There are currently 10644 EnglishDictionary in this directory beginning with the letter D.
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D () As a numeral D stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign / (or / ) the original Tuscan numeral for 1000.
D () The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F.
D valve () A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide.
Dab (n.) A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.
Dab (n.) A name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.
Dab (n.) A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert.
Dab (n.) A small mass of anything soft or moist.
Dab (v. i.) To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
Dab (v. i.) To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.
Dabb (n.) A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhabb.
Dabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Dab
Dabber (n.) That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.
Dabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dab
Dabble (v. i.) To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water.
Dabble (v. i.) To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle.
Dabble (v. t.) To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.
Dabbled (imp. & p. p.) of Dabble
Dabbler (n.) One who dabbles.
Dabbler (n.) One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler.
Dabbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dabble
Dabblingly (adv.) In a dabbling manner.
Dabchick (n.) A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.
Daboia (n.) A large and highly venomous Asiatic viper (Daboia xanthica).
Dabster (n.) One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept.
Dacapo () From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated.
Dace (n.) A small European cyprinoid fish (Squalius leuciscus or Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dare.
Dachshund (n.) One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired.
Dacian (a.) Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians.
Dacian (n.) A native of ancient Dacia.
Dacoit (n.) One of a class of robbers, in India, who act in gangs.
Dacoity (n.) The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits.
Dacotahs (n. pl.) Same as Dacotas.
Dactyl (n.) A finger or toe; a digit.
Dactyl (n.) A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. merb6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.
Dactyl (n.) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
Dactylar (a.) Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.
Dactylar (a.) Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.
Dactylet (n.) A dactyl.
Dactylic (a.) Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.
Dactylic (n.) A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.
Dactylic (n.) Dactylic meters.
Dactylioglyph (n.) An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments.
Dactylioglyph (n.) The inscription of the engraver's name on a finger ring or gem.
Dactylioglyphi (n.) The art or process of gem engraving.
Dactyliography (n.) In general, the literature or history of the art.
Dactyliography (n.) The art of writing or engraving upon gems.
Dactyliology (n.) That branch of archaeology which has to do with finger rings.
Dactyliology (n.) That branch of archaeology which has to do with gem engraving.
Dactyliomancy (n.) Divination by means of finger rings.
Dactylist (n.) A writer of dactylic verse.
Dactylitis (n.) An inflammatory affection of the fingers.
Dactylology (n.) The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.
Dactylomancy (n.) Dactyliomancy.
Dactylonomy (n.) The art of numbering or counting by the fingers.
Dactylopterous (a.) Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards.
Dactylotheca (n.) The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds.
Dactylozooid (n.) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.
Dad (n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.
Daddled (imp. & p. p.) of Dadle
Daddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dadle
Daddock (n.) The rotten body of a tree.
Daddy (n.) Diminutive of Dad.
Daddy longlegs () A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs.
Daddy longlegs () An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs.
Dade (v. i.) To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just learning to walk; to move slowly.
Dade (v. t.) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles.
Dadle (v. i.) To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.
Dado (n.) In any wall, that part of the basement included between the base and the base course. See Base course, under Base.
Dado (n.) In interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise specially decorated.
Dado (n.) That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.
Dadoes (pl. ) of Dado
Daedal (a.) Alt. of Daedalian
Daedalian (a.) Crafty; deceitful.
Daedalian (a.) Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious.
Daedalous (a.) Having a variously cut or incised margin; -- said of leaves.
Daemon (a.) Alt. of Daemonic
Daemonic (a.) See Demon, Demonic.
Daff (n.) A stupid, blockish fellow; a numskull.
Daff (v. i.) To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy.
Daff (v. t.) To cast aside; to put off; to doff.
Daff (v. t.) To daunt.
Daffodil (n.) A plant of the genus Asphodelus.
Daffodil (n.) A plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Pseudo-narcissus). It has a bulbous root and beautiful flowers, usually of a yellow hue. Called also daffodilly, daffadilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly, etc.
Daft (a.) Gay; playful; frolicsome.
Daft (a.) Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has gone daft.
Daftness (n.) The quality of being daft.
Dag (n.) A dagger; a poniard.
Dag (n.) A large pistol formerly used.
Dag (n.) A loose end; a dangling shred.
Dag (n.) A misty shower; dew.
Dag (n.) The unbranched antler of a young deer.
Dag (v. i.) To be misty; to drizzle.
Dag (v. t.) To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment.
Dag (v. t.) To daggle or bemire.
Dag-tailed (a.) Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks.
Dagger (n.) A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [/]. It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk.
Dagger (n.) A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.
Dagger (n.) A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.
Dagger (v. t.) To pierce with a dagger; to stab.
Dagges (n. pl.) An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans.
Daggle (v. i.) To run, go, or trail one's self through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.
Daggle (v. t.) To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.
Daggle-tail (a.) Alt. of Daggle-tailed
Daggle-tail (n.) A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.
Daggle-tailed (a.) Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.
Daggled (imp. & p. p.) of Daggle
Daggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daggle
Daglock (n.) A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.
Dago (n.) A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent.
Dagoba (n.) A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint.
Dagon () The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish.
Dagon (n.) A slip or piece.
Dagos (pl. ) of Dago
Dagswain (n.) A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool.
Daguerrean (a.) Alt. of Daguerreian
Daguerreian (a.) Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype.
Daguerreotype (n.) The process of taking such pictures.
Daguerreotype (v. t.) To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.
Daguerreotype (v. t.) To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.
Daguerreotyped (imp. & p. p.) of Daguerreotype
Daguerreotyper (n.) Alt. of Daguerreotypist
Daguerreotyping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daguerreotype
Daguerreotypist (n.) One who takes daguerreotypes.
Daguerreotypy (n.) The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre.
Dahabeah (n.) A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails.
Dahlia (n.) A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Compositae; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color.
Dahlias (pl. ) of Dahlia
Dahlin (n.) A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin.
Dailies (pl. ) of Daily
Dailiness (n.) Daily occurence.
Daily (a.) Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.
Daily (adv.) Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily.
Daily (n.) A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.
Daimio (n.) The title of the feudal nobles of Japan.
Daimios (pl. ) of Daimio
Daint (a.) Dainty.
Daint (n.) Something of exquisite taste; a dainty.
Dainties (pl. ) of Dainty
Daintified (imp. & p. p.) of Daintify
Daintify (v. t.) To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious.
Daintifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daintify
Daintily (adv.) In a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously; deliciously; prettily.
Daintiness (n.) The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness.
Daintrel (n.) Adelicacy.
Dainty (n.) A term of fondness.
Dainty (n.) That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.
Dainty (n.) Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
Dainty (superl.) Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
Dainty (superl.) Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
Dainty (superl.) Rare; valuable; costly.
Dainty (superl.) Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.
Dairies (pl. ) of Dairy
Dairy (n.) A dairy farm.
Dairy (n.) That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese.
Dairy (n.) The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.
Dairying (n.) The business of conducting a dairy.
Dairymaid (n.) A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.
Dairyman (n.) A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.
Dairymen (pl. ) of Dairyman
Dairywoman (n.) A woman who attends to a dairy.
Dairywomen (pl. ) of Dairywoman
Dais (n.) A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity.
Dais (n.) A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.
Dais (n.) The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.
Daisied (a.) Full of daisies; adorned with daisies.
Daisies (pl. ) of Daisy
Daisy (n.) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.
Daisy (n.) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.
Dak (n.) Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk.
Daker (n.) Alt. of Dakir
Daker hen () The corncrake or land rail.
Dakir (n.) A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs.
Dakoit (n.) Alt. of Dakoity
Dakoity (n.) See Dacoit, Dacoity.
Dakota group () A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.
Dakotas (n. pl) An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux.
Dal (n.) Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus.
Dal segno () A direction to go back to the sign / and repeat from thence to the close. See Segno.
Dale (n.) A low place between hills; a vale or valley.
Dale (n.) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
Dalesman (n.) One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc.
Dalesmen (pl. ) of Dalesman
Dalf () imp. of Delve.
Dalliance (n.) Delay or procrastination.
Dalliance (n.) Entertaining discourse.
Dalliance (n.) The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.
Dallied (imp. & p. p.) of Dally
Dallier (n.) One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words.
Dallop (n.) A tuft or clump.
Dally (v. i.) To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
Dally (v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
Dally (v. t.) To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
Dallying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dally
Dalmania (n.) A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.
Dalmanites (n.) Same as Dalmania.
Dalmatian (a.) Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.
Dalmatic (n.) A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.
Dalmatic (n.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.
Dalmatica (n.) Alt. of Dalmatic
Daltonian (n.) One afflicted with color blindness.
Daltonism (n.) Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity.
Dam (n.) A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
Dam (n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
Dam (n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
Dam (n.) A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
Dam (v. t.) To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.
Dam (v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
Damage (n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
Damage (n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.
Damage (n.) To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
Damage (v. i.) To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.
Damage feasant () Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.
Damageable (a.) Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.
Damageable (a.) Hurtful; pernicious.
Damages (imp. & p. p.) of Damage
Damaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damage
Daman (n.) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.
Damar (n.) See Dammar.
Damascene (a.) Of or relating to Damascus.
Damascene (n.) A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson.
Damascene (v. t.) Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t.
Damascus (n.) A city of Syria.
Damask (a.) Having the color of the damask rose.
Damask (a.) Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.
Damask (n.) A deep pink or rose color.
Damask (n.) A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.
Damask (n.) Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel.
Damask (n.) Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.
Damask (n.) Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.
Damask (v. t.) To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or "water," as metal. See Damaskeen.
Damasked (imp. & p. p.) of Damask
Damaskeen (v.) Alt. of Damasken
Damasken (v.) To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask.
Damaskin (n.) A sword of Damask steel.
Damasking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damask
Damasse (a.) Woven like damask.
Damasse (n.) A damasse fabric, esp. one of linen.
Damassin (n.) A kind of modified damask or brocade.
Dambonite (n.) A white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc.
Dambose (n.) A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite.
Dame (n.) A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.
Dame (n.) A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.
Dame (n.) A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.
Dame (n.) The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.
Damewort (n.) A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet.
Damiana (n.) A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.
Damianist (n.) A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
Dammar (n.) Alt. of Dammara
Dammara (n.) A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia; -- called also Agathis. There are several species.
Dammara (n.) An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine.
Dammed (imp. & p. p.) of Dam
Damming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dam
Damn (v. i.) To invoke damnation; to curse.
Damn (v. t.) To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
Damn (v. t.) To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
Damn (v. t.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
Damnability (n.) The quality of being damnable; damnableness.
Damnable (a.) Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.
Damnable (a.) Odious; pernicious; detestable.
Damnableness (n.) The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.
Damnably (adv.) In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment.
Damp (n.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.
Damp (n.) To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
Damp (superl.) Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
Damp (superl.) Dejected; depressed; sunk.
Damp off () To decay and perish through excessive moisture.
Damped (imp. & p. p.) of Damp
Dampen (v. i.) To become damp; to deaden.
Dampen (v. t.) To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
Dampen (v. t.) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
Damsel (n.) A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.
Damsel (n.) A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.
Damsel (n.) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
Damson (n.) A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.
Dan (n.) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
Dan (n.) A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.
Danaide (n.) A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.
Danaite (n.) A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.
Danalite (n.) A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur.
Danburite (n.) A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form.
Dance (v. i.) A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.
Dance (v. i.) The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.
Dance (v. i.) To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.
Dance (v. i.) To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.
Dance (v. t.) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.
Danced (imp. & p. p.) of Dance
Dancer (n.) One who dances or who practices dancing.
Danceress (n.) A female dancer.
Dancette (a.) Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.
Dancing (p. a. & vb. n.) from Dance.
Dancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dance
Dancy (a.) Same as Dancette.
Dandelion (n.) A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.
Dander (n.) Anger or vexation; rage.
Dander (n.) Dandruff or scurf on the head.
Dander (v. i.) To wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently.
Dandi (n.) A boatman; an oarsman.
Dandie (n.) One of a breed of small terriers; -- called also Dandie Dinmont.
Dandies (pl. ) of Dandy
Dandified (a.) Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.
Dandified (imp. & p. p.) of Dandify
Dandify (v. t.) To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.
Dandifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dandify
Dandiprat (n.) A little fellow; -- in sport or contempt.
Dandiprat (n.) A small coin.
Dandle (v. t.) To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
Dandle (v. t.) To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.
Dandle (v. t.) To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.
Dandled (imp. & p. p.) of Dandle
Dandler (n.) One who dandles or fondles.
Dandling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dandle
Dandriff (n.) See Dandruff.
Dandruff (n.) A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small or particles.
Dandy (n.) A dandy roller. See below.
Dandy (n.) A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.
Dandy (n.) A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.
Dandy (n.) One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.
Dandy-cock (n. fem.) Alt. of Dandy-hen
Dandy-hen (n. fem.) A bantam fowl.
Dandyise (v. t. & i.) To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.
Dandyish (a.) Like a dandy.
Dandyism (n.) The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness.
Dandyling (n.) A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.
Dane (n.) A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark.
Danegeld (n.) Alt. of Danegelt
Danewort (n.) A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.]
Dang () imp. of Ding.
Dang () of Ding
Dang (v. t.) To dash.
Danger (n.) Authority; jurisdiction; control.
Danger (n.) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
Danger (n.) Difficulty; sparingness.
Danger (n.) Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
Danger (n.) Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
Danger (v. t.) To endanger.
Dangerful (a.) Full of danger; dangerous.
Dangerless (a.) Free from danger.
Dangerous (a.) Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Dangerous (a.) Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
Dangerous (a.) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
Dangerous (a.) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
Dangerous (a.) Reserved; not affable.
Dangle (v. i.) To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.
Dangle (v. t.) To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet.
Dangleberry (n.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.
Dangled (imp. & p. p.) of Dangle
Dangler (n.) One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler.
Dangling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dangle
Daniel (n.) A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge.
Danish (a.) Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country.
Danish (n.) The language of the Danes.
Danite (n.) A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan.
Danite (n.) One of a secret association of Mormons, bound by an oath to obey the heads of the church in all things.
Dank (a.) Damp; moist; humid; wet.
Dank (n.) A small silver coin current in Persia.
Dank (n.) Moisture; humidity; water.
Dankish (a.) Somewhat dank.
Dannebrog (n.) The ancient battle standard of Denmark, bearing figures of cross and crown.
Danseuse (n.) A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.
Dansk (a.) Danish.
Dansker (n.) A Dane.
Dantean (a.) Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings.
Dantesque (a.) Dantelike; Dantean.
Danubian (a.) Pertaining to, or bordering on, the river Danube.
Dap (v. i.) To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water.
Dapatical (a.) Sumptuous in cheer.
Daphne (n.) A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.
Daphne (n.) A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.
Daphnetin (n.) A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted from daphnin.
Daphnia (n.) A genus of the genus Daphnia.
Daphnin (n.) A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant.
Daphnin (n.) A white, crystalline, bitter substance, regarded as a glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and D. alpina.
Daphnomancy (n.) Divination by means of the laurel.
Dapifer (n.) One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.
Dapper (a.) Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively.
Dapperling (n.) A dwarf; a dandiprat.
Dapple (a.) Alt. of Dappled
Dapple (n.) One of the spots on a dappled animal.
Dapple (v. t.) To variegate with spots; to spot.
Dappled (a.) Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse.
Dappled (imp. & p. p.) of Dapple
Dappling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dapple
Darbies (n. pl.) Manacles; handcuffs.
Darby (n.) A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc.
Darbyite (n.) One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; -- so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren.
Dardanian (a. & n.) Trojan.
Dare (n.) A small fish; the dace.
Dare (n.) Defiance; challenge.
Dare (n.) The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.
Dare (v. i.) To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
Dare (v. i.) To lurk; to lie hid.
Dare (v. t.) To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
Dare (v. t.) To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.
Dare (v. t.) To terrify; to daunt.
Dare-devil (n.) A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as, dare-devil excitement.
Dare-deviltries (pl. ) of Dare-deviltry
Dare-deviltry (n) Reckless mischief; the action of a dare-devil.
Dared () of Dare
Dared (imp. & p. p.) of Dare
Dared (p. p.) of Dare
Dareful (a.) Full of daring or of defiance; adventurous.
Darer (n.) One who dares or defies.
Darg (n.) Alt. of Dargue
Dargue (n.) A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day.
Daric (n.) A gold coin of ancient Persia, weighing usually a little more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side the figure of an archer.
Daric (n.) A silver coin of about 86 grains, having the figure of an archer, and hence, in modern times, called a daric.
Daring (n.) Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
Daring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dare
Daring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dare
Dark (a.) Deprived of sight; blind.
Dark (a.) Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.
Dark (a.) Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.
Dark (a.) Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.
Dark (a.) Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.
Dark (a.) Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
Dark (n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.
Dark (n.) Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
Dark (n.) The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
Dark (v. t.) To darken to obscure.
Darken (a.) To cast a gloom upon.
Darken (a.) To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
Darken (a.) To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.
Darken (a.) To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
Darken (a.) To render dim; to deprive of vision.
Darken (v. i.) To grow or darker.
Darkened (imp. & p. p.) of Darken
Darkener (n.) One who, or that which, darkens.
Darkening (n.) Twilight; gloaming.
Darkening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Darken
Darkful (a.) Full of darkness.
Darkish (a.) Somewhat dark; dusky.
Darkle (v. i.) To grow dark; to show indistinctly.
Darkling (adv.) In the dark.
Darkling (p. pr. & a.) Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.
Darkling (p. pr. & a.) Dark; gloomy.
Darkly (adv.) With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.
Darkly (adv.) With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.
Darkness (n.) A state of distress or trouble.
Darkness (n.) A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.
Darkness (n.) A state of privacy; secrecy.
Darkness (n.) The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.
Darkness (n.) Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.
Darling (a.) Dearly beloved; regarded with especial kindness and tenderness; favorite.
Darling (n.) One dearly beloved; a favorite.
Darlingtonia (n.) A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.
Darn (n.) A place mended by darning.
Darn (v. t.) A colloquial euphemism for Damn.
Darn (v. t.) To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.
Darned (imp. & p. p.) of Darn
Darner (n.) One who mends by darning.
Darnex (n.) Alt. of Darnic
Darnic (n.) Same as Dornick.
Darning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Darn
Daroo (n.) The Egyptian sycamore (Ficus Sycamorus). See Sycamore.
Darr (n.) The European black tern.
Darraign (v. t.) Alt. of Darrain
Darrain (v. t.) To fight out; to contest; to decide by combat.
Darrain (v. t.) To make ready to fight; to array.
Darrein (a.) Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
Dart (n.) A fish; the dace. See Dace.
Dart (n.) A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
Dart (n.) A spear set as a prize in running.
Dart (n.) Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.
Dart (v. i.) To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.
Dart (v. i.) To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.
Dart (v. t.) To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.
Dart (v. t.) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
Dartars (n.) A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.
Darted (imp. & p. p.) of Dart
Darter (n.) A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid.
Darter (n.) One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.
Darter (n.) The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird.
Darting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dart
Dartingly (adv.) Like a dart; rapidly.
Dartle (v. t. & i.) To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart.
Dartoic (a.) Of or pertaining to the dartos.
Dartoid (a.) Like the dartos; dartoic; as, dartoid tissue.
Dartos (n.) A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.
Dartrous (a.) Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic.
Darwinian (a.) Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements.
Darwinian (n.) An advocate of Darwinism.
Darwinianism (n.) Darwinism.
Darwinism (n.) The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above.
Dase (v. t.) See Daze.
Dasewe (v. i.) To become dim-sighted; to become dazed or dazzled.
Dash (n.) A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain.
Dash (n.) A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.
Dash (n.) A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple.
Dash (n.) A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash.
Dash (n.) A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash.
Dash (n.) Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.
Dash (n.) The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.
Dash (n.) The sign of staccato, a small mark [/] denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner.
Dash (n.) Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.
Dash (v. i.) To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks.
Dash (v. t.) To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin.
Dash (v. t.) To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.
Dash (v. t.) To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.
Dash (v. t.) To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress.
Dash (v. t.) To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
Dashboard (n.) A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.
Dashboard (n.) A screen at the bow af a steam launch to keep off the spray; -- called also sprayboard.
Dashboard (n.) The float of a paddle wheel.
Dashed (imp. & p. p.) of Dash
Dasher (n.) A dashboard or splashboard.
Dasher (n.) One who makes an ostentatious parade.
Dasher (n.) That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn.
Dashing (a.) Bold; spirited; showy.
Dashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dash
Dashingly (adv.) Conspicuously; showily.
Dashism (n.) The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show.
Dashpot (n.) A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.
Dashy (a.) Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.
Dastard (a.) Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.
Dastard (n.) One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.
Dastard (v. t.) To dastardize.
Dastardize (v. t.) To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage.
Dastardized (imp. & p. p.) of Dastardize
Dastardizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dastardize
Dastardliness (n.) The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.
Dastardly (a.) Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.
Dastardness (n.) Dastardliness.
Dastardy (n.) Base timidity; cowardliness.
Daswe (v. i.) See Dasewe
Dasymeter (n.) An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an atmosphere of known density.
Dasypaedal (a.) Dasypaedic.
Dasypaedes (n. pl.) Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.
Dasypaedic (a.) Pertaining to the Dasypaedes; ptilopaedic.
Dasyure (n.) A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species.
Dasyurine (a.) Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.
Data (n. pl.) See Datum.
Data (pl. ) of Datum
Datable (a.) That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date.
Datary (n.) An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria.
Datary (n.) The office or employment of a datary.
Date (n.) Assigned end; conclusion.
Date (n.) Given or assigned length of life; dyration.
Date (n.) That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc.
Date (n.) The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
Date (n.) The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle.
Date (v. i.) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.
Date (v. t.) To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
Date (v. t.) To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.
Dated (imp. & p. p.) of Date
Dateless (a.) Without date; having no fixed time.
Dater (n.) One who dates.
Dating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Date
Datiscin (n.) A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina).
Dative (a.) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law.
Dative (a.) In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office.
Dative (a.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
Dative (a.) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer.
Dative (n.) The dative case. See Dative, a., 1.
Datively (adv.) As a gift.
Datolite (n.) A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals.
Datum (n.) Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Datum (n.) The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem.
Datura (n.) A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.
Daturine (n.) Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.
Daub (n.) A picture coarsely executed.
Daub (n.) A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear.
Daub (v. i.) To smear; to play the flatterer.
Daub (v. t.) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
Daub (v. t.) To flatter excessively or glossy.
Daub (v. t.) To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
Daub (v. t.) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
Daub (v. t.) To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
Daubed (imp. & p. p.) of Daub
Dauber (n.) A low and gross flatterer.
Dauber (n.) A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.
Dauber (n.) One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
Dauber (n.) The mud wasp; the mud dauber.
Daubery (n.) Alt. of Daubry
Daubing (n.) A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast.
Daubing (n.) In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing.
Daubing (n.) The act of one who daubs; that which is daubed.
Daubing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daub
Daubreelite (n.) A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.
Daubry (n.) A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses.
Dauby (a.) Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive.
Daughter (n.) A female descendant; a woman.
Daughter (n.) A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.
Daughter (n.) A term of address indicating parental interest.
Daughter (n.) The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.
Daughter-in-law (n.) The wife of one's son.
Daughterliness (n.) The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.
Daughterly (a.) Becoming a daughter; filial.
Daughters (pl. ) of Daughter
Daughters-in-law (pl. ) of Daughter-in-law
Daughtren (pl. ) of Daughter
Dauk (v. t.) See Dawk, v. t., to cut or gush.
Daun (n.) A variant of Dan, a title of honor.
Daunt (v. t.) To overcome; to conquer.
Daunt (v. t.) To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten.
Daunted (imp. & p. p.) of Daunt
Daunter (n.) One who daunts.
Daunting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daunt
Dauntless (a.) Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid.
Dauphin (n.) The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued.
Dauphine (n.) The title of the wife of the dauphin.
Dauphiness (n.) Alt. of Dauphine
Dauw (n.) The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa (Asinus Burchellii); -- called also peechi, or peetsi.
Davenport (n.) A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.
Davidic (a.) Of or pertaining to David, the king and psalmist of Israel, or to his family.
Davit (n.) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit.
Davit (n.) Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits.
Davy Jones () The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors.
Davy lamp () See Safety lamp, under Lamp.
Davyne (n.) A variety of nephelite from Vesuvius.
Davyum (n.) A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.
Daw (n.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.
Daw (v. i.) To dawn.
Daw (v. t.) To daunt; to terrify.
Daw (v. t.) To rouse.
Dawdle (n.) A dawdler.
Dawdle (v. i.) To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
Dawdle (v. t.) To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
Dawdled (imp. & p. p.) of Dawdle
Dawdler (n.) One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.
Dawdling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dawdle
Dawe (n.) Day.
Dawish (a.) Like a daw.
Dawk (n.) A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber.
Dawk (n.) See Dak.
Dawk (v. t.) To cut or mark with an incision; to gash.
Dawn (n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.
Dawn (n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
Dawn (v. i.) To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
Dawn (v. i.) To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
Dawned (imp. & p. p.) of Dawn
Dawning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dawn
Dawsonite (n.) A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.
Day (n.) (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc.
Day (n.) A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
Day (n.) The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.
Day (n.) Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.
Day lily () A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers.
Day lily () A genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers.
Day-coal (n.) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface.
Day-labor (n.) Labor hired or performed by the day.
Day-laborer (n.) One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade.
Day-net (n.) A net for catching small birds.
Day-peep (n.) The dawn.
Day-star (n.) The morning star; the star which ushers in the day.
Day-star (n.) The sun, as the orb of day.
Dayaks (n. pl.) See Dyaks.
Daybook (n.) A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.
Daybreak (n.) The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.
Daydream (n.) A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope.
Daydreamer (n.) One given to daydreams.
Dayflower (n.) A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.
Daylight (n.) The eyes.
Daylight (n.) The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.
Daymaid (n.) A dairymaid.
Daymare (n.) A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.
Daysman (n.) An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.
Dayspring (n.) The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning.
Daytime (n.) The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.
Daywoman (n.) A dairymaid.
Daze (n.) A glittering stone.
Daze (n.) The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze.
Daze (v. t.) To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
Dazed (imp. & p. p.) of Daze
Dazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daze
Dazzle (n.) A light of dazzling brilliancy.
Dazzle (v. i.) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
Dazzle (v. i.) To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy.
Dazzle (v. t.) To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind.
Dazzle (v. t.) To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light.
Dazzled (imp. & p. p.) of Dazzle
Dazzlement (n.) Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light.
Dazzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dazzle
Dazzlingly (adv.) In a dazzling manner.
De bene esse () Of well being; of formal sufficiency for the time; conditionally; provisionally.
De facto () Actually; in fact; in reality; as, a king de facto, -- distinguished from a king de jure, or by right.
De jure () By right; of right; by law; -- often opposed to de facto.
Deacon (n.) The chairman of an incorporated company.
Deacon (v. t.) To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off.
Deaconess (n.) A female deacon
Deaconess (n.) A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists.
Deaconess (n.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop.
Deaconess (n.) One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons.
Deaconhood (n.) The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.
Deaconry (n.) See Deaconship.
Deaconship (n.) The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.
Dead (a.) Bringing death; deadly.
Dead (a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
Dead (a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.
Dead (a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
Dead (a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
Dead (a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
Dead (a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.
Dead (a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
Dead (a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
Dead (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
Dead (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
Dead (a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
Dead (a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
Dead (a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
Dead (a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.
Dead (adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
Dead (n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
Dead (n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
Dead (v. i.) To die; to lose life or force.
Dead (v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.
Dead beat () See Beat, n., 7.
Dead-eye (n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye.
Dead-hearted (a.) Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.
Dead-pay (n.) Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
Dead-reckoning (n.) See under Dead, a.
Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.
Deadborn (a.) Stillborn.
Deaden (a.) To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.
Deaden (a.) To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.
Deaden (a.) To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
Deaden (a.) To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
Deadened (imp. & p. p.) of Deaden
Deadener (n.) One who, or that which, deadens or checks.
Deadening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deaden
Deadhead (n.) A buoy. See under Dead, a.
Deadhead (n.) One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc.
Deadhouse (n.) A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.
Deadish (a.) Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.
Deadlatch (n.) A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key.
Deadlight (n.) A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm.
Deadlihood (n.) State of the dead.
Deadliness (n.) The quality of being deadly.
Deadlock (n.) A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action.
Deadlock (n.) A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.
Deadly (a.) Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.
Deadly (a.) Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.
Deadly (a.) Subject to death; mortal.
Deadly (adv.) Extremely.
Deadly (adv.) In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death.
Deadly (adv.) In a manner to occasion death; mortally.
Deadly (adv.) In an implacable manner; destructively.
Deads (n. pl.) The substances which inclose the ore on every side.
Deadwood (n.) A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.
Deadwood (n.) Dead trees or branches; useless material.
Deadworks (n. pl.) The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.
Deaf (a.) Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.
Deaf (a.) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
Deaf (a.) Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.
Deaf (a.) Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.
Deaf (v. t.) To deafen.
Deaf-mute (n.) A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it.
Deaf-mutism (n.) The condition of being a deaf-mute.
Deafen (v. t.) To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
Deafen (v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.
Deafened (imp. & p. p.) of Deafen
Deafening (n.) The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.
Deafening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deafen
Deafly (a.) Lonely; solitary.
Deafly (adv.) Without sense of sounds; obscurely.
Deafness (n.) Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.
Deafness (n.) Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.
Deal (n.) A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
Deal (n.) An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains.
Deal (n.) Distribution; apportionment.
Deal (n.) Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.
Deal (n.) The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed.
Deal (n.) To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out.
Deal (n.) Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.
Deal (v. i.) To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with.
Deal (v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.
Deal (v. i.) To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.
Deal (v. i.) To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.
Deal (v. i.) To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.
Dealbate (v. t.) To whiten.
Dealbation (n.) Act of bleaching; a whitening.
Dealer (n.) One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.
Dealer (n.) One who distributes cards to the players.
Dealfish (n.) A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).
Dealing (n.) The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person.
Dealing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deal
Dealt (imp. & p. p.) of Deal
Dealth (n.) Share dealt.
Deambulate (v. i.) To walk abroad.
Deambulation (n.) A walking abroad; a promenading.
Deambulatory (a.) Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory.
Deambulatory (n.) A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.
Dean (n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
Dean (n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
Dean (n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.
Dean (n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
Dean (n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
Deaneries (pl. ) of Deanery
Deanery (n.) The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.
Deanery (n.) The residence of a dean.
Deanery (n.) The territorial jurisdiction of a dean.
Deanship (n.) The office of a dean.
Dear (adv.) Dearly; at a high price.
Dear (n.) A dear one; lover; sweetheart.
Dear (superl.) Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.
Dear (superl.) Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention.
Dearness (n.) The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.
Dearth (n.) Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
Dearticulate (v. t.) To disjoint.
Dearworth (a.) Precious.
Deary (n.) A dear; a darling.
Deas (n.) See Dais.
Death (v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
Death (v. i.) Cause of loss of life.
Death (v. i.) Danger of death.
Death (v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.
Death (v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
Death (v. i.) Murder; murderous character.
Death (v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
Death (v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
Death (v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
Death's-head (n.) A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.
Death's-herb (n.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
Deathbed (n.) The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.
Deathbird (n.) Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.
Deathblow (n.) A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.
Deathful (a.) Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
Deathful (a.) Liable to undergo death; mortal.
Deathfulness (n.) Appearance of death.
Deathless (a.) Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
Deathlike (a.) Deadly.
Deathlike (a.) Resembling death.
Deathliness (n.) The quality of being deathly; deadliness.
Deathly (a.) Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
Deathly (adv.) Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.
Deathsman (n.) An executioner; a headsman or hangman.
Deathward (adv.) Toward death.
Deathwatch (n.) A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.
Deathwatch (n.) The guard set over a criminal before his execution.
Deaurate (a.) Gilded.
Deaurate (v. t.) To gild.
Deauration (n.) Act of gilding.
Deave (v. t.) To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen.
Debacchate (v. i.) To rave as a bacchanal.
Debacchation (n.) Wild raving or debauchery.
Debacle (n.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris.
Debar (v. t.) To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.
Debarb (v. t.) To deprive of the beard.
Debark (v. t. & i.) To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.
Debarkation (n.) Disembarkation.
Debarked (imp. & p. p.) of Debark
Debarking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debark
Debarment (n.) Hindrance from approach; exclusion.
Debarrass (v. t.) To disembarrass; to relieve.
Debarred (imp. & p. p.) of Debar
Debarring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debar
Debase (a.) To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.
Debased (a.) Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
Debased (imp. & p. p.) of Debase
Debasement (n.) The act of debasing or the state of being debased.
Debaser (n.) One who, or that which, debases.
Debasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debase
Debasingly (adv.) In a manner to debase.
Debatable (a.) Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question.
Debate (v. i.) To contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate; to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; -- often followed by on or upon.
Debate (v. i.) To engage in strife or combat; to fight.
Debate (v. t.) A fight or fighting; contest; strife.
Debate (v. t.) Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress.
Debate (v. t.) Subject of discussion.
Debate (v. t.) To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.
Debate (v. t.) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
Debated (imp. & p. p.) of Debate
Debateful (a.) Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome.
Debater (n.) One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.
Debating (n.) The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.
Debating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debate
Debatingly (adv.) In the manner of a debate.
Debauch (n.) An act or occasion of debauchery.
Debauch (n.) Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.
Debauch (n.) To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army.
Debauched (a.) Dissolute; dissipated.
Debauched (imp. & p. p.) of Debauch
Debauchedly (adv.) In a profligate manner.
Debauchedness (n.) The state of being debauched; intemperance.
Debauchee (v. t.) One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.
Debaucher (n.) One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.
Debaucheries (pl. ) of Debauchery
Debauchery (n.) Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.
Debauchery (n.) Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness.
Debauching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debauch
Debauchment (n.) The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
Debauchness (n.) Debauchedness.
Debeige (n.) A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods.
Debel (v. t.) To conquer.
Debellate (v. t.) To subdue; to conquer in war.
Debellation (n.) The act of conquering or subduing.
Debenture (n.) A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.
Debenture (n.) A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.
Debentured (a.) Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.
Debile (a.) Weak.
Debilitant (a.) Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug.
Debilitate (v. t.) To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.
Debilitated (imp. & p. p.) of Debilitate
Debilitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debilitate
Debilitation (n.) The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.
Debility (a.) The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.
Debit (n.) A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account.
Debit (v. t.) To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.
Debit (v. t.) To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; as, to debit the amount of goods sold.
Debited (imp. & p. p.) of Debit
Debiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debit
Debitor (n.) A debtor.
Debituminization (n.) The act of depriving of bitumen.
Debituminize (v. t.) To deprive of bitumen.
Deblai (n.) The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.
Debonair (a.) Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant.
Debonairity (n.) Debonairness.
Debonairly (adv.) Courteously; elegantly.
Debonairness (n.) The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.
Debosh (v. t.) To debauch.
Deboshment (n.) Debauchment.
Debouch (v. i.) To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.
Debouche (n.) A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods.
Debouched (imp. & p. p.) of Debouch
Debouching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debouch
Debouchure (n.) The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait.
Debris (n.) Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.
Debris (n.) Rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of anything; remains; ruins.
Debruised (a.) Surmounted by an ordinary; as, a lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut.
Debt (n.) A duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass.
Debt (n.) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
Debt (n.) That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability.
Debted (p. a.) Indebted; obliged to.
Debtee (n.) One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.
Debtless (a.) Free from debt.
Debtor (n.) One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor.
Debulition (n.) A bubbling or boiling over.
Debulliate (v. i.) To boil over.
Deburse (v. t. & i.) To disburse.
Debuscope (n.) A modification of the kaleidoscope; -- used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs.
Debut (n.) A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.
Debutant () Alt. of Debutante
Debutante () A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public.
Deca- () A prefix, from Gr. de`ka, signifying ten; specifically (Metric System), a prefix signifying the weight or measure that is ten times the principal unit.
Decacerata (n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.
Decachord (n.) Alt. of Decachordon
Decachordon (n.) An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.
Decachordon (n.) Something consisting of ten parts.
Decad (n.) A decade.
Decadal (a.) Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.
Decade (n.) A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.
Decadence (n.) Alt. of Decadency
Decadency (n.) A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence."
Decadent (a.) Decaying; deteriorating.
Decadist (n.) A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist.
Decagon (n.) A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.
Decagonal (a.) Pertaining to a decagon; having ten sides.
Decagram (n.) Alt. of Decagramme
Decagramme (n.) A weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois.
Decagynia (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants characterized by having ten styles.
Decagynian (a.) Alt. of Deccagynous
Decahedra (pl. ) of Decahedron
Decahedral (a.) Having ten sides.
Decahedron (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.
Decahedrons (pl. ) of Decahedron
Decalcification (n.) The removal of calcareous matter.
Decalcified (imp. & p. p.) of Decalcify
Decalcify (v. t.) To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.
Decalcifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decalcify
Decalcomania (n.) Alt. of Decalcomanie
Decalcomanie (n.) The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.
Decaliter (n.) Alt. of Decalitre
Decalitre (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons.
Decalog (n.) Decalogue.
Decalogist (n.) One who explains the decalogue.
Decalogue (n.) The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.
Decameron (n.) A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian.
Decameter (n.) Alt. of Decametre
Decametre (n.) A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.
Decamp (v. i.) Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; -- generally used disparagingly.
Decamp (v. i.) To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly.
Decamped (imp. & p. p.) of Decamp
Decamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decamp
Decampment (n.) Departure from a camp; a marching off.
Decanal (a.) Pertaining to a dean or deanery.
Decandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants characterized by having ten stamens.
Decandrian (a.) Alt. of Decandrous
Decandrous (a.) Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens.
Decane (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.
Decangular (a.) Having ten angles.
Decani (a.) Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side.
Decant (v. t.) To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.
Decantate (v. t.) To decant.
Decantation (n.) The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.
Decanted (imp. & p. p.) of Decant
Decanter (n.) A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors; a kind of glass bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled.
Decanter (n.) One who decants liquors.
Decanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decant
Decaphyllous (a.) Having ten leaves.
Decapitate (v. t.) To cut off the head of; to behead.
Decapitate (v. t.) To remove summarily from office.
Decapitated (imp. & p. p.) of Decapitate
Decapitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decapitate
Decapitation (n.) The act of beheading; beheading.
Decapod (n.) A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.
Decapoda (n. pl.) A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.
Decapoda (n. pl.) The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.
Decarbonate (v. t.) To deprive of carbonic acid.
Decarbonization (n.) The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.
Decarbonize (v. t.) To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood.
Decarbonized (imp. & p. p.) of Decarbonize
Decarbonizer (n.) He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
Decarbonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decarbonize
Decarburization (n.) The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
Decarburize (v. t.) To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.
Decard (v. t.) To discard.
Decardinalize (v. t.) To depose from the rank of cardinal.
Decastere (n.) A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.
Decastich (n.) A poem consisting of ten lines.
Decastyle (a.) Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc.
Decastyle (n.) A portico having ten pillars or columns in front.
Decasyllabic (a.) Having, or consisting of, ten syllables.
Decatoic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, decane.
Decay (n.) Cause of decay.
Decay (n.) Destruction; death.
Decay (v. t.) To cause to decay; to impair.
Decay (v. t.) To destroy.
Decayed (a.) Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman.
Decayed (imp. & p. p.) of Decay
Decayer (n.) A causer of decay.
Decaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decay
Deccagynous (a.) Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles.
Deccapodal (a.) Alt. of Deccapodous
Deccapodous (a.) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.
Decease (n.) Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
Decease (v. i.) To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.
Deceased (a.) Passed away; dead; gone.
Deceased (imp. & p. p.) of Decease
Deceasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decease
Decede (n.) To withdraw.
Decedent (a.) Removing; departing.
Decedent (n.) A deceased person.
Deceit (n.) An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.
Deceit (n.) Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.
Deceitful (a.) Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.
Deceitfully (adv.) With intent to deceive.
Deceitfulness (n.) Tendency to mislead or deceive.
Deceitfulness (n.) The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.
Deceitfulness (n.) The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices.
Deceitless (a.) Free from deceit.
Deceivable (a.) Fitted to deceive; deceitful.
Deceivable (a.) Subject to deceit; capable of being misled.
Deceivableness (n.) Capability of deceiving.
Deceivableness (n.) Liability to be deceived or misled; as, the deceivableness of a child.
Deceivably (adv.) In a deceivable manner.
Deceive (v. t.) To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception.
Deceive (v. t.) To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud.
Deceive (v. t.) To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare.
Deceived (imp. & p. p.) of Deceive
Deceiver (n.) One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor.
Deceiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deceive
December (n.) Fig.: With reference to the end of the year and to the winter season; as, the December of his life.
December (n.) The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice.
Decemdentate (a.) Having ten points or teeth.
Decemfid (a.) Cleft into ten parts.
Decemlocular (a.) Having ten cells for seeds.
Decempedal (a.) Having ten feet; decapodal.
Decempedal (a.) Ten feet in length.
Decemvir (n.) A member of any body of ten men in authority.
Decemvir (n.) One of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome.
Decemviral (a.) Pertaining to the decemvirs in Rome.
Decemvirate (n.) A body of ten men in authority.
Decemvirate (n.) The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.
Decemviri (pl. ) of Decemvir
Decemvirs (pl. ) of Decemvir
Decemvirship (n.) The office of a decemvir.
Decence (n.) Decency.
Decencies (pl. ) of Decency
Decency (n.) That which is proper or becoming.
Decene (n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H20, of the ethylene series.
Decennaries (pl. ) of Decennary
Decennary (n.) A period of ten years.
Decennary (n.) A tithing consisting of ten neighboring families.
Decennia (pl. ) of Decennium
Decennial (a.) Consisting of ten years; happening every ten years; as, a decennial period; decennial games.
Decennial (n.) A tenth year or tenth anniversary.
Decennium (n.) A period of ten years.
Decenniums (pl. ) of Decennium
Decennoval (a.) Alt. of Decennovary
Decennovary (a.) Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years.
Decent (a.) Comely; shapely; well-formed.
Decent (a.) Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.
Decent (a.) Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person.
Decent (a.) Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.
Decentralization (n.) The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized.
Decentralize (v. t.) To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.
Deceptible (a.) Capable of being deceived; deceivable.
Deception (n.) That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
Deception (n.) The act of deceiving or misleading.
Deception (n.) The state of being deceived or misled.
Deceptious (a.) Tending deceive; delusive.
Deceptive (a.) Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.
Deceptively (adv.) In a manner to deceive.
Deceptiveness (n.) The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive.
Deceptivity (n.) Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham.
Deceptory (a.) Deceptive.
Decern (v. t.) To decree; to adjudge.
Decern (v. t.) To perceive, discern, or decide.
Decerniture (n.) A decree or sentence of a court.
Decerp (v. t.) To pluck off; to crop; to gather.
Decerpt (a.) Plucked off or away.
Decerptible (a.) That may be plucked off, cropped, or torn away.
Decerption (n.) That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece.
Decerption (n.) The act of plucking off; a cropping.
Decertation (n.) Contest for mastery; contention; strife.
Decession (n.) Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion.
Decharm (v. t.) To free from a charm; to disenchant.
Dechristianize (v. t.) To turn from, or divest of, Christianity.
Dechristianized (imp. & p. p.) of Dechristianize
Dechristianizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dechristianize
Decidable (a.) Capable of being decided; determinable.
Decide (v. i.) To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the defendant.
Decide (v. t.) To bring to a termination, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment concerning; to determine; to settle.
Decide (v. t.) To cut off; to separate.
Decided (a.) Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided advantage.
Decided (a.) Free from doubt or wavering; determined; of fixed purpose; fully settled; positive; resolute; as, a decided opinion or purpose.
Decided (imp. & p. p.) of Decide
Decidedly (adv.) In a decided manner; indisputably; clearly; thoroughly.
Decidement (n.) Means of forming a decision.
Decidence (n.) A falling off.
Decider (n.) One who decides.
Deciding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decide
Decidua (n.) The inner layer of the wall of the uterus, which envelops the embryo, forms a part of the placenta, and is discharged with it.
Deciduata (n. pl.) A group of Mammalia in which a decidua is thrown off with, or after, the fetus, as in the human species.
Deciduate (a.) Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua.
Deciduity (n.) Deciduousness.
Deciduousness (n.) The quality or state of being deciduous.
Decigram (n.) Alt. of Decigramme
Decigramme (n.) A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.
Decil (n.) Alt. of Decile
Deciliter (n.) Alt. of Decilitre
Decilitre (n.) A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.
Decillionth (a.) Pertaining to a decillion, or to the quotient of unity divided by a decillion.
Decillionth (n.) One of a decillion equal parts.
Decillionth (n.) The quotient of unity divided by a decillion.
Decimal (a.) Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.
Decimal (n.) A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.
Decimalism (n.) The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights, measures, etc.
Decimalize (v. t.) To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency.
Decimally (adv.) By tens; by means of decimals.
Decimate (v. t.) To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
Decimate (v. t.) To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
Decimate (v. t.) To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
Decimated (imp. & p. p.) of Decimate
Decimating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decimate
Decimation (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment.
Decimation (n.) A tithing.
Decimation (n.) The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war.
Decimator (n.) One who decimates.
Decime (n.) A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about two cents.
Decimeter (n.) Alt. of Decimetre
Decimetre (n.) A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.
Decimosexto (a.) Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; as, a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size.
Decine (n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H15, of the acetylene series; -- called also decenylene.
Decipher (v. t.) To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.
Decipher (v. t.) To stamp; to detect; to discover.
Decipher (v. t.) To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.
Decipherable (a.) Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.
Deciphered (imp. & p. p.) of Decipher
Decipherer (n.) One who deciphers.
Decipheress (n.) A woman who deciphers.
Deciphering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decipher
Decipherment (n.) The act of deciphering.
Decipiency (n.) State of being deceived; hallucination.
Decipium (n.) A supposed rare element, said to be associated with cerium, yttrium, etc., in the mineral samarskite, and more recently called samarium. Symbol Dp. See Samarium.
Decision (n.) An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court.
Decision (n.) Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.
Decision (n.) The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion.
Decision (n.) The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision.
Decisive (a.) Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
Decisive (a.) Marked by promptness and decision.
Decisory (a.) Able to decide or determine; having a tendency to decide.
Decistere (n.) The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.
Decitizenize (v. t.) To deprive of the rights of citizenship.
Decivilize (v. t.) To reduce from civilization to a savage state.
Deck (v. t.) To cover; to overspread.
Deck (v. t.) To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.
Deck (v. t.) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
Deck (v.) A heap or store.
Deck (v.) A pack or set of playing cards.
Deck (v.) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
Deck (v.) The roof of a passenger car.
Deck (v.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.
Decked (imp. & p. p.) of Deck
Deckel (n.) Same as Deckle.
Decker (n.) A vessel which has a deck or decks; -- used esp. in composition; as, a single-decker; a three-decker.
Decker (n.) One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker.
Decking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deck
Deckle (n.) A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper.
Declaim (v. i.) To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
Declaim (v. i.) To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week.
Declaim (v. t.) To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.
Declaim (v. t.) To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.
Declaimant (n.) A declaimer.
Declaimed (imp. & p. p.) of Declaim
Declaimer (n.) One who declaims; an haranguer.
Declaiming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Declaim
Declamation (n.) A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
Declamation (n.) Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.
Declamation (n.) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students.
Declamator (n.) A declaimer.
Declamatory (a.) Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.
Declamatory (a.) Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.
Declarable (a.) Capable of being declared.
Declarant (n.) One who declares.
Declaration (n.) That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n., 3.
Declaration (n.) That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal.
Declaration (n.) The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.
Declaration (n.) The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington).
Declarative (a.) Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory.
Declaratively (adv.) By distinct assertion; not impliedly; in the form of a declaration.
Declarator (n.) A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.
Declaratorily (adv.) In a declaratory manner.
Declaratory (a.) Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature.
Declare (v. i.) To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; -- often with for or against; as, victory declares against the allies.
Declare (v. i.) To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.
Declare (v. t.) To make clear; to free from obscurity.
Declare (v. t.) To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false.
Declare (v. t.) To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc.
Declare (v. t.) To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce.
Declared (imp. & p. p.) of Declare
Declaredly (adv.) Avowedly; explicitly.
Declaredness (n.) The state of being declared.
Declarement (n.) Declaration.
Declarer (n.) One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits.
Declaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Declare
Declension (n.) A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
Declension (n.) Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
Declension (n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
Declension (n.) Rehearsing a word as declined.
Declension (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
Declension (n.) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
Declensional (a.) Belonging to declension.
Declinable (a.) Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.
Declinal (a.) Declining; sloping.
Declinate (a.) Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.
Declination (n.) The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.
Declination (n.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4.
Declination (n.) The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
Declination (n.) The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.
Declination (n.) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.
Declination (n.) The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.
Declination (n.) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south.
Declinator (n.) A dissentient.
Declinator (n.) An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
Declinatory (a.) Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
Declinature (n.) The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
Decline (v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
Decline (v. i.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
Decline (v. i.) To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
Decline (v. i.) To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
Decline (v. i.) To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
Decline (v. t.) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
Decline (v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish.
Decline (v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
Decline (v. t.) To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.
Decline (v. t.) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
Declined (a.) Declinate.
Declined (imp. & p. p.) of Decline
Decliner (n.) He who declines or rejects.
Declining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decline
Declinometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.
Declinous (a.) Declinate.
Declivities (pl. ) of Declivity
Declivitous (a.) Alt. of Declivous
Declivity (n.) A descending surface; a sloping place.
Declivity (n.) Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.
Decoct (v. t.) To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.
Decoct (v. t.) To prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation; to digest; to concoct.
Decoct (v. t.) To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling.
Decocted (imp. & p. p.) of Decoct
Decoctible (a.) Capable of being boiled or digested.
Decocting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decoct
Decoction (n.) An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
Decoction (n.) The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
Decocture (n.) A decoction.
Decollate (v. t.) To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.
Decollated (a.) Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.
Decollated (imp. & p. p.) of Decollate
Decollating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decollate
Decollation (n.) A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist.
Decollation (n.) The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.
Decollete (a.) Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.
Decolling (n.) Beheading.
Decolor (v. t.) To deprive of color; to bleach.
Decolorant (n.) A substance which removes color, or bleaches.
Decolorate (a.) Deprived of color.
Decolorate (v. t.) To decolor.
Decoloration (n.) The removal or absence of color.
Decolorize (v. t.) To deprive of color; to whiten.
Decomplex (a.) Repeatedly compound; made up of complex constituents.
Decomposable (a.) Capable of being resolved into constituent elements.
Decompose (v. i.) To become resolved or returned from existing combinations; to undergo dissolution; to decay; to rot.
Decompose (v. t.) To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
Decomposed (a.) Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.
Decomposed (imp. & p. p.) of Decompose
Decomposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decompose
Decomposite (a.) Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.
Decomposite (a.) See Decompound, a., 2.
Decomposite (n.) Anything decompounded.
Decomposition (n.) Repeated composition; a combination of compounds.
Decomposition (n.) The state of being reduced into original elements.
Decompound (a.) Compound of what is already compounded; compounded a second time.
Decompound (a.) Several times compounded or divided, as a leaf or stem; decomposite.
Decompound (n.) A decomposite.
Decompound (v. t.) To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time.
Decompound (v. t.) To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose.
Decompoundable (a.) Capable of being decompounded.
Decompounded (imp. & p. p.) of Decompound
Decompounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decompound
Deconcentrate (v. t.) To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize.
Deconcentration (n.) Act of deconcentrating.
Deconcoct (v. t.) To decompose.
Deconsecrate (v. t.) To deprive of sacredness; to secularize.
Decorament (v. t.) Ornament.
Decorated (imp. & p. p.) of Decorate
Decorating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decorate
Decoration (n.) Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
Decoration (n.) That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
Decoration (n.) The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
Decorative (a.) Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning.
Decorator (n.) One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.
Decore (v. t.) To decorate; to beautify.
Decorement (n.) Ornament.
Decorous (a.) Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.
Decorticate (v. t.) To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.
Decorticated (imp. & p. p.) of Decorticate
Decorticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decorticate
Decortication (n.) The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.
Decorticator (n.) A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.
Decorum (n.) Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.
Decoy (n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
Decoy (n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.
Decoy (n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
Decoy (n.) Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
Decoy (v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.
Decoy-duck (n.) A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger.
Decoy-man (n.) A man employed in decoying wild fowl.
Decoy-men (pl. ) of Decoy-man
Decoyed (imp. & p. p.) of Decoy
Decoyer (n.) One who decoys another.
Decoying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decoy
Decrease (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
Decrease (v. t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
Decrease (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
Decrease (v.) The wane of the moon.
Decreased (imp. & p. p.) of Decrease
Decreaseless (a.) Suffering no decrease.
Decreasing (a.) Becoming less and less; diminishing.
Decreasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decrease
Decreation (n.) Destruction; -- opposed to creation.
Decree (n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.
Decree (n.) A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him.
Decree (n.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
Decree (n.) An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision.
Decree (v. i.) To make decrees; -- used absolutely.
Decree (v. t.) To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property.
Decree (v. t.) To ordain by fate.
Decreeable (a.) Capable of being decreed.
Decreed (imp. & p. p.) of Decree
Decreeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decree
Decreer (n.) One who decrees.
Decreet (n.) The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.
Decrement (n.) A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.
Decrement (n.) The quantity by which a variable is diminished.
Decrement (n.) The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment.
Decrement (n.) The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
Decrepit (a.) Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
Decrepitate (v. i.) To crackle, as salt in roasting.
Decrepitate (v. t.) To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
Decrepitated (imp. & p. p.) of Decrepitate
Decrepitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decrepitate
Decrepitation (n.) The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.
Decrepitness (n.) Decrepitude.
Decrepitude (n.) The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
Decrescendo (a. & adv.) With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.
Decrescent (a.) Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.
Decrescent (n.) A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.
Decretal (a.) An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.
Decretal (a.) Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle.
Decretal (a.) The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.
Decrete (n.) A decree.
Decretion (n.) A decrease.
Decretist (n.) One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the decretals.
Decretive (n.) Having the force of a decree; determining.
Decretorial (a.) Decretory; authoritative.
Decretorily (adv.) In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree.
Decretory (a.) Established by a decree; definitive; settled.
Decretory (a.) Serving to determine; critical.
Decrew (v. i.) To decrease.
Decrial (n.) A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.
Decried (imp. & p. p.) of Decry
Decrier (n.) One who decries.
Decrown (v. t.) To deprive of a crown; to discrown.
Decrustation (n.) The removal of a crust.
Decry (v. t.) To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage.
Decrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decry
Decubation (n.) Act of lying down; decumbence.
Decubitus (n.) An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus.
Decucuminated (a.) Having the point or top cut off.
Decuman (a.) Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively.
Decumbence (n.) Alt. of Decumbency
Decumbency (n.) The act or posture of lying down.
Decumbent (a.) Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
Decumbent (a.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem.
Decumbently (adv.) In a decumbent posture.
Decumbiture (n.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.
Decumbiture (n.) Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness.
Decuple (a.) Tenfold.
Decuple (n.) A number ten times repeated.
Decuple (v. t.) To make tenfold; to multiply by ten.
Decupled (imp. & p. p.) of Decuple
Decupling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decuple
Decuries (pl. ) of Decury
Decurion (n.) A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers.
Decurionate (n.) The office of a decurion.
Decurrence (n.) The act of running down; a lapse.
Decurrent (a.) Extending downward; -- said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem.
Decursion (n.) A flowing; also, a hostile incursion.
Decursive (a.) Running down; decurrent.
Decursively (adv.) In a decursive manner.
Decurt (v. t.) To cut short; to curtail.
Decurtation (n.) Act of cutting short.
Decury (n.) A set or squad of ten men under a decurion.
Decussate (a.) Alt. of Decussated
Decussate (v. t.) To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; -- said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.
Decussated (a.) Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other; as, a decussated period.
Decussated (a.) Crossed; intersected.
Decussated (a.) Growing in pairs, each of which is at right angles to the next pair above or below; as, decussated leaves or branches.
Decussated (imp. & p. p.) of Decussate
Decussately (adv.) In a decussate manner.
Decussating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decussate
Decussation (n.) Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.
Decussative (a.) Intersecting at acute angles.
Decussatively (adv.) Crosswise; in the form of an X.
Decyl (n.) A hydrocarbon radical, C10H21, never existing alone, but regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of the paraffin series.
Decylic (a.) Allied to, or containing, the radical decyl.
Dedalian (a.) See Daedalian.
Dedalous (a.) See Daedalous.
Dedans (n.) A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators.
Dede (a.) Dead.
Dedecorate (v. t.) To bring to shame; to disgrace.
Dedecoration (n.) Disgrace; dishonor.
Dedecorous (a.) Disgraceful; unbecoming.
Dedentition (n.) The shedding of teeth.
Dedicate (p. a.) Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.
Dedicate (v. t.) To devote, set apart, or give up, as one's self, to a duty or service.
Dedicate (v. t.) To inscribe or address, as to a patron.
Dedicate (v. t.) To set apart and consecrate, as to a divinity, or for sacred uses; to devote formally and solemnly; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple, or a church, to a religious use.
Dedicated (imp. & p. p.) of Dedicate
Dedicatee (n.) One to whom a thing is dedicated; -- correlative to dedicator.
Dedicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dedicate
Dedication (n.) A devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose; as, a dedication of lands to public use.
Dedication (n.) An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor.
Dedication (n.) The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple.
Dedicator (n.) One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.
Dedicatorial (a.) Dedicatory.
Dedicatory (a.) Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental.
Dedicatory (n.) Dedication.
Dedimus (n.) A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc.
Dedition (n.) The act of yielding; surrender.
Dedolent (a.) Feeling no compunction; apathetic.
Deduce (v. t.) To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of.
Deduce (v. t.) To lead forth.
Deduce (v. t.) To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole.
Deducible (a.) Capable of being deduced or inferred; derivable by reasoning, as a result or consequence.
Deducibleness (n.) The quality of being deducible; deducibility.
Deducibly (adv.) By deduction.
Deducing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deduce
Deducive (a.) That deduces; inferential.
Deduct (v. t.) To lead forth or out.
Deduct (v. t.) To reduce; to diminish.
Deduct (v. t.) To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of.
Deducted (imp. & p. p.) of Deduct
Deductible (a.) Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn.
Deductible (a.) Deducible; consequential.
Deducting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deduct
Deduction (n.) Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.
Deduction (n.) Act or process of deducing or inferring.
Deduction (n.) That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.
Deduction (n.) That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent.
Deductive (a.) Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible.
Deductively (adv.) By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence.
Deductor (n.) The pilot whale or blackfish.
Deduit (n.) Delight; pleasure.
Deduplication (n.) The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.
Deed (a.) Dead.
Deed (v. t.) A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract.
Deed (v. t.) Fact; reality; -- whence we have indeed.
Deed (v. t.) That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small.
Deed (v. t.) To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son.
Deed poll () A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented.
Deedful (a.) Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring.
Deedless (a.) Not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive.
Deedy (a.) Industrious; active.
Deem (n.) Opinion; judgment.
Deem (v. i.) To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose.
Deem (v. i.) To pass judgment.
Deem (v.) To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard.
Deem (v.) To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn.
Deemed (imp. & p. p.) of Deem
Deeming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deem
Deemster (n.) A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process.
Deep (adv.) To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.
Deep (n.) That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth.
Deep (n.) That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss.
Deep (superl.) Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea.
Deep (superl.) Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot.
Deep (superl.) Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley.
Deep (superl.) Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads.
Deep (superl.) Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy.
Deep (superl.) Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
Deep (superl.) Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror.
Deep (superl.) Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson.
Deep-fet (a.) Deeply fetched or drawn.
Deep-laid (a.) Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; as, deep-laid plans.
Deep-mouthed (a.) Having a loud and sonorous voice.
Deep-read (a.) Profoundly book- learned.
Deep-sea (a.) Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.
Deep-waisted (a.) Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck.
Deepen (v. i.) To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens.
Deepen (v. t.) To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom.
Deepen (v. t.) To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.
Deepen (v. t.) To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ.
Deepen (v. t.) To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow.
Deepened (imp. & p. p.) of Deepen
Deepening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deepen
Deeply (adv.) At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.
Deeply (adv.) Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument.
Deeply (adv.) Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics.
Deeply (adv.) Very; with a tendency to darkness of color.
Deeply (adv.) With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply laid plot or intrigue.
Deepness (n.) Craft; insidiousness.
Deepness (n.) The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness.
Deer (n. sing. & pl.) Any animal; especially, a wild animal.
Deer-neck (n.) A deerlike, or thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse.
Deer's-tongue (n.) A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla.
Deerberry (n.) A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.
Deergrass (n.) An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomaceae inhabiting a temperate clime.
Deerhound (n.) One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer; a staghound.
Deerlet (n.) A chevrotain. See Kanchil, and Napu.
Deerskin (n.) The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it.
Deerstalker (n.) One who practices deerstalking.
Deerstalking (n.) The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
Dees (n. pl.) Dice.
Dees (n.) A dais.
Deesis (n.) An invocation of, or address to, the Supreme Being.
Deess (n.) A goddess.
Deev (n.) See Dev.
Deface (v. t.) To destroy; to make null.
Defaced (imp. & p. p.) of Deface
Defacement (n.) That which mars or disfigures.
Defacement (n.) The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.
Defacer (n.) One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures.
Defacing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deface
Defail (v. t.) To cause to fail.
Defailance (n.) Failure; miscarriage.
Defailure (n.) Failure.
Defalcate (v. i.) To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust.
Defalcate (v. t.) To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.
Defalcated (imp. & p. p.) of Defalcate
Defalcating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defalcate
Defalcation (n.) A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.
Defalcation (n.) An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent having it in trust; an embezzlement.
Defalcation (n.) That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated.
Defalcator (n.) A defaulter or embezzler.
Defalk (v. t.) To lop off; to abate.
Defamation (n.) Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.
Defame (v. t.) To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.
Defame (v. t.) To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
Defamed (imp. & p. p.) of Defame
Defamer (n.) One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
Defaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defame
Defamingly (adv.) In a defamatory manner.
Defamous (a.) Defamatory.
Defatigable (a.) Capable of being wearied or tired out.
Defatigate (v. t.) To weary or tire out; to fatigue.
Defatigation (n.) Weariness; fatigue.
Default (n.) A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default.
Default (n.) A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc.
Default (n.) Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom.
Default (v. i.) To fail in duty; to offend.
Default (v. i.) To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty.
Default (v. i.) To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.
Default (v. t.) To call a defendant or other party whose duty it is to be present in court, and make entry of his default, if he fails to appear; to enter a default against.
Default (v. t.) To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend.
Default (v. t.) To leave out of account; to omit.
Defaulted (imp. & p. p.) of Default
Defaulter (n.) One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator.
Defaulter (n.) One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.
Defaulting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Default
Defeasance (n.) A defeat; an overthrow.
Defeasance (n.) A rendering null or void.
Defeasanced (a.) Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.
Defeasible (a.) Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title.
Defeat (v. t.) To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
Defeat (v. t.) To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
Defeat (v. t.) To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
Defeat (v. t.) To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
Defeat (v.) An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
Defeat (v.) An undoing or annulling; destruction.
Defeat (v.) Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.
Defeated (imp. & p. p.) of Defeat
Defeating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defeat
Defeature (n.) Disfigurement; deformity.
Defeature (n.) Overthrow; defeat.
Defeatured (p. p.) Changed in features; deformed.
Defecate (a.) Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
Defecate (v. i.) To become clear, pure, or free.
Defecate (v. i.) To void excrement.
Defecate (v. t.) To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine.
Defecate (v. t.) To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes.
Defecated (imp. & p. p.) of Defecate
Defecating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defecate
Defecation (n.) The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.
Defecation (n.) The act or process of voiding excrement.
Defecator (n.) That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups.
Defect (n.) Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.
Defect (n.) Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
Defect (v. i.) To fail; to become deficient.
Defect (v. t.) To injure; to damage.
Defectibility (n.) Deficiency; imperfection.
Defectible (a.) Liable to defect; imperfect.
Defection (n.) Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding.
Defectionist (n.) One who advocates or encourages defection.
Defectious (a.) Having defects; imperfect.
Defective (a.) Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb.
Defective (a.) Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules.
Defectuosity (n.) Great imperfection.
Defectuous (a.) Full of defects; imperfect.
Defedation (n.) The act of making foul; pollution.
Defence (n. & v. t.) See Defense.
Defence (n.) Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc.
Defence (n.) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
Defence (n.) That which defends or protects; anything employed to oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection.
Defence (n.) The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger.
Defence (n.) The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.
Defend (v. t.) To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit.
Defend (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
Defend (v. t.) To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
Defendable (a.) Capable of being defended; defensible.
Defendant (a.) Making defense.
Defendant (a.) Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive.
Defendant (n.) A person required to make answer in an action or suit; -- opposed to plaintiff.
Defendant (n.) One who defends; a defender.
Defended (imp. & p. p.) of Defend
Defendee (n.) One who is defended.
Defender (n.) One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.
Defending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defend
Defendress (n.) A female defender.
Defensative (n.) That which serves to protect or defend.
Defense (n.) Alt. of Defence
Defense (v. t.) To furnish with defenses; to fortify.
Defenseless (a.) Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected.
Defenser (n.) Defender.
Defensibility (n.) Capability of being defended.
Defensible (a.) Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause.
Defensible (a.) Capable of offering defense.
Defensibleness (n.) Capability of being defended; defensibility.
Defensive (a.) Carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed to offensive; as, defensive war.
Defensive (a.) In a state or posture of defense.
Defensive (a.) Serving to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor.
Defensive (n.) That which defends; a safeguard.
Defensively (adv.) On the defensive.
Defensor (n.) A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector.
Defensor (n.) A defender.
Defensor (n.) The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church.
Defensory (a.) Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations.
Defer (v. i.) To put off; to delay to act; to wait.
Defer (v. i.) To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.
Defer (v. t.) To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to.
Defer (v. t.) To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.
Defer (v. t.) To render or offer.
Deference (n.) A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance.
Deferent (a.) Serving to carry; bearing.
Deferent (n.) An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
Deferent (n.) That which carries or conveys.
Deferential (a.) Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.
Deferentially (adv.) With deference.
Deferment (n.) The act of delaying; postponement.
Deferred (imp. & p. p.) of Defer
Deferrer (n.) One who defers or puts off.
Deferring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defer
Defervescence (n.) Alt. of Defervescency
Defervescency (n.) A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness.
Defervescency (n.) The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia.
Defeudalize (v. t.) To deprive of the feudal character or form.
Defiance (n.) A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.
Defiance (n.) A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.
Defiance (n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
Defiant (a.) Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.
Defiatory (a.) Bidding or manifesting defiance.
Defibrinate (v. t.) To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.
Defibrination (n.) The act or process of depriving of fibrin.
Defibrinize (v. t.) To defibrinate.
Deficience (n.) Same as Deficiency.
Deficiencies (pl. ) of Deficiency
Deficiency (n.) The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
Deficient (a.) Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.
Deficit (n.) Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.
Defied (imp. & p. p.) of Defy
Defier (n.) One who dares and defies; a contemner; as, a defier of the laws.
Defiguration (n.) Disfiguration; mutilation.
Defigure (v. t.) To delineate.
Defilade (v. t.) To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
Defiladed (imp. & p. p.) of Defilade
Defilading (n.) The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected.
Defilading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defilade
Defile (n.) Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc.
Defile (n.) The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade.
Defile (v. i.) To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.
Defile (v. t.) Same as Defilade.
Defile (v. t.) To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate.
Defile (v. t.) To injure in purity of character; to corrupt.
Defile (v. t.) To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute.
Defile (v. t.) To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute.
Defile (v. t.) To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint.
Defiled (imp. & p. p.) of Defile
Defilement (n.) The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness.
Defilement (n.) The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.
Defiler (n.) One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes.
Defiliation (n.) Abstraction of a child from its parents.
Defiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defile
Definable (a.) Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words.
Define (v. i.) To determine; to decide.
Define (v. t.) To determine or clearly exhibit the boundaries of; to mark the limits of; as, to define the extent of a kingdom or country.
Define (v. t.) To determine the precise signification of; to fix the meaning of; to describe accurately; to explain; to expound or interpret; as, to define a word, a phrase, or a scientific term.
Define (v. t.) To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly; as, the defining power of an optical instrument.
Define (v. t.) To fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end.
Defined (imp. & p. p.) of Define
Definement (n.) The act of defining; definition; description.
Definer (n.) One who defines or explains.
Defining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Define
Definite (a.) Determined; resolved.
Definite (a.) Having certain limits in signification; determinate; certain; precise; fixed; exact; clear; as, a definite word, term, or expression.
Definite (a.) Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval.
Definite (a.) Serving to define or restrict; limiting; determining; as, the definite article.
Definite (n.) A thing defined or determined.
Definitely (adv.) In a definite manner; with precision; precisely; determinately.
Definiteness (n.) The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.
Definition (n.) An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up the logical essence.
Definition (n.) Description; sort.
Definition (n.) Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail.
Definition (n.) The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, a telescope accurate in definition.
Definitional (a.) Relating to definition; of the nature of a definition; employed in defining.
Definitive (a.) Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word.
Definitive (n.) A word used to define or limit the extent of the signification of a common noun, such as the definite article, and some pronouns.
Definitively (adv.) In a definitive manner.
Definitiveness (n.) The quality of being definitive.
Definitude (n.) Definiteness.
Defix (v. t.) To fix; to fasten; to establish.
Deflagrability (n.) The state or quality of being deflagrable.
Deflagrable (a.) Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.
Deflagrate (v. i.) To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.
Deflagrate (v. t.) To cause to burn with sudden and sparkling combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.
Deflagrated (imp. & p. p.) of Deflagrate
Deflagrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deflagrate
Deflagration (n.) A burning up; conflagration.
Deflagration (n.) The act or process of deflagrating.
Deflagrator (n.) A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.
Deflate (v. t.) To reduce from an inflated condition.
Deflect (v. i.) To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.
Deflect (v. t.) To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.
Deflectable (a.) Capable of being deflected.
Deflected (a.) Bent downward; deflexed.
Deflected (a.) Turned aside; deviating from a direct line or course.
Deflected (imp. & p. p.) of Deflect
Deflecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deflect
Deflection (n.) A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.
Deflection (n.) The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation.
Deflection (n.) The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load.
Deflection (n.) The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course.
Deflectionization (n.) The act of freeing from inflections.
Deflectionize (v. t.) To free from inflections.
Deflective (a.) Causing deflection.
Deflector (n.) That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).
Deflexed (a.) Bent abruptly downward.
Deflexion (n.) See Deflection.
Deflexure (n.) A bending or turning aside; deflection.
Deflorate (a.) Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen.
Defloration (n.) That which is chosen as the flower or choicest part; careful culling or selection.
Defloration (n.) The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin.
Deflour (v. t.) To deprive of flowers.
Deflour (v. t.) To deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to ravish; also, to seduce.
Deflour (v. t.) To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament.
Defloured (imp. & p. p.) of Deflour
Deflourer (n.) One who deflours; a ravisher.
Deflouring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deflour
Deflow (v. i.) To flow down.
Deflower (v. t.) Same as Deflour.
Deflowerer (n.) See Deflourer.
Defluous (a.) Flowing down; falling off.
Deflux (n.) Downward flow.
Defluxion (n.) A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation.
Defly (adv.) Deftly.
Defoedation (n.) Defedation.
Defoliate (a.) Alt. of Defoliated
Defoliated (a.) Deprived of leaves, as by their natural fall.
Defoliation (n.) The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.
Deforce (v.) To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.
Deforce (v.) To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty.
Deforced (imp. & p. p.) of Deforce
Deforcement (n.) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
Deforcement (n.) Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.
Deforceor (n.) Same as Deforciant.
Deforciant (n.) One against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought.
Deforciant (n.) One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate.
Deforciation (n.) Same as Deforcement, n.
Deforcing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deforce
Deforest (v. t.) To clear of forests; to disforest.
Deform (v. t.) To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor.
Deform (v. t.) To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.
Deformation (n.) The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed.
Deformation (n.) Transformation; change of shape.
Deformed (a.) Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head.
Deformed (imp. & p. p.) of Deform
Deformer (n.) One who deforms.
Deforming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deform
Deformities (pl. ) of Deformity
Deformity (a.) Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character.
Deformity (a.) The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.
Deforser (n.) A deforciant.
Defoul (v. t.) To make foul; to defile.
Defoul (v. t.) To tread down.
Defraudation (n.) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
Defrauded (imp. & p. p.) of Defraud
Defrauder (n.) One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.
Defrauding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defraud
Defraudment (n.) Privation by fraud; defrauding.
Defray (v. t.) To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath.
Defray (v. t.) To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.
Defrayal (n.) The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.
Defunct (a.) Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.
Defunct (n.) A dead person; one deceased.
Defunction (n.) Death.
Defunctive (a.) Funereal.
Defuse (v. t.) To disorder; to make shapeless.
Defy (n.) A challenge.
Defy (v. t.) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
Defying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defy
Degarnish (v. t.) To deprive of a garrison, or of troops necessary for defense; as, to degarnish a city or fort.
Degarnish (v. t.) To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc.
Degarnished (imp. & p. p.) of Degarnish
Degarnishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Degarnish
Degarnishment (n.) The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.
Degender (v. i.) Alt. of Degener
Degener (v. i.) To degenerate.
Degeneracy (a.) The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.
Degeneracy (a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.
Degenerate (a.) Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.
Degenerate (v. i.) To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.
Degenerate (v. i.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.
Degenerated (imp. & p. p.) of Degenerate
Degenerately (adv.) In a degenerate manner; unworthily.
Degenerateness (n.) Degeneracy.
Degenerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Degenerate
Degeneration (n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
Degeneration (n.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.
Degeneration (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
Degeneration (n.) The thing degenerated.
Degenerationist (n.) A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.
Degenerative (a.) Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.
Degenerous (a.) Degenerate; base.
Degenerously (adv.) Basely.
Deglazing (n.) The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means.
Degloried (a.) Deprived of glory; dishonored.
Deglutinate (v. t.) To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.
Deglutinated (imp. & p. p.) of Deglutinate
Deglutinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deglutinate
Deglutination (n.) The act of ungluing.
Deglutition (n.) The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.
Deglutitious (a.) Pertaining to deglutition.
Deglutitory (a.) Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition.
Degradation (n.) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.
Degradation (n.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
Degradation (n.) Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
Degradation (n.) The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop.
Degradation (n.) The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.
Degradation (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
Degrade (v. i.) To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.
Degrade (v. t.) To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.
Degrade (v. t.) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
Degrade (v. t.) To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man.
Degraded (a.) Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also on degrees.
Degraded (a.) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
Degraded (a.) Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base.
Degraded (imp. & p. p.) of Degrade
Degradement (n.) Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.
Degrading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Degrade
Degradingly (adv.) In a degrading manner.
Degravation (a.) The act of making heavy.
Degree (n.) A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.
Degree (n.) A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.
Degree (n.) A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.
Degree (n.) A line or space of the staff.
Degree (n.) A step, stair, or staircase.
Degree (n.) Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.
Degree (n.) Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree.
Degree (n.) One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.
Degree (n.) The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.
Degree (n.) Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.
Degu (n.) A small South American rodent (Octodon Cumingii), of the family Octodontidae.
Degust (v. t.) To taste.
Degustation (n.) Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.
Dehisce (v. i.) To gape; to open by dehiscence.
Dehiscence (n.) The act of gaping.
Dehiscent (a.) Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.
Dehonestate (v. t.) To disparage.
Dehonestation (n.) A dishonoring; disgracing.
Dehorn (v. t.) To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.
Dehorned (imp. & p. p.) of Dehorn
Dehorning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dehorn
Dehors (n.) All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.
Dehors (prep.) Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument.
Dehort (v. t.) To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade.
Dehortation (n.) Dissuasion; advice against something.
Dehortative (a.) Dissuasive.
Dehortatory (a.) Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade.
Dehorted (imp. & p. p.) of Dehort
Dehorter (n.) A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.
Dehorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dehort
Dehumanize (v. t.) To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.
Dehusk (v. t.) To remove the husk from.
Dehydrate (v. t.) To deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol.
Dehydration (n.) The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.
Dehydrogenate (v. t.) To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.
Dehydrogenation (n.) The act or process of freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.
Deicide (n.) One concerned in putting Christ to death.
Deicide (n.) The act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ.
Deictic (a.) Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.
Deictically (adv.) In a manner to show or point out; directly; absolutely; definitely.
Deific (a.) Alt. of Deifical
Deifical (a.) Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making.
Deification (n.) The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.
Deified (a.) Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.
Deified (imp. & p. p.) of Deify
Deifier (n.) One who deifies.
Deiform (a.) Conformable to the will of God.
Deiform (a.) Godlike, or of a godlike form.
Deiformity (n.) Likeness to deity.
Deify (v. t.) To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Caesar was deified.
Deify (v. t.) To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money.
Deify (v. t.) To render godlike.
Deifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deify
Deign (v. i.) To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend; - - followed by an infinitive.
Deign (v. t.) To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to vouchsafe; to allow; to grant.
Deign (v. t.) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to disdain.
Deigned (imp. & p. p.) of Deign
Deigning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deign
Deignous (a.) Haughty; disdainful.
Deil (n.) Devil; -- spelt also deel.
Deinoceras (n.) See Dinoceras.
Deinornis (n.) See Dinornis.
Deinosaur (n.) See Dinosaur.
Deinotherium (n.) See Dinotherium.
Deintegrate (v. t.) To disintegrate.
Deinteous (a.) Alt. of Deintevous
Deintevous (a.) Rare; excellent; costly.
Deiparous (a.) Bearing or bringing forth a god; -- said of the Virgin Mary.
Deipnosophist (n.) One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals.
Deis (n.) See Dais.
Deism (n.) The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of those who acknowledge the existence of one God, but deny revelation.
Deist (n.) One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.
Deistic (a.) Alt. of Deistical
Deistical (a.) Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.
Deistically (adv.) After the manner of deists.
Deisticalness (n.) State of being deistical.
Deitate (a.) Deified.
Deities (pl. ) of Deity
Deity (n.) A god or goddess; a heathen god.
Deity (n.) The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works.
Deject (a.) Dejected.
Deject (v. t.) To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.
Deject (v. t.) To cast down.
Dejecta (n. pl.) Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.
Dejected (a.) Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance.
Dejected (imp. & p. p.) of Deject
Dejecter (n.) One who casts down, or dejects.
Dejecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deject
Dejection (n.) A casting down; depression.
Dejection (n.) A low condition; weakness; inability.
Dejection (n.) Faeces; excrement.
Dejection (n.) Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy.
Dejection (n.) The act of humbling or abasing one's self.
Dejection (n.) The discharge of excrement.
Dejectly (adv.) Dejectedly.
Dejectory (a.) Having power, or tending, to cast down.
Dejectory (a.) Promoting evacuations by stool.
Dejecture (n.) That which is voided; excrements.
Dejerate (v. i.) To swear solemnly; to take an oath.
Dejeration (n.) The act of swearing solemnly.
Dejeune (n.) A dejeuner.
Dejeuner (n.) A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation.
Deka- () A prefix signifying ten. See Deca-.
Dekagram (n.) Same as Decagram.
Dekaliter (n.) Same as Decaliter.
Dekameter (n.) Same as Decameter.
Dekastere (n.) Same as Decastere.
Dekle (n.) See Deckle.
Del (n.) Share; portion; part.
Delaceration (n.) A tearing in pieces.
Delacrymation (n.) An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes.
Delactation (n.) The act of weaning.
Delaine (n.) A kind of fabric for women's dresses.
Delamination (n.) Formation and separation of laminae or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.
Delapsation (n.) See Delapsion.
Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Delapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Delapse
Delapsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delapse
Delapsion (n.) A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion.
Delassation (n.) Fatigue.
Delate (v. i.) To dilate.
Delate (v.) To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.
Delate (v.) To carry on; to conduct.
Delate (v.) To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against; to accuse; to denounce.
Delate (v.) To carry; to convey.
Delated (imp. & p. p.) of Delate
Delating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delate
Delation (n.) Accusation by an informer.
Delation (n.) Conveyance.
Delator (n.) An accuser; an informer.
Delaware (n.) An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.
Delawares (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.
Delay (n.) To allay; to temper.
Delay (n.) To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
Delay (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
Delay (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.
Delay (v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
Delayed (imp. & p. p.) of Delay
Delayer (n.) One who delays; one who lingers.
Delaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delay
Delayingly (adv.) By delays.
Delayment (n.) Hindrance.
Delays (pl. ) of Delay
Dele (imperative sing.) Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: /.
Dele (v. t.) To deal; to divide; to distribute.
Dele (v. t.) To erase; to cancel; to delete; to mark for omission.
Deleble (a.) Capable of being blotted out or erased.
Delectable (a.) Highly pleasing; delightful.
Delectate (v. t.) To delight; to charm.
Delectation (n.) Great pleasure; delight.
Delectus (n.) A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek.
Deled (imp. & p. p.) of Dele
Delegacy (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.
Delegacy (a.) The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power.
Delegate (a.) Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.
Delegate (n.) Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
Delegate (n.) One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.
Delegate (n.) One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution.
Delegate (v. t.) To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.
Delegate (v. t.) To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.
Delegated (imp. & p. p.) of Delegate
Delegating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delegate
Delegation (n.) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.
Delegation (n.) One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation.
Delegation (n.) The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.
Delegatory (a.) Holding a delegated position.
Deleing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dele
Delenda (n. pl.) Things to be erased or blotted out.
Delenifical (a.) Assuaging pain.
Delete (v. t.) To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
Deleted (imp. & p. p.) of Delete
Deleterious (a.) Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example.
Deletery (a.) Destructive; poisonous.
Deletery (n.) That which destroys.
Deleting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delete
Deletion (n.) Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.
Deletitious (a.) Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; -- said of paper.
Deletive (a.) Adapted to destroy or obliterate.
Deletory (n.) That which blots out.
Delf (n.) A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch.
Delf (n.) Same as Delftware.
Delft (n.) Same as Delftware.
Delftware (n.) Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed earthenware made for table use, and the like.
Delftware (n.) Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence:
Delibate (v. t.) To taste; to take a sip of; to dabble in.
Delibation (n.) Act of tasting; a slight trial.
Deliber (v. t. & i.) To deliberate.
Deliberate (a.) Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result.
Deliberate (a.) Not hasty or sudden; slow.
Deliberate (a.) Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor.
Deliberate (v. i.) To take counsel with one's self; to weigh the arguments for and against a proposed course of action; to reflect; to consider; to hesitate in deciding; -- sometimes with on, upon, about, concerning.
Deliberate (v. t.) To weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to deliberate a question.
Deliberated (imp. & p. p.) of Deliberate
Deliberately (adv.) With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
Deliberateness (n.) The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.
Deliberating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deliberate
Deliberation (n.) Careful discussion and examination of the reasons for and against a measure; as, the deliberations of a legislative body or council.
Deliberation (n.) The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection.
Deliberative (a.) Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body.
Deliberative (n.) A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
Deliberative (n.) A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
Deliberatively (adv.) In a deliberative manner; circumspectly; considerately.
Deliberator (n.) One who deliberates.
Delibrate (v. t.) To strip off the bark; to peel.
Delibrated (imp. & p. p.) of Delibrate
Delibrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delibrate
Delibration (n.) The act of stripping off the bark.
Delicacies (pl. ) of Delicacy
Delicacy (a.) Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.
Delicacy (a.) Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.
Delicacy (a.) Pleasure; gratification; delight.
Delicacy (a.) That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.
Delicacy (a.) The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.
Delicacy (a.) The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.
Delicate (a.) Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
Delicate (a.) Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes; as, a delicate thermometer.
Delicate (a.) Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton.
Delicate (a.) Light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color; as, a delicate blue.
Delicate (a.) Nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite; as, a delicate taste; a delicate ear for music.
Delicate (a.) Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
Delicate (a.) Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as, a delicate dish; delicate flavor.
Delicate (a.) Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; -- said of manners, conduct, or feelings; as, delicate behavior; delicate attentions; delicate thoughtfulness.
Delicate (a.) Requiring careful handling; not to be rudely or hastily dealt with; nice; critical; as, a delicate subject or question.
Delicate (a.) Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful; as, "a delicate creature."
Delicate (a.) Slight or smooth; light and yielding; -- said of texture; as, delicate lace or silk.
Delicate (a.) Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface; as, a delicate cheek; a delicate complexion.
Delicate (a.) Tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail; effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.; as, a delicate child; delicate health.
Delicate (n.) A choice dainty; a delicacy.
Delicate (n.) A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
Delicately (adv.) In a delicate manner.
Delicateness (n.) The quality of being delicate.
Delices (n. pl.) Delicacies; delights.
Deliciate (v. t.) To delight one's self; to indulge in feasting; to revel.
Delicious (a.) Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate.
Delicious (a.) Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.
Deliciously (adv.) Delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained.
Deliciousness (n.) Luxury.
Deliciousness (n.) The quality of being delicious; as, the deliciousness of a repast.
Delict (n.) An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.
Deligate (v. t.) To bind up; to bandage.
Deligation (n.) A binding up; a bandaging.
Delight (v. i.) To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in.
Delight (v. t.) A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.
Delight (v. t.) Licentious pleasure; lust.
Delight (v. t.) That which gives great pleasure or delight.
Delight (v. t.) To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear.
Delightable (a.) Capable of delighting; delightful.
Delighted (a.) Endowed with delight.
Delighted (imp. & p. p.) of Delight
Delightedly (adv.) With delight; gladly.
Delighter (n.) One who gives or takes delight.
Delightful (a.) Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction.
Delighting (a.) Giving delight; gladdening.
Delighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delight
Delightless (a.) Void of delight.
Delightous (a.) Delightful.
Delightsome (a.) Very pleasing; delightful.
Delilah (n.) The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress.
Delimit (v. t.) To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.
Delimitation (n.) The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation.
Deline (v. t.) To delineate.
Deline (v. t.) To mark out.
Delineable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated.
Delineament (/.) Delineation; sketch.
Delineate (a.) Delineated; portrayed.
Delineate (v. t.) To portray to the mind or understanding by words; to set forth; to describe.
Delineated (imp. & p. p.) of Delineate
Delineating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delineate
Delineation (n.) A delineated picture; representation; sketch; description in words.
Delineator (n.) A perambulator which records distances and delineates a profile, as of a road.
Delineator (n.) One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.
Delineatory (a.) That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating.
Delineature (n.) Delineation.
Delinition (n.) A smearing.
Delinquencies (pl. ) of Delinquency
Delinquency (n.) Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime.
Delinquent (n.) Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.
Delinquent (n.) One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a culprit.
Delinquently (adv.) So as to fail in duty.
Deliquate (v. i.) To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce.
Deliquate (v. t.) To cause to melt away; to dissolve; to consume; to waste.
Deliquation (n.) A melting.
Deliquesce (v. i.) To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies.
Deliquesced (imp. & p. p.) of Deliquesce
Deliquescence (n.) The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.
Deliquescent (a.) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.
Deliquescent (a.) Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.
Deliquescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deliquesce
Deliquiate (v. i.) To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce.
Deliquiation (n.) The act of deliquiating.
Deliquium (n.) A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium.
Deliquium (n.) A melting or maudlin mood.
Deliquium (n.) A sinking away; a swooning.
Deliracy (n.) Delirium.
Delirament (n.) A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy.
Delirancy (n.) Delirium.
Delirant (a.) Delirious.
Delirate (v. t. & i.) To madden; to rave.
Deliration (n.) Aberration of mind; delirium.
Deliriant (n.) A poison which occasions a persistent delirium, or mental aberration (as belladonna).
Delirifacient (a.) Producing, or tending to produce, delirium.
Delirifacient (n.) Any substance which tends to cause delirium.
Delirious (a.) Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies.
Delitescence (n.) The sudden disappearance of inflammation.
Delitescency (n.) Concealment; seclusion.
Delitescent (a.) Lying hid; concealed.
Delitigate (v. i.) To chide; to rail heartily.
Delitigation (n.) Chiding; brawl.
Deliver (v. t.) Free; nimble; sprightly; active.
Deliver (v. t.) To admit; to allow to pass.
Deliver (v. t.) To deliberate.
Deliver (v. t.) To discover; to show.
Deliver (v. t.) To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.
Deliver (v. t.) To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.
Deliver (v. t.) To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into.
Deliver (v. t.) To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.
Deliverable (a.) Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered.
Deliverance (n.) Act of bringing forth children.
Deliverance (n.) Act of speaking; utterance.
Deliverance (n.) Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.
Deliverance (n.) Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly.
Deliverance (n.) The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.
Deliverance (n.) The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint.
Delivered (imp. & p. p.) of Deliver
Deliverer (n.) One who delivers or rescues; a preserver.
Deliverer (n.) One who relates or communicates.
Deliveress (n.) A female deliverer.
Deliveries (pl. ) of Delivery
Delivering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deliver
Deliverly (adv.) Actively; quickly; nimbly.
Deliverness (n.) Nimbleness; agility.
Delivery (n.) The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.
Delivery (n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.
Delivery (n.) The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.
Delivery (n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
Delivery (n.) The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.
Delivery (n.) The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.
Dell (n.) A small, retired valley; a ravine.
Dell (n.) A young woman; a wench.
Della Crusca () A shortened form of Accademia della Crusca, an academy in Florence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conserving the purity of the Italian language.
Dellacruscan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence.
Deloo (n.) The duykerbok.
Deloul (n.) A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik.
Delph (n.) Delftware.
Delph (n.) The drain on the land side of a sea embankment.
Delphian (a.) Delphic.
Delphic (a.) Ambiguous; mysterious.
Delphic (a.) Of or relating to Delphi, or to the famous oracle of that place.
Delphin (a.) Alt. of Delphine
Delphin (n.) A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.
Delphine (a.) Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini).
Delphine (a.) Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes.
Delphinic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur; specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria).
Delphinic (n.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic.
Delphinine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.
Delphinoid (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.
Delphinoidea (n. pl.) The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms.
Delphinus (n.) A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin, 1.
Delphinus (n.) The Dolphin, a constellation near the equator and east of Aquila.
Delta (n.) A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river; as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi.
Deltafication (n.) The formation of a delta or of deltas.
Deltaic (a.) Relating to, or like, a delta.
Deltas (pl. ) of Delta
Delthyris (n.) A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer.
Deltic (a.) Deltaic.
Deltidium (n.) The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells.
Deltohedron (n.) A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron.
Deltoid (a.) Shaped like the Greek / (delta); delta-shaped; triangular.
Deludable (a.) Capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on; gullible.
Delude (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint.
Delude (v. t.) To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.
Deluded (imp. & p. p.) of Delude
Deluder (n.) One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.
Deluding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delude
Deluge (n.) A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).
Deluge (n.) Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.
Deluge (v. t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
Deluge (v. t.) To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe.
Deluged (imp. & p. p.) of Deluge
Deluging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deluge
Delundung (n.) An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.
Delusion (n.) That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
Delusion (n.) The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.
Delusion (n.) The state of being deluded or misled.
Delusional (a.) Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.
Delusive (a.) Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream.
Delusory (a.) Delusive; fallacious.
Delve (v. i.) To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.
Delve (v. t.) A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.
Delve (v. t.) To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
Delve (v. t.) To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
Delved (imp. & p. p.) of Delve
Delver (n.) One who digs, as with a spade.
Delving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delve
Demagnetize (v. t.) To deprive of magnetic properties. See Magnetize.
Demagnetize (v. t.) To free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize.
Demagog (n.) Demagogue.
Demagogic (a.) Alt. of Demagogical
Demagogical (a.) Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious.
Demagogism (n.) The practices of a demagogue.
Demagogue (n.) A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.
Demagogy (n.) Demagogism.
Demain (n.) Rule; management.
Demain (n.) See Demesne.
Demand (v. i.) To make a demand; to inquire.
Demand (v. t.) A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand.
Demand (v. t.) A thing or amount claimed to be due.
Demand (v. t.) Earnest inquiry; question; query.
Demand (v. t.) That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate.
Demand (v. t.) The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.
Demand (v. t.) The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due.
Demand (v. t.) The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person.
Demand (v. t.) To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.
Demand (v. t.) To call into court; to summon.
Demand (v. t.) To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question.
Demand (v. t.) To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.
Demandable (a.) That may be demanded or claimed.
Demandant (n.) One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.
Demanded (imp. & p. p.) of Demand
Demander (n.) One who demands.
Demanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demand
Demandress (n.) A woman who demands.
Demantoid (n.) A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.
Demarcate (v. t.) To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.
Demarcation (n.) The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction.
Demarch (n.) A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece.
Demarch (n.) March; walk; gait.
Demarkation (n.) Same as Demarcation.
Dematerialize (v. t.) To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.
Deme (n.) A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township.
Deme (n.) An undifferentiated aggregate of cells or plastids.
Demency (n.) Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.
Dement (a.) Demented; dementate.
Dement (v. t.) To deprive of reason; to make mad.
Dementate (v. t.) Deprived of reason.
Dementate (v. t.) To deprive of reason; to dement.
Dementation (n.) The act of depriving of reason; madness.
Demented (a.) Insane; mad; of unsound mind.
Dementia (n.) Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
Demephitize (v. t.) To purify from mephitic or foul air.
Demephitized (imp. & p. p.) of Demephitize
Demephitizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demephitize
Demerge (v. t.) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
Demerit (n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.
Demerit (n.) That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.
Demerit (n.) The state of one who deserves ill.
Demerit (n.) To depreciate or cry down.
Demerit (n.) To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame.
Demerit (v. i.) To deserve praise or blame.
Demerse (v. t.) To immerse.
Demersed (a.) Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.
Demersion (n.) The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.
Demersion (n.) The state of being overwhelmed in water, or as if in water.
Demesmerize (v. t.) To relieve from mesmeric influence. See Mesmerize.
Demesne (n.) A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.
Demesnial (a.) Of or pertaining to a demesne; of the nature of a demesne.
Demi (n.) See Demy, n.
Demi- () A prefix, signifying half.
Demi-island (n.) Peninsula.
Demi-rilievo (n.) A work of sculpture of the above character. See Alto-rilievo.
Demi-rilievo (n.) Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.
Demibastion (n.) A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.
Demibrigade (n.) A half brigade.
Demicadence (n.) An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.
Demicannon (n.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds.
Demicircle (n.) An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass.
Demiculverin (n.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.
Demideify (v. t.) To deify in part.
Demidevil (n.) A half devil.
Demies (pl. ) of Demy
Demigod (n.) A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.
Demigoddess (n.) A female demigod.
Demigorge (n.) Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.
Demigrate (v. i.) To emigrate.
Demigration (n.) Emigration.
Demigroat (n.) A half groat.
Demijohn (n.) A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork.
Demilance (n.) A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.
Demilancer (n.) A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance.
Demilune (n.) A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.
Demilune (n.) A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin.
Demiman (n.) A half man.
Demimonde (n.) Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps.
Deminatured (a.) Having half the nature of another.
Demiquaver (n.) A note of half the length of the quaver; a semiquaver.
Demirelief (n.) Alt. of Demirelievo
Demirelievo (n.) Half relief. See Demi-rilievo.
Demirep (n.) A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.
Demisability (n.) The state of being demisable.
Demisable (a.) Capable of being leased; as, a demisable estate.
Demise (n.) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
Demise (n.) The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person.
Demise (n.) Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
Demise (v. t.) To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.
Demise (v. t.) To convey; to give.
Demise (v. t.) To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.
Demised (imp. & p. p.) of Demise
Demisemiquaver (n.) A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.
Demising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demise
Demiss (a.) Cast down; humble; submissive.
Demission (n.) Resignation of an office.
Demission (n.) The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection.
Demissionary (a.) Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed.
Demissionary (a.) Tending to lower, depress, or degrade.
Demissive (a.) Downcast; submissive; humble.
Demissly (adv.) In a humble manner.
Demisuit (n.) A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the thighs, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
Demit (v. t.) To lay down, as an office; to resign.
Demit (v. t.) To let fall; to depress.
Demit (v. t.) To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit one's self to humble duties.
Demitint (n.) That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light.
Demitint (n.) The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. Also called half tint.
Demitone (n.) Semitone.
Demitted (imp. & p. p.) of Demit
Demitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demit
Demiurge (n.) According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.
Demiurge (n.) God, as the Maker of the world.
Demiurge (n.) The chief magistrate in some of the Greek states.
Demiurgic (a.) Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.
Demivill (n.) A half vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges.
Demivolt (n.) A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.
Demiwolf (n.) A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.
Demobilization (n.) The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing.
Demobilize (v. t.) To disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized.
Democracies (pl. ) of Democracy
Democracy (n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government.
Democracy (n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.
Democracy (n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called.
Democrat (n.) A member of the Democratic party.
Democrat (n.) One who is an adherent or advocate of democracy, or government by the people.
Democratic (a.) Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic.
Democratic (a.) Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.
Democratic (a.) Relating to a political party so called.
Democratical (a.) Democratic.
Democratically (adv.) In a democratic manner.
Democratism (n.) The principles or spirit of a democracy.
Democratist (n.) A democrat.
Democratize (v. t.) To render democratic.
Democraty (n.) Democracy.
Demogorgon (n.) A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon.
Demography (n.) The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health, etc.
Demoiselle (n.) A beautiful, small dragon fly of the genus Agrion.
Demoiselle (n.) A young lady; a damsel; a lady's maid.
Demoiselle (n.) The Numidian crane (Anthropoides virgo); -- so called on account of the grace and symmetry of its form and movements.
Demolish (v. t.) To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.
Demolished (imp. & p. p.) of Demolish
Demolisher (n.) One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns.
Demolishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demolish
Demolishment (n.) Demolition.
Demolition (n.) The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes.
Demolitionist (n.) A demolisher.
Demon (n.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
Demon (n.) An evil spirit; a devil.
Demon (n.) One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates.
Demoness (n.) A female demon.
Demonetization (n.) The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.
Demonetize (v. t.) To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money.
Demoniac (a.) Alt. of Demoniacal
Demoniac (n.) A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon.
Demoniac (n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved.
Demoniacal (a.) Influenced or produced by a demon or evil spirit; as, demoniac or demoniacal power.
Demoniacal (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a demon or evil spirit; devilish; as, a demoniac being; demoniacal practices.
Demoniacally (adv.) In a demoniacal manner.
Demoniacism (n.) The state of being demoniac, or the practices of demoniacs.
Demonial (a.) Of or pertaining to a demon.
Demonian (a.) Relating to, or having the nature of, a demon.
Demonianism (n.) The state of being possessed by a demon or by demons.
Demoniasm (n.) See Demonianism.
Demonic (a.) Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac.
Demonism (n.) The belief in demons or false gods.
Demonist (n.) A believer in, or worshiper of, demons.
Demonize (v. t.) To control or possess by a demon.
Demonize (v. t.) To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.
Demonized (imp. & p. p.) of Demonize
Demonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demonize
Demonocracy (n.) The power or government of demons.
Demonographer (n.) A demonologist.
Demonolatry (n.) The worship of demons.
Demonologer (n.) One versed in demonology.
Demonologic (a.) Alt. of Demonological
Demonological (a.) Of or pertaining to demonology.
Demonologist (n.) One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.
Demonology (n.) A treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations.
Demonomagy (n.) Magic in which the aid of demons is invoked; black or infernal magic.
Demonomania (n.) A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.
Demonomist (n.) One in subjection to a demon, or to demons.
Demonomy (n.) The dominion of demons.
Demonry (n.) Demoniacal influence or possession.
Demonship (n.) The state of a demon.
Demonstrability (n.) The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.
Demonstrable (a.) Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question.
Demonstrable (a.) Proved; apparent.
Demonstrableness (n.) The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrability.
Demonstrably (adv.) In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly.
Demonstrance (n.) Demonstration; proof.
Demonstrate (v. t.) To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).
Demonstrate (v. t.) To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.
Demonstrate (v. t.) To show, or make evident, by reasoning or proof; to prove by deduction; to establish so as to exclude the possibility of doubt or denial.
Demonstrater (n.) See Demonstrator.
Demonstration (n.) (Mil.) a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement indicating an attack.
Demonstration (n.) A course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; -- these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions.
Demonstration (n.) An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show.
Demonstration (n.) The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.
Demonstration (n.) The act of proving by the syllogistic process, or the proof itself.
Demonstration (n.) The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation.
Demonstrative (a.) Consisting of eulogy or of invective.
Demonstrative (a.) Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.
Demonstrative (a.) Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively.
Demonstrative (n.) A demonstrative pronoun; as, "this" and "that" are demonstratives.
Demonstratively (adv.) In a manner fitted to demonstrate; clearly; convincingly; forcibly.
Demonstrativeness (n.) The state or quality of being demonstrative.
Demonstrator (n.) A teacher of practical anatomy.
Demonstrator (n.) One who demonstrates; one who proves anything with certainty, or establishes it by indubitable evidence.
Demonstratory (a.) Tending to demonstrate; demonstrative.
Demorage (n.) Demurrage.
Demoralize (v. t.) To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency.
Demoralized (imp. & p. p.) of Demoralize
Demoralizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demoralize
Demosthenic (a.) Pertaining to, or in the style of, Demosthenes, the Grecian orator.
Demotic (a.) Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.
Demount (v. i.) To dismount.
Dempne (v. t.) To damn; to condemn.
Dempster (n.) Alt. of Demster
Demster (n.) A deemster.
Demster (n.) An officer whose duty it was to announce the doom or sentence pronounced by the court.
Demulce (v. t.) To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften.
Demulcent (a.) Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.
Demulcent (n.) A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting it from irritation. Gum Arabic, glycerin, olive oil, etc., are demulcents.
Demulsion (n.) The act of soothing; that which soothes.
Demur (v. i.) Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple.
Demur (v. i.) To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair.
Demur (v. i.) To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2.
Demur (v. i.) To linger; to stay; to tarry.
Demur (v. i.) To scruple or object; to take exception; as, I demur to that statement.
Demur (v. t.) To cause delay to; to put off.
Demur (v. t.) To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about.
Demure (a.) Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
Demure (a.) Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest look; staid; grave.
Demure (v. i.) To look demurely.
Demurely (adv.) In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty.
Demureness (n.) The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.
Demurity (n.) Demureness; also, one who is demure.
Demurrable (a.) That may be demurred to.
Demurrage (n.) The allowance made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention.
Demurrage (n.) The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing.
Demurral (n.) Demur; delay in acting or deciding.
Demurred (imp. & p. p.) of Demur
Demurrer (n.) One who demurs.
Demurring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demur
Demy (a.) Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy; as, a demy book.
Demy (n.) A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Demy (n.) A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper.
Den (n.) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
Den (n.) A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.
Den (n.) A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice.
Den (n.) Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone.
Den (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a den.
Denarcotize (v. t.) To deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium.
Denarii (pl. ) of Denarius
Denarius (n.) A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the "penny" of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.
Denary (a.) Containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary, or decimal, scale.
Denary (n.) A coin; the Anglicized form of denarius.
Denary (n.) The number ten; a division into ten.
Denationalization (n.) The or process of denationalizing.
Denationalize (v. t.) To divest or deprive of national character or rights.
Denationalized (imp. & p. p.) of Denationalize
Denationalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Denationalize
Denaturalize (v. t.) To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.
Denaturalize (v. t.) To renounce the natural rights and duties of; to deprive of citizenship; to denationalize.
Denaturalized (imp. & p. p.) of Denaturalize
Denaturalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Denaturalize
Denay (n.) Denial; refusal.
Denay (v. t.) To deny.
Dendrachate (n.) Arborescent or dendritic agate.
Dendriform (a.) Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.
Dendritic (a.) Alt. of Dendritical
Dendritical (a.) Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.
Dendroc/la (n. pl.) A division of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.
Dendroid (a.) Alt. of Dendroidal
Dendroidal (a.) Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike.
Dendrolite (n.) A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.
Dendrologist (n.) One versed in the natural history of trees.
Dendrologous (a.) Relating to dendrology.
Dendrology (n.) A discourse or treatise on trees; the natural history of trees.
Dendrometer (n.) An instrument to measure the height and diameter of trees.
Denegate (v. t.) To deny.
Denegation (n.) Denial.
Deniable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, denied.
Denial (n.) A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God.
Denial (n.) A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction.
Denial (n.) A refusal to grant; rejection of a request.
Denial (n.) The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.
Deniance (n.) Denial.
Denied (imp. & p. p.) of Deny
Denier (n.) A small copper coin of insignificant value.
Denier (n.) One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ.
Denigrate (v. t.) Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame.
Denigrate (v. t.) To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.
Denigration (n.) Fig.: A blackening; defamation.
Denigration (n.) The act of making black.
Denigrator (n.) One who, or that which, blackens.
Denim (n.) A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.
Denitration (n.) A disengaging, or removal, of nitric acid.
Denitrification (n.) The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.
Denitrify (v. t.) To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.
Denization (n.) The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization.
Denize (v. t.) To make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize.
Denizen (n.) A dweller; an inhabitant.
Denizen (n.) One admitted to residence in a foreign country.
Denizen (n.) One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.
Denizen (v. t.) To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.
Denizen (v. t.) To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
Denizenation (n.) Denization; denizening.
Denizenize (v. t.) To constitute (one) a denizen; to denizen.
Denizenship (n.) State of being a denizen.
Denmark satin () See under Satin.
Dennet (n.) A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig.
Denominable (a.) Capable of being denominated or named.
Denominate (a.) Having a specific name or denomination; specified in the concrete as opposed to abstract; thus, 7 feet is a denominate quantity, while 7 is mere abstract quantity or number. See Compound number, under Compound.
Denominate (v. t.) To give a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate.
Denominated (imp. & p. p.) of Denominate
Denominating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Denominate
Denomination (n.) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.
Denomination (n.) The act of naming or designating.
Denominational (a.) Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society.
Denominationalism (n.) A denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination.
Denominationalist (n.) One imbued with a denominational spirit.
Denominationally (adv.) In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.
Denominative (a.) Conferring a denomination or name.
Denominative (a.) Connotative; as, a denominative name.
Denominative (a.) Derived from a substantive or an adjective; as, a denominative verb.
Denominative (a.) Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable.
Denominative (n.) A denominative name or term; denominative verb.
Denominatively (adv.) By denomination.
Denominator (n.) One who, or that which, gives a name; origin or source of a name.
Denominator (n.) That number placed below the line in vulgar fractions which shows into how many parts the integer or unit is divided.
Denominator (n.) That part of any expression under a fractional form which is situated below the horizontal line signifying division.
Denotable (a.) Capable of being denoted or marked.
Denotate (v. t.) To mark off; to denote.
Denotation (n.) The marking off or separation of anything.
Denotative (a.) Having power to denote; designating or marking off.
Denote (v. t.) To be the sign of; to betoken; to signify; to mean.
Denote (v. t.) To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour.
Denoted (imp. & p. p.) of Denote
Denotement (n.) Sign; indication.
Denoting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Denote
Denotive (a.) Serving to denote.
Denouement (n.) The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome.
Denouement (n.) The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.
Denounce (v. t.) To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).
Denounce (v. t.) To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.
Denounce (v. t.) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.
Denounced (imp. & p. p.) of Denounce
Denouncement (n.) Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation.
Denouncer (n.) One who denounces, or declares, as a menace.
Denouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Denounce
Dense (a.) Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog.
Denseless (n.) The quality of being dense; density.
Densely (adv.) In a dense, compact manner.
Densimeter (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity or density of a substance.
Density (n.) Depth of shade.
Density (n.) The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.
Density (n.) The ratio of mass, or quantity of matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared with the mass and volume of a portion of some substance used as a standard.
Dent (n.) A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation.
Dent (n.) A stroke; a blow.
Dent (n.) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
Dent (v. t.) To make a dent upon; to indent.
Dental (a.) A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.
Dental (a.) An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth.
Dental (a.) Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d t are dental letters.
Dental (a.) Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.
Dentalism (n.) The quality of being formed by the aid of the teeth.
Dentalium (n.) A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.
Dentary (a.) Pertaining to, or bearing, teeth.
Dentary (n.) The distal bone of the lower jaw in many animals, which may or may not bear teeth.
Dentate (a.) Alt. of Dentated
Dentate-ciliate (a.) Having the margin dentate and also ciliate or fringed with hairs.
Dentate-sinuate (a.) Having a form intermediate between dentate and sinuate.
Dentated (a.) Having teeth or toothlike points. See Illust. of Antennae.
Dentated (a.) Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf.
Dentately (adv.) In a dentate or toothed manner; as, dentately ciliated, etc.
Dentation (n.) Formation of teeth; toothed form.
Dented (imp. & p. p.) of Dent
Dented (v. t.) Indented; impressed with little hollows.
Dentel (n.) Same as Dentil.
Dentelle (n.) An ornamental tooling like lace.
Dentelli (n. pl.) Modillions.
Dentex (n.) An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percidae.
Dential (a.) Of or pertaining to dentine.
Denticete (n. pl.) The division of Cetacea in which the teeth are developed, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.
Denticle (n.) A small tooth or projecting point.
Denticulate (a.) Alt. of Denticulated
Denticulated (a.) Furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections; as, a denticulate leaf of calyx.
Denticulation (n.) A diminutive tooth; a denticle.
Denticulation (n.) The state of being set with small notches or teeth.
Dentiferous (a.) Bearing teeth; dentigerous.
Dentiform (a.) Having the form of a tooth or of teeth; tooth-shaped.
Dentifrice (n.) A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder.
Dentigerous (a.) Bearing teeth or toothlike structures.
Dentil (n.) A small square block or projection in cornices, a number of which are ranged in an ornamental band; -- used particularly in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders.
Dentilabial (a.) Formed by the teeth and the lips, or representing a sound so formed.
Dentilabial (n.) A dentilabial sound or letter.
Dentilated (a.) Toothed.
Dentilation (n.) Dentition.
Dentilave (n.) A wash for cleaning the teeth.
Dentile (n.) A small tooth, like that of a saw.
Dentilingual (a.) Produced by applying the tongue to the teeth or to the gums; or representing a sound so formed.
Dentilingual (n.) A dentilingual sound or letter.
Dentiloquist (n.) One who speaks through the teeth, that is, with the teeth closed.
Dentiloquy (n.) The habit or practice of speaking through the teeth, or with them closed.
Dentine (n.) The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel.
Denting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dent
Dentiphone (n.) An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone.
Dentiroster (n.) A dentirostral bird.
Dentirostral (a.) Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak.
Dentirostrate (a.) Dentirostral.
Dentirostres (pl. ) of Dentiroster
Dentiscalp (n.) An instrument for scraping the teeth.
Dentist (n.) One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.
Dentistic (a.) Alt. of Dentistical
Dentistical (a.) Pertaining to dentistry or to dentists.
Dentistry (n.) The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.
Dentition (n.) The development and cutting of teeth; teething.
Dentition (n.) The system of teeth peculiar to an animal.
Dentize (v. t. & i.) To breed or cut new teeth.
Dentized (imp. & p. p.) of Dentize
Dentizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dentize
Dentoid (a.) Shaped like a tooth; tooth-shaped.
Dentolingual (a.) Dentilingual.
Denture (n.) An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.
Denudate (v. t.) To denude.
Denudation (n.) The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.
Denudation (n.) The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.
Denude (v. t.) To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.
Denunciate (v. t.) To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly.
Denunciation (n.) Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.
Denunciation (n.) That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment.
Denunciation (n.) The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment.
Denunciative (a.) Same as Denunciatory.
Denunciator (n.) One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses.
Denunciatory (a.) Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language.
Denutrition (n.) The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.
Deny (v. i.) To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.
Deny (v. t.) To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
Deny (v. t.) To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
Deny (v. t.) To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.
Deny (v. t.) To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.
Denying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deny
Denyingly (adv.) In the manner of one denies a request.
Deobstruct (v. t.) To remove obstructions or impediments in; to clear from anything that hinders the passage of fluids; as, to deobstruct the pores or lacteals.
Deobstruent (a.) Removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient.
Deobstruent (n.) A medicine which removes obstructions; an aperient.
Deodar (n.) A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.
Deodate (n.) A gift or offering to God.
Deodorant (n.) A deodorizer.
Deodorization (n.) The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.
Deodorize (v. t.) To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities.
Deodorizer (n.) He who, or that which, deodorizes; esp., an agent that destroys offensive odors.
Deonerate (v. t.) To unload; to disburden.
Deontological (a.) Pertaining to deontology.
Deontologist (n.) One versed in deontology.
Deontology (n.) The science relat/ to duty or moral obligation.
Deoperculate (a.) Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses.
Deoppilate (v. t.) To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through.
Deoppilation (n.) Removal of whatever stops up the passages.
Deoppilative (a. & n.) Deobstruent; aperient.
Deordination (n.) Disorder; dissoluteness.
Deosculate (v. t.) To kiss warmly.
Deoxidate (v. t.) To deoxidize.
Deoxidation (n.) The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.
Deoxidization (n.) Deoxidation.
Deoxidize (v. t.) To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.
Deoxidizer (n.) That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.
Deoxygenate (v. t.) To deoxidize.
Deoxygenation (n.) The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.
Deoxygenize (v. t.) To deoxidize.
Depaint (p. p.) Painted.
Depaint (v. t.) To mark with, or as with, color; to color.
Depaint (v. t.) To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict.
Depainted (imp. & p. p.) of Depaint
Depainter (n.) One who depaints.
Depainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depaint
Depardieux (interj.) In God's name; certainly.
Depart (n.) A going away; departure; hence, death.
Depart (n.) Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients.
Depart (v. i.) To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading.
Depart (v. i.) To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination.
Depart (v. i.) To part; to divide; to separate.
Depart (v. i.) To pass away; to perish.
Depart (v. i.) To quit this world; to die.
Depart (v. t.) To divide in order to share; to apportion.
Depart (v. t.) To leave; to depart from.
Depart (v. t.) To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate.
Departable (a.) Divisible.
Departed (imp. & p. p.) of Depart
Departer (n.) One who departs.
Departer (n.) One who refines metals by separation.
Departing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depart
Department (v. i.) A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
Department (v. i.) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
Department (v. i.) A part, portion, or subdivision.
Department (v. i.) A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
Department (v. i.) Act of departing; departure.
Departmental (a.) Pertaining to a department or division.
Departure (n.) Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
Departure (n.) Removal from the present life; death; decease.
Departure (n.) Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
Departure (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
Departure (n.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.
Depascent (a.) Feeding.
Depasture (v. t. & i.) To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture.
Depatriate (v. t. & i.) To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish.
Depauperate (a.) Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved.
Depauperate (v. t. & i.) To make poor; to impoverish.
Depauperated (imp. & p. p.) of Depauperate
Depauperating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depauperate
Depauperize (v. t.) To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty.
Depeach (v. t.) To discharge.
Depectible (a.) Tough; thick; capable of extension.
Depeculation (n.) A robbing or embezzlement.
Depeinct (v. t.) To paint.
Depend (v. i.) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
Depend (v. i.) To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court.
Depend (v. i.) To impend.
Depend (v. i.) To rely for support; to be conditioned or contingent; to be connected with anything, as a cause of existence, or as a necessary condition; -- followed by on or upon, formerly by of.
Depend (v. i.) To serve; to attend; to act as a dependent or retainer.
Depend (v. i.) To trust; to rest with confidence; to rely; to confide; to be certain; -- with on or upon; as, we depend on the word or assurance of our friends; we depend on the mail at the usual hour.
Dependable (a.) Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy.
Dependance (n.) Alt. of Dependancy
Dependancy (n.) See Dependent, Dependence, Dependency.
Dependant (n.) Alt. of Dependancy
Depended (imp. & p. p.) of Depend
Dependence (n.) A matter depending, or in suspense, and still to be determined; ground of controversy or quarrel.
Dependence (n.) A resting with confidence; reliance; trust.
Dependence (n.) Mutu/// /onnection and support; concatenation; systematic ///er relation.
Dependence (n.) Subjection to the direction or disposal of another; inability to help or provide for one's self.
Dependence (n.) That on which one depends or relies; as, he was her sole dependence.
Dependence (n.) That which depends; anything dependent or suspended; anything attached a subordinate to, or contingent on, something else.
Dependence (n.) The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.
Dependence (n.) The state of being influenced and determined by something; subjection (as of an effect to its cause).
Dependencies (pl. ) of Dependency
Dependency (n.) A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America.
Dependency (n.) A thing hanging down; a dependence.
Dependency (n.) State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.
Dependency (n.) That which is attached to something else as its consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like.
Dependent (a.) Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
Dependent (n.) One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents.
Dependent (n.) That which depends; corollary; consequence.
Dependently (adv.) In a dependent manner.
Depender (n.) One who depends; a dependent.
Depending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depend
Dependingly (adv.) As having dependence.
Depeople (v. t.) To depopulate.
Deperdit (n.) That which is lost or destroyed.
Deperditely (adv.) Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined; as, deperditely wicked.
Deperdition (n.) Loss; destruction.
Depertible (a.) Divisible.
Dephlegm (v. t.) To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.
Dephlegmate (v. t.) To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.
Dephlegmated (imp. & p. p.) of Dephlegmate
Dephlegmating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dephlegmate
Dephlegmation (n.) The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it.
Dephlegmator (n.) An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.
Dephlegmatory (a.) Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.
Dephlegmedness (n.) A state of being freed from water.
Dephlogisticated (imp. & p. p.) of Dephlogisticcate
Dephlogisticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dephlogisticcate
Dephlogisticcate (v. t.) To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability.
Dephosphorization (n.) The act of freeing from phosphorous.
Depict (p. p.) Depicted.
Depict (p. p.) Depicted.
Depict (v. t.) To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.
Depict (v. t.) To represent in words; to describe vividly.
Depicted (imp. & p. p.) of Depict
Depicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depict
Depiction (n.) A painting or depicting; a representation.
Depicture (v. t.) To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict.
Depictured (imp. & p. p.) of Depicture
Depicturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depicture
Depilate (v. t.) To strip of hair; to husk.
Depilated (imp. & p. p.) of Depilate
Depilating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depilate
Depilation (n.) Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing.
Depilatory (a.) Having the quality or power of removing hair.
Depilatory (n.) An application used to take off hair.
Depilous (a.) Hairless.
Deplanate (v. t.) Flattened; made level or even.
Deplant (v. t.) To take up (plants); to transplant.
Deplantation (n.) Act of taking up plants from beds.
Deplete (a.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
Deplete (a.) To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.
Depleted (imp. & p. p.) of Deplete
Depleting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deplete
Depletion (n.) The act of depleting or emptying.
Depletion (n.) the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.
Depletive (a.) Able or fitted to deplete.
Depletive (n.) A substance used to deplete.
Depletory (a.) Serving to deplete.
Deplication (n.) An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting.
Deploitation (n.) Same as Exploitation.
Deplorability (n.) Deplorableness.
Deplorable (a.) Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable.
Deplorableness (n.) State of being deplorable.
Deplorably (adv.) In a deplorable manner.
Deplorate (a.) Deplorable.
Deploration (n.) The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation.
Deplore (v. i.) To lament.
Deplore (v. t.) To complain of.
Deplore (v. t.) To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
Deplore (v. t.) To regard as hopeless; to give up.
Deplored (imp. & p. p.) of Deplore
Deploredly (adv.) Lamentably.
Deploredness (n.) The state of being deplored or deplorable.
Deplorement (n.) Deploration.
Deploring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deplore
Deploringly (adv.) In a deploring manner.
Deplorre (n.) One who deplores.
Deploy (n.) Alt. of Deployment
Deploy (v. t. & i.) To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.
Deployed (imp. & p. p.) of Deploy
Deploying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deploy
Deployment (n.) The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front.
Deplumate (a.) Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.
Deplumation (n.) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes.
Deplumation (n.) The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
Deplume (v. t.) To lay bare; to expose.
Deplume (v. t.) To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.
Deplumed (imp. & p. p.) of Deplume
Depluming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deplume
Depolarization (n.) The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.
Depolarize (v. t.) To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.
Depolarize (v. t.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.
Depolarized (imp. & p. p.) of Depolarize
Depolarizer (n.) A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.
Depolarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depolarize
Depolish (v. t.) To remove the polish or glaze from.
Depolishing (n.) The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain.
Depone (v. i.) To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness.
Depone (v. t.) To assert under oath; to depose.
Depone (v. t.) To lay down.
Depone (v. t.) To lay, as a stake; to wager.
Deponed (imp. & p. p.) of Depone
Deponent (a.) Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs.
Deponent (v. t.) A deponent verb.
Deponent (v. t.) One who deposes or testifies under oath; one who gives evidence; usually, one who testifies in writing.
Deponing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depone
Depopulacy (n.) Depopulation; destruction of population.
Depopulate (v. i.) To become dispeopled.
Depopulate (v. t.) To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.
Depopulated (imp. & p. p.) of Depopulate
Depopulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depopulate
Depopulation (n.) The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants.
Depopulator (n.) One who depopulates; a dispeopler.
Deport (v. t.) To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Deport (v. t.) To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.
Deportation (n.) The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.
Deported (imp. & p. p.) of Deport
Deporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deport
Deportment (n.) Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing.
Deporture (n.) Deportment.
Deposable (a.) Capable of being deposed or deprived of office.
Deposal (n.) The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne.
Depose (v. i.) To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.
Depose (v. t.) To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.
Depose (v. t.) To let fall; to deposit.
Depose (v. t.) To put under oath.
Depose (v. t.) To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office.
Depose (v. t.) To testify under oath; to bear testimony to; -- now usually said of bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use.
Deposed (imp. & p. p.) of Depose
Deposer (n.) One who deposes or degrades from office.
Deposer (n.) One who testifies or deposes; a deponent.
Deposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depose
Deposit (n.) To lay aside; to rid one's self of.
Deposit (n.) To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium.
Deposit (n.) To lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse.
Deposit (n.) To lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order.
Deposit (v. t.) A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor.
Deposit (v. t.) A natural occurrence of a useful mineral under the conditions to invite exploitation.
Deposit (v. t.) A place of deposit; a depository.
Deposit (v. t.) Money lodged with a party as earnest or security for the performance of a duty assumed by the person depositing.
Deposit (v. t.) That which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security.
Depositaries (pl. ) of Depositary
Depositary (n.) A storehouse; a depository.
Depositary (n.) One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense.
Depositary (n.) One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor.
Deposited (imp. & p. p.) of Deposit
Depositing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deposit
Deposition (n.) An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration.
Deposition (n.) That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter.
Deposition (n.) The act of bringing before the mind; presentation.
Deposition (n.) The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.
Deposition (n.) The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writing, under oath or affirmation, before some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories.
Deposition (n.) The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.
Depositor (n.) One who makes a deposit, especially of money in a bank; -- the correlative of depository.
Depositories (pl. ) of Depository
Depository (n.) A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records.
Depository (n.) One with whom something is deposited; a depositary.
Depositum (n.) Deposit.
Depositure (n.) The act of depositing; deposition.
Depot (n.) A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.
Depot (n.) A place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse.
Depot (n.) A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight.
Depot (n.) The headquarters of a regiment, where all supplies are received and distributed, recruits are assembled and instructed, infirm or disabled soldiers are taken care of, and all the wants of the regiment are provided for.
Depper (a.) Deeper.
Depravation (n.) Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.
Depravation (n.) Detraction; depreciation.
Depravation (n.) The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting.
Depravation (n.) The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity.
Deprave (n. t.) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.
Deprave (n. t.) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.
Depraved (imp. & p. p.) of Deprave
Depravedly (adv.) In a depraved manner.
Depravedness (n.) Depravity.
Depravement (n.) Depravity.
Depraver (n.) One who deprave or corrupts.
Depraving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deprave
Depravingly (adv.) In a depraving manner.
Depravity (n.) The state of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle.
Deprecable (a.) That may or should be deprecated.
Deprecate (v. t.) To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.
Deprecated (imp. & p. p.) of Deprecate
Deprecating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deprecate
Deprecatingly (adv.) In a deprecating manner.
Deprecation (n.) An imprecation or curse.
Deprecation (n.) Entreaty for pardon; petitioning.
Deprecation (n.) The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.
Deprecative (a.) Serving to deprecate; deprecatory.
Deprecator (n.) One who deprecates.
Deprecatory (a.) Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.
Depreciate (v. i.) To fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie.
Depreciate (v. t.) To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.
Depreciated (imp. & p. p.) of Depreciate
Depreciating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depreciate
Depreciation (n.) The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.
Depreciation (n.) The falling of value; reduction of worth.
Depreciation (n.) the state of being depreciated.
Depreciative (a.) Tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing.
Depreciator (n.) One who depreciates.
Depreciatory (a.) Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.
Depredable (a.) Liable to depredation.
Depredate (v. i.) To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country.
Depredate (v. t.) To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon.
Depredated (imp. & p. p.) of Depredate
Depredating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depredate
Depredation (n.) The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land.
Depredator (n.) One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.
Depredatory (a.) Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.
Deprehend (v. t.) To detect; to discover; to find out.
Deprehend (v. t.) To take unwares or by surprise; to seize, as a person commiting an unlawful act; to catch; to apprehend.
Deprehended (imp. & p. p.) of Deprehend
Deprehending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deprehend
Deprehensible (a.) That may be caught or discovered; apprehensible.
Deprehension (n.) A catching; discovery.
Depreicate (v. t.) To proclaim; to celebrate.
Depress (a.) Having the middle lower than the border; concave.
Depress (v. t.) To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.
Depress (v. t.) To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.
Depress (v. t.) To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.
Depress (v. t.) To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.
Depress (v. t.) To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.
Depress (v. t.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
Depressant (n.) An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.
Depressed (a.) Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.
Depressed (a.) Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies.
Depressed (a.) Lying flat; -- said of a stem or leaf which lies close to the ground.
Depression (n.) A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.
Depression (n.) A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8.
Depression (n.) Dejection; despondency; lowness.
Depression (n.) Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.
Depression (n.) Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.
Depression (n.) The act of depressing.
Depression (n.) The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
Depression (n.) The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.
Depression (n.) The state of being depressed; a sinking.
Depressive (a.) Able or tending to depress or cast down.
Depressomotor (a.) Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity.
Depressomotor (n.) Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centers, as bromides, etc.
Depressor (n.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part.
Depressor (n.) One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
Deprivable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed.
Deprivation (n.) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
Deprivation (n.) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
Deprivation (n.) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
Deprive (v. t.) To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
Deprive (v. t.) To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
Deprive (v. t.) To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
Deprovincialize (v. t.) To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.
Depth (n.) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.
Depth (n.) Lowness; as, depth of sound.
Depth (n.) Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.
Depth (n.) That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.
Depth (n.) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
Depth (n.) The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.
Depthen (v. t.) To deepen.
Depthless (a.) Having no depth; shallow.
Depthless (a.) Of measureless depth; unfathomable.
Depucelate (v. t.) To deflour; to deprive of virginity.
Depudicate (v. t.) To deflour; to dishonor.
Depulse (v. t.) To drive away.
Depulsion (n.) A driving or thrusting away.
Depulsory (a.) Driving or thrusting away; averting.
Depurant (a. & n.) Depurative.
Depurate (a.) Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities.
Depurate (v. t.) To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse.
Depurated (imp. & p. p.) of Depurate
Depurating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depurate
Depuration (n.) The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.
Depurative (a.) Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory.
Depurative (n.) A depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative.
Depurator (n.) One who, or that which, cleanses.
Depuratory (a.) Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
Depure (v. t.) To depurate; to purify.
Depurgatory (a.) Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
Depurition (n.) See Depuration.
Deputable (a.) Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy.
Deputation (n.) The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
Deputation (n.) The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; delegation; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce.
Deputator (n.) One who deputes, or makes a deputation.
Depute (n.) A person deputed; a deputy.
Depute (v. t.) To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.
Depute (v. t.) To appoint; to assign; to choose.
Deputed (imp. & p. p.) of Depute
Deputies (pl. ) of Deputy
Deputing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depute
Deputize (v. t.) To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.
Deputy (n.) A member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Dequantitate (v. t.) To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity.
Deracinate (v. t.) To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.
Deracinated (imp. & p. p.) of Deracinate
Deracinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deracinate
Deraign (v. t.) Alt. of Derain
Deraignment (n.) Alt. of Derainment
Derail (v. t.) To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.
Derailed (imp. & p. p.) of Derail
Derailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derail
Derailment (n.) The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.
Derain (v. t.) To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self).
Deraination (n.) The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication.
Derainment (n.) The act of deraigning.
Derainment (n.) The renunciation of religious or monastic vows.
Derange (v. t.) To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism.
Derange (v. t.) To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane.
Derange (v. t.) To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.
Deranged (a.) Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane.
Deranged (imp. & p. p.) of Derange
Derangement (n.) The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.
Deranger (n.) One who deranges.
Deranging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derange
Deray (n.) Disorder; merriment.
Derbio (n.) A large European food fish (Lichia glauca).
Derby (n.) A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780.
Derby (n.) A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.
Derbyshire spar () A massive variety of fluor spar, found in Derbyshire, England, and wrought into vases and other ornamental work.
Derdoing (v. t.) Doing daring or chivalrous deeds.
Dere (n.) Harm.
Dere (v. t.) To hurt; to harm; to injure.
Dereine (v. t.) Alt. of Dereyne
Derelict (a.) Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.
Derelict (n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
Derelict (n.) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.
Dereliction (n.) A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment.
Dereliction (n.) A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained.
Dereliction (n.) The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment.
Dereliction (n.) The state of being left or abandoned.
Dereligionize (v. t.) To make irreligious; to turn from religion.
Dereling (n.) Darling.
Dereling (n.) Darling.
Dereyne (v. t.) Same as Darraign.
Derf (a.) Strong; powerful; fierce.
Deride (v. t.) To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.
Derided (imp. & p. p.) of Deride
Derider (n.) One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.
Deriding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deride
Deridingly (adv.) By way of derision or mockery.
Derision (n.) An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock.
Derision (n.) The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.
Derisive (a.) Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision.
Derisory (a.) Derisive; mocking.
Derivable (a.) That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources.
Derivably (adv.) By derivation.
Derival (n.) Derivation.
Derivate (a.) Derived; derivative.
Derivate (n.) A thing derived; a derivative.
Derivate (v. t.) To derive.
Derivation (n.) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
Derivation (n.) A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
Derivation (n.) That from which a thing is derived.
Derivation (n.) That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
Derivation (n.) The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
Derivation (n.) The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root.
Derivation (n.) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.
Derivation (n.) The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
Derivational (a.) Relating to derivation.
Derivative (a.) Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word.
Derivative (n.) A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord.
Derivative (n.) A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process.
Derivative (n.) A substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.
Derivative (n.) A word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root.
Derivative (n.) An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense).
Derivative (n.) That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another.
Derive (v. i.) To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.
Derive (v. t.) To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.
Derive (v. t.) To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.
Derive (v. t.) To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon.
Derive (v. t.) To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon.
Derived (imp. & p. p.) of Derive
Derivement (n.) That which is derived; deduction; inference.
Deriver (n.) One who derives.
Deriving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derive
Derk (a.) Dark.
Derm (v. t.) See Dermis.
Derm (v. t.) The integument of animal; the skin.
Derma (n.) See Dermis.
Dermal (a.) Pertaining to the dermis or true skin.
Dermal (a.) Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions.
Dermaptera (n.) Alt. of Dermapteran
Dermapteran (n.) See Dermoptera, Dermopteran.
Dermatic (a.) Alt. of Dermatine
Dermatine (a.) Of or pertaining to the skin.
Dermatitis (n.) Inflammation of the skin.
Dermatogen (n.) Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.
Dermatogen (n.) Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.
Dermatography (n.) An anatomical description of, or treatise on, the skin.
Dermatoid (a.) Resembling skin; skinlike.
Dermatologist (n.) One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology.
Dermatology (n.) The science which treats of the skin, its structure, functions, and diseases.
Dermatopathic (a.) Of or pertaining to skin diseases, or their cure.
Dermatophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin.
Dermestes (n.) A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvae of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.
Dermestoid (a.) Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes.
Dermic (a.) Pertaining to the dermis; dermal.
Dermic (a.) Relating to the derm or skin.
Dermis (n.) The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix.
Dermobranchiata (n. pl.) A group of nudibranch mollusks without special gills.
Dermobranchiate (a.) Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.
Dermohaemal (a.) Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and haemal structures; as, the dermohaemal spines or ventral fin rays of fishes.
Dermoid (a.) Same as Dermatoid.
Dermoneural (a.) Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and neural structures; as, the dermoneural spines or dorsal fin rays of fishes.
Dermopathic (a.) Dermatopathic.
Dermophyte (n.) A dermatophyte.
Dermoptera (n. pl.) A group of lemuroid mammals having a parachutelike web of skin between the fore and hind legs, of which the colugo (Galeopithecus) is the type. See Colugo.
Dermoptera (n. pl.) An order of Mammalia; the Cheiroptera.
Dermoptera (n. pl.) The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulidae).
Dermopteran (n.) An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig.
Dermopteri (n. pl.) Same as Dermopterygii.
Dermopterygii (n. pl.) A group of fishlike animals including the Marsipobranchiata and Leptocardia.
Derogate (n.) Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded.
Derogate (v. i.) To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate.
Derogate (v. i.) To take away; to detract; to withdraw; -- usually with from.
Derogate (v. t.) To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law.
Derogate (v. t.) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; -- said of a person or thing.
Derogated (imp. & p. p.) of Derogate
Derogately (adv.) In a derogatory manner.
Derogating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derogate
Derogation (n.) An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks.
Derogation (n.) The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to.
Derogative (a.) Derogatory.
Derogator (n.) A detractor.
Derogatorily (adv.) In a derogatory manner; disparagingly.
Derogatoriness (n.) Quality of being derogatory.
Derogatory (a.) Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto.
Derotremata (n. pl.) The tribe of aquatic Amphibia which includes Amphiuma, Menopoma, etc. They have permanent gill openings, but no external gills; -- called also Cryptobranchiata.
Derre (a.) Dearer.
Derrick (n.) A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building.
Derring (a.) Daring or warlike.
Derringer (n.) A kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball.
Derth (n.) Dearth; scarcity.
Dertrotheca (n.) The horny covering of the end of the bill of birds.
Dervis (n.) A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life.
Dervise (n.) Alt. of Dervis
Dervish (n.) Alt. of Dervis
Derworth (a.) Precious.
Descant (v. i.) A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments.
Descant (v. i.) Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.
Descant (v. i.) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble.
Descant (v. i.) The upper voice in part music.
Descant (v. i.) To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.
Descant (v. i.) To sing a variation or accomplishment.
Descanted (imp. & p. p.) of Descant
Descanter (n.) One who descants.
Descanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descant
Descend (v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.
Descend (v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.
Descend (v. i.) To enter mentally; to retire.
Descend (v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
Descend (v. i.) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
Descend (v. i.) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
Descend (v. i.) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend.
Descend (v. i.) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
Descend (v. t.) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.
Descendant (a.) Descendent.
Descendant (n.) One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
Descended (imp. & p. p.) of Descend
Descendent (a.) Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.
Descender (n.) One who descends.
Descendibility (n.) The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
Descendible (a.) Admitting descent; capable of being descended.
Descendible (a.) That may descend from an ancestor to an heir.
Descending (a.) Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.
Descending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descend
Descendingly (adv.) In a descending manner.
Descension (n.) The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.
Descensional (a.) Pertaining to descension.
Descensive (a.) Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending.
Descensory (n.) A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.
Descent (n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
Descent (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
Descent (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
Descent (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
Descent (n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
Descent (n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.
Descent (n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue.
Descent (n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
Descent (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
Describable (a.) That can be described; capable of description.
Describe (v. i.) To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
Describe (v. t.) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
Describe (v. t.) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.
Describe (v. t.) To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.
Described (imp. & p. p.) of Describe
Describent (n.) Same as Generatrix.
Describer (n.) One who describes.
Describing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Describe
Descried (imp. & p. p.) of Descry
Descrier (n.) One who descries.
Description (n.) A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
Description (n.) A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
Description (n.) The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Descriptive (a.) Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.
Descrive (v. t.) To describe.
Descry (n.) Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance.
Descry (v. t.) To discover; to disclose; to reveal.
Descry (v. t.) To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
Descrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descry
Desecate (v. t.) To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.
Desecrate (v. t.) To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate.
Desecrated (imp. & p. p.) of Desecrate
Desecrater (n.) One who desecrates; a profaner.
Desecrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desecrate
Desecration (n.) The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.
Desecrator (n.) One who desecrates.
Desegmentation (n.) The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.
Desert (a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
Desert (n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.
Desert (n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
Desert (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
Desert (v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.
Desert (v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.
Desert (v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.
Deserted (imp. & p. p.) of Desert
Deserter (n.) One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
Desertful (a.) Meritorious.
Deserting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desert
Desertion (n.) Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency.
Desertion (n.) The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service.
Desertion (n.) The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion.
Desertless (a.) Without desert.
Desertlessly (adv.) Undeservedly.
Desertness (n.) A deserted condition.
Desertrice (n.) A feminine deserter.
Desertrix (n.) Alt. of Desertrice
Deserve (v. i.) To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.
Deserve (v. t.) To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.
Deserve (v. t.) To serve; to treat; to benefit.
Deserved (imp. & p. p.) of Deserve
Deservedly (adv.) According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
Deservedness (n.) Meritoriousness.
Deserver (n.) One who deserves.
Deserving (a.) Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act.
Deserving (n.) Desert; merit.
Deserving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deserve
Deshabille (n.) An undress; a careless toilet.
Desiccant (a.) Drying; desiccative.
Desiccant (n.) A medicine or application for drying up a sore.
Desiccate (v. i.) To become dry.
Desiccate (v. t.) To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit.
Desiccated (imp. & p. p.) of Desiccate
Desiccating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desiccate
Desiccation (n.) The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.
Desiccative (a.) Drying; tending to dry.
Desiccative (n.) An application for drying up secretions.
Desiccator (n.) A short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as sulphuric acid or calcium chloride, above which is suspended the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture.
Desiccator (n.) One who, or that which, desiccates.
Desiccatory (a.) Desiccative.
Desiderable (a.) Desirable.
Desiderata (n. pl.) See Desideratum.
Desiderata (pl. ) of Desideratum
Desiderate (v. t.) To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want.
Desiderated (imp. & p. p.) of Desiderate
Desiderating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desiderate
Desideration (n.) Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired.
Desiderative (n.) A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb.
Desiderative (n.) An object of desire.
Desideratum (n.) Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.
Desidiose (a.) Alt. of Desidious
Desidious (a.) Idle; lazy.
Desidiousness (n.) The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent.
Desight (n.) An unsightly object.
Desightment (n.) The act of making unsightly; disfigurement.
Design (n.) A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.
Design (n.) Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.
Design (n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.
Design (n.) The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.
Design (n.) To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.
Design (n.) To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
Design (n.) To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
Design (n.) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
Design (v. i.) To form a design or designs; to plan.
Designable (a.) Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable.
Designate (v. t.) Designated; appointed; chosen.
Designate (v. t.) To call by a distinctive title; to name.
Designate (v. t.) To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
Designate (v. t.) To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.
Designated (imp. & p. p.) of Designate
Designating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Designate
Designation (n.) Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
Designation (n.) That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
Designation (n.) The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.
Designation (n.) Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.
Designative (a.) Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
Designator (n.) An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.
Designator (n.) One who designates.
Designatory (a.) Serving to designate; designative; indicating.
Designed (imp. & p. p.) of Design
Designedly (adv.) By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
Designer (n.) A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense.
Designer (n.) One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.
Designer (n.) One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.
Designful (a.) Full of design; scheming.
Designing (a.) Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.
Designing (n.) The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans.
Desilver (v. t.) To deprive of silver; as, to desilver lead.
Desilverization (n.) The act or the process of freeing from silver; also, the condition resulting from the removal of silver.
Desilverize (v. t.) To deprive, or free from, silver; to remove silver from.
Desinence (n.) Termination; ending.
Desinent (a.) Ending; forming an end; lowermost.
Desinential (a.) Terminal.
Desipient (a.) Foolish; silly; trifling.
Desirability (n.) The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.
Desirable (v. t.) Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.
Desirableness (n.) The quality of being desirable.
Desirably (adv.) In a desirable manner.
Desire (v. t.) An expressed wish; a request; petition.
Desire (v. t.) Anything which is desired; an object of longing.
Desire (v. t.) Excessive or morbid longing; lust; appetite.
Desire (v. t.) Grief; regret.
Desire (v. t.) The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy.
Desire (v. t.) To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
Desire (v. t.) To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.
Desire (v. t.) To miss; to regret.
Desire (v. t.) To require; to demand; to claim.
Desired (imp. & p. p.) of Desire
Desireful (a.) Filled with desire; eager.
Desirefulness (n.) The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess.
Desist (v. i.) To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.
Desistance (n.) The act or state of desisting; cessation.
Desisted (imp. & p. p.) of Desist
Desisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desist
Desistive (a.) Final; conclusive; ending.
Desition (n.) An end or ending.
Desitive (a.) Final; serving to complete; conclusive.
Desitive (n.) A proposition relating to or expressing an end or conclusion.
Desk (n.) A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
Desk (v. t.) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
Desked (imp. & p. p.) of Desk
Desking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desk
Deskwork (n.) Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer.
Desman (n.) An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers.
Desmid (n.) Alt. of Desmidian
Desmidian (n.) A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiae, a group of unicellular algae in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.
Desmine (n.) Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.
Desmobacteria (n. pl.) See Microbacteria.
Desmodont (n.) A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.
Desmognathous (a.) Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
Desmoid (a.) Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.
Desmology (n.) The science which treats of the ligaments.
Desmomyaria (n. pl.) The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpae. See Salpa.
Desolate (a.) Destitute of; lacking in.
Desolate (a.) Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
Desolate (a.) Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.
Desolate (a.) Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
Desolate (a.) Lost to shame; dissolute.
Desolate (v. t.) To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.
Desolate (v. t.) To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.
Desolated (imp. & p. p.) of Desolate
Desolately (adv.) In a desolate manner.
Desolateness (n.) The state of being desolate.
Desolater (n.) One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste.
Desolating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desolate
Desolation (n.) A place or country wasted and forsaken.
Desolation (n.) The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
Desolation (n.) The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.
Desolator (n.) Same as Desolater.
Desolatory (a.) Causing desolation.
Desophisticate (v. t.) To clear from sophism or error.
Desoxalic (a.) Made or derived from oxalic acid; as, desoxalic acid.
Despair (n.) Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
Despair (n.) That which is despaired of.
Despair (v. i.) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.
Despair (v. t.) To cause to despair.
Despair (v. t.) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
Despaired (imp. & p. p.) of Despair
Despairer (n.) One who despairs.
Despairful (a.) Hopeless.
Despairing (a.) Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless.
Despairing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despair
Desparple (v. t. & i.) To scatter; to disparkle.
Despatch (n. & v.) Same as Dispatch.
Despecfication (n.) Discrimination.
Despecificate (v. t.) To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize.
Despect (n.) Contempt.
Despection (n.) A looking down; a despising.
Despeed (v. t.) To send hastily.
Despend (v. t.) To spend; to squander. See Dispend.
Desperado (n.) A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.
Desperadoes (pl. ) of Desperado
Desperate (a.) Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
Desperate (a.) Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
Desperate (a.) Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.
Desperate (a.) Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.
Desperate (n.) One desperate or hopeless.
Desperately (adv.) In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.
Desperateness (n.) Desperation; virulence.
Desperation (n.) A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
Desperation (n.) The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
Despicability (n.) Despicableness.
Despicable (a.) Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.
Despicableness (n.) The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
Despicably (adv.) In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy.
Despiciency (n.) A looking down; despection.
Despisable (a.) Despicable; contemptible.
Despisal (n.) A despising; contempt.
Despise (v. t.) To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.
Despised (imp. & p. p.) of Despise
Despisedness (n.) The state of being despised.
Despisement (n.) A despising.
Despiser (n.) One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.
Despising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despise
Despisingly (adv.) Contemptuously.
Despite (n.) An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt.
Despite (n.) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.
Despite (prep.) In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices.
Despited (imp. & p. p.) of Despite
Despiteful (a.) Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious.
Despiteous (a.) Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous.
Despiteously (adv.) Despitefully.
Despiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despite
Despitous (a.) Despiteous; very angry; cruel.
Despoil (n.) Spoil.
Despoil (v. t.) To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of.
Despoil (v. t.) To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.
Despoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Despoil
Despoiler (n.) One who despoils.
Despoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despoil
Despoilment (n.) Despoliation.
Despoliation (n.) A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
Despond (n.) Despondency.
Despond (v. i.) To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.
Desponded (imp. & p. p.) of Despond
Despondence (n.) Despondency.
Despondency (n.) The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
Despondent (a.) Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner.
Desponder (n.) One who desponds.
Desponding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despond
Despondingly (adv.) In a desponding manner.
Desponsage (n.) Betrothal.
Desponsate (v. t.) To betroth.
Desponsation (n.) A betrothing; betrothal.
Desponsories (pl. ) of Desponsory
Desponsory (n.) A written pledge of marriage.
Desport (v. t. & i.) See Disport.
Despot (n.) A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.
Despot (n.) One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.
Despotat (n.) The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot.
Despotic (a.) Alt. of Despotical
Despotical (a.) Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary.
Despotism (n.) A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy.
Despotism (n.) The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny.
Despotist (n.) A supporter of despotism.
Despotize (v. t.) To act the despot.
Despread (v. t. & i.) See Dispread.
Despumate (v. t. & i.) To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.
Despumated (imp. & p. p.) of Despumate
Despumating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despumate
Despumation (n.) The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.
Despume (v. t.) To free from spume or scum.
Desquamate (v. i.) To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.
Desquamation (n.) The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.
Desquamative (a.) Alt. of Desquamatory
Desquamatory (a.) Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation.
Desquamatory (n.) An instrument formerly used in removing the laminae of exfoliated bones.
Dess (n.) Dais.
Dessert (n.) A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.
Destemper (n.) A kind of painting. See Distemper.
Destin (n.) Destiny.
Destinable (a.) Determined by destiny; fated.
Destinably (adv.) In a destinable manner.
Destinal (a.) Determined by destiny; fated.
Destinate (a.) Destined.
Destinate (v. t.) To destine, design, or choose.
Destination (n.) Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.
Destination (n.) The act of destining or appointing.
Destination (n.) The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
Destined (imp. & p. p.) of Destine
Destinies (pl. ) of Destiny
Destining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Destine
Destinist (n.) A believer in destiny; a fatalist.
Destiny (n.) That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
Destiny (n.) The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
Destituent (a.) Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition.
Destitute (a.) Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of.
Destitute (a.) Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor.
Destitute (v. t.) To disappoint.
Destitute (v. t.) To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon.
Destitute (v. t.) To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of.
Destitutely (adv.) In destitution.
Destituteness (n.) Destitution.
Destitution (n.) The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.
Destrer (n.) Alt. of Dextrer
Destrie (v. t.) To destroy.
Destroy (v. t.) To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill.
Destroy (v. t.) To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume.
Destroy (v. t.) To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
Destroyable (a.) Destructible.
Destroyed (imp. & p. p.) of Destroy
Destroyer (n.) One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
Destroying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Destroy
Destruct (v. t.) To destroy.
Destructibility (n.) The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness.
Destructible (a.) Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.
Destructibleness (n.) The quality of being destructible.
Destruction (n.) A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer.
Destruction (n.) The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.
Destruction (n.) The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated.
Destructionist (n.) One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist.
Destructionist (n.) One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.
Destructive (n.) One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
Destructively (adv.) In a destructive manner.
Destructiveness (n.) The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.
Destructiveness (n.) The quality of destroying or ruining.
Destructor (n.) A destroyer.
Destruie (v. t.) To destroy.
Desudation (n.) A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.
Desuete (a.) Disused; out of use.
Desuetude (n.) The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion.
Desulphurate (v. t.) To deprive of sulphur.
Desulphurated (imp. & p. p.) of Desulphurate
Desulphurating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desulphurate
Desulphuration (n.) The act or process of depriving of sulphur.
Desulphurize (v. t.) To desulphurate; to deprive of sulphur.
Desultorily (adv.) In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.
Desultoriness (n.) The quality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness.
Desultorious (a.) Desultory.
Desultory (a.) Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds.
Desultory (a.) Leaping or skipping about.
Desultory (a.) Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark.
Desume (v. t.) To select; to borrow.
Desynonymization (n.) The act of desynonymizing.
Desynonymize (v. t.) To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms.
Detach (v. i.) To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.
Detach (v. t.) To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.
Detach (v. t.) To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment.
Detachable (a.) That can be detached.
Detached (a.) Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels.
Detached (imp. & p. p.) of Detach
Detaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detach
Detachment (n.) Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.
Detachment (n.) That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service.
Detachment (n.) The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.
Detail (n.) A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.
Detail (n.) A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
Detail (n.) The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.
Detail (n.) To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.
Detail (n.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.
Detailed (imp. & p. p.) of Detail
Detailer (n.) One who details.
Detailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detail
Detain (n.) Detention.
Detain (v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.
Detain (v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold.
Detain (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.
Detainder (n.) A writ. See Detinue.
Detained (imp. & p. p.) of Detain
Detainer (n.) A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.
Detainer (n.) One who detains.
Detainer (n.) The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law.
Detaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detain
Detainment (n.) Detention.
Detect (a.) Detected.
Detect (v. t.) To inform against; to accuse.
Detect (v. t.) To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account.
Detectable (a.) Alt. of Detectible
Detected (imp. & p. p.) of Detect
Detecter (n.) One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.
Detectible (a.) Capable of being detected or found out; as, parties not detectable.
Detecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detect
Detection (n.) The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot.
Detective (a.) Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.
Detective (n.) One who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy.
Detector (n.) One who, or that which, detects; a detecter.
Detenebrate (v. t.) To remove darkness from.
Detent (n.) That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.
Detention (n.) Confinement; restraint; custody.
Detention (n.) The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.
Detention (n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.
Deter (v. t.) To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.
Deterge (v. t.) To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer.
Deterged (imp. & p. p.) of Deterge
Detergency (n.) A cleansing quality or power.
Detergent (a.) Cleansing; purging.
Detergent (n.) A substance which cleanses the skin, as water or soap; a medicine to cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc.
Deterging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deterge
Deteriorate (v. i.) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
Deteriorate (v. t.) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.
Deteriorated (imp. & p. p.) of Deteriorate
Deteriorating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deteriorate
Deterioration (n.) The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
Deteriority (n.) Worse state or quality; inferiority.
Determent (n.) The act of deterring; also, that which deters.
Determinability (n.) The quality of being determinable; determinableness.
Determinable (v. t.) Capable of being determined, definitely ascertained, decided upon, or brought to a conclusion.
Determinableness (n.) Capability of being determined; determinability.
Determinacy (n.) Determinateness.
Determinant (a.) Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
Determinant (n.) A mark or attribute, attached to the subject or predicate, narrowing the extent of both, but rendering them more definite and precise.
Determinant (n.) That which serves to determine; that which causes determination.
Determinant (n.) The sum of a series of products of several numbers, these products being formed according to certain specified laws
Determinate (a.) Conclusive; decisive; positive.
Determinate (a.) Determined or resolved upon.
Determinate (a.) Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite.
Determinate (a.) Of determined purpose; resolute.
Determinate (v. t.) To bring to an end; to determine. See Determine.
Determinately (adv.) In a determinate manner; definitely; ascertainably.
Determinately (adv.) Resolutely; unchangeably.
Determinateness (n.) State of being determinate.
Determination (n.) A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part; as, a determination of blood to the head.
Determination (n.) Bringing to an end; termination; limit.
Determination (n.) Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.
Determination (n.) That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.
Determination (n.) The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.
Determination (n.) The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
Determination (n.) The addition of a differentia to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite of generalization.
Determination (n.) The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.
Determination (n.) The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.
Determinative (a.) Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive.
Determinative (n.) That which serves to determine.
Determinator (n.) One who determines.
Determine (v. i.) To come to a decision; to decide; to resolve; -- often with on.
Determine (v. i.) To come to an end; to end; to terminate.
Determine (v. t.) To ascertain definitely; to find out the specific character or name of; to assign to its true place in a system; as, to determine an unknown or a newly discovered plant or its name.
Determine (v. t.) To ascertain the presence, quantity, or amount of; as, to determine the parallax; to determine the salt in sea water.
Determine (v. t.) To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide; as, the court has determined the cause.
Determine (v. t.) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
Determine (v. t.) To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.
Determine (v. t.) To fix the course of; to impel and direct; -- with a remoter object preceded by to; as, another's will determined me to this course.
Determine (v. t.) To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
Determine (v. t.) To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead; as, this determined him to go immediately.
Determine (v. t.) To set bounds to; to fix the determination of; to limit; to bound; to bring to an end; to finish.
Determined (a.) Decided; resolute.
Determined (imp. & p. p.) of Determine
Determinedly (adv.) In a determined manner; with determination.
Determiner (n.) One who, or that which, determines or decides.
Determining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Determine
Determinism (n.) The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives.
Determinist (n.) One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories.
Deterration (n.) The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground.
Deterred (imp. & p. p.) of Deter
Deterrence (n.) That which deters; a deterrent; a hindrance.
Deterrent (a.) Serving to deter.
Deterrent (n.) That which deters or prevents.
Deterring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deter
Detersion (n.) The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore.
Detersive (a.) Cleansing; detergent.
Detersive (n.) A cleansing agent; a detergent.
Detersively (adv.) In a way to cleanse.
Detersiveness (n.) The quality of cleansing.
Detest (v. t.) To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe; as, we detest what is contemptible or evil.
Detest (v. t.) To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
Detestability (n.) Capacity of being odious.
Detestable (a.) Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices.
Detestableness (n.) The quality or state of being detestable.
Detestably (adv.) In a detestable manner.
Detestation (n.) The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing.
Detested (imp. & p. p.) of Detest
Detester (n.) One who detes//
Detesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detest
Detesttate (v. t.) To detest.
Dethrone (v. t.) To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.
Dethroned (imp. & p. p.) of Dethrone
Dethronement (n.) Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.
Dethroner (n.) One who dethrones.
Dethroning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dethrone
Dethronization (n.) Dethronement.
Dethronize (v. t.) To dethrone or unthrone.
Detinue (n.) A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.
Detinue (n.) A person or thing detained
Detonate (v. i.) To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur.
Detonate (v. t.) To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report.
Detonated (imp. & p. p.) of Detonate
Detonating (a. & n.) from Detonate.
Detonating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detonate
Detonation (n.) An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton.
Detonator (n.) One who, or that which, detonates.
Detonization (n.) The act of detonizing; detonation.
Detonize (v. t. & i.) To explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate.
Detonized (imp. & p. p.) of Detonize
Detonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detonize
Detorsion (n.) Same as Detortion.
Detort (v. t.) To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest.
Detorted (imp. & p. p.) of Detort
Detorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detort
Detortion (n.) The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
Detour (n.) A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.
Detracor (n.) One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer.
Detract (v. i.) To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from.
Detract (v. t.) To take away; to withdraw.
Detract (v. t.) To take credit or reputation from; to defame.
Detracted (imp. & p. p.) of Detract
Detracter (n.) One who detracts; a detractor.
Detracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detract
Detractingly (adv.) In a detracting manner.
Detraction (n.) A taking away or withdrawing.
Detraction (n.) The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny.
Detractive (a.) Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
Detractiveness (n.) The quality of being detractive.
Detractory (a.) Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious.
Detractress (n.) A female detractor.
Detrain (v. i. & t.) To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.
Detrect (v. t.) To refuse; to decline.
Detriment (n.) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
Detriment (n.) That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc.
Detrimentalness (n.) The quality of being detrimental; injuriousness.
Detrital (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus.
Detrite (a.) Worn out.
Detrition (n.) A wearing off or away.
Detritus (n.) A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.
Detritus (n.) Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration.
Detrude (v. t.) To thrust down or out; to push down with force.
Detruded (imp. & p. p.) of Detrude
Detruding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detrude
Detruncated (imp. & p. p.) of Detuncate
Detruncating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detuncate
Detruncation (n.) The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.
Detrusion (n.) The act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust.
Dette (n.) Debt.
Detteles (a.) Free from debt.
Detumescence (n.) Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.
Detuncate (v. t.) To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.
Detur (n.) A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize.
Deturb (v. t.) To throw down.
Deturbate (v. t.) To evict; to remove.
Deturbation (n.) The act of deturbating.
Deturn (v. t.) To turn away.
Deturpate (v. t.) To defile; to disfigure.
Deturpation (n.) A making foul.
Deuce (n.) The devil; a demon.
Deuce (n.) Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.
Deuced (a.) Devilish; excessive; extreme.
Deuse (a.) Alt. of Deused
Deused (a.) See Deuce, Deuced.
Deut- () A prefix which formerly properly indicated the second in a regular series of compound in the series, and not to its composition, but which is now generally employed in the same sense as bi-or di-, although little used.
Deuterocanonical (a.) Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.
Deuterogamist (n.) One who marries the second time.
Deuterogamy (n.) A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy.
Deuterogenic (a.) Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.
Deuteronomist (n.) The writer of Deuteronomy.
Deuteronomy (n.) The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.
Deuteropathia (n.) Alt. of Deuteropathy
Deuteropathic (a.) Pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy.
Deuteropathy (n.) A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.
Deuteroscopy (n.) Second sight.
Deuteroscopy (n.) That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification.
Deuterozooid (n.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.
Deuthydroguret (n.) Same as Deutohydroguret.
Deuto- () Alt. of Deut-
Deutohydroguret (n.) A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogen united with some other element or radical.
Deutoplasm (n.) The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk.
Deutoplastic (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm.
Deutosulphuret (n.) A disulphide.
Deutoxide (n.) A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of oxygen united with some other element or radical; -- usually called dioxide, or less frequently, binoxide.
Deutzia (n.) A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated.
Dev (n.) Alt. of Deva
Deva (n.) A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king.
Devanagari (n.) The character in which Sanskrit is written.
Devaporation (n.) The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain.
Devast (v. t.) To devastate.
Devastate (v. t.) To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
Devastated (imp. & p. p.) of Devastate
Devastating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devastate
Devastation (n.) The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
Devastation (n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.
Devastator (n.) One who, or that which, devastates.
Devastavit (n.) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.
Devata (n.) A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol.
Deve (a.) Deaf.
Develin (n.) The European swift.
Develop (v. i.) To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.
Develop (v. t.) To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.
Develop (v. t.) To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.
Develop (v. t.) To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
Develop (v. t.) To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.
Developable (a.) Capable of being developed.
Developed (imp. & p. p.) of Develop
Developer (n.) A reagent by the action of which the latent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed and visible.
Developer (n.) One who, or that which, develops.
Developing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Develop
Development (n.) The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning.
Development (n.) The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive.
Development (n.) The equivalent expression into which another has been developed.
Development (n.) The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization.
Developmental (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ.
Devenustate (v. t.) To deprive of beauty or grace.
Devergence (n.) Alt. of Devergency
Devergency (n.) See Divergence.
Devest (v. i.) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.
Devest (v. t.) To divest; to undress.
Devest (v. t.) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.
Devested (imp. & p. p.) of Devest
Devesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devest
Devex (a.) Bending down; sloping.
Devex (n.) Devexity.
Devexity (a.) A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity.
Devi (n.) ; fem. of Deva. A goddess.
Deviant (a.) Deviating.
Deviate (v. i.) To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.
Deviate (v. t.) To cause to deviate.
Deviated (imp. & p. p.) of Deviate
Deviating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deviate
Deviation (n.) The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.
Deviation (n.) The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
Deviation (n.) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.
Deviator (n.) One who, or that which, deviates.
Deviatory (a.) Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion.
Device (n.) A spectacle or show.
Device (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
Device (n.) Anything fancifully conceived.
Device (n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing.
Device (n.) Opinion; decision.
Device (n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
Device (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
Deviceful (a.) Full of devices; inventive.
Devicefully (adv.) In a deviceful manner.
Devil (n.) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
Devil (n.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
Devil (n.) A very wicked person; hence, any great evil.
Devil (n.) An evil spirit; a demon.
Devil (n.) An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.
Devil (n.) The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.
Devil (v. t.) To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
Devil (v. t.) To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
Devil bird (n.) A small water bird. See Dabchick.
Devil-diver (n.) Alt. of Devil bird
Devil's darning-needle () A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t.
Deviled (imp. & p. p.) of Devil
Deviless (n.) A she-devil.
Devilet (n.) A little devil.
Devilfish (n.) A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera.
Devilfish (n.) A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus.
Devilfish (n.) The goosefish or angler (Lophius), and other allied fishes. See Angler.
Devilfish (n.) The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale.
Deviling (n.) A young devil.
Deviling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devil
Devilish (a.) Extreme; excessive.
Devilish (a.) Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.
Devilism (n.) The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils.
Devilize (v. t.) To make a devil of.
Devilkin (n.) A little devil; a devilet.
Devilled () of Devil
Devilling () of Devil
Devilment (n.) Deviltry.
Devilries (pl. ) of Devilry
Devilry (n.) Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry.
Devilry (n.) The whole body of evil spirits.
Devilship (n.) The character or person of a devil or the devil.
Devilwood (n.) A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive.
Devious (a.) Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step.
Devious (a.) Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.
Devirginate (a.) Deprived of virginity.
Devirginate (v. t.) To deprive of virginity; to deflour.
Devirgination (n.) A deflouring.
Devisable (a.) Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will.
Devisable (a.) Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived.
Devisal (n.) A devising.
Devise (n.) A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.
Devise (n.) Device. See Device.
Devise (n.) Property devised, or given by will.
Devise (n.) The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
Devise (v. i.) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
Devise (v. t.) To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
Devise (v. t.) To imagine; to guess.
Devise (v. t.) To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
Devise (v. t.) To say; to relate; to describe.
Devised (imp. & p. p.) of Devise
Devisee (n.) One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.
Deviser (n.) One who devises.
Devising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devise
Devisor (n.) One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee.
Devitable (a.) Avoidable.
Devitalize (v. t.) To deprive of life or vitality.
Devitation (n.) An avoiding or escaping; also, a warning.
Devitrify (v. t.) To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.
Devocalize (v. t.) To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality.
Devocation (n.) A calling off or away.
Devoid (v. t.) Destitute; not in possession; -- with of; as, devoid of sense; devoid of pity or of pride.
Devoid (v. t.) To empty out; to remove.
Devoid (v. t.) Void; empty; vacant.
Devoir (n.) Duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect; -- now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the ladies.
Devolute (v. t.) To devolve.
Devolution (n.) The act of rolling down.
Devolution (n.) Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor.
Devolve (v. i.) To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank.
Devolve (v. t.) To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
Devolve (v. t.) To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.
Devolved (imp. & p. p.) of Devolve
Devolvement (n.) The act or process of devolving;; devolution.
Devolving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devolve
Devon (n.) One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.
Devonian (a.) Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system.
Devonian (n.) The Devonian age or formation.
Devoration (n.) The act of devouring.
Devotary (n.) A votary.
Devote (a.) Devoted; addicted; devout.
Devote (n.) A devotee.
Devote (v. t.) To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames.
Devote (v. t.) To execrate; to curse.
Devote (v. t.) To give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention of wholly or compound; to attach; -- often with a reflexive pronoun; as, to devote one's self to science, to one's friends, to piety, etc.
Devoted (a.) Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout; as, a devoted admirer.
Devoted (imp. & p. p.) of Devote
Devotee (n.) One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.
Devotement (n.) The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow.
Devoter (n.) One who devotes; a worshiper.
Devoting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devote
Devotion (n.) A thing consecrated; an object of devotion.
Devotion (n.) Act of devotedness or devoutness; manifestation of strong attachment; act of worship; prayer.
Devotion (n.) Disposal; power of disposal.
Devotion (n.) The act of devoting; consecration.
Devotion (n.) The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness.
Devotional (a.) Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
Devotionalist (n.) Alt. of Devotionist
Devotionality (n.) The practice of a devotionalist.
Devotionally (adv.) In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
Devotionist (n.) One given to devotion, esp. to excessive formal devotion.
Devoto (n.) A devotee.
Devotor (n.) A worshiper; one given to devotion.
Devour (v. t.) To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
Devour (v. t.) To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
Devour (v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
Devourable (a.) That may be devoured.
Devoured (imp. & p. p.) of Devour
Devourer (n.) One who, or that which, devours.
Devouring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devour
Devouringly (adv.) In a devouring manner.
Devout (n.) A devotee.
Devout (n.) A devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion.
Devout (v. t.) Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious.
Devout (v. t.) Expressing devotion or piety; as, eyes devout; sighs devout; a devout posture.
Devoutly (adv.) In a devout and reverent manner; with devout emotions; piously.
Devoutly (adv.) Sincerely; solemnly; earnestly.
Devoutness (n.) Quality or state of being devout.
Devove (v. t.) To devote.
Devow (v. t.) To disavow; to disclaim.
Devow (v. t.) To give up; to devote.
Devulgarize (v. t.) To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow.
Dew (a. & n.) Same as Due, or Duty.
Dew (n.) An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor.
Dew (n.) Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
Dew (n.) Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.
Dew (v. t.) To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew.
Dew-point (n.) The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.
Dewberry (n.) The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. caesius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries.
Dewberry (n.) The plant which bears the fruit.
Dewclaw (n.) In any animal, esp. of the Herbivora, a rudimentary claw or small hoof not reaching the ground.
Dewdrop (n.) A drop of dew.
Dewed (imp. & p. p.) of Dew
Dewfall (n.) The falling of dew; the time when dew begins to fall.
Dewiness (n.) State of being dewy.
Dewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dew
Dewlap (n.) The flesh upon the human throat, especially when with age.
Dewlap (n.) The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing.
Dewlapped (a.) Furnished with a dewlap.
Dewless (a.) Having no dew.
Dewret (v. t.) To ret or rot by the process called dewretting.
Dewretting (n.) Dewrotting; the process of decomposing the gummy matter of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine.
Dewrot (v. t.) To rot, as flax or hemp, by exposure to rain, dew, and sun. See Dewretting.
Dewworm (n.) See Earthworm.
Dewy (a.) Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew.
Dewy (a.) Pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist with, dew.
Dewy (a.) Resembling a dew-covered surface; appearing as if covered with dew.
Dexter (a.) On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side.
Dexter (a.) Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left.
Dexterical (a.) Dexterous.
Dexterity (n.) Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel.
Dexterity (n.) Readiness in the use or control of the mental powers; quickness and skill in managing any complicated or difficult affair; adroitness.
Dexterity (n.) Right-handedness.
Dexterous (a.) Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management.
Dexterous (a.) Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman.
Dexterous (a.) Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager.
Dexterously (adv.) In a dexterous manner; skillfully.
Dexterousness (n.) The quality of being dexterous; dexterity.
Dextrad (adv.) Toward the right side; dextrally.
Dextral (a.) Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left.
Dextrality (n.) The state of being on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness.
Dextrally (adv.) Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
Dextrer (n.) A war horse; a destrer.
Dextrer (n.) A war horse.
Dextro- () A prefix, from L. dexter, meaning, pertaining to, or toward, the right
Dextro- () having the property of turning the plane of polarized light to the right; as, dextrotartaric acid.
Dextrogerous (a.) See Dextrogyrate.
Dextroglucose (n.) Same as Dextrose.
Dextrogyrate (a.) Same as Dextrorotatory.
Dextronic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, dextrose; as, dextronic acid.
Dextrorotary (a.) See Dextrotatory.
Dextrorotatory (a.) Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc. Cf. Levorotatory.
Dextrorsal (a.) Alt. of Dextrorse
Dextrorse (a.) Turning from the left to the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common morning-glory.
Dextrous (n.) Alt. of Dextrousness
Dextrously (n.) Alt. of Dextrousness
Dextrousness (n.) Same as Dexterous, Dexterously, etc.
Dey (n.) A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
Dey (n.) The governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French conquest in 1830.
Deye (v. i.) To die.
Deynte (n. & a.) Alt. of Deyntee
Deyntee (n. & a.) See Dainty.
Deys (pl. ) of Dey
Dezincification (n.) The act or process of freeing from zinc; also, the condition resulting from the removal of zinc.
Dezincify (v. t.) To deprive of, or free from, zinc.
Dhole (n.) A fierce, wild dog (Canis Dukhunensis), found in the mountains of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and other wild animals in packs.
Dhony (n.) A Ceylonese boat. See Doni.
Dhoorra (n.) Alt. of Dhurra
Dhourra (n.) Alt. of Dhurra
Dhow (n.) A coasting vessel of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean. It has generally but one mast and a lateen sail.
Dhurra (n.) Indian millet. See Durra.
Di- () A prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. Before a vowel dia-becomes di-; as, diactinic; dielectric, etc.
Di- () A prefix, signifying twofold, double, twice
Di- () denoting two atoms, radicals, groups, or equivalents, as the case may be. See Bi-, 2.
Di///// (imp. & p. p.) of Disserve
Di/planted (imp. & p. p.) of Displant
Dia- () Alt. of Di-
Diabase (n.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.
Diabaterial (a.) Passing over the borders.
Diabetes (n.) A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal.
Diabetic (a.) Alt. of Diabetical
Diabetical (a.) Pertaining to diabetes; as, diabetic or diabetical treatment.
Diablerie (n.) Alt. of Diabley
Diabley (n.) Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief.
Diabolic (a.) Alt. of Diabolical
Diabolical (a.) Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act.
Diabolify (v. t.) To ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil.
Diabolism (n.) Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.
Diabolism (n.) Possession by the devil.
Diabolize (v. t.) To render diabolical.
Diacatholicon (n.) A universal remedy; -- name formerly to a purgative electuary.
Diacaustic (a.) Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic.
Diacaustic (n.) A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.
Diacaustic (n.) That which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery.
Diachylon (n.) Alt. of Diachylum
Diachylum (n.) A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.
Diacid (a.) Divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid.
Diacodium (n.) A sirup made of poppies.
Diaconal (a.) Of or pertaining to a deacon.
Diaconate (a.) Governed by deacons.
Diaconate (n.) The office of a deacon; deaconship; also, a body or board of deacons.
Diacope (n.) Tmesis.
Diacoustic (a.) Pertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds.
Diacoustics (n.) That branch of natural philosophy which treats of the properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums; -- called also diaphonics. See the Note under Acoustics.
Diacritic (a.) Alt. of Diacritical
Diacritical (a.) That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, /, a, /, /, etc.
Diactinic (a.) Capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light; as, diactinic media.
Diadelphia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.
Diadelphian (a.) Alt. of Diadelphous
Diadelphous (a.) Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens).
Diadem (n.) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center.
Diadem (n.) Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general.
Diadem (n.) Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.
Diadem (v. t.) To adorn with a diadem; to crown.
Diadrom (n.) A complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of a pendulum.
Diaereses (pl. ) of Dieresis
Diaeresis (n.) Alt. of Dieresis
Diaeretic (a.) Caustic.
Diageotropic (a.) Relating to, or exhibiting, diageotropism.
Diageotropism (n.) The tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth.
Diaglyph (n.) An intaglio.
Diaglyphic (a.) Alt. of Diaglyphtic
Diaglyphtic (a.) Represented or formed by depressions in the general surface; as, diaglyphic sculpture or engraving; -- opposed to anaglyphic.
Diagnose (v. t. & i.) To ascertain by diagnosis; to diagnosticate. See Diagnosticate.
Diagnoses (pl. ) of Diagnosis
Diagnosis (n.) Critical perception or scrutiny; judgment based on such scrutiny; esp., perception of, or judgment concerning, motives and character.
Diagnosis (n.) Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species.
Diagnosis (n.) The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at.
Diagnostic (a.) Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.
Diagnostic (n.) The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.
Diagnosticate (v. t. & i.) To make a diagnosis of; to recognize by its symptoms, as a disease.
Diagnostics (n.) That part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs.
Diagometer (n.) A sort of electroscope, invented by Rousseau, in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power.
Diagonal (a.) Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides.
Diagonal (n.) A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.
Diagonal (n.) A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel.
Diagonal (n.) A right line drawn from one angle to another not adjacent, of a figure of four or more sides, and dividing it into two parts.
Diagram (n.) A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.
Diagram (n.) Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one.
Diagram (v. t.) To put into the form of a diagram.
Diagrammatic (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a diagram; showing by diagram.
Diagraph (n.) A drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale.
Diagraphic (a.) Alt. of Diagraphical
Diagraphical (a.) Descriptive.
Diagraphics (n.) The art or science of descriptive drawing; especially, the art or science of drawing by mechanical appliances and mathematical rule.
Diaheliotropic (a.) Relating or, or manifesting, diaheliotropism.
Diaheliotropism (n.) A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.
Dial (n.) A miner's compass.
Dial (n.) The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands.
Dial (v. t.) To measure with a dial.
Dial (v. t.) To survey with a dial.
Dialect (n.) Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
Dialectal (a.) Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.
Dialectic (a.) Alt. of Dialectical
Dialectic (n.) Same as Dialectics.
Dialectical (a.) Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects.
Dialectical (a.) Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.
Dialectically (adv.) In a dialectical manner.
Dialectician (n.) One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.
Dialectics (n.) That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.
Dialectology (n.) That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects.
Dialector (n.) One skilled in dialectics.
Dialed (imp. & p. p.) of Dial
Dialing (n.) A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor.
Dialing (n.) The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials.
Dialing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dial
Dialist (n.) A maker of dials; one skilled in dialing.
Diallage (n.) A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.
Diallage (n.) A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point.
Dialled () of Dial
Diallel (a.) Meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel; -- opposed to parallel.
Dialling () of Dial
Diallyl (n.) A volatile, pungent, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H10, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series.
Dialogical (a.) Relating to a dialogue; dialogistical.
Dialogically (adv.) In the manner or nature of a dialogue.
Dialogism (n.) An imaginary speech or discussion between two or more; dialogue.
Dialogist (n.) A speaker in a dialogue.
Dialogist (n.) A writer of dialogues.
Dialogistic (a.) Alt. of Dialogistical
Dialogistical (a.) Pertaining to a dialogue; having the form or nature of a dialogue.
Dialogite (n.) Native carbonate of manganese; rhodochrosite.
Dialogize (v. t.) To discourse in dialogue.
Dialogue (n.) A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.
Dialogue (n.) A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato.
Dialogue (v. i.) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
Dialogue (v. t.) To express as in dialogue.
Dialypetalous (a.) Having separate petals; polypetalous.
Dialyses (pl. ) of Dialysis
Dialysis (n.) A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts.
Dialysis (n.) Debility.
Dialysis (n.) Diaeresis. See Diaeresis, 1.
Dialysis (n.) Same as Asyndeton.
Dialysis (n.) The separation of different substances in solution, as crystalloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes.
Dialytic (a.) Having the quality of unloosing or separating.
Dialyzate (n.) The material subjected to dialysis.
Dialyzation (n.) The act or process of dialysis.
Dialyze (v. t.) To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis.
Dialyzed (a.) Prepared by diffusion through an animal membrane; as, dialyzed iron.
Dialyzed (imp. & p. p.) of Dialyze
Dialyzer (n.) The instrument or medium used to effect chemical dialysis.
Dialyzing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dialyze
Diamagnet (n.) A body having diamagnetic polarity.
Diamagnetic (a.) Pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. See Paramagnetic.
Diamagnetically (adv.) In the manner of, or according to, diamagnetism.
Diamagnetism (n.) That form or condition of magnetic action which characterizes diamagnetics.
Diamagnetism (n.) The science which treats of diamagnetic phenomena, and of the properties of diamagnetic bodies.
Diamantiferous (a.) Yielding diamonds.
Diamantine (a.) Adamantine.
Diameter (n.) A diametral plane.
Diameter (n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve.
Diameter (n.) The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module.
Diameter (n.) The length of a straight line through the center of an object from side to side; width; thickness; as, the diameter of a tree or rock.
Diametral (a.) Pertaining to a diameter; diametrical.
Diametral (n.) A diameter.
Diametrally (adv.) Diametrically.
Diametric (a.) Alt. of Diametrical
Diametrical (a.) As remote as possible, as if at the opposite end of a diameter; directly adverse.
Diametrical (a.) Of or pertaining to a diameter.
Diametrically (adv.) In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite.
Diamide (n.) Any compound containing two amido groups united with one or more acid or negative radicals, -- as distinguished from a diamine. Cf. Amido acid, under Amido, and Acid amide, under Amide.
Diamido- (a.) A prefix or combining form of Diamine. [Also used adjectively.]
Diamine (n.) A compound containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals, -- as contrasted with a diamide.
Diamond (a.) Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.
Diamond (n.) A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.
Diamond (n.) A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.
Diamond (n.) A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.
Diamond (n.) One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.
Diamond (n.) The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.
Diamond (n.) The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.
Diamond-back (n.) The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).
Diamond-shaped (a.) Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
Diamonded (a.) Adorned with diamonds; diamondized.
Diamonded (a.) Having figures like a diamond or lozenge.
Diamondize (v. t.) To set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich.
Diamylene (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H20, of the ethylene series, regarded as a polymeric form of amylene.
Dian (a.) Diana.
Diana (n.) The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis.
Diandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having two stamens.
Diandrian (a.) Diandrous.
Diandrous (n.) Of or pertaining to the class Diandria; having two stamens.
Dianium (n.) Same as Columbium.
Dianoetic (a.) Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products.
Dianoialogy (n.) The science of the dianoetic faculties, and their operations.
Dianthus (n.) A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.
Diapase (n.) Same as Diapason.
Diapasm (n.) Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together.
Diapason (n.) A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason.
Diapason (n.) Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony.
Diapason (n.) One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like.
Diapason (n.) The entire compass of tones.
Diapason (n.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale.
Diapedesis (n.) The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.
Diapente (n.) A composition of five ingredients.
Diapente (n.) The interval of the fifth.
Diaper (n.) A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc.
Diaper (n.) An infant's breechcloth.
Diaper (n.) Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.
Diaper (n.) Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
Diaper (v. i.) To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
Diaper (v. t.) To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving.
Diaper (v. t.) To put a diaper on (a child).
Diapering (n.) Same as Diaper, n., 2.
Diaphane (n.) A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.
Diaphaned (a.) Transparent or translucent.
Diaphaneity (n.) The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness.
Diaphanic (a.) Having power to transmit light; transparent; diaphanous.
Diaphanie (n.) The art of imitating //ined glass with translucent paper.
Diaphanometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the transparency of the air.
Diaphanoscope (n.) A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.
Diaphanotype (n.) A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.
Diaphanous (a.) Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.
Diaphanously (adv.) Translucently.
Diaphemetric (a.) Relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses.
Diaphonic (a.) Alt. of Diaphonical
Diaphonical (a.) Diacoustic.
Diaphonics (n.) The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
Diaphoresis (n.) Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.
Diaphoretic (a.) Alt. of Diaphoretical
Diaphoretic (n.) A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.
Diaphoretical (a.) Having the power to increase perspiration.
Diaphote (n.) An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph.
Diaphragm (n.) A calcareous plate which divides the cavity of certain shells into two parts.
Diaphragm (n.) A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.
Diaphragm (n.) A partition in any compartment, for various purposes.
Diaphragm (n.) A plate with an opening, which is generally circular, used in instruments to cut off marginal portions of a beam of light, as at the focus of a telescope.
Diaphragm (n.) The muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.
Diaphragmatic (a.) Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves.
Diaphysis (n.) An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.
Diaphysis (n.) The shaft, or main part, of a bone, which is first ossified.
Diapnoic (a.) Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic.
Diapnoic (n.) A gentle diaphoretic.
Diapophysical (a.) Pertaining to a diapophysis.
Diapophysis (n.) The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
Diarchy (n.) A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons.
Diarial (a.) Alt. of Diarian
Diarian (a.) Pertaining to a diary; daily.
Diaries (pl. ) of Diary
Diarist (n.) One who keeps a diary.
Diarrhea (n.) Alt. of Diarrhoea
Diarrheal (a.) Alt. of Diarrhoeal
Diarrhetic (a.) Alt. of Diarrhoetic
Diarrhoea (n.) A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.
Diarrhoeal (a.) Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.
Diarrhoetic (a.) Producing diarrhea, or a purging.
Diarthrodial (a.) Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations.
Diarthrosis (n.) A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation.
Diary (a.) lasting for one day; as, a diary fever.
Diary (n.) A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.
Diaspore (n.) A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
Diastase (n.) A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.
Diastasic (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, diastase; as, diastasic ferment.
Diastasis (n.) A forcible of bones without fracture.
Diastatic (a.) Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.
Diastem (n.) An interval.
Diastem (n.) Intervening space; interval.
Diastema (n.) A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.
Diaster (n.) A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis.
Diastole (n.) A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.
Diastole (n.) The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.
Diastolic (a.) Of or pertaining to diastole.
Diastyle (n.) See under Intercolumniation.
Diatessaron (n.) A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament.
Diatessaron (n.) An electuary compounded of four medicines.
Diatessaron (n.) The interval of a fourth.
Diathermal (a.) Freely permeable by radiant heat.
Diathermancy (n.) Alt. of Diathermaneity
Diathermaneity (n.) The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous.
Diathermanism (n.) The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat.
Diathermanous (a.) Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; -- opposed to athermanous.
Diathermic (a.) Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances.
Diathermometer (n.) An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat-conducting power of liquids.
Diathermous (a.) Same as Diathermal.
Diathesis (n.) Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.
Diathetic (a.) Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease.
Diatom (n.) A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle.
Diatomic (a.) Containing two atoms.
Diatomic (a.) Having two replaceable atoms or radicals.
Diatomous (a.) Having a single, distinct, diagonal cleavage; -- said of crystals.
Diatonic (a.) Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.
Diatonically (adv.) In a diatonic manner.
Diatribe (n.) A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic.
Diatribist (n.) One who makes a diatribe or diatribes.
Diatryma (n.) An extinct eocene bird from New Mexico, larger than the ostrich.
Diazeuctic (a.) Alt. of Diazeutic
Diazeutic (a.) Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth.
Diazo- () A combining form (also used adjectively), meaning pertaining to, or derived from, a series of compounds containing a radical of two nitrogen atoms, united usually to an aromatic radical; as, diazo-benzene, C6H5.N2.OH.
Diazotize (v. t.) To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.
Dib (n.) A child's game, played with dib bones.
Dib (n.) One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.
Dib (v. i.) To dip.
Dibasic (a.) Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.
Dibasicity (n.) The property or condition of being dibasic.
Dibber (n.) A dibble.
Dibble (v. i.) A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.
Dibble (v. i.) To dib or dip frequently, as in angling.
Dibble (v. t.) To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble.
Dibble (v. t.) To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting.
Dibbled (imp. & p. p.) of Dibble
Dibbler (n.) One who, or that which, dibbles, or makes holes in the ground for seed.
Dibbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dibble
Dibranchiata (n. pl.) An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.
Dibranchiate (a.) Having two gills.
Dibranchiate (n.) One of the Dibranchiata.
Dibs (n.) A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East.
Dibstone (n.) A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones.
Dibutyl (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the marsh-gas series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane.
Dicacious (a.) Talkative; pert; saucy.
Dicacity (n.) Pertness; sauciness.
Dicalcic (a.) Having two atoms or equivalents of calcium to the molecule.
Dicarbonic (a.) Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl or radicals; as, oxalic acid is a dicarbonic acid.
Dicast (n.) A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman.
Dicastery (n.) A court of justice; judgment hall.
Dice (n.) Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n.
Dice (pl. ) of Die
Dice (v. i.) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
Dice (v. i.) To play games with dice.
Dicebox (n.) A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.
Diced (imp. & p. p.) of Dice
Dicentra (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis).
Dicephalous (a.) Having two heads on one body; double-headed.
Dicer (n.) A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester.
Dich (v. i.) To ditch.
Dichastic (a.) Capable of subdividing spontaneously.
Dichlamydeous (a.) Having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla.
Dichloride (n.) Same as Bichloride.
Dichogamous (a.) Manifesting dichogamy.
Dichogamy (n.) The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.
Dichotomist (n.) One who dichotomizes.
Dichotomize (v. i.) To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.
Dichotomize (v. t.) To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.
Dichotomize (v. t.) To exhibit as a half disk. See Dichotomy, 3.
Dichotomized (imp. & p. p.) of Dichotomize
Dichotomizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dichotomize
Dichotomous (a.) Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem.
Dichotomy (n.) A cutting in two; a division.
Dichotomy (n.) Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.
Dichotomy (n.) Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
Dichotomy (n.) Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.
Dichotomy (n.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
Dichotomy (n.) The place where a stem or vein is forked.
Dichroic (a.) Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.
Dichroiscope (n.) Same as Dichroscope.
Dichroism (n.) The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.
Dichroite (n.) Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.
Dichroitic (a.) Dichroic.
Dichromate (n.) A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.
Dichromatic (a.) Having or exhibiting two colors.
Dichromatic (a.) Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects.
Dichromatism (n.) The state of being dichromatic.
Dichromic (a.) Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three.
Dichroous (a.) Dichroic.
Dichroscope (n.) An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.
Dichroscopic (a.) Pertaining to the dichroscope, or to observations with it.
Dicing (n.) An ornamenting in squares or cubes.
Dicing (n.) Gambling with dice.
Dicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dice
Dickcissel (n.) The American black-throated bunting (Spiza Americana).
Dickens (n. / interj.) The devil.
Dicker (n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker.
Dicker (n.) The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves.
Dicker (v. i. & t.) To negotiate a dicker; to barter.
Dickey (n.) Alt. of Dicky
Dicky (n.) A false shirt front or bosom.
Dicky (n.) A gentleman's shirt collar.
Dicky (n.) A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.
Diclinic (a.) Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization.
Diclinous (a.) Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers.
Dicoccous (a.) Composed of two coherent, one-seeded carpels; as, a dicoccous capsule.
Dicotyledon (n.) A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.
Dicotyledonous (a.) Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.
Dicrotal (a.) Alt. of Dicrotous
Dicrotic (a.) Of or pertaining to dicrotism; as, a dicrotic pulse.
Dicrotic (a.) Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave.
Dicrotism (n.) A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.
Dicrotous (a.) Dicrotic.
Dicta (n. pl.) See Dictum.
Dicta (pl. ) of Dictum
Dictamen (n.) A dictation or dictate.
Dictamnus (n.) A suffrutescent, D. Fraxinella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable.
Dictate (v. i.) To compose literary works; to tell what shall be written or said by another.
Dictate (v. i.) To speak as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on).
Dictate (v. t.) A statement delivered with authority; an order; a command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription; as, listen to the dictates of your conscience; the dictates of the gospel.
Dictate (v. t.) To say; to utter; to communicate authoritatively; to deliver (a command) to a subordinate; to declare with authority; to impose; as, to dictate the terms of a treaty; a general dictates orders to his troops.
Dictate (v. t.) To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis.
Dictated (imp. & p. p.) of Dictate
Dictating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dictate
Dictation (n.) The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.
Dictation (n.) The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
Dictator (n.) One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.
Dictator (n.) One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
Dictatorial (a.) Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner.
Dictatorial (a.) Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute.
Dictatorian (a.) Dictatorial.
Dictatorship (n.) The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.
Dictature (n.) Office of a dictator; dictatorship.
Diction (n.) Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems.
Dictionalrian (n.) A lexicographer.
Dictionaries (pl. ) of Dictionary
Dictionary (n.) A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
Dictionary (n.) Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary.
Dictum (n.) A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
Dictum (n.) An arbitrament or award.
Dictum (n.) An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.
Dictum (n.) The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
Dictums (pl. ) of Dictum
Dictyogen (n.) A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc.
Dicyanide (n.) A compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen groups or radicals; -- called also bicyanide.
Dicyemata (n. pl.) An order of worms parasitic in cephalopods. They are remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. The embryo exists in two forms.
Dicyemid (a.) Like or belonging to the Dicyemata.
Dicyemid (n.) One of the Dicyemata.
Dicynodont (n.) One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.
Did () imp. of Do.
Didactic (a.) Alt. of Didactical
Didactic (n.) A treatise on teaching or education.
Didactical (a.) Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays.
Didactically (adv.) In a didactic manner.
Didacticism (n.) The didactic method or system.
Didacticity (n.) Aptitude for teaching.
Didactics (n.) The art or science of teaching.
Didactyl (n.) An animal having only two digits.
Didactylous (a.) Having only two digits; two-toed.
Didal (n.) A kind of triangular spade.
Didapper (n.) See Dabchick.
Didascalar (a.) Didascalic.
Didascalic (a.) Didactic; preceptive.
Diddle (v. i.) To totter, as a child in walking.
Diddle (v. t.) To cheat or overreach.
Diddler (n.) A cheat.
Didelphia (n. pl.) The subclass of Mammalia which includes the marsupials. See Marsupialia.
Didelphian (a.) Of or relating to the Didelphia.
Didelphian (n.) One of the Didelphia.
Didelphic (a.) Having the uterus double; of or pertaining to the Didelphia.
Didelphid (a.) Same as Didelphic.
Didelphid (n.) A marsupial animal.
Didelphous (a.) Didelphic.
Didelphous (n.) Formerly, any marsupial; but the term is now restricted to an American genus which includes the opossums, of which there are many species. See Opossum. [Written also Didelphis.] See Illustration in Appendix.
Didelphyc (a.) Same as Didelphic.
Didine (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Didus, or the dodo.
Dido (n.) A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
Didonia (n.) The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area.
Didos (pl. ) of Dido
Didrachm (n.) Alt. of Didrachma
Didrachma (n.) A two-drachma piece; an ancient Greek silver coin, worth nearly forty cents.
Didst () the 2d pers. sing. imp. of Do.
Diducement (n.) Diduction; separation into distinct parts.
Diduction (n.) The act of drawing apart; separation.
Didym (n.) See Didymium.
Didymous (a.) Growing in pairs or twins.
Didynamia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
Didynamian (a.) Didynamous.
Didynamous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
Die (n.) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.
Die (n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.
Die (n.) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.
Die (n.) A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.
Die (n.) Any small cubical or square body.
Die (n.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
Die (n.) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
Die (pl. ) of Dice
Die (v. i.) To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
Die (v. i.) To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
Die (v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
Die (v. i.) To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
Die (v. i.) To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
Die (v. i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
Die (v. i.) To suffer death; to lose life.
Diecian (a.) Alt. of Diecious
Diecious (a.) See Dioecian, and Dioecious.
Died (imp. & p. p.) of Die
Diedral (a.) The same as Dihedral.
Diegesis (n.) A narrative or history; a recital or relation.
Dielectric (n.) Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor. separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body.
Dielytra (n.) See Dicentra.
Diencephalon (n.) The interbrain or thalamencephalon; -- sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon.
Diereses (pl. ) of Dieresis
Dieresis (n.) A mark consisting of two dots [/], placed over the second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters; as, cooperate, aerial.
Dieresis (n.) Same as Diaeresis.
Dieresis (n.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synaeresis.
Dies (pl. ) of Die
Dies Irae () Day of wrath; -- the name and beginning of a famous mediaeval Latin hymn on the Last Judgment.
Dies juridici (pl. ) of Dies juridicus
Dies juridicus () A court day.
Dies non () A day on which courts are not held, as Sunday or any legal holiday.
Dieses (pl. ) of Diesis
Diesinker (n.) An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc.
Diesinking (n.) The process of engraving dies.
Diesis (n.) A small interval, less than any in actual practice, but used in the mathematical calculation of intervals.
Diesis (n.) The mark /; -- called also double dagger.
Diestock (n.) A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.
Diet (n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
Diet (n.) A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.
Diet (n.) Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
Diet (v. i.) To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.
Diet (v. i.) To eat; to take one's meals.
Diet (v. t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
Diet (v. t.) To cause to take food; to feed.
Dietarian (n.) One who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter.
Dietaries (pl. ) of Dietary
Dietary (a.) Pertaining to diet, or to the rules of diet.
Dietary (n.) A rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc.
Dieted (imp. & p. p.) of Diet
Dieter (n.) One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.
Dietetic (a.) Alt. of Dietetical
Dietetical (a.) Of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten.
Dietetically (adv.) In a dietetical manner.
Dietetics (n.) That part of the medical or hygienic art which relates to diet or food; rules for diet.
Dietetist (n.) A physician who applies the rules of dietetics to the cure of diseases.
Diethylamine (n.) A colorless, volatile, alkaline liquid, NH(C2H5)2, having a strong fishy odor resembling that of herring or sardines. Cf. Methylamine.
Dietic (a.) Dietetic.
Dietical (a.) Dietetic.
Dietine (n.) A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.
Dieting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diet
Dietist (n.) Alt. of Dietitian
Dietitian (n.) One skilled in dietetics.
Diffame (n.) Evil name; bad reputation; defamation.
Diffarreation (n.) A form of divorce, among the ancient Romans, in which a cake was used. See Confarreation.
Differ (v. i.) To be of unlike or opposite opinion; to disagree in sentiment; -- often with from or with.
Differ (v. i.) To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.
Differ (v. i.) To have a difference, cause of variance, or quarrel; to dispute; to contend.
Differ (v. t.) To cause to be different or unlike; to set at variance.
Differed (imp. & p. p.) of Differ
Difference (n.) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency.
Difference (n.) Choice; preference.
Difference (n.) Disagreement in opinion; dissension; controversy; quarrel; hence, cause of dissension; matter in controversy.
Difference (n.) That by which one thing differs from another; that which distinguishes or causes to differ; mark of distinction; characteristic quality; specific attribute.
Difference (n.) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
Difference (n.) The quantity by which one quantity differs from another, or the remainder left after subtracting the one from the other.
Difference (v. t.) To cause to differ; to make different; to mark as different; to distinguish.
Differenced (imp. & p. p.) of Difference
Differencing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Difference
Different (a.) Distinct; separate; not the same; other.
Different (a.) Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different shapes; different degrees of excellence.
Differentia (n.) The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.
Differentiae (pl. ) of Differentia
Differential (a.) Of or pertaining to a differential, or to differentials.
Differential (a.) Relating to differences of motion or leverage; producing effects by such differences; said of mechanism.
Differential (a.) Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate.
Differential (n.) A form of conductor used for dividing and distributing the current to a series of electric lamps so as to maintain equal action in all.
Differential (n.) An increment, usually an indefinitely small one, which is given to a variable quantity.
Differential (n.) One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other.
Differentially (adv.) In the way of differentiation.
Differentiate (v. i.) To acquire a distinct and separate character.
Differentiate (v. t.) To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to specialize; to desynonymize.
Differentiate (v. t.) To express the specific difference of; to describe the properties of (a thing) whereby it is differenced from another of the same class; to discriminate.
Differentiate (v. t.) To obtain the differential, or differential coefficient, of; as, to differentiate an algebraic expression, or an equation.
Differentiation (n.) The act of differentiating.
Differentiation (n.) The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.
Differentiation (n.) The supposed act or tendency in being of every kind, whether organic or inorganic, to assume or produce a more complex structure or functions.
Differentiator (n.) One who, or that which, differentiates.
Differently (adv.) In a different manner; variously.
Differing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Differ
Differingly (adv.) In a differing or different manner.
Difficile (a.) Difficult; hard to manage; stubborn.
Difficilitate (v. t.) To make difficult.
Difficult (a.) Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
Difficult (a.) Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.
Difficult (v. t.) To render difficult; to impede; to perplex.
Difficultate (v. t.) To render difficult; to difficilitate.
Difficulties (pl. ) of Difficulty
Difficultly (adv.) With difficulty.
Difficultness (n.) Difficulty.
Difficulty (n.) A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
Difficulty (n.) Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
Difficulty (n.) The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
Diffide (v. i.) To be distrustful.
Diffidence (n.) Distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of self-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness.
Diffidence (n.) The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others.
Diffidency (n.) See Diffidence.
Diffident (a.) Wanting confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.
Diffident (a.) Wanting confidence in others; distrustful.
Diffidently (adv.) In a diffident manner.
Diffind (v. t.) To split.
Diffine (v. t.) To define.
Diffinitive (a.) Definitive; determinate; final.
Diffission (n.) Act of cleaving or splitting.
Difflation (n.) A blowing apart or away.
Diffluence (n.) Alt. of Diffluency
Diffluency (n.) A flowing off on all sides; fluidity.
Diffluent (a.) Flowing apart or off; dissolving; not fixed.
Difform (a.) Irregular in form; -- opposed to uniform; anomalous; hence, unlike; dissimilar; as, to difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; difform leaves.
Difformity (n.) Irregularity of form; diversity of form; want of uniformity.
Diffract (v. t.) To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a/ rays of light.
Diffracted (imp. & p. p.) of Diffract
Diffracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diffract
Diffraction (n.) The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.
Diffractive (a.) That produces diffraction.
Diffranchise () Alt. of Diffranchisement
Diffranchisement () See Disfranchise, Disfranchisement.
Diffusate (n.) Material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane.
Diffuse (a.) Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.
Diffuse (v. i.) To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
Diffuse (v. t.) To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.
Diffuseness (n.) The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.
Diffuser (n.) One who, or that which, diffuses.
Diffusibility (n.) The quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured or spread out.
Diffusible (a.) Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.
Diffusible (a.) Capable of passing through animal membranes by osmosis.
Diffusibleness (n.) Diffusibility.
Diffusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diffuse
Diffusion (n.) The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.
Diffusion (n.) The act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate.
Diffusive (a.) Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse.
Diffusively (adv.) In a diffusive manner.
Diffusiveness (n.) The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.
Diffusivity (n.) Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.
Dig (n.) A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
Dig (v. i.) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
Dig (v. i.) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
Dig (v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
Dig (v. t.) A plodding and laborious student.
Dig (v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
Dig (v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
Dig (v. t.) To thrust; to poke.
Dig (v. t.) To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
Digamist (n.) One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.
Digamma (n.) A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse.
Digammate (a.) Alt. of Digammated
Digammated (a.) Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek /.
Digamous (a.) Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.
Digamy (n.) Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy.
Digastric (a.) Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.
Digastric (a.) Pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves.
Digenea (n. pl.) A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.
Digenesis (n.) The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.
Digenous (a.) Sexually reproductive.
Digerent () Digesting.
Digest (v. i.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
Digest (v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
Digest (v. t.) Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
Digest (v. t.) That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
Digest (v. t.) To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
Digest (v. t.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
Digest (v. t.) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
Digest (v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
Digest (v. t.) To ripen; to mature.
Digest (v. t.) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
Digest (v. t.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
Digest (v. t.) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
Digested (imp. & p. p.) of Digest
Digestedly (adv.) In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.
Digester (n.) A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.
Digester (n.) A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them.
Digester (n.) One who digests.
Digestibility (n.) The quality of being digestible.
Digestible (a.) Capable of being digested.
Digestibleness (n.) The quality of being digestible; digestibility.
Digesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Digest
Digestion (n.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
Digestion (n.) The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
Digestion (n.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.
Digestive (a.) Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
Digestive (n.) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.
Digestive (n.) A tonic.
Digestive (n.) That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
Digestor (n.) See Digester.
Digesture (n.) Digestion.
Diggable (a.) Capable of being dug.
Digged () of Dig
Digger (n.) One who, or that which, digs.
Diggers (n. pl.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
Digging (n.) Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.
Digging (n.) Region; locality.
Digging (n.) The act or the place of excavating.
Digging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dig
Dight (imp. & p. p.) of Dight
Dight (v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.
Dight (v. t.) To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn.
Dighted () of Dight
Dighter (n.) One who dights.
Dighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dight
Digit (n.) A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.
Digit (n.) One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.
Digit (n.) One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.
Digit (n.) One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.
Digit (v. t.) To point at or out with the finger.
Digitain (n.) A supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the essential ingredient of the extracts. It is a white, crystalline substance, and is regarded as a glucoside.
Digitain (n.) Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties.
Digital (a.) Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.
Digitalis (n.) A genus of plants including the foxglove.
Digitalis (n.) The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.
Digitate (a.) Alt. of Digitated
Digitate (v. t.) To point out as with the finger.
Digitated (a.) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.
Digitation (n.) A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.
Digitiform (a.) Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.
Digitigrade (a.) Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.
Digitigrade (n.) An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot.
Digitipartite (a.) Parted like the fingers.
Digitize (v. t.) To finger; as, to digitize a pen.
Digitorium (n.) A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.
Digitule (n.) A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.
Digladiate (v. i.) To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently.
Digladiation (n.) Act of digladiating.
Diglottism (n.) Bilingualism.
Diglyph (n.) A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.
Dignation (n.) The act of thinking worthy; honor.
Digne (a.) Haughty; disdainful.
Digne (a.) Suitable; adequate; fit.
Digne (a.) Worthy; honorable; deserving.
Dignification (n.) The act of dignifying; exaltation.
Dignified (a.) Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.
Dignified (imp. & p. p.) of Dignify
Dignify (v. t.) To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
Dignifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dignify
Dignitaries (pl. ) of Dignitary
Dignitary (n.) One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.
Dignities (pl. ) of Dignity
Dignity (n.) Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.
Dignity (n.) Elevation; grandeur.
Dignity (n.) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
Dignity (n.) One holding high rank; a dignitary.
Dignity (n.) Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of //en, manner, style, etc.
Dignity (n.) The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.
Dignotion (n.) Distinguishing mark; diagnostic.
Digonous (a.) Having two angles.
Digram (n.) A digraph.
Digraph (n.) Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.
Digraphic (a.) Of or pertaining to a digraph.
Digress (n.) Digression.
Digress (v. i.) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
Digress (v. i.) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
Digressed (imp. & p. p.) of Digress
Digressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Digress
Digression (n.) A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense.
Digression (n.) The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.
Digression (n.) The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets.
Digressional (a.) Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
Digressive (a.) Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression.
Digressively (adv.) By way of digression.
Digue (n.) A bank; a dike.
Digynia (n.) A Linnaean order of plants having two styles.
Digynian (a.) Alt. of Digynous
Digynous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.
Dihedral (a.) Having two plane faces; as, the dihedral summit of a crystal.
Dihedron (n.) A figure with two sides or surfaces.
Dihexagonal (a.) Consisting of two hexagonal parts united; thus, a dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base.
Dihexagonal (a.) Having twelve similar faces; as, a dihexagonal prism.
Diiamb (n.) A diiambus.
Diiambus (n.) A double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (/ / / /).
Diiodide (n.) A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine; -- called also biniodide.
Diisatogen (n.) A red crystalline nitrogenous substance or artificial production, which by reduction passes directly to indigo.
Dijucating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dijudicate
Dijudicant (n.) One who dijudicates.
Dijudicate (v. i.) To make a judicial decision; to decide; to determine.
Dijudicated (imp. & p. p.) of Dijudicate
Dijudication (n.) The act of dijudicating; judgment.
Dika (n.) A kind of food, made from the almondlike seeds of the Irvingia Barteri, much used by natives of the west coast of Africa; -- called also dika bread.
Dike (n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
Dike (n.) A wall of turf or stone.
Dike (n.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
Dike (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
Dike (v. i.) To work as a ditcher; to dig.
Dike (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch.
Dike (v. t.) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
Diked (imp. & p. p.) of Dike
Diker (n.) A ditcher.
Diker (n.) One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime.
Diking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dike
Dilacerate (v. t.) To rend asunder; to tear to pieces.
Dilacerated (imp. & p. p.) of Dilacerate
Dilacerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dilacerate
Dilaceration (n.) The act of rending asunder.
Dilaniate (v. t.) To rend in pieces; to tear.
Dilaniation (n.) A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration.
Dilapidate (v. i.) To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate.
Dilapidate (v. t.) To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building.
Dilapidate (v. t.) To impair by waste and abuse; to squander.
Dilapidated (a.) Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect.
Dilapidated (imp. & p. p.) of Dilapidate
Dilapidating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dilapidate
Dilapidation (n.) Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention.
Dilapidation (n.) The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered.
Dilapidation (n.) The pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay.
Dilapidator (n.) One who causes dilapidation.
Dilatability (n.) The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to contractibility.
Dilatable (a.) Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.
Dilatation (n.) A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.
Dilatation (n.) Prolixity; diffuse discourse.
Dilatation (n.) The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al/ sides; the state of being dilated; dilation.
Dilatator (n.) A muscle which dilates any part; a dilator.
Dilate (a.) Extensive; expanded.
Dilate (v. i.) To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
Dilate (v. i.) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.
Dilate (v. t.) To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.
Dilate (v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.
Dilated (a.) Expanded; enlarged.
Dilated (a.) Having the margin wide and spreading.
Dilated (a.) Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.
Dilated (imp. & p. p.) of Dilate
Dilatedly (adv.) In a dilated manner.
Dilater (n.) One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.
Dilating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dilate
Dilation (n.) Delay.
Dilation (n.) The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
Dilative (a.) Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive.
Dilatometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.
Dilator (n.) A muscle that dilates any part.
Dilator (n.) An instrument for expanding a part; as, a urethral dilator.
Dilator (n.) One who, or that which, widens or expands.
Dilatorily (adv.) With delay; tardily.
Dilatoriness (n.) The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.
Dilatory (a.) Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.
Dilatory (a.) Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish; -- said of actions or measures.
Dildo (n.) A burden in popular songs.
Dildo (n.) A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Cereus Swartzii).
Dilection (n.) Love; choice.
Dilemma (n.) A state of things in which evils or obstacles present themselves on every side, and it is difficult to determine what course to pursue; a vexatious alternative or predicament; a difficult choice or position.
Dilemma (n.) An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses.
Dilettant (a.) Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation.
Dilettant (n.) A dilettante.
Dilettante (v. t.) An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.
Dilettanteish (a.) Somewhat like a dilettante.
Dilettanteism (n.) The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
Dilettanti (pl. ) of Dilettante
Dilettantish (a.) Dilettanteish.
Dilettantism (n.) Same as Dilettanteism.
Diligence (n.) A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.
Diligence (n.) Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.
Diligence (n.) Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
Diligence (n.) The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.
Diligent (a.) Interestedly and perseveringly attentive; steady and earnest in application to a subject or pursuit; assiduous; industrious.
Diligent (a.) Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.
Diligently (adv.) In a diligent manner; not carelessly; not negligently; with industry or assiduity.
Dill (a.) To still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.
Dill (n.) An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dillseed.
Dilling (n.) A darling; a favorite.
Dilluing (n.) A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve.
Dilly (n.) A kind of stagecoach.
Dilly-dally (v. i.) To loiter or trifle; to waste time.
Dilogical (a.) Ambiguous; of double meaning.
Dilogies (pl. ) of Dilogy
Dilogy (n.) An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense.
Dilucid (a.) Clear; lucid.
Dilucidate (v. t.) To elucidate.
Dilucidation (n.) The act of making clear.
Diluent (a.) Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, esp. of water.
Diluent (n.) An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink.
Diluent (n.) That which dilutes.
Dilute (a.) Diluted; thin; weak.
Dilute (v. i.) To become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily.
Dilute (v. t.) To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken.
Dilute (v. t.) To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
Diluted (a.) Reduced in strength; thin; weak.
Diluted (imp. & p. p.) of Dilute
Diluteness (n.) The quality or state of being dilute.
Diluter (n.) One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.
Diluting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dilute
Dilution (n.) The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted.
Diluvia (pl. ) of Diluvium
Diluvial (a.) Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.
Diluvialist (n.) One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge.
Diluvian (a.) Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin.
Diluviate (v. i.) To run as a flood.
Diluvium (n.) A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.
Diluviums (pl. ) of Diluvium
Dim (superl.) Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.
Dim (superl.) Of obscure vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse.
Dim (v. i.) To grow dim.
Dim (v. t.) To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
Dim (v. t.) To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse.
Dim-sighted (a.) Having dim sight; lacking perception.
Dimble (n.) A bower; a dingle.
Dime (n.) A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.
Dimension (n.) A literal factor, as numbered in characterizing a term. The term dimensions forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent to degree with the ordinal; thus, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree.
Dimension (n.) Extent; reach; scope; importance; as, a project of large dimensions.
Dimension (n.) The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension.
Dimension (n.) The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities.
Dimensional (a.) Pertaining to dimension.
Dimensioned (a.) Having dimensions.
Dimensionless (a.) Without dimensions; having no appreciable or noteworthy extent.
Dimensity (n.) Dimension.
Dimensive (a.) Without dimensions; marking dimensions or the limits.
Dimera (n. pl.) A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi.
Dimera (n. pl.) A division of the Hemiptera, including the aphids.
Dimeran (n.) One of the Dimera.
Dimerous (a.) Composed of, or having, two parts of each kind.
Dimeter (a.) Having two poetical measures or meters.
Dimeter (n.) A verse of two meters.
Dimethyl (n.) Ethane; -- sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. See Ethane.
Dimetric (a.) Same as Tetragonal.
Dimication (n.) A fight; contest.
Dimidiate (a.) Consisting of only one half of what the normal condition requires; having the appearance of lacking one half; as, a dimidiate leaf, which has only one side developed.
Dimidiate (a.) Divided into two equal parts; reduced to half in shape or form.
Dimidiate (a.) Having the organs of one side, or half, different in function from the corresponding organs on the other side; as, dimidiate hermaphroditism.
Dimidiate (v. t.) To divide into two equal parts.
Dimidiate (v. t.) To represent the half of; to halve.
Dimidiated (imp. & p. p.) of Dimidiate
Dimidiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dimidiate
Dimidiation (n.) The act of dimidiating or halving; the state of being dimidiate.
Diminish (v. i.) To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.
Diminish (v. t.) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
Diminish (v. t.) To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
Diminish (v. t.) To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
Diminish (v. t.) To take away; to subtract.
Diminishable (a.) Capable of being diminished or lessened.
Diminished (imp. & p. p.) of Diminish
Diminisher (n.) One who, or that which, diminishes anything.
Diminishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diminish
Diminishingly (adv.) In a manner to diminish.
Diminishment (n.) Diminution.
Diminuendo (adv.) In a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo; -- expressed on the staff by Dim., or Dimin., or the sign.
Diminuent (a.) Lessening.
Diminutal (a.) Indicating or causing diminution.
Diminute (a.) Small; diminished; diminutive.
Diminutely (adv.) Diminutively.
Diminution (n.) In counterpoint, the imitation of, or reply to, a subject, in notes of half the length or value of those the subject itself.
Diminution (n.) Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record.
Diminution (n.) The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase.
Diminution (n.) The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement.
Diminutive (a.) Below the average size; very small; little.
Diminutive (a.) Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
Diminutive (a.) Tending to diminish.
Diminutive (n.) A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin.
Diminutive (n.) Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
Diminutively (adv.) In a diminutive manner.
Diminutiveness (n.) The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
Dimish (a.) See Dimmish.
Dimission (n.) Leave to depart; a dismissing.
Dimissory (a.) Sending away; dismissing to another jurisdiction; granting leave to depart.
Dimit (v. t.) To dismiss, let go, or release.
Dimity (n.) A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors.
Dimly (adv.) In a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.
Dimmed (imp. & p. p.) of Dim
Dimming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dim
Dimmish (a.) Alt. of Dimmy
Dimmy (a.) Somewhat dim; as, dimmish eyes.
Dimness (n.) Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception.
Dimness (n.) The state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.
Dimorph (n.) Either one of the two forms of a dimorphous substance; as, calcite and aragonite are dimorphs.
Dimorphic (a.) Having the property of dimorphism; dimorphous.
Dimorphism (n.) Crystallization in two independent forms of the same chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite.
Dimorphism (n.) Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly.
Dimorphous (a.) Characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic.
Dimorphous (a.) Crystallizing under two forms fundamentally different, while having the same chemical composition.
Dimple (n.) A slight indentation on any surface.
Dimple (n.) A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin.
Dimple (v. i.) To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
Dimple (v. t.) To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions.
Dimpled (imp. & p. p.) of Dimple
Dimplement (n.) The state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions.
Dimpling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dimple
Dimply (a.) Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool.
Dimya (n. pl.) Alt. of Dimyaria
Dimyaria (n. pl.) An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.
Dimyarian (a.) Like or pertaining to the Dimya.
Dimyarian (n.) One of the Dimya.
Dimyary (a. & n.) Same as Dimyarian.
Din (imp.) of Do
Din (n.) Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.
Din (n.) To strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to harass with clamor; as, to din the ears with cries.
Din (n.) To utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding.
Din (v. i.) To sound with a din; a ding.
Dinaphthyl (n.) A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.
Dinar (n.) A petty money of accounts of Persia.
Dinar (n.) An ancient gold coin of the East.
Dinarchy (n.) See Diarchy.
Dine (v. i.) To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
Dine (v. t.) To dine upon; to have to eat.
Dine (v. t.) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
Dined (imp. & p. p.) of Dine
Diner (n.) One who dines.
Diner-out (n.) One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company.
Dinetical (a.) Revolving on an axis.
Ding (n.) A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.
Ding (v. i.) To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
Ding (v. i.) To strike; to thump; to pound.
Ding (v. i.) To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.
Ding (v. t.) To cause to sound or ring.
Ding (v. t.) To dash; to throw violently.
Dingdong (n.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
Dingdong (n.) The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.
Dinged (imp. & p. p.) of Ding
Dingey (n.) Alt. of Dinghy
Dinghy (n.) A kind of boat used in the East Indies.
Dinghy (n.) A ship's smallest boat.
Dingily (adv.) In a dingy manner.
Dinginess (n.) Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.
Dinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ding
Dingle (n.) A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.
Dingle-dangle (adv.) In a dangling manner.
Dingo (n.) A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.
Dingthrift (n.) A spendthrift.
Dingy (n.) Alt. of Dinghy
Dingy (superl.) Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.
Dinichthys (n.) A genus of large extinct Devonian ganoid fishes. In some parts of Ohio remains of the Dinichthys are abundant, indicating animals twenty feet in length.
Dining (n. & a.) from Dine, a.
Dining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dine
Dink (a.) Trim; neat.
Dink (v. t.) To deck; -- often with out or up.
Dinmont (n.) A wether sheep between one and two years old.
Dinned (imp. & p. p.) of Din
Dinner (n.) An entertainment; a feast.
Dinner (n.) The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.
Dinnerless (a.) Having no dinner.
Dinnerly (a.) Of or pertaining to dinner.
Dinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Din
Dinoceras (n.) A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.
Dinornis (n.) A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa.
Dinosaur (n.) Alt. of Dinosaurian
Dinosaurian (n.) One of the Dinosauria.
Dinothere (n.) Alt. of Dinotherium
Dinotherium (n.) A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
Dinoxide (n.) Same as Dioxide.
Dinsome (a.) Full of din.
Dint (n.) A blow; a stroke.
Dint (n.) Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of.
Dint (n.) The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
Dint (v. t.) To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent.
Dinted (imp. & p. p.) of Dint
Dinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dint
Dinumeration (n.) Enumeration.
Diocesan (a.) Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.
Diocesan (n.) A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.
Diocesan (n.) The clergy or the people of a diocese.
Diocese (n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
Diocesener (n.) One who belongs to a diocese.
Dioceses (pl. ) of Diocese
Diodon (n.) A genus of whales.
Diodont (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Diodon.
Diodont (n.) A fish of the genus Diodon, or an allied genus.
Dioecia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants.
Dioecia (n. pl.) A subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries.
Dioecian (a.) Alt. of Dioecious
Dioeciously (adv.) In a dioecious manner.
Dioeciousness (n.) The state or quality of being dioecious.
Dioecism (n.) The condition of being dioecious.
Diogenes (n.) A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323 B. C.) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings.
Dioicous (a.) See Dioecious.
Diomedea (n.) A genus of large sea birds, including the albatross. See Albatross.
Dionaea (n.) An insectivorous plant. See Venus's flytrap.
Dionysian (a.) Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era.
Diophantine (a.) Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra.
Diopside (n.) A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.
Dioptase (n.) A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
Diopter (n.) Alt. of Dioptra
Dioptra (n.) An optical instrument, invented by Hipparchus, for taking altitudes, leveling, etc.
Dioptre (n.) A unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.
Dioptric (a.) Alt. of Dioptrical
Dioptric (a.) Of or pertaining to the dioptre, or to the metric system of numbering glasses.
Dioptric (n.) A dioptre. See Dioptre.
Dioptrical (a.) Of or pertaining to dioptrics; assisting vision by means of the refraction of light; refractive; as, the dioptric system; a dioptric glass or telescope.
Dioptry (n.) A dioptre.
Diorama (n.) A building used for such an exhibition.
Diorite (n.) An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.
Dioritic (a.) Containing diorite.
Diorthotic (a.) Relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective.
Dioscorea (n.) A genus of plants. See Yam.
Diota (n.) A vase or drinking cup having two handles or ears.
Dioxide (n.) An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide.
Dioxide (n.) An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide.
Dioxindol (n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance obtained by the reduction of isatin. It is a member of the indol series; -- hence its name.
Dip (n.) A dipped candle.
Dip (n.) A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
Dip (n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
Dip (n.) The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
Dip (v. i.) To dip snuff.
Dip (v. i.) To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
Dip (v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
Dip (v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
Dip (v. i.) To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
Dip (v. i.) To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
Dip (v. t.) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
Dip (v. t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
Dip (v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
Dip (v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
Dip (v. t.) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.
Dip (v. t.) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
Dipaschal (a.) Including two passovers.
Dipchick (n.) See Dabchick.
Dipetalous (a.) Having two petals; two-petaled.
Diphenyl (n.) A white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.
Diphtheria (n.) A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group.
Diphtherial (a.) Alt. of Diphtheric
Diphtheric (a.) Relating to diphtheria; diphtheritic.
Diphtheritic (a.) Having characteristics resembling those of diphtheria; as, diphtheritic inflammation of the bladder.
Diphtheritic (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.
Diphthong (n.) A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- called a proper diphthong.
Diphthong (n.) A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong.
Diphthong (v. t.) To form or pronounce as a diphthong; diphthongize.
Diphthongal (a.) Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.
Diphthongalize (v. t.) To make into a diphthong; to pronounce as a diphthong.
Diphthongation (n.) See Diphthongization.
Diphthongic (a.) Of the nature of diphthong; diphthongal.
Diphthongization (n.) The act of changing into a diphthong.
Diphthongize (v. t. & i.) To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.
Diphycercal (a.) Having the tail fin divided into two equal parts by the notochord, or end of the vertebral column; protocercal. See Protocercal.
Diphygenic (a.) Having two modes of embryonic development.
Diphyllous (a.) Having two leaves, as a calyx, etc.
Diphyodont (a.) Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; -- opposed to monophyodont.
Diphyodont (n.) An animal having two successive sets of teeth.
Diphyozooid (n.) One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.
Diplanar (a.) Of or pertaining to two planes.
Diploblastic (a.) Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
Diplocardiac (a.) Having the heart completely divided or double, one side systemic, the other pulmonary.
Diplococci (pl. ) of Diplococcus
Diplococcus (n.) A form of micrococcus in which cocci are united in a binary manner. See Micrococcus.
Diploe (n.) The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull.
Diploetic (a.) Diploic.
Diplogenic (a.) Partaking of the nature of two bodies; producing two substances.
Diploic (a.) Of or pertaining to the diploe.
Diploid (n.) A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
Diploma (n.) A letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution.
Diplomacy (n.) Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact.
Diplomacy (n.) The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.
Diplomacy (n.) The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body.
Diplomas (pl. ) of Diploma
Diplomat (n.) Alt. of Diplomate
Diplomate (n.) A diplomatist.
Diplomate (v. t.) To invest with a title o/ privilege by diploma.
Diplomatial (a.) Diplomatic.
Diplomatic (a.) Alt. of Diplomatical
Diplomatic (n.) A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.
Diplomatic (n.) The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.
Diplomatical (a.) Characterized by tact and shrewdness; dexterous; artful; as, diplomatic management.
Diplomatical (a.) Pertaining to diplomacy; relating to the foreign ministers at a court, who are called the diplomatic body.
Diplomatical (a.) Pertaining to diplomatics; paleographic.
Diplomatically (adv.) According to the rules of diplomacy; in the manner of a diplomatist; artfully.
Diplomatism (n.) Diplomacy.
Diplomatist (n.) A person employed in, or skilled in, diplomacy; a diplomat.
Diplopia (n.) Alt. of Diplopy
Diplopod (n.) One of the Diplopoda.
Diplopoda (n. pl.) An order of myriapods having two pairs of legs on each segment; the Chilognatha.
Diplopy (n.) The act or state of seeing double.
Diplostemonous (a.) Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium.
Diplostemony (n.) The condition of being diplostemonous.
Dipneumona (n. pl.) A group of spiders having only two lunglike organs.
Dipodies (pl. ) of Dipody
Dipody (n.) Two metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
Dipolar (a.) Having two poles, as a magnetic bar.
Dipped (imp. & p. p.) of Dip
Dippel's oil () See Bone oil, under Bone.
Dipper (n.) A small grebe; the dabchick.
Dipper (n.) One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.
Dipper (n.) The American dipper or ouzel (Cinclus Mexicanus).
Dipper (n.) The buffel duck.
Dipper (n.) The water ouzel (Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe.
Dipping (n.) The act of inclining downward.
Dipping (n.) The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
Dipping (n.) The act or process of immersing.
Dipping (n.) The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.
Dipping (n.) The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
Dipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dip
Diprismatic (a.) Doubly prismatic.
Dipropargyl (n.) A pungent, mobile, volatile liquid, C6H6, produced artificially from certain allyl derivatives. Though isomeric with benzine, it is very different in its chemical relations. Called also dipropinyl.
Dipropyl (n.) One of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. See Hexane.
Diprotodon (n.) An extinct Quaternary marsupial from Australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; -- so named because of its two large front teeth. See Illustration in Appendix.
Dipsas (n.) A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.
Dipsas (n.) A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.
Dipsetic (a.) Tending to produce thirst.
Dipsomania (n.) A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.
Dipsomaniac (n.) One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.
Dipsomaniacal (a.) Of or pertaining to dipsomania.
Dipsosis (n.) Excessive thirst produced by disease.
Dipt () of Dip
Dipteral (a.) Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple.
Dipteral (a.) Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.
Dipteran (n.) An insect of the order Diptera.
Dipterocarpus (n.) A genus of trees found in the East Indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. The fruit has two long wings.
Dipterous (a.) Having two wings, as certain insects; belonging to the order Diptera.
Dipterous (a.) Having two wings; two-winged.
Dipterygian (a.) Having two dorsal fins; -- said of certain fishes.
Diptote (n.) A noun which has only two cases.
Diptych (n.) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.
Diptych (n.) A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.
Diptych (n.) A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
Diptych (n.) Anything consisting of two leaves.
Dipyre (n.) A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent.
Dipyrenous (a.) Containing two stones or nutlets.
Dipyridil (n.) A crystalline nitrogenous base, C10H8N2, obtained by the reduction of pyridine.
Dipyridine (n.) A polymeric form of pyridine, C10H10N2, obtained as a colorless oil by the action of sodium on pyridine.
Diradiation (n.) The emission and diffusion of rays of light.
Dire (superl.) Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
Dire (superl.) Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
Direct (a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
Direct (a.) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.
Direct (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
Direct (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
Direct (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
Direct (n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.
Direct (v. i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
Direct (v. t.) To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.
Direct (v. t.) To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.
Direct (v. t.) To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.
Direct (v. t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
Direct (v. t.) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.
Direct-acting (a.) Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.
Directed (imp. & p. p.) of Direct
Directer (n.) One who directs; a director.
Directing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Direct
Direction (n.) That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.
Direction (n.) The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.
Direction (n.) The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.
Direction (n.) The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction.
Direction (n.) The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter.
Direction (n.) The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.
Directive (a.) Able to be directed; manageable.
Directive (a.) Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.
Directly (adv.) Exactly; just.
Directly (adv.) Immediately after; as soon as.
Directly (adv.) In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
Directly (adv.) In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.
Directly (adv.) Manifestly; openly.
Directly (adv.) Straightforwardly; honestly.
Directly (adv.) Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately.
Directly (adv.) Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
Directness (n.) The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.
Director (n.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.
Director (n.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.
Director (n.) One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company.
Director (n.) One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.
Directorate (n.) The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
Directorial (a.) Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive.
Directorial (a.) Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3.
Directories (pl. ) of Directory
Directorship (n.) The condition or office of a director; directorate.
Directory (n.) A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.
Directory (n.) A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.
Directory (n.) A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.
Directory (n.) Direction; guide.
Directress (n.) A woman who directs.
Directrix (n.) A directress.
Directrix (n.) A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface.
Directrix (n.) A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.
Directrixes (pl. ) of Directrix
Direful (a.) Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.
Direly (adv.) In a dire manner.
Dirempt (a.) Divided; separated.
Dirempt (v. t.) To separate by force; to tear apart.
Diremption (n.) A tearing apart; violent separation.
Direness (n.) Terribleness; horror; woefulness.
Direption (n.) The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away.
Direptitious (a.) Characterized by direption.
Direptitiously (adv.) With plundering violence; by violent injustice.
Dirge (a.) A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.
Dirgeful (a.) Funereal; moaning.
Dirige (n.) A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge.
Dirigent (a.) Directing.
Dirigent (n.) The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix.
Dirigible (a.) Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.
Diriment (a.) Absolute.
Dirk (a.) Dark.
Dirk (n.) A kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly much used by the Scottish Highlander.
Dirk (v. t.) To darken.
Dirk (v. t.) To stab with a dirk.
Dirked (imp. & p. p.) of Dirk
Dirking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dirk
Dirkness (n.) Darkness.
Dirl (v. i. & t.) To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate.
Dirt (n.) Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.
Dirt (n.) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
Dirt (n.) Meanness; sordidness.
Dirt (v. t.) To make foul of filthy; to dirty.
Dirtied (imp. & p. p.) of Dirty
Dirtily (adv.) In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.
Dirtiness (n.) The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.
Dirty (superl.) Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
Dirty (superl.) Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow.
Dirty (superl.) Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color.
Dirty (v. t.) To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.
Dirty (v. t.) To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.
Dirtying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dirty
Diruption (a.) Disruption.
Dis (n.) The god Pluto.
Dis- () .
Dis- () A prefix from Gr. di`s- twice. See Di-.
Disabilities (pl. ) of Disability
Disability (n.) State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
Disability (n.) Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
Disable (a.) Lacking ability; unable.
Disable (v. t.) To deprive of legal right or qualification; to render legally incapable.
Disable (v. t.) To deprive of that which gives value or estimation; to declare lacking in competency; to disparage; to undervalue.
Disable (v. t.) To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair.
Disabled (imp. & p. p.) of Disable
Disablement (n.) Deprivation of ability; incapacity.
Disabling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disable
Disabuse (v. t.) To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.
Disabused (imp. & p. p.) of Disabuse
Disabusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disabuse
Disaccommodate (v. t.) To put to inconvenience; to incommode.
Disaccommodation (n.) A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited.
Disaccord (n.) Disagreement.
Disaccord (v. i.) To refuse to assent.
Disaccordant (a.) Not accordant.
Disaccustom (v. t.) To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom.
Disacidify (v. t.) To free from acid.
Disacknowledge (v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown.
Disacknowledged (imp. & p. p.) of Disacknowledge
Disacknowledging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disacknowledge
Disacquaint (v. t.) To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar.
Disacquaintance (n.) Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance.
Disacryl (n.) A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein.
Disadorn (v. t.) To deprive of ornaments.
Disadvance (v. t. & i.) To draw back, or cause to draw back.
Disadvantage (n.) Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury.
Disadvantage (n.) Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good.
Disadvantage (v. t.) To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to.
Disadvantageable (a.) Injurious; disadvantageous.
Disadvantageous (a.) Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense.
Disadventure (n.) Misfortune; mishap.
Disadventurous (a.) Unprosperous; unfortunate.
Disadvise (v. t.) To advise against; to dissuade from.
Disaffect (v. t.) To alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness.
Disaffect (v. t.) To disturb the functions of; to disorder.
Disaffect (v. t.) To lack affection for; to be alienated from, or indisposed toward; to dislike.
Disaffected (a.) Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal.
Disaffected (imp. & p. p.) of Disaffect
Disaffecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disaffect
Disaffection (n.) Disorder; bad constitution.
Disaffection (n.) State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike.
Disaffectionate (a.) Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected.
Disaffirm (v. t.) To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted.
Disaffirm (v. t.) To refuse to confirm; to annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal.
Disaffirmance (n.) Overthrow or annulment by the decision of a superior tribunal; as, disaffirmance of judgment.
Disaffirmance (n.) The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.
Disaffirmation (n.) The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.
Disafforest (v. t.) To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws.
Disafforested (imp. & p. p.) of Disafforest
Disafforesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disafforest
Disageeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disagree
Disaggregate (v. t.) To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass.
Disaggregation (n.) The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.
Disagree (v. i.) To be unsuited; to have unfitness; as, medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste.
Disagree (v. i.) To differ in opinion; to hold discordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel.
Disagree (v. i.) To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.
Disagreeable (a.) Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant.
Disagreeable (a.) Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
Disagreeableness (n.) The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
Disagreeably (adv.) In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.
Disagreeance (n.) Disagreement.
Disagreed (imp. & p. p.) of Disagree
Disagreement (n.) A falling out, or controversy; difference.
Disagreement (n.) Difference of opinion or sentiment.
Disagreement (n.) The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.
Disagreement (n.) Unsuitableness; unadaptedness.
Disagreer (n.) One who disagrees.
Disalliege (v. t.) To alienate from allegiance.
Disallow (v. t.) To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.
Disallowable (a.) Not allowable; not to be suffered.
Disallowance (n.) The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.
Disallowed (imp. & p. p.) of Disallow
Disallowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disallow
Disally (v. t.) To part, as an alliance; to sunder.
Disanchor (v. t. & i.) To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor.
Disangelical (a.) Not angelical.
Disanimate (v. t.) To deprive of life.
Disanimate (v. t.) To deprive of spirit; to dishearten.
Disanimated (imp. & p. p.) of Disanimate
Disanimating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disanimate
Disanimation (n.) Privation of life.
Disanimation (n.) The state of being disanimated or discouraged; depression of spirits.
Disannex (v. t.) To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of.
Disannul (v. t.) To annul completely; to render void or of no effect.
Disannuller (n.) One who disannuls.
Disannulment (n.) Complete annulment.
Disanoint (v. t.) To invalidate the consecration of; as, to disanoint a king.
Disapointed (imp. & p. p.) of Disappoint
Disapparel (v. t.) To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked.
Disappear (v. i.) To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.
Disappear (v. i.) To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared.
Disappearance (n.) The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing.
Disappeared (imp. & p. p.) of Disappear
Disappearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disappear
Disappendency (n.) A detachment or separation from a former connection.
Disappendent (a.) Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected.
Disappoint (v. t.) To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result.
Disappointed (a.) Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.
Disappointed (a.) Unprepared; unequipped.
Disappointing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disappoint
Disappointment (n.) That which disappoints.
Disappointment (n.) The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.
Disappreciate (v. t.) To undervalue; not to esteem.
Disapprobation (n.) The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure.
Disapprobatory (a.) Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
Disappropriate (a.) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.
Disappropriate (v. t.) To release from individual ownership or possession.
Disappropriate (v. t.) To sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation.
Disappropriation (n.) The act of disappropriating.
Disapprove (v. t.) To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others.
Disapprove (v. t.) To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief.
Disapproved (imp. & p. p.) of Disapprove
Disapprover (n.) One who disapproves.
Disapproving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disapprove
Disapprovingly (adv.) In a disapproving manner.
Disard (n.) See Dizzard.
Disarm (v. t.) To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
Disarm (v. t.) To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.
Disarmament (n.) The act of disarming.
Disarmature (n.) The act of divesting of armature.
Disarmed (a.) Deprived of arms.
Disarmed (a.) Deprived of claws, and teeth or beaks.
Disarmer (n.) One who disarms.
Disarming (imp. & p. p.) of Disarm
Disarming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disarm
Disarrange (v. t.) To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.
Disarranged (imp. & p. p.) of Disarrange
Disarrangement (n.) The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder.
Disarranging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disarrange
Disarray (n.) Confused attire; undress.
Disarray (n.) Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.
Disarray (v. t.) To take off the dress of; to unrobe.
Disarray (v. t.) To throw into disorder; to break the array of.
Disarrayed (imp. & p. p.) of Disarray
Disarraying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disarray
Disarrayment (n.) Disorder.
Disarticulate (v. t.) To sunder; to separate, as joints.
Disarticulator (n.) One who disarticulates and prepares skeletons.
Disassent (n.) Dissent.
Disassent (v. i.) To dissent.
Disassenter (n.) One who disassents; a dissenter.
Disassiduity (n.) Want of assiduity or care.
Disassimilate (v. t.) To subject to disassimilation.
Disassimilation (n.) The decomposition of complex substances, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism.
Disassimilative (a.) Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation.
Disassociate (v. t.) To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate.
Disassociated (imp. & p. p.) of Disassociate
Disassociating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disassociate
Disaster (n.) An adverse or unfortunate event, esp. a sudden and extraordinary misfortune; a calamity; a serious mishap.
Disaster (n.) An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.
Disaster (v. t.) To blast by the influence of a baleful star.
Disaster (v. t.) To bring harm upon; to injure.
Disasterly (adv.) Disastrously.
Disastrous (a.) Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking.
Disastrous (a.) Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding.
Disattire (v. t.) To unrobe; to undress.
Disaugment (v. t.) To diminish.
Disauthorize (v. t.) To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit.
Disavaunce (v. t.) To retard; to repel; to do damage to.
Disaventure (n.) Misfortune.
Disaventurous (a.) Misadventurous; unfortunate.
Disavouch (v. t.) To disavow.
Disavow (v. t.) To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.
Disavow (v. t.) To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.
Disavowal (n.) The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial.
Disavowance (n.) Disavowal.
Disavowed (imp. & p. p.) of Disavow
Disavower (n.) One who disavows.
Disavowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disavow
Disavowment (n.) Disavowal.
Disband (v. i.) To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.
Disband (v. t.) To divorce.
Disband (v. t.) To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army.
Disbanded (imp. & p. p.) of Disband
Disbanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disband
Disbandment (n.) The act of disbanding.
Disbar (v. t.) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.
Disbark (v. t.) To disembark.
Disbark (v. t.) To strip of bark; to bark.
Disbarment (n.) Act of disbarring.
Disbarred (imp. & p. p.) of Disbar
Disbarring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disbar
Disbase (v. t.) To debase or degrade.
Disbecome (v. t.) To misbecome.
Disbelief (n.) The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief.
Disbelieve (v. t.) Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.
Disbelieved (imp. & p. p.) of Disbelieve
Disbeliever (n.) One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion.
Disbelieving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disbelieve
Disbench (v. t.) To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges.
Disbench (v. t.) To drive from a bench or seat.
Disbend (v. t.) To unbend.
Disbind (v. t.) To unbind; to loosen.
Disblame (v. t.) To clear from blame.
Disbodied (a.) Disembodied.
Disboscation (n.) Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest.
Disbowel (v. t.) To disembowel.
Disbranch (v.) To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off.
Disbud (v.) To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.
Disburden (v. i.) To relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind.
Disburden (v. t.) To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve.
Disburgeon (v. t.) To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud.
Disburse (v. t.) To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.
Disbursed (imp. & p. p.) of Disburse
Disbursement (n.) That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.
Disbursement (n.) The act of disbursing or paying out.
Disburser (n.) One who disburses money.
Disbursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disburse
Disburthen (v. t.) To disburden; to relieve of a load.
Disburthened (imp. & p. p.) of Disburthen
Disburthening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disburthen
Disc (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.
Disc (n.) A flat round plate
Discage (v. t.) To uncage.
Discal (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.
Discalceate (v. t.) To pull off shoes or sandals from.
Discalceated (a.) Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.
Discalceation (n.) The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals.
Discalced (a.) Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced.
Discamp (v. t.) To drive from a camp.
Discandy (v. i.) To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.
Discant (n.) See Descant, n.
Discapacitate (v. t.) To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate.
Discard (n.) The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.
Discard (v. i.) To make a discard.
Discard (v. t.) To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away.
Discard (v. t.) To put or thrust away; to reject.
Discard (v. t.) To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).
Discern (v. i.) To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.
Discern (v. t.) To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.
Discern (v. t.) To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference.
Discernance (n.) Discernment.
Discerned (imp. & p. p.) of Discern
Discerner (n.) One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong.
Discernible (a.) Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding.
Discernibleness (n.) The quality of being discernible.
Discernibly (adv.) In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly.
Discerningly (adv.) In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely.
Discernment (n.) The act of discerning.
Discerp (v. t.) To separate; to disunite.
Discerp (v. t.) To tear in pieces; to rend.
Discerpibility (n.) Alt. of Discerptibility
Discerpible (a.) Alt. of Discerptible
Discerptibility (n.) Capability or liableness to be discerped.
Discerptible (a.) Capable of being discerped.
Discerption (n.) The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts.
Discerptive (a.) Tending to separate or disunite parts.
Discession (n.) Departure.
Discharge (v. i.) To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely.
Discharge (v. t.) A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe.
Discharge (v. t.) Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor.
Discharge (v. t.) Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty.
Discharge (v. t.) Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery.
Discharge (v. t.) Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner.
Discharge (v. t.) Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer.
Discharge (v. t.) That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document.
Discharge (v. t.) The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo.
Discharge (v. t.) The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal.
Discharge (v. t.) To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath.
Discharge (v. t.) To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
Discharge (v. t.) To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
Discharge (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
Discharge (v. t.) To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo.
Discharge (v. t.) To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.
Discharge (v. t.) To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
Discharge (v. t.) To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
Discharge (v. t.) To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
Discharge (v. t.) To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
Discharge (v. t.) To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part.
Discharged (imp. & p. p.) of Discharge
Discharger (n.) One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
Discharging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discharge
Dischevele (a.) Disheveled.
Dischurch (v. t.) To deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church.
Disci (pl. ) of Discus
Discide (v. t.) To divide; to cleave in two.
Disciferous (a.) Bearing disks.
Discifloral (a.) Alt. of Disciflorous
Disciflorous (a.) Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.
Disciform (a.) Discoid.
Discina (n.) A genus of Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle.
Discinct (a.) Ungirded; loosely dressed.
Discind (v. t.) To part; to divide.
Disciple (n.) One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior.
Disciple (v. t.) To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles.
Disciple (v. t.) To punish; to discipline.
Disciple (v. t.) To teach; to train.
Discipled (imp. & p. p.) of Disciple
Discipleship (n.) The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
Discipless (n.) A female disciple.
Disciplinable (a.) Capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training.
Disciplinable (a.) Liable or deserving to be disciplined; subject to disciplinary punishment; as, a disciplinable offense.
Disciplinableness (n.) The quality of being improvable by discipline.
Disciplinal (a.) Relating to discipline.
Disciplinant (n.) A flagellant. See Flagellant.
Disciplinarian (a.) Pertaining to discipline.
Disciplinarian (n.) A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline.
Disciplinary (a.) Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training.
Discipline (n.) A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.
Discipline (n.) Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
Discipline (n.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.
Discipline (n.) Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
Discipline (n.) Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
Discipline (n.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
Discipline (n.) The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
Discipline (n.) The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
Discipline (n.) Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
Discipline (v. t.) To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.
Discipline (v. t.) To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.
Discipline (v. t.) To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
Discipline (v. t.) To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.
Disciplined (imp. & p. p.) of Discipline
Discipliner (n.) One who disciplines.
Discipling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disciple
Disciplining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discipline
Disclaim (v. t.) To deny, as a claim; to refuse.
Disclaim (v. t.) To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share.
Disclaim (v. t.) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.
Disclaim (v. t.) To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.
Disclaimed (imp. & p. p.) of Disclaim
Disclaimer (n.) A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate.
Disclaimer (n.) A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like.
Disclaimer (n.) One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
Disclaiming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disclaim
Disclamation (n.) A disavowing or disowning.
Disclame (v. t.) To disclaim; to expel.
Disclaunder (v. t.) To injure one's good name; to slander.
Discloak (v. t.) To take off a cloak from; to uncloak.
Disclose (n.) Disclosure.
Disclose (v. t.) To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal.
Disclose (v. t.) To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs.
Disclose (v. t.) To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover.
Disclose (v. t.) To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.
Disclosed (imp. & p. p.) of Disclose
Disclosed (p. a.) Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey.
Discloser (n.) One who discloses.
Disclosing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disclose
Disclosure (v. t.) That which is disclosed or revealed.
Disclosure (v. t.) The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.
Discloud (v. t.) To clear from clouds.
Disclout (v. t.) To divest of a clout.
Disclusion (n.) A shutting off; exclusion.
Discoast (v. i.) To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated.
Discoblastic (a.) Applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.
Discoboli (pl. ) of Discobolus
Discobolus (n.) A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it.
Discobolus (n.) A thrower of the discus.
Discodactyl (n.) One of the tree frogs.
Discodactylia (n. pl.) A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.
Discodactylous (a.) Having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.
Discoherent (a.) Incoherent.
Discoid (a.) Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus.
Discoid (n.) Anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell.
Discoidal (a.) Disk-shaped; discoid.
Discolith (n.) One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about / of an inch in its longest diameter.
Discolor (v. t.) To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water.
Discolor (v. t.) To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon.
Discolorate (v. t.) To discolor.
Discoloration (n.) A discolored spot; a stain.
Discoloration (n.) The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance.
Discolored (a.) Altered in color; /tained.
Discolored (a.) Variegated; of divers colors.
Discolored (imp. & p. p.) of Discolor
Discoloring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discolor
Discomfit (a.) Discomfited; overthrown.
Discomfit (n.) Rout; overthrow; discomfiture.
Discomfit (v. t.) To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.
Discomfit (v. t.) To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.
Discomfited (imp. & p. p.) of Discomfit
Discomfiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discomfit
Discomfiture (v. t.) The act of discomfiting, or the state of being discomfited; rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection.
Discomfort (v. t.) Discouragement.
Discomfort (v. t.) To destroy or disturb the comfort of; to deprive o/ quiet enjoyment; to make uneasy; to pain; as, a smoky chimney discomforts a family.
Discomfort (v. t.) To discourage; to deject.
Discomfort (v. t.) Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow.
Discomfortable (a.) Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad.
Discomfortable (a.) Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable.
Discomforted (imp. & p. p.) of Discomfort
Discomforting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discomfort
Discommend (v. t.) To expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any one.
Discommend (v. t.) To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove.
Discommendable (a.) Deserving, disapprobation or blame.
Discommendation (n.) Blame; censure; reproach.
Discommender (n.) One who discommends; a dispraiser.
Discommission (v. t.) To deprive of a commission or trust.
Discommodate (v. t.) To discommode.
Discommode (v. t.) To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.
Disconnect (v. t.) To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse.
Disconnected (imp. & p. p.) of Disconnect
Disconnecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disconnect
Disconnection (n.) The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union.
Disconsecrate (v. t.) To deprive of consecration or sacredness.
Disconsolacy (n.) The state of being disconsolate.
Disconsolate (n.) Disconsolateness.
Disconsolate (v. t.) Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent.
Disconsolate (v. t.) Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights.
Disconsolated (a.) Disconsolate.
Disconsolation (n.) Dejection; grief.
Discontent (a.) Not content; discontented; dissatisfied.
Discontent (n.) A discontented person; a malcontent.
Discontent (n.) Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet.
Discontent (v. t.) To deprive of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.
Discontentation (n.) Discontent.
Discontented (imp. & p. p.) of Discontent
Discontented (p. p. & a.) Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent.
Discontentive (a.) Relating or tending to discontent.
Discontentment (n.) The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude.
Discontinuable (a.) Admitting of being discontinued.
Discontinuance (n.) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered.
Discontinuance (n.) The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action.
Discontinuation (n.) Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.
Discontinue (v. i.) To be separated or severed; to part.
Discontinue (v. i.) To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
Discontinue (v. t.) To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
Discontinued (imp. & p. p.) of Discontinue
Discontinuee (n.) One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.
Discontinuer (n.) One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee.
Discontinuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discontinue
Discontinuity (n.) Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts.
Discontinuor (n.) One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.
Discontinuous (a.) Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping.
Discontinuous (a.) Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.
Disconvenience (n.) Unsuitableness; incongruity.
Disconvenient (a.) Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted.
Discophora (n. pl.) A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species.
Discord (n.) To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
Discord (v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.
Discord (v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
Discordable (a.) That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant.
Discordance (n.) Alt. of Discordancy
Discordancy (n.) State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency.
Discordant (n.) Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
Discordant (n.) Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.
Discordant (n.) Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.
Discordful (a.) Full of discord; contentious.
Discordous (a.) Full of discord.
Discorporate (a.) Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate.
Discorrespondent (a.) Incongruous.
Discosent (v. i.) To differ; to disagree; to dissent.
Discost (v. i.) Same as Discoast.
Discounsel (v. t.) To dissuade.
Discount (v. i.) To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
Discount (v. t.) A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted.
Discount (v. t.) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
Discount (v. t.) The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Discount (v.) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
Discount (v.) To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
Discount (v.) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
Discount (v.) To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
Discountable (a.) Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.
Discounted (imp. & p. p.) of Discount
Discountenance (n.) Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.
Discountenance (v. t.) To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage.
Discountenance (v. t.) To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash.
Discountenanced (imp. & p. p.) of Discountenance
Discountenancer (n.) One who discountenances; one who disfavors.
Discountenancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discountenance
Discounter (n.) One who discounts; a discount broker.
Discounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discount
Discourage (n.) Lack of courage; cowardliness.
Discourage (v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
Discourage (v. t.) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.
Discourageable (a.) Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
Discouraged (imp. & p. p.) of Discourage
Discouragement (n.) That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement.
Discouragement (n.) The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.
Discourager (n.) One who discourages.
Discouraging (a.) Causing or indicating discouragement.
Discouraging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discourage
Discoure (v. t.) To discover.
Discourse (n.) Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
Discourse (n.) Conversation; talk.
Discourse (n.) Dealing; transaction.
Discourse (n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
Discourse (n.) The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
Discourse (v. i.) To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
Discourse (v. i.) To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
Discourse (v. i.) To relate something; to tell.
Discourse (v. i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.
Discourse (v. t.) To talk to; to confer with.
Discourse (v. t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
Discourse (v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
Discoursed (imp. & p. p.) of Discourse
Discourser (n.) One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.
Discourser (n.) The writer of a treatise or dissertation.
Discoursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discourse
Discoursive (a.) Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.
Discoursive (a.) Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man.
Discoursive (a.) Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.
Discoursive (n.) The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason.
Discourteous (a.) Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous.
Discourtesy (n.) Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.
Discourtship (n.) Want of courtesy.
Discous (a.) Disklike; discoid.
Discovenant (v. t.) To dissolve covenant with.
Discover (v. i.) To discover or show one's self.
Discover (v. t.) To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown).
Discover (v. t.) To explore; to examine.
Discover (v. t.) To manifest without design; to show.
Discover (v. t.) To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect.
Discover (v. t.) To uncover.
Discoverability (n.) The quality of being discoverable.
Discoverable (a.) Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
Discovered (imp. & p. p.) of Discover
Discoverer (n.) A scout; an explorer.
Discoverer (n.) One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.
Discoveries (pl. ) of Discovery
Discovering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discover
Discoverment (n.) Discovery.
Discovert (a.) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
Discovert (n.) An uncovered place or part.
Discoverture (n.) A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband.
Discoverture (n.) Discovery.
Discovery (n.) A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets.
Discovery (n.) Exploration; examination.
Discovery (n.) Finding out or ascertaining something previously unknown or unrecognized; as, Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood.
Discovery (n.) That which is discovered; a thing found out, or for the first time ascertained or recognized; as, the properties of the magnet were an important discovery.
Discovery (n.) The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.
Discradle (v. t.) To take from a cradle.
Discrasies (pl. ) of Dyscrasy
Discredit (n.) Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons or things.
Discredit (n.) The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.
Discredit (v. t.) To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of.
Discredit (v. t.) To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace.
Discredit (v. t.) To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited.
Discreditable (a.) Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable.
Discredited (imp. & p. p.) of Discredit
Discrediting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discredit
Discreditor (n.) One who discredits.
Discreet (superl.) Differing; distinct.
Discreet (superl.) Possessed of discernment, especially in avoiding error or evil, and in the adaptation of means to ends; prudent; sagacious; judicious; not rash or heedless; cautious.
Discrepance (n.) Alt. of Discrepancy
Discrepancy (n.) The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety.
Discrepant (a.) Discordant; at variance; disagreeing; contrary; different.
Discrepant (n.) A dissident.
Discrete (a.) Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, "I resign my life, but not my honor," is a discrete proposition.
Discrete (a.) Separate; distinct; disjunct.
Discrete (a.) Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent.
Discrete (v. t.) To separate.
Discretely (adv.) Separately; disjunctively.
Discretion (n.) Discrimination.
Discretion (n.) Disjunction; separation.
Discretion (n.) Freedom to act according to one's own judgment; unrestrained exercise of choice or will.
Discretion (n.) The quality of being discreet; wise conduct and management; cautious discernment, especially as to matters of propriety and self-control; prudence; circumspection; wariness.
Discretional () Alt. of Discretionary
Discretionally (adv.) Alt. of Discretionarily
Discretionarily (adv.) At discretion; according to one's discretion or judgment.
Discretionary () Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers.
Discretive (a.) Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive.
Discretively (adv.) In a discretive manner.
Discriminable (a.) Capable of being discriminated.
Discriminal (a.) In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm.
Discriminant (n.) The eliminant of the n partial differentials of any homogenous function of n variables. See Eliminant.
Discriminate (a.) Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.
Discriminate (v. i.) To impose unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.
Discriminate (v. i.) To make a difference or distinction; to distinguish accurately; as, in judging of evidence, we should be careful to discriminate between probability and slight presumption.
Discriminate (v. i.) To treat unequally.
Discriminate (v. t.) To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
Discriminated (imp. & p. p.) of Discriminate
Discriminately (adv.) In a discriminating manner; distinctly.
Discriminateness (n.) The state of being discriminated; distinctness.
Discriminating (a.) Marking a difference; distinguishing.
Discriminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discriminate
Discrimination (n.) That which discriminates; mark of distinction.
Discrimination (n.) The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.
Discrimination (n.) The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.
Discrimination (n.) The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely distinguishing; acute discernment; as, to show great discrimination in the choice of means.
Discrimination (n.) The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set apart.
Discriminative (a.) Marking a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic.
Discriminative (a.) Observing distinctions; making differences; discriminating.
Discriminatively (adv.) With discrimination or distinction.
Discriminator (n.) One who discriminates.
Discriminatory (a.) Discriminative.
Discriminous (a.) Hazardous; dangerous.
Discrive (v. t.) To describe.
Discrown (v. t.) To deprive of a crown.
Discrowned (imp. & p. p.) of Discrown
Discrowning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discrown
Discruciate (v. t.) To torture; to excruciate.
Discruciated (imp. & p. p.) of Discruciate
Discruciating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discruciate
Discubitory (a.) Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture.
Disculpate (v. t.) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
Disculpated (imp. & p. p.) of Disculpate
Disculpating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disculpate
Disculpation (n.) Exculpation.
Disculpatory (a.) Tending to exculpate; exculpatory.
Discumbency (n.) The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals.
Discumber (v. t.) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
Discure (v. t.) To discover; to reveal; to discoure.
Discurrent (a.) Not current or free to circulate; not in use.
Discursion (n.) The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought.
Discursist (n.) A discourser.
Discursive (a.) Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
Discursive (a.) Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
Discus (n.) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill.
Discus (n.) The exercise with the discus.
Discuses (pl. ) of Discus
Discuss (v. t.) To break to pieces; to shatter.
Discuss (v. t.) To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors.
Discuss (v. t.) To deal with, in eating or drinking.
Discuss (v. t.) To examine in detail or by disputation; to reason upon by presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate.
Discuss (v. t.) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
Discuss (v. t.) To shake; to put away; to finish.
Discussed (imp. & p. p.) of Discuss
Discusser (n.) One who discusses; one who sifts or examines.
Discussing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discuss
Discussion (n.) The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation.
Discussion (n.) The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.
Discussional (a.) Pertaining to discussion.
Discussive (a.) Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter.
Discussive (a.) Doubt-dispelling; decisive.
Discussive (n.) A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient.
Discutient (a.) Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application.
Discutient (n.) An agent (as a medicinal application) which serves to disperse morbid matter.
Disdain (v. i.) To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.
Disdain (v. t.) A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.
Disdain (v. t.) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
Disdain (v. t.) The state of being despised; shame.
Disdain (v. t.) To reject as unworthy of one's self, or as not deserving one's notice; to look with scorn upon; to scorn, as base acts, character, etc.
Disdain (v. t.) To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as, to disdain to do a mean act.
Disdained (a.) Disdainful.
Disdained (imp. & p. p.) of Disdain
Disdainful (a.) Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.
Disdaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disdain
Disdainishly (adv.) Disdainfully.
Disdainous (a.) Disdainful.
Disdainously (adv.) Disdainfully.
Disdeify (v. t.) To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition.
Disdeign (v. t.) To disdain.
Disdiaclast (n.) One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers.
Disdiapason (n.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason.
Disease (n.) Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
Disease (v. t.) To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
Disease (v. t.) To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.
Diseased (a.) Afflicted with disease.
Diseased (imp. & p. p.) of Disease
Diseasedness (n.) The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness.
Diseaseful (a.) Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
Diseaseful (a.) Causing uneasiness.
Diseasefulness (n.) The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial.
Diseasement (n.) Uneasiness; inconvenience.
Diseasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disease
Disedge (v. t.) To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull.
Disedify (v. t.) To fail of edifying; to injure.
Diselder (v. t.) To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder.
Diselenide (n.) A selenide containing two atoms of selenium in each molecule.
Disembark (v. i.) To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark.
Disembark (v. t.) To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.
Disembarkation (n.) The act of disembarking.
Disembarked (imp. & p. p.) of Disembark
Disembarking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disembark
Disembarkment (n.) Disembarkation.
Disembarrass (v. t.) To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.
Disembarrassed (imp. & p. p.) of Disembarrass
Disembarrassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disembarrass
Disembarrassment (n.) Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
Disembay (v. t.) To clear from a bay.
Disembayed (imp. & p. p.) of Disembay
Disembaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disembay
Disembellish (v. t.) To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.
Disembitter (v. t.) To free from
Disembodied (a.) Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal.
Disembodied (imp. & p. p.) of Disembody
Disembodiment (n.) The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.
Disembody (v. t.) To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers.
Disembody (v. t.) To divest of the body or corporeal existence.
Disembodying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disembody
Disembogue (v. i.) To become discharged; to flow out; to find vent; to pour out contents.
Disembogue (v. t.) To eject; to cast forth.
Disembogue (v. t.) To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc.
Disembogued (imp. & p. p.) of Disembogue
Disemboguement (n.) The act of disemboguing; discharge.
Disemboguing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disembogue
Disembossom (v. t.) To separate from the bosom.
Disembowel (v. t.) To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
Disembowel (v. t.) To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
Disembowelment (n.) The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.
Disembowered (a.) Deprived of, or removed from, a bower.
Disembrangle (v. t.) To free from wrangling or litigation.
Disembroil (v. t.) To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.
Disembroiled (imp. & p. p.) of Disembroil
Disembroiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disembroil
Disemploy (v. t.) To throw out of employment.
Disemployment (n.) The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment.
Disempower (v. t.) To deprive of power; to divest of strength.
Disenable (v. t.) To disable; to disqualify.
Disenamor (v. t.) To free from the captivity of love.
Disenchained (a.) Freed from restraint; unrestrained.
Disenchant (v. t.) To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells; to free from fascination or delusion.
Disenchanted (imp. & p. p.) of Disenchant
Disenchanter (n.) One who, or that which, disenchants.
Disenchanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disenchant
Disenchantment (n.) The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted.
Disencharm (v. t.) To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
Disenclose (v. t.) See Disinclose.
Disencouragement (n.) Discouragement.
Disencrese (n.) Decrease.
Disencrese (v. i.) To decrease.
Disencumber (v. t.) To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden.
Disencumbered (imp. & p. p.) of Disencumber
Disencumbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disencumber
Disencumbrance (n.) Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome.
Disendow (v. t.) To deprive of an endowment, as a church.
Disendowment (n.) The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
Disenfranchise (v. t.) To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen.
Disengage (v. i.) To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self.
Disengaged (a.) Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant.
Disengaged (imp. & p. p.) of Disengage
Disengagement (n.) Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure.
Disengagement (n.) The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged.
Disennoble (v. t.) To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.
Disenroll (v. i.) To erase from a roll or list.
Disenrolled (imp. & p. p.) of Disenroll
Disenrolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disenroll
Disensanity (n.) Insanity; folly.
Disenshrouded (a.) Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled.
Disenslave (v. t.) To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall.
Disentail (v. t.) To free from entailment.
Disentangle (v. t.) To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.
Disentangle (v. t.) To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.
Disentangled (imp. & p. p.) of Disentangle
Disentanglement (n.) The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties.
Disentangling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disentangle
Disenter (v. t.) See Disinter.
Disenthrall (v. t.) To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall.
Disenthrallment (n.) Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment.
Disenthrone (v. t.) To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority.
Disentitle (v. t.) To deprive of title or claim.
Disentomb (v. t.) To take out from a tomb; a disinter.
Disentrail (v. t.) To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails.
Disentrance (v. t.) To awaken from a trance or an enchantment.
Disentwine (v. t.) To free from being entwined or twisted.
Disepalous (a.) Having two sepals; two-sepaled.
Disert (a.) Eloquent.
Disertitude (n.) Eloquence.
Diserty (adv.) Expressly; clearly; eloquently.
Disespouse (v. t.) To release from espousal or plighted faith.
Disestablish (v. t.) To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state.
Disestablishment (n.) The condition of being disestablished.
Disesteem (n.) Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute.
Disesteem (v. t.) To deprive of esteem; to bring into disrepute; to cause to be regarded with disfavor.
Disesteem (v. t.) To feel an absence of esteem for; to regard with disfavor or slight contempt; to slight.
Disesteemed (imp. & p. p.) of Disesteem
Disesteemer (n.) One who disesteems.
Disesteeming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disesteem
Disestimation (n.) Disesteem.
Disexercise (v. t.) To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained.
Disfame (n.) Disrepute.
Disfancy (v. t.) To dislike.
Disfashion (v. t.) To disfigure.
Disfavor (n.) An unkindness; a disobliging act.
Disfavor (n.) The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court.
Disfavor (n.) Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.
Disfavor (v. t.) To injure the form or looks of.
Disfavor (v. t.) To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.
Disfavorable (a.) Unfavorable.
Disfavorably (adv.) Unpropitiously.
Disfavored (imp. & p. p.) of Disfavor
Disfavorer (n.) One who disfavors.
Disfavoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disfavor
Disfeature (v. t.) To deprive of features; to mar the features of.
Disfellowship (v. t.) To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate.
Disfiguration (n.) The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement.
Disfigure (n.) Disfigurement; deformity.
Disfigure (v. t.) To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.
Disfigured (imp. & p. p.) of Disfigure
Disfigurement (n.) Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity.
Disfigurement (n.) That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.
Disfigurer (n.) One who disfigures.
Disfiguring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disfigure
Disflesh (v. t.) To reduce the flesh or obesity of.
Disforest (v. t.) To clear or deprive of forests or trees.
Disforest (v. t.) To disafforest.
Disforestation (n.) The act of clearing land of forests.
Disformity (n.) Discordance or diversity of form; unlikeness in form.
Disfranchise (v. t.) To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.
Disfranchised (imp. & p. p.) of Disfranchise
Disfranchisement (n.) The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.
Disfranchising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disfranchise
Disfriar (v. t.) To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar.
Disfrock (v. t.) To unfrock.
Disfurnish (v. t.) To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest.
Disfurnished (imp. & p. p.) of Disfurnish
Disfurnishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disfurnish
Disfurnishment (n.) The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.
Disfurniture (n.) The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.
Disfurniture (v. t.) To disfurnish.
Disgage (v. t.) To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage.
Disgallant (v. t.) To deprive of gallantry.
Disgarland (v. t.) To strip of a garland.
Disgarnish (v. t.) To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle.
Disgarrison (v. t.) To deprive of a garrison.
Disgavel (v. t.) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands.
Disgaveled () of Disgavel
Disgaveled (imp. & p. p.) of Disgavel
Disgaveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disgavel
Disgest (v. t.) To digest.
Disgestion (n.) Digestion.
Disglorified (imp. & p. p.) of Disglorify
Disglorify (v. t.) To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity.
Disglorifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disglorify
Disglory (n.) Dishonor.
Disgorge (v. i.) To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution.
Disgorge (v. t.) To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place.
Disgorge (v. t.) To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains.
Disgorged (imp. & p. p.) of Disgorge
Disgorgement (n.) The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged.
Disgorging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disgorge
Disgospel (v. i.) To be inconsistent with, or act contrary to, the precepts of the gospel; to pervert the gospel.
Disgrace (n.) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
Disgrace (n.) That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.
Disgrace (n.) The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
Disgrace (n.) The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.
Disgrace (n.) To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation.
Disgrace (n.) To put out favor; to dismiss with dishonor.
Disgrace (n.) To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile.
Disgraced (imp. & p. p.) of Disgrace
Disgraceful (a.) Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man.
Disgradation (n.) Degradation; a stripping of titles and honors.
Disgrade (v. t.) To degrade.
Disgraduate (v. t.) To degrade; to reduce in rank.
Disgregate (v. t.) To disperse; to scatter; -- opposite of congregate.
Disgregation (n.) The process of separation, or the condition of being separate, as of the molecules of a body.
Disgruntle (v. t.) To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger.
Disguise (n.) A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties.
Disguise (n.) A masque or masquerade.
Disguise (n.) Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.
Disguise (n.) Change of manner by drink; intoxication.
Disguise (v. t.) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
Disguise (v. t.) To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.
Disguise (v. t.) To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.
Disguised (imp. & p. p.) of Disguise
Disguisedfy (adv.) In disguise.
Disguisedness (n.) The state of being disguised.
Disguisement (n.) Disguise.
Disguiser (n.) One who wears a disguise; an actor in a masquerade; a masker.
Disguiser (n.) One who, or that which, disguises.
Disguising (n.) A masque or masquerade.
Disguising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disguise
Disgust (v. t.) To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.
Disgusted (imp. & p. p.) of Disgust
Disgustful (a.) Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting.
Disgustfulness (n.) The state of being disgustful.
Disgusting (a.) That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting.
Disgusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disgust
Dish (n.) A hollow place, as in a field.
Dish (n.) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.
Dish (n.) A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
Dish (n.) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
Dish (n.) The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."
Dish (n.) The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
Dish (v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
Dish (v. t.) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
Dish (v. t.) To put in a dish, ready for the table.
Dishabilitate (v. t.) To disqualify.
Dishabille (n.) An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.
Dishabit (v. t.) To dislodge.
Dishabited (p. a.) Rendered uninhabited.
Dishabituate (v. t.) To render unaccustomed.
Dishable (v. t.) To disable.
Dishable (v. t.) To disparage.
Dishallow (v. t.) To make unholy; to profane.
Disharmonious (a.) Unharmonious; discordant.
Disharmony (n.) Want of harmony; discord; incongruity.
Dishaunt (v. t.) To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt.
Dishcloth (n.) A cloth used for washing dishes.
Dishclout (n.) A dishcloth.
Disheart (v. t.) To dishearten.
Dishearten (v. t.) To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.
Disheartened (imp. & p. p.) of Dishearten
Disheartening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dishearten
Disheartenment (n.) Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
Dished (imp. & p. p.) of Dish
Disheir (v. t.) To disinherit.
Dishelm (v. t.) To deprive of the helmet.
Disherison (n.) The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion.
Disherit (v. t.) To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance.
Disheritance (n.) The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance.
Disherited (imp. & p. p.) of Disherit
Disheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disherit
Disheritor (n.) One who puts another out of his inheritance.
Dishevel (v. i.) To be spread in disorder or hang negligently, as the hair.
Dishevel (v. t.) To spread loosely or disorderly.
Dishevel (v. t.) To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle.
Dishevele (p. p. & a.) Disheveled.
Disheveled (a.) Having in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair.
Disheveled (a.) Having the hair in loose disorder.
Disheveled (imp. & p. p.) of Dishevel
Disheveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dishevel
Dishevelled () of Dishevel
Dishevelling () of Dishevel
Dishful (n.) As much as a dish holds when full.
Dishfuls (pl. ) of Dishful
Dishing (a.) Dish-shaped; concave.
Dishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dish
Dishonest (a.) Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust.
Dishonesty (n.) Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act.
Dishonesty (n.) Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
Dishonor (n.) Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.
Dishonor (n.) The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn.
Dishonor (v. t.) To refuse or decline to accept or pay; -- said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exchange.
Dishonor (v. t.) To violate the chastity of; to debauch.
Dishonorable (a.) Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed.
Dishonorable (a.) Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.
Dishonorary (a.) Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation.
Dishonored (imp. & p. p.) of Dishonor
Dishonorer (n.) One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity.
Dishonoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dishonor
Dishorn (v. t.) To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle.
Dishorse (v. t.) To dismount.
Dishouse (v. t.) To deprive of house or home.
Dishumor (n.) Ill humor.
Dishumor (v. t.) To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor.
Dishwasher (n.) A European bird; the wagtail.
Dishwasher (n.) One who, or that which, washes dishes.
Dishwater (n.) Water in which dishes have been washed.
Disillusion (n.) The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
Disillusion (v. t.) To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.
Disillusionize (v. t.) To disenchant; to free from illusion.
Disillusionment (n.) The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
Disimbitter (v. t.) To free from bitterness.
Disimpark (v. t.) To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park.
Disimpassioned (a.) Free from warmth of passion or feeling.
Disimprove (v. i.) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
Disimprove (v. t.) To make worse; -- the opposite of improve.
Disimprovement (n.) Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth.
Disincarcerate (v. t.) To liberate from prison.
Disinclination (n.) The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.
Disincline (v. t.) To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate.
Disinclined (imp. & p. p.) of Disincline
Disinclining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disincline
Disinclose (v. t.) To free from being inclosed.
Disincorporate (a.) Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; disincorporated.
Disincorporate (v. t.) To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body.
Disincorporate (v. t.) To detach or separate from a corporation.
Disincorporated (imp. & p. p.) of Disincorporate
Disincorporating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disincorporate
Disincorporation (n.) Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation.
Disinfect (v. t.) To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.
Disinfectant (n.) That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.
Disinfected (imp. & p. p.) of Disinfect
Disinfecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinfect
Disinfection (n.) The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.
Disinfector (n.) One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.
Disinflame (v. t.) To divest of flame or ardor.
Disingenuity (n.) Disingenuousness.
Disingenuous (a.) Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
Disingenuous (a.) Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
Disinhabited (a.) Uninhabited.
Disinherison (v. t.) Same as Disherison.
Disinherit (v. t.) To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent.
Disinherit (v. t.) To deprive of heritage; to dispossess.
Disinheritance (n.) The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.
Disinherited (imp. & p. p.) of Disinherit
Disinheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinherit
Disinhume (v. t.) To disinter.
Disinsure (v. t.) To render insecure; to put in danger.
Disintegrable (a.) Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder.
Disintegrate (v. i.) To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.
Disintegrate (v. t.) To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences.
Disintegrated (imp. & p. p.) of Disintegrate
Disintegrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disintegrate
Disintegration (n.) The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated.
Disintegration (n.) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
Disintegrator (n.) A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.
Disinter (v. t.) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
Disinter (v. t.) To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
Disinteress (v. t.) To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage.
Disinterest (n.) Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness.
Disinterest (n.) What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage.
Disinterest (p. a.) Disinterested.
Disinterest (v. t.) To divest of interest or interested motives.
Disinterested (a.) Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage; free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested decision or judge.
Disinterestedly (adv.) In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.
Disinterestedness (n.) The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality.
Disinteresting (a.) Uninteresting.
Disinterment (n.) The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.
Disinterred (imp. & p. p.) of Disinter
Disinterring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinter
Disinthrall (v. t.) To free from thralldom; to disenthrall.
Disinthralled (imp. & p. p.) of Disinthrall
Disinthralling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinthrall
Disinthrallment (n.) A releasing from thralldom or slavery; disenthrallment.
Disintricate (v. t.) To disentangle.
Disinure (v. t.) To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar.
Disinured (imp. & p. p.) of Disinure
Disinuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinure
Disinvestiture (n.) The act of depriving of investiture.
Disinvigorate (v. t.) To enervate; to weaken.
Disinvolve (v. t.) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
Disjection (n.) Destruction; dispersion.
Disjoin (v. i.) To become separated; to part.
Disjoin (v. t.) To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.
Disjoined (imp. & p. p.) of Disjoin
Disjoining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disjoin
Disjoint (a.) Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint.
Disjoint (v. t.) To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.
Disjoint (v. t.) To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint and edifice.
Disjoint (v. t.) To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving.
Disjointed (a.) Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent.
Disjointed (imp. & p. p.) of Disjoint
Disjointing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disjoint
Disjointly (adv.) In a disjointed state.
Disjudication (n.) Judgment; discrimination. See Dijudication.
Disjunct (a.) Disjoined; separated.
Disjunct (a.) Having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by a deep constriction.
Disjunctive (a.) Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords.
Disjunctive (a.) Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.
Disjunctive (n.) A disjunctive conjunction.
Disjunctive (n.) A disjunctive proposition.
Disjunctively (adv.) In a disjunctive manner; separately.
Disjuncttion (n.) A disjunctive proposition.
Disjuncttion (n.) The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.
Disjuncture (n.) The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation.
Disk (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.
Disk (n.) A discus; a quoit.
Disk (n.) A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
Disk (n.) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.
Disk (n.) In owls, the space around the eyes.
Disk (n.) The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones.
Disk (n.) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower.
Disk (n.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.
Disk (n.) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.
Disk (n.) The whole surface of a leaf.
Diskindness (n.) Unkindness; disservice.
Diskless (a.) Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.
Dislade (v. t.) To unlade.
Disleal (a.) Disloyal; perfidious.
Disleave (v. t.) To deprive of leaves.
Dislike (n.) A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness.
Dislike (n.) Discord; dissension.
Dislike (v. t.) To awaken dislike in; to displease.
Dislike (v. t.) To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.
Disliked (imp. & p. p.) of Dislike
Dislikeful (a.) Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable.
Dislikelihood (n.) The want of likelihood; improbability.
Disliken (v. t.) To make unlike; to disguise.
Dislikeness (n.) Unlikeness.
Disliker (n.) One who dislikes or disrelishes.
Disliking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dislike
Dislimb (v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dismember.
Dislimn (v. t.) To efface, as a picture.
Dislink (v. t.) To unlink; to disunite; to separate.
Dislive (v. t.) To deprive of life.
Dislocate (a.) Dislocated.
Dislocate (v. t.) To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones.
Dislocated (imp. & p. p.) of Dislocate
Dislocating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dislocate
Dislocation (n.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
Dislocation (n.) The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
Dislocation (n.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
Dislodge (n.) Dwelling apart; separation.
Dislodge (v. i.) To go from a place of rest.
Dislodge (v. t.) To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.
Dislodge (v. t.) To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or an enemy.
Dislodged (imp. & p. p.) of Dislodge
Dislodging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dislodge
Dislodgment (n.) The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.
Disloign (v. t.) To put at a distance; to remove.
Disloyal (a.) Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife.
Disloyally (adv.) In a disloyal manner.
Disloyalty (n.) Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.
Dismail (v. t.) To divest of coat of mail.
Dismal (a.) Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
Dismal (a.) Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.
Dismally (adv.) In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
Dismalness (n.) The quality of being dismal; gloominess.
Disman (v. t.) To unman.
Dismantle (v. t.) To disable; to render useless.
Dismantle (v. t.) To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship.
Dismantle (v. t.) To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
Dismantled (imp. & p. p.) of Dismantle
Dismantling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismantle
Dismarch (v. i.) To march away.
Dismarry (v. t.) To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce.
Dismarshal (v. t.) To disarrange; to derange; to put in disorder.
Dismask (v. t.) To divest of a mask.
Dismast (v. t.) To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.
Dismasted (imp. & p. p.) of Dismast
Dismasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismast
Dismastment (n.) The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted.
Dismaw (v. t.) To eject from the maw; to disgorge.
Dismay (v. i.) To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
Dismay (v. i.) To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
Dismay (v. i.) To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
Dismay (v. t.) Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
Dismay (v. t.) Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
Dismayed (imp. & p. p.) of Dismay
Dismayedness (n.) A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.
Dismayful (a.) Terrifying.
Dismaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismay
Disme (n.) A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe.
Dismember (v. t.) To deprive of membership.
Dismember (v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
Dismembered (imp. & p. p.) of Dismember
Dismembering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismember
Dismemberment (n.) The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m/tilation; division; separation.
Dismettled (a.) Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit.
Dismiss (n.) Dismission.
Dismiss (v. t.) To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.
Dismiss (v. t.) To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.
Dismiss (v. t.) To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
Dismissal (n.) Dismission; discharge.
Dismissed (imp. & p. p.) of Dismiss
Dismissing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismiss
Dismission (n.) Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.
Dismission (n.) Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace.
Dismission (n.) The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.
Dismissive (a.) Giving dismission.
Dismortaged (imp. & p. p.) of Dismortgage
Dismortgage (v. t.) To redeem from mortgage.
Dismortgaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismortgage
Dismount (v. i.) To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.
Dismount (v. i.) To come down; to descend.
Dismount (v. t.) To take down, or apart, as a machine.
Dismount (v. t.) To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.
Dismount (v. t.) To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.
Dismount (v. t.) To throw or remove from the carriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery.
Dismounted (imp. & p. p.) of Dismount
Dismounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismount
Disnaturalize (v. t.) To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth.
Disnatured (a.) Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural.
Disobedience (n.) Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.
Disobediency (n.) Disobedience.
Disobedient (a.) Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts.
Disobedient (a.) Not yielding.
Disobediently (adv.) In a disobedient manner.
Disobeisance (n.) Disobedience.
Disobeisant (a.) Disobedient.
Disobey (v. i.) To refuse or neglect to obey; to violate commands; to be disobedient.
Disobeyed (imp. & p. p.) of Disobey
Disobeyer (n.) One who disobeys.
Disobeying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disobey
Disobligation (n.) A disobliging act; an offense.
Disobligation (n.) Release from obligation.
Disobligation (n.) The act of disobliging.
Disobligatory (a.) Releasing from obligation.
Disoblige (v. t.) To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.
Disoblige (v. t.) To release from obligation.
Disobliged (imp. & p. p.) of Disoblige
Disobligement (n.) Release from obligation.
Disobliger (n.) One who disobliges.
Disobliging (a.) Displeasing; offensive.
Disobliging (a.) Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act.
Disobliging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disoblige
Disoccident (v. t.) To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude.
Disoccupation (n.) The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
Disopinion (n.) Want or difference of belief; disbelief.
Disoppilate (v. t.) To open.
Disorb (v. t.) To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere.
Disord (n.) Disorder.
Disordeined (a.) Inordinate; irregular; vicious.
Disorder (n.) Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult.
Disorder (n.) Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement.
Disorder (n.) Neglect of order or system; irregularity.
Disorder (n.) Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.
Disorder (v. t.) To depose from holy orders.
Disorder (v. t.) To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach.
Disorder (v. t.) To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.
Disordered (a.) Disorderly.
Disordered (a.) Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment.
Disordered (imp. & p. p.) of Disorder
Disordering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disorder
Disorderliness (n.) The state of being disorderly.
Disorderly (a.) Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
Disorderly (a.) Not complying with the restraints of order and law; tumultuous; unruly; lawless; turbulent; as, disorderly people; disorderly assemblies.
Disorderly (a.) Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state.
Disorderly (a.) Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house.
Disorderly (adv.) In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly.
Disordinance (n.) Disarrangement; disturbance.
Disordinate (a.) Inordinate; disorderly.
Disordinately (adv.) Inordinately.
Disordination (n.) The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion.
Disorganization (v. t.) The act of disorganizing; destruction of system.
Disorganization (v. t.) The state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization of the body, or of government.
Disorganize (v. t.) To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange.
Disorganized (imp. & p. p.) of Disorganize
Disorganizer (n.) One who disorganizes or causes disorder and confusion.
Disorganizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disorganize
Disorient (v. t.) To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.
Disorientate (v. t.) To turn away from the east, or (figuratively) from the right or the truth.
Disown (v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny.
Disown (v. t.) To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.
Disowned (imp. & p. p.) of Disown
Disowning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disown
Disownment (n.) Act of disowning.
Disoxidate (v. t.) To deoxidate; to deoxidize.
Disoxidation (n.) Deoxidation.
Disoxygenate (v. t.) To deprive of oxygen; to deoxidize.
Disoxygenation (n.) Deoxidation.
Dispace (v. i.) To roam.
Dispair (v. t.) To separate (a pair).
Dispand (v. t.) To spread out; to expand.
Dispansion (n.) Act of dispanding, or state of being dispanded.
Disparadised (a.) Removed from paradise.
Disparage (n.) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
Disparage (v. t.) To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
Disparage (v. t.) To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.
Disparaged (imp. & p. p.) of Disparage
Disparagement (n.) Injurious comparison with an inferior; a depreciating or dishonoring opinion or insinuation; diminution of value; dishonor; indignity; reproach; disgrace; detraction; -- commonly with to.
Disparagement (n.) Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation.
Disparager (n.) One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.
Disparaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disparage
Disparagingly (adv.) In a manner to disparage or dishonor; slightingly.
Disparate (a.) Pertaining to two coordinate species or divisions.
Disparate (a.) Unequal; dissimilar; separate.
Disparates (n. pl.) Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.
Disparities (pl. ) of Disparity
Disparition (n.) Act of disappearing; disappearance.
Disparity (n.) Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color.
Dispark (v. t.) To set at large; to release from inclosure.
Dispark (v. t.) To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common.
Disparkle (v. t.) To scatter abroad.
Dispart (n.) A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight.
Dispart (n.) The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
Dispart (v. i.) To separate, to open; to cleave.
Dispart (v. t.) To furnish with a dispart sight.
Dispart (v. t.) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
Dispart (v. t.) To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers.
Disparted (imp. & p. p.) of Dispart
Disparting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispart
Dispassion (n.) Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy.
Dispassionate (a.) Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed.
Dispassionate (a.) Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a dispassionate view.
Dispassioned (a.) Free from passion; dispassionate.
Dispatch (v. i.) To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.
Dispatch (v. t.) A message transmitted by telegraph.
Dispatch (v. t.) Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.
Dispatch (v. t.) The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.
Dispatch (v. t.) The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.
Dispatch (v. t.) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
Dispatch (v. t.) To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.
Dispatch (v. t.) To rid; to free.
Dispatch (v. t.) To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.
Dispatch (v. t.) To send out of the world; to put to death.
Dispatched (imp. & p. p.) of Dispatch
Dispatcher (n.) One who dispatches.
Dispatchful (a.) Bent on haste; intent on speedy execution of business or any task; indicating haste; quick; as, dispatchful looks.
Dispatching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispatch
Dispatchment (n.) The act of dispatching.
Dispathies (pl. ) of Dispathy
Dispathy (n.) Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy.
Dispauper (v. t.) To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis.
Dispauperize (v. t.) To free a state of pauperism, or from paupers.
Dispeed (v. t.) To send off with speed; to dispatch.
Dispel (v. t.) To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions.
Dispelled (imp. & p. p.) of Dispel
Dispelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispel
Dispence (v. i. & n.) See Dispense.
Dispend (v. t.) To spend; to lay out; to expend.
Dispender (n.) One who dispends or expends; a steward.
Dispensable (a.) Capable of being dispensed or administered.
Dispensable (a.) Capable of being dispensed with.
Dispensableness (n.) Quality of being dispensable.
Dispensaries (pl. ) of Dispensary
Dispensary (n.) A dispensatory.
Dispensary (n.) A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.
Dispensation (n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
Dispensation (n.) That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed
Dispensation (n.) The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.
Dispensative (a.) Granting dispensation.
Dispensatively (adv.) By dispensation.
Dispensator (n.) A distributer; a dispenser.
Dispensatories (pl. ) of Dispensatory
Dispensatorily (adv.) In the way of dispensation; dispensatively.
Dispensatory (v. t.) Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations.
Dispense (n.) Expense; profusion; outlay.
Dispense (v. i.) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
Dispense (v. i.) To give dispensation.
Dispense (v. t.) Dispensation; exemption.
Dispense (v. t.) To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
Dispense (v. t.) To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines.
Dispense (v. t.) To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from.
Dispense (v. t.) To pay for; to atone for.
Dispensed (imp. & p. p.) of Dispense
Dispenser (n.) One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
Dispensing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispense
Dispeople (v. t.) To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate.
Dispeopled (imp. & p. p.) of Dispeople
Dispeopler (n.) One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.
Dispeopling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispeople
Disperge (v. t.) To sprinkle.
Disperple (v. t.) To scatter; to sprinkle.
Dispersal (n.) The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.
Disperse (v. i.) To distribute wealth; to share one's abundance with others.
Disperse (v. i.) To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse.
Disperse (v. t.) To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.
Disperse (v. t.) To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors.
Dispersed (a.) Scattered.
Dispersed (imp. & p. p.) of Disperse
Disperseness (n.) Dispersedness.
Disperser (n.) One that disperses.
Dispersing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disperse
Dispersion (n.) The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites and ceremonies; a great dispersion of the human family took place at the building of Babel.
Dispersion (n.) The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities.
Dispersive (a.) Tending to disperse.
Disperson'ate (v. t.) To deprive of personality or individuality.
Dispirit (v. t.) To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.
Dispirit (v. t.) To distill or infuse the spirit of.
Dispirited (a.) Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted.
Dispirited (imp. & p. p.) of Dispirit
Dispiriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispirit
Dispiritment (n.) Depression of spirits; discouragement.
Dispiteous (a.) Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless.
Displace (v. t.) To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.
Displace (v. t.) To crowd out; to take the place of.
Displace (v. t.) To dislodge; to drive away; to banish.
Displace (v. t.) To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.
Displaceable (a.) Capable of being displaced.
Displaced (imp. & p. p.) of Displace
Displacement (n.) The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
Displacement (n.) The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
Displacement (n.) The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
Displacency (n.) Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike.
Displacer (n.) One that displaces.
Displacer (n.) The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement.
Displacing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Displace
Displant (v. t.) To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants.
Displant (v. t.) To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants.
Displantation (n.) The act of displanting; removal; displacement.
Displanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Displant
Displat (v. t.) To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat.
Display (n.) An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation.
Display (n.) Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade.
Display (v. i.) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
Display (v. t.) To discover; to descry.
Display (v. t.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
Display (v. t.) To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade.
Display (v. t.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
Display (v. t.) To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest.
Display (v. t.) To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
Displayed (a.) Set with lines of prominent type interspersed, to catch the eye.
Displayed (a.) Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.
Displayed (a.) With wings expanded; -- said of a bird of pray, esp. an eagle.
Displease (v. t.) To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke.
Displeased (imp. & p. p.) of Displease
Displeasedly (adv.) With displeasure.
Displeasedness (n.) Displeasure.
Displeaser (n.) One who displeases.
Displeasing (a.) Causing displeasure or dissatisfaction; offensive; disagreeable.
Displeasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Displease
Displeasure (n.) State of disgrace or disfavor; disfavor.
Displeasure (n.) That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offense; injury.
Displeasure (v. t.) To displease.
Displenish (v. t.) To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock.
Disposal (n.) Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the disposal of.
Disposal (n.) Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting; as, a disposal of property.
Disposal (n.) The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.
Dispose (n.) Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor.
Dispose (n.) Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
Dispose (v. i.) To bargain; to make terms.
Dispose (v. t.) To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.
Dispose (v. t.) To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.
Dispose (v. t.) To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time.
Dispose (v. t.) To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object.
Dispose (v. t.) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
Disposed (imp. & p. p.) of Dispose
Disposed (p. a.) Inclined to mirth; jolly.
Disposed (p. a.) Inclined; minded.
Disposedness (n.) The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
Disposement (n.) Disposal.
Disposer (n.) One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower.
Disposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispose
Disposingly (adv.) In a manner to dispose.
Disposited (a.) Disposed.
Disposition (n.) Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
Disposition (n.) Mood; humor.
Disposition (n.) Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.
Disposition (n.) Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
Disposition (n.) The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.
Disposition (n.) The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.
Dispositional (a.) Pertaining to disposition.
Dispositioned (a.) Having (such) a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well-dispositioned.
Dispositive (a.) Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency.
Dispositive (a.) Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive.
Dispositively (adv.) In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition.
Dispositor (n.) A disposer.
Dispositor (n.) The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is.
Dispossess (v. t.) To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.
Dispossessed (imp. & p. p.) of Dispossess
Dispossessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispossess
Dispossession (n.) The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.
Dispossession (n.) The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster.
Dispossessor (n.) One who dispossesses.
Dispost (v. t.) To eject from a post; to displace.
Disposure (n.) The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction.
Dispraisable (a.) Blamable.
Dispraise (v. t.) The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement.
Dispraise (v. t.) To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame.
Dispraised (imp. & p. p.) of Dispraise
Dispraiser (n.) One who blames or dispraises.
Dispraising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispraise
Dispraisingly (adv.) By way of dispraise.
Dispread (v. i.) To extend or expand itself.
Dispread (v. t.) To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams.
Dispreader (n.) One who spreads abroad.
Disprejudice (v. t.) To free from prejudice.
Disprepare (v. t.) To render unprepared.
Disprince (v. t.) To make unlike a prince.
Disprison (v. t.) To let loose from prison, to set at liberty.
Disprivilege (v. t.) To deprive of a privilege or privileges.
Disprize (v. t.) To depreciate.
Disprofess (v. t.) To renounce the profession or pursuit of.
Disprofit (n.) Loss; damage.
Disprofit (v. i. & i.) To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.
Disprofitable (a.) Unprofitable.
Disproof (n.) A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.
Disproperty (v. t.) To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of.
Disproportion (n.) Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.
Disproportion (n.) Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object.
Disproportion (v. t.) To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
Disproportionable (a.) Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate.
Disproportionality (n.) The state of being disproportional.
Disproportionally (adv.) In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
Disproportioned (imp. & p. p.) of Disproportion
Disproportioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disproportion
Dispropriate (v. t.) To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate.
Disprovable (a.) Capable of being disproved or refuted.
Disproval (n.) Act of disproving; disproof.
Disprove (v. t.) To disallow; to disapprove of.
Disprove (v. t.) To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
Disproved (imp. & p. p.) of Disprove
Disprover (n.) One who disproves or confutes.
Disprovide (v. t.) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
Disproving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disprove
Dispunct (a.) Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous.
Dispunct (v. t.) To expunge.
Dispunge (v. t.) See Disponge.
Dispunge (v. t.) To expunge; to erase.
Dispunishable (a.) Without penal restraint; not punishable.
Dispurpose (v. t.) To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots.
Dispurse (v. t.) To disburse.
Dispurvey (v. t.) To disfurnish; to strip.
Dispurveyance (n.) Want of provisions; /ack of food.
Disputable (v. i.) Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions.
Disputable (v. i.) Disputatious; contentious.
Disputableness (n.) State of being disputable.
Disputacity (v. i.) Proneness to dispute.
Disputant (n.) One who disputes; one who argues // opposition to another; one appointed to dispute; a controvertist; a reasoner in opposition.
Disputant (v. i.) Disputing; engaged in controversy.
Disputation (v. i.) A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed.
Disputation (v. i.) The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.
Disputatious (a.) Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper.
Disputative (a.) Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper.
Dispute (v. i.) Contest; struggle; quarrel.
Dispute (v. i.) To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle.
Dispute (v. i.) Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
Dispute (v. t.) To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
Dispute (v. t.) To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute assertions or arguments.
Dispute (v. t.) To strive or contend about; to contest.
Dispute (v. t.) To struggle against; to resist.
Disputed (imp. & p. p.) of Dispute
Disputeless (a.) Admitting no dispute; incontrovertible.
Disputer (n.) One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist.
Disputing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispute
Disputison (n.) Dispute; discussion.
Disqualification (n.) That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes unfit; as, conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office; sickness is a disqualification for labor.
Disqualification (n.) The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.
Disqualified (imp. & p. p.) of Disqualify
Disqualify (v. t.) To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness.
Disqualify (v. t.) To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act.
Disqualifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disqualify
Disquantity (v. t.) To diminish the quantity of; to lessen.
Disquiet (a.) Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.
Disquiet (n.) Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety.
Disquiet (v. t.) To render unquiet; to deprive of peace, rest, or tranquility; to make uneasy or restless; to disturb.
Disquietal (n.) The act of disquieting; a state of disquiet.
Disquieted (imp. & p. p.) of Disquiet
Disquieter (n.) One who, or that which, disquiets, or makes uneasy; a disturber.
Disquietful (a.) Producing inquietude or uneasiness.
Disquieting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disquiet
Disquietive (a.) Tending to disquiet.
Disquietly (adv.) In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night.
Disquietment (n.) State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment.
Disquietness (n.) Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness.
Disquietous (a.) Causing uneasiness.
Disquiettude (n.) Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety.
Disquisition (n.) A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation.
Disquisitional (a.) Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
Disquisitionary (a.) Pertaining to disquisition; disquisitional.
Disquisitive (a.) Relating to disquisition; fond discussion or investigation; examining; inquisitive.
Disquisitorial (a.) Disquisitory.
Disquisitory (a.) Of or pertaining to disquisition; disquisitive.
Disrange (v. t.) To disarrange.
Disrank (v. t.) To degrade from rank.
Disrank (v. t.) To throw out of rank or into confusion.
Disrate (v. t.) To reduce to a lower rating or rank; to degrade.
Disray (variant) of Disarray.
Disrealize (v. t.) To divest of reality; to make uncertain.
Disregard (n.) The act of disregarding, or the state of being disregarded; intentional neglect; omission of notice; want of attention; slight.
Disregard (v. t.) Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience.
Disrelish (n.) Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.
Disrelish (n.) Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust; as, a disrelish for some kinds of food.
Disrelish (v. t.) Not to relish; to regard as unpalatable or offensive; to feel a degree of disgust at.
Disrelish (v. t.) To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.
Disrelished (imp. & p. p.) of Disrelish
Disrelishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disrelish
Disremember (v. t.) To fail to remember; to forget.
Disrepair (n.) A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair.
Disreputability (n.) The state of being disreputable.
Disreputable (a.) Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane.
Disreputably (adv.) In a disreputable manner.
Disreputation (n.) Loss or want of reputation or good name; dishonor; disrepute; disesteem.
Disrepute (n.) Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
Disrepute (v. t.) To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
Disrespect (n.) Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.
Disrespect (v. t.) To show disrespect to.
Disrespectability (n.) Want of respectability.
Disrespectable (a.) Not respectable; disreputable.
Disrespecter (n.) One who disrespects.
Disrespectful (a.) Wanting in respect; manifesting disesteem or lack of respect; uncivil; as, disrespectful behavior.
Disrespective (a.) Showing want of respect; disrespectful.
Disreverence (v. t.) To treat irreverently or with disrespect.
Disrobe (v. t. & i.) To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure.
Disrobed (imp. & p. p.) of Disrobe
Disrober (n.) One who, or that which, disrobes.
Disrobing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disrobe
Disroof (v. t.) To unroof.
Disroot (v. t.) To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot.
Disrooted (imp. & p. p.) of Disroot
Disrooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disroot
Disrout (v. i.) To put to rout.
Disrudder (v. t.) To deprive of the rudder, as a ship.
Disrulily (adv.) In a disorderly manner.
Disruly (a.) Unruly; disorderly.
Disrupt (a.) Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.
Disrupt (v. t.) To break asunder; to rend.
Disrupted (imp. & p. p.) of Disrupt
Disrupting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disrupt
Disruption (n.) The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.
Disruptive (a.) Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery.
Disrupture (n.) Disruption.
Dissatisfaction (n.) The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations.
Dissatisfactory (a.) Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing.
Dissatisfied (imp. & p. p.) of Dissatisfy
Dissatisfy (v. t.) To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune.
Dissatisfying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissatisfy
Disseat (v. t.) To unseat.
Dissect (v. t.) To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.
Dissect (v. t.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.
Dissected (a.) Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf.
Dissected (a.) Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.
Dissected (imp. & p. p.) of Dissect
Dissectible (a.) Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection.
Dissecting (a.) Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery.
Dissecting (a.) Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound.
Dissecting (a.) Used for or in dissecting; as, a dissecting knife; a dissecting microscope.
Dissecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissect
Dissection (n.) Anything dissected; especially, some part, or the whole, of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the structure; an anatomical so prepared.
Dissection (n.) Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination.
Dissection (n.) The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.
Dissector (n.) One who dissects; an anatomist.
Disseize (v. t.) To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold.
Disseized (imp. & p. p.) of Disseize
Disseizee (n.) A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor.
Disseizin (n.) The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold.
Disseizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disseize
Disseizor (n.) One who wrongfully disseizes, or puts another out of possession of a freehold.
Disseizoress (n.) A woman disseizes.
Disseizure (n.) Disseizin.
Dissemblance (n.) The act or art of dissembling; dissimulation.
Dissemblance (n.) Want of resemblance; dissimilitude.
Dissemble (v. i.) To conceal the real fact, motives, /tention, or sentiments, under some pretense; to assume a false appearance; to act the hypocrite.
Dissemble (v. t.) To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.
Dissemble (v. t.) To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign.
Dissembled (imp. & p. p.) of Dissemble
Dissembler (n.) One who dissembles; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance; a hypocrite.
Dissembling (a.) That dissembles; hypocritical; false.
Dissembling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissemble
Disseminate (v. t. & i.) To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and errors are disseminated when they are spread abroad for propagation.
Disseminate (v. t. & i.) To spread or extend by dispersion.
Disseminated (imp. & p. p.) of Disseminate
Disseminated (p. a.) Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance.
Disseminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disseminate
Dissemination (n.) The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.
Disseminative (a.) Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated.
Disseminator (n.) One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease.
Dissension (n.) Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel.
Dissensious (a.) Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious.
Dissent (n.) Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality.
Dissent (n.) Separation from an established church, especially that of England; nonconformity.
Dissent (n.) The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement.
Dissent (v. i.) To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.
Dissent (v. i.) To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.
Dissent (v. i.) To differ; to be of a contrary nature.
Dissentaneous (a.) Disagreeing; contrary; differing; -- opposed to consentaneous.
Dissentany (a.) Dissentaneous; inconsistent.
Dissentation (n.) Dissension.
Dissented (imp. & p. p.) of Dissent
Dissenter (n.) One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement.
Dissenter (n.) One who separates from the service and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist.
Dissenterism (n.) The spirit or principles of dissenters.
Dissentiate (v. t.) To throw into a state of dissent.
Dissentious (a.) Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious.
Dissentive (a.) Disagreeing; inconsistent.
Dissepiment (n.) A separating tissue; a partition; a septum.
Dissepiment (n.) One of the partitions which divide a compound ovary into cells.
Dissepiment (n.) One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral.
Dissert (v. i.) To discourse or dispute; to discuss.
Dissertate (v. i.) To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse.
Dissertation (n.) A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.
Dissertational (a.) Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.
Dissertationist (n.) A writer of dissertations.
Dissertator (n.) One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.
Dissertly (adv.) See Disertly.
Disserve (v. t.) To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.
Disservice (n.) Injury; mischief.
Disserviceable (a.) Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable.
Disserving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disserve
Dissettle (v. t.) To unsettle.
Dissettlement (n.) The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.
Dissever (v. i.) To part; to separate.
Dissever (v. t.) To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse.
Disseverance (n.) The act of disserving; separation.
Disseveration (n.) The act of disserving; disseverance.
Dissevered (imp. & p. p.) of Dissever
Dissevering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissever
Disseverment (n.) Disseverance.
Disshadow (v. t.) To free from shadow or shade.
Dissheathe (v. i.) To become unsheathed.
Disship (v. t.) To dismiss from service on board ship.
Disshiver (v. t. & i.) To shiver or break in pieces.
Dissidence (a.) Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion.
Dissident (a.) No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.
Dissident (n.) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
Dissidently (adv.) In a dissident manner.
Dissilience (n.) Alt. of Dissiliency
Dissiliency (n.) The act of leaping or starting asunder.
Dissilient (a.) Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp.
Dissilition (n.) The act of bursting or springing apart.
Dissimilar (a.) Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.
Dissimilarity (n.) Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms.
Dissimilarly (adv.) In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style.
Dissimilate (v. t.) To render dissimilar.
Dissimilation (n.) The act of making dissimilar.
Dissimile (n.) Comparison or illustration by contraries.
Dissimilitude (n.) A comparison by contrast; a dissimile.
Dissimilitude (n.) Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.
Dissimulate (v. i.) To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Dissimulation (n.) The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.
Dissimulator (n.) One who dissimulates; a dissembler.
Dissimule (v. t. & i.) To dissemble.
Dissimuler (n.) A dissembler.
Dissimulour (n.) A dissembler.
Dissipable (a.) Capable of being scattered or dissipated.
Dissipate (v. i.) To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.
Dissipate (v. i.) To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.
Dissipate (v. t.) To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.
Dissipate (v. t.) To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.
Dissipated (a.) Squandered; scattered.
Dissipated (a.) Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate.
Dissipated (imp. & p. p.) of Dissipate
Dissipating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissipate
Dissipation (n.) A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
Dissipation (n.) A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
Dissipation (n.) The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
Dissipative (a.) Tending to dissipate.
Dissipativity (n.) The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.
Dissite (a.) Lying apart.
Disslander (n.) Slander.
Disslander (v. t.) To slander.
Disslanderous (a.) Slanderous.
Dissociability (n.) Want of sociability; unsociableness.
Dissociable (a.) Having a tendency to dissolve social connections; unsuitable to society; unsociable.
Dissociable (a.) Not /ell associated or assorted; incongruous.
Dissociate (v. t.) To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.
Dissociated (imp. & p. p.) of Dissociate
Dissociating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissociate
Dissociation (n.) The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.
Dissociative (a.) Tending or leading to dissociation.
Dissolubility (n.) The quality of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, and converted into a fluid.
Dissoluble (a.) Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid.
Dissoluble (a.) Capable of being disunited.
Dissolubleness (n.) The quality of being dissoluble; dissolubility.
Dissolute (a.) Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched.
Dissolute (a.) With nerves unstrung; weak.
Dissolutely (adv.) In a dissolute manner.
Dissoluteness (n.) State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation.
Dissolution (n.) Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
Dissolution (n.) Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.
Dissolution (n.) Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness.
Dissolution (n.) Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.
Dissolution (n.) The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
Dissolution (n.) The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
Dissolution (n.) The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.
Dissolution (n.) The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.
Dissolution (n.) The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.
Dissolvability (n.) Capacity of being dissolved; solubility.
Dissolvable (a.) Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble.
Dissolvative (n.) Having the power to dissolve anything; solvent.
Dissolve (v. i.) To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.
Dissolve (v. i.) To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.
Dissolve (v. i.) To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.
Dissolve (v. t.) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.
Dissolve (v. t.) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
Dissolve (v. t.) To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.
Dissolve (v. t.) To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
Dissolve (v. t.) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
Dissolved (imp. & p. p.) of Dissolve
Dissolvent (a.) Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.
Dissolvent (n.) A remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretions in the body, such as calculi, tubercles, etc.
Dissolvent (n.) That which has the power of dissolving or melting other substances, esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent.
Dissolver (n.) One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate.
Dissolving (a.) Melting; breaking up; vanishing.
Dissolving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissolve
Dissonance (n.) A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.
Dissonance (n.) Want of agreement; incongruity.
Dissonancy (n.) Discord; dissonance.
Dissonant (a.) Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to.
Disspermous (a.) Containing only two seeds; two-seeded.
Disspirit (v. t.) See Dispirit.
Dissuade (v. t.) To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).
Dissuade (v. t.) To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose.
Dissuaded (imp. & p. p.) of Dissuade
Dissuader (n.) One who dissuades; a dehorter.
Dissuading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissuade
Dissuasion (n.) A motive or consideration tending to dissuade; a dissuasive.
Dissuasion (n.) The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation.
Dissuasive (a.) Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice.
Dissuasive (n.) A dissuasive argument or counsel; dissuasion; dehortation.
Dissuasory (n.) A dissuasive.
Dissunder (v. t.) To separate; to sunder; to destroy.
Dissundered (imp. & p. p.) of Dissunder
Dissundering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissunder
Dissweeten (v. t.) To deprive of sweetness.
Dissyllabic (a.) Consisting of two syllables only; as, a dissyllabic foot in poetry.
Dissyllabification (n.) A forming into two syllables.
Dissyllabify (v. t.) To form into two syllables.
Dissyllabize (v. t.) To form into two syllables; to dissyllabify.
Dissyllable (n.) A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.
Dissymmetrical (a.) Not having symmetry; asymmetrical; unsymmetrical.
Dissymmetry (n.) Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.
Dissympathy (n.) Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference.
Distad (adv.) Toward a distal part; on the distal side of; distally.
Distaff (n.) The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.
Distaff (n.) Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively.
Distaffs (pl. ) of Distaff
Distain (v. t.) To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry.
Distained (imp. & p. p.) of Distain
Distaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distain
Distal (a.) Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone.
Distal (a.) Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle
Distally (adv.) Toward a distal part.
Distance (n.) A space marked out in the last part of a race course.
Distance (n.) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve.
Distance (n.) Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events.
Distance (n.) Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left.
Distance (n.) Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.
Distance (n.) Remoteness of place; a remote place.
Distance (n.) Space between two antagonists in fencing.
Distance (n.) The interval between two notes; as, the distance of a fourth or seventh.
Distance (n.) The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape.
Distance (n.) The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
Distance (n.) The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place.
Distance (v. t.) To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote.
Distance (v. t.) To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.
Distance (v. t.) To place at a distance or remotely.
Distanced (imp. & p. p.) of Distance
Distancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distance
Distancy (n.) Distance.
Distant (a.) Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.
Distant (a.) Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
Distant (a.) Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.
Distant (a.) Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.
Distant (a.) Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
Distantial (a.) Distant.
Distantly (adv.) At a distance; remotely; with reserve.
Distaste (n.) Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
Distaste (n.) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
Distaste (n.) Discomfort; uneasiness.
Distaste (v. i.) To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.
Distaste (v. t.) Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.
Distaste (v. t.) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
Distaste (v. t.) To offend; to disgust; to displease.
Distasted (imp. & p. p.) of Distaste
Distasteful (a.) Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive.
Distasteful (a.) Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth.
Distasteful (a.) Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.
Distasteive (a.) Tending to excite distaste.
Distasteive (n.) That which excites distaste or aversion.
Distasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distaste
Distasture (n.) Something which excites distaste or disgust.
Distaves (pl. ) of Distaff
Distemper (v. t.) A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle.
Distemper (v. t.) A painting done with this preparation.
Distemper (v. t.) A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.
Distemper (v. t.) An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.
Distemper (v. t.) Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.
Distemper (v. t.) Political disorder; tumult.
Distemper (v. t.) Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold.
Distemper (v. t.) To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant.
Distemper (v. t.) To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
Distemper (v. t.) To intoxicate.
Distemper (v. t.) To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size.
Distemper (v. t.) To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
Distemperance (n.) Distemperature.
Distemperate (a.) Diseased; disordered.
Distemperate (a.) Immoderate.
Distemperately (adv.) Unduly.
Distemperature (n.) Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air.
Distemperature (n.) Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper.
Distemperature (n.) Disorder; confusion.
Distemperature (n.) Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness.
Distend (v. i.) To become expanded or inflated; to swell.
Distend (v. t.) To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.
Distend (v. t.) To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc.
Distended (imp. & p. p.) of Distend
Distending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distend
Distensibility (n.) The quality or capacity of being distensible.
Distensible (a.) Capable of being distended or dilated.
Distension (n.) Same as Distention.
Distensive (a.) Distending, or capable of being distended.
Distent (a.) Distended.
Distent (n.) Breadth.
Distention (n.) Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.
Distention (n.) The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs.
Dister (v. t.) To banish or drive from a country.
Disterminate (a.) Separated by bounds.
Distermination (n.) Separation by bounds.
Disthene (n.) Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite.
Disthrone (v. t.) To dethrone.
Disthronize (v. t.) To dethrone.
Distich (n.) A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.
Distich (n.) Alt. of Distichous
Distichous (n.) Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.
Distichously (adv.) In a distichous manner.
Distil (v. t. & i.) See Distill.
Distill (n. & v) To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.
Distill (n. & v) To flow gently, or in a small stream.
Distill (n. & v) To practice the art of distillation.
Distill (v. t.) To dissolve or melt.
Distill (v. t.) To let fall or send down in drops.
Distill (v. t.) To subject to distillation; as, to distill molasses in making rum; to distill barley, rye, corn, etc.
Distillable (a.) Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
Distillate (n.) The product of distillation; as, the distillate from molasses.
Distillation (n.) That which falls in drops.
Distillation (n.) The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
Distillation (n.) The substance extracted by distilling.
Distillatory (a.) Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels.
Distillatory (n.) A distillatory apparatus; a still.
Distilled (imp. & p. p.) of Distill
Distiller (n.) One who distills; esp., one who extracts alcoholic liquors by distillation.
Distiller (n.) The condenser of a distilling apparatus.
Distilleries (pl. ) of Distillery
Distillery (n.) The act of distilling spirits.
Distillery (n.) The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on.
Distilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distill
Distillment (n.) Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation.
Distinct (a.) Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.
Distinct (a.) Marked; variegated.
Distinct (a.) Not identical; different; individual.
Distinct (a.) Separate in place; not conjunct; not united by growth or otherwise; -- with from.
Distinct (a.) So separated as not to be confounded with any other thing; not liable to be misunderstood; not confused; well-defined; clear; as, we have a distinct or indistinct view of a prospect.
Distinct (v. t.) To distinguish.
Distinction (n.) A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division.
Distinction (n.) Conspicuous station; eminence; superiority; honorable estimation; as, a man of distinction.
Distinction (n.) Estimation of difference; regard to differences or distinguishing circumstance.
Distinction (n.) That which distinguishes one thing from another; distinguishing quality; sharply defined difference; as, the distinction between real and apparent good.
Distinction (n.) The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from others; exercise of discernment; discrimination.
Distinctive (a.) Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating.
Distinctive (a.) Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar.
Distinctively (adv.) With distinction; plainly.
Distinctiveness (n.) State of being distinctive.
Distinctly (adv.) With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly.
Distinctly (adv.) With meaning; significantly.
Distinctness (n.) Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness.
Distinctness (n.) The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things.
Distincture (n.) Distinctness.
Distinguish (v. i.) To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self or itself discernible.
Distinguish (v. i.) To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.
Distinguish (v. t.) Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.
Distinguish (v. t.) To constitute a difference; to make to differ.
Distinguish (v. t.) To recognize or discern by marks, signs, or characteristic quality or qualities; to know and discriminate (anything) from other things with which it might be confounded; as, to distinguish the sound of a drum.
Distinguish (v. t.) To separate by definition of terms or logical division of a subject with regard to difference; as, to distinguish sounds into high and low.
Distinguish (v. t.) To separate from others by a mark of honor; to make eminent or known; to confer distinction upon; -- with by or for.
Distinguishable (a.) Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub.
Distinguishable (a.) Worthy of note or special regard.
Distinguishableness (n.) The quality of being distinguishable.
Distinguishably (adv.) So as to be distinguished.
Distinguished (a.) Marked; special.
Distinguished (a.) Separated from others by distinct difference; having, or indicating, superiority; eminent or known; illustrious; -- applied to persons and deeds.
Distinguished (imp. & p. p.) of Distinguish
Distinguishedly (adv.) In a distinguished manner.
Distinguisher (n.) One who discerns accurately the difference of things; a nice or judicious observer.
Distinguisher (n.) One who, or that which, distinguishes or separates one thing from another by marks of diversity.
Distinguishing (a.) Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic.
Distinguishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distinguish
Distinguishingly (adv.) With distinction; with some mark of preference.
Distinguishment (n.) Observation of difference; distinction.
Distitle (v. t.) To deprive of title or right.
Distoma (n.) A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2.
Distort (a.) Distorted; misshapen.
Distort (v. t.) To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.
Distort (v. t.) To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.
Distort (v. t.) To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.
Distorted (imp. & p. p.) of Distort
Distorter (n.) One who, or that which, distorts.
Distorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distort
Distortion (n.) A wresting from the true meaning.
Distortion (n.) An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity.
Distortion (n.) The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.
Distortion (n.) The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion.
Distortive (a.) Causing distortion.
Distract (a.) Insane; mad.
Distract (a.) Separated; drawn asunder.
Distract (v. t.) To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.
Distract (v. t.) To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention.
Distract (v. t.) To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.
Distract (v. t.) To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted.
Distractedness (n.) A state of being distracted; distraction.
Distracter (n.) One who, or that which, distracts away.
Distractful (a.) Distracting.
Distractible (a.) Capable of being drawn aside or distracted.
Distractile (a.) Tending or serving to draw apart.
Distracting (a.) Tending or serving to distract.
Distracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distract
Distraction (n.) A diversity of direction; detachment.
Distraction (n.) Agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind; despair.
Distraction (n.) Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions.
Distraction (n.) Derangement of the mind; madness.
Distraction (n.) State in which the attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity.
Distraction (n.) That which diverts attention; a diversion.
Distraction (n.) The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.
Distractious (a.) Distractive.
Distractive (a.) Causing perplexity; distracting.
Distrain (v. i.) To levy a distress.
Distrain (v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.
Distrain (v. t.) To rend; to tear.
Distrain (v. t.) To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement.
Distrain (v. t.) To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.
Distrainable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
Distrained (imp. & p. p.) of Distrain
Distrainer (n.) Same as Distrainor.
Distraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distrain
Distrainor (n.) One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.
Distraint (n.) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.
Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.
Distraught (a.) Distracted; perplexed.
Distraught (a.) Torn asunder; separated.
Distraught (p. p.) of Distract
Distraughted (a.) Distracted.
Distream (v. i.) To flow.
Distress (n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.
Distress (n.) Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
Distress (n.) That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.
Distress (n.) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
Distress (n.) To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.
Distress (n.) To compel by pain or suffering.
Distress (n.) To seize for debt; to distrain.
Distressed (imp. & p. p.) of Distress
Distressedness (n.) A state of being distressed or greatly pained.
Distressful (a.) Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation.
Distributary (a.) Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.
Distribute (v. i.) To make distribution.
Distribute (v. t.) To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice.
Distribute (v. t.) To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
Distribute (v. t.) To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc.
Distribute (v. t.) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
Distribute (v. t.) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
Distribute (v. t.) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
Distributed (imp. & p. p.) of Distribute
Distributer (n.) One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser.
Distributing (a.) That distributes; dealing out.
Distributing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distribute
Distribution (n.) A resolving a whole into its parts.
Distribution (n.) Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.
Distribution (n.) That which is distributed.
Distribution (n.) The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
Distribution (n.) The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
Distributional (a.) Of or pertaining to distribution.
Distributionist (n.) A distributer.
Distributive (a.) Assigning the species of a general term.
Distributive (a.) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two).
Distributive (a.) Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share.
Distributive (n.) A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral.
Distributively (adv.) By distribution; singly; not collectively; in a distributive manner.
Distributiveness (n.) Quality of being distributive.
District (a.) Rigorous; stringent; harsh.
District (n.) A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc.
District (n.) Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract.
District (n.) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.
District (v. t.) To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.
Districted (imp. & p. p.) of District
Districting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of District
Distriction (n.) Sudden display; flash; glitter.
Districtly (adv.) Strictly.
Distringas (n.) A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.
Distrouble (v. t.) To trouble.
Distrust (n.) Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc.
Distrust (n.) State of being suspected; loss of trust.
Distrust (n.) Suspicion of evil designs.
Distrust (v. t.) To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.
Distrusted (imp. & p. p.) of Distrust
Distruster (n.) One who distrusts.
Distrustful (a.) Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful.
Distrustful (a.) Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.
Distrusting (a.) That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in.
Distrusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distrust
Distrustless (a.) Free from distrust.
Distune (v. t.) To put out of tune.
Disturb (n.) Disturbance.
Disturb (v. t.) To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy.
Disturb (v. t.) To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.
Disturb (v. t.) To turn from a regular or designed course.
Disturbance (n.) An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current.
Disturbance (n.) Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness.
Disturbance (n.) The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like.
Disturbance (n.) Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult.
Disturbation (n.) Act of disturbing; disturbance.
Disturbed (imp. & p. p.) of Disturb
Disturber (n.) One who interrupts or incommodes another in the peaceable enjoyment of his right.
Disturber (n.) One who, or that which, disturbs of disquiets; a violator of peace; a troubler.
Disturbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disturb
Disturn (v. t.) To turn aside.
Distyle (a.) Having two columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or the like.
Disulphate (n.) A salt of disulphuric or pyrosulphuric acid; a pyrosulphate.
Disulphate (n.) An acid salt of sulphuric acid, having only one equivalent of base to two of the acid.
Disulphide (n.) A binary compound of sulphur containing two atoms of sulphur in each molecule; -- formerly called disulphuret. Cf. Bisulphide.
Disulphuret (n.) See Disulphide.
Disulphuric (a.) Applied to an acid having in each molecule two atoms of sulphur in the higher state of oxidation.
Disuniform (a.) Not uniform.
Disunion (n.) A breach of concord and its effect; alienation.
Disunion (n.) The termination of union; separation; disjunction; as, the disunion of the body and the soul.
Disunion (n.) The termination or disruption of the union of the States forming the United States.
Disunionist (n.) An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States.
Disunite (v. i.) To part; to fall asunder; to become separated.
Disunite (v. t.) To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of.
Disunite (v. t.) To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.
Disunited (imp. & p. p.) of Disunite
Disuniter (n.) One who, or that which, disjoins or causes disunion.
Disuniting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disunite
Disunity (n.) A state of separation or disunion; want of unity.
Disusage (n.) Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse.
Disuse (n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.
Disuse (v. t.) To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.
Disuse (v. t.) To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil.
Disused (imp. & p. p.) of Disuse
Disusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disuse
Disutilize (v. t.) To deprive of utility; to render useless.
Diswarn (v. t.) To dissuade from by previous warning.
Diswitted (a.) Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted.
Diswont (v. t.) To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom.
Disworkmanship (n.) Bad workmanship.
Disworship (n.) A deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit.
Disworship (v. t.) To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy.
Disworth (v. t.) To deprive of worth; to degrade.
Disyoke (v. t.) To unyoke; to free from a yoke; to disjoin.
Dit (n.) A ditty; a song.
Dit (n.) A word; a decree.
Dit (v. t.) To close up.
Ditation (n.) The act of making rich; enrichment.
Ditch (n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.
Ditch (n.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.
Ditch (v. i.) To dig a ditch or ditches.
Ditch (v. t.) To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.
Ditch (v. t.) To surround with a ditch.
Ditch (v. t.) To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.
Ditched (imp. & p. p.) of Ditch
Ditcher (n.) One who digs ditches.
Ditches (pl. ) of Ditch
Ditching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ditch
Dite (v. t.) To prepare for action or use; to make ready; to dight.
Diterebene (n.) See Colophene.
Dithecal (a.) Alt. of Dithecous
Dithecous (a.) Having two thecae, cells, or compartments.
Ditheism (n.) The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism.
Ditheist (n.) One who holds the doctrine of ditheism; a dualist.
Ditheistic (a.) Alt. of Ditheistical
Ditheistical (a.) Pertaining to ditheism; dualistic.
Dithionic (a.) Containing two equivalents of sulphur; as, dithionic acid.
Dithyramb (n.) A kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem written in a wild irregular strain.
Dithyrambic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a dithyramb; wild and boisterous.
Dithyrambic (n.) A dithyrambic poem; a dithyramb.
Dithyrambus (n.) See Dithyramb.
Dition (n.) Dominion; rule.
Ditionary (a.) Under rule; subject; tributary.
Ditionary (n.) A subject; a tributary.
Ditokous (a.) Having two kinds of young, as certain annelids.
Ditokous (a.) Producing only two eggs for a clutch, as certain birds do.
Ditolyl (n.) A white, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C14H14, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene.
Ditone (n.) The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).
Ditrichotomous (a.) Divided into twos or threes.
Ditrichotomous (a.) Dividing into double or treble ramifications; -- said of a leaf or stem.
Ditrochean (a.) Containing two trochees.
Ditrochee (n.) A double trochee; a foot made up of two trochees.
Ditroite (n.) An igneous rock composed of orthoclase, elaeolite, and sodalite.
Ditt (n.) See Dit, n., 2.
Dittander (n.) A kind of peppergrass (Lepidium latifolium).
Dittany (n.) A plant of the Mint family (Origanum Dictamnus), a native of Crete.
Dittany (n.) In America, the Cunila Mariana, a fragrant herb of the Mint family.
Dittany (n.) The Dictamnus Fraxinella. See Dictamnus.
Dittied (a.) Set, sung, or composed as a ditty; -- usually in composition.
Ditties (pl. ) of Ditty
Ditto (adv.) As before, or aforesaid; in the same manner; also.
Ditto (n.) The aforesaid thing; the same (as before). Often contracted to do., or to two "turned commas" ("), or small marks. Used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition.
Dittology (n.) A double reading, or twofold interpretation, as of a Scripture text.
Dittos (pl. ) of Ditto
Ditty (v. i.) To sing; to warble a little tune.
Ditty (v. t.) A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme.
Ditty (v. t.) A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung.
Ditty-bag (n.) A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife.
Ditty-box (n.) A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc.
Diureide (n.) One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide.
Diuresis (n.) Free excretion of urine.
Diuretic (a.) Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine.
Diuretic (n.) A medicine with diuretic properties.
Diuretical (a.) Diuretic.
Diureticalness (n.) The quality of being diuretical; diuretic property.
Diurna (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.
Diurnal (a.) A daybook; a journal.
Diurnal (a.) A diurnal bird or insect.
Diurnal (a.) A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.
Diurnal (a.) Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects.
Diurnal (a.) Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.
Diurnal (a.) Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.
Diurnal (a.) Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.
Diurnalist (n.) A journalist.
Diurnally (adv.) Daily; every day.
Diurnalness (n.) The quality of being diurnal.
Diurnation (n.) Continuance during the day.
Diurnation (n.) The condition of sleeping or becoming dormant by day, as is the case of the bats.
Diuturnal (a.) Of long continuance; lasting.
Diuturnity (n.) Long duration; lastingness.
Divagation (n.) A wandering about or going astray; digression.
Divalent (a.) Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.
Divan (n.) A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz.
Divan (n.) A chief officer of state.
Divan (n.) A coffee and smoking saloon.
Divan (n.) A cushioned seat, or a large, low sofa or couch; especially, one fixed to its place, and not movable.
Divan (n.) A saloon or hall where a council is held, in Oriental countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room.
Divan (n.) In Turkey and other Oriental countries: A council of state; a royal court. Also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly.
Divaricate (a.) Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color markings on animals, etc.
Divaricate (v. i.) To diverge; to be divaricate.
Divaricate (v. i.) To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.
Divaricate (v. t.) To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.
Divaricated (imp. & p. p.) of Divaricate
Divaricately (adv.) With divarication.
Divaricating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divaricate
Divarication (n.) A divergence of lines of color sculpture, or of fibers at different angles.
Divarication (n.) A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.
Divarication (n.) An ambiguity of meaning; a disagreement of difference in opinion.
Divaricator (n.) One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.
Divast (a.) Devastated; laid waste.
Dive (n.) A place of low resort.
Dive (n.) A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.
Dive (v. i.) Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
Dive (v. i.) To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.
Dive (v. t.) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
Dive (v. t.) To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.
Dived (imp. & p. p.) of Dive
Divedapper (n.) A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick.
Divel (v. t.) To rend apart.
Divellent (a.) Drawing asunder.
Divellicate (v. t.) To pull in pieces.
Diver (n.) Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.
Diver (n.) Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business.
Diver (n.) One who, or that which, dives.
Diverb (n.) A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb.
Diverberate (v. t.) To strike or sound through.
Diverberation (n.) A sounding through.
Diverge (v. i.) To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.
Diverged (imp. & p. p.) of Diverge
Divergement (n.) Divergence.
Divergence (n.) Alt. of Divergency
Divergency (n.) A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.
Divergency (n.) Disagreement; difference.
Divergent (a.) Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens.
Divergent (a.) Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement.
Divergent (a.) Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.
Diverging (a.) Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent.
Diverging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diverge
Divergingly (adv.) In a diverging manner.
Divers (a.) Different in kind or species; diverse.
Divers (a.) Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally.
Diverse (a.) Capable of various forms; multiform.
Diverse (a.) Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.
Diverse (adv.) In different directions; diversely.
Diverse (v. i.) To turn aside.
Diversely (adv.) In different directions; to different points.
Diversely (adv.) In different ways; differently; variously.
Diverseness (n.) The quality of being diverse.
Diversifiability (n.) The quality or capacity of being diversifiable.
Diversifiable (a.) Capable of being diversified or varied.
Diversification (n.) State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation.
Diversification (n.) The act of making various, or of changing form or quality.
Diversified (a.) Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.
Diversified (imp. & p. p.) of Diversify
Diversifier (n.) One who, or that which, diversifies.
Diversiform (a.) Of a different form; of varied forms.
Diversify (v. t.) To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
Diversifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diversify
Diversiloquent (a.) Speaking in different ways.
Diversion (n.) That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth.
Diversion (n.) The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts.
Diversion (n.) The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.
Diversities (pl. ) of Diversity
Diversity (n.) A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness.
Diversity (n.) Multiplicity of difference; multiformity; variety.
Diversity (n.) Variegation.
Diversivolent (a.) Desiring different things.
Diversory (a.) Serving or tending to divert; also, distinguishing.
Diversory (n.) A wayside inn.
Divert (v. i.) To turn aside; to digress.
Divert (v. t.) To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course.
Divert (v. t.) To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor.
Diverted (imp. & p. p.) of Divert
Diverter (n.) One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases.
Divertible (a.) Capable of being diverted.
Diverticle (n.) A diverticulum.
Diverticle (n.) A turning; a byway; a bypath.
Diverticula (pl. ) of Diverticulum
Diverticular (a.) Pertaining to a diverticulum.
Diverticulum (n.) A blind tube branching out of a longer one.
Divertimento (n.) A light and pleasing composition.
Divertissement (n.) A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play.
Divertive (a.) Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting.
Dives (n.) The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.
Divest (v. t.) Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc.
Divest (v. t.) See Devest.
Divest (v. t.) To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
Divested (imp. & p. p.) of Divest
Divestible (a.) Capable of being divested.
Divesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divest
Divestiture (n.) The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
Divestment (n.) The act of divesting.
Divesture (n.) Divestiture.
Divet (n.) See Divot.
Divi-divi (n.) A small tree of tropical America (Caesalpinia coriaria), whose legumes contain a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid, and are used by tanners and dyers.
Dividable (a.) Capable of being divided; divisible.
Dividable (a.) Divided; separated; parted.
Dividant (a.) Different; distinct.
Divide (n.) A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.
Divide (v. i.) To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
Divide (v. i.) To break friendship; to fall out.
Divide (v. i.) To cause separation; to disunite.
Divide (v. i.) To have a share; to partake.
Divide (v. i.) To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
Divide (v. t.) To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns.
Divide (v. t.) To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
Divide (v. t.) To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share.
Divide (v. t.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
Divide (v. t.) To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
Divide (v. t.) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
Divide (v. t.) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
Divide (v. t.) To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question.
Divide (v. t.) To subject to arithmetical division.
Divided (a.) Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; -- said of a leaf.
Divided (a.) Parted; disunited; distributed.
Divided (imp. & p. p.) of Divide
Dividedly (adv.) Separately; in a divided manner.
Dividend (n.) A number or quantity which is to be divided.
Divident (n.) Dividend; share.
Divider (n.) An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses.
Divider (n.) One who deals out to each his share.
Divider (n.) One who, or that which, causes division.
Divider (n.) One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.
Dividing (a.) That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.
Dividing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divide
Dividingly (adv.) By division.
Dividual (a.) Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others.
Dividually (adv.) By dividing.
Dividuous (a.) Divided; dividual.
Divination (n.) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.
Divination (n.) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.
Divinator (n.) One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.
Divinatory (a.) Professing, or relating to, divination.
Divine (a.) A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
Divine (a.) Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
Divine (a.) Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies.
Divine (a.) Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.
Divine (a.) One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
Divine (a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.
Divine (a.) Presageful; foreboding; prescient.
Divine (a.) Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.
Divine (a.) Relating to divinity or theology.
Divine (v. i.) To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
Divine (v. i.) To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
Divine (v. i.) To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
Divine (v. t.) To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
Divine (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to presage.
Divine (v. t.) To render divine; to deify.
Divined (imp. & p. p.) of Divine
Divinely (adv.) By the agency or influence of God.
Divinely (adv.) In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree.
Divinement (n.) Divination.
Divineness (n.) The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence.
Diviner (n.) A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things.
Diviner (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.
Divineress (n.) A woman who divines.
Diving (a.) That dives or is used or diving.
Diving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dive
Divinify (v. t.) To render divine; to deify.
Divining (a.) That divines; for divining.
Divining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divine
Diviningly (adv.) In a divining manner.
Divinistre (n.) A diviner.
Divinities (pl. ) of Divinity
Divinity (a.) A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.
Divinity (a.) A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.
Divinity (a.) Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe.
Divinity (a.) The Deity; the Supreme Being; God.
Divinity (a.) The science of divine things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology.
Divinity (a.) The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead.
Divinization (n.) A making divine.
Divinize (v. t.) To invest with a divine character; to deify.
Divisibility (n.) The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation.
Divisible (a.) Capable of being divided or separated.
Divisible (n.) A divisible substance.
Division (n.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.
Division (n.) A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.
Division (n.) Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.
Division (n.) Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.
Division (n.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.
Division (n.) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.
Division (n.) Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.
Division (n.) That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.
Division (n.) The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.
Division (n.) The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.
Division (n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.
Division (n.) The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.
Division (n.) The separation of a genus into its constituent species.
Division (n.) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.
Division (n.) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.
Divisional (a.) That divides; pertaining to, making, or noting, a division; as, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police.
Divisionally (adv.) So as to be divisional.
Divisionary (a.) Divisional.
Divisionor (n.) One who divides or makes division.
Divisive (a.) Creating, or tending to create, division, separation, or difference.
Divisive (a.) Indicating division or distribution.
Divisor (n.) The number by which the dividend is divided.
Divorce (n.) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.
Divorce (n.) Separation; disunion of things closely united.
Divorce (n.) That which separates.
Divorce (n.) The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
Divorce (n.) The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board."
Divorce (n.) To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.
Divorce (n.) To make away; to put away.
Divorce (n.) To separate or disunite; to sunder.
Divorceable (a.) Capable of being divorced.
Divorced (imp. & p. p.) of Divorce
Divorcee (n.) A person divorced.
Divorceless (a.) Incapable of being divorced or separated; free from divorce.
Divorcement (n.) Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation.
Divorcer (n.) The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce.
Divorcible (a.) Divorceable.
Divorcing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divorce
Divorcive (a.) Having power to divorce; tending to divorce.
Divot (n.) A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel.
Divulgate (a.) Published.
Divulgate (v. t.) To divulge.
Divulgater (n.) A divulger.
Divulgation (n.) The act of divulging or publishing.
Divulge (v. i.) To become publicly known.
Divulge (v. t.) To impart; to communicate.
Divulge (v. t.) To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
Divulge (v. t.) To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret.
Divulged (imp. & p. p.) of Divulge
Divulging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divulge
Divulsive (a.) Tending to pull asunder, tear, or rend; distracting.
Dixie (n.) A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War.
Dizen (v. t.) To dress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out.
Dizen (v. t.) To dress; to attire.
Dizened (imp. & p. p.) of Dizen
Dizening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dizen
Dizz (v. t.) To make dizzy; to astonish; to puzzle.
Dizzard (n.) A blockhead. [Obs.] [Written also dizard, and disard.]
Dizzied (imp. & p. p.) of Dizzy
Dizzily (adv.) In a dizzy manner or state.
Dizziness (n.) Giddiness; a whirling sensation in the head; vertigo.
Dizzy (superl.) Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo.
Dizzy (superl.) Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct.
Dizzy (superl.) Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless.
Dizzy (v. t.) To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse.
Dizzying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dizzy
Djereed (n.) Alt. of Djerrid
Djerrid (n.) A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries.
Djerrid (n.) A game played with it.
Djinnee (n.) See Jinnee, Jinn.
Djinns (pl. ) of Djinnee
Do (n.) A cheat; a swindle.
Do (n.) Ado; bustle; stir; to do.
Do (n.) Deed; act; fear.
Do (v. i.) To act or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self.
Do (v. i.) To fare; to be, as regards health; as, they asked him how he did; how do you do to-day?
Do (v. i.) To succeed; to avail; to answer the purpose; to serve; as, if no better plan can be found, he will make this do.
Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to effect; to achieve.
Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To bring to an end by action; to perform completely; to finish; to accomplish; -- a sense conveyed by the construction, which is that of the past participle done.
Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive.
Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To cheat; to gull; to overreach.
Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat is done on one side only.
Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To perform, as an action; to execute; to transact to carry out in action; as, to do a good or a bad act; do our duty; to do what I can.
Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To place; to put.
Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest.
Do-all (n.) General manager; factotum.
Do-little (n.) One who performs little though professing much.
Doab () A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; as, the doab between the Ganges and the Jumna.
Doable (a.) Capable of being done.
Doand (p. pr.) Doing.
Doat (v. i.) See Dote.
Dobber (n.) A float to a fishing line.
Dobber (n.) See Dabchick.
Dobbin (n.) An old jaded horse.
Dobbin (n.) Sea gravel mixed with sand.
Dobchick (n.) See Dabchick.
Dobson (n.) The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.
Dobule (n.) The European dace.
Docent (a.) Serving to instruct; teaching.
Docetae (n. pl.) Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.
Docetic (a.) Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetae.
Docetism (n.) The doctrine of the Docetae.
Dochmiac (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius.
Dochmius (n.) A foot of five syllables (usually / -- -/ -).
Docibility (n.) Alt. of Docibleness
Docible (a.) Easily taught or managed; teachable.
Docibleness (n.) Aptness for being taught; teachableness; docility.
Docile (a.) Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.
Docile (a.) Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
Docility (n.) teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness.
Docility (n.) Willingness to be taught; tractableness.
Docimacy (n.) The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of facts pertaining to physiology.
Docimastic (a.) Proving by experiments or tests.
Docimology (n.) A treatise on the art of testing, as in assaying metals, etc.
Docity (n.) Teachableness.
Dock (n.) A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
Dock (n.) A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.
Dock (n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.
Dock (n.) The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.
Dock (n.) The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.
Dock (n.) The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting.
Dock (v. t.) To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.
Dock (v. t.) to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.
Dock (v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.
Dock (v. t.) To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.
Dock-cress (n.) Nipplewort.
Dockage (n.) A charge for the use of a dock.
Docked (imp. & p. p.) of Dock
Docket (n.) A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label.
Docket (n.) A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly.
Docket (n.) A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks.
Docket (n.) A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
Docket (n.) An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.
Docket (v. t.) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
Docket (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers.
Docket (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.
Docket (v. t.) To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.
Docketed (imp. & p. p.) of Docket
Docketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Docket
Docking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dock
Dockyard (n.) A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.
Docoglossa (n. pl.) An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.
Docquet (n. & v.) See Docket.
Doctor (n.) A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.
Doctor (n.) One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
Doctor (n.) The friar skate.
Doctor (v. i.) To practice physic.
Doctor (v. t.) To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
Doctor (v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.
Doctor (v. t.) To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
Doctoral (a.) Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor.
Doctorally (adv.) In the manner of a doctor.
Doctorate (n.) The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
Doctorate (v. t.) To make (one) a doctor.
Doctored (imp. & p. p.) of Doctor
Doctoress (n.) A female doctor.
Doctoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doctor
Doctorly (a.) Like a doctor or learned man.
Doctorship (n.) Doctorate.
Doctress (n.) A female doctor.
Doctrinable (a.) Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine.
Doctrinal (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation.
Doctrinal (a.) Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching.
Doctrinal (n.) A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines.
Doctrinally (adv.) In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction.
Doctrinarian (n.) A doctrinaire.
Doctrinarianism (n.) The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires.
Doctrine (n.) Teaching; instruction.
Document (n.) An example for instruction or warning.
Document (n.) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
Document (v. t.) To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
Document (v. t.) To teach; to school.
Documental (a.) Of or pertaining to instruction.
Documental (a.) Of or pertaining to written evidence; documentary; as, documental testimony.
Documentary (a.) Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing.
Dod (v. t.) To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off.
Dodd (v. t.) Alt. of Dod
Doddart (n.) A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game.
Dodded (a.) Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn.
Dodder (n.) A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it.
Dodder (v. t. & i.) To shake, tremble, or totter.
Doddered (a.) Shattered; infirm.
Dodecagon (n.) A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles.
Dodecagynia (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having twelve styles.
Dodecagynian (a.) Alt. of Dodecagynous
Dodecagynous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Dodecagynia; having twelve styles.
Dodecahedral (a.) Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides.
Dodecahedron (n.) A solid having twelve faces.
Dodecandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.
Dodecandrian (a.) Alt. of Dodecandrous
Dodecandrous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.
Dodecane (n.) Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.
Dodecastyle (a.) Having twelve columns in front.
Dodecastyle (n.) A dodecastyle portico, or building.
Dodecasyllabic (a.) Having twelve syllables.
Dodecasyllable (n.) A word consisting of twelve syllables.
Dodecatemory (n.) A tern applied to the twelve houses, or parts, of the zodiac of the primum mobile, to distinguish them from the twelve signs; also, any one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Dodge (n.) The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.
Dodge (v. i.) To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
Dodge (v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
Dodge (v. t.) Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.
Dodge (v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
Dodge (v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
Dodged (imp. & p. p.) of Dodge
Dodger (n.) A small handbill.
Dodger (n.) One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices.
Dodger (n.) See Corndodger.
Dodgery (n.) trickery; artifice.
Dodging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dodge
Dodipate (n.) Alt. of Dodipoll
Dodipoll (n.) A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead.
Dodkin (n.) A doit; a small coin.
Dodman (n.) A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod.
Dodman (n.) Any shellfish which casts its shell, as a lobster.
Dodo (n.) A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.
Dodoes (pl. ) of Dodo
Doe (n.) A feat. [Obs.] See Do, n.
Doe (n.) A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.
Doeglic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the doegling; as, doeglic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid.
Doegling (n.) The beaked whale (Balaenoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained.
Doer (v. t. & i.) An agent or attorney; a factor.
Doer (v. t. & i.) One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.
Does () The 3d pers. sing. pres. of Do.
Doeskin (n.) A firm woolen cloth with a smooth, soft surface like a doe's skin; -- made for men's wear.
Doeskin (n.) The skin of the doe.
Doff (v. i.) To put off dress; to take off the hat.
Doff (v. t.) To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.
Doff (v. t.) To strip; to divest; to undress.
Doffed (imp. & p. p.) of Doff
Doffer (n.) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards.
Doffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doff
Dog (n.) A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
Dog (n.) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.
Dog (n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
Dog (n.) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.
Dog (n.) A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
Dog (n.) An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.
Dog (n.) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.
Dog (n.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).
Dog (v. t.) To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.
Dog bee () A male or drone bee.
Dog day () Alt. of Dogday
Dog fancier () One who has an unusual fancy for, or interest in, dogs; also, one who deals in dogs.
Dog Star () Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, / Canis Majoris. See Dog days.
Dog-brier (n.) The dog-rose.
Dog-eared (a.) Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book.
Dog-faced (a.) Having a face resembling that of a dog.
Dog-fox (n.) A male fox. See the Note under Dog, n., 6.
Dog-fox (n.) The Arctic or blue fox; -- a name also applied to species of the genus Cynalopex.
Dog-headed (a.) Having a head shaped like that of a dog; -- said of certain baboons.
Dog-hearted (a.) Inhuman; cruel.
dog-legged (a.) Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.
Dog-rose (n.) A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.
Dog-weary (a.) Extremely weary.
Dog's-bane (n.) See Dogbane.
Dog's-ear (n.) The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog.
Dog's-tail grass (n.) A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait; -- called also goldseed.
Dog's-tongue (n.) Hound's-tongue.
Dogal (a.) Of or pertaining to a doge.
Dogate (n.) The office or dignity of a doge.
Dogbane (n.) A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.
Dogberry (n.) The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry.
Dogbolt (n.) The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon.
Dogcart (n.) A light one-horse carriage, commonly two-wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box at the back for carrying dogs.
Dogday () One of the dog days.
Dogdraw (n.) The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog.
Doge (n.) The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
Dogeate (n.) Dogate.
Dogeless (a.) Without a doge.
Dogfish (n.) A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.
Doggedly (adv.) In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution.
Doggedness (n.) Sullen or obstinate determination; grim resolution or persistence.
Doggedness (n.) Sullenness; moroseness.
Dogger (n.) A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.
Dogger (n.) A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.
Doggerel (a.) Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
Doggerel (n.) A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.
Doggerman (n.) A sailor belonging to a dogger.
Dogget (n.) Docket. See Docket.
Dogging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dog
Doggish (a.) Like a dog; having the bad qualities of a dog; churlish; growling; brutal.
Doggrel (a. & n.) Same as Doggerel.
Doghole (n.) A place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation or apartment.
Dogma (n.) A doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth; an arbitrary dictum.
Dogma (n.) A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet.
Dogma (n.) That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine.
Dogmas (pl. ) of Dogma
Dogmata (pl. ) of Dogma
Dogmatic (a.) Alt. of Dogmatical
Dogmatic (n.) One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
Dogmatical (a.) Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing.
Dogmatical (a.) Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.
Dogmatically (adv.) In a dogmatic manner; positively; magisterially.
Dogmaticalness (n.) The quality of being dogmatical; positiveness.
Dogmatician (n.) A dogmatist.
Dogmatics (n.) The science which treats of Christian doctrinal theology.
Dogmatism (n.) The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion.
Dogmatist (n.) One who dogmatizes; one who speaks dogmatically; a bold and arrogant advancer of principles.
Dogmatize (v. i.) To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.
Dogmatize (v. t.) To deliver as a dogma.
Dogmatized (imp. & p. p.) of Dogmatize
Dogmatizer (n.) One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.
Dogmatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dogmatize
Dogship (n.) The character, or individuality, of a dog.
Dogshore (n.) One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.
Dogsick (a.) Sick as a dog sometimes is very sick.
Dogskin (n.) The skin of a dog, or leather made of the skin. Also used adjectively.
Dogsleep (n.) Pretended sleep.
Dogsleep (n.) The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress.
Dogteeth (pl. ) of Dogtooth
Dogtie (n.) A cramp.
Dogtooth (n.) An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament.
Dogtooth (n.) See Canine tooth, under Canine.
Dogtrick (n.) A gentle trot, like that of a dog.
Dogvane (n.) A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind.
Dogwatch (n.) A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m.
Dogwood (n.) The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes.
Dohtren (n. pl.) Daughters.
Doily (n.) A kind of woolen stuff.
Doily (n.) A small napkin, used at table with the fruit, etc.; -- commonly colored and fringed.
Doing (n.) Anything done; a deed; an action good or bad; hence, in the plural, conduct; behavior. See Do.
Doing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Do
Doings (pl. ) of Doing
Doit (n.) A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money.
Doit (n.) A thing of small value; as, I care not a doit.
Doitkin (n.) A very small coin; a doit.
Dokimastic (a.) Docimastic.
Doko (n.) See Lepidosiren.
Dolabra (n.) A rude ancient ax or hatchet, seen in museums.
Dolabriform (a.) Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish.
Dolce (adv.) Alt. of Dolcemente
Dolcemente (adv.) Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution.
Dolcino (n.) Alt. of Dulcino
Doldrums (n. pl.) A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors.
Dole (n.) A boundary; a landmark.
Dole (n.) A void space left in tillage.
Dole (n.) Alms; charitable gratuity or portion.
Dole (n.) Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
Dole (n.) grief; sorrow; lamentation.
Dole (n.) See Dolus.
Dole (n.) That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a scanty share or allowance.
Dole (v. t.) To deal out in small portions; to distribute, as a dole; to deal out scantily or grudgingly.
Doled (imp. & p. p.) of Dole
Doleful (a.) Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.
Dolent (a.) Sorrowful.
Dolente (a. & adv.) Plaintively. See Doloroso.
Dolerite (n.) A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt.
Doleritic (a.) Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava.
Dolesome (a.) Doleful; dismal; gloomy; sorrowful.
Dolf (imp.) of Delve.
Dolichocephalic (a.) Alt. of Dolichocephalous
Dolichocephalism (n.) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
Dolichocephalous (a.) Having the cranium, or skull, long to its breadth; long-headed; -- opposed to brachycephalic.
Dolichocephaly (n.) Alt. of Dolichocephalism
Doling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dole
Dolioform (a.) Barrel-shaped, or like a cask in form.
Doliolum (n.) A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations.
Dolium (n.) A genus of large univalve mollusks, including the partridge shell and tun shells.
Doll (n.) A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl.
Dollar (n.) A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries.
Dollar (n.) A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined.
Dollar (n.) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains.
Dollar (n.) The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money values.
Dollardee (n.) A species of sunfish (Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream.
Dollies (pl. ) of Dolly
Dollman (n.) See Dolman.
Dolly (n.) A child's mane for a doll.
Dolly (n.) A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
Dolly (n.) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
Dolly (n.) A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
Dolly (n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
Dolly (n.) In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
Dolly Varden () A character in Dickens's novel "Barnaby Rudge," a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons.
Dolly Varden () A style of light, bright-figured dress goods for women; also, a style of dress.
Dolman (n.) A cloak of a peculiar fashion worn by women.
Dolman (n.) A long robe or outer garment, with long sleeves, worn by the Turks.
Dolmen (n.) A cromlech. See Cromlech.
Dolomitic (a.) Pertaining to dolomite.
Dolomize (v. t.) To convert into dolomite.
Dolor (n.) Pain; grief; distress; anguish.
Doloriferous (a.) Producing pain.
Dolorific (a.) Alt. of Dolorifical
Dolorifical (a.) Causing pain or grief.
Doloroso (a. & adv.) Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction.
Dolorous (a.) Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.
Dolorous (a.) Occasioning pain or grief; painful.
Dolphin (n.) A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin.
Dolphin (n.) A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.
Dolphin (n.) A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.
Dolphin (n.) A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
Dolphin (n.) A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.
Dolphin (n.) A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2.
Dolphin (n.) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.
Dolphin (n.) In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted.
Dolphin (n.) The Coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphaenoid.
Dolphinet (n.) A female dolphin.
Dolt (n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
Dolt (v. i.) To behave foolishly.
Doltish (a.) Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown.
Dolus (n.) Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud. See Culpa.
Dolven (p. p.) of Delve.
Dom (n.) A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.
Dom (n.) In Portugal and Brazil, the title given to a member of the higher classes.
Domable (a.) Capable of being tamed; tamable.
Domableness (n.) Tamableness.
Domage (n.) Damage; hurt.
Domage (n.) Subjugation.
Domain (n.) Dominion; empire; authority.
Domain (n.) Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne.
Domain (n.) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.
Domain (n.) The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively.
Domal (a.) Pertaining to a house.
Domanial (a.) Of or relating to a domain or to domains.
Dome (n.) A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.
Dome (n.) A cupola formed on a large scale.
Dome (n.) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
Dome (n.) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
Dome (n.) Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.
Domed (a.) Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome.
Domesday (n.) A day of judgment. See Doomsday.
Domesman (n.) A judge; an umpire.
Domesmen (pl. ) of Domesman
Domestic (a.) Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.
Domestic (a.) Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.
Domestic (a.) Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions.
Domestic (a.) Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.
Domestic (a.) Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.
Domestic (n.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.
Domestic (n.) One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.
Domestical (a.) Domestic.
Domestical (n.) A family; a household.
Domestically (adv.) In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.
Domesticant (a.) Forming part of the same family.
Domesticate (a.) To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.
Domesticate (a.) To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.
Domesticate (a.) To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.
Domesticated (imp. & p. p.) of Domesticate
Domesticating. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Domesticate
Domestication (n.) The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
Domesticator (n.) One who domesticates.
Domesticity (n.) The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.
Domett (n.) A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen.
Domeykite (n.) A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.
Domical (a.) Relating to, or shaped like, a dome.
Domicile (n.) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.
Domicile (n.) An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.
Domicile (v. t.) To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate.
Domiciled (imp. & p. p.) of Domicile
Domiciliar (n.) A member of a household; a domestic.
Domiciliate (v. t.) To domesticate.
Domiciliate (v. t.) To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.
Domiciliated (imp. & p. p.) of Domiciliate
Domiciliating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Domiciliate
Domiciliation (n.) The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy.
Domiciling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Domicile
Domicillary (a.) Of or pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family.
Domiculture (n.) The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc.
Domify (v. t.) To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense.
Domify (v. t.) To tame; to domesticate.
Domina (n.) Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right.
Dominant (n.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
Dominate (v. i.) To be dominant.
Dominate (v. t.) To predominate over; to rule; to govern.
Dominated (imp. & p. p.) of Dominate
Dominating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dominate
Domination (n.) A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.
Domination (n.) A ruling party; a party in power.
Domination (n.) The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway.
Dominative (a.) Governing; ruling; imperious.
Dominator (n.) A ruler or ruling power.
Domine (n.) A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.
Domine (n.) A West Indian fish (Epinula magistralis), of the family Trichiuridae. It is a long-bodied, voracious fish.
Domineer (v. t.) To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents.
Domineered (imp. & p. p.) of Domineer
Domineering (a.) Ruling arrogantly; overbearing.
Domineering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Domineer
Domini (pl. ) of Dominus
Dominical (a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord's day, or Sunday.
Dominical (a.) Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer.
Dominical (n.) The Lord's day or Sunday; also, the Lord's prayer.
Dominican (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religions communities named from him.
Dominicide (n.) One who kills his master.
Dominicide (n.) The act of killing a master.
Dominie (n.) A clergyman. See Domine, 1.
Dominie (n.) A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
Dominion (n.) A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3.
Dominion (n.) Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.
Dominion (n.) Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.
Dominion (n.) That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.
Domino (n.) A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
Domino (n.) A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
Domino (n.) A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
Domino (n.) A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
Domino (n.) A person wearing a domino.
Domino (n.) One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
Dominoes (pl. ) of Domino
Dominos (pl. ) of Domino
Dominus (n.) Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.
Domitable (a.) That can be tamed.
Domite (n.) A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de-Dome in Auvergne, France, where it is found.
Don (n.) A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities.
Don (n.) Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.
Don (v. t.) To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with.
Donable (a.) Capable of being donated or given.
Donary (n.) A thing given to a sacred use.
Donat (n.) A grammar.
Donatary (n.) See Donatory.
Donate (v. t.) To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.
Donated (imp. & p. p.) of Donate
Donating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Donate
Donation (n.) That which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift.
Donation (n.) The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
Donation (n.) The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift.
Donatism (n.) The tenets of the Donatists.
Donatist (n.) A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church.
Donatistic (a.) Pertaining to Donatism.
Donative (a.) Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson.
Donative (n.) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.
Donative (n.) A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present.
Donator (n.) One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.
Donatory (n.) A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.
Donax (n.) A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc.
Doncella (n.) A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.
Done () p. p. from Do, and formerly the infinitive.
Done (a.) Given; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.
Done (infinitive.) It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically.
Done (infinitive.) Performed; executed; finished.
Done (p. p.) of Do
Donee (n.) Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a power is conferred for execution; -- sometimes called the appointor.
Donee (n.) The person to whom a gift or donation is made.
Donet (n.) Same as Donat. Piers Plowman.
Doni (n.) A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon.
Doniferous (a.) Bearing gifts.
Donjon (n.) The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle.
Donkey (n.) A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass.
Donkey (n.) An ass; or (less frequently) a mule.
Donkeys (pl. ) of Donkey
Donna (n.) A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.
Donnat (n.) See Do-naught.
Donned (imp. & p. p.) of Don
Donning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Don
Donnism (n) Self-importance; loftiness of carriage.
Donor (n.) One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.
Donor (n.) One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee.
Donship (n.) The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight.
Donzel (n.) A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page.
Doo (n.) A dove.
Doob grass () A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States.
Doodle (n.) A trifler; a simple fellow.
Doodlesack (n.) The Scotch bagpipe.
Doole (n.) Sorrow; dole.
Doolies (pl. ) of Dooly
Dooly (n.) A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin.
Doom (v. t.) Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
Doom (v. t.) That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
Doom (v. t.) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
Doom (v. t.) To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
Doom (v. t.) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
Doom (v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
Doom (v. t.) To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.
Doom palm () A species of palm tree (Hyphaene Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia.
Doomage (n.) A penalty or fine for neglect.
Doomed (imp. & p. p.) of Doom
Doomful (a.) Full of condemnation or destructive power.
Dooming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doom
Doomsday (n.) A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.
Doomsday (n.) The day of the final judgment.
Doomsman (n.) A judge; an umpire.
Doomster (n.) Same as Dempster.
Doop (n.) A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.
Door (n.) An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.
Door (n.) An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
Door (n.) Passage; means of approach or access.
Door (n.) The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened.
Doorcase (n.) The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.
Doorcheek (n.) The jamb or sidepiece of a door.
Doorga (n.) A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms.
Dooring (n.) The frame of a door.
Doorkeeper (n.) One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
Doorless (a.) Without a door.
Doornail (n.) The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."
Doorplane (n.) A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.
Doorpost (n.) The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.
Doorsill (n.) The sill or threshold of a door.
Doorstead (n.) Entrance or place of a door.
Doorstep (n.) The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.
Doorstone (n.) The stone forming a threshold.
Doorstop (n.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.
Doorway (n.) The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.
Dooryard (n.) A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.
Dop (n.) A dip; a low courtesy.
Dop (n.) Alt. of Doop
Dop (v. i.) To dip.
Dopper (n.) An Anabaptist or Baptist.
Dopplerite (n.) A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.
Doquet (n.) A warrant. See Docket.
Dor (n.) A trick, joke, or deception.
Dor (v. t.) To make a fool of; to deceive.
Dorado (n.) A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryphaena.
Dorado (n.) A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.
Dorbeetle (n.) See 1st Dor.
Doree (n.) A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of John Doree.
Doretree (n.) A doorpost.
Dorhawk (n.) The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.
Dorian (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion.
Dorian (a.) Same as Doric, 3.
Dorian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece.
Doric (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.
Doric (a.) Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war.
Doric (a.) Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.
Doric (n.) The Doric dialect.
Doricism (n.) A Doric phrase or idiom.
Dories (pl. ) of Dory
Dories (pl. ) of Dory
Doris (n.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiae on the back.
Dorism (n.) A Doric phrase or idiom.
Dorking fowl () One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table.
Dormancy (n.) The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
Dormant (a.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep."
Dormant (a.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.
Dormant (a.) Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
Dormer (n.) Alt. of Dormer window
Dormer window (n.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.
Dormice (pl. ) of Dormouse
Dormitive (a.) Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium.
Dormitive (n.) A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.
Dormitories (pl. ) of Dormitory
Dormitory (n.) A burial place.
Dormitory (n.) A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.
Dormouse (n.) A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter.
Dorn (n.) A British ray; the thornback.
Dornick (n.) Alt. of Dornock
Dornock (n.) A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland.
Dorp (n.) A hamlet.
Dorr (n.) The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor.
Dorr (v. t.) To deafen with noise.
Dorr (v. t.) To deceive. [Obs.] See Dor, v. t.
Dorrfly (n.) See 1st Dor.
Dorrhawk (n.) See Dorhawk.
Dorsad (adv.) Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.
Dorsal (a.) A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position.
Dorsal (a.) Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.
Dorsal (a.) Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.
Dorsal (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Dorsale (n.) Same as Dorsal, n.
Dorsally (adv.) On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
Dorse (n.) Same as dorsal, n.
Dorse (n.) The back of a book.
Dorse (n.) The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.
Dorsel (n.) A pannier.
Dorsel (n.) Same as Dorsal, n.
Dorser (n.) See Dosser.
dorsibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of chaetopod annelids in which the branchiae are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Chaetopoda.]
Dorsibranchiate (a.) Having branchiae along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata.
Dorsibranchiate (n.) One of the Dorsibranchiata.
Dorsiferous () Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous.
Dorsimeson (n.) (Anat.) See Meson.
Dorsiparous (a.) Same as Dorsiferous.
Dorsiventral (a.) Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.
Dorsiventral (a.) See Dorsoventral.
Dorsoventral (a.) From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.
Dorsum (n.) The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue.
Dorsum (n.) The ridge of a hill.
Dortour (n.) Alt. of Dorture
Dorture (n.) A dormitory.
Dory (n.) A European fish. See Doree, and John Doree.
Dory (n.) A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
Dory (n.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. See Pike perch.
Doryphora (n.) A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.
Doryphoros (n.) A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.
Dose (n.) A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.
Dose (n.) Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one.
Dose (n.) The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
Dose (n.) To give anything nauseous to.
Dose (n.) To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.
Dose (n.) To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
Dosed (imp. & p. p.) of Dose
Dosel (n.) Same as Dorsal, n.
dosing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dose
Dosology (n.) Posology.
Dossel (n.) Same as Dorsal, n.
Dosser (n.) A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.
Dosser (n.) A pannier, or basket.
Dossil (n.) A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.
Dossil (n.) A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.
Dost (2d pers. sing. pres.) of Do.
Dot (n.) A marriage portion; dowry.
Dot (n.) A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.
Dot (n.) Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.
Dot (v. i.) To make dots or specks.
Dot (v. t.) To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages.
Dot (v. t.) To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.
Dotage (v. i.) Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
Dotage (v. i.) Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.
Dotage (v. i.) Foolish utterance; drivel.
Dotal (a.) Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it.
Dotant (n.) A dotard.
Dotard (v. i.) One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.
Dotardly (a.) Foolish; weak.
Dotary (n.) A dotard's weakness; dotage.
Dotation (n.) Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.
Dotation (n.) The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.
Dote (n.) A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n.
Dote (n.) An imbecile; a dotard.
Dote (n.) Natural endowments.
Dote (v. i.) To act foolishly.
Dote (v. i.) To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child.
Dote (v. i.) To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.
Doted (a.) Half-rotten; as, doted wood.
Doted (a.) Stupid; foolish.
Doted (imp. & p. p.) of Dote
Dotehead (n.) A dotard.
Doter (n.) One excessively fond, or weak in love.
Doter (n.) One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.
Dotery (n.) The acts or speech of a dotard; drivel.
Doth (3d pers. sing. pres.) of Do.
Doting (a.) That dotes; silly; excessively fond.
Doting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dote
Dotish (a.) Foolish; weak; imbecile.
Dottard (n.) An old, decayed tree.
Dotted (a.) Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects.
Dotted (imp. & p. p.) of Dot
Dotterel (a.) Decayed.
Dotterel (v. i.) A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias, / Charadrius, morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler.
Dotterel (v. i.) A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull.
Dotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dot
Dotting pen () See under Pun.
Dottrel (n.) See Dotterel.
Doty (a.) Half-rotten; as, doty timber.
Dou/ted (imp. & p. p.) of Doubt
Douane (n.) A customhouse.
Douanier (n.) An officer of the French customs.
Douar (n.) A village composed of Arab tents arranged in streets.
Doub grass () Doob grass.
Double (a.) Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled.
Double (a.) Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere.
Double (a.) To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
Double (a.) To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length.
Double (a.) To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion.
Double (a.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
Double (a.) Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.
Double (adv.) Twice; doubly.
Double (n.) A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts.
Double (n.) A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.
Double (n.) A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.
Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice.
Double (n.) Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.
Double (n.) An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites.
Double (n.) Double beer; strong beer.
Double (n.) Something precisely equal or counterpart to another; a counterpart. Hence, a wraith.
Double (n.) That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.
Double (n.) Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.
Double (v. i.) To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much.
Double (v. i.) To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.
Double (v. i.) To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction.
Double (v. i.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.
Double dealer () One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person.
Double dealing () False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing.
Double first () A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics.
Double first () One who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics.
Double-acting (a.) Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.
Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
Double-banked (a.) Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.
Double-barreled (a.) Alt. of -barrelled
Double-beat valve () See under Valve.
Double-breasted (a.) Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.
Double-charge (v. t.) To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.
Double-charge (v. t.) To overcharge.
Double-decker (n.) A man-of-war having two gun decks.
Double-decker (n.) A public conveyance, as a street car, with seats on the roof.
Double-dye (v. t.) To dye again or twice over.
Double-dyed (a.) Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a double-dyed villain.
Double-ender (n.) A locomotive with pilot at each end.
Double-ender (n.) A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end.
Double-entendre (n.) A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.
Double-faced (a.) Having two faces designed for use; as, a double-faced hammer.
Double-handed (a.) Deceitful; deceptive.
Double-handed (a.) Having two hands.
Double-headed (a.) Having two heads; bicipital.
Double-hung (a.) Having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window.
Double-lock (v. t.) To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
Double-milled (a.) Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.
Double-quick (a.) Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.
Double-quick (n.) Double-quick time, step, or march.
Double-quick (v. i. & t.) To move, or cause to move, in double-quick time.
Double-ripper (n.) A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other.
Double-shade (v. t.) To double the natural darkness of (a place).
Double-tongue (n.) Deceit; duplicity.
Double-tongued (a.) Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful.
Double-tonguing (n.) A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.
Doubled (imp. & p. p.) of Double
Doublehearted (a.) Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous.
Doubleminded (a.) Having different minds at different times; unsettled; undetermined.
Doubleness (n.) Duplicity; insincerity.
Doubleness (n.) The state of being double or doubled.
Doubler (n.) An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.
Doubler (n.) One who, or that which, doubles.
Doublet (a.) A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.
Doublet (a.) A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.
Doublet (a.) A game somewhat like backgammon.
Doublet (a.) A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.
Doublet (a.) An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
Doublet (a.) One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.
Doublet (a.) Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.
Doublet (a.) Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.
Doublethreaded (a.) Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
Doublethreaded (a.) Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.
Doubletree (n.) The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached.
Doublets (n. pl.) See Doublet, 6 and 7.
Doubling (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice.
Doubling (n.) The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled.
Doubling (n.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.
Doubling (n.) The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor.
Doubling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Double
Doubloon (a.) A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon in Sup.
Doubly (adv.) Deceitfully.
Doubly (adv.) In twice the quantity; to twice the degree; as, doubly wise or good; to be doubly sensible of an obligation.
Doubt (v. i.) A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.
Doubt (v. i.) Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.
Doubt (v. i.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive.
Doubt (v. i.) To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.
Doubt (v. i.) Uncertainty of condition.
Doubt (v. t.) To fill with fear; to affright.
Doubt (v. t.) To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
Doubt (v. t.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of.
Doubtable (a.) Capable of being doubted; questionable.
Doubtable (a.) Worthy of being feared; redoubtable.
Doubtance (n.) State of being in doubt; uncertainty; doubt.
Doubter (n.) One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.
Doubtful (a.) Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear, or certain; questionable; not decided; not easy to be defined, classed, or named; as, a doubtful case, hue, claim, title, species, and the like.
Doubtful (a.) Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful expression; a doubtful phrase.
Doubtful (a.) Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious.
Doubtful (a.) Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure.
Doubtful (a.) Of uncertain issue or event.
Doubtfully (adv.) In a doubtful manner.
Doubtfulness (n.) State of being doubtful.
Doubtfulness (n.) Uncertainty of event or issue.
Doubtfulness (n.) Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness.
Doubting (a.) That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts.
Doubting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doubt
Doubtless (a.) Free from fear or suspicion.
Doubtless (adv.) Undoubtedly; without doubt.
Doubtlessly (adv.) Unquestionably.
Doubtous (a.) Doubtful.
Douc (n.) A monkey (Semnopithecus nemaeus), remarkable for its varied and brilliant colors. It is a native of Cochin China.
Douce (a.) Sober; prudent; sedate; modest.
Douce (a.) Sweet; pleasant.
Doucepere (n.) One of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war.
Doucet (n.) Alt. of Dowset
Douceur (n.) A gift for service done or to be done; an honorarium; a present; sometimes, a bribe.
Douceur (n.) Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness.
Douche (n.) A jet or current of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; a douche bath.
Douche (n.) A syringe.
Doucine (n.) Same as Cyma/recta, under Cyma.
Doucker (v. t.) A grebe or diver; -- applied also to the golden-eye, pochard, scoter, and other ducks.
Dough (n.) Anything of the consistency of such paste.
Dough (n.) Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.
Dough-baked (a.) Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding.
Dough-faced (a.) Easily molded; pliable.
Dough-kneaded (a.) Like dough; soft.
Doughbird (n.) The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew.
Doughface (n.) A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded.
Doughfaceism (n.) The character of a doughface; truckling pliability.
Doughiness (n.) The quality or state of being doughy.
Doughnut (n.) A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.
Doughtily (adv.) In a doughty manner.
Doughtiness (n.) The quality of being doughty; valor; bravery.
Doughtren (n. pl.) Daughters.
Doughty (superl.) Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero.
Doughy (a.) Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.
Doulocracy (n.) A government by slaves.
Doum palm () See Doom palm.
Doupe (n.) The carrion crow.
Dour (a.) Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
Doura (n.) A kind of millet. See Durra.
Douroucouli (n.) See Durukuli.
Douse (v. i.) To fall suddenly into water.
Douse (v. t.) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.
Douse (v. t.) To put out; to extinguish.
Douse (v. t.) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail.
Doused (imp. & p. p.) of Douse
Dousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Douse
Dousing-chock (n.) One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck.
Dout (v. t.) To put out.
Douter (n.) An extinguisher for candles.
Dove () of Dive
Dove (n.) A pigeon of the genus Columba and various related genera. The species are numerous.
Dove (n.) A word of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
Dove plant () A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant.
Dove-eyed (a.) Having eyes like a dove; meekeyed; as, dove-eyed Peace.
Dove's-foot (n.) A small annual species of Geranium, native in England; -- so called from the shape of the leaf.
Dove's-foot (n.) The columbine.
Dovecot (n.) Alt. of Dovecote
Dovecote (n.) A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
Dovekie (n.) A guillemot (Uria grylle), of the arctic regions. Also applied to the little auk or sea dove. See under Dove.
Dovelet (n.) A young or small dove.
Dovelike (a.) Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable.
Doveship (n.) The possession of dovelike qualities, harmlessness and innocence.
Dovetail (n.) A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one.
Dovetail (v. t.) To cut to a dovetail.
Dovetail (v. t.) To fit in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly.
Dovetail (v. t.) To join by means of dovetails.
Dovetailed (imp. & p. p.) of Dovetail
Dovetailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dovetail
Dovish (a.) Like a dove; harmless; innocent.
Dow (n.) A kind of vessel. See Dhow.
Dow (v. t.) To furnish with a dower; to endow.
Dowable (v. t.) Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower.
Dowager (n.) A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank.
Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease.
Dowagerism (n.) The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively.
Dowcet (n.) One of the testicles of a hart or stag.
Dowdies (pl. ) of Dowdy
Dowdy (n.) An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman.
Dowdy (superl.) Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.
Dowdyish (a.) Like a dowdy.
Dowel (n.) A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it.
Dowel (n.) A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
Dowel (v. t.) To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.
Doweled (imp. & p. p.) of Dowel
Doweling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dowel
Dowelled () of Dowel
Dowelling () of Dowel
Dower (n.) That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband.
Dower (n.) That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry.
Dower (n.) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
Dower (n.) The property with which a woman is endowed
Dowered (p. a.) Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion.
Dowerless (a.) Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion.
Dowery (n.) See Dower.
Dowitcher (n.) The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.
Dowl (n.) Same as Dowle.
Dowlas (n.) A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico.
Dowle (n.) Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather.
Down (a.) Downcast; as, a down look.
Down (a.) Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial.
Down (a.) Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.
Down (adv.) From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions.
Down (adv.) From a remoter or higher antiquity.
Down (adv.) Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound.
Down (adv.) In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well.
Down (adv.) In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet.
Down (adv.) In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.
Down (n.) Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool
Down (n.) That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down
Down (n.) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.
Down (n.) The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
Down (n.) The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.
Down (prep.) A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.
Down (prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
Down (prep.) A state of depression; low state; abasement.
Down (prep.) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural.
Down (v. i.) To go down; to descend.
Down (v. t.) To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down.
Down (v. t.) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
Down-share (n.) A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs.
Downbear (v. t.) To bear down; to depress.
Downcast (a.) Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
Downcast (n.) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
Downcast (n.) Downcast or melancholy look.
Downcome (n.) A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
Downcome (n.) Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow.
Downed (imp. & p. p.) of Down
Downfall (n.) A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.
Downfall (n.) A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
Downfallen (a.) Fallen; ruined.
Downfalling (a.) Falling down.
Downgyved (a.) Hanging down like gyves or fetters.
Downhaul (n.) A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.
Downhearted (a.) Dejected; low-spirited.
Downhill (a.) Declivous; descending; sloping.
Downhill (adv.) Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
Downhill (n.) Declivity; descent; slope.
Downiness (n.) The quality or state of being downy.
Downing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Down
Downlooked (a.) Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen.
Downlying (n.) The time of retiring to rest; time of repose.
Downpour (n.) A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
Downright (a.) Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.
Downright (adv.) In plain terms; without ceremony.
Downright (adv.) Straight down; perpendicularly.
Downright (adv.) Without delay; at once; completely.
Downsitting (n.) The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
Downstairs (a.) Below stairs; as, a downstairs room.
Downstairs (adv.) Down the stairs; to a lower floor.
Downsteepy (a.) Very steep.
Downstream (adv.) Down the stream; as, floating downstream.
Downstroke (n.) A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.
Downthrow (n.) The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.
Downtrod (a.) Alt. of Downtrodden
Downtrodden (a.) Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power.
Downward (a.) Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.
Downward (a.) Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.
Downward (a.) Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts.
Downward (adv.) Alt. of Downwards
Downwards (adv.) From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards.
Downwards (adv.) From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin.
Downwards (adv.) From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line.
Downweed (n.) Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
Downweigh (v. t.) To weigh or press down.
Downy (a.) Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs.
Downy (a.) Cunning; wary.
Downy (a.) Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet.
Dowral (a.) Of or relating to a dower.
Dowress (n.) A woman entitled to dower.
Dowries (pl. ) of Dowry
Dowry (n.) A gift or presents for the bride, on espousal. See Dower.
Dowry (n.) A gift; endowment.
Dowry (n.) The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. See Note under Dower.
Dowse (n.) A blow on the face.
Dowse (v. i.) To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.
Dowse (v. t.) To beat or thrash.
Dowse (v. t.) To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.
Dowser (n.) A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc., a dowsing rod.
Dowser (n.) One who uses the dowser or divining rod.
Dowset (n.) A custard.
Dowset (n.) A dowcet, or deep's testicle.
Dowst (n.) A dowse.
Dowve (n.) A dove.
Doxies (pl. ) of Doxy
Doxological (a.) Pertaining to doxology; giving praise to God.
Doxologies (pl. ) of Doxology
Doxologize (v. i.) To give glory to God, as in a doxology; to praise God with doxologies.
Doxologized (imp. & p. p.) of Doxologize
Doxologizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doxologize
Doxology (n.) In Christian worship: A hymn expressing praise and honor to God; a form of praise to God designed to be sung or chanted by the choir or the congregation.
Doxy (n.) A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart.
Doyly (n.) See Doily.
Doze (n.) A light sleep; a drowse.
Doze (v. i.) To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy.
Doze (v. t.) To make dull; to stupefy.
Doze (v. t.) To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.
Dozed (imp. & p. p.) of Doze
Dozen (n.) A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.
Dozen (n.) An indefinite small number.
Dozen (pl. ) of Dozen
Dozens (pl. ) of Dozen
Dozenth (a.) Twelfth.
Dozer (n.) One who dozes or drowses.
Doziness (n.) The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
Dozing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doze
Dozy (a.) Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head.
Dozzled (a.) Stupid; heavy.
Drab (a.) Of a color between gray and brown.
Drab (n.) A drab color.
Drab (n.) A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
Drab (n.) A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
Drab (n.) A lewd wench; a strumpet.
Drab (n.) A low, sluttish woman.
Drab (n.) A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
Drab (v. i.) To associate with strumpets; to wench.
Drabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Drab
Drabber (n.) One who associates with drabs; a wencher.
Drabbet (n.) A coarse linen fabric, or duck.
Drabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drab
Drabbish (a.) Having the character of a drab or low wench.
Drabbish (a.) Somewhat drab in color.
Drabble (v. i.) To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.
Drabble (v. t.) To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak.
Drabble-tail (n.) A draggle-tail; a slattern.
Drabbled (imp. & p. p.) of Drabble
Drabbler (n.) A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.
Drabbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drabble
Dracaena (n.) A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.
Dracanth (n.) A kind of gum; -- called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See Tragacanth.
Drachm (n.) A drachma.
Drachm (n.) Same as Dram.
Drachma (n.) A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents.
Drachma (n.) A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents.
Drachma (n.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram.
Drachmae (pl. ) of Drachma
Drachmas (pl. ) of Drachma
Drachme (n.) See Drachma.
Dracin (n.) See Draconin.
Draco (n.) A genus of lizards. See Dragon, 6.
Draco (n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.
Draco (n.) The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic.
Draconian (a.) Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c.
Draconic (a.) Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood.
Draconin (n.) A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin.
Dracontic (a.) Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon.
Dracontine (a.) Belonging to a dragon.
Dracunculi (pl. ) of Dracunculus
Dracunculus (n.) A fish; the dragonet.
Dracunculus (n.) The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis).
Drad (p. p. & a.) Dreaded.
Dradde (imp.) of Dread.
Dradge (n.) Inferior ore, separated from the better by cobbing.
Draff (n.) A current of air. Same as Draught.
Draff (n.) A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.
Draff (n.) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face.
Draff (n.) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.
Draff (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted.
Draff (n.) An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods.
Draff (n.) An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.
Draff (n.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.
Draff (n.) Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.
Draff (n.) The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught.
Draff (n.) The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.
Draff (n.) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.
Draffish (a.) Worthless; draffy.
Draffy (a.) Dreggy; waste; worthless.
Draft (a.) Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.
Draft (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught.
Draft (v. t.) To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.
Draft (v. t.) To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select.
Draft (v. t.) To draw the outline of; to delineate.
Draft (v. t.) To transfer by draft.
Drafted (imp. & p. p.) of Draft
Drafting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Draft
Draftsman (n.) See Draughtsman.
Drag (n.) A confection; a comfit; a drug.
Drag (v. i.) To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.
Drag (v. i.) To fish with a dragnet.
Drag (v. i.) To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
Drag (v. i.) To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
Drag (v. t.) A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
Drag (v. t.) A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
Drag (v. t.) A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
Drag (v. t.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
Drag (v. t.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
Drag (v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
Drag (v. t.) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).
Drag (v. t.) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
Drag (v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
Drag (v. t.) The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
Drag (v. t.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
Drag (v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.
Drag (v. t.) To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.
Drag (v. t.) To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
Dragantine (n.) A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gum tragacanth.
Dragbar (n.) Same as Drawbar (b). Called also draglink, and drawlink.
Dragbolt (n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.
Dragees (n. pl.) Sugar-coated medicines.
Dragged (imp. & p. p.) of Drag
Dragging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drag
Draggle (v. i.) To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass.
Draggle (v. t.) To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail.
Draggle-tail (n.) A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.
Draggle-tailed (a.) Untidy; sluttish; slatternly.
Draggled (imp. & p. p.) of Draggle
Draggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Draggle
Draglink (n.) A drawbar.
Draglink (n.) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
Dragman (n.) A fisherman who uses a dragnet.
Dragmen (pl. ) of Dragman
Dragnet (n.) A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.
Dragoman (n.) An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.
Dragomans (pl. ) of Dragoman
Dragon (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
Dragon (n.) A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.
Dragon (n.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.
Dragon (n.) A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.
Dragon (n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.
Dragon (n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
Dragon (n.) A variety of carrier pigeon.
Dragon's blood () Alt. of Dragon's tail
Dragon's head () Alt. of Dragon's tail
Dragon's tail () See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc., under Dragon.
Dragonet (n.) A little dragon.
Dragonet (n.) A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie.
Dragonish (a.) resembling a dragon.
Dragonlike (a.) Like a dragon.
Dragonnade (n.) The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade.
Dragoon (n.) A variety of pigeon.
Dragoon (n.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.
Dragoon (v. t.) To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
Dragoon (v. t.) To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
Dragoonade (n.) See Dragonnade.
Dragooned (imp. & p. p.) of Dragoon
Dragooner (n.) A dragoon.
Dragooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dragoon
Drail (v. t. & i.) To trail; to draggle.
Drain (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
Drain (n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.
Drain (n.) The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.
Drain (v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.
Drain (v. i.) To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
Drain (v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
Drain (v. t.) To filter.
Drainable (a.) Capable of being drained.
Drainage (n.) A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.
Drainage (n.) Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc.
Drainage (n.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.
Drainage (n.) The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.
Drainage (n.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.
Draine (n.) The missel thrush.
Drained (imp. & p. p.) of Drain
Drainer (n.) One who, or that which, drains.
Draining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drain
Draining (v. t.) The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land.
Drainpipe (n.) A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.
Draintile (n.) A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile.
Draintrap (n.) See 4th Trap, 5.
Drake (n.) A dragon.
Drake (n.) A small piece of artillery.
Drake (n.) The drake fly.
Drake (n.) The male of the duck kind.
Drake (n.) Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank.
Drakestone (n.) A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes.
Dram (n.) A minute quantity; a mite.
Dram (n.) A Persian daric.
Dram (n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains.
Dram (n.) As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison.
Dram (v. i. & t.) To drink drams; to ply with drams.
Drama (n.) A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.
Drama (n.) Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.
Dramatic (a.) Alt. of Dramatical
Dramatical (a.) Of or pertaining to the drama; appropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid.
Dramatically (adv.) In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.
Dramatis personae () The actors in a drama or play.
Dramatist (n.) The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.
Dramatizable (a.) Capable of being dramatized.
Dramatization (n.) Act of dramatizing.
Dramatize (v. t.) To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.
Dramatized (imp. & p. p.) of Dramatize
Dramatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dramatize
Dramaturgic (a.) Relating to dramaturgy.
Dramaturgist (n.) One versed in dramaturgy.
Dramaturgy (n.) The art of dramatic composition and representation.
Dramming (n.) The practice of drinking drams.
Dramseller (n.) One who sells distilled liquors by the dram or glass.
Dramshop (n.) A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram.
Drank (imp.) of Drink
Drank (imp.) of Drink.
Drank (n.) Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant.
Drap d'ete () A thin woolen fabric, twilled like merino.
Drape (v. i.) To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
Drape (v. i.) To make cloth.
Drape (v. t.) To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
Drape (v. t.) To rail at; to banter.
Draped (imp. & p. p.) of Drape
Draper (n.) One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.
Draperied (a.) Covered or supplied with drapery.
Draperies (pl. ) of Drapery
Drapery (n.) Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general.
Drapery (n.) The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
Drapet (n.) Cloth.
Draping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drape
Drastic (a.) Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.
Drastic (n.) A violent purgative. See Cathartic.
Drasty (a.) Filthy; worthless.
Draugh (n.) See Draft.
Draught (a.) Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.
Draught (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.
Draught (a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.
Draught (a.) Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.
Draught (n.) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.
Draught (n.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.
Draught (n.) A move, as at chess or checkers.
Draught (n.) A sink or drain; a privy.
Draught (n.) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.
Draught (n.) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.
Draught (n.) A team of oxen or horses.
Draught (n.) Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.
Draught (n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.
Draught (n.) An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.
Draught (n.) Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
Draught (n.) See Draft, n., 7.
Draught (n.) That which draws
Draught (n.) That which is drawn
Draught (n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net.
Draught (n.) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
Draught (n.) The act of drawing or pulling
Draught (n.) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.
Draught (n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.
Draught (n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)
Draught (n.) The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.
Draught (n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.
Draught (n.) The drawing of a bowstring.
Draught (n.) The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft.
Draught (n.) The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.
Draught (v. t.) To diminish or exhaust by drawing.
Draught (v. t.) To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
Draught (v. t.) To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.
Draughtboard (n.) A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.
Draughted (imp. & p. p.) of Draught
Draughthouse (n.) A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy.
Draughting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Draught
Draughts (n. pl.) A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.
Draughts (n. pl.) A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).
Draughtsman (n.) A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.
Draughtsman (n.) One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.
Draughtsman (n.) One who draws pleadings or other writings.
Draughtsman (n.) One who drinks drams; a tippler.
Draughtsmanship (n.) The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.
Draughtsmen (pl. ) of Draughtsman
Draughty (a.) Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.
Drave () of Drive
Drave () old imp. of Drive.
Dravida (n. pl.) A race of Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion.
Dravidian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
Draw (n.) A drawn game or battle, etc.
Draw (n.) A lot or chance to be drawn.
Draw (n.) That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.
Draw (n.) The act of drawing; draught.
Draw (v. i.) To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.
Draw (v. i.) To become contracted; to shrink.
Draw (v. i.) To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.
Draw (v. i.) To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.
Draw (v. i.) To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.
Draw (v. i.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc.
Draw (v. i.) To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon.
Draw (v. i.) To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.
Draw (v. i.) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.
Draw (v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
Draw (v. i.) To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.
Draw (v. t.) To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.
Draw (v. t.) To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
Draw (v. t.) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
Draw (v. t.) To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
Draw (v. t.) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
Draw (v. t.) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
Draw (v. t.) To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.
Draw (v. t.) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
Draw (v. t.) To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
Draw (v. t.) To remove the contents of
Draw (v. t.) To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.
Draw (v. t.) To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.
Draw (v. t.) To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.
Draw (v. t.) To select by the drawing of lots.
Draw (v. t.) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize.
Draw (v. t.) To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.
Draw (v. t.) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.
Draw (v. t.) To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.
Draw (v. t.) To withdraw.
Draw (v. t.) To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.
Draw-cut (n.) A single cut with a knife.
Drawable (a.) Capable of being drawn.
Drawback (n.) A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.
Drawback (n.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.
Drawbar (n.) A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.
Drawbar (n.) An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.
Drawbench (n.) A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.
Drawbolt (n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.
Drawbore (n.) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together.
Drawbore (v. t.) To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.
Drawbore (v. t.) To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon.
Drawboy (n.) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.
Drawbridge (n.) A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.
Drawcansir (n.) A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully.
Drawee (n.) The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
Drawer (n.) A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.
Drawer (n.) An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.
Drawer (n.) One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.
Drawer (n.) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.
Drawer (n.) One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom.
Drawer (n.) One who, or that which, draws
Drawer (n.) That which is drawn
Drawfiling (n.) The process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise.
Drawgear (n.) A harness for draught horses.
Drawgear (n.) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.
Drawgloves (n. pl.) An old game, played by holding up the fingers.
Drawhead (n.) The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.
Drawing (n.) The act of pulling, or attracting.
Drawing (n.) The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
Drawing (n.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
Drawing (n.) The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.
Drawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Draw
Drawing knife (n.) Alt. of Drawknife
Drawing-room (n.) A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.
Drawing-room (n.) The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room.
Drawknife (n.) A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave.
Drawknife (n.) A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.
Drawl (n.) A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
Drawl (v. i.) To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.
Drawl (v. t.) To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
Drawlatch (n.) A housebreaker or thief.
Drawled (imp. & p. p.) of Drawl
Drawling (n.) The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl.
Drawling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drawl
Drawlink (n.) Same as Drawbar (b).
Drawloom (n.) A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.
Drawloom (n.) A species of damask made on the drawloom.
Drawn (p. p. & a.) See Draw, v. t. & i.
Drawn (p. p.) of Draw
Drawnet (n.) A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet.
Drawplate (n.) A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
Drawrod (n.) A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
Drawshave (n.) See Drawing knife.
Drawspring (n.) The spring to which a drawbar is attached.
Dray (n.) A kind of sledge or sled.
Dray (n.) A squirrel's nest.
Dray (n.) A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens.
Drayage (n.) The charge, or sum paid, for the use of a dray.
Drayage (n.) Use of a dray.
Drayman (n.) A man who attends a dray.
Draymen (pl. ) of Drayman
Drazel (n.) A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel.
Dread (a.) Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
Dreadnaught (n.) Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.
Dream (n.) A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth.
Dream (n.) The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.
Dream (n.) To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.
Dream (n.) To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.
Dream (v. t.) To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.
Dreamed (imp. & p. p.) of Dream
Dreamer (n.) A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
Dreamer (n.) One who dreams.
Dreamful (a.) Full of dreams.
Dreamily (adv.) As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly.
Dreaminess (n.) The state of being dreamy.
Dreaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dream
Dreamingly (adv.) In a dreamy manner.
Dreamland (n.) An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland.
Dreamless (a.) Free from, or without, dreams.
Dreamt () of Dream
Dreamy (superl.) Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary.
Dredge (n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
Dredge (n.) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
Dredge (v. t.) To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.
Dredge (v. t.) To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.
Dredged (imp. & p. p.) of Dredge
Dredger (n.) A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.
Dredger (n.) A dredging machine.
Dredger (n.) One who fishes with a dredge.
Dredging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dredge
Dree (a.) Wearisome; tedious.
Dree (v. i.) To be able to do or endure.
Dree (v. t.) To endure; to suffer.
Dreg (n.) Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society.
Dregginess (n.) Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.
Dreggish (a.) Foul with lees; feculent.
Dreggy (a.) Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent.
Drein (v. i.) To drain.
Dreint () p. p. of Drench to drown.
Dreissena (n.) A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (D. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe.
Drench (n.) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.
Drench (v. t.) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
Drench (v. t.) To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.
Drench (v. t.) To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
Drenche (v. t. & i.) To drown.
Drenched (imp. & p. p.) of Drench
Drencher (n.) One who administers a drench.
Drencher (n.) One who, or that which, west or steeps.
Drenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drench
Drengage (n.) The tenure by which a drench held land.
Drent (p. p.) Drenched; drowned.
Dresden ware () A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.
Dress (n.) A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.
Dress (n.) Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it.
Dress (n.) That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel.
Dress (n.) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
Dress (v. i.) To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; -- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Right, dress!
Dress (v. i.) To clothe or apparel one's self; to put on one's garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as, to dress quickly.
Dress (v. t.) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks.
Dress (v. t.) To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.
Dress (v. t.) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish.
Dress (v. t.) To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.
Dress (v. t.) To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck.
Dress (v. t.) To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.
Dress coat () A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
Dress goods () A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.
Dressed (imp. & p. p.) of Dress
Dresser (n.) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
Dresser (n.) An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
Dresser (n.) One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
Dresser (v. t.) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.
Dresser (v. t.) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
Dressiness (n.) The state of being dressy.
Dressing (n.) A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.
Dressing (n.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.
Dressing (n.) An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.
Dressing (n.) Castigation; scolding; -- often with down.
Dressing (n.) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
Dressing (n.) Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
Dressing (n.) Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.
Dressing (n.) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
Dressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dress
Dressmaker (n.) A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.
Dressmaking (n.) The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
Dressy (a.) Showy in dress; attentive to dress.
Drest () of Dress
Drest (p. p.) of Dress.
Dretch (v. t. & i.) See Drecche.
Dreul (v. i.) To drool.
Drevil (n.) A fool; a drudge. See Drivel.
Drew (imp.) of Draw
Drew (imp.) of Draw.
Drey (n.) A squirrel's nest. See Dray.
Dreye (a.) Dry.
Dreynt () p. p., of Drench to drown.
Drib (n.) A drop.
Drib (v. t. & i.) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
Drib (v. t.) To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate.
Drib (v. t.) To cut off by a little at a time; to crop.
Drib (v. t.) To do by little and little
Drib (v. t.) To lead along step by step; to entice.
Dribbed (imp. & p. p.) of Drib
Dribber (n.) One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly.
Dribbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drib
Dribbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dribble
Dribble (n.) A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops.
Dribble (v. i.) To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.
Dribble (v. i.) To fall weakly and slowly.
Dribble (v. i.) To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.
Dribble (v. t.) To let fall in drops.
Dribbled (imp. & p. p.) of Dribble
Dribbler (n.) One who dribbles.
Dribblet (n.) Alt. of Driblet
Driblet (n.) A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.
Drie (v. t.) To endure.
Dried (imp. & p. p.) of Day. Also adj.; as, dried apples.
Dried (imp. & p. p.) of Dry
Drier (n.) Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.
Drier (n.) One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
Drier (superl.) Alt. of Driest
Driest (superl.) of Dry, a.
Drift (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.
Drift (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.
Drift (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.
Drift (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
Drift (n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.
Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
Drift (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
Drift (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
Drift (n.) Anything driven at random.
Drift (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river.
Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along
Drift (n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
Drift (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
Drift (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
Drift (n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
Drift (n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
Drift (v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.
Drift (v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.
Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
Drift (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drift
Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drift
Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Driftpiece (n.) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
Driftpin (n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle.
Driftway (n.) Same as Drift, 11.
Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.
Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
Drill (n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
Drill (n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
Drill (n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea.
Drill (n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow.
Drill (n.) A small trickling stream; a rill.
Drill (n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
Drill (n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.
Drill (n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.
Drill (n.) Same as Drilling.
Drill (v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
Drill (v. i.) To sow in drills.
Drill (v. i.) To trickle.
Drill (v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.
Drill (v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
Drill (v. t.) To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
Drill (v. t.) To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.
Drill (v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.
Drill (v. t.) To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.
Drill press () A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
Drilled (imp. & p. p.) of Drill
Driller (n.) One who, or that which, drills.
Drilling (n.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.
Drilling (n.) A training by repeated exercises.
Drilling (n.) The act of piercing with a drill.
Drilling (n.) The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.
Drilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drill
Drillmaster (n.) One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics.
Drillstock (n.) A contrivance for holding and turning a drill.
Drily (adv.) See Dryly.
Drimys (n.) A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.
Drink (n.) Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.
Drink (n.) Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.
Drink (v. i.) To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
Drink (v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.
Drink (v. t.) To smoke, as tobacco.
Drink (v. t.) To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.
Drink (v. t.) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
Drink (v. t.) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
Drinkable (a.) Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural.
Drinkableness (n.) State of being drinkable.
Drinker (n.) One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.
Drinking (n.) An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.
Drinking (n.) The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.
Drinking (n.) The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.
Drinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drink
Drinkless (a.) Destitute of drink.
Drip (n.) A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
Drip (n.) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.
Drip (v. i.) To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.
Drip (v. i.) To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.
Drip (v. t.) To let fall in drops.
Dripped (imp. & p. p.) of Drip
Dripping (n.) A falling in drops, or the sound so made.
Dripping (n.) That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting.
Dripping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drip
Dripple (a.) Weak or rare.
Dripstone (n.) A drip, when made of stone. See Drip, 2.
Dript () of Drip
Drith (n.) Drought.
Drive (n.) A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
Drive (n.) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
Drive (n.) The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
Drive (n.) Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
Drive (p. p.) Driven.
Drive (v. i.) To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.
Drive (v. i.) To distrain for rent.
Drive (v. i.) To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.
Drive (v. i.) To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
Drive (v. i.) To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
Drive (v. t.) To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
Drive (v. t.) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
Drive (v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
Drive (v. t.) To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
Drive (v. t.) To pass away; -- said of time.
Drive (v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.
Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
Drivel (n.) A driveler; a fool; an idiot.
Drivel (n.) A servant; a drudge.
Drivel (n.) Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.
Drivel (n.) Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
Drivel (v. i.) To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love.
Drivel (v. i.) To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
Driveled (imp. & p. p.) of Drivel
Driveler (n.) A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool.
Driveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drivel
Drivelled () of Drivel
Drivelling () of Drivel
Driven (p. p.) of Drive
Driven (p. p.) of Drive. Also adj.
Drivepipe (n.) A pipe for forcing into the earth.
Driver (n.) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
Driver (n.) A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:
Driver (n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
Driver (n.) An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
Driver (n.) One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
Driver (n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
Driver (n.) The driving wheel of a locomotive.
Driver (n.) The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
Driveway (n.) A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
Driving (a.) Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.
Driving (a.) Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.
Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.
Driving (n.) The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.
Driving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drive
Drizzle (n.) Fine rain or mist.
Drizzle (v. i.) To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.
Drizzle (v. t.) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
Drizzled (imp. & p. p.) of Drizzle
Drizzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drizzle
Drizzly (a.) Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable.
Drock (n.) A water course.
Drofland (n.) Alt. of Dryfland
Drogher (n.) A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher.
Drogman (n.) Alt. of Drogoman
Drogoman (n.) See Dragoman.
Drogue (n.) See Drag, n., 6, and Drag sail, under Drag, n.
Droh (imp.) of Draw.
Droil (n.) A drudge.
Droil (n.) Mean labor; toil.
Droil (v. i.) To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.
Droit (n.) A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right.
Droitural (a.) relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession; as, droitural actions.
Droitzschka (n.) See Drosky.
Droll (n.) One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.
Droll (n.) Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.
Droll (superl.) Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.
Droll (v. i.) To jest; to play the buffoon.
Droll (v. t.) To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.
Droll (v. t.) To make a jest of; to set in a comical light.
Drolled (imp. & p. p.) of Droll
Droller (n.) A jester; a droll.
Drolleries (pl. ) of Drollery
Drollery (n.) A lively or comic picture.
Drollery (n.) A puppet show; also, a puppet.
Drollery (n.) Something which serves to raise mirth
Drollery (n.) The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
Drolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Droll
Drollingly (adv.) In a jesting manner.
Drollish (a.) Somewhat droll.
Drollist (n.) A droll.
Dromaeognathous (a.) Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.
Dromatherium (n.) A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America.
Drome (n.) The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher.
Dromedaries (pl. ) of Dromedary
Dromedary (n.) The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps.
Dromon () In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel.
Dromond () Alt. of Dromon
Drone (n.) To love in idleness; to do nothing.
Drone (n.) To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.
Drone (v. i.) A humming or deep murmuring sound.
Drone (v. i.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
Drone (v. i.) One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.
Drone (v. i.) That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.
Drone (v. i.) The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.
Drone bee () The male of the honeybee; a drone.
Drone fly () A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis.
Droned (imp. & p. p.) of Drone
Dronepipe (n.) One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.
Drongo (n.) A passerine bird of the family Dicruridae. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.
Drongos (pl. ) of Drongo
Droning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drone
Dronish (a.) Like a drone; indolent; slow.
Dronkelewe (a.) Given to drink; drunken.
Dronte (n.) The dodo.
Drony (a.) Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.
Drool (v. i.) To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.
Drooled (imp. & p. p.) of Drool
Drooling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drool
Droop (n.) A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
Droop (v. i.) To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
Droop (v. i.) To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.
Droop (v. i.) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
Droop (v. t.) To let droop or sink.
Drooped (imp. & p. p.) of Droop
Drooper (n.) One who, or that which, droops.
Drooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Droop
Droopingly (adv.) In a drooping manner.
Drop (n.) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.
Drop (n.) A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc.
Drop (n.) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself.
Drop (n.) A drop press or drop hammer.
Drop (n.) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.
Drop (n.) Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.
Drop (n.) Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.
Drop (n.) Any small pendent ornament.
Drop (n.) Same as Gutta.
Drop (n.) That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.
Drop (n.) The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only.
Drop (n.) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
Drop (n.) The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water.
Drop (n.) To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc.
Drop (n.) To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy.
Drop (n.) To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
Drop (n.) To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.
Drop (n.) To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.
Drop (n.) To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.
Drop (n.) To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill.
Drop (n.) To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.
Drop (n.) Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something
Drop (v. i.) To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards.
Drop (v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.
Drop (v. i.) To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment.
Drop (v. i.) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
Drop (v. i.) To fall in drops.
Drop (v. i.) To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.
Drop (v. i.) To fall short of a mark.
Drop (v. i.) To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.
Drop (v. i.) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
Droplet (n.) A little drop; a tear.
Droplight (n.) An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.
Dropmeal (adv.) Alt. of Dropmele
Dropmele (adv.) By drops or small portions.
Dropped (imp. & p. p.) of Drop
Dropper (n.) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
Dropper (n.) A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.
Dropper (n.) A dropping tube.
Dropper (n.) One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
Dropping (n.) That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals.
Dropping (n.) The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.
Dropping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drop
Droppinly (adv.) In drops.
Dropsical (a.) Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient.
Dropsical (a.) Of or pertaining to dropsy.
Dropsicalness (n.) State of being dropsical.
Dropsied (a.) Diseased with drops.
Dropsies (pl. ) of Dropsy
Dropsy (n.) An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
Dropt () imp. & p. p. of Drop, v.
Dropt () of Drop
Dropwise (adv.) After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops.
Dropworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm.
Dropwort (n.) An Old World species of Spiraea (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves.
Drosera (n.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew.
Droskies (pl. ) of Drosky
Drosometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew.
Dross (n.) Rust of metals.
Dross (n.) The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.
Dross (n.) Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
Drossel (n.) A slut; a hussy; a drazel.
Drossless (a.) Free from dross.
Drossy (superl.) Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless.
Drotchel (n.) See Drossel.
Drough (imp.) of Draw.
Drought (n.) Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.
Drought (n.) Scarcity; lack.
Drought (n.) Thirst; want of drink.
Droughtiness (n.) A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain.
Droughty (a.) Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust.
Droughty (a.) Dry; thirsty; wanting drink.
Droumy (a.) Troubled; muddy.
Drouth (n.) Same as Drought.
Drouthy (a.) Droughty.
Drove (imp.) of Drive
Drove (imp.) of Drive.
Drove (n.) A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.
Drove (n.) A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.
Drove (n.) A crowd of people in motion.
Drove (n.) A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
Drove (n.) Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.
Drove (n.) The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.
Droven (p. p.) of Drive.
Drover (n.) A boat driven by the tide.
Drover (n.) One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.
Drovy (a.) Turbid; muddy; filthy.
Drow (imp.) of Draw.
Drown (v. i.) To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
Drown (v. t.) To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
Drown (v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.
Drown (v. t.) To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
Drownage (n.) The act of drowning.
Drowned (imp. & p. p.) of Drown
Drowner (n.) One who, or that which, drowns.
Drowning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drown
Drowse (n.) A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze.
Drowse (v. i.) To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.
Drowse (v. t.) To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.
Drowsed (imp. & p. p.) of Drowse
Drowsihead (n.) Drowsiness.
Drowsihed (n.) Drowsihead.
Drowsily (adv.) In a drowsy manner.
Drowsiness (n.) State of being drowsy.
Drowsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drowse
Drowsy (superl.) Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
Drowsy (superl.) Dull; stupid.
Drowsy (superl.) Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.
Drowth (n.) See Drought.
Droyle (v. i.) See Droil.
Drub (n.) A blow with a cudgel; a thump.
Drub (v. t.) To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.
Drubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Drub
Drubber (n.) One who drubs.
Drubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drub
Drudge (n.) One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant.
Drudge (v. i.) To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
Drudge (v. t.) To consume laboriously; -- with away.
Drudged (imp. & p. p.) of Drudge
Drudger (n.) A dredging box.
Drudger (n.) One who drudges; a drudge.
Drudgery (n.) The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
Drudging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drudge
Drudging box () See Dredging box.
Drudgingly (adv.) In a drudging manner; laboriously.
Druery (n.) Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love.
Drug (n.) A drudge (?).
Drug (n.) Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.
Drug (n.) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
Drug (v. i.) To drudge; to toil laboriously.
Drug (v. i.) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
Drug (v. t.) To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.
Drug (v. t.) To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.
Drug (v. t.) To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
Drugged (imp. & p. p.) of Drug
Drugger (n.) A druggist.
Drugget (n.) A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.
Drugget (n.) By extension, any material used for the same purpose.
Drugging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drug
Druggist (n.) One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.
Drugster (n.) A druggist.
Druid (n.) A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries.
Druid (n.) One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons.
Druidess (n.) A female Druid; a prophetess.
Druidic (a.) Alt. of Druidical
Druidical (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the Druids.
Druidish (a.) Druidic.
Druidism (n.) The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction, received and taught by the Druids; the rites and ceremonies of the Druids.
Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.
Drum (n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.
Drum (n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.
Drum (n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.
Drum (n.) A tea party; a kettledrum.
Drum (n.) Anything resembling a drum in form
Drum (n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.
Drum (n.) See Drumfish.
Drum (n.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.
Drum (v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.
Drum (v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
Drum (v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
Drum (v. i.) To throb, as the heart.
Drum (v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.
Drum (v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.
Drum (v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune.
Drum major () .
Drum major () A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4.
Drum major () The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.
Drum major () The marching leader of a military band.
Drumbeat (n.) The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.
Drumble (v. i.) To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.
Drumble (v. i.) To mumble in speaking.
Drumfish (n.) Any fish of the family Sciaenidae, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.
Drumhead (n.) The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.
Drumhead (n.) The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan.
Drumlin (n.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.
Drumly (a.) Turbid; muddy.
Drummed (imp. & p. p.) of Drum
Drummer (n.) A California sculpin.
Drummer (n.) A fish that makes a sound when caught
Drummer (n.) A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.
Drummer (n.) One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler.
Drummer (n.) One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.
Drummer (n.) The squeteague.
Drumming (n.) The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides.
Drumming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drum
Drumstick (n.) A stick with which a drum is beaten.
Drumstick (n.) Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl.
Drunk () of Drink
Drunk (a.) Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
Drunk (a.) Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).
Drunk (n.) A drunken condition; a spree.
Drunk (p. p.) of Drink
Drunkard (n.) One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.
Drunken () of Drink
Drunken (v. i.) Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.
Drunken (v. i.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.
Drunken (v. i.) Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.
Drunkenhead (n.) Drunkenness.
Drunkenly (adv.) In a drunken manner.
Drunkenness (n.) Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
Drunkenness (n.) The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.
Drunkenship (n.) Alt. of Drunkship
Drunkship (n.) The state of being drunk; drunkenness.
Drupaceous (a.) Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.
Drupal (a.) Drupaceous.
Drupel (n.) Alt. of Drupelet
Drupelet (n.) A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.
Druse (n.) A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.
Druse (n.) One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria.
Drused (a.) Covered with a large number of minute crystals.
Drusy (a.) Alt. of Drused
Druxey (a.) Alt. of Druxy
Druxy (a.) Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish color; -- said of timber.
Dry (a.) To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.
Dry (superl.) Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit.
Dry (superl.) Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain.
Dry (superl.) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring.
Dry (superl.) Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist.
Dry (superl.) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.
Dry (superl.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.
Dry (superl.) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.
Dry (superl.) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
Dry (superl.) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.
Dry (v. i.) To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up.
Dry (v. i.) To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.
Dry (v. i.) To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.
Dry dock () See under Dock.
Dry goods () A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
Dry nurse () A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.
Dry-beat (v. t.) To beat severely.
Dry-boned (a.) Having dry bones, or bones without flesh.
Dry-eyed (a.) Not having tears in the eyes.
Dry-fisted (a.) Niggardly.
Dry-rub (v. t.) To rub and cleanse without wetting.
Dry-rubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Dry-rub
Dry-rubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dry-rub
Dry-shod (a.) Without wetting the feet.
Dry-stone (a.) Constructed of uncemented stone.
Dryad (n.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.
Dryades (pl. ) of Dryas
Dryandra (n.) A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.
Dryas (n.) A dryad.
Dryer (n.) See Drier.
Dryfland (n.) An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets.
Dryfoot (n.) The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced.
Drying (a.) Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.
Drying (a.) Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.
Drying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dry
Dryly (adv.) In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
Dryness (n.) The state of being dry. See Dry.
Drynurse (v. t.) To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast.
Dryobalanops (n.) The genus to which belongs the single species D. Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.
Drysalter (n.) A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs.
Drysaltery (n.) The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.
Dryth (n.) Alt. of Drith
Duad (n.) A union of two; duality.
Dual (a.) Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.
Dualin (n.) An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.
Dualism (n.) A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil.
Dualism (n.) A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit.
Dualism (n.) State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction
Dualism (n.) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.
Dualism (n.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.
Dualist (n.) One who administers two offices.
Dualist (n.) One who believes in dualism; a ditheist.
Dualistic (a.) Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.
Duality (n.) The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.
Duan (n.) A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.
Duarchy (n.) Government by two persons.
Dub (n.) A blow.
Dub (n.) A pool or puddle.
Dub (v. i.) To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
Dub (v. t.) To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
Dub (v. t.) To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.
Dub (v. t.) To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.
Dub (v. t.) To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.
Dub (v. t.) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
Dub (v. t.) To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it.
Dub (v. t.) To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
Dub (v. t.) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;
Dubb (n.) The Syrian bear. See under Bear.
Dubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Dub
Dubber (n.) A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc.
Dubber (n.) One who, or that which, dubs.
Dubbing (n.) A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.
Dubbing (n.) The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.
Dubbing (n.) The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.
Dubbing (n.) The body substance of an angler's fly.
Dubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dub
Dubieties (pl. ) of Dubiety
Dubiety (n.) Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.
Dubiosities (pl. ) of Dubiosity
Dubiosity (n.) The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing.
Dubious (a.) Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.
Dubious (a.) Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.
Dubious (a.) Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.
Dubiously (adv.) In a dubious manner.
Dubiousness (n.) State of being dubious.
Dubitable (a.) Liable to be doubted; uncertain.
Dubitancy (n.) Doubt; uncertainty.
Dubitate (v. i.) To doubt.
Dubitation (n.) Act of doubting; doubt.
Dubitative (a.) Tending to doubt; doubtful.
Duboisia (n.) Same as Duboisine.
Duboisine (n.) An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.
Ducal (a.) Of or pertaining to a duke.
Ducally (adv.) In the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke.
Ducat (n.) A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.
Ducatoon (n.) A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values.
Duces tecum () A judicial process commanding a person to appear in court and bring with him some piece of evidence or other thing to be produced to the court.
Duchess (n.) The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right.
Duchesse d'Angouleme () A variety of pear of large size and excellent flavor.
Duchies (pl. ) of Duchy
Duchy (n.) The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom.
Duck (n.) A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.
Duck (n.) A pet; a darling.
Duck (n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.
Duck (v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.
Duck (v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.
Duck (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.
Duck (v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae.
Duck (v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.
Duck (v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.
Duck (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
Duck-billed (a.) Having a bill like that of a duck.
Duck-legged (a.) Having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged.
Duck's-bill (a.) Having the form of a duck's bill.
Duck's-foot (n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum).
Duck's-meat (n.) Duckweed.
Duckbill (n.) See Duck mole, under Duck, n.
Ducked (imp. & p. p.) of Duck
Ducker (n.) A cringing, servile person; a fawner.
Ducker (n.) One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver.
Ducking () n. & a., from Duck, v. t. & i.
Ducking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Duck
Duckling (n.) A young or little duck.
Duckmeat (n.) Alt. of Duck's-meat
Duckweed (n.) A genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat.
Duct (n.) A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.
Duct (n.) Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
Duct (n.) Guidance; direction.
Duct (n.) One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.
Ductible (a.) Capable of being drawn out
Ductile (a.) Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
Ductile (a.) Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
Ductilimeter (n.) An instrument for accurately determining the ductility of metals.
Ductility (n.) The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.
Ductility (n.) Tractableness; pliableness.
Duction (n.) Guidance.
Ductless (a.) Having to duct or outlet; as, a ductless gland.
Ductor (n.) A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4.
Ductor (n.) One who leads.
Ducture (n.) Guidance.
Dudder (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.
Dudder (v. i.) To shiver or tremble; to dodder.
Dudder (v. t.) To confuse or confound with noise.
Duddery (n.) A place where rags are bought and kept for sale.
Dude (n.) A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.
Dudgeon (n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.
Dudish (a.) Like, or characterized of, a dude.
Duds (n. pl.) Effects, in general.
Duds (n. pl.) Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.
Due (a.) Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.
Due (a.) Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit.
Due (a.) Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.
Due (a.) Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
Due (a.) Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time.
Due (adv.) Directly; exactly; as, a due east course.
Due (n.) Right; just title or claim.
Due (n.) That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll.
Due (v. t.) To endue.
Duebill (n.) A brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note.
Dueful (a.) Fit; becoming.
Duel (n.) A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other.
Duel (v. i. & t.) To fight in single combat.
Dueler (n.) One who engages in a duel.
Dueling (n.) The act or practice of fighting in single combat. Also adj.
Duelist (n.) One who fights in single combat.
Duelo (n.) A duel; also, the rules of dueling.
Dueness (n.) Quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming.
Duenna (n.) An elderly lady holding a station between a governess and companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a Spanish or a Portuguese family.
Duenna (n.) Any old woman who is employed to guard a younger one; a governess.
Duenna (n.) The chief lady in waiting on the queen of Spain.
Duennas (pl. ) of Duenna
Duet (n.) A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.
Duettino (n.) A duet of short extent and concise form.
Duetto (n.) See Duet.
Duff (n.) A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.
Duff (n.) Dough or paste.
Duffel (n.) A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.
Duffer (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.
Duffer (n.) A stupid, awkward, inefficient person.
Duffle (n.) See Duffel.
Dufrenite (n.) A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.
Dug (imp. & p. p.) of Dig
Dug (imp. & p. p.) of Dig.
Dug (n.) A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast.
Dugong (n.) An aquatic herbivorous mammal (Halicore dugong), of the order Sirenia, allied to the manatee, but with a bilobed tail. It inhabits the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, East Indies, and Australia.
Dugout (n.) A canoe or boat dug out from a large log.
Dugout (n.) A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation.
Dugout (n.) A place dug out.
Dugway (n.) A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land.
Duke (n.) A leader; a chief; a prince.
Duke (n.) In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland.
Duke (n.) In some European countries, a sovereign prince, without the title of king.
Duke (v. i.) To play the duke.
Dukedom (n.) The territory of a duke.
Dukedom (n.) The title or dignity of a duke.
Dukeling (n.) A little or insignificant duke.
Dukeship (n.) The quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personality of a duke.
Dulcamara (n.) A plant (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet, n., 3 (a).
Dulcamarin (n.) A glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (Solanum Dulcamara), as a yellow amorphous substance. It probably occasions the compound taste. See Bittersweet, 3(a).
Dulce (v. t.) To make sweet; to soothe.
Dulceness (n.) Sweetness.
Dulcet (a.) Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious.
Dulcet (a.) Sweet to the taste; luscious.
Dulciana (n.) A sweet-toned stop of an organ.
Dulcification (n.) The act of dulcifying or sweetening.
Dulcified (a.) Sweetened; mollified.
Dulcified (imp. & p. p.) of Dulcify
Dulcifluous (a.) Flowing sweetly.
Dulcify (v. t.) Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please.
Dulcify (v. t.) To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.
Dulcifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dulcify
Dulciloquy (n.) A soft manner of speaking.
Dulcimer (n.) An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.
Dulcimer (n.) An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.
Dulcinea (n.) A mistress; a sweetheart.
Dulciness (n.) See Dulceness.
Dulcino (n.) A small bassoon, formerly much used.
Dulcino (n.) See Dolcino.
Dulcite (n.) A white, sugarlike substance, C6H8.(OH)2, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.
Dulcitude (n.) Sweetness.
Dulcorate (v. t.) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
Dulcoration (n.) The act of sweetening.
Duledge (n.) One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage.
Dulia (n.) An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.
Dull (superl.) Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
Dull (superl.) Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.
Dull (superl.) Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
Dull (superl.) Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
Dull (superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
Dull (v. i.) To become dull or stupid.
Dull (v. t.) To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
Dull (v. t.) To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
Dull (v. t.) To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
Dull (v. t.) To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
Dull-brained (a.) Stupid; doltish.
Dull-browed (a.) Having a gloomy look.
Dull-eyed (a.) Having eyes wanting brightness, liveliness, or vivacity.
Dullness (n.) The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.
Dullsome (a.) Dull.
Dully (adv.) In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.
Dulocracy (n.) See Doulocracy.
Dulse (n.) A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.]
Dulwilly (n.) The ring plover.
Duly (adv.) In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.
Dumal (a.) Pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly.
Dumb (a.) Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.
Dumb (a.) Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.
Dumb (a.) Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.
Dumb (v. t.) To put to silence.
Dumb-bell (n.) A weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise.
Dumb-waiter (n.) A framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves.
Dumbledor (n.) A bumblebee; also, a cockchafer.
Dumbly (adv.) In silence; mutely.
Dumbness (n.) The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.
Dumetose (a.) Dumose.
Dumfound (v. t.) To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment.
Dumfounded (imp. & p. p.) of Dumfound
Dumfounder (v. t.) To dumfound; to confound.
Dumfounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dumfound
Dummador (n.) A dumbledor.
Dummerer (n.) One who feigns dumbness.
Dummies (pl. ) of Dummy
Dummy (a.) Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
Dummy (a.) Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
Dummy (n.) A floating barge connected with a pier.
Dummy (n.) A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.
Dummy (n.) A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.
Dummy (n.) A thick-witted person; a dolt.
Dummy (n.) An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc.
Dummy (n.) One who is dumb.
Dummy (n.) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.
Dummy (n.) The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards.
Dumose (a.) Alt. of Dumous
Dumous (a.) Abounding with bushes and briers.
Dumous (a.) Having a compact, bushy form.
Dump (n.) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
Dump (n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
Dump (n.) A pile of ore or rock.
Dump (n.) A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
Dump (n.) That which is dumped.
Dump (v. t.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
Dump (v. t.) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
Dump (v. t.) Absence of mind; revery.
Dump (v. t.) An old kind of dance.
Dump (v. t.) To knock heavily; to stump.
Dump (v. t.) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.
Dumpage (n.) A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads.
Dumpage (n.) The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.
Dumple (v. t.) To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.
Dumpling (n.) A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.
Dumpy (superl.) Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.
Dumpy (superl.) Sullen or discontented.
Dun (a.) Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
Dun (n.) A mound or small hill.
Dun (n.) An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
Dun (n.) One who duns; a dunner.
Dun (v. t. & i.) To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
Dun (v. t.) To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.
Dunbird (n.) An American duck; the ruddy duck.
Dunbird (n.) The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre.
Dunce (n.) One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
Duncedom (n.) The realm or domain of dunces.
Duncery (n.) Dullness; stupidity.
Duncical (a.) Like a dunce; duncish.
Duncify (v. t.) To make stupid in intellect.
Duncish (a.) Somewhat like a dunce.
Dunder (n.) The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.
Dunder-headed (a.) Thick-headed; stupid.
Dunderhead (n.) A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.
Dunderpate (n.) See Dunderhead.
Dune (n.) A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.
Dunfish (n.) Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.
Dung () of Ding
Dung (n.) The excrement of an animal.
Dung (v. i.) To void excrement.
Dung (v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
Dung (v. t.) To manure with dung.
Dungaree (n.) A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff.
Dunged (imp. & p. p.) of Dung
Dungeon (n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.
Dungeon (v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon.
Dungfork (n.) A fork for tossing dung.
Dunghill (n.) A heap of dung.
Dunghill (n.) Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode.
Dunging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dung
Dungmeer (n.) A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure.
Dungy (a.) Full of dung; filthy; vile; low.
Dungyard (n.) A yard where dung is collected.
Dunker (n.) One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists.
Dunlin (n.) A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America.
Dunnage (n.) Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.
Dunned (imp. & p. p.) of Dun
Dunner (n.) One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.
Dunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dun
Dunnish (a.) Inclined to a dun color.
Dunnock (a.) The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor.
Dunny (a.) Deaf; stupid.
Dunt (n.) A blow.
Dunted (a.) Beaten; hence, blunted.
Dunter (n.) A porpoise.
Duo (n.) A composition for two performers; a duet.
Duodecahedral (n.) Alt. of Duodecahedron
Duodecahedron (n.) See Dodecahedral, and Dodecahedron.
Duodecennial (a.) Consisting of twelve years.
Duodecimal (a.) Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves.
Duodecimal (n.) A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by artificers in computing the superficial and solid contents of their work.
Duodecimal (n.) A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch.
Duodecimfid (a.) Divided into twelve parts.
Duodecimo (a.) Having twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a duodecimo from, book, leaf, size, etc.
Duodecimos (pl. ) of Duodecimo
Duodecuple (a.) Consisting of twelves.
Duodenal (a.) Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion.
Duodenary (a.) Containing twelve; twelvefold; increasing by twelves; duodecimal.
Duodenum (n.) The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
Duoliteral (a.) Consisting of two letters only; biliteral.
Duomo (n.) A cathedral. See Dome, 2.
Dup (v. t.) To open; as, to dup the door.
Dupable (a.) Capable of being duped.
Dupe (n.) One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.
Dupe (n.) To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery.
Duped (imp. & p. p.) of Dupe
Duper (n.) One who dupes another.
Dupery (n.) The act or practice of duping.
Duping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dupe
Dupion (n.) A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.
Duple (a.) Double.
Duplex (a.) Double; twofold.
Duplicate (a.) Double; twofold.
Duplicate (n.) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original.
Duplicate (n.) That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart.
Duplicate (v. t.) To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves.
Duplicate (v. t.) To double; to fold; to render double.
Duplicate (v. t.) To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of.
Duplicated (imp. & p. p.) of Duplicate
Duplicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Duplicate
Duplication (n.) The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.
Duplication (n.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells.
Duplicative (a.) Having the quality of duplicating or doubling.
Duplicative (a.) Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth.
Duplicature (n.) A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.
Duplicities (pl. ) of Duplicity
Duplicity (n.) Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.
Duplicity (n.) Doubleness; a twofold state.
Duplicity (n.) In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses.
Duplicity (n.) The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient.
Dupper (n.) See 2d Dubber.
Dur (a.) Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.
Dura (n.) Short form for Dura mater.
Dura mater () The tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- frequently abbreviated to dura.
Durability (n.) The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness.
Durable (a.) Able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness.
Durableness (n.) Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability.
Durably (adv.) In a lasting manner; with long continuance.
Dural (a.) Pertaining to the dura, or dura mater.
Duramen (n.) The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
Durance (n.) A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting.
Durance (n.) Continuance; duration. See Endurance.
Durance (n.) Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.
Durance (n.) In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.
Durancy (n.) Duration.
Durant (n.) See Durance, 3.
Durante (prep.) During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
Duration (n.) The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
Durative (a.) Continuing; not completed; implying duration.
Durbar (n.) An audience hall; the court of a native prince; a state levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of India.
Dure (a.) Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome.
Dure (a.) To last; to continue; to endure.
Dureful (a.) Lasting.
Dureless (a.) Not lasting.
Durene (n.) A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.
Duress (n.) Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
Duress (n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.
Duress (v. t.) To subject to duress.
Duressor (n.) One who subjects another to duress
Durga (n.) Same as Doorga.
Durham (n.) One or a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of Durham, England. The Durham cattle are noted for their beef-producing quality.
Durian (n.) Alt. of Durion
During (prep.) In the time of; as long as the action or existence of; as, during life; during the space of a year.
Durio (n.) A fruit tree (D. zibethinus, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
Durity (n.) Hardness; firmness.
Durity (n.) Harshness; cruelty.
Durometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.
Durous (a.) Hard.
Durra (n.) A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn.
Durst (imp.) of Dare
Durst (imp.) of Dare. See Dare, v. i.
Durukuli (n.) A small, nocturnal, South American monkey (Nyctipthecus trivirgatus).
Durylic (a.) Pertaining to, allied to, or derived from, durene; as, durylic acid.
Duse (n.) A demon or spirit. See Deuce.
Dusk (a.) Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
Dusk (n.) A darkish color.
Dusk (n.) Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
Dusk (v. i.) To grow dusk.
Dusk (v. t.) To make dusk.
Dusken (v. t.) To make dusk or obscure.
Duskily (adv.) In a dusky manner.
Duskiness (n.) The state of being dusky.
Duskish (a.) Somewhat dusky.
Duskness (n.) Duskiness.
Dusky (a.) Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
Dusky (a.) Intellectually clouded.
Dusky (a.) Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
Dusky (a.) Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.
Dust (n.) A single particle of earth or other matter.
Dust (n.) Coined money; cash.
Dust (n.) Figuratively, a low or mean condition.
Dust (n.) Figuratively, a worthless thing.
Dust (n.) Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.
Dust (n.) Gold dust
Dust (n.) The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
Dust (n.) The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
Dust (v. t.) To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.
Dust (v. t.) To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
Dust (v. t.) To sprinkle with dust.
Dust-point (n.) An old rural game.
Dustbrush (n.) A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.
Dusted (imp. & p. p.) of Dust
Duster (n.) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
Duster (n.) A light over-garment, worn in traveling to protect the clothing from dust.
Duster (n.) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
Duster (n.) One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust.
Dustiness (n.) The state of being dusty.
Dusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dust
Dustless (a.) Without dust; as a dustless path.
Dustman (p.) One whose employment is to remove dirt and defuse.
Dustmen (pl. ) of Dustman
Dustpan (n.) A shovel-like utensil for conveying away dust brushed from the floor.
Dusty (superl.) Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.
Dusty (superl.) Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white.
Dutch (a.) Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.
Dutch (n.) The language spoken in Holland.
Dutch (n.) The people of Holland; Dutchmen.
Dutchman (n.) A native, or one of the people, of Holland.
Dutchmen (pl. ) of Dutchman
Duteous (a.) Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a duteous son or daughter.
Duteous (a.) Subservient; obsequious.
Dutiable (a.) Subject to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods.
Dutied (a.) Subjected to a duty.
Duties (pl. ) of Duty
Dutiful (a.) Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection.
Duty (n.) Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.
Duty (n.) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
Duty (n.) Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors.
Duty (n.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.
Duty (n.) That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.
Duty (n.) That which is due; payment.
Duumvir (n.) One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions.
Duumviral (a.) Of or belonging to the duumviri or the duumvirate.
Duumvirate (n.) The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.
Duumviri (pl. ) of Duumvir
Duumvirs (pl. ) of Duumvir
Dux (n.) The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion.
Duykerbok (n.) A small South African antelope (Cephalous mergens); -- called also impoon, and deloo.
Duyoung (n.) See Dugong.
Dvergar (pl. ) of Dvergr
Dvergr (n.) A dwarf supposed to dwell in rocks and hills and to be skillful in working metals.
Dwale (a.) A sleeping potion; an opiate.
Dwale (a.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities.
Dwale (a.) The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.
Dwang (n.) A kind of crowbar.
Dwang (n.) A large wrench.
Dwang (n.) A piece of wood set between two studs, posts, etc., to stiffen and support them.
Dwarf (n.) An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.
Dwarf (v. i.) To become small; to diminish in size.
Dwarf (v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
Dwarfed (imp. & p. p.) of Dwarf
Dwarfing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dwarf
Dwarfish (a.) Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub.
Dwarfling (n.) A diminutive dwarf.
Dwarfs (pl. ) of Dwarf
Dwarfy (a.) Much undersized.
Dwaul (v. i.) Alt. of Dwaule
Dwaule (v. i.) To be delirious.
Dwell (v. i.) To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside.
Dwell (v. i.) To abide; to remain; to continue.
Dwell (v. i.) To delay; to linger.
Dwell (v. t.) To inhabit.
Dwelled (imp. & p. p.) of Dwell
Dweller (n.) An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller.
Dwelling (n.) Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
Dwelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dwell
Dwelt () of Dwell
Dwelt (imp. & p. p.) of Dwell.
Dwindle (n.) The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy.
Dwindle (v. i.) To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.
Dwindle (v. t.) To break; to disperse.
Dwindle (v. t.) To make less; to bring low.
Dwindled (imp. & p. p.) of Dwindle
Dwindlement (n.) The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling.
Dwindling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dwindle
Dwine (v. i.) To waste away; to pine; to languish.
Dyad (a.) Having a valence or combining power of two; capable of being substituted for, combined with, or replaced by, two atoms of hydrogen; as, oxygen and calcium are dyad elements. See Valence.
Dyad (n.) An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.
Dyad (n.) Two units treated as one; a couple; a pair.
Dyadic (a.) Pertaining to the number two; of two parts or elements.
Dyaks (n. pl.) The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo. They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices.
Dyas (n.) A name applied in Germany to the Permian formation, there consisting of two principal groups.
Dye (n.) Color produced by dyeing.
Dye (n.) Material used for dyeing; a dyestuff.
Dye (n.) Same as Die, a lot.
Dye (v. t.) To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs.
Dyed (imp. & p. p.) of Dye
Dyehouse (n.) A building in which dyeing is carried on.
Dyeing (n.) The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.
Dyeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dye
Dyer (n.) One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like.
Dyestuff (n.) A material used for dyeing.
Dyewood (n.) Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.
Dying (a.) In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.
Dying (a.) Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state.
Dying (n.) The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.
Dying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Die
Dyingly (adv.) In a dying manner; as if at the point of death.
Dyingness (n.) The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment.
Dyke (n.) See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
Dynactinometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the intensity of the photogenic (light-producing) rays, and computing the power of object glasses.
Dynam (n.) A unit of measure for dynamical effect or work; a foot pound. See Foot pound.
Dynameter (n.) A dynamometer.
Dynametrical (a.) Pertaining to a dynameter.
Dynamic (a.) Alt. of Dynamical
Dynamical (a.) Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force.
Dynamical (a.) Relating to physical forces, effects, or laws; as, dynamical geology.
Dynamically (adv.) In accordance with the principles of dynamics or moving forces.
Dynamics (n.) That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of bodies (kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.
Dynamics (n.) That department of musical science which relates to, or treats of, the power of tones.
Dynamics (n.) The moving moral, as well as physical, forces of any kind, or the laws which relate to them.
Dynamism (n.) The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force.
Dynamist (n.) One who accounts for material phenomena by a theory of dynamics.
Dynamitard (n.) A political dynamiter. [A form found in some newspapers.]
Dynamiter (n.) One who uses dynamite; esp., one who uses it for the destruction of life and property.
Dynamiting (n.) Destroying by dynamite, for political ends.
Dynamitism (n.) The work of dynamiters.
Dynamization () The act of setting free the dynamic powers of a medicine, as by shaking the bottle containing it.
Dynamo (n.) A dynamo-electric machine.
Dynamo-electric (a.) Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
Dynamograph (n.) A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power.
Dynamometer (n.) An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery.
Dynamometric (a.) Alt. of Dynamometrical
Dynamometrical (a.) Relating to a dynamometer, or to the measurement of force doing work; as, dynamometrical instruments.
Dynamometry (n.) The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
Dynast (n.) A dynasty; a government.
Dynast (n.) A ruler; a governor; a prince.
Dynasta (n.) A tyrant.
Dynastic (a.) Of or relating to a dynasty or line of kings.
Dynastical (a.) Dynastic.
Dynastidan (n.) One of a group of gigantic, horned beetles, including Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (D. Hercules) of tropical America, which grow to be six inches in length.
Dynasties (pl. ) of Dynasty
Dynasty (n.) A race or succession of kings, of the same line or family; the continued lordship of a race of rulers.
Dynasty (n.) Sovereignty; lordship; dominion.
Dyne (n.) The unit of force, in the C. G. S. (Centimeter Gram Second) system of physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram for a second, generates a velocity of a centimeter per second.
Dys- () An inseparable prefix, fr. the Greek / hard, ill, and signifying ill, bad, hard, difficult, and the like; cf. the prefixes, Skr. dus-, Goth. tuz-, OHG. zur-, G. zer-, AS. to-, Icel. tor-, Ir. do-.
Dysaesthesia (n.) Impairment of any of the senses, esp. of touch.
Dyscrasia (n.) An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.
Dyscrasite (n.) A mineral consisting of antimony and silver.
Dyscrasy (n.) Dycrasia.
Dysenteric (a.) Alt. of Dysenterical
Dysenterical (a.) Of or pertaining to dysentery; having dysentery; as, a dysenteric patient.
Dysentery (n.) A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.
Dysgenesic (a.) Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another.
Dysgenesis (n.) A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.
Dyslogistic (a.) Unfavorable; not commendatory; -- opposed to eulogistic.
Dysluite (n.) A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite.
Dyslysin (n.) A resinous substance formed in the decomposition of cholic acid of bile; -- so called because it is difficult to solve.
Dysmenorrhea (n.) Difficult and painful menstruation.
Dysnomy (n.) Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.
Dysodile (n.) An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.
Dyspepsia () Alt. of Dyspepsy
Dyspeptic (a.) Alt. of Dyspeptical
Dyspeptic (n.) A person afflicted with dyspepsia.
Dyspeptical (a.) Pertaining to dyspepsia; having dyspepsia; as, a dyspeptic or dyspeptical symptom.
Dyspeptone (n.) An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice.
Dysphagia (n.) Alt. of Dysphagy
Dysphagy (n.) Difficulty in swallowing.
Dysphonia (n.) Alt. of Dysphony
Dysphony (n.) A difficulty in producing vocal sounds; enfeebled or depraved voice.
Dysphoria (n.) Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.
Dyspnoea (n.) Difficulty of breathing.
Dyspnoic (a.) Affected with shortness of breath; relating to dyspnoea.
Dysteleology (n.) The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism.
Dystocia (n.) Difficult delivery pr parturition.
Dystome (a.) Cleaving with difficulty.
Dysuria (n.) Alt. of Dysury
Dysuric (a.) Pertaining to, or afflicted with, dysury.
Dysury (n.) Difficult or painful discharge of urine.
Dzeren (n.) Alt. of Dzeron
Dzeron (n.) The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Thibet, and China.
Dziggetai (n.) The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Thibet (Asinus hemionus).
