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Dawn
DAWN, verb intransitive
1. To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
It began to dawn towards the first day of the
week. .
2. To begin to open or expand; to begin to show intellectual light, or knowledge; as, the genius of the youth begins to dawn
When life awakes and dawns at every line. Pope.
3. To glimmer obscurely.
4. To begin to open or appear.
DAWN, noun 1. The break of day; the first appearance of light, in the morning.
They arose about the dawn of the day. .
The word may express the whole time from the first appearance of light to sunrise.
2. First opening or expansion; first appearance of intellectual light; as the dawn of genius, intellect, or mental powers.
3. Beginning; rise; first appearance; as the dawn of time.
4. A feeble or incipient light; first beams.
These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of serenity over the soul. Pope.
Dawning
DAWN'ING, participle present tense 1. Growing light; first appearing luminous; opening; as the dawning day.
2. Opening; expanding; beginning to show intellectual light; beginning.
DAWN'ING, noun
1. The first appearance of light in the morning.
2. The first opening or appearance of the intellectual powers; beginning; as the first dawning of notions in the understanding.
Day
DAY, noun
1. That part of the time of the earth's revolution on its axis, in which its surface is presented to the sun; the part of the twenty four hours when it is light; or the space of time between the rising and setting of the sun; called the artificial day
And God called the light day Gen. I.
In this sense, the day may commence at any period of the revolution. The Babylonians began the day at sun-rising; the Jews, at sun-setting; the Egyptians, at midnight, as do several nations in modern times, the British, French, Spanish, American, etc. This day in reference to civil transactions, is called the civil day Thus with us the day when a legal instrument is dated, begins and ends at midnight.
3. Light; sunshine.
Let us walk honestly as in the day .
4. Time specified; any period of time distinguished from other time; age; time with reference to the existence of a person or thing.
He was a useful man in his day
In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
die. .
In this sense, the plural is often used; as, from the days of the judges; in the days of our fathers. In this sense also, the word is often equivalent to life, or earthly existence.
5. The contest of a day; battle; or day of combat.
The day is his own.
He won the day that is, he gained the victory.
6. An appointed or fixed time.
If my debtors do not keep their day Dryden.
7. Time of commemorating an event; anniversary; the same day of the month, in any future year. We celebrate the day of our Savior's birth.
DAY by day daily; every day; each day in succession; continually; without intermission of a day
DAY by day we magnify thee. Common Prayer.
But or only from day to day without certainty of continuance; temporarily.
To-day, adverb On the present day; this day; or at the present time.
DAYs of grace, in theology, the time when mercy is offered to sinners.
To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. .
DAYs of grace, in law, are days granted by the court for delay, at the prayer of the plaintiff or defendant.
Three days, beyond the day named in the writ, in which the person summoned may appear and answer.
DAYs of grace, in commerce, a customary number of days, in Great Britain and America, three, allowed for the payment of a note or bill of exchange, after it becomes due. A note due on the seventh of the month is payable on the tenth.
The days of grace are different in different countries. In France, they are ten; at Naples, Eight; at Venice, Amsterdam and Antwerp, six; at Hamburg, Twelve; in Spain, fourteen; in Genoa, thirty.
DAYs in bank, in England, days of appearance in the court of common bench.
Daybed
DA'YBED, noun A bed used for idleness, indulgence, or rest during the day.
Daybook
DA'YBOOK, noun A journal of accounts; a book in which are recorded the debts and credits or accounts of the day.
Daybreak
DA'YBREAK, noun The dawn or first appearance of light in the morning.
Daycoal
DA'YCOAL, noun A name given by miners to the upper stratum of coal.
Daydream
DA'YDREAM, noun A vision to the waking senses.
Dayflower
DA'YFLOWER, noun A genus of plants, the Commelina.
Dayfly
DA'YFLY, noun A genus of insects that live one day only, or a very short time called Ephemera. The species are numerous, some of which live scarcely an hour, others, several days.
Daylabor
DA'YLABOR, noun Labor hired or performed by the day.
Daylaborer
DAYLABORER, noun One who works by the day.
Daylight
DAY'LIGHT, noun The light of the day; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or of a lamp or candle.
Daylily
DA'YLILY, noun The same with asphodel. A species of Hemerocallis.
Dayly
DA'YLY, adjective The more regular orthography of daily.
Daysman
DA'YSMAN, noun An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us. .
Dayspring
DA'YSPRING, noun The dawn; the beginning of the day, or first appearance of light.
Whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us. Luke I.
Daystar
DA'YSTAR, noun The morning star, Lucifer, Venus; the star which precedes the morning light.
Dayswork
DA'Y'SWORK, noun The work of one day. Among seamen, the account or reckoning of a ship's course for 24 hours, from noon to noon.
Daytime
DA'YTIME, noun The time of the sun's light on the earth; as opposed to night.
Daywearied
DA'YWEARIED, adjective Wearied with the labor of the day.
Daywork
DA'YWORK, Work by the day; daylabor.
Daze
DAZE, verb transitive To overpower with light; to dim or blind by too strong a light, or to render the sight unsteady.
DAZE, noun Among miners, a glittering stone.
Dazzle
DAZ'ZLE, verb transitive
1. To overpower with light; to hinder distinct vision by intense light; or to cause to shake; to render unsteady, as the sight. We say, the brightness of the sun dazzles the eyes or the sight.
2. To strike or surprise with a bright or intense light; to dim or blind by a glare of light, or by splendor, in a literal or figurative sense; as, to be dazzled by resplendent glory, or by a brilliant expression.
DAZ'ZLE, verb intransitive To be overpowered by light; to shake or be unsteady; to waver, as the sight.
I dare not trust these eyes; They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise.
Dazzled
DAZ'ZLED, participle passive Made wavering, as the sight; overpowered or dimmed by a too strong light.
Dazzlement
DAZ'ZLEMENT, noun The act or power of dazzling.
Dazzling
DAZ'ZLING, participle present tense Rendering unsteady or wavering as the sight; overpowering by a strong light; striking with splendor.
Dazzlingly
DAZ'ZLINGLY, adverb In a dazzling manner.
De
DE, a Latin prefix, denotes a moving from, separation; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. Hence it often expresses a negative; as in derange. Sometimes it augments the sense, as in deprave, despoil. It coincides nearly in sense with the French des and Latin dis.
Deacon
DE'ACON, noun [Gr., a minister or servant.]
1. A person in the lowest degree of holy orders. The office of deacon was instituted by the apostles, , and seven persons were chosen at first, to serve at the feasts of christians and distribute bread and wine to the communicants, and to minister to the wants of the poor.
In the Romish Church, the office of the deacons is to incense the officiating priest; to lay the corporal on the altar; to receive the cup from the subdeacon and present it to the person officiating; to incense the choir; to receive the pax from the officiating prelate, and carry it to the subdeacon; and at the pontifical mass, to put the miter on the bishop's head.
In the church of England, the office of deacons is declared to be to assist the priest in administering the holy communion; and their office in presbyterian and independent churches is to distribute the bread and wine to the communicants. In the latter, they are elected by the members of the church.
2. In Scotland, an overseer of the poor, and the master of an incorporated company.
Deaconess
DE'ACONESS, noun A female deacon in the primitive church.
Deaconry
DE'ACONRY or DE'ACONSHIP, noun The office, dignity or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.
Dead
DEAD,
1. Deprived or destitute of life; that state of a being, animal or vegetable, in which the organs of motion and life have ceased to perform their functions, and have become incapable of performing them, or of being restored to a state of activity.
The men are dead who sought thy life. .
It is sometimes followed by of before the cause of death; as, dead of hunger, or of a fever.
2. Having never had life, or having been deprived of vital action before birth; as, the child was born dead
3. Without life; inanimate.
All, all but truth, drops dead-born from the press.
4. Without vegetable life; as a dead tree.
5. Imitating death; deep or sound; as a dead sleep.
6. Perfectly still; motionless as death; as a dead calm; a dead weight.
7. Empty; vacant; not enlivened by variety; as a dead void space; a dead plain.
We say also, a dead level, for a perfectly level surface.
8. Unemployed; useless; unprofitable. A man's faculties may lie dead or his goods remain dead on his hands. So dead capital or stock is that which produces no profit.
9. Dull; inactive; as a dead sale of commodities.
10. Dull; gloomy; still; not enlivened; as a dead winter; a dead season.
11. Still; deep; obscure; as the dead darkness of the night.
12. Dull; not lively; not resembling life; as the dead coloring of a piece; a dead eye.
13. Dull; heavy; as a dead sound.
14. Dull; frigid; lifeless; cold; not animated; not affecting; used of prayer.
15. Tasteless; vapid; spiritless; used of liquors.
16. Uninhabited; as dead walls.
17. Dull; without natural force or efficacy; not lively or brisk; as a dead fire.
18. In a state of spiritual death; void of grace; lying under the power of sin.
19. Impotent; unable to procreate.
20. Decayed in grace.
Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead .
21. Not proceeding from spiritual life; not producing good works; as, faith without works is dead .
22. Proceeding from corrupt nature, not from spiritual life or a gracious principle; as dead works. .
23. In law, cut off from the rights of a citizen:deprived of power of enjoying the rights of property; as one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead
DEAD language, a language which is no longer spoken or in common use by a people, and known only in writings; as the Hebrew, Greek and Latin.
DEAD rising or rising line, the parts of a ship's floor or bottom throughout her length, where the floor timber is terminated on the lower futtock.
DEAD, noun ded.
1. The dead signifies dead men.
Ye shall not make cuttings for the dead .
2. The state of the dead; or death.
This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead .
DEAD, noun ded. The time when there is a remarkable stillness or gloom; depth; as in the midst of winter or of night, are familiar expressions.
DEAD, verb intransitive ded. To lose life or force.
DEAD, verb transitive ded. To deprive of life, force or vigor.
DEAD'-DOING, adjective Destructive; killing.
Dead-Drunk
DEAD-DRUNK, adjective So drunk as to be incapable of helping one's self.
Dead-Heartedness
DEAD-HEARTEDNESS, noun Having a dull, faint heart.
DEAD'-LIFT, noun A heavy weight; a hopeless exigency.
DEAD'-LIGHT, noun ded'-light. A strong wooden port, made to suit a cabin window, in which it is fixed, to prevent the water from entering a ship in a storm.
Dead-Reckoning
DEAD-RECKONING, noun In navigation, the judgment or estimation of the place of a ship, without any observation of the heavenly bodies; or an account of the distance she has run by the log, and of the course steered by the compass, and this rectified by due allowances for drift, lee-way, etc.
DEAD'-STRUCK, adjective Confounded; struck with horror.
Deaden
DEAD'EN, verb transitive ded'n.
1. To deprive of a portion of vigor, force or sensation; to abate vigor or action; as, to deaden the force of a ball; to deaden the natural powers or feelings.
2. To blunt; to render less susceptible or feeling; as, to deaden the motion of a ship or of the wind.
3. To retard; to lessen velocity or motion; as, to deaden the motion of a ship or of the wind.
4. To diminish spirit; to make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine or beer.
DEAD'-EYE, noun ded'-eye. Among seamen, a round flattish wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with holes, to receive the laniard, used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes.
DEAD'-HEARTED, adjective Having a dull, faint heart.
Deadlihood
DEAD'LIHOOD, noun The state of the dead.
Deadliness
DEAD'LINESS, noun ded'liness. The quality of being deadly.
Deadly
DEAD'LY, adjective ded'ly.
1. That may occasion death; mortal; fatal; destructive; as a deadly blow or wound.
2. Mortal; implacable; aiming to kill or destroy; as a deadly enemy; deadly malice a deadly feud.
DEAD'LY, adverb ded'ly. In a manner resembling death; as deadly pale or wan.
2. Mortally.
With groanings of a deadly wounded man. .
3. Implacably; destructively.
4. In a vulgar or ludicrous sense, very; extremely; as a deadly cunning man.
Deadly-Carrot
DEADLY-CARROT, noun A plant of the genus Thapsia.
Deadly-Nightshade
DEADLY-NIGHTSHADE, noun A plant of the genus Atropa.
Deadness
DEAD'NESS, noun ded'ness.
1. Want of natural life or vital power, in an animal or plant; as the deadness of a limb, of a body, or of a tree.
2. Want of animation; dullness; languor; as the deadness of the eye.
3. Want of warmth or ardor; coldness; frigidity; as the deadness of the affections.
4. State of being incapable of conception, according to the ordinary laws of nature. .
5. Indifference; mortification of the natural desires; alienation of heart from temporal pleasures; as deadness to the world.
Deadnettle
DEAD'NETTLE, noun A plant of the genus Lamium, and another of the genus Galeopsis.
Deadpledge
DEAD'PLEDGE, noun A mortgage or pawning of things, or thing pawned.
Deadwater
DEAD'WATER, noun The eddy water closing in with a ship's stern, as she passes through the water.
Deadwood
DEAD'WOOD, noun Blocks of timber laid on the keel of a ship, particularly at the extremities.
Deadworks
DEAD'WORKS, noun The parts of a ship which are above the surface of the water, when she is balanced for a voyage.
Deaf
DEAF, noun deef.
1. Not perceiving sounds; not receiving impressions from sonorous bodies through the air; as a deaf ear.
2. Wanting the sense of hearing; having organs which do not perceive sounds; as a deaf man. It is followed by to before that which ought to be heard; as deaf to the voice of the orator.
3. In a metaphorical sense, not listening; not regarding; not moved, persuaded or convinced; rejecting; as deaf to reason or arguments. Men are deaf to the calls of the gospel.
4. Without the ability or will to regard spiritual things; unconcerned; as, hear, ye deaf Is. x1ii.
5. Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened; as deaf with clamor.
6. Stifled; imperfect; obscurely heard; as a deaf noise or murmur.
DEAF, verb transitive to deafen, is used by Dryden, but is obsolete, unless perhaps in poetry.
Deafen
DE'AFEN, verb transitive dee'fn.
1. To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to impair the organs of hearing, so as to render them unimpressible to sounds.
2. To stun; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly; as deafened with clamor or tumult.
Deafly
DE'AFLY, adverb dee'fly. Without sense of sounds; obscurely heard.
Deafness
DE'AFNESS, noun, dee'fness.
1. Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impressions which constitute hearing; as the deafness of the ears: hence, applied to persons, want of the sense of hearing.
2. Unwillingness to hear and regard; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the ear and to the understanding.
Deal
DEAL, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive dealt, pronoun delt.
1. To divide; to part; to separate; hence, to divide in portions; to distribute; often followed by out.
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry? .
And Rome deals out her blessing and her gold.
2. To scatter; to throw about; as, to deal out feathered deaths.
3. To throw out in succession; to give one after another; as, to deal out blows.
4. To distribute the cards of a pack to the players.
DEAL, verb intransitive
1. To traffick; to trade; to negotiate.
They buy and sell, they deal and traffick.
2. To act between man and man; to intervene; to transact or negotiate between men.
He that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both.
3. To behave well or ill; to act; to conduct one's self in relation to others.
Thou shalt not steal, nor deal falsely, not lie. .
4. To distribute cards.
To deal by, to treat, either well or ill; as, to deal well by domestics.
Such an one deals not fairly by his own mind.
To deal in, to have to do with ; to be engaged in; to practice.
They deal in political matters; they deal in low humor.
2. To trade in; as, to deal in silks, or in cutlery.
To deal with, to treat in any manner; to use well or ill.
Now we will deal worse with thee. .
Return-and I will deal well with thee. .
3. To contend with; to treat with, by way of opposition, check or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.
4. To treat with by way of discipline, in ecclesiastical affairs; to admonish.
DEAL, n,
1. Literally, a division; a part or portion; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree or extent; as a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold; a deal of space. Formerly it was limited by some, as some deal; but this is now obsolete or vulgar. In general, we now qualify the word with great, as a great deal of labor; a great deal of time and pains; a great deal of land. In the phrases, it is a great deal better or worse, the words, great deal serve as modifiers of the sense of better and worse. The true construction is, it is, by a great deal better; it is better by a great deal that is, by a great part or difference.
2. The division or distribution of cards; the art or practice of dealing cards.
The deal the shuffle, and the cut.
3. The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; a sense much more used in England than in the U. States.
Dealbate
DEAL'BATE, noun t. To whiten.
Dealbation
DEALBA'TION, noun The act of bleaching; a whitening.
Dealer
DE'ALER, noun
1. One who deals; one who has to do with any thing, or has concern with; as a dealer in wit and learning.
2. A trader; a trafficker; a shopkeeper; a broker; a merchant; a word of very extensive use; as a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in hardware; a dealer in stocks; a dealer in leather; a dealer in lumber; a dealer in linens or woolens; a small dealer in groceries; a money-dealer.
3. One who distributes cards to the players.
Dealing
DE'ALING, participle present tense
1. Dividing; distributing; throwing out.
2. Trading; trafficking; negotiating.
3. Treating; behaving.
DE'ALING, noun
1. Practice; action; conduct; behavior; as, observe the dealings of the men who administer the government. But it is now more generally used of the actions of men in private life.
2. Conduct in relation to others; treatment; as the dealings of a father with his children. God's dealings with men are the dispensations of his providence, or moral government.
3. Intercourse in buying and selling; traffick; business; negotiation. American merchants have extensive dealings with the merchants of Liverpool.
4. Intercourse of business or friendship; concern.
The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. .
DEAM'BULATE, verb intransitive To walk abroad.
Deambulation
DEAMBULA'TION, noun The act of walking abroad.
Deambulatory
DEAM'BULATORY, adjective Pertaining to walks.
DEAM'BULATORY, noun A place to walk in.
Dean
DEAN, noun
1. In England, am ecclesiastical dignitary in cathedral and collegiate churches, and the head of a chapter; the second dignitary of a diocese. Ancient deans are elected by the chapter in virtue of a conge d'elire from the king and letters missive of recommendation; but in the chapters founded by Henry VIII., out of the spoils of dissolved monasteries, the deanery is donative, and the installation merely by the kings letters patent.
2. An officer in each college of the universities in England.
3. In the U. States, an officer in a medical school.
Deanery
DE'ANERY, noun
1. The office or the revenue of a dean.
2. The house of a dean.
3. The jurisdiction of a dean.
Each archdeaconry is divided into rural deaneries, and each deanery is divided into parishes.
Rural dean, or arch-presbyter, had originally jurisdiction over ten churches; but afterwards he became only the bishop's substitute, to grant letters of administration, probate of wills, etc. His office is now lost in that of the archdeacon and chancellor.
Dean of a Monastery, a superior established under the abbot, to ease him in taking care of ten monks. Hence his name.
Dean and Chapter, are the bishop's council, to aid him with their advice in affairs of religion, and in the temporal concerns of his see.
Deanship
DEAN'SHIP, noun The office of a dean.
Dear
DEAR, adjective
1. Scarce; not plentiful.
2. Bearing a high price in comparison of the usual price; more costly than usual; of a higher price than the customary one. Wheat is dear at a dollar a bushel, when the usual price is seventy five cents. This is the effect of scarcity and demand.
3. Of a high value in estimation; greatly valued; beloved; precious.
And the last joy was dearer than the rest.
Be ye followers of God, as dear children. .
DEAR, adjective Hurtful; grievous; hateful.
DEAR, verb transitive To make dear
DEAR, noun A darling; a word denoting tender affection or endearment; as, my dear
Dearbought
DE'ARBOUGHT, adjective Purchased at a high price; as dearbought experience; dearbought blessings.
Dearling
DE'ARLING, (See Darling)
Dearloved
DE'ARLOVED, adjective Greatly beloved.
Dearly
DE'ARLY, adverb
1. At a high price; as, he pays dearly for his rashness.
2. With great fondness; as, we love our children dearly; dearly beloved.
Dearn
DEARN, adjective Lonely; solitary; melancholy.
Dearness
DE'ARNESS, noun
1. Scarcity; high price, or a higher price than the customary one; as the dearness of corn.
2. Fondness; nearness to the heart or affections; great value in estimation; preciousness; tender love; as the dearness of friendship.
Dearnly
DEARNLY, adverb Secretly; privately.
Dearth
DEARTH, noun derth.
1. Scarcity; as a dearth of corn.
2. Want; need; famine;
3. Barrenness; sterility; as a dearth of plot.
Dearticulate
DEARTIC'ULATE, verb transitive To disjoint.
Death
DEATH, noun deth.
1. That state of a being, animal or vegetable, but more particularly of an animal, in which there is a total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions, when the organs have not only ceased to act, but have lost the susceptibility of renewed action. Thus the cessation of respiration and circulation in an animal may not be death for during hybernation some animals become entirely torpid, and some animals and vegetables may be subjected to a fixed state by frost, but being capable of revived activity, they are not dead.
2. The state of the dead; as the gates of death .
3. The manner of dying.
Thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. .
Let me die the death of the righteous. .
4. The image of mortality represented by a skeleton; as a death's head.
5. Murder; as a man of death
6. Cause of death
O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. .
We say, he caught his death
7. Destroyer or agent of death; as, he will be the death of his poor father.
8. In poetry, the means or instrument of death; as an arrow is called the feathered death; a ball, a leaden death
DEATHs invisible come winged with fire.
9. In theology, perpetual separation from God, and eternal torments; called the second death .
10. Separation or alienation of the soul from God; a being under the dominion of sin, and destitute of grace or divine life; called spiritual death
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. . Luke I.
Civil death is the separation of a man from civil society, or from the enjoyment of civil rights; as by banishment, abjuration of the realm, entering into a monastery, etc.
Death-Bed
DEATH-BED, noun deth'-bed. The bed on which a person dies or is confined in his last sickness.
DEATH'-BODING, adjective Portending death.
Death-Darting
DEATH-DARTING, adjective Darting or inflicting death.
Death-Watch
DEATH'-WATCH, noun A small insect whose ticking is weakly supposed, by superstitious and ignorant people, to prognosticate death.
Deathful
DEATH'FUL, adjective Full of slaughter; murderous; destructive.
These eyes behold the deathful scene.
Deathfulness
DEATH'FULNESS, noun Appearance of death.
Deathless
DEATH'LESS, adjective Immortal; not subject to death, destruction or extinction; as deathless beings; deathless fame.
Deathlike
DEATH'LIKE, adjective
1. Resembling death; gloomy; still; calm; quiet; peaceful; motionless; like death in horror or in stillness; as deathlike slumbers.
2. Resembling death; cadaverous.
Deaths-Door
DEATH'S-DOOR, noun A near approach to death; the gates of death.
Deaths-Man
DEATH'S-MAN, noun An executioner; a hangman.
DEATH'-SHADOWED, adjective Surrounded by the shades of death.
DEATH'-TOKEN, noun That which indicates approaching death.
Deathward
DEATH'WARD, adverb Toward death.
Deaurate
DEAU'RATE, verb transitive To gild.
DEAU'RATE, adjective Gilded.
Debacle
DEBAC'LE, noun A breaking or bursting forth.
The geological deluge, which is supposed to have swept the surface of the earth, and to have conveyed the fragments of rocks, and the remains of animals and vegetables, to a distance from their native localities.
Debar
DEB'AR, verb transitive To cut off from entrance; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; as, we are not debarred from any rational enjoyment; religion debars us from no real pleasure.
Debark
DEB'ARK, verb transitive To land from a ship or boat; to remove from on board any water-craft, and place on land; to disembark; as, to debark artillery.
Debarkation
DEBARKA'TION, noun The act of disembarking.
Debarked
DEB'ARKED, participle passive Removed to land from on board a ship or boat.
Debarking
DEB'ARKING, participle present tense Removing from a ship to the land; going from on board a vessel.
Debarred
DEB'ARRED, participle passive Hindered from approach, entrance or possession.
Debarring
DEB'ARRING, participle present tense Preventing from approach, entrance or enjoyment.
Debase
DEBA'SE, verb transitive
1. To reduce from a higher to a lower state or rank, in estimation.
The drunkard debases himself and his character.
Intemperance and debauchery debase men almost to a level with beasts.
2. To reduce or lower in quality, purity, or value; to adulterate; as, to debase gold or silver by alloy.
3. To lower or degrade; to make mean or despicable. Religion should not be debased by frivolous disputes. Vicious habits debase the mind, as well as the character.
4. To sink in purity or elegance; to vitiate by meanness; as, to debase style by the use of vulgar words.
Debased
DEBA'SED, participle passive Reduced in estimated rank; lowered in estimation; reduced in purity, fineness, quality or value; adulterated; degraded; rendered mean.
Debasement
DEBA'SEMENT, noun The act of debasing; degradation; reduction of purity, fineness, quality or value; adulteration; a state of being debased; as debasement of character, of our faculties, of the coin, of style, etc.
Debaser
DEBA'SER, noun One who debases or lowers in estimation, or in value; one who degrades or renders mean; that which debases.
Debasing
DEBA'SING, participle present tense
1. Reducing in estimation or worth; adulterating; reducing in purity or elegance; degrading; rendering mean.
2. adjective Lowering; tending to debase or degrade; as debasing vices.
Debatable
DEBA'TABLE, adjective That may be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; as a debatable question.
Debate
DEBATE, noun
1. Contention in words or arguments; discussion for elucidating truth; strife in argument or reasoning, between persons of different opinions, each endeavoring to prove his own opinion right, and that of his opposer wrong; dispute; controversy; as the debates in parliament or in congress.
2. Strife; contention.
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate .
3. The power of being disputed; as, this question is settled beyond debate; the story is true beyond debate
4. debate or debates, the published report of arguments for and against a measure; as, the debates in the convention are printed.
DEBATE, verb transitive To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain a cause by reasoning; to dispute; to discuss; to argue; to contest, as opposing parties; as, the question was debated till a late hour.
DEBATE thy cause with thy neighbor himself. .
DEBATE, verb intransitive
1. To debate on or in, to deliberate; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind.
2. To dispute.
3. To engage in combat.
Debated
DEBA'TED, participle passive Disputed; argued; discussed.
Debateful
DEBA'TEFUL, adjective
1. Of things, contested; occasioning contention.
2. Of persons, quarrelsome; contentious.
Debatefully
DEBA'TEFULLY, adverb With contention.
Debatement
DEBA'TEMENT, noun Controversy; deliberation.
Debater
DEBA'TER, noun One who debates; a disputant; a controvertist.
Debating
DEBA'TING, participle present tense Disputing; discussing; contending by arguments.
Debauch
DEBAUCH', verb transitive [The general sense of debauch in English, is to lead astray, like seduce.]
1. To corrupt or vitiate; as, to debauch a prince or a youth; to debauch good principles.
2. To corrupt with lewdness; as, to debauch a woman.
3. To seduce from duty or allegiance; as, to debauch an army.
DEBAUCH', noun Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; gluttony; lewdness.
Debauched
DEBAUCH'ED, participle passive Corrupted; vitiated in morals or purity of character.
Debauchedly
DEBAUCH'EDLY, adverb In a profligate manner.
Debauchedness
DEBAUCH'EDNESS, noun Intemperance.
Debauchee
DEBAUCHEE', noun A man given to intemperance, or bacchanalian excesses. But chiefly, a man habitually lewd.
Debaucher
DEBAUCH'ER, noun One who debauches or corrupts others; a seducer to lewdness, or to any dereliction of duty.
Debauchery
DEBAUCH'ERY, noun
1. Excess in the pleasures of the table; gluttony; intemperance. But chiefly, habitual lewdness; excessive unlawful indulgence of lust.
2. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from duty or allegiance.
The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army.
Debauchment
DEBAUCH'MENT, noun The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
DEBEL'LATE, verb transitive To subdue.
Debellation
DEBELLA'TION, noun The act of conquering or subduing.
Debenture
DEBEN'TURE, noun [Fr. from Latin debeo, to owe.]
1. A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person. This paper, given by an officer of the customs, entitles a merchant exporting goods, to the receipt of a bounty, or a drawback of duties. When issued by a treasurer, it entitles the holder to a sum of money from the state.
2. In the customs, a certificate of drawback; a writing which states that a person is entitled to a certain sum from the government, on the exportation of specified goods, the duties on which had been paid.
Debentured
DEBEN'TURED, adjective debentured goods are those for which a debenture has been given, as being entitled to drawback.
Debile
DEB'ILE, adjective Relaxed; weak; feeble; languid; faint; without strength.
Debilitate
DEBIL'ITATE, verb transitive To weaken; to impair the strength of; to enfeeble; to make faint or languid. Intemperance debilitates the organs of digestion. Excessive indulgence debilitates the system.
Debilitated
DEBIL'ITATED, participle passive Weakened; enfeebled; relaxed.
Debilitating
DEBIL'ITATING, participle present tense Weakening; enfeebling; impairing strength.
Debilitation
DEBILITA'TION, noun The act of weakening; relaxation.
Debility
DEBIL'ITY, noun Relaxation of the solids; weakness; feebleness; languor of body; faintness; imbecility; as, morbid sweats induce debility
Debit
DEB'IT, noun [Latin debitum, from debeo, to owe.] Debt. It is usually written debt. But it is used in mercantile language, as the debit side of an account.
DEB'IT, verb transitive
1. To charge with debt; as, to debit a purchaser the amount of goods sold.
2. To enter an account on the debtor side of a book; as, to debit the sum or amount of goods sold.
Debited
DEB'ITED, participle passive
1. Charged in debt; made debtor on account.
2. Charged to one's debt, as money or goods.
Debiting
DEB'ITING, participle present tense
1. Making debtor on account, as a person.
2. Charging to the debt of a person, as goods.
Debitor
DEB'ITOR, noun A debtor.
Deboise
DEBOISE, for debauch.
Deboish
DEBOISH, for debauch.
Debonnair
DEBONNA'IR, adjective Civil; wellbred; complaisant; elegant.
Debouch
DEBOUCH, verb intransitive To issue or march out of a narrow place, or from defiles, as troops.
Debris
DEBRIS, noun debree'. Fragments; rubbish; ruins; applied particularly to the fragments of rocks.
Debt
DEBT, noun det. [Latin debitum, contracted.]
1. That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another; as the debts of a bankrupt; the debts of a nobleman. It is a common misfortune or vice to be in debt
When you run in debt you give to another power over your liberty.
2. That which any one is obliged to do or to suffer.
Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt
Hence death is called the debt of nature.
3. In law, an action to recover a debt This is a customary ellipsis. He brought debt instead of an action of debt
4. In scripture, sin; trespass; guilt; crime; that which renders liable to punishment.
Forgive us our debts. Lord's Prayer.
Debted
DEBT'ED, participle passive det'ted. Indebted; obliged to.
Debtee
DEBTEE', noun dettee'. A creditor; one to whom a debt is due.
Debtless
DEBT'LESS, adjective det'less. Free from debt.
Debtor
DEBT'OR, noun det'tor.
1. The person who owes another either money, goods or services.
In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor.
2. One who is under obligation to do something.
I am debtor to the Greeks and barbarians. Rom. I.
He is a debtor to do the whole law. .
3. The side of an account in which debts are charged.
Decachord
DEC'ACHORD, noun [Gr. ten or string]
1. A musical instrument of ten strings.
2. Something consisting of ten parts.
Decachordon
DECACHORD'ON, noun [Gr. ten or string]
1. A musical instrument of ten strings.
2. Something consisting of ten parts.
Decadal
DEC'ADAL, adjective Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.
Decade
DEC'ADE, noun [Gr., ten.] The sum or number of ten; an aggregate consisting of ten; as a decade of years; the decades of Livy.
Decadence
DECA'DENCE, noun Decay.
Decadency
DECA'DENCY, noun Decay.
Decagon
DEC'AGON, noun [Gr., ten and corner.] In geometry, a plane figure having ten sides and ten angles.
Decagram
DEC'AGRAM, noun [Gr., ten and a weight.] A French weight of ten grams, or 154 grains, 44 decimals, equal to 6 penny weights, and 10 grains, 44 decimals, equal to 5 grams, 63 decimals, avoirdupoise.
Decagyn
DEC'AGYN, noun [Gr., ten and female.] In botany, a plant having ten pistils.
Decagynian
DECAGYN'IAN, adjective Having ten pistils.
Decahedral
DECAHE'DRAL, adjective Having ten sides.
Decahedron
DECAHE'DRON, noun [Gr., ten and a base.] In geometry, a figure or body having ten sides.
Decaliter
DEC'ALITER, noun [Gr., ten and liter.] A French measure of capacity, containing ten liters, or 610.28 cubic inches, equal to two gallons and 64, 44231 cubic inches.
Decalogist
DECAL'OGIST, noun One who explains the decalogue.
Decalogue
DEC'ALOGUE, noun dec'alog. [Gr., ten and speech.] The ten commandments or precepts given by God to Moses at mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.
Decameter
DECAM'ETER, noun [Gr., ten and measure.] A French measure of length, consisting of ten meters, and equal to 393 English inches, and 71 decimals.
Decamp
DECAMP', verb intransitive To remove or depart from a camp; to march off; as, the army decamped at six o'clock.
Decampment
DECAMP'MENT, noun Departure from a camp; a marching off.
Decanal
DEC'ANAL, adjective Pertaining to a deanery.
Decander
DECAN'DER, noun [Gr., ten and a male.] In botany, a plant having ten stamens.
DECAN'DRIAN, adjective Having ten stamens.
Decangular
DECAN'GULAR, adjective [Gr., ten and angular.] Having ten angles.
Decant
DECANT', verb transitive [Latin , to sing; literally, to throw.] To pour off gently, as liquor from its sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.
Decantation
DECANTA'TION, noun The act of pouring liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.
Decanted
DECANT'ED, participle passive Poured off, or from one vessel into another.
Decanter
DECANT'ER, noun
1. A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors. A glass vessel or bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, for filling the drinking glasses.
2. One who decants liquors.
Decanting
DECANT'ING, participle present tense Pouring off, as liquor from its lees, or from one vessel to another.
Decaphyllous
DECAPH'YLLOUS, adjective [Gr. ten and a leaf.] Having ten leaves.
Decapitate
DECAP'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin , head.] To behead; to cut off the head.
Decapitation
DECAPITA'TION, noun The act of beheading.
Decarbonize
DEC'ARBONIZE, verb transitive To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel.
Decarbonized
DEC'ARBONIZED, participle passive Deprived of carbon.
Decarbonizing
DEC'ARBONIZING, participle present tense Depriving of carbon.
Decastich
DEC'ASTICH, noun [Gr. ten and a verse.] A poem consisting of ten lines.
Decastyle
DEC'ASTYLE, noun [Gr. ten and a column.] A building with an ordnance of ten columns in front.
Decay
DECA'Y, verb intransitive [Fr. dechoir, from Latin de and cado, to fall, or decedo.]
1. To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to a less perfect state, or towards destruction; to fail; to decline; to be gradually impaired. Our bodies decay in old age; a tree decays; buildings decay; fortunes decay
2. To become weaker; to fail; as, our strength decays, or hopes decay
DECA'Y, verb transitive To cause to fail; to impair; to bring to a worse state.
Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make better the fool.
DECA'Y, noun
1. Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or any species of excellence or perfection; decline to a worse or less perfect state; tendency towards dissolution or extinction; a state of depravation or diminution. Old men feel the decay of the body. We perceive the decay of the faculties in age. We lament the decay of virtue and patriotism in the state. The northern nations invaded the Roman Empire, when in a state of decay
2. Declension from prosperity; decline of fortune.
If thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay .
3. Cause of decay
He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers, is the decay of the whole age.
Decayed
DECA'YED, participle passive Having fallen from a good or sound state; impaired; weakened; diminished.
Decayedness
DECA'YEDNESS, noun A state of being impaired; decayed state.
Decayer
DECA'YER, noun That which causes decay.
Decaying
DECA'YING, participle present tense Failing; declining; passing from a good, prosperous or sound state, to a worse condition; perishing.
DECA'YING, noun Decay; decline.
Decease
DECE'ASE, noun [Latin to depart or to withdraw.] Literally, departure; hence, departure from this life; death; applied to human beings only.
Moses and Elias, who appeared in glory, and spoke of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. .
DECE'ASE, verb intransitive To depart from this life; to die.
Gen. Washington deceased, December 14, 1799, in the 68th year of his age.
Deceased
DECE'ASED, participle passive or adjective Departed from life. This is used as a passive participle. He is deceased for he has deceased; he was deceased for he had deceased This use of the participle of an intransitive verb is not infrequent, but the word omitted is really has. He has deceased It is properly an adjective, like dead.
Deceasing
DECE'ASING, participle present tense Departing from life; dying.
Decedent
DECE'DENT, noun A deceased person.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.