DEAD-NEAP Dead-neap (ded'nep), n Naut. a low tide. Deadness (ded'nes), n. 1 The state of being dead; want of natural life or vital power in an animal or plant; as, the deadness of a limb, of a body, or of a tree.-2. Want of animation; dulness; languor; as, the deadness of the eye.--3. Want of warmth or ardour; coldness; frigidity; as, the deadness of the affections. The most curious phenomenon in all Venetian history is the vitality of religion in private life, and its deadness in public policy. Ruskin. His grace removes the defect of inclination, by taking of our natural deadness and disaffection towards them Rogers. 4. Vapidness; want of spirit; as, the deadness of liquors.-5. State of being incapable of conception according to the ordinary laws of nature. Rom. iv. 19.-6. Indifference; mortification of the natural desires; alienation of heart from temporal pleasures; as, deadness to the world. Dead-nettle (ded'net-tl), n. The common name of the species of plants of the genus Lamium, nat. order Labiatae, from the resemblance of their leaves to those of the nettle, though they have no stinging property. There are several species found in Britain, as the white dead-nettle (L. album), the red (L. purpureum), and the yellow (L. Galeobdolon). Dead-oil (ded'oil), n. Coal-tar. Dead-on-end (ded'on-end), a. Naut. a term applied to the wind when it is in direct opposition to the ship's course. Dead-pale (ded'pal), a. Pale as death; deadly pale. A gleaming shape she floated by, Dead-pale, between the houses high. Tennyson. Dead-pay (ded'på), n. Milit. and naut. the continued pay of soldiers and sailors actually dead, but which dishonest officers charged against the state and appropriated. O you commanders That, like me, have no dead-pays. Massinger. Dead-plate (ded'plat), n. A flat iron plate sometimes fitted before the bars of a furnace for the purpose of allowing the bituminous coal to assume the character of coke before it is thrust back into the fire. Dead-pledge (ded'plej), n. A mortgage or pawning of lands or goods, or the thing pawned. Naut. Dead-reckoning (ded'rek-n-ing), n. the calculation of a ship's place at sea, in- Dead-rising (ded'riz-ing), n. In ship-build- Dead-set (ded'set), n. 1. The fixed position Dead-sheave (ded'shev), n. Naut. a scored A sure marksman. Dead's-part (dedz'pärt), n. In Scots law, that part of a man's movable succession which he is entitled to dispose of by testament, or what remains of the movables over and above what is due to the wife and children. Dead-stand (ded'stand), n. 1. A dilemma; a fix. I was at a dead-stand in the course of my fortunes, when it pleas'd God to provide me lately an employ. ment to Spain. Howell. 2. A determined opposition; as, he made a dead-stand against that course. Dead-thraw (ded'thra), n. The death-throe; the last agony. [Scotch.] Wha ever heard of a door being barred when a man was in the dead-thraw! How d'ye think the spirit was to get awa through bolts and bars like thae? Sir W. Scott. 671 Dead-wall (ded'wal), n. A blank wall, with- 1. A heavy or The fact is, fine thoughts, enshrined in appropriate 2 A name given to an advance by the Bank Dead-well (ded'wel), n. Same as Absorbing Dead-wool (ded'wyl), n. Wool taken from Dead-works (ded'wèrks), n. Naut. the parts Watts. 2. Not listening, or refusing to listen; not Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight. Dryden. Nor silence is within, nor voice express, clamours. Shak. In arch. the pug- DEAL tant of complete deafness, and in general dumbness does not proceed from any original defect in the organs of speech or from Such one deals not fairly by his own mind. Now will we deal worse with thee. Gen. xix. 9. (b) To contend with; to treat with, by way of Deal (del), n. [O.E. deel, del, A. Sax. dæl, a portion, a share; the Teut. forms are all very similar, as D. deel, a share, a portion, a board or plank; Dan. deel, Sw. del, Goth. DEALBATE dails, G. theil, a part, a share. Dole, dale Déalbate (dé-al'bat), a. In bot. covered with Deal-fish (děl'fish), n. [From its resemblance Dealing (del'ing), n. 1. Practice; action; conduct; behaviour. Concerning the dealings of men, who administer government... they have their judge who sitteth in heaven. Hooker. 2. Conduct in relation to others; treatment; as, the dealings of a father with his children; God's dealings with men. It is to be wished, that men would promote the happiness of one another, in all their private dealings, among those who lie within their influence. Addison. 3. Intercourse in buying and selling; traffic; The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. dangerous, deadly, bitter, &c.; as, 'our dear Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven, Shak In the following extracts it appears to sig- Shak Shelton. Deart (der), v.t. To make dear. That kiss I carried from thee, dear. Shak 'So dear I love the man." Shak.-2 At a churches. (b) Deans of peculiars, who have If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear. Shak. But the deans of guild in 1. The office or the 3. The jurisdiction of a dean. Each archdeaconry is divided into rural deaneries, and each deanery is divided into parishes. Blackstone. Dearet (der), n. [See DERE.] Hurt; trouble Same as Darling Dearly (der'li), adv. 1. At a high price. Dearn (dern), n. In arch. a door-post or Dearnt (dērn), a. [Sax. deorn, hidden, secret ] Lonely; solitary; melancholy. Shak Dearness (der'nes), n. 1. Scarcity; high price, or a higher price than the customary one; 'The dearness of corn. Swift.-2. Fondness; nearness to the heart or affections; great value in estimation; preciousness; tender love. The dearness of friendship. Bacon. The child too clothes the father with a dearness not his due. Tennyson. Dearnfult (dêrn'ful), a. Same as Dernful Dearnlyt (dern'li), adv. Secretly; privately; mournfully. See DERNLY. Dearth (dérth), n. [See DEAR] 1. Scarcity, Pity the dearth that I have pined in, 3. Barrenness; poverty; meagreness. Shak That dearth of plot and narrowness of imagination which may be observed in all their plays. Dryden. Dearthful (dèrth'ful), a. Expensive; costly: very dear. [Scotch.] Ye Scots, wha wish auld Scotland well, Wi' bitter dearthfu wines to mell Burns Dearticulate (de-ar-tik'u-lāt), v.t. [L de, priv., and articulo, to joint, articulus, a joint.] To disjoint. Deal-tree (del'trë), n. The fir-tree, so called Deanship (den'ship), n. The office, rank, dig. Deary (der'i), n. A word of endearment; a because deals are commonly made from it. Deal-wine (del'win), n. Same as Dele-wine. Deambulate † (dē-am'bū-lāt), v. i. [L. deambulo, to walk about-de, from, and ambulo, to walk.] To walk abroad. Deambulation † (dē-am'bü-la"shon), n. The act of walking abroad. Deambulatory † (dē-am'bū-lã-to-ri), a. Pertaining to walks. Deambulatory † (dē-am'bū-là-to-ri), n. A covered place to walk in; specifically, the aisles of a church, or the porticoes around the body of a church; a gallery for walking in in a cloister, monastery, and the like. Warton. Dean (den), n. [O. Fr. dean, deien, Mod. Fr. doyen, from L. decanus, one set over ten persons; in Med. L., one set over ten monks, from L. decem, ten.] 1. An ecclesiastical governor or dignitary, said to have been so called because he presided over ten canons or prebendaries; but more probably because each diocese was divided into deaneries, each comprising ten parishes or churches, and with a dean presiding over each. In England, in respect of their differences of office, deans are of six kinds: (a) Deans of chapters, who are governors over the canons in cathedral and collegiate nity, or title of a dean. Because I don't value your deanship a straw. Swift. Dear (der), a. [A. Sax. deôre, dyre, dear, be- And the last joy was dearer than the rest. Pope. We will drain our dearest veins, Burns. From this the sense easily passes into that dear. [Familiar.] Deas (de'as), n. Same as Dais. Save those of fear, no other bands fear I, No other death than this-the fear to die. Crawshare O death, where is thy sting? 1 Car x 55 Sheiny DEATH-AGONY Love paced the thymy plots of Paradise, Thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in Let me die the death of the righteous. Num. xxiii. 10. 4. A skeleton, or the figure of a skeleton, as the symbol of mortality; as, a death's head. Strains that might create a soul under the ribs of death." Milton.-5. The act of taking life unlawfully; murder. Not to suffer a man of death to live." Bacon.6. Cause, agent, or instrument of death. Swiftly flies the feathered death.' Dryden. It was one who should be the death of both his parents. Milton. 2 Ki. iv. 40. Deaths invisible come winged with fire. Dryden. O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. 7. Total loss or privation; extinction; as, the death of memory; the death of the year. 8 Imminent peril of death. In deaths oft.' 2 Cor. xi. 23.-9. Punishment of death; capital punishment. I would make it death Tennyson. For any male thing but to peep at us. 10 In theol. perpetual separation from God, and eternal torments; called the second death. Rev. ii. 11.-11. Separation or alienation of the soul from God; a being under the dominion of sin, and destitute of grace or divine life; state of being spiritually dead. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. 1 John iii. 14. 12. Anything dreadful as death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. -Civil death, is the separation of a man from civil society, or from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, abjuration of the realm, entering into a monastery, &c. Death-agony (deth'ag-o-ni), n Deathstruggle; the agony or struggle which immediately precedes death. Death-bed (deth'bed), n. 1. The bed on which a person dies or is confined in his last sickness.-2. A person's last sickness; sickness ending in death. Young. A death-bed's a detector of the heart. Death-bed (deth'bed), a. Of or pertaining to a death-bed, last sickness of one, or the circumstances of one's dying. A death-bed repentance ought not indeed to be O lady, 'tis dark, an' I heard the death-bell, Her (Lucretia), Tennyson. By the death-blow of my hope, Have I done well to give this hoary vet'ran, The cold Death-damp (deth'damp), n. And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. Coleridge. Deathful (deth'ful), a 1. Full of slaughter; murderous; destructive. These eyes behold 2. Liable to death; mortal. Pope. The deathless gods, and deathful earth. Chapman. Deathfulness (deth'ful-nes), n. Appearance of death; state of being suggestive of, or associated with, death. 673 The whole picture (Turner's Slave-ship) is dedi Deathliness (deth'li-nes), n. Quality of being Deathly (deth'li), a. Fatal; mortal; deadly. I saw Lucy standing before me, alone, deathly pale. I beheld him in my dreams Death-rate (deth'rāt), n. The proportion Death-rattle (deth'rat-1), n. A rattling in Death's-door (deths'dor), n. A near ap- What manner of death's-head it will bee From that fresh upper skin. Suckling. I had rather be married to a death's-head with a -Death's-head moth, or Death's-head hawk- An execu He's dead; I'm only sorry Death-sough (deth'such), n. The last heavy Heard na ye the lang-drawn death-sough! The Death-stroke (deth'strōk), n. The stroke of Death-throe (deth'thro), n. The pain which Death-token (deth'to-kn), n. That which 1. In He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it Death-wound (deth'wönd), n. 1. A wound causing death.-2. In mar law, a term for the starting of a butt-end, or springing a fatal leak. A ship had received her death-wound, but by pumping was kept afloat for three days after the time she was insured for. Smyth. Deaurate (dē-g'rāt), v.t. [L. deauro, deauratum, to gild.] To gild. Bailey [Rare.] Deauration † (dé-a-rá'shon), n. Deaurate (de-a'rāt), a. Gilded. [Rare.] The act of gilding Deave, Deve (děv), v.t. [Sw. deofwa; Icel. deyfa, to deafen.] To deafen; to stupefy with noise. [Scotch.] A If mair they deave us wi' their din, Or patronage intrusion. Burns. Debacchatet (dē-bak'kāt), v. i. [L.debacchor, debacchatus, to celebrate the festival of Bacchus.] To rave and bluster as a bacchanal. Debacchationt (dē-bak-kā'shon), n. Debacle (dē-ba'kl), n. [Fr., from debacler, to raving. break up, as ice does-de, priv., and bacler, to bar, from L. baculus, a bar, a bolt.] 1. Properly, a sudden breaking up of ice in a river. In geol. applied to any sudden outbreak of water, hurling before it and dispersing stones and other debris.-2. A confused rout; an uncontrollable flight; a stampede. Debar (dé-bar), v.t. pret. & pp. debarred; ppr. debarring. [De and bar.] To cut off from entrance; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; as, we are not debarred from any rational enjoyment; religion debars us from no real pleasure. Their wages were so low as to debar them, not only from the comforts, but from the common decencies of civilized life. Buckle. SYN. To exclude, deprive, hinder, preclude, Debarbt (de-bärb'), v.t. To deprive of the interdict, prohibit, shut out. beard. Debark (dē-bärk), v.t. [Fr. débarquer-de, and barque, a boat or vessel.] To land from a ship or boat; to remove from on board any water-craft and place on land; to disembark; as, to debark artillery. [It is less Debark (de-bärk), v.i. To leave a ship or used, especially in a transitive sense, than disembark.] boat and pass to the land; as, the troops debarked at four o'clock. Debarkation (dē-bärk-ā'shon), n. of disembarking. Debarment (de-bärʼment), n. The act of debarring or excluding; hindrance from approach; exclusion. The act Debarrass (de-ba'ras), v.t. [Fr. debarrasser, Pleasure and sensuality debase men into beasts. -Abase, Debase, Degrade. See under ABASE. SYN. To humble, degrade, depress, lower, disgrace. Debased (de-bāst'), p. and a. 1. Reduced in estimated value; lowered in estimation; 43 DEBASEMENT reduced in purity, fineness, quality, or value; adulterated; degraded; rendered mean or despicable. or 2. In her. applied to anything turned over downwards from its proper position or use. Debasement (dē-bās'ment), n. 1. The act of debasing; degradation; reduction of purity, fineness, quality, or value; adulteration; as, debase- An escutcheon dement of coin. 2. A state of being debased; degradation; as, debasement of character. Debaser (dē-bās'èr), n. One who debases or lowers in estimation or in value; one who degrades or renders mean; that which de bases. based. So as to Debasingly (dē-bās'ing-li), adv. debase. Debatable, Debateable (dē-bat'a-bl), a. [See DEBATE.] That may be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; as, a debatable question. The line which bounded the royal prerogative, though in general sufficiently clear, had not anywhere been drawn with accuracy and distinctness. There was, therefore, near the border some debatable ground on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place, till, after ages of strife, plain and durable landmarks were at length set up. Macaulay. -Debatable land, a tract of land between the Esk and Sark, claimed by both England and Scotland, and for a long time the subject of dispute. This tract of land was the hotbed of thieves and vagabonds. Debate (dē-bāt'), n. [Fr. debat-de, and battre, to beat. See BEAT.] 1. Contention in words or arguments; discussion for elucidating truth; argument or reasoning between persons of different opinions; dispute; controversy; as, the debates in parliament. Where once we held debate, a band Tennyson. Of youthful friends, on mind and art. 2. Quarrel; strife; contention; fight; contest. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate. Is. lviii. 4. In the day of Trinity next ensuing was a great debate, .. and in that murder there were slain fourscore. Rob. of Glouc But question fierce and proud reply Sir W. Scott. 3. Subject of discussion. 'Statutes and edicts concerning this debate.' Milton. Debate (dē-bat'), v.t. pret. & pp. debated; ppr. debating. 1. To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain a cause by reasoning; to dispute; to discuss; to argue; to contest, as opposing parties; as, the question was debated till a late hour. Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself. Prov. xxv. 9. 2. To fight or contend for; to strive by arms for. The cause of religion was debated with the same ardour in Spain as on the plains of Palestine. Prescott. -Debating society, a society for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.-Argue, Dispute, Debate. See under ARGUE. Debate (dē-bāt'), v.i. 1. To deliberate; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind.-2. To dispute.-3. † To engage in combat; to fight. Chaucer. Debatefult (dē-bat'ful), a. 1. Full of contention; contested. 'Debateful strife.' Spenser.-2. Quarrelsome; contentious. 'So debateful and contentious.' Udall. Debatefully+ (dē-bāt'fu̟l-li), adv. With contention. The Debatement (de-bat'ment), n. Controversy; deliberation. 'Without debatement further, more or less.' Shak. Debater (dē-bat'èr), n. One who debates; a disputant; a controvertist. Debatingly (dé-bat'ing-li), adv. In the manner of debate. Debauch (de-bach'), v.t. [Fr. débaucher, to debauch-de, and O. Fr. bauche, a workshop, in modern Saintonge dialect a task. original meaning would therefore be to draw one away from his work or duty. The origin of bauche is unknown.] 1. To corrupt or vitiate; as, to debauch a prince or youth; to debauch good principles. Her pride debauched her judgment.' Cowley.-2. To corrupt with lewdness; to bring to be guilty of unchastity; to seduce; as, to debauch a woman.-3. To draw away or lead astray from duty or allegiance; as, to debauch an army. To debauch a king to break his laws. Dryden. Debauch (de-bach'), v.i. To riot; to revel. Debauched (de-bacht'), p. and a. Corrupted; vitiated in morals or purity of character; given to debauchery; characterized by or characteristic of debauchery; as, a very debauched person; a debauched look; a man of debauched principles. Debauchedly (dē-bach'ed-li), adv. In a profligate manner. Debauchedness (de-bach'ed-nes), n. In A man given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd or profligate. South. Debaucher (dē-bach'èr), n. One who debauches or corrupts others; a seducer to lewdness or to any dereliction of duty. You can make a story of the simple victim and the rustic debaucher. Lamb. Debauchery (dē-bach'è-ri), n. 1. Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures of any kind; gluttony; intemperance; sexual immorality; unlawful indulgence of lust. 'Oppose debauchery by temperance.' Sprat.-2. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from duty or allegiance. The republic of Paris will endeavour to complete the debauchery of the army. Debauchment (de-bach'ment), n. Burke. The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty. The ravish ment of chaste maidens, or the debauchment of nations." Jer. Taylor. Debauchnesst (dē-bach'nes), n. The state of being debauched. Debelt (de-bel), v.t. [L. debello, to subdue. See DEBELLATE.] To subdue; to expel by war. Him long of old Thou didst debel, and down from heaven cast. Debellatet (dē-bel'lāt), v.t. [L. debello, debellatum, to bring a war to an end, to subdue-de, priv., and bello, to carry on war, from bellum, war.] To subdue. Debellation + (dē-bel-la'shon), n. The act of conquering or subduing. De bene esse (de be'nè es'sē). [L.] In law, for what it is worth; conditionally; as, to take an order or testimony de bene esse, that is, to take or allow it for the present, but subject to be suppressed or disallowed on a further or full examination. Debenture (dē-ben'túr), n. [0. Fr. debentur, a receipt granted by the officers of the court on receiving their salaries-so called because these receipts began with the Latin words Debentur mihi, There are owing to me. Debentur is the 3d pers. pl. pres. ind. pass. of the verb debeo, to owe.] 1. A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer as evidence of a debt due to some person; specifically, a deed or mortgage charging certain property with the repayment of money lent by a person therein named, and with interest on the sum lent at a given rate. The granting of debentures is frequently resorted to by public companies, as railway companies, to raise money for the prosecution of their undertaking, the whole undertaking being mortgaged for the money borrowed.-2. In the customs, a certificate of drawback; a writing which states that a person is entitled to a certain sum from the government on the exportation of specified goods, the duties on which had been paid.-3. In some government departments, a term used to denote a bond or bill by which the government is charged to pay a creditor or his assigns the money due on auditing his account. Brande. Debentured (dē-ben'tūrd), a. Entitled to drawback or debenture; secured by debenture.-Debentured goods, goods for which a debenture has been given as being entitled to drawback. Debilet (de'bil), a. [L. debilis, weak.] Relaxed; weak; feeble; languid; faint; without strength. 'Some debile wretch.' Shak. Debilitant (de-bil'it-ant), n. In med. a remedy exhibited for the purpose of reducing excitement. Debilitate (dē-bil′i-tāt), v.t. pret. & pp. debilitated; ppr. debilitating. [L. debilito, de DÉBOUCHURE bilitatum, to cripple, to weaken, from debilis, weak.] To weaken; to impair the strength of; to enfeeble; to make faint or languid; as, intemperance debilitates the organs of digestion. Various ills debilitate the mind. Jenyns.-SYN. To weaken, enfeeble, relax, enervate, bring low. Debilitating (dē-bil'i-tāt-ing), a. Tending Debilitation (de-bil'i-ta"shon), n. The act or adapted to weaken. of weakening; relaxation. Debility (de-bil'i-ti), n. [L debilitas, weakness, from debilis, weak.] Relaxation of the solids; weakness; feebleness; languor of body; faintness; imbecility; as, morbid sweats induce debility. Methinks I am partaker of thy passion, -Debility, Infirmity, Imbecility, all imply a want of strength. Debility is almost always applied to physical weakness; infirmity and imbecility both to bodily and mental weaknesses. Debility, a general bodily weakness; infirmity, a local and accidental weakness, bodily or mental; imbecility, general weakness of the whole systein, chiefly, however, mental weakness. The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintings. Arbuthnot. Sometimes the races of men may be depraved by the infirmities of birth. Temple. Cruelty argues a meanness of courage and inlecility of mind. Temple Debit (deb'it), n. [L. debitum, from debeo, to owe, composed of de, not, and habeo, to have not to have, or to have lost the possession of.] 1. That which is entered in an account as a debt; a recorded item of debt; as, the debits exceed the credits. 2. That part of an account in which is entered any article of goods furnished to one, or money paid to or on account of one; as, place that to my debit.-Debit side, in bookkeeping, the left-hand side of an account Debit (deb'it), v.t. 1. To charge with as a debt; as, to debit a purchaser the amount of goods sold. We may consider the provisions of heaven as an universal bank, wherein accounts are regularly kept. and every man debited or credited for the last farthing he takes out or brings in. Tucker. 2. To enter on the debtor side of a book; as, to debit the sum or amount of goods sold. Debitor (deb'it-ér), n. A debtor-Debitor and creditor, an account-keeper; an accountbook. Shak. Debituminization (dē-bi-tu'min-iz-a"shon), The act of freeing from bitumen. Debituminize (de-bi-tü'min-iz), v. t. pret. & pp. debituminized; ppr. debituminizing. To deprive of bitumen. n. Déblai (de-blā), n. [Fr., from L.L. debladare, to take away grain-de, from, and L. L. bladum, grain, L. ablatum.] In fort the quantity of earth excavated from the ditch to form the parapet. See REMBLAL Debonair (de-bō-nār'), a. [Fr. débonnaire de, from, bon, good, and aire (L area), place, extraction; hence, disposition.] Characterized by courtesy, affability, or gentleness; elegant; well-bred; winning; accomplished. Debonairly (de-bō-năr′li),adv. Courteously; elegantly; winningly; with a genteel air. Debonairness (de-bo-nar'nes), n. Courtesy: gentleness; kindness; elegance. • With all the gaiety and debonairness in the world. Sterne. Debosh † (de-bosh'), v.t. [Corrupted from debauch.] 1. To debauch. A deboshed lady.' Beau. & Fl.-2. Fig. to spoil, to dismantle; to render unserviceable. Last year his barks and gallies were deboshed Fuimus Troes (old play, 1633). Sometimes written Deboish. Debouch (dé-bösh'), v.i. [Fr. déboucher, to issue from-de, and bouche, mouth; L. bucca, the cheek] To issue or march out of a narrow place, or from defiles, as troops. From its summit he could descry the movements of the Spaniards and their battalions debouching on the plain, with scarcely any opposition from the Fren Fre Débouché (dā-bö-shā), n. [Fr. See DEBOUCH.] An opening; demand; hence, a market for goods. Débouchure (da-bo-shür), n [Fr] The mouth or opening of a river or strait. DÉBRIDEMENT Débridement (dã-brēd-mañ), n. [Fr. dé brider, to unbridle. See BRIDLE.] În surg. an unbridling; the enlargement of gun-shot wounds by cutting one or all the parts implicated, as the skin, the muscles, &c. Débris (da-bre), n. [Fr., from dé, L. dis, asunder, apart, and briser, to break. See BRUISE.] 1. Fragments; rubbish; ruins; as, the debris after a conflagration, a railway collision, or the like; the debris of an army. Your grace is now disposing of the debris of two bishopricks, among which is the deanery of Ferns. Swift. 2. In geol. any accumulation of broken and detached matter, as that which arises from the waste of rocks, and which is piled up at their base or swept away by water; or a drifted heap of animal and vegetable matter. Debruised (de-brözd'), pp. In her, an epithet applied to an animal which seems restrained Debruised. or debarred its freedom by having any one of the ordinaries laid over it. Debt (det), n. [O.Fr. debte (now dette), L. debita, things due. See DEBIT.] 1. That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to or perform for another; that which one is obliged to do or to suffer; a due; an obligation; as, the debts of a bankrupt; the debts of a nobleman; he has paid the debt of nature. When you run in debt you give to another power over your liberty. Franklin. My deep debt for life preserved A better meed had well deserved. Sir W. Scott, Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt. Shak. 2. In law, an action to recover a sum of money alleged to be due.-3. A duty neglected or violated; a sin of omission or of commission; a trespass; a sin. Debted (det'ed), p. anda. Indebted; obliged. I stand debted to this gentleman.' Shak. Debtee (det-e), n. In law, a creditor; one to whom a debt is due. Debtless (det'les), a. Free from debt. Debtor (det'er), n. [L. debitor, a debtor.] The person who owes another either money, goods, or services; one who has received from another an advantage of any kind. In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor. Mitford. I am a debtor to the Greeks and barbarians. Rom. i. 14. He is a debtor to do the whole law. Gal. v. 3. -Debtor side of an account, the part of an account in which debts are charged. See DEBIT. Debullition + (de-bu-li'shon), n. [L. de, and bullire, to bubble, from bulla, a bubble.] A bubbling or seething over. Bailey. Deburse t (dé-bèrs'), v.t. [See DISBURSE.] To disburse; to pay. A certain sum was promised to be paid to the Earl of Ormond in consideration of what he had debursed for the army. Ludlow. Début (dá-bü), n. [Fr.-de, and but, mark, butt. The word has its meaning from the bowl being brought from the butt on one commencing to play at bowls.] Beginning: entrance upon anything; first attempt; first step; hence, first appearance before the public, as that of an actor or actress on the stage. Débutant (da-bü-tän), n. [Fr.] One who makes a debut; a man who makes his first appearance before the public. Débutante (dá-bü-taħt), n. [Fr.] A woman appearing for the first time before the public; specifically, a female performer in a theatre making her first appearance. Deca- (de'ka). A prefix, from the Gr. deka, signifying ten. Decachord, Decachordon (de'ka-kord, de'ka-kord-on), n. [Gr. deka, ten, and chorde, string.] 1. An ancient Greek musical instrument, triangular in shape, and having ten strings.-2. Something consisting of ten parts; a bundle consisting of ten things bound, as it were, together. A decachordon of ten quodlibetical questions concerning religion and state.' Watson. Decacuminated (de-ka-kü'min-ât-ed), a. [L. de, off, and cacuminatus, pointed, from cacumen, a point.) Having the top cut off. Decadal (dek'ad-al), a. Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens. Decade, Decad (dek'ād, dek’ad), n. [L. decas, 675 decadis, Fr. decade, from Gr. deka, ten.] The sum or number of ten; an aggregate or group consisting of ten; specifically, an aggregate of ten years. So sleeping, so aroused from sleep, Tennyson. Decadence, Decadency (dē-kā’dens, dē-kā'den-si), n. [Fr. décadence, L.L. decadentia, from L. de and cado. Decidence, decidentia would be more correct according to the form which cado takes in classical Latin when compounded with prepositions.] Decay; a falling into a lower state. The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence. Sir W. Scott, Decadent (dē-kä'dent), a. [Probably formed on the analogy of decadence (which see).] Decaying; deteriorating. Decagon (de'ka-gon), n. [Gr. deka, ten, and gonia, a corner.] In geom. a plane figure having ten sides and ten angles. When all the sides and angles are equal it is a regular decagon Decagonal (de-kagʻon-al), a. Of or belonging to a decagon; having ten sides. Decagram, (de'ka-gram), n. The anglicized spelling of Décagramme (which see). Décagramme (dã-ka-gram), n. [Gr. deka, ten, and gramme, a French weight.] A French weight of 10 grammes or grams, equal to 5 644 drams avoirdupois, each gramme being equal to 15 43249 grains. Decagyn (de'ka-jin), n. [Gr. deka, ten, and gyně, a female.] In bot, a plant having ten pistils. Decagynia (de-ka-ji'ni-a), n. [See DECAGYN.] The name given by Linnæus to those orders of plants in his system which have ten pistils. Decagynian, Decagynous (de-ka-ji'ni-an, de-ka'jin-us), a. In bot. having ten pistils. Decahedral (de-ka-he'dral), a. Having ten sides. Decahedron (de-ka-he'dron), n. [Gr deka, ten, and hedra, a seat, a base.] In geom. a figure or body having ten sides. Decaisnea (de-ka'ne-a or de-kās'nē-a), n. [After Decaisne, a French botanist.] A genus of plants, nat. order Lardizabalaceæ, discovered on the Himalayas, 7000 feet above the sea, remarkable as the only member of the order not a climber. It sends up several erect stalks like walking-sticks, bearing leaves 2 feet long. Its fruit, which resembles a short cucumber, is palatable, and eaten by the Lepchas of Sikkim in the Himalayas. Decalcification (dē-kal'si-fi-kā"shon), n. The removal of calcareous matter, as from bones; specifically, in dentistry, the removal of the hardening element of the teeth by chemical influence. Decalcify (de-kal'si-fi), v. t. [L. de, priv., and calx, calcis, lime, chalk.] To deprive of lime, as bones of their hardening matter, so as to reduce them to gelatine. See DECALCIFICA TION. Décalitre (da-ka-lē-tr), n. [Gr. deka, ten, and Fr. litre.] A French measure of capacity, containing 10 litres, or 610-27 cubic inches, equal to 21 imperial gallons nearly. Decalogist (de-kal'o-jist), n. [See DECALOGUE.] One who explains the decalogue. Decalogue (de'ka-log), n. [Gr. deka, ten, and logos, speech.] The ten commandments or precepts given by God to Moses at Mount Sinai, which were originally written on two tables of stone. Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel Decameron (de-kam'e-ron), n. [Fr., from Gr. deka, ten, and hemera, a day. The anglicized name of the celebrated collection of tales by Boccaccio, which consists of 100 stories, ten of which are told on each of ten days by seven ladies and three gentlemen who had fled from Florence to a country house during the plague of 1348. Decameter (de'ka-me-ter or de-kam'e-tér), n. English form of Décamètre (which see). Décamètre (da-ka-ma-tr), n. [Gr. deka, ten, and metron, measure.] A French measure of length, consisting of 10 metres, and equal to 393 7 English inches or 32 8 feet. Decamp (de-kamp), v.i. [Fr. décamper—de, from, and camp, a camp.] 1. To remove or depart from a camp or camping ground; to march off; as, the army decamped at six o'clock. The army of the King of Portugal was at Elvason the 22nd of the last month, and would decamp on the 24th. Tatler. DECARBONIZATION 2. In a general sense, to depart; to take one's self off; as, he decamped suddenly. The fathers were ordered to decamp, and the house was once again converted into a tavern. Goldsmith. Decampment (de-kamp'ment), n. Departure from a camp; a marching off. Rees. Decanal (de'kan-al), a. [See DEAN.] Pertaining to a dean or deanery. 'Decanal residence.' Churton. Decander (de-kan'der), n. [Gr. deka, ten, and aner, à male.] In bot. a plant having ten stamens. Decandria (de-kan'dri-a), n. The tenth class of plants in the artificial system of Linnæus. The plants havc ten stamens, and one, two, Decandria (Cerastium aquaticum). three, or more pistils. It includes Dianthus, Lychnis, Cerastium, Saxifraga, Sedum, Oxalis, &c. Decandrian, Decandrous (de-kan'dri-an, Decane (de-kan'), n. (CH22.) A hydrocarbon de-kan'drus), a. In bot. having ten stamens. of amyl (CH11), and the only form in which this radical can be made to exist in the free state. See AMYL. Decangular (de-kang'gu-lér), a. [Gr. deka, ten, and E. angular.] Having ten angles. Decant (de-kant'), e.t. [Fr. décanter, to decant-de, and canter, from 0.Fr. cant, a rim, an edge, from L. canthus, the tire of a wheel, Gr. kanthos, a felloe. Or it may perhaps be from L.L. decanetare-de, and caneta, Fr. canette, a little can, from L. canna, a reed.] To pour off gently, as liquor from its sediment, or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine. Decantate (dē-kant'āt), v.t. To decant. Baxter. Decantation (de-kant-a'shon), n. The act of pouring liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another. Decanter (dē-kant'èr), n. 1. A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors; a glass vessel or bottle used for holding wine or other liquors for filling the drinking-glasses.-2. One who decants liquors. Decaphyllous (de-kaf'il-lus), a. (Gr. deka, ten, and phyllon, a leaf.] In bot. having ten leaves: applied to the perianth of flowers. Decapitate (de-kap'it-at), v.t. pret. & pp. decapitated; ppr. decapitating. [L.L. decapito, decapitatum, to behead-de, and caput, head.] 1. To behead; to cut off the head of. 2. To remove from office summarily. [United States, colloq.] Decapitation (de-kap'it-a"shon), n. The act of beheading. Decapod (de'ka-pod), n. [Gr. deka, ten, and pous, podos, a foot. 1. One of an order of crustaceans having ten feet.-2. One of that division of the cuttle-fishes which have ten prehensile arms. Decapod (de'ka-pod), a. Having ten feet; belonging to the Decapoda. Decapoda (de-kap'o-da), n. pl. [See DECAPOD. 1. The highest order of crustaceans, so called from having five pairs of legs. They are subdivided into Brachyura, or short-tailed decapods, to which the name crabs has been given; Macrura, or long-tailed, including the shrimp, lobster, prawn, crayfish, &c.; and Anomura, of which the hermit-crab is an example.-2. One of the two divisions of the dibranchiate cuttle-fishes (the other being the Octopoda). They have two arms longer than the other eight, and bear the suctorial discs only at the extremities. Decapodal, Decapodous (de-kap'o-dal, dekap'o-dus), a. Belonging to the order of decapods; having ten feet. Decarbonate (de-kärbon-āt), v.t. [Prefix de, priv., and carbonate.] To deprive of carbonic acid. Decarbonization (dē-kärʼbon-iz-ā”shon), n. |