sy. 2 Having the power of determining a contest or event. DE-CISIVE-LY, adv. In a conclusive manner. test. DE-CISO-RY, a. Able to decide or determine. DECK, n. 1. The covering of a ship, which constitutes a DECKED, pp. Covered; adorned; furnished with a deck. DE-CLAIM, v. i. [L. declamo.] 1. To speak a set oration DE-CLINA-BLE, a. That may be declined; changing its DECLI-NATE, a. [L. declinatus.] In botany, bending or DEC-LI-NATOR, (n. An instrument for taking the dec in public; to speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech, DE-CLINA-TO-RY, lination or inclination of a plane; or oration. 2. To harangue; to speak loudly or earnestly, to a public body or assembly, with a view to convince their minds or move their passions. DE-CLAIM, v. t. 1. To speak in public. 2. To speak in DEC-LA-MATOR, n. A declaimer. Taylor. DE-CLAM'A-TO-RY, a. [L. declamatorius.] 1. Relating to the practice of declaiming; pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician. 2. Appealing to the passions; noisy; rhetorical without solid sense or argument. DE-CLARA-BLE, 4. That may be declared or proved. DEC-LA-RATION, n. [L. declaratio.] 1. An affirınation; an open expression of facts or opinions; verbal utterance. 2. Expression of facts, opinions, promises, predictions, &c., in writings; records or reports of what has been declared or uttered. 3. Publication; manifestation. 4. A public annunciation; proclamation.-5. In law, that part of the process or pleadings in which the plaintiff sets forth at large his cause of complaint; the narration or count. DE-CLAR/A-TIVE, a. 1. Making declaration; explanatory; making show or manifestation. 2. Making proclamation or publication. DE-CLAR/A-TO-RI-LY, adv. By declaration or exhibition. DE-CLARIA-TO-RY, a. Making declaration, clear manifestation or exhibition; expressive. DE-CLARE, v. t. [L. declaro.] 1. To clear; to free from obscurity; to make plain; (obs.] Boyle. 2. To make known; to tell explicitly; to manifest or communicate plainly to others by words. 3. To make known; to show to the eye or to the understanding; to exhibit; to manifest by other means than words. 4. To publish; to proclaim. 5. To assert; to affirm. To declare one's self, to throw off reserve, and avow one's opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses. DE-CLARE, v. i. 1. To make a declaration; to proclaim or avow some opinion or resolution in favor or in opposition; to make known explicitly some determination.2. In law, to recite the causes of complaint against the defendant. 3. To show or manifest the issue or event; to decide in favor of. DE-CLARED, (de-klard) pp. Made known; told explicitly; avowed; exhibited; manifested; published; proclaimed; recited. DE-CLAR/ED-LY, adv. Avowedly; explicitly. DE-CLAR/ING, ppr. Making known by words or by other DE-CLARING, n. Declaration; proclamation. an instrument in dialing. Declinatory plea, in law, a plea before trial or conviction. DE-CLINE, v. i. [L. declino.] 1. To lean downward. 2. To lean from a right line; to deviate. 3. To lean or deviate from rectitude; to leave the path of truth or justice, or the course prescribed. 4. To fall; to tend or draw towards the close. 5. To avoid or shun; to refuse; not to comply; not to do. 6. To fall; to fail, to sink; to decay; to be impaired; to tend to a less perfect state. 7. To sink; to diminish; to fall in value. DE-CLINÉ, v. t. 1. To bend downward; to bring down. 2. To bend to one side; to move from a fixed point or right line. 3. To shun or avoid; to refuse; not to engage in; to be cautious not to do or interfere; not to accept or comply with. 4. To inflect; to change the termination of a word, for forming the oblique cases. DE-CLINE, n. Literally, a leaning from; hence, a falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration. DE-CLIN/ED, (de-klind) pp. Bent downward or from; in flected. DE-CLINING, ppr. Leaning; deviating; falling; failing; decaying; tending to a worse state; avoiding; refusing; inflecting. DE-CLIVI-TY, n. [L. declivitas.] Declination from a hori- DE-CLI VOUS, or DE-CLIVI-TOUS, a. Gradually de- DE-COCTI-BLE, a. That may be boiled or digested. DE-COCTIVE, a. That may be easily decocted. DE-COL-LA TION, n. [L. decollatio.] The act of behead- DE-COL-OR-ATION, n. [L. decoloratio.] Absence of color. Ferrand. DE COM-PLEX, a. Compounded of complex ideas Locke. DE-COM-PO/SA-BLE, 4. That may be decomposed; capable of being resolved into its constituent elements. DE-COM-POSE, v. t. [Fr. decomposer.] To separate the constituent parts of a body or substance; to disunite ele mentary particles combined by affinity or chemical attrac tion; to resolve into original elements. DE-COM-POSED, (de-kom-pōzd') pp. Separated or resolved into the constituent parts. DE-COM-POSING, ppr. Separating into constituent parts. DE-COM-POSITE, a. [L. de and compositus.] Compounded a second time; compounded with things already composite. Bacon. DE-COM-PO-SITION, n. 1. Analysis; the act of separa ting the constituent parts of a substance, which are chemically combined. 2. A second composition; [in this sense not used. Boyle. DE-COM-POUND', v. t. 1. To compound a second time, to compound or mix with that which is already com 15 pound; to form by a second composition. Newton. 2. To || DE-CREPIT, a. [L. decrepitus.] Broken down with age; decompose; [little used.] DE-COM-POUND, a. 1. Composed of things or words already compounded; compounded a second time. Boyle. 2. A decompound leaf, in botary, is when the primary petiole is so divided that each part forms a compound leaf. DE-COM-POUND/A-BLE, a. That may be deconmpour.ded. DE-COM-POUNDED, pp. Compounded a second time; composed of things already compounded. DE-COM-POUNDING, ppr. Compounding a second time. 1 DECO-RA-MENT, n. Ornament; embellishment. DECO-RATE, v. t. [L. decoro.] 1. To adorn; to beautify; to embellish; used of external ornaments or apparel. 2. To adorn with internal grace or beauty; to render lovely. 3. To adorn or beautify with any thing agreeable; to embellish., DEC-O-RA-TED, pp. Adorned; beautified; embellished. DECO-RA-TING, ppr. Adorning; embellishing; rendering beautiful to the eye, or lovely to the mind. DEC-O-RATION, n. 1. Ornament; embellishment; any thing added which renders more agreeable to the eye or to the intellectual view. 2. In architecture, any thing which adorns and enriches an edifice, as vases, paintings, figures, festoons, &c.-3. In theatres, the scenes, which are changed as occasion requires. DECO-RA-TOR, n. One who adorns or embellishes. * DECO ROUS, or DE-CO'ROUS, a. [L. decorus.] Decent; suitable to a character, or to the time, place and occasion; becoming proper; befitting. DECO-ROUS-LY, adv. In a becoming manner. DE-COR/TI-CATE, v. t. [L. decortico.] To strip off bark; to peer; to husk; to take off the exterior coat. DE-COR TI-CA-TED, pp. Stripped of bark; peeled; husked. DE-COR/TI-CA-TING, ppr. Stripping off bark or the external cont; peeling. DE-COR-TI-CATION, n. The act of stripping off bark or husk. DE-CORUM, n. [L.] 1. Propriety of speech or behavior; suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, and to the characters present, or to the place and occasion; seemliness; decency; opposed to rudeness, licentiousness or levity. 2. In architecture, the suitableness of a building, and of its parts and ornaments, to its place and uses. DE-COY', v. t. [D. keoi.] To lead or lure by artifice into a snare, with a view to catch; to draw into any situation to be taken by a foe; to entrap by any means which deceive. DE-COY', n. 1. Any thing intended to lead into a snare; any lure or allurement that deceives and misleads into evil, danger or the power of an enemy. 2. A place for catching wild fowls. DE-COY-DUCK, n. A duck employed to draw others into a net or situation to be taken. DE-COY ED, (de-koyd') pp. Lured or drawn into a snare or net; allured into danger by deception DE-COY ING, ppr. Luring into a snare or net by deception; leading into evil or danger. DE-COY-MAN, n. A man employed in decoying and catching fowls. DE-CREASE, v. i. [L. decresco.] To become less; to be diminished gradually, in extent, bulk, quantity or amount, or in strength, quality or excellence. DE-CREASE!, v. t. To lessen; to make smaller in dimensions, amount, quality or excellence, &c.; to diminish gradually, or by small deductions. DE-CREASE, n. 1. A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay. 2. The wane of the moon, the gradual diminution of the visible face of the moot from the full to the change. DE-CREASED, (de-kreest!) pp. Lessened; diminished. DE-CREASING, ppr. Becoming less; diminishing; waning. DE-CREE/, n. [L.decretum.] 1. Judicial decision, or determination of a litigated cause. 2. In the civil law, a determination, or judgment of the emperor on a suit between parties 3. An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction. 1. In general, an order, edict or law, made by a superior as a rule to govern inferiors. 5. Established law, or rule.-6. In theology, predetermined purpose of God. DE CREE, v. t. 1. To determine judicially; to resolve by sentence. 2. To determine or resolve legislatively; to fix or appoint; to set or constitute by edict or in purpose. DE-CREED, pp. Determined judicially; resolved; appointed: established in purpose. DE-CREEING, ppr. Determining; resolving; appointing; ordering. DEERE-MENT, n. [L. decrementum.] 1. Decrease; waste; the state of becoming less gradually. 2. The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste.-3. In heraldry, the wane of the moon. 4. In crustalography, a successive diminution of the lamens of molecules. wasted or worn by the insirmities of old age; being in the last stage of decay; weakened by age. Pope. DE-CREP-I-TATE, v. t. [L. decrepo.] To roast or calcine in a strong heat, with a continual bursting or crackling of the substance. DE-CREPI-TΑΤΕ, τ.ί. Τo crackle, as salts when roast ing. DE-CREPI-TA-TED, pp. Roasted with a crackling noise.. DE-CREPI-TA-TING, ppr. Crackling; roasting with a crackling noise; suddenly bursting when exposed to heat DE-CREP-I-TATION, n. The act of roasting with a con tinual crackling; or the separation of parts with a crackling noise, occasioned by heat. DE-CREPIT-NESS, (n. The broken, crazy state of the DE-CREPT-TUDE, body, produced by decay and the infirmities of age. DE-CRES CENT, a. [L. decrescens.] Decreasing; becoming less by gradual diminution. DE-CRETAL, a. Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree. * DE-CRETAL, n. 1. A letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. 2. A book of decrees or edicts; a body of laws. 3. A collection of the pope's decrees. † DE-CREATION, n. A decreasing. Pearson. DE-CRETIST, n. One who studies or professes the knowledge of the decretals. DECORE-TO-RI-LY, adv. In a definitive manner. DECRE-TO-RY, a. 1. Judicial; definitive; established by a decree. 2. Critical; determining; in which there is son e definitive event. † DE-CREW, v. i. To decrease. DE-CRTAL, n. A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure. DE-CRIED, (de-kride) pp. Cried down; discredited; brought into disrepute. DE-CRIER. n. One who decries. DE-CROWN', v. t. To deprive of a crown. [Little used.] DE-CROWN/ING, n. The act of depriving of a crown. DE-CRUS-TATION, n. [Fr. decrustation. An uncrusting. DE-CRY, v. t. [Fr. decrier.] 1. To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean or worthless; to clamor against; to discredit by finding fault. 2. To cry down, as improper or unnecessary; to rail or clamor against; to bring into disrepute; as, to decry the measures of administration. DEC-U-BATION, n. [L. decumbo.] The act of lying down. Evelyn. DE-CUM BENCE, n. [L. decumbens.] The act of lying DE-CUM BEN-CY, down; the posture of lying down. DE-CUM BENT, a. In botany, declined or bending down. having the stamens and pistils bending down to the lower side. DE-CUM-BI-TURE, n. 1. The time at which a person takes to his bed in a disease. 2. In astrology, the scheme or aspect of the heavens, by which the prognostics of recovery or death are discovered. DECU-PLE, a. [L. decuplus.] Tenfold; containing ten times as many. DECU-PLE, r. A number ten times repeated. Martyn. DE-CUR/SION, n. [L. decursio.] The act of running down, as a stream. Hale. DE-CURSIVE, a. Running down-Decursively pinnate, in botany, applied to a leaf having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole. + DE-CURT, v. t. [L. decurto.] To shorten by cutting off. DE-CUR-TATION, n. [L. decurto.] The act of shortening, or cutting short. DECU-RY, n. [L. decuria.] A set of ten men under an officer called decurio. * DE CUS-SATE, or DE-CUS/SATE, v. t. [L. decusso.] To intersect; to cross; as lines, rays, or nerves in the body. * DE CUS SATE, a. Crossed; intersected.--In betaw", * DE CUS-SA-TED, decussated leaves and branches are such as grow in pairs, which alternately cross each other at right angles, or in a regular manner. Lee. *DE/CUS-SA-TING, ppr. Intersecting at acute angles; crossing. DE-CUS-SA/TION, n. The act of crossing at unequal angles; the crossing of two lines, rays or nerves, which meet in a point, and then proceed and diverge. DE-DA'LI-AN, a. [from Dadalus.] Various; variegated; intricate; complex; expert. DED A-LOUS, a. [from Dadatus.] Having a margin with various windings and turnings; of a beautiful and dencate texture. Lee. †DE-DECO-RATE, v. t. [L. dedecoro:] To disgrace. DE-DEN-TI TION, n. The shedding of teeth. DEDI-CATE, v. t. [L. dedico.] 1. To set apart and consecrate to a divine Being, or to a sacred purpose; to devote to a sacred use, by a solemn act, or by religious ceremonies 2. To appropriate solemnly to any person or purpose; to give wholly or chiefly to. 3. To inscribe or address to a patron. DEDI-CATE, a. Consecrated; devoted; appropriated. Shak. DEDI-CA-TED, pp. Devoted to a divine Being, or to a sacred use; consecrated; appropriated; given wholly co. DEDI-CA-TING, ppr. Devoting to a divine Being, or to a sacred purpose; consecrating; appropriating; giving wholly to. DED-I-CAPTION, n. 1. The act of consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation. 2. The act of devoting or giving to. 3. An address to a patron, prefixed to a book, testify ing respect, and recommending the work to his protection and favor. DED I-CA-TOR, n. One who dedicates; one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron. Pope. DEDI-CA-TO-RY, a. Composing a dedication. DE-DITION, n. [L. deditio.] The act of yielding any thing; surrendry. Hale. †DED O-LENT, a. [L. dedolco.] Feeling no compunction. DE-DOCE', v. t. [L. deduco.] 1. To draw from; to bring from. 2. To draw from, in reasoning; to gather a truth, opinion or proposition from premises; to infer something from what precedes. Locke. 3. To deduct; [not in use.] B. Jonson. 4. To transplant; [not in use.] Selden. DE-DUCED, (de-dūst) pp: Drawn from; inferred; as a consequence from principles or premises. DE-DOCEMENT, n. The thing drawn from or deduced; inference; that which is collected from premises. Dryden. DE-DOCI-BLE, a. That may be deduced; inferable; collectible by reason from premises; consequential. DE-DUCING, ppr. Drawing from; inferring; collecting from principles or facts already established or known. DE-DU CIVE, a. Performing the act of deduction. [L. u.] DE-DUCT', v. t. [L. deduco, deductum.] To take from; to subtract; to separate or remove, in numbering, estimating or calculating. DE-DUCT ED, pp. Taken from; subtracted. DE-DUCTING, ppr. Taking from; subtracting. DE-DUCTION, n. [L. deductio.] 1. The act of deducting. 2. That which is deducted; sum or amount taken from another; defalcation; abatement. 3. That which is drawn from premises; fact, opinion or hypothesis, collected from principles or facts stated, or established data; inference; consequence drawn; conclusion. DE-DUCTIVE, a. Deducible; that is or may be deduced from premises. Glanville. DE-DUCTIVE-LY, adv. By regular deduction; by way of inference; by consequence. Brown. DEED, n. [Sax. dad.] 1. That which is done, acted or effected; an act; a fact. 2. Exploit; achievement; illustrious act. 3. Power of action; agency. 4. A writing containing some contract or agreement, and the evidence of its execution; particularly, an instrument on paper or parchment, conveying real estate to a purchaser or donee. -Indeed, in fact, in reality. These words are united, and called an adverb. DEED, v. t. To convey or transfer by deed; a popular use of the word in America. DEED-A-CHIEVING, a. That accomplishes great deeds. DEED LESS, a. Inactive; not performing or having performed deeds or exploits. Pope. DEED-POLL, n. A deed not indented, that is, shaved or even, made by one party only. Blackstone. DEEDY, a. Active; industrious. DEEM, n. t. [Sax. deman.] 1. To think; to judge; to be of opinion; to conclude on consideration. 2. To estimate; [obs.] Sponser DEEM, v. i. To judge; to think; to estimate. DEEP, a. [Sax. deop, dypa; D. diep.] 1. Extending or being 14. telligible. 16. Heart-felt; penetrating; affecting. 17. Intricate; not easily understood or unraveled. This word often qualifies a verb, like an adverb. DEEP, n. 1. The sea; the abyss of waters; the ocean. 2. A lake; a great collection of water. 3. That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible. 4. The most still or solemn part; the midst. DEEP-DRAW-ING, a. Sinking deep into the water. DEEPEN, (dee'pn) v. t. 1. To make deep or deeper; to sink lower. 2. To make dark or darker; to make more thick or gloomy. 3. To give a darker hue, or a stronger color. 4. To make more poignant or distressing. 5. To make more frightful. 6. To make more sad or gloomy 7. To make more grave. DEEPEN, v. i. To become more deep. DEEPENED, pp. Made more deep. DEEP EN-ING, ppr. Sinking lower; making more deep DEEPLY, adv. 1. At or to a great depth; far below the surface. 2. Profoundly; thoroughly. 3. To or from the inmost recesses of the heart; with great sorrow; most feelingly. 4. To a great degree. 5. With a dark hue, or strong color. 6. Gravely. 7. With profound skill; with art or intricacy. DEEP-MOUTHED, a. Having a hoarse, loud, hollow voice. Shak. DEEP-MOS-ING, a. Contemplative; thinking closely or profoundly. Pope. DEEP NESS, n. 1. Depth; remoteness from the surface in a descending line; interior distance from the surface; profundity. 2. Craft; insidiousness; [unusual.] DEEP-READ, a. Having fully read; profoundly versed L'Estrange. DEEP-RE-VOLVING, a. Profoundly revolving or meditating. Shak. DEEP-THROAT-ED, a. With deep throats. Milton. DEEP TONED, a. Having a very low or grave tone. DEEP VAULT-ED, a. Formed like a deep vault or arch DEEP-WAIST-ED, a. Having a deep waist, as a ship when the quarter deck and forecastle are raised from four to six feet above the level of the main deck. DEER, n. sing. and plu. [Sax. deor.] A quadruped of the genus cervus, of several species.; as the stag, the fallowdeer, the roe-buck, the rein, or rein-deer, &c. DEER-STEAL-ER, n. One who steals deer. DEER-STEAL-ING, 2. The act or crime of stealing deer. DE/ESS, n. [Fr. deesse.] A goddess. Croft. DE-FACE, v. t. [Arm. difaçza; L. de and facio.] 1. To destroy or mar the face or surface of a thing; to injure the superficies or beauty; to disfigure. 2. To injure any thing; to destroy, spoil or mar; to erase or obliterate. 8., To injure the appearance; to distigure. DE-FACED, (de-faste) pp. Injured on the surface; disfigured; marred; erased. DE-FACEMENT, n. Injury to the surface or beauty; ra. sure; obliteration; that which mars beauty, or disfigures DE-FACER, n. He or that which defaces; one who imjures, mars or disfigures. DE-FACING, ppr. Injuring the face or surface; marring; disfiguring; erasing. DE FACTO. [L.] Actually; in fact; existing; as a king de facto, distinguished from a king de jure, or by right. †DE-FAIL/ANCE, n. [Fr.] Failure; miscarriage. DE-FAL/CATE, v. t. [Fr. defalquer.] To cut off; to take away or deduct a part; used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, &c. DE-FAL-CA/TION, n 1. The act of cutting off, or deducting a part; deduction; diminution; abatement. 2. That which is cut off. † DE-FALK, r. t. To defalcate. Bp. Hall. DEF-A-MATION, n. The uttering of slanderous words with a view to injure another's reputation; the malicious uttering of falsehood respecting another which tends to destroy or impair his good name, character or occupation; slander; calumny. DE-FAMA-TO-RÝ, a. Calumnions; slanderous; containing defamation; false, and injurious to reputation. DE-FAME', v. t. [Fr. diffamer.] 1. To slander; falsely and maliciously to utter words respecting another which tend to injure his reputation or occupation. 2. To speak evil of; to dishonor by false reports; to calumniate; to libel; to impair reputation by acts or words. DE-FAMED, (de-famd') pp. Slandered, dishonored or injured by evil reports. DE-FAMER, n. A slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator DE-FAMING, ppr. Slandering, injuring the character by false reports. DE-FAMING, n. Defamation; slander. Jeremiah. DE-FATI-GA-BLE, a. Liable to be wearied. [Not much used Glanville. DE-FATI-GATE, v. t. [L. defatigo. To weary or tire Little used.] Herbert. DE-FAT-I-GATION, R. Weariness. [Little used.] Bacon. DE-FAULT', n. [Fr. defaut.] 1. A failing, or failure; an omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires. 2. Defect; want; failure.3. In law, a failure of appearance in court at a day assigned, particularly of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer. To suffer a default, is to permit an action to be called without appearing or answering. DE-FAULT', v. i. To fail in performing a contract or agreement. Johnson. DE-FAULT', v. t 1. In law, to call out a defendant, [according to the common expression.] To call a defendant officially, to appear and answer in court, and on his failing to answer, to declare him in default, and enter judgment against him. 2. To call out a cause, in which the defendant does not appear, and enter judgment on the default. 3. To fail in performance. DE-FAULT', v. t. To offend. DE-FAULTED, pp. 1. Called out of court, as a defendant or his cause. 2. a. Having defect. DE-FAULT'ER, n. 1. One who makes default; one wno fails to appear in court when called. 2. One who fails to perform a public duty; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a delinquent. DE-FAULTING, ppr. 1. Failing to fulfil a contract; delinquent. 2. Failing to perform a duty or legal requirement. 3. Calling out of court, and entering judgment against for non-appearance. DE-FEAS ANCE, n. [Norm. defesance.] 1. Literally, a defeating; a rendering null; the preventing of the operation of an instrument. 2. In law, a condition, relating to a deed, which being performed, the deed is defeated or rendered void. 3. The writing containing a defeasance. 4. Defeat; [obs.] Spenser. DE-FEAS/I-BLE, a. That may be defeated or annulled. DE-FEASI-BLE-NESS, n. The quality of being defeas ible. DE-FEAT, n. [Fr. defaite.] 1. Overthrow; loss of battle. The check, rout, or destruction of an army by the victory of an enemy. 2. Successful resistance; as, the defeat of an attack. 3. Frustration; a rendering null and void. 4. Frustration; prevention of success. DE-FEAT, v. t. 1. To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow. 2. To frustrate; to prevent the success of; to disappoint. 3. To render null and void. 4. To resist with success. DE-FEATED, pp. Vanquished; effectually resisted; overthrown; frustrated; disappointed; rendered null or inoperative. DE-FEATING, ppr. Vanquishing; subduing; opposing successfully; overthrowing; frustrating; disappointing; rendering null and void. DE-FEATURE, n. 1. Change of feature. Shak. 2. Overthrow; defeat; [obs.] Beaumont. DEF/E-CATE, v. t. [L. defæco.] 1. To purify; to refine; to clear from dregs or impurities; to clarify. 2. To purify from admixture; to clear; to purge of extraneous matter. DEF'E-CA-TED, pp. Purified; clarified; refined. DEF/E-CA-TING, ppr. Purifying; purging of lees or impurities. DEF-E-CA'TION, n. The act of separating from lees or dregs; purification from impurities or foreign matter. DE-FECT, n. [L. defectus.] 1. Want or absence of something necessary or useful towards perfection; fault; imperfection. 2. Failing; fault; mistake; imperfection in moral conduct, or in judgment. 3. Any want, or imperfection in natural objects; the absence of any thing necessary to perfection; any thing unnatural or misplaced; blemish; deformity. † DE-FECT, v. i. To be deficient. Brown. DE-FECT-I-BIL/I-TY, n. Deficiency; imperfection. [Little used.] Hale. DE-FECTI-BLE, a. Imperfect; deficient; wanting. [Little used.) Hale. DE-FECTION, n. [L. defectio.] 1. Want or failure of duty; particularly, a falling away; apostasy; the act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself. 2. Revolt. DE-FECTIVE, a. [L. defectivus.] 1. Wanting either in substance, quantity or quality, or in any thing necessary; imperfect. 2. Wanting in moral qualities; faulty; blamable; not conforming to rectitude or rule.-3. In grammar, a defective noun is one which wants a whole number or a particular case; an indeclinable noun. 4. A defective verb is one which wants some of the tenses. DE-FECTIVE-LY, adv. In a defective manner; imperfectly. DE-FECTIVE-NESS, n. Want; the state of being imperfect; faultiness. † DE-FECT-U-OS/I-TY, n. Defectiveness; faultiness. Mon cusation; to oppose; to resist; the effect of which is to maintain one's own claims. 2. To forbid; to prohibit, that is, to drive from, or back. Temple. 3. To drive back a foe or danger; to repel from any thing that which assails or annoys; to protect by opposition or resistance; to support or maintain; to prevent from being injured or destroyed. 4. To vindicate; to assert; to uphold; to maintain uninjured, by force or by argument. 5. To secure against attacks or evil; to fortify against danger or violence; to set obstacles to the approach of any thing that can annoy. DE-FEND', v. i. To make opposition. DE-FENDA-BLE, a. That may be defended. DE-FEND ANT, a. [French participle of defendre.] 1. De fensive; proper for defense. 2. Making defense; being in the character of a defendant. DE-FEND ANT, n. 1. He that defends against an assailant, or against the approach of evil or danger.-2. In law, the party that opposes a complaint, demand or charge; he that is summoned into court, and defends, denies or op poses the demand or charge. DE-FENDED, pp. Opposed; denied; prohibited; main tained by resistance; vindicated; preserved uninjured; secured. DE-FENDER, n. One who defends by opposition; one who maintains, supports, protects or vindicates; an assertor; a vindicator, either by arms or by arguments; a champion or an advocate. DE-FENDING, ppr. Denying; opposing; resisting; for bidding; maintaining uninjured by force or by reason; securing from evil. DE-FENSIA-TIVE, n. Guard; defense; a bandage, or plaster, to secure a wound from external injury. DE-FENSE, (de-fens') n. [L. defensio.] 1. Any thing that opposes attack, violence, danger or injury; any thing that secures the persons, the rights or the possessions of men; fortification; guard; protection; security. 2. Vindication; justification; apology; that which repels or dis-. proves a charge or accusation. 3. In law, the defendant's reply to the plaintiff's declaration, demands, or charges. 4. Prohibition; (obs.) 5. Resistance; opposition. 6. The science of defending against enemies; military skill.-7. In fortification, a work that flanks another. †DE-FENSE', v. t. To defend by fortification. DE-FENSED, (de-fenst') pp. Fortified. DE-FENSE LESS, a. Being without defense; unarmed, unprotected; unprepared to resist attack; weak; unable to oppose; uncovered; unsheltered. DE-FENSE LESS-NESS, n. The state of being ungarded or unprotected. DE-FENSI-BLE, a. 1. That may be defended. 2. Than may be vindicated, maintained or justified. DE-FENSIVE, a. [Fr. defensif.] 1. That serves to defend, proper for defense. 2. Carried on in resisting attack or aggression. 3. In a state or posture to defend. DE-FENSIVE, n. Safeguard; that which defends. To be on the defensive, or to stand on the defensive, is to be or stand in a state or posture of defense or resistance, in opposition to aggression or attack. DE-FENSIVE-LY, adv. In a defensive manner; on the defensive; in defense. † DE-FENST, pp. Defended. Fairfax. DE-FER', v. t. [L. differo.] 1. To delay; to put off; to postpone to a future time. 2. To refer; to leave to another's judgment and determination. DE-FER', v. i. To yield to another's opinion; to submit in opinion. DEFER-ENCE, n. 1. A yielding in opinion; submission of judgment to the opinion or judgment of another. Hence, regard; respect. 2. Complaisance; condescension. 3. Submission. DEF ER-ENT, a. Bearing; carrying; conveying. [Little used. Bacon. DEF'ER-ENT, 1 That which carries or conveys. 2. A vessel in the numan body for the conveyance of fluids. DEF-ER-EN/TIAL, a. Expressing deference. DE-FER/MENT, n. Delay. Suckling. DE-FERRER, n. One who delays or puts off. B. Jonson. DE-FIA-TO-RY, a. Bidding or bearing defiance. DE-FICIENT, a. 1. Wanting; defective; imperfect; not sufficient or adequate. 2. Wanting; not having a full or adequate supply. -Deficient numbers, in arithmetic, are those numbers, whose parts, added together, make less than the integer, whose parts they are. DEFI-CIT, n. Want; deficiency; as a deficit in the taxes or revenue. DE-FIER, n. A challenger; one who dares to combat or . encounter; one who braves; one who acts in contempt of opposition, law or authority. +DE-FIG-U-RATION, n. A disfiguring. Hall. †DE-FIGURE, v. t. To delineate. Weever. DE-FILE, v. t. [Sax. afylan, befylan, gefylan.] 1. To make unclean; to render foul or dirty. 2. To make impure; to render turbid. 3. To soil or sully; to tarnish; as reputation, &c. 4. To pollute; to make ceremonially unclean. 5. To corrupt chastity; to debauch; to violate. 6. To taint, in a moral sense, to corrupt; to vitiate; to render impure with sin. DE-FILE, v. i. [Fr. defiler.] To march off in a line, or file by file; to file off. Roscoe. DE-FILE', n. [Fr. defilé.] A narrow passage or way, in which troops may march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass, as between hills, &c. DE-FIL'ED, (de-fild') pp. Made dirty, or foul; polluted; soiled; corrupted; violated; vitiated. DE-FILE/MENT, n. 1. The act of defiling, or state of being defiled; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. 2. Corruption of morals, principles or character; impurity; pollution by sin. DE-FIL/ER, n. One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes. DE-FILING, ppr. 1. Polluting; making impure. 2. Marching in a file, or with a narrow front. DE-FIN'A-BLE, a. 1. Literally, that may be limited, or have its limits ascertained. Hence, capable of having its extent ascertained with precision; capable of being fixed and determined. 2. That may be defined or described; capable of having its signification rendered certain, or expressed with certainty or precision. 3. That may be fixed, determined or ascertained. DE-FINE', v. t. [L. definio.] 1. To determine or describe the end or limit. 2. To determine with precision; to ascertain. 3. To mark the limit; to circumscribe; to bound. 4. To determine or ascertain the extent of the meaning of a word; to ascertain the signification of a term; to explain what a word is understood to express. 5. To describe; to ascertain or explain the distinctive properties or circumstances of a thing. DE-FINE, v. i. To determine; to decide. Bacon. DE-FIN'ED, (de-find') pp. 1. Determined; having the extent ascertained; having the signification determined. 2. Having the precise limit marked, or having a determinate limit. DE-FIN'ER, n. He who defines; he who ascertains or marks the limits; he who determines or explains the signification of a word, or describes the distinctive properties of a thing. DE-FINING, ppr. Determining the limits; ascertaining the extent; explaining the meaning; describing the properties. DEFI-NITE, a. [L. definitus.] 1. Having certain limits; bounded with precision; determinate. 2. Having certain limits in signification; determinate; certain; precise. 3. Fixed; determinate; exact; precise. 4. Defining; limiting; determining the extent. DEFI-NITE, n. Thing defined. Ayliffe. DEF-I-NITION, n. [L. definitio.] 1. A brief description of a thing by its properties.-2. In logic, the explication of the essence of a thing by its kind and difference. 3. In lexicography, an explanation of the signification of a word or term, or of what a word is understood to express. DE-FINI-TIVE, a. [L. definitivus.] 1. Limiting the extent; determinate; positive; express. 2. Limiting; ending; determining; final. DE-FINI-TIVE, n. In grammar, an adjective used to define or limit the extent of the signification of an appellative or common noun. DE-FINI-TIVE-LY, adv. 1. Determinately; positively; expressly. 2. Finally; conclusively; unconditionally. DE-FINI-TIVE-NESS, n. Determinateness; decisiveness; conclusiveness. DE-FIX, v. t. [L. defigo.] To fix; to fasten. Herbert. DEF-LA-GRA-BIL/I-TY, n. Combustibility; the quality of taking fire and burning away, as a metallic wire. Boyle. DE-FLA GRA-BLE, a. Combustible; having the quality of taking fire and burning, as alcohol, oils, &c. Boyle. DEF LA-GRATE, v. t. [L. deflagro. To set fire to; to burn; to consume. DEF-LA-GRA TION, n. A kindling or setting fire to a substance; burning; combustion. DEFLA-GRA-TOR, n. A galvanic instrument for produc ing combustion, particularly the combustion of metallic substances. Hare. DE-FLECT', v. i. [L. deflecto.] To turn from or aside; to deviate from a true course or right line; to swerve. DE-FLECT', v. t. To turn aside; to turn or bend from a right line or regular course. DE-FLECTED, pp. Turned aside, or from a direct line or course. In botany, bending downward archwise. DE-FLECTING, ppr. Turning aside; turning from a right line or regular course. DE-FLECTION, n. 1. Deviation; the act of turning aside, a turning from a true line or the regular course. 2. The departure of a ship from its true course. 3. A deviation of the rays of light towards the surface of an opaque body; inflection. DE-FLEX/URE, n. A bending down; a turning aside. deviation. DEFLO-RATE, a. [L. defloratus.] In botany, having cast its farin, pollen, or fecundating dust. Martyn. DEF-LO-RATION, n. [Fr.] 1. The act of deflouring; the act of depriving of the flower or prime beauties; particu larly, the act of taking away a woman's virginity. 2. A selection of the flower, or of that which is most valuable. DE-FLOUR', v. t. [L. defloro.] 1. To deprive a woman of her virginity. 2. To take away the prime beauty and grace of any thing. 3. To deprive of flowers. DE-FLOUR/ED, (de-flourd') pp. Deprived of maidenhood; ravished; robbed of prime beauty. DE-FLOURER, n. One who deprives a woman of her virginity. DE-FLOURING, ppr. Depriving of virginity or maidenhood; robbing of prime beauties. †DE-FLOW, v. i. [L. defluo.] To flow down. Brown. DEFLU-OUS, a. [L. defluus.] Flowing down; falling off. [Little used.] DE-FLUX', n. [L. defluxus.] A flowing down; a running downward. Bacon. DE-FLUXION, n. [L. defluxio.] 1. A flowing, running or falling of humors or fluid matter, from a superior to an inferior part of the body; properly, an inflammation of a part, attended with increased secretion. 2. A discharge or flowing off of humors. † DEF/LY, ade. Dextrously; skilfully. Spenser. DEF-OF-DATION, n. The act of making filthy; pol lution. DE-FO-LI-ATION, n. [L. de and foliatio.] Literally, the fall of the leaf or shedding of leaves; but technically, the time or season of shedding leaves in autumn. DE-FORCE, v.1. To disseize and keep out of lawful possession of an estate, to withhold the possession of an estate from the rightful owner. Blackstone. DE-FORCED, (de-forst') pp. Kept out of lawful possession. DE-FORCEMENT, n. 1. The holding of lands or tenements to which another person has a right.-2. In Scot land, a resisting of an officer in the execution of law. DE-FORCIANT, n. He that keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate. DE-FORCING, ppr. Keeping out of lawful possession. DE-FORM', v. t. [L. deformo.] 1. To mar or injure the form; to alter that form or disposition of parts which is natural and esteemed beautiful, and thus to render it displeasing to the eye; to disfigure. 2. To render ugly or displeasing, by exterior applications or appendages. 3. To render displeasing. 4. To injure and render displeasing or disgusting; to disgrace; to disfigure moral beauty. 5. To dishonor; to make ungraceful. DE-FORM', a. [L. deformis.] Disfigured; being of an unnatural, distorted, or disproportioned form; displeasing to the eye. DEF-OR-MATION, n. A disfiguring or defacing. DE-FORM ED-LY, adv. In an ugly manner. ural form. DE-FORMER, n. One who deforms. DE-FORMING, ppr. Marring the natural form or figure, rendering ugly or displeasing; destroying beauty DE-FORMI-TÝ, n. [L. deformitas.] 1. Any unnatural state of the shape or form; want of that uniformity or symmetry which constitutes beauty; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; disproportion of limbs; defect; crookedness; ugliness. 2. Any thing that destroys beauty, grace or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order, or the established laws of propriety †DE-FORS/ER, n. One that casts out by force. DE-FOUL, v. t. To defile. DE-FRAUD, v. t. [L. defraudo.] 1. To deprive of right, either by obtaining something by deception or artifice, or by taking something wrongfully, without the knowledge or consent of the owner; to cheat; to cozen; followed by of before the thing taken. 2. To withhold wrongfully from another what is due to him. 3. To prevent one |