducting a sum for prompt or advanced payment.2. Lending on ...

16439

discourage
DISCOURAGE, v.t. discurage. [dis and courage. See Courage.]1. To extinguish the courage of; to ...

16440

discouraged
DISCOURAGED, pp. Discuraged. Disheartened; deprived of courage or confidence; depressed in spirits; ...

16441

discouragement
DISCOURAGEMENT, n. Discuragement.1. The act of disheartening, or depriving of courage; the act of ...

16442

discourager
DISCOURAGER, n. Discurager. One who discourages; one who disheartens, or depresses the courage; one ...

16443

discouraging
DISCOURAGING, ppr. Discuraging. 1. Disheartening; depressing courage.2. a. Tending to dishearten, ...

16444

discourse
DISCOURSE, n. Discors. [L., to run.]1. The act of the undertaking, by which it passes from premises ...

16445

discourser
DISCOURSER, n. 1. One who discourses; a speaker; a haranguer.2. The writer of a treatise or ...

16446

discoursing
DISCOURSING, ppr. Talking; conversing; preaching; discussing; treating at some length or in a ...

16447

discoursive
DISCOURSIVE, a. 1. Reasoning; passing from premises to consequences.2. Containing dialogue or ...

16448

discourteous
DISCOURTEOUS, a. Discurteous. [dis and courteous.] Uncivil; rude; uncomplaisant; wanting in good ...

16449

discourteously
DISCOURTEOUSLY, adv. Discurteously. In a rude or uncivil manner; with incivility.

16450

discourtesy
DISCOURTESY, n. Discurtesy. [dis and courtesy.] Incivility; rudeness of behavior or language; ill ...

16451

discourtship
DISCOURTSHIP, n. Want of respect.

16452

discous
DISCOUS, a. [L.] Broad; flat; wide; used of the middle plain and flat part of some flowers.

16453

discover
DISCOVER, v.t. [See Cover.]1. Literally, to uncover; to remove a covering. Isaiah 22.2. To lay open ...

16454

discoverable
DISCOVERABLE, a. 1. That may be discovered; that may be brought to light, or exposed to view.2. ...

16455

discovered
DISCOVERED, pp. Uncovered; disclosed to view; laid open; revealed; espied or first seen; found out; ...

16456

discoverer
DISCOVERER, n. 1. One who discovers; one who first sees or espies; one who finds out, or first ...

16457

discovering
DISCOVERING, ppr. Uncovering; disclosing to view; laying open; revealing; making known; espying; ...

16458

discoverture
DISCOVERTURE, n. A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of ...

16459

discovery
DISCOVERY, n. 1. The action of disclosing to view, or bringing to light; as, by the discovery of a ...

16460

discredit
DISCREDIT, n. [See the Verb.]1. Want of credit or good reputation; some degree of disgrace or ...

16461

discreditable
DISCREDITABLE, a. Tending to injure credit; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable.

16462

discredited
DISCREDITED, pp. Disbelieved; brought into disrepute; disgraced.

16463

discrediting
DISCREDITING, ppr. Disbelieving; not trusting to; depriving of credit; disgracing.

16464

discreet
DISCREET, a. [L., Gr. It is sometimes written discrete; the distinction between discreet and ...

16465

discreetly
DISCREETLY, adv. Prudently; circumspectly; cautiously; with nice judgment of what is best to be ...

16466

discreetness
DISCREETNESS, n. The quality of being discreet; discretion.

16467

discrepance
DISCREPANCE, DISCREPANCY, n. [L., to give a different sound, to vary, to jar; to creak. See ...

16468

discrepancy
DISCREPANCE, DISCREPANCY, n. [L., to give a different sound, to vary, to jar; to creak. See ...

16469

discrepant
DISCREPANT, a. Different; disagreeing; contrary.

16470

discrete
DISCRETE, a. [L. See Discreet.]1. Separate; distinct; disjunct. Discrete proportion is when the ...

16471

discretion
DISCRETION, n. [L, a separating. See Discreet.]1. Prudence, or knowledge and prudence; that ...

16472

discretional
DISCRETIONARY, DISCRETIONAL, a. Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; ...

16473

discretionally
DISCRETIONARILY, DISCRETIONALLY, adv. At discretion; according to discretion.

16474

discretionarily
DISCRETIONARILY, DISCRETIONALLY, adv. At discretion; according to discretion.

16475

discretionary
DISCRETIONARY, DISCRETIONAL, a. Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; ...

16476

discretive
DISCRETIVE, a. [See Discreet and Discrete.]1. Disjunctive; noting separation or opposition. In ...

16477

discretively
DISCRETIVELY, adv. In a discretive manner.

16478

discriminable
DISCRIMINABLE, a. That may be discriminated.

16479

discriminate
DISCRIMINATE, v.t. [l., difference, distinction; differently applied; Gr., L.]1. To distinguish; to ...

16480

discriminated
DISCRIMINATED, pp. Separated; distinguished.

16481

discriminately
DISCRIMINATELY, adv. Distinctly; with minute distinction; particularly.

16482

discriminateness
DISCRIMINATENESS, n. Distinctness; marked difference.

16483

discriminating
DISCRIMINATING, ppr. 1. Separating; distinguishing; marking with notes of difference.2.a. ...

16484

discrimination
DISCRIMINATION, n. 1. The act of distinguishing; the act of making or observing a difference; ...

16485

discriminative
DISCRIMINATIVE, a. 1. That makes the mark of distinction; that constitutes the mark of difference; ...

16486

discriminatively
DISCRIMINATIVELY, adv. With discrimination or distinction.

16487

discriminous
DISCRIMINOUS, a. Hazardous. [Not used.]

16488

discubitory
DISCUBITORY, a. [L., to lie down or lean.] Leaning; inclining; or fitted to a leaning posture.

16489

disculpate
DISCULPATE, v.t. [L., a fault.] To free from blame or fault; to exculpate; to excuse.Neither does ...

16490

disculpated
DISCULPATED, pp. Cleared from blame; exculpated.

16491

disculpating
DISCULPATING, ppr. Freeing from blame; excusing.

16492

discumbency
DISCUMBENCY, n. [L. See Discubitory.] The act of leaning at meat, according to the manner of the ...

16493

discumber
DISCUMBER, v.t. [dis and cumber.] To unburden; to throw off any thing cumbersome; to disengage from ...

16494

discure
DISCURE, v.t. To discover; to reveal. [Not used.]

16495

discurrent
DISCURRENT, a. Not current. [Not used.]

16496

discursion
DISCURSION, n. [L., to run.] A running or rambling about.

16497

discursist
DISCURSIST, n. [See Discourse.] A disputer. [Not in use.]

16498

discursive
DISCURSIVE, a. [L., supra.]1. Moving or roving about; desultory.2. Argumentative; reasoning; ...

16499

discursively
DISCURSIVELY, adv. Argumentatively; in the form of reasoning or argument.

16500

discursiveness
DISCURSIVENESS, n. Range or gradation of argument.

16501

discursory
DISCURSORY, a. Argumental; rational.

16502

discus
DISCUS, n. [L.]1. A quoit; a piece of iron, copper or stone, to be thrown in play; used by the ...

16503

discuss
DISCUSS, v.t. [L.] Literally, to drive; to beat or to shake in pieces; to separate by beating or ...

16504

discussed
DISCUSSED, pp. Dispersed; dissipated; debated; agitated; argued.

16505

discusser
DISCUSSER, n. One who discusses; one who sifts or examines.

16506

discussing
DISCUSSING, ppr. Dispersing; resolving; scattering; debating; agitating; examining by ...

16507

discussion
DISCUSSION, n. 1. In surgery, resolution; the dispersion of a tumor or any coagulated matter.2. ...

16508

discussive
DISCUSSIVE, a. Having the power to discuss, resolve or disperse tumors or coagulated ...

16509

discutient
DISCUTIENT, a. [L.] Discussing; dispersing morbid matter.DISCUTIENT, n. A medicine or application ...

16510

disdain
DISDAIN, v.t. [L., to think worthy; worthy. See Dignity.] To think unworthy; to deem worthless; to ...

16511

disdained
DISDAINED, pp. Despised; contemned; scorned.

16512

disdainful
DISDAINFUL, a. 1. Full of disdain; as disdainful soul.2. Expressing disdain; as a disdainful ...

16513

disdainfully
DISDAINFULLY, adv. Contemptuously; with scorn; in a haughty manner.

16514

disdainfulness
DISDAINFULNESS, n. Contempt; contemptuousness; haughty scorn.

16515

disdaining
DISDAINING, ppr. Contemning; scorning.DISDAINING, n. Contempt; scorn.

16516

disdiaclastic
DISDIACLASTIC, a. An epithet given by Bartholine and others to a substance supposed to be crystal, ...

16517

disdiapason
DISDIAPASON, BISDIAPASON, n. [See Diapason.] In music, a compound concord in the quadruple ratio of ...

16518

disease
DISEASE, n. Dizeze. [dis and ease.]1. In its primary sense, pain, uneasiness, distress, and so used ...

16519

diseased
DISEASED, pp. or a. Dizezed. Disordered; distempered; sick.

16520

diseasedness
DISEASEDNESS, n. Dizezedness. The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness.

16521

diseaseful
DISEASEFUL, a. Dizezeful.1. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as diseaseful climate.2. ...

16522

diseasement
DISEASEMENT, n. Dizezement. Uneasiness; inconvenience.

16523

disedged
DISEDGED, a [dis and edge.] Blunted; made dull.

16524

disembark
DISEMBARK, v.t. [dis and embark.] To land; to debark; to remove from on board a ship to the land; ...

16525

disembarked
DISEMBARKED, pp. Landed; put on shore.

16526

disembarking
DISEMBARKING, ppr. Landing; removing from on board a ship to land.

16527

disembarkment
DISEMBARKMENT, n. The act of disembarking.

16528

disembarrass
DISEMBARRASS, v.t. [dis and embarrass.] To free from embarrassment or perplexity; to clear; to ...

16529

disembarrassed
DISEMBARRASSED, pp. Freed from embarrassment; extricated from difficulty.

16530

disembarrassing
DISEMBARRASSING, ppr. Freeing from embarrassment or perplexity; extricating.

16531

disembarrassment
DISEMBARRASSMENT, n. The act of extricating from perplexity.

16532

disembay
DISEMBAY, v.t. To clear from a bay.

16533

disembitter
DISEMBITTER, v.t. [dis and embitter.] To free from bitterness; to clear from acrimony; to render ...

16534

disembodied
DISEMBODIED, a. [dis and embodied.]1. Divested of the body; as disembodied spirits or souls.2. ...

16535

disembody
DISEMBODY, v.t. 1. To divest of body; to free from flesh.2. To discharge from military array.

16536

disembogue
DISEMBOGUE, v.t. [See Voice.] To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to ...

16537

disemboguement
DISEMBOGUEMENT, n. Discharge of waters into the ocean or a lake.

16538

disembosom
DISEMBOSOM, v.t. To separate from the bosom.

16539

disembowel
DISEMBOWEL, v.t. [dis and embowel.] To take out the bowels; to take or draw from the bowels, as the ...

16540

disemboweled
DISEMBOWELED, pp. Taken or drawn from the bowels.Disemboweled web.

16541

disemboweling
DISEMBOWELING, ppr. Taking or drawing from the bowels.

16542

disembrangle
DISEMBRANGLE, v.t. To free from litigation. [Not used.]

16543

disembroil
DISEMBROIL, v.t. [dis and embroil.] To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from ...

16544

disembroiled
DISEMBROILED, pp. Disentangled; cleared from perplexity or confusion.

16545

disembroiling
DISEMBROILING, ppr. Disentangling; freeing from confusion.

16546

disenable
DISENABLE, v.t. [dis and enable.] To deprive of power, natural or moral; to disable; to deprive of ...

16547

disenabled
DISENABLED, pp. Deprived of power, ability or means.

16548

disenabling
DISENABLING, ppr. Depriving of power, ability or means.

16549

disenchant
DISENCHANT, v.t. [dis and enchant.] To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms ...

16550

disenchanted
DISENCHANTED, pp. Delivered from enchantment, or the power of charms.

16551

disenchanting
DISENCHANTING, ppr. Freeing from enchantment, or the influence of charms.

16552

disencumber
DISENCUMBER, v.t. [dis and encumber.]1. To free from encumbrance; to deliver from clogs and ...

16553

disencumbered
DISENCUMBERED, pp. Freed from incumbrance.

16554

disencumbering
DISENCUMBERING, ppr. Freeing from incumbrance.

16555

disencumbrance
DISENCUMBRANCE, n. Freedom or deliverance from incumbrance, or any thing burdensome or troublesome.

16556

disengage
DISENGAGE, v.t. [dis and engage.]1. To separate, as a substance from any thing with which it is in ...

16557

disengaged
DISENGAGED, pp. 1. Separated; detached; set free; released; disjoined; disentangled.2.a. Vacant; ...

16558

disengagedness
DISENGAGEDNESS, n. 1. The quality or state of being disengaged; freedom from connection; ...

16559

disengagement
DISENGAGEMENT, n. 1. A setting free; separation; extrication.It is easy to render this ...

16560

disengaging
DISENGAGING, ppr. Separating; loosing; setting free; detaching; liberating; releasing from ...

16561

disennoble
DISENNOBLE, v.t. To deprive of title, or of that which ennobles.

16562

disenroll
DISENROLL, v.i. To erase from a roll or list.

16563

disenslave
DISENSLAVE, v.t. To free from bondage.

16564

disentangle
DISENTANGLE, v.t. [dis and entangle.]1. To unravel; to unfold; to untwist; to loose, separate or ...

16565

disentangled
DISENTANGLED, pp. Freed from entanglement; extricated.

16566

disentangling
DISENTANGLING, ppr. Freeing from entanglement; extricated.

16567

disenter
DISENTER. [See Disinter.]

16568

disenthrone
DISENTHRONE, v.t. [dis and enthrone.] To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority; as, to ...

16569

disenthroned
DISENTHRONED, pp. Deposed; deprived of sovereign power.

16570

disenthroning
DISENTHRONING, ppr. Deposing; depriving of royal authority.

16571

disentitle
DISENTITLE, v.t. To deprive of title.

16572

disentrance
DISENTRANCE, v.t. [dis and entrance.] To awaken from a trance, or from deep sleep; to arouse from a ...

16573

disentranced
DISENTRANCED, pp. Awakened from a trance, sleep or reverie.

16574

disentrancing
DISENTRANCING, ppr. Arousing from a trance, sleep or reverie.

16575

disespouse
DISESPOUSE, v.t. disespouz. [dis and espouse.] To separate after espousal or plighted faith; to ...

16576

disespoused
DISESPOUSED, pp. Separated after espousal; released from obligation to marry.

16577

disespousing
DISESPOUSING, ppr. Separating after plighted faith.

16578

disesteem
DISESTEEM, n. [dis and esteem.] Want of esteem; slight dislike; disregard. It expresses less than ...

16579

disesteemed
DISESTEEMED, pp. Disliked; slighted.

16580

disesteeming
DISESTEEMING, ppr. Disliking; slighting.

16581

disexercise
DISEXERCISE, v.t. To deprive of exercise. [A bad word.]

16582

disfancy
DISFANCY, v.t. To dislike. [Not used.]

16583

disfavor
DISFAVOR, n. [dis and favor.]1. Dislike; slight displeasure; discountenance; unfavorable regard; ...

16584

disfavored
DISFAVORED, pp. Discountenanced; not favored.

16585

disfavorer
DISFAVORER, n. One who discountenances.

16586

disfavoring
DISFAVORING, ppr. Discountenancing.

16587

disfiguration
DISFIGURATION, n. [See Disfigure.]1. The act of disfiguring, or marring external form.2. The state ...

16588

disfigure
DISFIGURE, v.t. [dis and figure.]1. To change to a worse form; to mar external figure; to impair ...

16589

disfigured
DISFIGURED, pp. Changed to a worse form; impaired in form or appearance.

16590

disfigurement
DISFIGUREMENT, n. Change of external form to the worse; defacement of beauty.

16591

disfigurer
DISFIGURER, n. One who disfigures.

16592

disfiguring
DISFIGURING, ppr. Injuring the form or shape; impairing the beauty of form.

16593

disforest
DISFOREST. [See Disafforest.]

16594

disfranchise
DISFRANCHISE, v.t. [dis and franchise.] To deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen; ...

16595

disfranchised
DISFRANCHISED, pp. Deprived of the rights and privileges of a free citizen, or of some particular ...

16596

disfranchisement
DISFRANCHISEMENT, n. The act of disfranchising, or depriving of the privileges of a free citizen, ...

16597

disfranchising
DISFRANCHISING, ppr. Depriving of the privileges of a free citizen, or of some particular immunity.

16598

disfriar
DISFRIAR, v.t. [dis and friar.] To deprive of the state of a friar. [Not used.]

16599

disfurnish
DISFURNISH, v.t. [dis and furnish.] To deprive of furniture; to strip of apparatus, habiliments or ...

16600

disfurnished
DISFURNISHED, pp. Deprived of furniture; stripped of apparatus.

16601

disfurnishing
DISFURNISHING, ppr. Depriving of furniture or apparatus.

16602

disgallant
DISGALLANT, v.t. To deprive of gallantry. [Not used.]

16603

disgarnish
DISGARNISH, v.t. [dis and garnish.]1. To divest of garniture or ornaments.2. To deprive of a ...

16604

disgarrison
DISGARRISON, v.t. To deprive of a garrison.

16605

disgavel
DISGAVEL, v.t. [See Gavelkind.] To take away the tenure of gavelkind.

16606

disgaveled
DISGAVELED, pp. Deprived of the tenure by gavelkind.

16607

disgaveling
DISGAVELING, ppr. Taking away tenure by gavelkind.

16608

disglorify
DISGLORIFY, v.t. [dis and glorify.] To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. The participle ...

16609

disgorge
DISGORGE, v.t. disgorj.1. To eject or discharge from the stomach, throat or mouth; to vomit.2. To ...

16610

disgorged
DISGORGED, pp. Ejected; discharged from the stomach or mouth; thrown out with violence and in great ...

16611

disgorgement
DISGORGEMENT, n. Disgorjment. The act of disgorging; a vomiting.

16612

disgorging
DISGORGING, ppr. Discharging from the throat or mouth; vomiting; ejecting with violence and in ...

16613

disgospel
DISGOSPEL, v.i. [dis and gospel.] To differ from the precepts of the gospel. [Not used.]

16614

disgrace
DISGRACE, n. [dis and grace.] 1. A state of being out of favor; disfavor; disesteem; as, the ...

16615

disgraced
DISGRACED, pp. Put out of favor; brought under reproach; dishonored.

16616

disgraceful
DISGRACEFUL, a. Shameful; reproachful; dishonorable; procuring shame; sinking reputation. Cowardice ...

16617

disgracefully
DISGRACEFULLY, adv. 1. With disgrace.The senate have cast you forth disgracefully.2. Shamefully; ...

16618

disgracefulness
DISGRACEFULNESS, n. Ignominy; shamefulness.

16619

disgracer
DISGRACER, n. One who disgraces; one who exposes to disgrace; one who brings into disgrace, shame ...

16620

disgracing
DISGRACING, ppr. Bringing reproach on; dishonoring.

16621

disgracious
DISGRACIOUS, a. [dis and gracious.] Ungracious; unpleasing.

16622

disgregate
DISGREGATE, v.t. To separate; to disperse. [Little used.]

16623

disguise
DISGUISE, v.t. disgize. 1. To conceal by an unusual habit, or mask. Men sometimes disguise ...

16624

disguised
DISGUISED, pp. Concealed by a counterfeit habit or appearance; intoxicated.

16625

disguisement
DISGUISEMENT, n. Dress of concealment; false appearance.

16626

disguiser
DISGUISER, n. 1. One who disguises himself or another.2. He or that which disfigures.

16627

disguising
DISGUISING, ppr. Concealing by a counterfeit dress, or by a false show; intoxicating.

16628

disgust
DISGUST, n. [L.]1. Disrelish; distaste; aversion to the taste of food or drink; an unpleasant ...

16629

disgusted
DISGUSTED, pp. Displeased; offended.

16630

disgustful
DISGUSTFUL, a. Offensive to the taste; nauseous; exciting aversion in the natural or moral taste.

16631

disgusting
DISGUSTING, ppr. 1. Provoking aversion; offending the taste.2. a. Provoking dislike; odious; ...

16632

disgustingly
DISGUSTINGLY, adv. In a manner to give disgust.

16633

dish
DISH, n. [Gr., L. It is the same word as disk and desk, and seems to signify something flat, plain ...

16634

dish-cloth
DISH-CLOTH, DISH-CLOUT, n. A cloth used for washing and wiping dishes.

16635

dish-washer
DISH-WASHER, n. The name of a bird, the mergus.

16636

dish-water
DISH-WATER, n. Water in which dishes are washed.

16637

dishabil
DISHABILLE, DISHABIL, n. [See Habit.] An undress; a loose negligent dress for the morning. But see ...

16638

dishabille
DISHABILLE, DISHABIL, n. [See Habit.] An undress; a loose negligent dress for the morning. But see ...

16639

dishabit
DISHABIT, v.t. To drive from a habitation. [Not in use.]

16640

disharmonious
DISHARMONIOUS, a. Incongruous. [See Unharmonious.]

16641

disharmony
DISHARMONY, n. [dis and harmony.] Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [Not used.]

16642

dishearten
DISHEARTEN, v.t. dishartn. [dis and heart.] To discourage; to deprive of courage; to depress the ...

16643

disheartened
DISHEARTENED, pp. Dishartned. Discouraged; depressed in spirits; cast down.

16644

disheartening
DISHEARTENING, ppr. Dishartning. Discouraging; depressing the spirits.

16645

dished
DISHED, pp. Put in a dish or dishes.

16646

disheir
DISHEIR, v.t. dizare. To debar from inheriting. [Not in use.]

16647

disherison
DISHERISON, n. [See Disherit.] The act of disinheriting, or cutting off from inheritance.

16648

disherit
DISHERIT, v.t. [See Heir.] To disinherit; to cut off from the possession or enjoyment of an ...

16649

disheritance
DISHERITANCE, n. The state of disheriting or of being disinherited.

16650

disherited
DISHERITED, pp. Cut off from an inheritance or hereditary succession.

16651

disheriting
DISHERITING, ppr. Cutting off from an inheritance.

16652

dishevel
DISHEVEL, v.t. [L.] To spread the hair loosely; to suffer the hair of the head to hang negligently, ...

16653

disheveled
DISHEVELED, pp. or a. Hanging loosely and negligently without confinement; flowing in disorder; as ...

16654

disheveling
DISHEVELING, ppr. Spreading loosely.

16655

dishing
DISHING, pp. [See Dish.]1. Putting in a dish or dishes.2. a. Concave; having the hollow form of a ...

16656

dishonest
DISHONEST, a. Dizonest. [dis and honest.]1. Void of honesty; destitute of probity, integrity or ...

16657

dishonestly
DISHONESTLY, adv. Dizonestly. 1. In a dishonest manner; without good faith, probity or integrity; ...

16658

dishonesty
DISHONESTY, n. Dizonesty.1. Want of probity, or integrity in principle; faithlessness; a ...

16659

dishonor
DISHONOR, n. Dizonor. [dis and honor.] Reproach; disgrace; ignominy; shame; whatever constitutes a ...

16660

dishonorable
DISHONORABLE, a. 1. Shameful; reproachful; base; vile; bringing shame on; staining the character, ...

16661

dishonorably
DISHONORABLY, adv. Reproachfully; in a dishonorable manner.

16662

dishonorary
DISHONORARY, a. Dizonorary. Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation.

16663

dishonored
DISHONORED, pp. Disgraced; brought into disrepute.

16664

dishonorer
DISHONORER, n. One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another with indignity.

16665

dishonoring
DISHONORING, ppr. Disgracing; bringing into disrepute; treating with indignity.

16666

dishorn
DISHORN, v.t. [dis and horn.] To deprive of horns.

16667

dishorned
DISHORNED, pp. Stripped of horns.

16668

dishumor
DISHUMOR, n. [dis and humor.] Peevishness; ill humor. [Little used.]

16669

disimpark
DISIMPARK, v.t. [dis, in and park.] To free from the barriers of a park; to free from restraints or ...

16670

disimprovement
DISIMPROVEMENT, n. [dis and improvement.] Reduction from a better to a worse state; the contrary to ...

16671

disincarcerate
DISINCARCERATE, v.t. [dis and incarcerate.] To liberate from prison; to set free from confinement. ...

16672

disinclination
DISINCLINATION, n. [dis and inclination.] Want of inclination; want of propensity, desire or ...

16673

disincline
DISINCLINE, v.t. [dis and incline.] To excite dislike or slight aversion; to make disaffected; to ...

16674

disinclined
DISINCLINED, pp. Not inclined; averse.

16675

disinclining
DISINCLINING, ppr. Exciting dislike or slight aversion.

16676

disincorporate
DISINCORPORATE, v.t. 1. To deprive of corporate powers; to disunite a corporate body, or an ...

16677

disincorporation
DISINCORPORATION, n. Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation.

16678

disinfect
DISINFECT, v.t. [dis and infect.] To cleanse from infection; to purify from contagious matter.

16679

disinfected
DISINFECTED, pp. Cleansed from infection.

16680

disinfecting
DISINFECTING, ppr. Purifying from infection.

16681

disinfection
DISINFECTION, n. Purification from infecting matter.

16682

disingenuity
DISINGENUITY, n. [dis and ingenuity.] Meanness of artifice; unfairness; disingenuousness; want of ...

16683

disingenuous
DISINGENUOUS, a. [dis and ingenuous.]1. Unfair; not open, frank and candid; meanly artful; ...

16684

disingenuously
DISINGENUOUSLY, adv. In a disingenuous manner; unfairly; not openly and candidly; with secret ...

16685

disingenuousness
DISINGENUOUSNESS, n. 1. Unfairness; want of candor; low craft; as the disingenuousness of a man, or ...

16686

disinherison
DISINHERISON, n. [dis and inherit.]1. The act of cutting off from hereditary succession; the act of ...

16687

disinherit
DISINHERIT, v.t. [dis and inherit.] To cut off from hereditary right; to deprive of an inheritance; ...

16688

disinherited
DISINHERITED, pp. Cut off from an inheritance.

16689

disinheriting
DISINHERITING, ppr. Depriving of an hereditary estate or right.

16690

disintegrable
DISINTEGRABLE, a. [dis and integer.] That may be separated into integrant parts; capable of ...

16691

disintegrate
DISINTEGRATE, v.t. [dis and integer.] To separate the integrant parts of.Marlites are not ...

16692

disintegrated
DISINTEGRATED, pp. Separated into integrant parts without chemical action.

16693

disintegration
DISINTEGRATION, n. The act of separating integrant parts of a substance, as distinguished from ...

16694

disinter
DISINTER, v.t. [dis and inter.]1. To take out of a grave, or out of the earth; as, to disinter a ...

16695

disinteressed
DISINTERESSED, DISINTERESSMENT, [See Disinterested, &c.]

16696

disinteressment
DISINTERESSED, DISINTERESSMENT, [See Disinterested, &c.]

16697

disinterest
DISINTEREST, n. [dis and interest.]1. What is contrary to the interest or advantage; disadvantage; ...

16698

disinterested
DISINTERESTED, a. 1. Uninterested; indifferent; free from self-interest; having no personal ...

16699

disinterestedly
DISINTERESTEDLY, adv. In a disinterested manner.

16700

disinterestedness
DISINTERESTEDNESS, n. The state or quality of having no personal interest or private advantage in a ...

16701

disinteresting
DISINTERESTING, a. Uninteresting. [The latter is the word now used.]

16702

disinterment
DISINTERMENT, n. The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth.

16703

disinterred
DISINTERRED, pp. Taken out of the earth or grave.

16704

disinterring
DISINTERRING, ppr. Taking out of the earth, or out of a grave.

16705

disinthrall
DISINTHRALL, v.t. [dis and enthrall.] To liberate from slavery, bondage or servitude; to free or ...

16706

disinthralled
DISINTHRALLED, pp. Set free from bondage.

16707

disinthralling
DISINTHRALLING, ppr. Delivering from slavery or servitude.

16708

disinthrallment
DISINTHRALLMENT, n. Liberation from bondage; emancipation from slavery.

16709

disinure
DISINURE, v.t. [dis and inure.] To deprive of familiarity or custom.

16710

disinvite
DISINVITE, v.t. To recall an invitation.

16711

disinvolve
DISINVOLVE, v.t. disinvolv. [dis and involve.] To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.

16712

disjoin
DISJOIN, v.t. [dis and join.] To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.

16713

disjoined
DISJOINED, pp. Disunited; separated.

16714

disjoining
DISJOINING, ppr. Disuniting; severing.

16715

disjoint
DISJOINT, v.t. [dis and joint.]1. To separate a joint; to separate parts united by joints; as, to ...

16716

disjointed
DISJOINTED, pp. Separated at the joints; parted limb from limb; carved; put out of joint; not ...

16717

disjointing
DISJOINTING, ppr. Separating joints; disjoining limb from limb; breaking at the seams or junctures; ...

16718

disjointly
DISJOINTLY, adv. In a divided state.

16719

disjudication
DISJUDICATION, n. [L.] Judgment; determination. [Not used.]

16720

disjunct
DISJUNCT, a. [L., to join.] Disjoined; separated.

16721

disjunction
DISJUNCTION, n. [L.] The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as the disjunction of ...

16722

disjunctive
DISJUNCTIVE, a. 1. Separating; disjoining.2. Incapable of union. [Unusual.]3. In grammar, a ...

16723

disjunctively
DISJUNCTIVELY, adv. In a disjunctive manner; separately.

16724

disk
DISK, n. [L. See Dish and Desk.]1. The body and face of the sun, moon or a planet, as it appears to ...

16725

diskindness
DISKINDNESS, n. [dis and kindness.]1. Want of kindness; unkindness; want of affection.2. Ill turn; ...

16726

dislike
DISLIKE, n. [dis and like.] 1. Disapprobation; disinclination; displeasure; aversion; a moderate ...

16727

disliked
DISLIKED, pp. Disapproved; disrelished.

16728

dislikeful
DISLIKEFUL, a. Disliking; disaffected. [Not used.]

16729

disliken
DISLIKEN, v.t. To make unlike.

16730

dislikeness
DISLIKENESS, n. [dis and likeness.] Unlikeness; want of resemblance; dissimilitude.

16731

disliker
DISLIKER, n. One who disapproves, or disrelishes.

16732

disliking
DISLIKING, ppr. Disapproving; disrelishing.

16733

dislimb
DISLIMB, v.t. dislim. To tear the limbs from.

16734

dislimn
DISLIMN, v.t. dislim. To strike out of a picture. [Not in use.]

16735

dislocate
DISLOCATE, v.t. [dis and locate, L., place.] To displace; to put out of its proper place; ...

16736

dislocated
DISLOCATED, pp. Removed from its proper place; put out of joint.

16737

dislocating
DISLOCATING, ppr. Putting out of its proper place or out of joint.

16738

dislocation
DISLOCATION, n. 1. The act of moving from its proper place; particularly, the act of removing or ...

16739

dislodge
DISLODGE, v.t. dislodj. [dis and lodge.]1. To remove or drive from a lodge or place or rest; to ...

16740

dislodged
DISLODGED, pp. Driven from a lodge or place of rest; removed from a place of habitation, or from ...

16741

dislodging
DISLODGING, ppr. Driving from a lodge or place of rest; removed from a place of habitation, or from ...

16742

disloyal
DISLOYAL, a. [dis and loyal.]1. Not true to allegiance; false to a sovereign; faithless; as a ...

16743

disloyally
DISLOYALLY, adv. In a disloyal manner; with violation of faith or duty to a sovereign; faithlessly; ...

16744

disloyalty
DISLOYALTY, n. 1. Want of fidelity to a sovereign; violation of allegiance, or duty to a prince or ...

16745

dismal
DISMAL, a. s as z. [I am not satisfied with the etymologies of this word which I have seen. ]1. ...

16746

dismally
DISMALLY, adv. Gloomily; horrible; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

16747

dismalness
DISMALNESS, n. Gloominess; horror.

16748

dismantle
DISMANTLE, v.t. [dis and mantle.]1. To deprive of dress; to strip; to divest.2. To loose; to throw ...

16749

dismantled
DISMANTLED, pp. Divested; stripped of furniture; unrigged.

16750

dismantling
DISMANTLING, ppr. Stripping of dress; depriving of apparatus or furniture.

16751

dismask
DISMASK, v.t. [dis and mask.] To strip off a mask; to uncover; to remove that which conceals.

16752

dismasked
DISMASKED, pp. Divested of a mask; stripped of covering or disguise; uncovered.

16753

dismasking
DISMASKING, ppr. Stripping of a mask or covering.

16754

dismast
DISMAST, v.t. [dis and mast.] To deprive of a mast or masts; to break and carry away the masts ...

16755

dismasted
DISMASTED, pp. Deprived of a mast or masts.

16756

dismasting
DISMASTING, ppr. Stripping of masts.

16757

dismastment
DISMASTMENT, n. The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted.

16758

dismay
DISMAY, v.t. To deprive of that strength or firmness of mind which constitutes courage; to ...

16759

dismayed
DISMAYED, pp. Disheartened; deprived of courage.

16760

dismayedness
DISMAYEDNESS, n. A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness. [A useless word, ...

16761

dismaying
DISMAYING, ppr. Depriving of courage.

16762

disme
DISME, DIME, n. A tenth part; a tithe.

16763

dismember
DISMEMBER, v.t. [dis and member.]1. To divide limb from limb; to separate a member from the body; ...

16764

dismembered
DISMEMBERED, pp. Divided member from member; torn or cut in pieces; divided by the separation of a ...

16765

dismembering
DISMEMBERING, ppr. Separating a limb or limbs from the body; dividing by taking a part or parts ...

16766

dismemberment
DISMEMBERMENT, n. The act of severing a limb or limbs from the body; the act of tearing or cutting ...

16767

dismettled
DISMETTLED, a. Destitute of fire or spirit. [Not much used.]

16768

dismiss
DISMISS, v.t. [L.]1. To send away; properly, to give leave of departure; to permit to depart; ...

16769

dismissal
DISMISSAL, n. Dismission.

16770

dismissed
DISMISSED, pp. Sent away; permitted to depart; removed from office or employment.

16771

dismissing
DISMISSING, ppr. Sending away; giving leave to depart; removing from office or service.

16772

dismission
DISMISSION, n. [L.]1. The act of sending away; leave to depart; as the dismission of the grand ...

16773

dismissive
DISMISSIVE, a. Giving dismission.

16774

dismortgage
DISMORTGAGE, v.t. dismorgage. To redeem from mortgage.

16775

dismount
DISMOUNT, v.i. [dis and mount.] 1. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from a ...

16776

dismounted
DISMOUNTED, pp. 1. Thrown from a horse, or from an elevation; unhorsed, or removed from horses by ...

16777

dismounting
DISMOUNTING, ppr. Throwing from a horse; unhorsing; removing from an elevation; throwing or ...

16778

disnaturalize
DISNATURALIZE, v.t. To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth.

16779

disnatured
DISNATURED, a. Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural.

16780

disobedience
DISOBEDIENCE, n. [dis and obedience.]1. Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or ...

16781

disobedient
DISOBEDIENT, a. 1. Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what ...

16782

disobey
DISOBEY, v.t. [dis and obey.] To neglect or refuse to obey; to omit or refuse to do what is ...

16783

disobeyed
DISOBEYED, pp. Not obeyed; neglected; transgressed.

16784

disobeying
DISOBEYING, ppr. Omitting or refusing to obey; violating; transgressing, as authority or law.

16785

disobligation
DISOBLIGATION, n. [dis and obligation.] The act of disobliging; an offense; cause of disgust.

16786

disobligatory
DISOBLIGATORY, a. Releasing obligation.

16787

disoblige
DISOBLIGE, v.t. [dis and oblige.]1. To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of another; ...

16788

disobliged
DISOBLIGED, pp. Offended; slightly injured.

16789

disobligement
DISOBLIGEMENT, n. The act of disobliging.

16790

disobliger
DISOBLIGER, n. One who disobliges.

16791

disobliging
DISOBLIGING, ppr. 1. Offending; contravening the wishes of; injuring slightly.2. a. Not obliging; ...

16792

disobligingly
DISOBLIGINGLY, adv. In a disobliging manner; offensively.

16793

disobligingness
DISOBLIGINGNESS, n. Offensiveness; disposition to displease, or want of readiness to please.

16794

disopinion
DISOPINION, n. Difference of opinion. [A bad word and not used.]

16795

disorbed
DISORBED, a. [dis and orb.] Thrown out of the proper orbit; as a star disorbed.

16796

disorder
DISORDER, n. [dis and order.]1. Want of order or regular disposition; irregularity; immethodical ...

16797

disordered
DISORDERED, pp. Put out of order; derranged; disturbed; discomposed; confused; sick; ...

16798

disorderedness
DISORDEREDNESS, n. A state of disorder or irregularity; confusion.

16799

disorderly
DISORDERLY, a. Confused; immethodical; irregular; being without proper order or disposition; as, ...

16800

disordinate
DISORDINATE, a. Disorderly; living irregularly.

16801

disordinately
DISORDINATELY, adv. Inordinately; irregularly; viciously.

16802

disorganization
DISORGANIZATION, n. [See Disorganize.]1. The act of disorganizing; the act of destroying organic ...

16803

disorganize
DISORGANIZE, v.t. [dis and organize. See Organ.] To break or destroy organic structure or connected ...

16804

disorganized
DISORGANIZED, pp. Reduced to disorder; being in a confused state.

16805

disorganizer
DISORGANIZER, n. One who disorganizes; one who destroys or attempts to interrupt regular order or ...

16806

disorganizing
DISORGANIZING, ppr.1. Destroying regular and connected system; throwing into confusion.2. a. ...

16807

disown
DISOWN, v.t. [dis and own.]1. To deny; not to own; to refuse to acknowledge as belonging to ones ...

16808

disowned
DISOWNED, pp. Not owned; not acknowledged as ones own; denied; disallowed.

16809

disowning
DISOWNING, ppr. Not owning; denying; disallowing.

16810

disoxydate
DISOXYDATE, v.t. [dis and oxydate.] To reduce from oxydation; to reduce from the state of an oxyd, ...

16811

disoxydated
DISOXYDATED, pp. Reduced from the state of an oxyd.

16812

disoxydating
DISOXYDATING, ppr. Reducing from the state of an oxyd.

16813

disoxydation
DISOXYDATION, n. The act or process of freeing from oxygen and reducing from the state of an oxyd. ...

16814

disoxygenate
DISOXYGENATE, v.t. [dis and oxygenate.] To deprive of oxygen.

16815

disoxygenated
DISOXYGENATED, pp. Freed from oxygen.

16816

disoxygenating
DISOXYGENATING, ppr. Freeing from oxygen.

16817

disoxygenation
DISOXYGENATION, n. The act or process of separating oxygen from any substance containing it.

16818

dispace
DISPACE, v.i. [dis and spatior, L.] To range about.

16819

dispair
DISPAIR, v.t. [dis and pair.] To separate a pair or couple.

16820

dispand
DISPAND, v.t. [L.] To display. [Not in use.]

16821

dispansion
DISPANSION, n. The act of spreading or displaying. [Not in use.]

16822

disparadised
DISPARADISED, a. [dis and paradise.] Removed from paradise.

16823

disparage
DISPARAGE, v.t. 1. To marry one to another of inferior condition or rank; to dishonor by an unequal ...

16824

disparaged
DISPARAGED, pp. Married to one beneath his or her condition; unequally matched; dishonored or ...

16825

disparagement
DISPARAGEMENT, n. 1. The matching of a man or woman to one of inferior rank or condition, and ...

16826

disparager
DISPARAGER, n. One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

16827

disparaging
DISPARAGING, ppr. Marrying one to another of inferior condition; dishonoring by an unequal union or ...

16828

disparagingly
DISPARAGINGLY, adv. In a manner to disparage or dishonor.

16829

disparate
DISPARATE, a. [L., equal.] Unequal; unlike; dissimilar.

16830

disparates
DISPARATES, n. Plu. Things so unequal or unlike that they cannot be compared with each other.

16831

disparity
DISPARITY, n. [L.]1. Irregularity; difference in degree, in age, rank, condition or excellence; as ...

16832

dispark
DISPARK, v.t. [dis and park.]1. To throw open a park; to lay open.2. To set at large; to release ...

16833

dispart
DISPART, v.t. [dis and part. L. See Part. Dis and part both imply separation.] To part asunder; to ...

16834

disparted
DISPARTED, pp. Divided; separated; parted; rent asunder.

16835

disparting
DISPARTING, ppr. Severing; dividing; bursting; cleaving.

16836

dispassion
DISPASSION, n. [dis and passion.] Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state of the mind; apathy.

16837

dispassionate
DISPASSIONATE, a. 1. Free from passion; calm; composed; impartial; moderate; temperate; unmoved by ...

16838

dispassionately
DISPASSIONATELY, adv. Without passion; calmly; coolly.

16839

dispatch
DISPATCH, v.t. [L.]1. To send or send away; particularly applied to the sending of messengers, ...

16840

dispatched
DISPATCHED, pp. Sent with haste or by a courier express; sent out of the world; put to death; ...

16841

dispatcher
DISPATCHER, n. 1. One that dispatches; one that kills.2. One that sends on a special errand.

16842

dispatchful
DISPATCHFUL, a. Bent on haste; indicating haste; intent on speedy execution of business; as ...

16843

dispatching
DISPATCHING, ppr. Sending away in haste; putting to death; executing; finishing.

16844

dispauper
DISPAUPER, v.t. [dis and pauper.] To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support, or of the ...

16845

dispel
DISPEL, v.t. [L., to drive., Gr. See Appeal, Peal, Pulse and Bawl.] To scatter by driving or force; ...

16846

dispelled
DISPELLED, pp. Driven away; scattered; dissipated.

16847

dispelling
DISPELLING, ppr. Driving away; dispersing; scattering.

16848

dispend
DISPEND, v.t. [L., to weigh.] To spend; to lay out; to consume. [See Expend, which is generally ...

16849

dispender
DISPENDER, n. One that distributes.

16850

dispensable
DISPENSABLE, a. That may be dispensed with.

16851

dispensableness
DISPENSABLENESS, n. The capability of being dispensed with.

16852

dispensary
DISPENSARY, n. A house, place or store, in which medicines are dispensed to the poor, and medical ...

16853

dispensation
DISPENSATION, n. [L. See Dispense.]1. Distribution; the act of dealing out to different persons or ...

16854

dispensative
DISPENSATIVE, a. Granting dispensation.

16855

dispensatively
DISPENSATIVELY, adv. By dispensation.

16856

dispensatory
DISPENSATORY, n. [L.] One whose employment is to deal out or distribute; a distributor; a ...

16857

dispense
DISPENSE, v.t. dispens. [L., to weigh, primarily to move; and perhaps the original idea of ...

16858

dispensed
DISPENSED, pp. Distributed; administered.

16859

dispenser
DISPENSER, n. One who dispenses; one who distributes; one who administers; as a dispenser of favors ...

16860

dispensing
DISPENSING, ppr. 1. Distributing; administering.2. a. That may dispense with; granting ...

16861

dispeopled
DISPEOPLED, pp. Depopulated; deprived of inhabitants.

16862

dispeopler
DISPEOPLER, n. One who depopulates; a depopulator; that which deprives of inhabitants.

16863

dispeopling
DISPEOPLING, ppr. Depopulating.

16864

disperge
DISPERGE, v.t. disperj. [L.] To sprinkle. [Not in use.]

16865

dispermous
DISPERMOUS, a. [Gr., seed.] In botany, two-seeded; containing two seeds only; as, umbellate and ...

16866

disperse
DISPERSE, v.t. dispers. [L., to scatter.]1. To scatter; to drive asunder; to cause to separate into ...

16867

dispersed
DISPERSED, pp. Scattered; driven apart; diffused; dissipated.

16868

dispersedlyb
DISPERSEDLYB, adv. In a dispersed manner; separately.

16869

dispersedness
DISPERSEDNESS, n. The state of being dispersed or scattered.

16870

disperseness
DISPERSENESS, n. Thinness; a scattered state. [Little used.]

16871

disperser
DISPERSER, n. One who disperses; as the disperser of libels.

16872

dispersing
DISPERSING, ppr. Scattering; dissipating.

16873

dispersion
DISPERSION, n. 1. The act of scattering.2. The state of being scattered, or separated into remote ...

16874

dispersive
DISPERSIVE, a. Tending to scatter or dissipate.

16875

dispirit
DISPIRIT, v.t. [dis and spirit.]1. To depress the spirits; to deprive of courage; to discourage; to ...

16876

dispirited
DISPIRITED, pp. Discourage; depressed in spirits; dejected; intimidated.

16877

dispiritedness
DISPIRITEDNESS, n. Want of courage; depression of spirits.

16878

dispiriting
DISPIRITING, ppr. Discouraging; disheartening; dejecting; intimidating.

16879

dispiteous
DISPITEOUS, a. Having no pity; cruel; furious. [Not used.]

16880

displace
DISPLACE, v.t. [dis and place.]1. To put out of the usual or proper place; to remove from its ...

16881

displaced
DISPLACED, pp. Removed from the proper place; deranged; disordered; removed from an office or ...

16882

displacement
DISPLACEMENT, n. The act of displacing; the act of removing from the usual or proper place, or from ...

16883

displacency
DISPLACENCY, n. [L., to displease.; to please.] Incivility; that which displeases or disobliges.

16884

displacing
DISPLACING, ppr. Putting out of the usual or proper place; removing from an office, state or ...

16885

displant
DISPLANT, v.t. [dis and plant.]1. To pluck up or to remove a plant.2. To drive away or remove from ...

16886

displantation
DISPLANTATION, n. 1. The removal of a plant.2. The removal of inhabitants or residents people.

16887

displanted
DISPLANTED, pp.1. Removed from the place where it grew, as a plant.2. Removed from the place of ...

16888

displanting
DISPLANTING, ppr. Removing, as a plant.DISPLANTING, n. Removal from a fixed place.

16889

displat
DISPLAT, v.t. [dis and plat.] To untwist; to uncurl.

16890

display
DISPLAY, v.t. [L., gr., to unfold.]1. Literally, to unfold; hence, to open; to spread wide; to ...

16891

displayed
DISPLAYED, pp. Unfolded; opened; spread; expanded; exhibited to view; manifested.

16892

displayer
DISPLAYER, n. He or that which displays.

16893

displaying
DISPLAYING, ppr. Unfolding; spreading; exhibiting; manifesting.

16894

displeasance
DISPLEASANCE, n. Anger; discontent. [Not used.]

16895

displeasant
DISPLEASANT, a. Displezant. [See Displease.] Unpleasing; offensive; unpleasant. [The latter word is ...

16896

displease
DISPLEASE, v.t. displeze. [dis and please.]1. To offend; to make angry, sometimes in a slight ...

16897

displeased
DISPLEASED, pp. Offended; disgusted.

16898

displeasedness
DISPLEASEDNESS, n. Displeasure; uneasiness.

16899

displeasing
DISPLEASING, ppr or a. Offensive to the eye, to the mind, to the smell, or to the taste; ...

16900

displeasingness
DISPLEASINGNESS, n. Offensiveness; the quality of giving some degree of disgust.

16901

displeasure
DISPLEASURE, n. Displezhur. 1. Some irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by any thing ...

16902

displicence
DISPLICENCE, n. [L.] Dislike. [Not in use.]

16903

displode
DISPLODE, v.t. [L., to break forth.] To vent, discharge or burst with a violent sound.In posture to ...

16904

disploded
DISPLODED, pp. Discharged with a loud report.

16905

disploding
DISPLODING, ppr. Discharging or bursting with a loud report; an explosion.

16906

displosive
DISPLOSIVE, a. Noting displosion.

16907

displume
DISPLUME, v.t. [dis and plume.] To strip or deprive of plumes or feathers; to strip of badges of ...

16908

displumed
DISPLUMED, pp. Stripped of plumes.

16909

displuming
DISPLUMING, ppr. Depriving of plumes.

16910

dispondee
DISPONDEE, n. In Greek and Latin poetry, a double spondee, consisting of four long syllables.

16911

disport
DISPORT, n. [dis and sport.] Play; sport; pastime; diversion; amusement; merriment.DISPORT, v.i. To ...

16912

disporting
DISPORTING, ppr. Playing; wantoning.

16913

disposable
DISPOSABLE, a. [See Dispose.] Subject to disposal; not previously engaged or employed; free to be ...

16914

disposal
DISPOSAL, n. [See Dispose.]1. The act of disposing; a setting or arranging.This object was effected ...

16915

dispose
DISPOSE, v.t. dispoze. [L.]1. To set; to place or distribute; to arrange; used with reference to ...

16916

disposed
DISPOSED, pp. Set in order; arranged; placed; adjusted; applied; bestowed; inclined.

16917

disposer
DISPOSER, n. 1. One who disposes; a distributor; a bestower; as a disposer of gifts.2. A director; ...

16918

disposing
DISPOSING, ppr. Setting in order; arranging; distributing; bestowing; regulating; adjusting; ...

16919

disposition
DISPOSITION, n. [L.]1. The act of disposing, or state of being disposed.2. Manner in which things ...

16920

dispositive
DISPOSITIVE, a. That implies disposal. [Not used.]

16921

dispositively
DISPOSITIVELY, adv. In a dispositive manner; distributively. [Not used.]

16922

dispositor
DISPOSITOR, n. A disposer; in astrology, the planet which is lord of the sign where another planet ...

16923

dispossess
DISPOSSESS, v.t. [dis and possess.] To put out of possession, by any means; to deprive of the ...

16924

dispossessed
DISPOSSESSED, pp. Deprived of possession or occupancy.

16925

dispossessing
DISPOSSESSING, ppr. Depriving of possession; disseizing.

16926

dispossession
DISPOSSESSION, n. The act of putting out of possession.

16927

disposure
DISPOSURE, n. Dispozhur. [See Dispose.] 1. Disposal; the power of disposeing; management; ...

16928

dispraise
DISPRAISE, n. Dispraze. [dis and praise.]1. Blame; censure. Be cautious not to speak in dispraise ...

16929

dispraised
DISPRAISED, pp. Blamed; censured.

16930

dispraiser
DISPRAISER, n. One who blames or dispraises.

16931

dispraising
DISPRAISING, ppr. Blaming; censuring.

16932

dispraisingly
DISPRAISINGLY, adv. By way of dispraise; with blame or some degree of reproach.

16933

dispread
DISPREAD, v.t. dispred. [dis and spread. See Spread.] To spread in different ways; to extend or ...

16934

dispreader
DISPREADER, n. A publisher; a divulger.

16935

disprize
DISPRIZE, v.t. To undervalue.

16936

disprofess
DISPROFESS, v.i. To renounce the profession of.

16937

disprofit
DISPROFIT, n. [dis and profit.] Loss; detriment; damage. [Little used.]

16938

disproof
DISPROOF, n. [dis and proof.] Confutation; refutation; a proving to be false or erroneous; as, to ...

16939

disproperty
DISPROPERTY, v.t. To deprive of property; to dispossess. [Not used.]

16940

disproportion
DISPROPORTION, n. [dis and proportion.]1. Want of proportion of one thing to another, or between ...

16941

disproportionable
DISPROPORTIONABLE, a. Disproportional; not in proportion; unsuitable in form, size or quantity to ...

16942

disproportionablen
DISPROPORTIONABLENESS, n. Want of proportion or symmetry; unsuitableness to something else.

16943

disproportionably
DISPROPORTIONABLY, adv. With want of proportion or symmetry; unsuitably to something else.

16944

disproportional
DISPROPORTIONAL, a. Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry ...

16945

disproportionality
DISPROPORTIONALITY, n. The state of being disproportional.

16946

disproportionally
DISPROPORTIONALLY, adv. Unsuitably with respect to form, quantity or value; inadequately; ...

16947

disproportionate
DISPROPORTIONATE, a. Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else, in bulk, from ...

16948

disproportionately
DISPROPORTIONATELY, adv. In a disproportionate degree; unsuitably; inadequately.

16949

disproportionatene
DISPROPORTIONATENESS, n. Unsuitably with respect to form, quantity or value; inadequately; ...

16950

dispropriate
DISPROPRIATE, v.t. To destroy appropriation; to withdraw from an appropriate use.[See ...

16951

disprovable
DISPROVABLE, a. Capable of being disproved or refuted.

16952

disprove
DISPROVE, v.t. [dis and prove.]1. To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to disprove an ...

16953

disproved
DISPROVED, pp. Proved to be false or erroneous; refuted.

16954

disprover
DISPROVER, n. One that disproves or confutes.

16955

disproving
DISPROVING, ppr. Proving to be false or erroneous; confuting; refuting.

16956

dispunge
DISPUNGE, v.t. [dis and spunge.] To expunge; to erase; also, to discharge as from a spunge. [Il ...

16957

dispunishable
DISPUNISHABLE, a. [dis and punishable.] Without penal restraint; not punishable.

16958

dispurse
DISPURSE, for disburse. [Not in use.]

16959

dispurvey
DISPURVEY, v.t. To unprovide. [Not in use.]

16960

dispurveyance
DISPURVEYANCE, n. Want of provisions. [Not in use.]

16961

disputable
DISPUTABLE, a. [See Dispute.] That may be disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted ...

16962

disputant
DISPUTANT, n. One who disputes; one who argues in opposition to another; a controvertist; a ...

16963

disputation
DISPUTATION, n. [L.]1. The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to ...

16964

disputatious
DISPUTATIOUS, a. Inclined to dispute; apt to cavil or controvert; as a disputatious person or ...

16965

disputative
DISPUTATIVE, a. Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as a disputative ...

16966

dispute
DISPUTE, v.i. [L. Dispute is radically very similar to debate and discuss, both of which are from ...

16967

disputed
DISPUTED, pp. Contested; opposed by words or arguments; litigated.

16968

disputeless
DISPUTELESS, a. Admitting no dispute; incontrovertible.

16969

disputer
DISPUTER, n. One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist.Where is the disputer ...

16970

disputing
DISPUTING, ppr. Contending by words or arguments; controverting.DISPUTING, n. The act of contending ...

16971

disqualification
DISQUALIFICATION, n. [See Disqualitfy.]1. The act of disqualifying; or that which disqualifies; ...

16972

disqualified
DISQUALIFIED, pp. Deprived of qualifications; rendered unfit.

16973

disqualify
DISQUALIFY, v.t. [dis and qualify.]1. To make unfit; to deprive of natural power, or the qualities ...

16974

disqualifying
DISQUALIFYING, ppr. Rendering unfit; disabling.

16975

disquantity
DISQUANTITY, v.t. To diminish. [Not in use.]

16976

disquiet
DISQUIET, a. [dis and quiet.] Unquiet; restless; uneasy. [Seldom used.]DISQUIET, n. Want of quiet; ...

16977

disquieted
DISQUIETED, pp. Made uneasy or restless; disturbed; harassed.

16978

disquieter
DISQUIETER, n. One who disquiets; he or that which makes uneasy.

16979

disquietful
DISQUIETFUL, a. Producing inquietude.

16980

disquieting
DISQUIETING, ppr. 1. Disturbing; making uneasy; depriving of rest or peace.2. a. Tending to disturb ...

16981

disquietly
DISQUIETLY, adv. Without quiet or rest; in an uneasy state; uneasily; anxiously; as, he rested ...

16982

disquietness
DISQUIETNESS, n. Uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance of peace in body or mind.

16983

disquietous
DISQUIETOUS, a. Causing uneasiness. [Not used.]

16984

disquietude
DISQUIETUDE, n. Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. It is, I ...

16985

disquisition
DISQUISITION, n. [L., to seek.] A formal or systematic inquiry into any subject, by arguments, or ...

16986

disrank
DISRANK, v.t. 1. To degrade from rank. [Not used.]2. To throw out of rank or into confusion.

16987

disregard
DISREGARD, n. [dis and regard.] Neglect; omission of notice; slight; implying indifference or some ...

16988

disregarded
DISREGARDED, pp. Neglected; slighted; unnoticed.

16989

disregardful
DISREGARDFUL, a. Neglectful; negligent; heedless.

16990

disregardfully
DISREGARDFULLY, adv. Negligently; heedlessly.

16991

disrelish
DISRELISH, n. [dis and relish.] 1. Distaste; dislike of the palate; some degree of disgust. Men ...

16992

disrelished
DISRELISHED, pp. Not relished; disliked; made nauseous.

16993

disrelishing
DISRELISHING, ppr. Disliking the taste of; experiencing disgust at; rendering nauseous.

16994

disreputable
DISREPUTABLE, a. [dis and reputable.]1. Not reputable; not in esteem; not honorable; low; mean; as ...

16995

disreputation
DISREPUTATION, n. [dis and reputation.] Loss or want of reputation or good name; disrepute; ...

16996

disrepute
DISREPUTE, n. [dis and repute.] Loss or want of reputation; disesteem; discredit; dishonor. The ...

16997

disrespect
DISRESPECT, n. [dis and respect.]1. Want of respect or reverence; disesteem. Disrespect often leads ...

16998

disrespectful
DISRESPECTFUL, a. 1. Wanting in respect; irreverent; as a disrespectful thought or opinion.2. ...

16999

disrespectfully
DISRESPECTFULLY, adv. In a disrespectful manner; irreverently; uncivilly.

17000

disrobe
DISROBE, v.t. [dis and robe.]1. To divest of a robe; to divest of garments; to undress.2. To strip ...

17001

disrobed
DISROBED, pp. Divested of clothing; stripped of covering.

17002

disrober
DISROBER, n. One that strips of robes or clothing.

17003

disrobing
DISROBING, ppr. Divesting of garments; stripping of any kind of covering.

17004

disroot
DISROOT, v.t. [dis and root.]1. To tear up the roots, or by the roots.2. To tear from a foundation; ...

17005

disrooted
DISROOTED, pp. Torn up by the roots; undermined.

17006

disrooting
DISROOTING, ppr. Tearing up by the roots; undermining.

17007

disrupt
DISRUPT, a. [L., to burst.] Rent from; torn asunder; severed by rending or breaking.

17008

disruption
DISRUPTION, n. [L.]1. The act of rending asunder; the act of bursting and separating.2. Breach; ...

17009

disrupture
DISRUPTURE, v.t. [dis and rupture.] To rend; to sever by tearing, breaking or bursting. ...

17010

disruptured
DISRUPTURED, pp. Rent asunder; severed by breaking.

17011

disrupturing
DISRUPTURING, ppr. Rending asunder; severing.

17012

dissatisfaction
DISSATISFACTION, n. [dis and satisfaction.] The state of being dissatisfied; discontent; uneasiness ...

17013

dissatisfactorines
DISSATISFACTORINESS, n. Inability to satisfy or give content; a failing to give content.

17014

dissatisfactory
DISSATISFACTORY, a. Unable to give content. Rather, giving discontent; displeasing.To have reduced ...

17015

dissatisfied
DISSATISFIED, pp. 1. Made discontented; displeased.2. a. Discontented; not satisfied; not pleased; ...

17016

dissatisfy
DISSATISFY, v.t. To render discontented; to displease; to excite uneasiness by frustrating wishes ...

17017

dissatisfying
DISSATISFYING, ppr. Exciting uneasiness or discontent.

17018

disseat
DISSEAT, v.t. To remove from a seat.

17019

dissect
DISSECT, v.t. [L., to cut.]1. To cut in pieces; to divide an animal body, with a cutting ...

17020

dissected
DISSECTED, pp. Cut in pieces; separated by parting the joints; divided into its constituent parts; ...

17021

dissecting
DISSECTING, ppr. Cutting in pieces; dividing the parts; separating constituent parts for minute ...

17022

dissection
DISSECTION, n. [L.] 1. The act of cutting in pieces an animal or vegetable, for the purpose of ...

17023

dissector
DISSECTOR, n. One who dissects; an anatomist.

17024

disseize
DISSEIZE, v.t. [dis and seize.] In law, to dispossess wrongfully; to deprive of actual seizin or ...

17025

disseized
DISSEIZED, pp. Put out of possession wrongfully or by force; deprived of actual possession.

17026

disseizee
DISSEIZEE, n. A person put out of possession of an estate unlawfully.

17027

disseizin
DISSEIZIN, n. The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing of a person of his lands, tenements, ...

17028

disseizing
DISSEIZING, ppr. Depriving of actual seizin or possession; putting out of possession.

17029

disseizor
DISSEIZOR, n. One who puts another out of possession wrongfully; he that dispossessses another.

17030

dissemblance
DISSEMBLANCE, n. [dis and semblance.] Want of resemblance. [Little used.]

17031

dissemble
DISSEMBLE, v.t. [L.]1. To hide under a false appearance; to conceal; to disguise; to pretend that ...

17032

dissembled
DISSEMBLED, pp. Concealed under a false appearance; disguised.

17033

dissembler
DISSEMBLER, n. One who dissembles; a hypocrite; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under ...

17034

dissembling
DISSEMBLING, ppr. Hiding under a false appearance; acting the hypocrite.

17035

dissemblingly
DISSEMBLINGLY, adv. With dissimulation; hypocritically; falsely.

17036

disseminate
DISSEMINATE, v.t. [l., to sow; seed.]1. Literally, to sow; to scatter seed; but seldom or never ...

17037

disseminated
DISSEMINATED, pp.1. Scattered, as seed propagated; spread.2. In mineralogy, occurring in portions ...

17038

disseminating
DISSEMINATING, ppr. Scattering and propagating; spreading.

17039

dissemination
DISSEMINATION, n. The act of scattering and propagating, like seed; the act of spreading for growth ...

17040

disseminator
DISSEMINATOR, n. One who disseminates; one who spreads and propagates.

17041

dissension
DISSENSION, n. [L., to think.] Disagreement in opinion, usually a disagreement which is violent, ...

17042

dissensious
DISSENSIOUS, a. Disposed to discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious. [Little used.]

17043

dissent
DISSENT, v.i. [L., to think.]1. To disagree in opinion; to differ; to think in a different or ...

17044

dissentaneous
DISSENTANEOUS, a. Disagreeable; contrary.

17045

dissentany
DISSENTANY, a. Dissentaneous; inconsistent. [Not used.]

17046

dissenter
DISSENTER, n. 1. One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or one who declares his ...

17047

dissentient
DISSENTIENT, a. Disagreeing; declaring dissent.DISSENTIENT, n. One who disagrees and declares his ...

17048

dissenting
DISSENTING, ppr. Disagreeing in opinion; separating from the communion of an established church. It ...

17049

dissentious
DISSENTIOUS, a. Disposed to disagreement or discord.

17050

dissepiment
DISSEPIMENT, n. [L., to separate; to inclose or guard.] In botany, a partition in dry seed-vessels, ...

17051

dissert
DISSERT, v.i. [L.] To discourse or dispute. [Little in use.]

17052

dissertation
DISSERTATION, n. [L., to discourse; to sow, that is, to throw.]1. A discourse, or rather a formal ...

17053

dissertator
DISSERTATOR, n. One who writes a dissertation; one who debates.

17054

disserve
DISSERVE, v.t. disserv. [dis and serve.] To injure; to hurt; to harm; to do injury or mischief ...

17055

disserved
DISSERVED, pp. Injured.

17056

disservice
DISSERVICE, n. Injury; harm; mischief; as, violent remedies often do a disservice.

17057

disserviceable
DISSERVICEABLE, a. Injurious; hurtful.

17058

disserviceableness
DISSERVICEABLENESS, n. The quality of being injurious; tendency to harm.

17059

dissettle
DISSETTLE, v.t. To unsettle. [Not used.]

17060

dissever
DISSEVER, v.t. [dis and sever. In this word, dis, as in dispart, can have no effect, unless to ...

17061

disseverance
DISSEVERANCE, n. The act of dissevering; separation.

17062

dissevered
DISSEVERED, pp. Disparted; disjoined; separated.

17063

dissevering
DISSEVERING, ppr. Dividing asunder; separating; tearing or cutting asunder.DISSEVERING, n. The act ...

17064

dissidence
DISSIDENCE, n. [infra.] Discord.

17065

dissident
DISSIDENT, a. [L., to disagree; to sit.] Not agreeing.DISSIDENT, n. A dissenter; one who separates ...

17066

dissilience
DISSILIENCE, n. [L., to leap.] The act of leaping or starting asunder.

17067

dissilient
DISSILIENT, a. Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force, as the dry pod or ...

17068

dissilition
DISSILITION, n. The act of bursting open; the act of starting or springing different ways.

17069

dissimilar
DISSIMILAR, a. [dis and similar.] Unlike, either in nature, properties or external form; not ...

17070

dissimilarity
DISSIMILARITY, n. Unlikeness; want of resemblance; dissimilitude; as the dissimilarity of human ...

17071

dissimile
DISSIMILE, n. Dissimily. Comparison or illustration by contraries. [Little used.]

17072

dissimilitude
DISSIMILITUDE, n. [L.] Unlikeness; want of resemblance; as a dissimilitude of form or character.

17073

dissimulation
DISSIMULATION, n. [L., to make like; like.] The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false ...

17074

dissimule
DISSIMULE, v.t. To dissemble. [Not in use.]

17075

dissipable
DISSIPABLE, a. [See Dissipate.] Liable to be dissipated; that may be scattered or dispersed. The ...

17076

dissipate
DISSIPATE, v.t. [L., to throw.]1. To scatter; to disperse; to drive asunder. Wind dissipates fog; ...

17077

dissipated
DISSIPATED, pp. 1. Scattered; dispersed; wasted; consumed; squandered.2. a. Loose; irregular; given ...

17078

dissipating
DISSIPATING, ppr. Scattering; dispersing; wasting; consuming; squandering; vanishing.

17079

dissipation
DISSIPATION, n. 1. The act of scattering; dispersion; the state of being dispersed; as the ...

17080

dissociable
DISSOCIABLE, a. [See Dissociate.] 1. Not well associated, united or assorted.They came in two and ...

17081

dissocial
DISSOCIAL, a. [dis and social.] Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as a dissocial passion.

17082

dissociate
DISSOCIATE, v.t. [L., to unite, a companion.] To separate; to disunite; to part; as, to dissociate ...

17083

dissociated
DISSOCIATED, pp. Separated; disunited.

17084

dissociating
DISSOCIATING, ppr. Separating; disuniting.

17085

dissociation
DISSOCIATION, n. The act of disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.It will add to the ...

17086

dissolubility
DISSOLUBILITY, n. Capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, and converted into a fluid.

17087

dissoluble
DISSOLUBLE, a. [L. See Dissolve.]1. Capable of being dissolved; that may be melted; having its ...

17088

dissolute
DISSOLUTE, a. [L.]1. Loose in behavior and morals; given to vice and dissipation; wanton; lewd; ...

17089

dissolutely
DISSOLUTELY, adv. Loosely; wantonly; in dissipation or debauchery; without restraint; as, to live ...

17090

dissoluteness
DISSOLUTENESS, n. Looseness of manners and morals; vicious indulgences in pleasure, as in ...

17091

dissolution
DISSOLUTION, n. [L.] In a general sense, the separation of the parts of a body which, in the ...

17092

dissolvable
DISSOLVABLE, a. Dizzolvable. [See Dissolve.] That may be dissolved; capable of being melted; that ...

17093

dissolve
DISSOLVE, v.t. dizzolv. [L., to loose, to free.]1. To melt; to liquefy; to convert from a solid or ...

17094

dissolved
DISSOLVED, pp. Melted; liquefied; disunited; parted; loosed; relaxed; wasted away; ended.Dissolved ...

17095

dissolvent
DISSOLVENT, a. Having power to melt or dissolve; as the dissolvent juices of the ...

17096

dissolver
DISSOLVER, n. That which dissolves or has the power of dissolving. Heat is the most powerful ...

17097

dissolving
DISSOLVING, ppr. Melting; making or becoming liquid.

17098

dissonance
DISSONANCE, n. [L., to be discordant; to sound.]1. Discord; a mixture or union of harsh, ...

17099

dissonant
DISSONANT, a. 1. Discordant; harsh; jarring; unharmonious; unpleasant to the ear; as dissonant ...

17100

dissuade
DISSUADE, v.t. [L., to advise or incite to any thing.]1. To advise or exhort against; to attempt to ...

17101

dissuaded
DISSUADED, pp. Advised against; counseled or induced by advice not to do something; diverted from a ...

17102

dissuader
DISSUADER, n. He that dissuades; a dehorter.

17103

dissuading
DISSUADING, ppr. Exhorting against; attempting, by advice, to divert from a purpose.

17104

dissuasion
DISSUASION, n. Disuazhun. Advice or exhortation in opposition to something; the act of attempting, ...

17105

dissuasive
DISSUASIVE, a. Tending to dissuade, or divert form a measure or purpose; dehortatory.DISSUASIVE, n. ...

17106

dissunder
DISSUNDER, v.t. [dis and sunder.] To separate; to rend.

17107

dissweeten
DISSWEETEN, v.t. To deprive of sweetness. [Not used.]

17108

dissyllabic
DISSYLLABIC, a. Consisting of two syllables only; as a dissyllabic foot in poetry.

17109

dissyllable
DISSYLLABLE, n. [Gr., two or twice; a syllable.] A word consisting of two syllables only; as, ...

17110

distaff
DISTAFF, n. 1. The staff of a spinning-wheel, to which a bunch of flax or tow is tied, and from ...

17111

distaff-thistle
DISTAFF-THISTLE, n. A species of thistle; a name of the Atraetylis, and of the Carthamus, or false ...

17112

distain
DISTAIN, v.t. [dis and stain. L. See Stain.]1. To stain; to tinge with any different color from the ...

17113

distained
DISTAINED, pp. Stained; tinged; discolored; blotted; sullied.

17114

distaining
DISTAINING, ppr. Staining; discoloring; blotting; tarnishing.

17115

distance
DISTANCE, n. [L., to stand apart; to stand.]1. An interval or space between two objects; the length ...

17116

distanced
DISTANCED, pp. Left far behind; cast out of the race.

17117

distant
DISTANT, a. [L., standing apart.]1. Separate; having an intervening space of any indefinite extent. ...

17118

distantly
DISTANTLY, adv. Remotely; at a distance; with reserve.

17119

distaste
DISTASTE, n. [dis and taste.]1. Aversion of the taste; dislike of food or drink; disrelish; ...

17120

distasted
DISTASTED, pp. Disrelished; disliked; offended; displeased.

17121

distasteful
DISTASTEFUL, a. 1. Nauseous; unpleasant or disgusting to the taste.2. Offensive; displeasing; as a ...

17122

distastefulness
DISTASTEFULNESS, n. Disagreeableness; dislike.

17123

distasting
DISTASTING, ppr. Disrelishing; disliking; offending; displeasing.

17124

distastive
DISTASTIVE, n. That which gives disrelish or aversion.

17125

distemper
DISTEMPER, n. [dis and temper.]1. Literally, an undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate ...

17126

distemperance
DISTEMPERANCE, n. Distemperature.

17127

distemperate
DISTEMPERATE, a. Immoderate. [Little used.]

17128

distemperature
DISTEMPERATURE, n. 1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other ...

17129

distempered
DISTEMPERED, pp. or a. 1. Diseased in body, or disordered in mind. We speak of a distempered body, ...

17130

distempering
DISTEMPERING, ppr. Affecting with disease or disorder; disturbing; depriving of moderation.

17131

distend
DISTEND, v.t. [L., to tend, to stretch; to hold. Gr., to stretch.]1. To stretch or spread in all ...

17132

distended
DISTENDED, pp. Spread; expanded; dilated by an inclosed substance or force.

17133

distending
DISTENDING, ppr. Stretching in all directions; dilating; expanding.

17134

distensibility
DISTENSIBILITY, n. The quality or capacity of being distensible.

17135

distensible
DISTENSIBLE, a. Capable of being distended or dilated.

17136

distent
DISTENT, a. Spread. [Not in use.]DISTENT, n. Breadth. [Not used.]

17137

distention
DISTENTION, n. [L.]1. The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; ...

17138

disterminate
DISTERMINATE, a. [L.] Separated by bounds.

17139

distermination
DISTERMINATION, n. Separation.

17140

disthene
DISTHENE, n. [Gr., two; force.] A mineral so called by Hauy, because its crystals have the property ...

17141

disthronize
DISTHRONIZE, v.t. To dethrone. [Not used.]

17142

distich
DISTICH, n. [L., Gr., a verse.] A couplet; a couple of verses or poetic lines, making complete ...

17143

distichous
DISTICHOUS, DISTICH, a. Having two rows, or disposed in two rows. A distichous spike has all the ...

17144

distill
DISTILL, v.i. [L., to drop; a drop. Gr.]1. To drop; to fall in drops. Soft showers distilld, and ...

17145

distillable
DISTILLABLE, a. That may be distilled; fit for distillation.

17146

distillation
DISTILLATION, n. 1. The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring or throwing down in drops.2. ...

17147

distillatory
DISTILLATORY, a. Belonging to distillation; used for distilling; as distillatory vessels.

17148

distilled
DISTILLED, pp. Let fall or thrown down inn drops; subjected to the process of distillation; ...

17149

distiller
DISTILLER, n. One who distills; one whose occupation is to extract spirit by evaporation and ...

17150

distillery
DISTILLERY, n. 1. The act or art of distilling.2. The building and works where distilling is ...

17151

distilling
DISTILLING, ppr. Dropping; letting fall in drops; extracting by distillation.

17152

distillment
DISTILLMENT, n. That which is drawn by distillation.

17153

distinct
DISTINCT, a. [L. See Distinguish.]1. Literally, having the difference marked; separated by a ...

17154

distinction
DISTINCTION, n. [L.]1. The act of separating or distinguishing.2. A note or mark of difference. ...

17155

distinctive
DISTINCTIVE, a. 1. That marks distinction or difference; as distinctive names or titles.2. Having ...

17156

distinctively
DISTINCTIVELY, adv. With distinction; plainly.

17157

distinctly
DISTINCTLY, adv. 1. Separately; with distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part ...

17158

distinctness
DISTINCTNESS, n. 1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that ...

17159

distinguish
DISTINGUISH, v.t. [L. Gr. The primary sense is, to prick, to pierce with a sharp point, to thrust ...

17160

distinguishable
DISTINGUISHABLE, a. 1. Capable of being distinguished; that may be separated, known or made known, ...

17161

distinguished
DISTINGUISHED, pp.1. Separated or known by a mark of difference, or by different qualities.2. a. ...

17162

distinguisher
DISTINGUISHER, n. 1. He or that which distinguishes, or that separates one thing from another by ...

17163

distinguishing
DISTINGUISHING, ppr.1. Separating from others by a note of diversity; ascertaining difference by a ...

17164

distinguishingly
DISTINGUISHINGLY, adv. With distinction; with some mark of preference.

17165

distinguishment
DISTINGUISHMENT, n. Distinction; observation of difference.

17166

distitle
DISTITLE, v.t. To deprive of right.

17167

distort
DISTORT, v.t. [L., to twist.]1. To twist out of natural or regular shape; as, to distort the neck, ...

17168

distorted
DISTORTED, pp. Twisted out of natural or regular shape; wrested; perverted.

17169

distorting
DISTORTING, ppr. Twisting out of shape; wresting; perverting.

17170

distortion
DISTORTION, n. [L.] 1. The act of distorting or wresting; a twisting out of regular shape; a ...

17171

distract
DISTRACT, v.t. [L., to draw. See draw and drag. The old participle distraught is obsolete.]1. ...

17172

distracted
DISTRACTED, pp.1. Drawn apart; drawn in different directions; diverted from its object; perplexed; ...

17173

distractedly
DISTRACTEDLY, adv. Madly; furiously; wildly.

17174

distractedness
DISTRACTEDNESS, n. A state of being mad; madness.

17175

distracter
DISTRACTER, n. One who distracts.

17176

distracting
DISTRACTING, ppr. Drawing apart; separating; diverting from an object; perplexing; harassing; ...

17177

distraction
DISTRACTION, n. [L.]1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.2. Confusion from a ...

17178

distractive
DISTRACTIVE, a. Causing perplexity; as distractive cases.

17179

distrain
DISTRAIN, v.t. [L. Dis and stringo. See Strain. Blackstone writes distrein.]1. To seize for debt; ...

17180

distrainable
DISTRAINABLE, a. That is liable to be taken for distress.

17181

distrained
DISTRAINED, pp. Seized for debt or to compel the performance of duty.

17182

distraining
DISTRAINING, ppr. Seizing for debt, or for neglect of suit and service.

17183

distrainor
DISTRAINOR, n. He who seizes goods for debt or service.

17184

distraught
DISTRAUGHT, Obs. [See Distract.]

17185

distream
DISTREAM, v.i. [dis and stream.] To spread or flow over. Yet oer that virtuous blush distreams a ...

17186

distress
DISTRESS, n. [See Stress.]1. The act of distraining; the taking of any personal chattel from a ...

17187

distressed
DISTRESSED, pp. Suffering great pain or torture; severely afflicted; harassed; oppressed with ...

17188

distressedness
DISTRESSEDNESS, n. A state of being greatly pained.

17189

distressful
DISTRESSFUL, a. 1. Inflicting or bringing distress; as a distressful stroke.2. Indicating distress; ...

17190

distressing
DISTRESSING, ppr. 1. Giving severe pain; oppressing with affliction.2. a. Very afflicting; ...

17191

distributable
DISTRIBUTABLE, a. [See Distribute.] That may be distributed; that may be assigned in portions.

17192

distribute
DISTRIBUTE, v.t. [L., to give or divide.]1. To divide among two or more; to deal; to give or bestow ...

17193

distributed
DISTRIBUTED, pp. Divided among a number; dealt out; assigned in portions; separated; bestowed.

17194

distributer
DISTRIBUTER, n. One who divides or deals out in parts; one who bestows in portions; a dispenser.

17195

distributing
DISTRIBUTING, ppr. Dividing among a number; dealing out; dispensing.

17196

distribution
DISTRIBUTION, n. [L.]1. The act of dividing among a number; a dealing in parts or portions; as the ...

17197

distributive
DISTRIBUTIVE, a. 1. That distributes; that divides and assigns in portions; that deals to each his ...

17198

distributively
DISTRIBUTIVELY, adv. By distribution; singly; not collectively.

17199

distributiveness
DISTRIBUTIVENESS, n. Desire of distributing. [Little used.]

17200

district
DISTRICT, n. [L., to press hard, to bind. See Distrain.] 1. Properly, a limited extent of country; ...

17201

district-court
DISTRICT-COURT, n. A court which has cognizance of certain causes within a district defined by law. ...

17202

district-judge
DISTRICT-JUDGE, n. The judge of a district-court.

17203

district-school
DISTRICT-SCHOOL, n. A school within a certain district of a town.

17204

districted
DISTRICTED, pp. Divided into districts or definite portions.

17205

districting
DISTRICTING, ppr. Dividing into limited or definite portions.DISTRICTING, ppr. Dividing into ...

17206

distriction
DISTRICTION, n. Sudden display. [Unusual.]

17207

distringas
DISTRINGAS, n. In law, a writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person for debt, or for his ...

17208

distrust
DISTRUST, v.t. [dis and trust. See Mistrust.]1. To doubt or suspect the truth, fidelity, firmness ...

17209

distrusted
DISTRUSTED, pp. Doubted; suspected.

17210

distrustful
DISTRUSTFUL, a. 1. Apt to distrust; suspicious.2. Not confident; diffident; as distrustful of ...

17211

distrustfully
DISTRUSTFULLY, adv. In a distrustful manner; with doubt or suspicion.

17212

distrustfulness
DISTRUSTFULNESS, n. The state of being distrustful; want of confidence.

17213

distrusting
DISTRUSTING, ppr. Doubting the reality or sincerity of; suspecting; not relying on or confiding in.

17214

distrustless
DISTRUSTLESS, a. Free from distrust or suspicion.

17215

distune
DISTUNE, v.t. To put out of tune. [Not used.]

17216

disturb
DISTURB, v.t. [L., to trouble, disorder, discompose; a crowd, a tumult; Gr., a tumult. The primary ...

17217

disturbance
DISTURBANCE, n. 1. A stirring or excitement; any disquiet or interruption of peace; as, to enter ...

17218

disturbed
DISTURBED, pp. Stirred; moved; excited; discomposed; disquieted; agitated; uneasy.

17219

disturber
DISTURBER, n. 1. One who disturbs or disquiets; a violator of peace; one who causes tumults or ...

17220

disturbing
DISTURBING, ppr. Moving; exciting; rendering uneasy; making a tumult; interrupting peace; ...

17221

disturn
DISTURN, v.t. [dis and turn.] To turn aside. [Not in use.]

17222

disuniform
DISUNIFORM, a. Disyuniform. Not uniform. [Not in use.]

17223

disunion
DISUNION, n. Disyunion. [dis and union.] Separation; disjunction; or a state of not being united. ...

17224

disunite
DISUNITE, v.t. disyunite. [dis and unite.] To separate; to disjoin; to part; as, to disunite two ...

17225

disunited
DISUNITED, pp. Separated; disjoined.

17226

disuniter
DISUNITER, n. He or that which disjoins.

17227

disuniting
DISUNITING, ppr. Separating; parting.

17228

disunity
DISUNITY, n. Disyunity. A state of separation.

17229

disusage
DISUSAGE, n. Disyuzage. [dis and usage.] Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use, ...

17230

disuse
DISUSE, n. Disyuse. [dis and use.]1. Cessation of use, practice or exercise; as, the limbs lose ...

17231

disused
DISUSED, pp. Disyuzed. 1. No longer used; obsolete, as words, &c.Priam in arms disused.2. ...

17232

disusing
DISUSING, ppr. Disyuzing. Ceasing to use; disaccustoming.

17233

disvaluation
DISVALUATION, n. [See Disvalue.] Disesteem; disreputation.

17234

disvalue
DISVALUE, v.t. [dis and value.] To undervalue; to disesteem.

17235

disvouch
DISVOUCH, v.t. [dis and vouch.] to discredit; to contradict.

17236

diswarn
DISWARN, v.t. [dis and warn.] To direct by previous notice. [Not used.]

17237

diswitted
DISWITTED, a. Deprived of wits or understanding.

17238

diswont
DISWONT, v.t. [dis and wont.] To wean; to deprive of wonted usage.

17239

disworship
DISWORSHIP, n. [dis and worship.] Cause of disgrace.

17240

dit
DIT, n. A ditty. [Not used.]DIT, v.t. To close up. [Not used.]

17241

ditation
DITATION, n. [L.] The act of making rich. [Not used.]

17242

ditch
DITCH, n. [G.]1. A trench in the earth made by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet ...

17243

ditch-delivered
DITCH-DELIVERED, a. Brought forth in a ditch.

17244

ditcher
DITCHER, N. One who digs ditches.

17245

ditching
DITCHING, ppr. Digging ditches; also, draining by a ditch or ditches; as ditching a swamp.

17246

ditetrahedral
DITETRAHEDRAL, a. [dis and tetrahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of a tetrahedral prism ...

17247

dithyramb
DITHYRAMB, DITHYRAMBUS, n. [Gr.] In ancient poetry, a hymn in honor of Bacchus, full of transport ...

17248

dithyrambic
DITHYRAMBIC, n. 1. A song in honor of Bacchus, in which the wildness of intoxication is imitated.2. ...

17249

dithyrambus
DITHYRAMB, DITHYRAMBUS, n. [Gr.] In ancient poetry, a hymn in honor of Bacchus, full of transport ...

17250

dition
DITION, n. [L.] rule; power; government; dominion.

17251

ditone
DITONE, n. [Gr., tone.] In music, an interval comprehending two tones. The proportion of the sounds ...

17252

ditrihedria
DITRIHEDRIA, n. [Gr., twice three sides.] In mineralogy, a genus of spars with six sides or planes; ...

17253

dittander
DITTANDER, n. Pepper-wort, Lepidium, a genus of plants of many species. The common dittander has a ...

17254

dittany
DITTANY, n. [L., Gr.] The white dittany is a plant of the genus Dictamnus. Its leaves are covered ...

17255

dittied
DITTIED, a. [See Ditty.] Sung; adapted to music. He, with his soft pipe, and smooth, and smooth ...

17256

ditto
DITTO, contracted into do, in books of accounts, is the Italian detto, from L. It denotes said, ...

17257

ditty
DITTY, n. [L.] A song; a sonnet or a little poem to be sung.And to the warblign lute soft ditties ...

17258

diuretic
DIURETIC, a. [Gr., urinam reddo; urine.] Having the power to provoke urine; tending to produce ...

17259

diurnal
DIURNAL, a. [L., daily.]1. Relating to a day; pertaining to the daytime; as diurnal heat; diurnal ...

17260

diurnalist
DIURNALIST, n. A journalist. [Not in use.]

17261

diurnally
DIURNALLY, adv. Daily; every day.

17262

diuturnal
DIUTURNAL, a. Lasting; being of long continuance.

17263

diuturnity
DIUTURNITY, n. [L., of long continuance.] Length of time; long duration.

17264

divan
DIVAN, n. 1. Among the Turks and other orientals, a court of justice, or a council.2. A ...

17265

divaricate
DIVARICATE, v.i. [L., to straddle.] To open; to fork; to part into two branches.DIVARICATE, v.t. to ...

17266

divaricated
DIVARICATED, pp. Parted into two branches.

17267

divaricating
DIVARICATING, ppr. Parting into two branches.

17268

divarication
DIVARICATION, n. 1. A parting; a forking; a separation into two branches.2. A crossing or ...

17269

dive
DIVE, v.i. [Gr.]1. To descend or plunge into water, as an animal head first; to thrust the body ...

17270

divel
DIVEL, n. A large cartilaginous fish, with a bifurcated snout; the sea duvvil of Nieuhoff.

17271

divellent
DIVELLENT, a. [L., to pull.] Drawing asunder; separating.

17272

divellicate
DIVELLICATE, v.t. To pull in pieces.

17273

diver
DIVER, n. 1. One who dives; one who plunges head first into water; one who sinks by effort; as a ...

17274

diverb
DIVERB, n. A proverb. [Not in use.]

17275

diverge
DIVERGE, v.i. diverj. [L., to incline.] To tend from one point and recede from each other; to ...

17276

divergence
DIVERGENCE, n. A receding from each other; a going farther apart; as the divergence of lines, or ...

17277

divergent
DIVERGENT, a. Departing or receding from each other, as lines which proceed from the same point; ...

17278

diverging
DIVERGING, ppr. Receding from each other, as they proceed.

17279

divergingly
DIVERGINGLY, adv. In a diverging manner.

17280

divers
DIVERS, a. S as z. [L., to turn.]1. Different; various.Thou shalt not sow thy fields with divers ...

17281

divers-colored
DIVERS-COLORED, a. Having various colors.

17282

diverse
DIVERSE, a. [L.]1. Different; differing.Four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from ...

17283

diversification
DIVERSIFICATION, n. [See Diversify.]1. The act of changing forms or qualities, or of making ...

17284

diversiform
DIVERSIFORM, a. Of a different form; of various forms.

17285

diversify
DIVERSIFY, v.t. [L.]1. To make different or various in form or qualities; to give variety to; to ...

17286

diversifying
DIVERSIFYING, ppr. Making various in form or qualities; giving variety to; variegating.

17287

diversiified
DIVERSIIFIED, pp.1. Made various in form or qualities; variegated; altered.2. a. Distinguished by ...

17288

diversion
DIVERSION, n. [L., to divert.]1. The act of turning aside from any course; as the diversion of a ...

17289

diversity
DIVERSITY, n. [L.]1. Difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness. There may be diversity without ...

17290

diversly
DIVERSLY, adv. [from diverse.]1. In different ways; differently; variously; as a passage of ...

17291

divert
DIVERT, v.t. [L., to turn.]1. To turn off from any course, direction or intended application; to ...

17292

diverted
DIVERTED, pp. Turned aside; turned or drawn from any course, or from the usual or intended ...

17293

diverter
DIVERTER, n. He or that which diverts, turns off, or pleases.

17294

diverticle
DIVERTICLE, n. [L.] A turning; a by-way. [Not used.]

17295

diverting
DIVERTING, ppr. 1. Turning off from any course; pleasing; entertaining.2. a. Pleasing; amusing; ...

17296

divertise
DIVERTISE, v.t. s as z. To divert; to please. [Not used.]

17297

divertisement
DIVERTISEMENT, n. Diversion. [Little used.] Originally, a certain air or dance between the acts of ...

17298

divertive
DIVERTIVE, a. Tending to divert; amusing.

17299

divest
DIVEST, v.t. [L. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is appropriately used as a technical ...

17300

divested
DIVESTED, pp. Stripped; undressed; deprived.

17301

divesting
DIVESTING, ppr. Stripping; putting off; depriving.

17302

divestiture
DIVESTITURE, DIVESTURE, n. The act of stripping, putting off, or depriving.

17303

divesture
DIVESTITURE, DIVESTURE, n. The act of stripping, putting off, or depriving.

17304

dividable
DIVIDABLE, a. [See Divide.] 1. That may be divided.2. Separate; parted. [Not used nor proper.]

17305

divide
DIVIDE, v.t. [L., to part. See the latter words.]1. To part or separate an entire thing; to part a ...

17306

divided
DIVIDED, pp. Parted; disunited; distributed.

17307

dividedly
DIVIDEDLY, adv. Separately.

17308

dividend
DIVIDEND, n. 1. A part or share; particularly, the share of the interest or profit of stock in ...

17309

divider
DIVIDER, n. 1. He or that which divides; that which separates into parts.2. A distributor; one who ...

17310

dividing
DIVIDING, ppr. 1. Parting; separating; distributing; disuniting; apportioning to each his share.2. ...

17311

dividual
DIVIDUAL, a. [L.] Divided, shared or participated in common with others. [Little used.]

17312

divination
DIVINATION, n. [L., to foretell. See Divine.]1. The act of divining; a foretelling future events, ...

17313

divinator
DIVINATOR, n. One who pretends to divination.

17314

divinatory
DIVINATORY, a. Professing divination.

17315

divine
DIVINE, a. [L., a god.]1. Pertaining to the true God; as the divine nature; divine perfections.2. ...

17316

divinely
DIVINELY, adv. 1. In a divine or godlike manner; in a manner resembling deity.2. By the agency or ...

17317

divineness
DIVINENESS, n. 1. Divinity; participation of the divine nature; as the divineness of the ...

17318

diviner
DIVINER, n. 1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal ...

17319

divineress
DIVINERESS, n. A female diviner; a woman professing divination.

17320

diving
DIVING, ppr. [See Dive.]1. Plunging or sinking into water or other liquid; applied to animals ...

17321

diving-bell
DIVING-BELL, n. A hollow vessel in form of a truncated cone or pyramid, with the smaller base ...

17322

divinity
DIVINITY, n. [L.]1. The state of being divine; Deity; Godhead; the nature or essence of God. ...

17323

divisibility
DIVISIBILITY, n. [L. See Divide.] The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which ...

17324

divisible
DIVISIBLE, a. S as z. [L. See Divide.] Capable of division; that may be separated or disunited; ...

17325

divisibleness
DIVISIBLENESS, n. Divisibility; capacity of being separated.

17326

division
DIVISION, n. S as z. [L. See Divide.]1. The act of dividing or separating into parts, any entire ...

17327

divisional
DIVISIONAL, DIVISIONARY, a. Pertaining to division; noting or making division; as a divisional ...

17328

divisionary
DIVISIONAL, DIVISIONARY, a. Pertaining to division; noting or making division; as a divisional ...

17329

divisioner
DIVISIONER, n. One who divides. [Not used.]

17330

divisive
DIVISIVE, a. 1. Forming division or distribution.2. Creating division or discord.

17331

divisor
DIVISOR, n. In arithmetic, the number by which the dividend is divided.

17332

divorce
DIVORCE, n. [L. See Divert.]1. A legal dissolution of the bonds of matrimony, or the separation of ...

17333

divorced
DIVORCED, pp. Separated by a dissolution of the marriage contract; separated from bed and board; ...

17334

divorcement
DIVORCEMENT, n. Divorce; dissolution of the marriage tie.Let him write her a bill of divorcement. ...

17335

divorcer
DIVORCER, n. 1. The person or cause that produces divorce.2. One of a sect called divorcers, said ...

17336

divorcing
DIVORCING, ppr. Dissolving the marriage contract; separating from bed and board; disuniting.

17337

divorcive
DIVORCIVE, a. Having power to divorce.

17338

divulgate
DIVULGATE, a. Published. [Little used.]

17339

divulgation
DIVULGATION, n. The act of divulging or publishing.

17340

divulge
DIVULGE, v.t. divulj. [L., to make public; the common people; people.]1. To make public; to tell or ...

17341

divulged
DIVULGED, pp. Made public; revealed; disclosed; published.

17342

divulger
DIVULGER, n. One who divulges or reveals.

17343

divulging
DIVULGING, ppr. Disclosing; publishing; revealing.

17344

divulsion
DIVULSION, n. [L., to pull.] The act of pulling or plucking away; a rending asunder.And dire ...

17345

divulsive
DIVULSIVE, a. That pulls asunder; that rends.

17346

dizen
DIZEN, v.t. dizn. To dress gayly; to deck. This word is not esteemed elegant, and is nearly ...

17347

dizz
DIZZ, v.t. [See Dizzy.] To astonish; to puzzle; to make dizzy. [Not used.]

17348

dizzard
DIZZARD, n. [See Dizzy.] A blockhead. [Not used.]

17349

dizziness
DIZZINESS, n. [See Dizzy.] Giddiness; a whirling in the head; vertigo.

17350

dizzy
DIZZY, a. [G., dizziness; dizzy.]1. Giddy; having a sensation of whirling in the head, with ...

17351

do
DO, v.t. or auxiliary; pret. Did; pp. Done, pronounced dun. This verb, when transitive, is formed ...

17352

doat
DOAT. [See Dote.]

17353

docibility
DOCIBILITY, DOCIBLENESS, n. Teachableness; docility; readiness to learn.

17354

docible
DOCIBLE, a. [See Docile.] Teachable; docile; tractable; easily taught or managed.

17355

docibleness
DOCIBILITY, DOCIBLENESS, n. Teachableness; docility; readiness to learn.

17356

docile
DOCILE, a. [L., to teach. See Teach.] Teachable; easily instructed; ready to learn; tractable; ...

17357

docility
DOCILITY, n. Teachableness; readiness to learn; aptness to be taught. The docility of elephants is ...

17358

docimacy
DOCIMACY, n. [Gr., See the next word.] The art or practice of assaying metals; metallurgy.

17359

docimastic
DOCIMASTIC, a. [Gr., to try, essay, examine, proved; to prove.] Properly, essaying, proving by ...

17360

dock
DOCK, n. [Gr., L.] A genus of plants, the Rumex, of several species. Its root resembles a ...

17361

dock-yard
DOCK-YARD, n. A yard or magazine near a harbor, for containing all kinds of naval stores and ...

17362

docket
DOCKET, n. 1. A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing. Also, a ...

17363

docking
DOCKING, ppr. Clipping; cutting off the end; placing in a dock.DOCKING, n. The act of drawing, as a ...

17364

doctor
DOCTOR, n. [L., to teach.]1. A teacher.There stood up one in the council, a Pharisee, named ...

17365

doctoral
DOCTORAL, a. Relating to the degree of a doctor.

17366

doctorally
DOCTORALLY, adv. In the manner of a doctor.

17367

doctorate
DOCTORATE, n. The degree of a doctor.DOCTORATE, v.t. To make a doctor by conferring a degree.

17368

doctoress
DOCTRESS, DOCTORESS, n. A females physician.

17369

doctorly
DOCTORLY, a. Like a learned man.

17370

doctorship
DOCTORSHIP, n. The degree or rank of a doctor. [Doctorate is now generally used.]

17371

doctress
DOCTRESS, DOCTORESS, n. A females physician.

17372

doctrinal
DOCTRINAL, a. [See Doctrine.]1. Pertaining to doctrine; containing a doctrine or something taught; ...

17373

doctrinally
DOCTRINALLY, adv In the form of doctrine or instruction; by way of teaching or positive direction.

17374

doctrine
DOCTRINE, n. [L., to teach.]1. In a general sense, whatever is taught. Hence, a principle or ...

17375

document
DOCUMENT, n. [L., to teach.]1. Precept; instruction; direction.2. Dogmatical precept; authoritative ...

17376

documental
DOCUMENTAL, a. Pertaining to instruction or to documents; consisting in or derived from documents; ...

17377

documentary
DOCUMENTARY, a. Pertaining to written evidence; consisting in documents.

17378

dodder
DODDER, n. [G.] A plant of the genus Cuscuta, one species of which is called hell-weed. It is ...

17379

doddered
DODDERED, a. Overgrown with dodder; covered with supercrescent plants.

17380

dodecagon
DODECAGON, n. [Gr., twelve; an angle.] A regular figure or polygon, consisting of twelve equal ...

17381

dodecagyn
DODECAGYN, n. [Gr., twelve; a female.] In botany, a plant having twelve pistils.

17382

dodecagynian
DODECAGYNIAN, a. Having twelve pistils.

17383

dodecahedral
DODECAHEDRAL, a. [infra.] Pertaining to a dodecahedron; consisting of twelve equal sides.

17384

dodecahedron
DODECAHEDRON, n. [Gr., twelve; a base.] A regular solid contained under twelve equal and regular ...

17385

dodecander
DODECANDER, n. [Gr., twelve; a male.] In botany, a plant having twelve stamens; one of the class ...

17386

dodecandrian
DODECANDRIAN, a. Pertaining to the plants or class of plants that have twelve stamens, or from ...

17387

dodecatemorion
DODECATEMORION, n. [Gr., twelfth; part.] A twelfth part. [Little used.]

17388

dodecatemory
DODECATEMORY, n. A denomination sometimes given to each of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

17389

dodge
DODGE, v.i. doj. [from some root signifying to shoot, dart or start.]1. To start suddenly aside; to ...

17390

dodger
DODGER, n. One who dodges or evades.

17391

dodging
DODGING, ppr. Starting aside; evading.

17392

dodkin
DODKIN, n. A little doit; a small coin.

17393

dodman
DODMAN, n. A fish that casts its shell, like the lobster and crab.

17394

dodo
DODO, n. The Didus, a genus of fowls of the gallinaceous order. The hooded dodo is large than a ...

17395

doe
DOE, n. Do. A she deer; the female of the fallow-deer. The male is called a buck.DOE, n. A feat. ...

17396

doer
DOER, n. [from do.]1. One who does; one who performs or executes; an actor; an agent.2. One who ...

17397

does
DOES, the third person of the verb do, indicative mode, present tense, contracted from doeth.

17398

doff
DOFF, v.t. 1. To put off, as dress.And made us doff our easy robes of peace.2. To strip or divest; ...

17399

dog
DOG, n. 1. A species of quadrupeds, belonging to the genus Canis, of many varieties, as the ...

17400

dog-cabbage
DOG-CABBAGE, n. A plant growing in the south of Europe, the cynocrambe, constituting the genus ...

17401

dog-mad
DOG-MAD, a. Mad as a dog.

17402

dogate
DOGATE, n. [See Doge.] The office or dignity of a doge.

17403

dogberry
DOGBERRY, n. The berry of the dogwood.

17404

dogberry-tree
DOGBERRY-TREE, n. The dogwood.

17405

dogbrier
DOGBRIER, n. The brier that bears the hip; the cynosbaton.

17406

dogcheap
DOGCHEAP, a. Cheap as dogs meat, or offal; very cheap.

17407

dogday
DOGDAY, n. One of the days when Sirius or the dogstar rises and sets with the sun. The dogdays ...

17408

dogdraw
DOGDRAW, n. A manifest deprehension of an offender against the venison in the forest, when he is ...

17409

doge
DOGE, n. [L., to lead.] The chief magistrate of Venice and Genoa.

17410

dogfight
DOGFIGHT, n. A battle between two dogs.

17411

dogfish
DOGFISH, n. A name given to several species of shark, as the spotted shark or greater dogfish, the ...

17412

dogfly
DOGFLY, n. A voracious, biting fly.

17413

dogged
DOGGED, pp.1. Pursued closely; urged frequently and importunately.2. a. Sullen; sour; morose; ...

17414

doggedly
DOGGEDLY, adv. Sullenly; gloomily; sourly; morosely; severely.

17415

doggedness
DOGGEDNESS, n. Sullenness; moroseness.

17416

dogger
DOGGER, n. A Dutch fishing vessel used in the German ocean, particularly in the herring fishery. It ...

17417

doggerel
DOGGEREL, a. An epithet given to a kind of loose, irregular measure in burlesque poetry, like that ...

17418

doggerman
DOGGERMAN, n. A sailor belonging to a dogger.

17419

doggers
DOGGERS, n. In English alum works, a sort of stone found in the mines with the true alum-rock, ...

17420

dogging
DOGGING, ppr. [from dog.] Hunting; pursuing incessantly or importunately.

17421

doggish
DOGGISH, a. Like a dog; churlish; growling; snappish; brutal.

17422

doghearted
DOGHEARTED, a. Cruel; pitiless; malicious.

17423

doghole
DOGHOLE, n. A place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation.

17424

doghouse
DOGHOUSE, n. A kennel for dogs.

17425

dogkennel
DOGKENNEL, n. A kennel or hut for dogs.

17426

dogleach
DOGLEACH, n. A dog-doctor.

17427

doglouse
DOGLOUSE, n. An insect that is found on dogs.

17428

dogly
DOGLY, a. Like a dog. [Not in use.]

17429

dogma
DOGMA, n. [Gr., to think; L.] A settled opinion; a principle, maxim or tenet; a doctrinal notion, ...

17430

dogmatic
DOGMATIC, DOGMATICAL, a. 1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to settled opinion.2. Positive; magisterial; ...

17431

dogmatical
DOGMATIC, DOGMATICAL, a. 1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to settled opinion.2. Positive; magisterial; ...

17432

dogmatically
DOGMATICALLY, adv. Positively; in a magisterial manner; arrogantly.

17433

dogmaticalness
DOGMATICALNESS, n. The quality of being dogmatical; positiveness.

17434

dogmatism
DOGMATISM, n. Positive assertion; arrogance; positiveness in opinion.

17435

dogmatist
DOGMATIST, n. A positive asserter; a magisterial teacher; a bold or arrogant advancer of ...

17436

dogmatize
DOGMATIZE, v.i. To assert positively; to teach with bold and undue confidence; to advance with ...

17437

dogmatizer
DOGMATIZER, n. One who dogmatizes; a bold assertor; a magisterial teacher.

17438

dogmatizing
DOGMATIZING, ppr. Asserting with excess of confidence.

17439

dogrose
DOGROSE, n. The flower of the hip.

17440

dogs-bane
DOGS-BANE, n. [Gr.] A genus of plants, the Apocynum, of several species; also, the Asclepias.

17441

dogs-ear
DOGS-EAR, n. The corner of a leaf in a book turned down like a dogs ear.

17442

dogs-meat
DOGS-MEAT, n. Refuse; offal; meat for dogs.

17443

dogs-rue
DOGS-RUE, n. A plant, a species of Scrophularia.

17444

dogsick
DOGSICK, a. Sick as a dog.

17445

dogskin
DOGSKIN, a. Made of the skin of a dog.

17446

dogsleep
DOGSLEEP, n. Pretended sleep.

17447

dogstar
DOGSTAR, n. Sirius, a star of the first magnitude, whose rising and setting with the sun gives name ...

17448

dogstones
DOGSTONES, n. A plant, the Orchis or fool-stones.

17449

dogtooth
DOGTOOTH, n. Plu. Dogteeth. A sharp-pointed human tooth growing between the foreteeth and grinders, ...

17450

dogtooth-violet
DOGTOOTH-VIOLET, n. A plant, the Erythronium.

17451

dogtrick
DOGTRICK, n. A currish trick; brutal treatment.

17452

dogtrot
DOGTROT, n. A gentle trot like that of a dog.

17453

dogvane
DOGVANE, n. Among seamen, a small vane composed of thread, cork and feathers, fastened to a half ...

17454

dogwatch
DOGWATCH, n. Among seamen, a watch of two hours. The dogwatches are two reliefs between 4 and 8 ...

17455

dogweary
DOGWEARY, a. Quite tired; much fatigued.

17456

dogwood
DOGWOOD, n. A common name of different species of Cornus or cornelian cherry.

17457

dogwood-tree
DOGWOOD-TREE, n. The Piscidia erythrina, a tree growing in Jamaica.

17458

doily
DOILY, n. 1. A species of woolen stuff, said to be so called from the first maker.2. Linen made ...

17459

doing
DOING, ppr. [See Do.] Performing; executing.

17460

doings
DOINGS, n. Plu.1. Things done; transactions; feats; actions, good or bad.2. Behavior; conduct.3. ...

17461

doit
DOIT, n. [G.]1. A small piece of money.2. A trifle. Hence our vulgar phrase, I care not a doit. It ...

17462

dolabriform
DOLABRIFORM, a. [L., an ax; form.] Having the form of an ax or hatchet.

17463

dole
DOLE, n. [See Deal.]1. The act of dealing or distributing; as the power of dole and donative. [Not ...

17464

doleful
DOLEFUL, a. [dole and full.]1. Sorrowful; expressing grief; as a doleful whine; a doleful cry.2. ...

17465

dolefully
DOLEFULLY, adv. In a doleful manner; sorrowfully; dismally; sadly.

17466

dolefulness
DOLEFULNESS, n. Sorrow; melancholy; querulousness; gloominess; dismalness.

17467

dolent
DOLENT, a. [L.] Sorrowful. [Not in use.]

17468

dolesome
DOLESOME, a. Gloomy; dismal; sorrowful; doleful.The dolesome passage to th infernal sky.

17469

dolesomeness
DOLESOMENESS, n. Gloom; dismalness.

17470

doll
DOLL, n. [Gr., an idol; to see.] A puppet or baby for a child; a small image in the human form, for ...

17471

dollar
DOLLAR, n. [G.] A silver coin of Spain and of the United States, of the value of one hundred cents, ...

17472

dolomite
DOLOMITE, n. A variety of magnesian carbonate of lime, so called from the French geologist ...

17473

dolor
DOLOR, n. [L.] Pain; grief; lamentation.

17474

doloriferous
DOLORIFEROUS, a. [L., pain; to produce.] Producing pain.

17475

dolorific
DOLORIFIC, a. [L.]1. That causes pain or grief.2. Expressing pain or grief.

17476

dolorous
DOLOROUS, a. [L., grief.]1. Sorrowful; doleful; dismal; impressing sorrow or grief; as a dolorous ...

17477

dolorously
DOLOROUSLY, adv. Sorrowfully; in a manner to express pain.

17478

dolphin
DOLPHIN, n. [Gr.]1. A genus of cetaceous fish, with teeth in both jaws, and a pipe in the head, ...

17479

dolphinet
DOLPHINET, n. A female dolphin.

17480

dolt
DOLT, n. [G.] A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; to behave foolishly.

17481

doltish
DOLTISH, a. Dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as a doltish clown.

17482

doltishness
DOLTISHNESS, n. Stupidity.

17483

dom
DOM, used as a termination, denotes jurisdiction, or property and jurisdiction; primarily, doom, ...

17484

domain
DOMAIN, n. [L.]1. Dominion; empire; territory governed, or under the government of a sovereign; as ...

17485

domal
DOMAL, a. [L.] Pertaining to house in astrology.

17486

dome
DOME, n. [Gr., a house, a plain roof. L.]1. A building; a house; a fabric; used in poetry.2. A ...

17487

domesday
DOMESDAY. [See Doomsday.]

17488

domesday-book
DOOMSDAY-BOOK, DOMESDAY-BOOK, n. A book compiled by order of William the Conqueror, containing a ...

17489

domesman
DOMESMAN, n. [See Domm.] A judge; an umpire.

17490

domestic
DOMESTIC, a. [L., a house.]1. Belonging to the house, or home; pertaining to ones place of ...

17491

domestically
DOMESTICALLY, adv. In relation to domestic affairs.

17492

domesticate
DOMESTICATE, v.t. 1. To make domestic; to retire from the public; to accustom to remain much at ...

17493

domestication
DOMESTICATION, n. 1. The act of withdrawing from the public notice and living much at home.2. The ...

17494

domicil
DOMICIL, n. [L., a mansion.] An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an ...

17495

domiciled
DOMICILED, DOMICILIATED, pp. Having gained a permanent residence or inhabitancy.

17496

domiciliate
DOMICIL, DOMICILIATE, v.t. To establish a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes ...

17497

domiciliated
DOMICILED, DOMICILIATED, pp. Having gained a permanent residence or inhabitancy.

17498

domiciliating
DOMICILING, DOMICILIATING, ppr. Gaining or taking a permanent residence.

17499

domiciliation
DOMICILIATION, n. Permanent residence; inhabitancy.

17500

domiciling
DOMICILING, DOMICILIATING, ppr. Gaining or taking a permanent residence.

17501

domify
DOMIFY, v.t. [L., a house; to make.]1. In astrology, to divide the heavens into twelve houses, in ...

17502

dominant
DOMINANT, a. [L., to rule; lord, master; a house; to overcome, to subdue.]1. Ruling; prevailing; ...

17503

dominate
DOMINATE, v.t. [L. See Dominant.] To rule; to govern; to prevail; to predominate over.We every ...

17504

dominated
DOMINATED, pp. Ruled; governed.

17505

dominating
DOMINATING, ppr. Ruling; prevailing; predominating.

17506

domination
DOMINATION, n. [L.]1. The exercise of power in ruling; dominion; government.2. Arbitrary authority; ...

17507

dominative
DOMINATIVE, a. Governing; also, imperious.

17508

dominator
DOMINATOR, n. 1. A ruler or ruling power; the presiding or predominant power.Jupiter and Mars are ...

17509

domineer
DOMINEER, v.i. [L. See Dominant.]1. To rule over with insolence or arbitrary sway.To domineer over ...

17510

domineering
DOMINEERING, ppr. 1. Ruling over with insolence; blustering; manifesting haughty superiority.2. a. ...

17511

dominical
DOMINICAL, a. [Low L., lord.]1. That notes the Lords day or Sabbath. The Dominical letter is the ...

17512

dominican
DOMINICAN, a. or n. The Dominicans, or Dominican Friars, are an order of religious or monks, called ...

17513

dominion
DOMINION, n. [L. See Dominant.]1. Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and ...

17514

domino
DOMINO, n. A kind of hood; a long dress; a masquerade dress.

17515

domite
DOMITE, n. A mineral named from Dome in Auvergne, in France, of a white or grayish white color, ...

17516

don
DON. A title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all ...

17517

donacite
DONACITE, n. A petrified shell of the genus Donax.

17518

donary
DONARY, n. [L., to give.] A thing given to a sacred use. [Little used.]

17519

donation
DONATION, n. [L., to give.]1. The act of giving or bestowing; a grant. That right we hold by his ...

17520

donatism
DONATISM, n. The doctrines of the Donatists.

17521

donatist
DONATIST, n. One of the sect founded by Donatus. They held that theirs was the only pure church, ...

17522

donatistic
DONATISTIC, a. Pertaining to Donatism.

17523

donative
DONATIVE, n. [L., to give.]1. A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present; a dole.The Romans were ...

17524

done
DONE, pp. Dun. [See Do.]1. Performed; executed; finished.2. A word by which agreement to a proposal ...

17525

donee
DONEE, n. [L., to give.]1. The person to whom a gift or donation is made.2. The person to whom ...

17526

donjon
DONJON or DONGEON. [See Dungeon.]

17527

donnat
DONNAT, n. [do and naught.] An idle fellow. [Not in use.]

17528

donor
DONOR, n. [L., to give.] 1. One who gives or bestows; one who confers any thing gratuitously; a ...

17529

donship
DONSHIP, n. [See Don.] The quality or rank of a gentleman or knight.

17530

donzel
DONZEL, n. A young attendant; a page.

17531

doodle
DOODLE, n. A trifler; a simple fellow.

17532

doole
DOOLE, [See Dole.]

17533

doom
DOOM, v.t. [L., to esteem, and perhaps with the root of condemn. See Deem.]1. To judge. ...

17534

doomage
DOOMAGE, n. A penalty or fine for neglect.

17535

doomed
DOOMED, pp. Adjudged; sentenced; condemned; destined; fated.

17536

doomful
DOOMFUL, a. Full of destruction.

17537

dooming
DOOMING, ppr. Judging; sentencing; condemning; destining.

17538

doomsday
DOOMSDAY, n. [doom and day.]1. The day of the final judgment; the great day when all men are to be ...

17539

doomsday-book
DOOMSDAY-BOOK, DOMESDAY-BOOK, n. A book compiled by order of William the Conqueror, containing a ...

17540

door
DOOR, n. [G., Gr.]1. An opening or passage into a house, or other building, or into any room, ...

17541

door-case
DOOR-CASE, n. The frame which incloses a door.

17542

door-keeper
DOOR-KEEPER, n. A porter; one who guards the entrance of a house or apartment.

17543

door-nail
DOOR-NAIL, n. The nail on which the knocker formerly struck.

17544

door-post
DOOR-POST, n. The post of a door.

17545

door-stead
DOOR-STEAD, n. Entrance or place of a door.

17546

dooring
DOORING, n. A door-case. [Not used.]

17547

doquet
DOQUET, n. Doket. A warrant; a paper granting license. [See Docket.]

17548

dor
DOR, DORR, n. The name of the black-beetle, or the hedgechafer, a species of Scarabaeus. We usually ...

17549

dorado
DORADO, n. 1. A southern constellation, containing six stars, called also xiphias; not visible in ...

17550

doree
DOREE, n. A fish of the genus Zeus. It is called also faber, and gallus marinus. The body is oval ...

17551

dorian
DORIAN, a. Pertaining to Doris in Greece. [See Doric.]

17552

doric
DORIC, a. [from Doris in Greece.] in general, pertaining to Doris, or the Dorians, in Greece, who ...

17553

doricism
DORICISM, DORISM, n. A phrase of the Doric dialect.

17554

dorism
DORICISM, DORISM, n. A phrase of the Doric dialect.

17555

dormancy
DORMANCY, n. [infra.] Quiescence.

17556

dormant
DORMANT, a. [L., to sleep.]1. Sleeping; hence, at rest; not in action; as dormant passions.2. Being ...

17557

dormar
DORMAR, n. A beam; a sleeper.

17558

dormar-window
DORMAR, DORMAR-WINDOW, n. A window in the roof of a house, or above the entablature, being raised ...

17559

dormitive
DORMITIVE, n. [L., to sleep.] A medicine to promote sleep; an opiate.

17560

dormitory
DORMITORY, n. [L., to sleep.] 1. A place, building or room to sleep in.2. A gallery in convents ...

17561

dormouse
DORMOUSE, n. Plu. Dormice. [L., to sleep and mouse.] An animal of the mouse kind, which makes a bed ...

17562

dorn
DORN, n. [G., thorn.] A fish.

17563

doron
DORON, n. [Gr., a gift.]1. A gift; a present. [Not in use.]2. A measure of three inches.

17564

dorp
DORP, n. [G.] A small village.

17565

dorr
DORR. [See Dor.]

17566

dorrer
DORRER, n. A drone. [Not in use.]

17567

dorsal
DORSAL, a. [L., the back.] Pertaining to the back; as the dorsal fin of a fish; dorsal awn, in ...

17568

dorse
DORSE, n. A canopy.

17569

dorsel
DORSEL, n. [See Dosser.]

17570

dorsiferous
DORSIFEROUS, DORSIPAROUS, a. [L., the back; to bear.] In botany, bearing or producing seeds on the ...

17571

dorsiparous
DORSIFEROUS, DORSIPAROUS, a. [L., the back; to bear.] In botany, bearing or producing seeds on the ...

17572

dorsum
DORSUM, n. [L.] The ridge of a hill.

17573

dorture
DORTURE, n. [contraction of dormiture.] A dormitory. [Not in use.]

17574

dose
DOSE, n. [Gr., that which is give; to give.]1. The quantity of medicine give or prescribed to be ...

17575

dosser
DOSSER, n. A pannier, or basket, to be carried on the shoulders of men.

17576

dossil
DOSSIL, n. In surgery, a pledget or portion of lint made into a cylindric form, or the shape of a ...

17577

dost
DOST, the second person of do, used int he solemn style; thou dost.

17578

dot
DOT, n. [I know not the origin and affinities of this word. It would be naturally deduced from a ...

17579

dotage
DOTAGE, n. [from dote.] 1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old ...

17580

dotal
DOTAL, a. [L., dower.] Pertaining to dower, or a womans marriage portion; constituting dower or ...

17581

dotard
DOTARD, n. [dote and ard, kind.]1. A man whose intellect is impaired by age; one in his second ...

17582

dotardly
DOTARDLY, a. Like a dotard; weak.

17583

dotation
DOTATION, n. [L., to endow.]1. The act of endowing, or of bestowing a marriage portion on a ...

17584

dote
DOTE, v.i. 1. To be delirious; to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind wanders or ...

17585

doter
DOTER, n. 1. One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.2. One who is ...

17586

doting
DOTING, ppr. Regarding with excessive fondness.

17587

dotingly
DOTINGLY, adv. By excessive fondness.

17588

dottard
DOTTARD, n. A tree kept low by cutting.

17589

dotted
DOTTED, pp.1. Marked with dots or small spots; diversified with small detached objects.2. In ...

17590

dotterel
DOTTEREL, n. The name of different species of fowls, of the genus Charadrius and the grallic order; ...

17591

dotting
DOTTING, ppr. Marking with dots or spots; diversifying with small detached objects.

17592

douanier
DOUANIER, n. An officer of the customs.

17593

double
DOUBLE, a. Dubl. [L., Gr. See Two.]1. Two of a sort together; one corresponding to the other; being ...

17594

double-banked
DOUBLE-BANKED, a. In seamanship, having two opposite oars managed by rowers on the same bench, or ...

17595

double-biting
DOUBLE-BITING, a. Biting or cutting on either side; as a double-biting ax.

17596

double-buttoned
DOUBLE-BUTTONED, a. Having two rows of buttons.

17597

double-charge
DOUBLE-CHARGE, v.t. To charge or intrust with a double portion.

17598

double-dealer
DOUBLE-DEALER, n. One who acts two different parts, in the same business, or at the same time; a ...

17599

double-dealing
DOUBLE-DEALING, n. Artifice; duplicity; deceitful practice; the profession of one thing and the ...

17600

double-dye
DOUBLE-DYE, v.t. To dye twice over.

17601

double-edged
DOUBLE-EDGED, a. Having two edges.

17602

double-entendre
DOUBLE-ENTENDRE, n. Double meaning of a word or expression.

17603

double-eyed
DOUBLE-EYED, a. Having a deceitful countenance.

17604

double-face
DOUBLE-FACE, n. Duplicity; the acting of different parts in the same concern.

17605

double-faced
DOUBLE-FACED, a. Deceitful; hypocritical; showing two faces.

17606

double-formed
DOUBLE-FORMED, a. Of a mixed form.

17607

double-fortified
DOUBLE-FORTIFIED, a. Twice fortified; doubly strengthened.

17608

double-founted
DOUBLE-FOUNTED, a. Having two sources.

17609

double-gild
DOUBLE-GILD, v.t. To gild with double coloring.

17610

double-handed
DOUBLE-HANDED, a. Having two hands; deceitful.

17611

double-headed
DOUBLE-HEADED, a. 1. Having two heads.2. Having the flowers growing one to another.

17612

double-hearted
DOUBLE-HEARTED, a. Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous.

17613

double-lock
DOUBLE-LOCK, v.t. To shoot the bolt twice; to fasten with double security.

17614

double-manned
DOUBLE-MANNED, a. Furnished with twice the complement of men, or with two men instead of one.

17615

double-meaning
DOUBLE-MEANING, a. Having two meanings.

17616

double-minded
DOUBLE-MINDED, a. Having different minds at different times; unsettled; wavering; unstable; ...

17617

double-mouthed
DOUBLE-MOUTHED, a. Having two mouths.

17618

double-natured
DOUBLE-NATURED, a. Having a two-fold nature.

17619

double-octave
DOUBLE-OCTAVE, n. In muxic, an interval composed of two octaves or fifteen notes in diatonic ...

17620

double-plea
DOUBLE-PLEA, n. In law, a plea in which the defendant alledges two different matters in bar of the ...

17621

double-quarrel
DOUBLE-QUARREL, n. A complaint of a clerk to the archbishop against an inferior ordinary, for delay ...

17622

double-shade
DOUBLE-SHADE, v.t. To double the natural darkness of a place.

17623

double-shining
DOUBLE-SHINING, a. Shining with double luster.

17624

double-threaded
DOUBLE-THREADED, a. Consisting of two threads twisted together.

17625

double-tongued
DOUBLE-TONGUED, a. Making contrary declarations on the same subject at different times; ...

17626

doubled
DOUBLED, pp. Folded; increased by adding an equal quantity, sum or value; repeated; turned or ...

17627

doubleness
DOUBLENESS, n. 1. The state of being doubled.2. Duplicity.

17628

doubler
DOUBLER, n. 1. He that doubles.2. An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of ...

17629

doublet
DOUBLET, n. 1. The inner garment of a man; a waistcoat or vest.2. Two; a pair.3. Among lapidaries, ...

17630

doublets
DOUBLETS, n. 1. A game on dice within tables.2. The same number on both dice.3. A double meaning.

17631

doubling
DOUBLING, ppr. Making twice the sum, number or quantity; repeating; passing round; turning to ...

17632

doubloon
DOUBLOON, n. A Spanish and Portuguese coin, being double the value of the pistole.

17633

doubly
DOUBLY, adv. In twice the quantity; to twice the degree; as doubly wise or good; to be doubly ...

17634

doubt
DOUBT, v.i. dout. [L., G.]1. To waver or fluctuate in opinion; to hesitate; to be in suspense; to ...

17635

doubtable
DOUBTABLE, a. That may be doubted.

17636

doubted
DOUBTED, pp. Scrupled; questioned; not certain or settled.

17637

doubter
DOUBTER, n. One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.

17638

doubtful
DOUBTFUL, a. 1. Dubious; not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating; applied to ...

17639

doubtfully
DOUBTFULLY, adv.1. In a doubtful manner; dubiously.2. With doubt; irresolutely.3. Ambiguously; with ...

17640

doubtfulness
DOUBTFULNESS, n. 1. A state of doubt of uncertainty of mind; dubiousness; suspense; instability of ...

17641

doubting
DOUBTING, ppr. Wavering in mind; calling in question; hesitating.

17642

doubtingly
DOUBTINGLY, adv. In a doubting manner; dubiously; without confidence.

17643

doubtless
DOUBTLESS, a. Free from fear of danger; secure.Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure.DOUBTLESS, ...

17644

doubtlessly
DOUBTLESSLY, adv. Unquestionably.

17645

douced
DOUCED, n. A musical instrument. [Not in use.]

17646

doucet
DOUCET, n. A custard. [Not in use.]

17647

douceur
DOUCEUR, n. [L.] A present or gift; a bribe.

17648

doucine
DOUCINE, n. A molding concave above the convex below, serving as a cymatium to a delicate cornice; ...

17649

doucker
DOUCKER, n. [See Duck.] A fowl that dips or dives in water.

17650

dough
DOUGH, n. Do. [G.] Paste of bread; a mass composed of flour or meal moistened and kneaded, but not ...

17651

dough-baked
DOUGH-BAKED, a. Unfinished; not hardened to perfection; soft.

17652

dough-kneaded
DOUGH-KNEADED, a. Soft; like dough.

17653

dough-nut
DOUGH-NUT, n. [dough and nut.] A small roundish cake, made of flour, eggs and sugar, moistened with ...

17654

doughtiness
DOUGHTINESS, n. Doutiness. [See Doughty.] Valor; bravery.

17655

doughty
DOUGHTY, a. Douty. [G., L. See Decent.] Brave; valiant; eminent; noble; illustrious; as a doughty ...

17656

doughy
DOUGHY, a. Doy. Like dough; soft; yielding to pressure; pale.

17657

douse
DOUSE, v.t. [Gr.]1. To thrust or plunge into water.2. In seamens language, to strike or lower in ...

17658

dout
DOUT, v.t. To put out; to extinguish.

17659

douter
DOUTER, n. An extinguisher for candles.

17660

douzeave
DOUZEAVE, n. Doozeve. In music, a scale of twelve degrees.

17661

dove
DOVE, n. [G.]1. The oenas, or domestic pigeon, a species of Columba. Its color is a deep bluish ash ...

17662

dove-cot
DOVE-COT, n. A small building or box in which domestic pigeons breed.

17663

dove-house
DOVE-HOUSE, n. A house or shelter for doves.

17664

dove-tail
DOVE-TAIL, n. In carpentry, the manner of fastening boards and timbers together by letting one ...

17665

dove-tailed
DOVE-TAILED, pp. United by a tenon in form of a doves tail.

17666

dove-tailing
DOVE-TAILING, ppr. Uniting by a dove-tail.

17667

dovelike
DOVELIKE, a. Resembling a dove.

17668

doves-foot
DOVES-FOOT, n. A plant, a species of Geranium.

17669

doveship
DOVESHIP, n. The qualities of a dove.

17670

dovish
DOVISH, a. Like a dove; innocent. [Not in use.]

17671

dowable
DOWABLE, a. [See Dower.] That may be endowed; entitled to dower.

17672

dowager
DOWAGER, n. A widow with a jointure; a title particularly given to the widows of princes and ...

17673

dowcets
DOWCETS, n. The testicles of a hart or stag.

17674

dowdy
DOWDY, n. An awkward, ill-dressed, inelegant woman.DOWDY, a. Awkward.

17675

dower
DOWER, n. [Gr., a gift; to give. L.]1. That portion of the lands or tenements of a man which his ...

17676

dowered
DOWERED, a. Furnished with dower, or a portion.

17677

dowerless
DOWERLESS, a. Destitute of dower; having no portion or fortune.

17678

dowery
DOWERY, DOWRY, A different spelling of dower, but little used, and they may well be neglected.

17679

dowlas
DOWLAS, n. A kind of coarse linen cloth.

17680

dowle
DOWLE, n. A feather. [Not in use.]

17681

down
DOWN, n. 1. The fine soft feathers of fowls, particularly of the duck kind. The eider duck yields ...

17682

down-bed
DOWN-BED, n. A bed of down.

17683

down-haul
DOWN-HAUL, n. In seamens language, a rope passing along a stay, through the cringles of the ...

17684

down-sitting
DOWN-SITTING, n. The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.Thou knowest my down-sitting and my ...

17685

downcast
DOWNCAST, a. Cast downward; directed to the ground; as a downcast eye or look, indicating ...

17686

downed
DOWNED, a. Covered or stuffed with down.

17687

downfall
DOWNFALL, n. 1. A falling, or body of things falling; as the downfall of a flood.2. Ruin; ...

17688

downfallen
DOWNFALLEN, a. Fallen; ruined.

17689

downgyved
DOWNGYVED, a. Hanging down like the loose cincture of fetters.

17690

downhearted
DOWNHEARTED, a. Dejected in spirits.

17691

downhill
DOWNHILL, n. Declivity; descent; slope. And though tis downhill all.DOWNHILL, a. Declivous; ...

17692

downlooked
DOWNLOOKED, a. Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen; as jealousy downlooked.

17693

downlying
DOWNLYING, n. The time of retiring to rest; time of repose.DOWNLYING, a. About to be in travel of ...

17694

downright
DOWNRIGHT, adv. 1. Right down; straight down; perpendicularly.A giant cleft downright.2. In plain ...

17695

downrightly
DOWNRIGHTLY, adv. Plainly; in plain terms; bluntly.

17696

downtrod
DOWNTROD, DOWNTRODDEN, a. Trodden down; trampled down.

17697

downtrodden
DOWNTROD, DOWNTRODDEN, a. Trodden down; trampled down.

17698

downward
DOWNWARD, DOWNWARDS, adv. [See Ward.]1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course, ...

17699

downwards
DOWNWARD, DOWNWARDS, adv. [See Ward.]1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course, ...

17700

downweed
DOWNWEED, n. Cottonweed, a downy plant.

17701

downy
DOWNY, a. [See Down.] 1. Covered with down or nap; as a downy feather; downy wings.2. Covered with ...

17702

dowry
DOWRY, n. [See Dower. This word differs not from dower. It is the same word differently written, ...

17703

dowse
DOWSE, v.t. To strike on the face. [Not in use.]

17704

dowst
DOWST, n. A stroke. [Not in use.]

17705

doxological
DOXOLOGICAL, a. Pertaining to doxology; giving praise to God.

17706

doxology
DOXOLOGY, n. [Gr., praise, glory; to speak.] In Christian worship, a hymn in praise of the ...

17707

doxy
DOXY, n. A prostitute.

17708

doze
DOZE, v.i. [See Dote.]1. To slumber; to sleep lightly.If he happened to doze a little, the jolly ...

17709

dozen
DOZEN, a. Duzn. [G.] Twelve in number, applied to things of the same kind, but rarely or never to ...

17710

dozer
DOZER, n. One that dozes or slumbers.

17711

doziness
DOZINESS, n. [from dozy.] Drowsiness; heaviness; inclination to sleep.

17712

dozing
DOZING, ppr. Slumbering.DOZING, n. A slumbering; sluggishness.

17713

dozy
DOZY, a. [See Doze.] Drowsy; heavy; inclined to sleep; sleepy; sluggish; as a dozy head.

17714

drab
DRAB, n. 1. A strumpet; a prostitute.2. A low, sluttish woman. [This seems to be the sense in which ...

17715

drabbing
DRABBING, ppr. Keeping company with lewd women.DRABBING, n. An associating with strumpets.

17716

drabble
DRABBLE, v.t. To draggle; to make dirty by drawing in mud and water; to wet and befoul; as, to ...

17717

drabbling
DRABBLING, a. Drawing in mud or water; angling for barbels.DRABBLING, n. A method of angling for ...

17718

drabler
DRABLER, n. In seamens language, a small additional sail, sometimes laced to the bottom of a bonnet ...

17719

drachma
DRACHMA, n. [L., Gr.]1. A Grecian coin. Of the value of seven pence, three farthings, sterling, or ...

17720

draco
DRACO, n. [See Dragon.]1. In astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, containing ...

17721

dracontic
DRACONTIC, a. [L.] In astronomy, belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one ...

17722

dracunculus
DRACUNCULUS, n. [L.]1. In botany, a plant, a species of Arum, with a long stalk, spotted like a ...

17723

drad
DRAD, a. Terrible. [See Dread.] This was also the old pret. of dread.

17724

draff
DRAFF, n. Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine, or grains to cows; waste matter.

17725

draffish
DRAFFISH, a. Worthless.

17726

draffy
DRAFFY, a. Dreggy; waste; worthless

17727

draft
DRAFT, n. [corrupted from draught, from drag, draw, but authorized by respectable use.]1. A ...

17728

draft-horse
DRAFT-HORSE, n. A horse employed in drawing, particularly in drawing heavy loads or in plowing.

17729

draft-ox
DRAFT-OX, n. An ox employed in drawing.

17730

drafted
DRAFTED, pp. Drawn; delineated; detached.

17731

drafting
DRAFTING, ppr. Drawing; delineating; detaching.

17732

drafts
DRAFTS, n. A game played on checkers.

17733

drag
DRAG, v.t. [G., L. See Drink and Drench.]1. To pull; to haul; to draw along the ground by main ...

17734

dragged
DRAGGED, pp. Drawn on the ground; drawn with labor or force; drawn along slowly and heavily; raked ...

17735

dragging
DRAGGING, ppr. Drawing on the ground; drawing with labor or by force; drawing slowly or heavily; ...

17736

draggle
DRAGGLE, v.t. To wet and dirty by drawing on the ground or mud, or on wet grass; to ...

17737

draggle-tail
DRAGGLE-TAIL, n. A slut.

17738

draggled
DRAGGLED, pp. Drawn on the ground; wet or dirtied by being drawn on the ground or mire.

17739

draggling
DRAGGLING, ppr. Drawing on the ground; making dirty by drawing on the ground or wet grass.

17740

dragman
DRAGMAN, n. A fisherman that uses a dragnet.

17741

dragnet
DRAGNET, n. A net to be drawn on the bottom of a river or pond for taking fish.

17742

dragoman
DRAGOMAN, DROGMAN, n. An interpreter; a term in general use in the Levant and other parts of the ...

17743

dragon
DRAGON, n. [L., Gr., G.]1. A kind of winged serpent, much celebrated in the romances of the middle ...

17744

dragon-fish
DRAGON-FISH, n. A species of Trachinus, called the weaver. This fish is about twelve inches in ...

17745

dragon-fly
DRAGON-FLY, n. A genus of insects, the Libella or Libellula, having four extended wings; they are ...

17746

dragon-shell
DRAGON-SHELL, n. A species of concamerated patella or limpet. The top is much curved, and of an ...

17747

dragon-tree
DRAGON-TREE, n. A species of palm.

17748

dragonet
DRAGONET, n. 1. A little dragon.2. A fish with a slender round body, colored with yellow, blue and ...

17749

dragonish
DRAGONISH, a. In the form of a dragon; dragonlike.

17750

dragonlike
DRAGONLIKE, a. Like a dragon; fiery; furious.

17751

dragons
DRAGONS, n. A genus of plants, the Dracontium, of several species, natives of the Indies.

17752

dragons-blood
DRAGONS-BLOOD, n. A resinous substance, or red juice, extracted from the Dracaena draco, and other ...

17753

dragons-head
DRAGONS-HEAD, n. A genus of plants, the Dracocephalum, of many species, most of them herbaceous, ...

17754

dragons-water
DRAGONS-WATER, n. A plant , the Calla or African Arum.

17755

dragons-wort
DRAGONS-WORT, n. A plant, a species of Artemisia.

17756

dragoon
DRAGOON, n. [G., L, an ensign bearer; dragon; an appellation given to horsemen, perhaps for their ...

17757

dragoonade
DRAGOONADE, n. The abandoning of a place to the rage of soldiers.

17758

dragooned
DRAGOONED, pp. Abandoned to the violence of soldiers; persecuted; harassed.

17759

dragooning
DRAGOONING, ppr. Abandoning to the rage of soldiers; persecuting; harassing; vexing.

17760

drail
DRAIL, v.t. To trail. [Not in use.]DRAIL, v.i. To draggle. [Not in use.]

17761

drain
DRAIN, v.t. 1. To filter; to cause to pass through some porous substance.Salt water, drained ...

17762

drainable
DRAINABLE, a. Capable of being drained.

17763

drainage
DRAINAGE, n. A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid.

17764

drained
DRAINED, pp. Emptied of water or other liquor by a gradual discharge, flowing or dropping; ...

17765

draining
DRAINING, ppr. Emptying of water or other liquor by filtration or flowing in small channels.

17766

drake
DRAKE, n. [G., L, a duck.]1. The male of the duck kind.2. [L., dragon.] A small piece of ...

17767

dram
DRAM, n. [contracted from drachma, which see.]1. Among druggists and physicians, a weight of the ...

17768

dram-drinker
DRAM-DRINKER, n. One who habitually drinks spirits.

17769

drama
DRAMA, n. [Gr., to make.] A poem or composition representing a picture of human life, and ...

17770

dramatic
DRAMATIC, DRAMATICAL, a. Pertaining to the drama; represent by action; theatrical; not narrative.

17771

dramatical
DRAMATIC, DRAMATICAL, a. Pertaining to the drama; represent by action; theatrical; not narrative.

17772

dramatically
DRAMATICALLY, a. By representation; in the manner of the drama.

17773

dramatist
DRAMATIST, n. The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.

17774

dramatize
DRAMATIZE, v.t. To compose in the form of the drama; or to give to a composition the form of a ...

17775

drank
DRANK, pret. and pp. of drink.DRANK, n. A term for wild oats.

17776

drape
DRAPE, v.t. To make cloth; also, to banter.

17777

draper
DRAPER, n. One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as a linen-draper or woolen-draper.

17778

drapery
DRAPERY, n. 1. Clothwork; the trade of making cloth.2. Cloth; stuffs of wool.3. In sculpture and ...

17779

drapet
DRAPET, n. Cloth; coverlet. [Not in use.]

17780

drastic
DRASTIC, a. [Gr., to make.] Powerful; acting with strength or violence; efficacious; as a drastic ...

17781

draugh
DRAUGH. [See Draff.]

17782

draught
DRAUGHT, n. Draft. [from draw, drag.]1. The act of drawing; as a horse or ox fit for draught.2. The ...

17783

draught-hooks
DRAUGHT-HOOKS, n. Large hooks of iron fixed on the cheeks of a cannon carriage, two on each side, ...

17784

draught-horse
DRAUGHT-HORSE, n. A horse used in drawing a plow, cart or other carriage, as distinguished from a ...

17785

draught-house
DRAUGHT-HOUSE, n. A house for the reception of filth or waste matter.

17786

draughtsman
DRAUGHTSMAN, n. 1. A man who draws writings or designs or one who is skilled in such drawings.2. ...

17787

drave
DRAVE, the old participle of drive. We now use drove.

17788

draw
DRAW, v.t. pret. drew; pp. drawn. [L. It is only a dialectical spelling of drag, which see.]1. To ...

17789

draw-bridge
DRAW-BRIDGE, n. A bridge which may be drawn up or let down to admit or hinder communication, as ...

17790

draw-net
DRAW-NET, n. A net for catching the larger sorts of fowls, made of pack-thread, with wide meshes.

17791

draw-well
DRAW-WELL, n. A deep well, from which water is drawn by a long cord or pole.

17792

drawable
DRAWABLE, a. That may be drawn.

17793

drawback
DRAWBACK, n. 1. Money or an amount paid back. Usually, a certain amount of duties or customs, paid ...

17794

drawee
DRAWEE, n. The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; the payer of a bill or ...

17795

drawer
DRAWER, n. 1. One who draws or pulls; one who takes water from a well; one who draws liquors from a ...

17796

drawing
DRAWING, ppr. Pulling; hauling; attracting; delineating.DRAWING, n. 1. The act of pulling, hauling, ...

17797

drawing-master
DRAWING-MASTER, n. One who teaches the art of drawing.

17798

drawing-room
DRAWING-ROOM, n. 1. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room in which distinguished ...

17799

drawl
DRAWL, v.t. To utter words in a slow lengthened tone.DRAWL, v.i. To speak with slow ...

17800

drawling
DRAWLING, ppr. Uttering words slowly.

17801

drawn
DRAWN, pp. [See Draw.]1. Pulled; hauled; allured; attracted; delineated; extended; extracted; ...

17802

dray
DRAY, n. [L.]1. A low cart or carriage on wheels, drawn by a horse.2. A sled.

17803

dray-cart
DRAY-CART, n. A dray.

17804

dray-horse
DRAY-HORSE, n. A horse used for drawing a dray.

17805

dray-man
DRAY-MAN, n. A man who attends a dray.

17806

dray-plow
DRAY-PLOW, n. A particular kind of plow.

17807

drazel
DRAZEL, n. Drazl. A dirty woman; a slut. [This is a vulgar word; in New England pronounced drozl, ...

17808

dread
DREAD, n. Dred. [L., to dread; fearful; to tremble. The primary sense is probably to tremble, or to ...

17809

dreadable
DREADABLE, a. That is to be dreaded. [Not used.]

17810

dreaded
DREADED, pp. Feared.

17811

dreader
DREADER, n. One that fears, or lives in fear.

17812

dreadful
DREADFUL, a. 1. Impressing great fear; terrible; formidable; as a dreadful storm, or dreadful ...

17813

dreadfully
DREADFULLY, adv. Terribly; in a manner to be dreaded.

17814

dreadfulness
DREADFULNESS, n. Terribleness; the quality of being dreadful; frightfulness.

17815

dreadless
DREADLESS, a. Fearless; bold; not intimidated; undaunted; free from fear or terror; intrepid.

17816

dreadlessness
DREADLESSNESS, n. Fearlessness; undauntedness; freedom from fear or terror; boldness.

17817

dream
DREAM, n. [G.]1. The thought or series of thoughts of a person in sleep. We apply dream, in the ...

17818

dreamer
DREAMER, n. 1. One who dreams.2. A fanciful man; a visionary; one who forms or entertains vain ...

17819

dreamful
DREAMFUL, a. Full of dreams.

17820

dreaming
DREAMING, ppr. Having thoughts or ideas in sleep.

17821

dreamless
DREAMLESS, a. Free from dreams.

17822

dreamt
DREAMT, pp. Dremt. From dream.

17823

drear
DREAR, n. Dread; dismalness.DREAR, n. Dread; dismalness.DREAR, n. Dread; dismalness.DREAR, a. ...

17824

drearihead
DREARIHEAD, n. Dismalness; gloominess. [Not in use.]

17825

drearily
DREARILY, adv. Gloomily; dismally.

17826

dreariment
DREARIMENT, n. Dismalness; terror.

17827

dreariness
DREARINESS, n. Dismalness; gloomy solitude.

17828

dreary
DREARY, a. 1. Dismal; gloomy; as a dreary waste; dreary shades. This word implies both solitude and ...

17829

dredge
DREDGE, n. 1. A dragnet for taking oysters, &c.2. A mixture of oats and barley sown ...

17830

dredger
DREDGER, n. One who fishes with a dredge; also, an utensil for scattering flour on meat while ...

17831

dredging-box
DREDGING-BOX, n. A box used for dredging meat.

17832

dredging-machine
DREDGING-MACHINE, n. An engine used to take up mud or gravel from the bottom of rivers, docks, &c.

17833

dree
DREE, v.t. To suffer. [Not used.]

17834

dregginess
DREGGINESS, n. [from dreggy.] Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.

17835

dreggish
DREGGISH, a. Full of dregs; foul with lees; feculent.

17836

dreggy
DREGGY, a. [See Dregs.] Containing dregs or lees; consisting of dregs; foul; muddy; feculent.

17837

dregs
DREGS, n. Plu. [Gr.]1. The sediment of liquors; lees; grounds; feculence; any foreign matter of ...

17838

drein
DREIN. [See Drain.]

17839

drench
DRENCH, v.t. [G., to water, to soak. See Drink and Drag.]1. To wet thoroughly; to soak; to fill or ...

17840

drenched
DRENCHED, pp. Soaked; thoroughly wet; purged with a dose.

17841

drencher
DRENCHER, n. One who wets or steeps; one who gives a drench to a beast.

17842

drenching
DRENCHING, ppr. Wetting thoroughly; soaking; purging.

17843

drent
DRENT, pp. Drenched. [Not in use.]

17844

dress
DRESS, v.t. pret. and pp. dressed or drest. [L.]1. To make straight or a straight line; to adjust ...

17845

dress-maker
DRESS-MAKER, n. A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.

17846

dressed
DRESSED, pp. Adjusted; made straight; put in order; prepared; trimmed; tilled; clothed; adorned; ...

17847

dresser
DRESSER, n. 1. One who dresses; one who is employed in putting on clothes and adorning another; one ...

17848

dressing
DRESSING, ppr. Adjusting to a line; putting in order; preparing; clothing; embellishing; ...

17849

dressing-room
DRESSING-ROOM, n. An apartment appropriated for dressing the person.

17850

dressy
DRESSY, a Showy in dress; wearing rich or showy dresses.

17851

drest
DREST, pp. Of dress.

17852

dreul
DREUL, v.i. To emit saliva; to suffer saliva to issue and flow down from the mouth.

17853

drib
DRIB, v.t. To crop or cut off; to defalcate.DRIB, n. A drop. [Not used.]

17854

dribble
DRIBBLE, v.i. 1. To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water ...

17855

dribblet
DRIBBLET, n. A small piece or part; a small sum; odd money in a sum; as, the money was paid in ...

17856

dribbling
DRIBBLING, ppr. Falling in drops or small drops.DRIBBLING, n. A falling in drops.

17857

dried
DRIED, pp. Of dry. Free from moisture or sap.

17858

drier
DRIER, n. [from dry.] That which has the quality of drying; that which may expel or absorb ...

17859

drift
DRIFT, n. 1. That which is driven by wind or water, as drift seems to be primarily a participle. ...

17860

drift-sail
DRIFT-SAIL, n. In navigation, a sail used under water, veered out right ahead by sheets.

17861

drift-way
DRIFT-WAY, n. A common way for driving cattle in.

17862

drift-wind
DRIFT-WIND, n. A driving wind; a wind that drives things into heaps.

17863

drifted
DRIFTED, pp. Driven along; driven into heaps.

17864

drifting
DRIFTING, ppr. Driving by force; driving into heaps.

17865

drill
DRILL, v.t. [G.]1. To pierce with a drill; to perforate by turning a sharp pointed instrument of a ...

17866

drill-plow
DRILL-PLOW, n. A plow for sowing grain in drills.

17867

drilled
DRILLED, pp. Bored or perforated with a drill; exercised; sown in rows.

17868

drilling
DRILLING, ppr. Boring with a drill; training to military duty; sowing in drills.

17869

drink
DRINK, v.i. pret. and pp. drank. Old pret. And pp. drunk; pp. Drunken. [G. Drink and drench are ...

17870

drink-money
DRINK-MONEY, n. Money given to buy liquor for drink.

17871

drinkable
DRINKABLE, a. That may be drank; fit or suitable for drink; potable.

17872

drinker
DRINKER, n. One who drinks, particularly one who practices drinking spirituous liquors to excess; a ...

17873

drinking
DRINKING, ppr. Swallowing liquor; sucking in; absorbing.DRINKING, n. 1. The act of swallowing ...

17874

drinking-horn
DRINKING-HORN, n. A horn cup, such as our rude ancestors used.

17875

drinking-house
DRINKING-HOUSE, n. A house frequented by tiplers; an alehouse.

17876

drinkless
DRINKLESS, a. Destitute of drink.

17877

drip
DRIP, v.i. [G.]1. To fall in drops; as, water drips from eaves.2 To have any liquid falling from it ...

17878

dripping
DRIPPING, ppr. Falling or letting fall in drops.DRIPPING, n. The fat which falls from meat in ...

17879

dripping-pan
DRIPPING-PAN, n. A pan for receiving the fat which drips from meat in roasting.

17880

dripple
DRIPPLE, a. Weak or rare. [Not in use.]

17881

drive
DRIVE, v.t. pret. Drove, [formerly drave; pp. Driven, G.]1. To impel or urge forward by force; to ...

17882

drivel
DRIVEL, v.i. drivl. [from the root of drip.]1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the ...

17883

driveler
DRIVELER, n. A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool.

17884

driveling
DRIVELING, ppr. Slavering; foolish.

17885

driven
DRIVEN, pp. Drivn. [from drive.] Urged forward by force; impelled to move; constrained by ...

17886

driver
DRIVER, n. 1. One who drives; the person or thing that urges or compels any thing else to move.2. ...

17887

driving
DRIVING, ppr. Urging forward by force; impelling.DRIVING, n. 1. The act of impelling.2. Tendency.

17888

drizzle
DRIZZLE, v.i. [G., L.] To rain in small drops; to fall as water from the clouds in very fine ...

17889

drizzled
DRIZZLED, pp. Shed or thrown down in small drops or particles.

17890

drizzling
DRIZZLING, ppr. Falling in fine drops or particles; shedding in small drops or particles.DRIZZLING, ...

17891

drizzly
DRIZZLY, a. Shedding small rain, or small particles of snow.The winters drizzly reign.

17892

drogman
DROGMAN. [See Dragoman.]

17893

droil
DROIL, v.i. To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod. [Not much used.]DROIL, n. A mope; a drone; a ...

17894

droll
DROLL, a. [G.] Odd; merry; facetious; comical; as a droll fellow.DROLL, n. 1. One whose occupation ...

17895

droller
DROLLER, n. A jester; a buffoon.

17896

drollery
DROLLERY, n. 1. Sportive tricks; buffoonery; comical stories; gestures, manners or tales adapted to ...

17897

drolling
DROLLING, n. Low wit; buffoonery.

17898

drollingly
DROLLINGLY, adv. In a jesting manner.

17899

drollish
DROLLISH, a. Somewhat droll.

17900

dromedary
DROMEDARY, n. [Gr., perhaps from swiftness, running.] A species of camel, called also the Arabian ...

17901

drone
DRONE, n. [G., to tinkle, to shake, to tingle.]1. The male of the honey bee. It is smaller than the ...

17902

drone-fly
DRONE-FLY, n. A two-winged insect, resembling the drone-bee.

17903

droning
DRONING, ppr. Living in idleness; giving a dull sound.

17904

dronish
DRONISH, a. Idle; sluggish; lazy; indolent; inactive; slow.

17905

droop
DROOP, v.i. [L., from the root of drop.]1. To sink or hang down; to lean downwards, as a body that ...

17906

drooping
DROOPING, ppr. Sinking; hanging or leaning downward; declining; languishing; failing.

17907

drop
DROP, n. [G.]1. A small portion of any fluid in a spherical form, which falls at once from any ...

17908

drop-serene
DROP-SERENE, n. A disease of the eye; amaurosis, or blindness from a diseased retina.

17909

drop-stone
DROP-STONE, n. Spar in the shape of drops.

17910

drop-wort
DROP-WORT, n. The name of a plant, the Spiraea filipendula. The hemlock drop-wort, and the water ...

17911

droplet
DROPLET, n. A little drop.

17912

dropped
DROPPED, pp. Let fall; distilled; laid aside; dismissed; let go; suffered to subside; sprinkled or ...

17913

dropping
DROPPING, ppr. Falling in globules; distilling; falling; laying aside; dismissing; quitting; ...

17914

drops
DROPS, v.t. [G.]1. To pour or let fall in small portions or globules, as a fluid; to distill.The ...

17915

dropsical
DROPSICAL, a. [See Dropsy.]1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; inclined to the dropsy; applied to ...

17916

dropsied
DROPSIED, a. Diseased with dropsy.

17917

dropsy
DROPSY, n. [L, Gr., water; the face. Formerly written hydropisy; whence by contraction, dropsy.] In ...

17918

dross
DROSS, n. [G.]1. The recrement or despumation of metals; the scum or extraneous matter of metals, ...

17919

drossiness
DROSSINESS, n. Foulness; rust; impurity; a state of being drossy.

17920

drossy
DROSSY, a. 1. Like dross; pertaining to dross.2. Full of dross; abounding with scorious or ...

17921

drotchel
DROTCHEL, n. An idle wench; a sluggard. [Not in use.]

17922

drought
DROUGHT. [See Drouth.]

17923

droughtiness
DROUGHTINESS, n. Drouthiness.

17924

droughty
DROUGHTY, a. Drouthy.

17925

droumy
DROUMY, a. Troubled; dirty. Chaucer has drovy.

17926

drouth
DROUTH, n. [See dry. The word generally used is now, as it was written by Bacon, drouth or drowth; ...

17927

drouthiness
DROUTHINESS, n. A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain.

17928

drouthy
DROUTHY, a. 1. Dry, as the weather; arid; wanting rain.2. Thirsty; dry; wanting drink.

17929

drove
DROVE, pret. of drive.DROVE, n. 1. A collection of cattle driven; a number of animals, as oxen, ...

17930

drover
DROVER, n. 1. One who drives cattle or sheep to market. Usually in New England, a man who makes it ...

17931

drown
DROWN, v.t. 1. Literally, to overwhelm in water; an appropriately, to extinguish life by immersion ...

17932

drowned
DROWNED, pp. Deprived of life by immersion in a fluid; overflowed; inundated; overwhelmed.

17933

drowner
DROWNER, n. He or that which drowns.

17934

drowning
DROWNING, ppr. Destroying life by submersion in a liquid; overflowing; overwhelming.

17935

drowse
DROWSE, v.i. drowz.1. To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness.2. ...

17936

drowsihed
DROWSIHED, n. Sleepiness.

17937

drowsily
DROWSILY, adv. 1. Sleepily; heavily; in a dull sleepy manner.2. Sluggishly; idly; slothfully; ...

17938

drowsiness
DROWSINESS, n. 1. Sleepiness; heaviness with sleep; disposition to sleep.2. Sluggishness; sloth; ...

17939

drowsy
DROWSY, a. 1. Inclined to sleep; sleepy; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; comatose.2. Dull; ...

17940

drowsy-headed
DROWSY-HEADED, a. Heavy; having a sluggish disposition.

17941

drub
DRUB, v.t. [G., L. Drubbing is a particular form of driving.] To beat with a stick; to thrash; to ...

17942

drubbed
DRUBBED, pp. Beat with a cudgel; beat soundly.

17943

drubbing
DRUBBING, ppr. Beating with a cudgel; beating soundly.DRUBBING, n. A cudgeling; a sound beating.

17944

drudge
DRUDGE, v.i. druj. To work hard; to labor in mean offices; to labor with toil and fatigue.In ...

17945

drudger
DRUDGER, n. 1. A drudge.2. A drudging-box. [See Dredging-box.]

17946

drudgery
DRUDGERY, n. Hard labor; toilsome work; ignoble toil; hard work in servile occupations.Paradise was ...

17947

drudging
DRUDGING, ppr. Laboring hard; toiling.

17948

drudging-box
DRUDGING-BOX. [See Dredging-box.]

17949

drudgingly
DRUDGINGLY, adv. With labor and fatigue; laboriously.

17950

drug
DRUG, n. [See the verb, to dry.]1. The general name of substances used in medicine, sold by the ...

17951

drugger
DRUGGER, n. A druggist. [Not used.]

17952

drugget
DRUGGET, n. A cloth or thin stuff of wool, or of wool and thread, corded or plain, usually plain.

17953

druggist
DRUGGIST, n. One who deals in drugs; properly, one whose occupation is merely to but and sell ...

17954

drugster
DRUGSTER, n. A druggist. [Not used.]

17955

druid
DRUID, n. A priest or minister of religion, among the ancient Celtic nations in Gaul, Britain and ...

17956

druidic
DRUIDIC, DRUIDICAL, a. Pertaining to the Druids.

17957

druidical
DRUIDIC, DRUIDICAL, a. Pertaining to the Druids.

17958

druidism
DRUIDISM, n. The system of religion, philosophy and instruction taught by the druids, or their ...

17959

drum
DRUM, n. [G., L.]1. A martial instrument of music, in form of a hollow cylinder, and covered at the ...

17960

drum-fish
DRUM-FISH, n. A fish, found on the coast of North America.

17961

drum-major
DRUM-MAJOR, n. The chief or first drummer of a regiment.

17962

drum-maker
DRUM-MAKER, n. One who makes drums.

17963

drum-stick
DRUM-STICK, n. The stick with which a drum is beaten, or shaped for the purpose of beating a drum.

17964

drumble
DRUMBLE, v.i. To drone; to be sluggish. [Not in use.]

17965

drumly
DRUMLY, a. Thick; stagnant; muddy. [Not in use.]

17966

drummer
DRUMMER, n. One whose office is to beat the drum, in military exercises and marching; one who ...

17967

drunk
DRUNK, a. [from drunken. See Drink.] 1. Intoxicated; inebriated; overwhelmed or overpowered by ...

17968

drunkard
DRUNKARD, n. One given to ebriety or an excessive used of strong liquor; a person who habitually or ...

17969

drunken
DRUNKEN, a. Drunkn. [participle of drink, but now used chiefly as an adjective, and often ...

17970

drunkenly
DRUNKENLY, adv. In a drunken manner. [Little used.]

17971

drunkenness
DRUNKENNESS, n. 1. Intoxication; inebriation; a state in which a person is overwhelmed or ...

17972

drupaceous
DRUPACEOUS, a. 1. Producing drupes; as drupaceous trees.2. Pertaining to drupes; or consisting of ...

17973

drupe
DRUPE, n. [L., Gr, olives ready to fall, Gr., a tree; to fall.] In botany, a pulpy pericarp or ...

17974

druse
DRUSE, n. [G., a gland, glanders.] Among miners, a cavity in a rock having its interior surface ...

17975

drusy
DRUSY, a. S as z. Abounding with very minute crystals; as a drusy surface.

17976

dry
DRY, a. [See the Verb.]1. Destitute of moisture; free from water or wetness; arid; not moist; as ...

17977

dryad
DRYAD, n. [L., Gr., a tree.] In mythology, a deity or nymph of the woods; a nymph supposed to ...

17978

dryed
DRYED, pp. of dry. [See Dried.]

17979

dryer
DRYER, n. He or that which dries; that which exhausts of moisture or greenness.

17980

dryeyed
DRYEYED, a. Not having tears in the eyes.

17981

dryfat
DRYFAT, n. A dry vat or basket.

17982

dryfoot
DRYFOOT, n. A dog that pursues game by the scent of the foot.

17983

drying
DRYING, ppr. Expelling or losing moisture, sap or greenness.DRYING, n. The act or process of ...

17984

dryite
DRYITE, n. [Gr., an oak.] Fragments of petrified or fossil wood in which the structure of the wood ...

17985

dryly
DRYLY, adv. 1. Without moisture.2. Coldly; frigidly; without affection.3. Severely; ...

17986

dryness
DRYNESS, n. 1. Destitution of moisture; want of water or other fluid; siccity; a aridity; aridness; ...

17987

drynurse
DRYNURSE, n. 1. A nurse who attends and feeds a child without the breast.2. One who attends another ...

17988

dryrub
DRYRUB, v.t. To rub and cleanse without wetting.

17989

drysalter
DRYSALTER, n. A dealer in salted or dry meats, pickles, sauces, &c.

17990

dryshod
DRYSHOD, a. Without wetting the feet. Isaiah 11:15.

17991

dual
DUAL, a. [L., two.] Expressing the number two; as the dual number in Greek.

17992

dualistic
DUALISTIC, a. Consisting of two. The dualistic system of Anaxagoras and Plato taught that there are ...

17993

duality
DUALITY, n. 1. That which expresses two in number.2. Division; separation.3. The state or quality ...

17994

dub
DUB, v.t. [Gr.] Literally, to strike. Hence,1. To strike a blow with a sword, and make a knight.Se ...

17995

dubbed
DUBBED, pp. Struck; made a knight.

17996

dubbing
DUBBING, ppr. Striking; making a knight.

17997

dubiety
DUBIETY, n. [See Doubt.] Doubtfulness. [Little used.]

17998

dubious
DUBIOUS, a. [L. See Doubt. The primary sense is probably to turn or to waver.]1. Doubtful; wavering ...

17999

dubiously
DUBIOUSLY, adv. Doubtfully; uncertainly; without any determination.

18000

dubiousness
DUBIOUSNESS, n. 1. Doubtfulness; a state of wavering and indecision of mind; as, he speaks with ...

18001

dubitable
DUBITABLE, a. [L. See Doubt.] Doubtful; uncertain. [Little used.] But the derivative indubitable is ...

18002

dubitancy
DUBITANCY, n. Doubt; uncertainty. [Little used.]

18003

dubitation
DUBITATION, n. [L, to doubt.] The act of doubting; doubt. [Little used.]

18004

ducal
DUCAL, a. Pertaining to a duke; as a ducal coronet.

18005

ducat
DUCAT, n. [from duke.] A coin of several countries in Europe, struck in the dominions of a duke. It ...

18006

ducatoon
DUCATOON, n. A silver coin, struck chiefly in Italy, of the value of about four shillings and eight ...

18007

duchess
DUCHESS, n. The consort or widow of a duke. Also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy.

18008

duchy
DUCHY, n. The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom; as the duchy of Lancaster.

18009

duchy-court
DUCHY-COURT, n. The court of the duchy of Lancaster in England.

18010

duck
DUCK, n. [G, L., to weave.] A species of coarse cloth or canvas, used for sails, sacking of beds, ...

18011

duck-legged
DUCK-LEGGED, a. Having short legs, like a duck.

18012

duck-meat
DUCK-MEAT, DUCKS-MEAT, n. A plant, the Lemna, growing in ditches and shallow water, and serving for ...

18013

duck-weed
DUCK-WEED, n. The same as duck-meat.

18014

ducked
DUCKED, pp. Plunged; dipped in water.

18015

ducker
DUCKER, n. A plunger; a diver; a cringer.

18016

ducking
DUCKING, ppr. Plunging; thrusting suddenly into water and withdrawing; dipping.DUCKING, n. The act ...

18017

ducking-stool
DUCKING-STOOL, n. A stool or chair in which common scolds were formerly tied and plunged into ...

18018

duckling
DUCKLING, n. A young duck.

18019

duckoy
DUCKOY. [See Decoy.]

18020

ducks-foot
DUCKS-FOOT, n. A plant, the Podophyllum; called also May-apple.

18021

ducks-meat
DUCK-MEAT, DUCKS-MEAT, n. A plant, the Lemna, growing in ditches and shallow water, and serving for ...

18022

duct
DUCT, n. [L., to lead. See Duke.]1. Any tube or canal by which fluid or other substance is ...

18023

ductile
DUCTILE, a. [L., to lead.]1. That may be led; easy to be led or drawn; tractable; complying; ...

18024

ductileness
DUCTILENESS, n. The quality of suffering extension by drawing or percussion; ductility.

18025

ductility
DUCTILITY, n. 1. The property of solid bodies, particularly metals, which renders them capable of ...

18026

ducture
DUCTURE, n. [L.] Guidance. [Not in use.]

18027

dudgeon
DUDGEON, n. [G.] A small dagger.

18028

duds
DUDS, n. Old clothes; tattered garments. [A vulgar word.]

18029

due
DUE, a. Du. [L., Gr., to bind. It has no connection with owe.]1. Owed; that ought to be paid or ...

18030

duel
DUEL, n. [L.]1. Single combat; a premeditated combat between two persons, for the purpose of ...

18031

dueler
DUELER, n. A combatant in single fight.

18032

dueling
DUELING, ppr. Fighting in single combat.DUELING, n. The act or practice of fighting in single ...

18033

duelist
DUELIST, n. 1. One who fights in single combat.The duelist values his honor above the life of his ...

18034

duello
DUELLO, n. Duel; or rule of dueling. [Not used.]

18035

dueness
DUENESS, n. Duness. [See Due.] Fitness; propriety due quality.

18036

duenna
DUENNA, n. [See Don.] An old woman who is kept to guard a younger; a governess.

18037

duet
DUET, DUETTO, n. A song or air in two parts.

18038

duetto
DUET, DUETTO, n. A song or air in two parts.

18039

duffel
DUFFEL, n. A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.

18040

dug
DUG, n. [L.] The pap or nipple of a cow or other beast. It is applied to a human female in ...

18041

duke
DUKE, n. [G., L, to lead; to draw, to tug. Gr.]1. In Great Britain, one of the highest order of ...

18042

dukedom
DUKEDOM, n. 1. The seignory or possessions of a duke; the territory of a duke.2. The title or ...

18043

dulbrained
DULBRAINED, a. [dull and brain.] Stupid; doltish; of dull intellects. [See Dullbrained.]

18044

dulcet
DULCET, a. [L., sweet.] 1. Sweet to the taste; luscious.She tempers dulcet creams.2. Sweet to the ...

18045

dulcification
DULCIFICATION, n. [See Dulcify.] The act of sweetening; the act of freeing from acidity, saltness ...

18046

dulcified
DULCIFIED, pp. Sweetened; purified from salts. Dulcified spirits, a term formerly applied to the ...

18047

dulcify
DULCIFY, v.t. [L, sweet; to make.] To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness or acrimony.

18048

dulcimer
DULCIMER, n. An instrument of music played by striking brass wires with little sticks. Daniel 3:5.

18049

dulciness
DULCINESS, n. [L.] Softness; easiness of temper. [Not used.]

18050

dulcorate
DULCORATE, v.t. [L., sweet; to sweeten.]1 To sweeten.2. To make less acrimonious.

18051

dulcoration
DULCORATION, n. The act of sweetening.

18052

dulia
DULIA, n. [Gr., service.] An inferior kind of worship or adoration. [Not an English word.]

18053

dull
DULL, a. [G.]1. Stupid; doltish; blockish; slow of understanding; as a lad of dull genius.2. Heavy; ...

18054

dull-brained
DULL-BRAINED, a. Stupid; of dull intellect.

18055

dull-browed
DULL-BROWED, a. Having a gloomy look.

18056

dull-disposed
DULL-DISPOSED, a. Inclined to dullness or sadness.

18057

dull-eyed
DULL-EYED, a. Having a downcast look.

18058

dull-head
DULL-HEAD, n. A person of dull understanding; a dolt; a blockhead.

18059

dull-sighted
DULL-SIGHTED, a. Having imperfect sigh; purblind.

18060

dull-witted
DULL-WITTED, a. Having a dull intellect; heavy.

18061

dullard
DULLARD, a. Doltish; stupid.DULLARD, n. A stupid person; a dot; a blockhead; a dunce.

18062

dulled
DULLED, pp. Made dull; blunted.

18063

duller
DULLER, n. That which makes dull.

18064

dulling
DULLING, ppr. Making dull.

18065

dullness
DULLNESS, n. 1. Stupidity; slowness of comprehension; weakness of intellect; indocility; as the ...

18066

dully
DULLY, adv. Stupidity; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.

18067

duly
DULY, adv. [from due.]1. Properly; fitly; in a suitable or becoming manner; as, let the subject be ...

18068

dumb
DUMB, a. Dum. 1. Mute; silent; not speaking.I was dumb with silence; I held my peace. Psalm 34.2. ...

18069

dumbly
DUMBLY, adv. dumly. Mutely; silently; without words or speech.

18070

dumbness
DUMBNESS, n. Dumness.1. Muteness; silence or holding the peace; omission of speech. This is ...

18071

dumfound
DUMFOUND, v.t. To strike dumb; to confuse. [A low word.]

18072

dummerer
DUMMERER, n. One who feigns dumbness. [Not in use.]

18073

dump
DUMP, n. [G.]1. A dull gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; sorrow; heaviness of heart.In ...

18074

dumpish
DUMPISH, a. Dull; stupid; sad; melancholy; depressed in spirits; as, he lives a dumpish life.

18075

dumpishly
DUMPISHLY, adv. In a moping manner.

18076

dumpishness
DUMPISHNESS, n. A state of being dull, heavy and moping.

18077

dumpling
DUMPLING, n. [from dump.] A kind of pudding or mass of paste in cookery; usually, a cover of paste ...

18078

dumpy
DUMPY, a. Short and thick.

18079

dun
DUN, a. 1. Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; ...

18080

dun-fish
DUN-FISH, n. Codfish cured in a particular manner. [See Dunning.]

18081

dunce
DUNCE, n. Duns. [G.] A person of weak intellects; a dullard; a dolt; a thickskull.I never knew this ...

18082

duncery
DUNCERY, n. Dullness; stupidity.

18083

duncify
DUNCIFY, v.t. To make stupid in intellect. [Not used.]

18084

dunder
DUNDER, n. [L.] Lees; dregs; a word used in Jamaica.The use of dunder in the making of run answers ...

18085

dune
DUNE, n. A hill. [See Down.]

18086

dung
DUNG, n. [G.] The excrement of animals.DUNG, v.t. To manure with dung.DUNG, v.i. To void excrement.

18087

dunged
DUNGED, pp. Manured with dung.

18088

dungeon
DUNGEON, n. 1. A close prison; or a deep, dark place of confinement.And in a dungeon deep.They ...

18089

dungfork
DUNGFORK, n. A fork used to throw dung from a stable or into a cart, or to spread it over land.

18090

dunghill
DUNGHILL, n. 1. A heap of dung.2. A mean or vile abode.3. Any mean situation or condition.He ...

18091

dungy
DUNGY, a. Full of dung; filthy; vile.

18092

dungyard
DUNGYARD, n. A yard or inclosure where dung is collected.

18093

dunlin
DUNLIN, n. A fowl, a species of sandpiper.

18094

dunnage
DUNNAGE, n. Faggots, boughs or loose wood laid on the bottom of a ship to raise heavy goods above ...

18095

dunned
DUNNED, pp. [from dun.] Importuned to pay a dept; urged.

18096

dunner
DUNNER, n. [from dun.] One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.

18097

dunning
DUNNING, ppr. [from dun.] Urging for payment of a debt, or for the grant of some favor, or for the ...

18098

dunnish
DUNNISH, a. Inclined to a dun color; somewhat dun.

18099

dunny
DUNNY, a. Deaf; dull of apprehension. [Local.]

18100

duo
DUO, n. [L.,two.] A song in two parts.

18101

duodecahedral
DUODECAHEDRAL, DUODECAHEDRON, [See Dodecahedral, Dodecahedron.]

18102

duodecahedron
DUODECAHEDRAL, DUODECAHEDRON, [See Dodecahedral, Dodecahedron.]

18103

duodecimfid
DUODECIMFID, a. [L., twelve; to cleave.] Divided into twelve parts.

18104

duodecimo
DUODECIMO, a. [L., twelve.] Having or consisting of twelve leaves to a sheet; as a book of ...

18105

duodecuple
DUODECUPLE, a. [L., two; tenfold.] Consisting of twelves.

18106

duodenum
DUODENUM, n. [L.] The first of the small intestines.

18107

duoliteral
DUOLITERAL, a. [L., two; a letter.] Consisting of two letters only; biliteral.

18108

dupe
DUPE, n. [See the verb.] A person who is deceived; or one easily led astray by his credulity; as ...

18109

dupion
DUPION, n. A double cocoon, formed by two or more silk-worms.

18110

duple
DUPLE, a. [L.] Double. Duple ratio is that of 2 to 1, 8 to 4, &c.

18111

duplicate
DUPLICATE, a. [L., to double; twofold; to fold. See Double.] Double; twofold.Duplicate proportion ...

18112

duplication
DUPLICATION, n. 1. The act of doubling; the multiplication of a number by 2.2. A folding; a ...

18113

duplicature
DUPLICATURE, n. A doubling; a fold. In anatomy, the fold of a membrane or vessel.

18114

duplicity
DUPLICITY, n. [L., double.]1. Doubleness; the number two.2. Doubleness of heart or speech; the act ...

18115

durability
DURABILITY, n. [See Durable.] The power of lasting or continuing, in any given state, without ...

18116

durable
DURABLE, a. [L., to last; hard.] Having the quality of lasting or continuing long in being, without ...

18117

durableness
DURABLENESS, n. Power of lasting; durability; as the durableness of honest fame.

18118

durably
DURABLY, adv. In a lasting manner; with long continuance.

18119

durance
DURANCE, n. [L.]1. Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody of the jailer.2. Continuance; ...

18120

durant
DURANT, n. A glazed woolen stuff; called by some everlasting.

18121

duration
DURATION, n. 1. Continuance in time; length or extension of existence, indefinitely; as the ...

18122

dure
DURE, v.i. [L. See Durable.] To last; to hold on in time or being; to continue; to endure. [This ...

18123

dureful
DUREFUL, a. Lasting.

18124

dureless
DURELESS, a. Not lasting; fading.

18125

duress
DURESS, n. [L. See Durable.]1. Literally, hardship; hence, constraint. Technically, duress, in law, ...

18126

during
DURING, ppr. Of dure. Continuing; lasting; holding on; as during life, that is, life continuing; ...

18127

durity
DURITY, n. [L.]1. Hardness; firmness.2. Hardness of mind; harshness. [Little used.]

18128

durous
DUROUS, a. Hard. [Not used.]

18129

durra
DURRA, n. A kind of millet, cultivated in North Africa.

18130

durst
DURST, pret. Of dare.

18131

duse
DUSE, n. A demon or evil spirit. Quosdam daemones quos dusios Galli nuncupant. August. De Civ. Dei, ...

18132

dusk
DUSK, a. [G., tarnish; to tarnish; to become dull or obscure. Gr.]1. Tending to darkness, or ...

18133

duskily
DUSKILY, adv. With partial darkness; with a tendency to blackness or darkness.

18134

duskiness
DUSKINESS, n. Incipient or partial darkness; a slight or moderate degree of darkness or blackness.

18135

duskish
DUSKISH, a. Moderately dusky; partially obscure; slightly dark or black; as duskish smoke.Duskish ...

18136

duskishly
DUSKISHLY, adv. Cloudily; darkly.

18137

duskishness
DUSKISHNESS, n. Duskiness; approach to darkness.

18138

dusky
DUSKY, a. 1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; as a dusky valley.A dusky torch.2. Tending to ...

18139

dust
DUST, n. 1. Fine dry particles of earth or other matter, so attenuated that it may be raised and ...

18140

dust-brush
DUST-BRUSH, n. A brush for cleaning rooms and furniture.

18141

dust-man
DUST-MAN, n. One whose employment is to carry away dirt and filth.

18142

duster
DUSTER, n. An utensil to clear from dust; also, a sieve.

18143

dustiness
DUSTINESS, n. The state of being dusty.

18144

dusty
DUSTY, a. 1. Filled, covered or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust.2. Like dust; of the color ...

18145

dutch
DUTCH, n. The people of Holland; also, their language.DUTCH, a. Pertaining to Holland, or to its ...

18146

duteous
DUTEOUS, a. [from duty.]1. Performing that which is due, or that which law, justice or propriety ...

18147

dutiable
DUTIABLE, a. [See Duty.] Subject to the imposition of duty or customs; as dutiable goods.

18148

dutied
DUTIED, a. Subjected to duties or customs.

18149

dutiful
DUTIFUL, a. 1. Performing the duties or obligations required by law, justice or propriety; ...

18150

dutifully
DUTIFULLY, adv. In a dutiful manner; with a regard to duty; obediently; submissively; reverently; ...

18151

dutifulness
DUTIFULNESS, n. 1. Obedience; submission to just authority; habitual performance of duty; as ...

18152

duty
DUTY, n. 1. That which a person owes to another; that which a person is bound, by any natural, ...

18153

duumvir
DUUMVIR, n. [L., two; man.] One of two Roman officers or magistrates united int he same public ...

18154

duumviral
DUUMVIRAL, a. Pertaining to the duumvirs or duumvirate of Rome.

18155

duumvirate
DUUMVIRATE, n. The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity or government of two ...

18156

dwale
DWALE, n. 1. In heraldry, a sable or black color.2. The deadly nightshade, a plant or a sleepy ...

18157

dwarf
DWARF, n. 1. A general name for an animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of the ...

18158

dwarfish
DWARFISH, a. Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; low; petty; despicable; as ...

18159

dwarfishly
DWARFISHLY, adv. Like a dwarf.

18160

dwarfishness
DWARFISHNESS, n. Smallness of stature; littleness of size.

18161

dwaul
DWAUL, v.i. To be delirious.

18162

dwell
DWELL, v.i. pret. dwelled, usually contracted into dwelt. [See Dally.]1. To abide as a permanent ...

18163

dweller
DWELL'ER, n. An inhabitant; a resident of some continuance in a place.

18164

dwelling
DWELL'ING, ppr. Inhabiting; residing; sojourning; continuing with fixed attention.DWELL'ING, n. ...

18165

dwelling-house
DWELL'ING-HOUSE, n. The house in which one lives.

18166

dwelling-place
DWELL'ING-PLACE, n. The place of residence.

18167

dwindle
DWIN'DLE, v.i. 1. To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away. The body ...

18168

dwindled
DWIN'DLED, a. Shrunk; diminished in size.

18169

dwindling
DWIN'DLING, ppr. Falling away; becoming less; pining; consuming; moldering away.

18170

dye
DYE, v.t. [L. tingo, for tigo.]To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to; applied ...

18171

dyed
DY'ED, pp. Stained; colored.

18172

dyeing
DY'EING, ppr. Staining; giving a new and permanent color.DY'EING, n. The art or practice of giving ...

18173

dyer
DY'ER, n. One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like.

18174

dying
DY'ING, ppr. [from die.] Losing life; perishing; expiring; fading away; languishing.1. a. ...

18175

dynameter
DYNAM'ETER, n. [Gr. strength, and to measure.]An instrument for determining the magnifying power ...

18176

dynametrical
DYNAMET'RICAL, a. Pertaining to a dynameter.

18177

dynamical
DYNAM'ICAL, a. [Gr. power.] Pertaining to strength or power.

18178

dynamics
DYNAMICS, n. [Gr., power.] That branch of mechanical philosophy which treats of the force of moving ...

18179

dynamometer
DYNAMOM'ETER, n. [See Dynameter.] An instrument for measuring the relative strength of men and ...

18180

dynast
DY'NAST, n. [See Dynasty.] a ruler; a governor; a prince; a government.

18181

dynastic
DYNAST'IC, a. Relating to a dynasty or line of kings.

18182

dynasty
DY'NASTY, n. [Gr. power, sovereignty; a lord or chief; to be able or strong, to ...

18183

dyscrasy
DYS'CRASY, a. [Gr. evil, and habit.] In medicine, an ill habit or state of the humors; ...

18184

dysenteric
DYSENTER'IC, a. Pertaining to dysentery; accompanied with dysentery; proceeding from dysentery.1. ...

18185

dysentery
DYS'ENTERY, n. [L. dysenteria; Gr. bad; intestines.]A flux in which the stools consist chiefly of ...

18186

dysodile
DYS'ODILE, n. A species of coal of a greenish or yellowish gray color, in masses composed of thin ...

18187

dysorexy
DYS'OREXY, n. [Gr. bad, and appetite.] A bad or depraved appetite; a want of appetite.

18188

dyspepsy
DYSPEP'SY, n. [Gr. bad, and to concoct.] Bad digestion; indigestion, or difficulty of digestion.

18189

dyspeptic
DYSPEP'TIC, a. Afflicted with indigestion; as a dyspeptic person.1. Pertaining to or consisting ...

18190

dysphony
DYS'PHONY, n. [Gr. bad, hard; and voice.] A difficulty of speaking, occasioned by an ill ...

18191

dyspnoea
DYSPNOE'A, n. A difficulty of breathing.

18192

dysury
DYS'URY, n. [Gr. urine.] Difficulty in discharging the urine, attended with pain and a sensation ...

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VER'DICT, n. [L. verum dictum, true declaration.]

1. The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of face in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their trial and examination. In criminal causes, the jury decide the law as well as the fact. Verdicts are general or special; general, when they decide in general terms, or in the terms of the general issue, as no wrong, no disseisin; special, when the jury find and state the facts at large, and as to the law, pray the judgment of the court.

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