Deed – Deglutinate

Deed

DEED, noun

1. That which is done, acted or effected; an act; a fact; a word of extensive application, including whatever is done, good or bad, great or small.

And Joseph said to them, what deed is this which ye have done? Gen. x1iv.

We receive the due reward of our deeds. Luke 23:41.

2. Exploit; achievement; illustrious act.

Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn.

3. Power of action; agency.

With will and deed created free.

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. This instrument must be executed, and the execution attested, in the manner prescribed by law.

Indeed, in fact; in reality. These words are united and called an adverb. But sometimes they are separated by very, in very deed; a more emphatical expression. Exodus 9:16.

DEED, verb transitive To convey or transfer by deed; a popular use of the word in America; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son.

Deed-Achieving

DEED-ACHIEVING, adjective That accomplishes great deeds.

Deed-Poll

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

Deedless

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

Deem

DEEM, verb transitive

1. To think; to judge; to be of opinion; to conclude on consideration; as, he deems it prudent to be silent.

For never can I deem him less than god.

The shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country. Acts 27:27.

2. To estimate.

DEEM, noun Opinion; judgment; surmise.

Deemed

DEEMED, participle passive Thought; judged; supposed.

Deeming

DEEMING, participle present tense Thinking; judging; believing.

Deemster

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

Deep

DEEP, adjective

1. Extending or being far below the surface; descending far downward; profound ; opposed to shallow; as deep water; a deep pit or well.

2. Low in situation; being or descending far below the adjacent land; as a deep valley.

3. Entering far; piercing a great way. A tree in a good soil takes deep root. A spear struck deep into the flesh.

4. Far from the outer part; secreted.

A spider deep ambushed in her den.

5. Not superficial or obvious; hidden; secret.

He discovereth deep things out of darkness. Job 12:22.

6. Remote from comprehension.

O Lord, thy thoughts are very deep Ps. Xcii.

7. Sagacious; penetrating; having the power to enter far into a subject; as a man of deep thought; a deep divine.

8. Artful; contriving; concealing artifice; insidious; designing; as a friend, deep hollow treacherous.

9. Grave in sound; low; as the deep tones of an organ.

10. Very still; solemn; profound; as deep silence.

11. Thick; black; not to be penetrated by the sight.

Now deeper darkness brooded on the ground.

12. Still; sound; not easily broken or disturbed.

The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam. Genesis 2:21.

13. Depressed; sunk low, metaphorically; as deep poverty.

14. Dark; intense; strongly colored; as a deep brown; a deep crimson; a deep blue.

15. Unknown; unintelligible.

A people of deeper speech than thou canst perceive. Isaiah 33:19.

16. Heart-felt; penetrating; affecting; as a deep sense of guilt.

17. Intricate; not easily understood or unraveled; as a deep plot or intrigue.

This word often qualifies a verb, like an adverb.

Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring.

DEEP, noun

1. The sea; the abyss of waters; the ocean.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. Job x1i.

2. A lake; a great collection of water.

Lanch out into the deep and let down your nets. Luke 5:4.

3. That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible.

Thy judgments are a great deep Psalms 36:6.

4. The most still or solemn part; the midst; as, in deep of night.

Deep-Mouthed

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

Deep-Musing

DEEP-MUSING, adjective Contemplative; thinking closely or profoundly.

Deep-Read

DEEP-READ, adjective Having fully read; profoundly versed.

Deep-Revolving

DEEP-REVOLVING, adjective Profoundly revolving or meditating.

Deep-Throated

DEEP-THROATED, adjective With deep throats.

Deep-Toned

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

Deep-Vaulted

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

Deep-Waisted

DEEP-WAISTED, adjective 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.

Deepen

DEEPEN, verb transitive

1. To make deep or deeper; to sink lower; as, to deepen the channel of a river or harbor; to deepen a well.

2. To make dark or darker; to make more thick or gloomy; as, to deepen the shades of night; to deepen gloom.

3. To give a darker hue, or a stronger color; as, to deepen a color; to deepen a red, blue or crimson color.

4. To make more poignant or distressing; as, to deepen grief or sorrow.

5. To make more frightful; as, to deepen the horrors of the scene.

6. To make more sad or gloomy; as, to deepen the murmurs of the flood.

7. To make more grave; as, to deepen the tones of an organ.

DEEPEN, verb intransitive To become more deep; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead.

Deepened

DEEPENED, participle passive Made more deep.

Deepening

DEEPENING, participle present tense Sinking lower; making more deep.

Deeply

DEEPLY, adverb

1. At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as a passion deeply rooted in our nature; precepts deeply engraven on the heart.

2. Profoundly; thoroughly; as deeply skilled in ethics or anatomy.

3. To or from the inmost recesses of the heart; eith great sorrow; most feelingly.

He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark 8:12.

He was deeply affected at the sight.

4. To a great degree; as, he has deeply offended.

They have deeply corrupted themselves. Hosea 9.

5. With a dark hye, or strong color; as a deeply red liquor; deeply colored.

6. Gravely; as a deeply toned instrument.

7. With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as a deeply laid plot or intrigue.

This word cannot easily be defined in all its various applications. In general it gives emphasis or intensity to the word which it qualifies.

Deepness

DEEPNESS, noun

1. Depth; remoteness from the surface in a descending line; interior distance from the surface; profundity.

And forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth. Matthew 13:5

2. Craft; insidiousness.

Deer

DEER, noun Sing. And plural [Gr. A wild beast. The primary sense is simply roving, wild, untamed; hence, a wild beast.] A quadruped of the genus Cervus, of several species, as the stag, the fallow deer the roe-buck, the rane or rane-deer, etc. These animals are wild and hunted in the forest, or kept in parks. Their flesh called venison, is deemed excellent food.

Deer-Stealer

DEER-STEALER, noun One who steals deer.

Deer-Stealing

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

Deess

DEESS, noun A goddess.

Deface

DEFACE, verb transitive

1. To destroy or mar the face or surface of a thing; to injure the superficies or beauty; to disfigure; as, to deface a monument; to deface an ediface.

2. To injure any thing; to destroy, spoil or mar; to erase or obliterate; as, to deface letters or writing; to deface a note, deed or bond; to deface a record.

3. To injure the appearance; to disfigure.

Defacer

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

Defacing

DEFACING, participle present tense Injuring the face or surface; marring; disfiguring; erasing.

De facto. [Latin] actually; in fact; existing; as a king de facto, distinguished from a king de jure, or by right.

Defailance

DEFAILANCE, noun Failure; miscarriage.

Defalcate

DEFALCATE, verb transitive To cut off; to take away or deduct a part; used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.

Defalcation

DEFALCATION, . noun

1. The act of cutting off, or deducting a part; deduction; diminution; abatement; as, let him have the amount of his rent without defalcation

2. That which is cut off; as, this loss is a defalcation from the revenue.

Defalk

DEFALK, verb transitive To defalcate.

Defamation

DEFAMATION, noun The uttering of slanderous words with a view to injure anothers reputation; the malicious uttering of falsehood respecting another which tends to destroy or impair his good name, character or occupation; slander; calumny. To constitute defamation in law, the words must be false and spoken maliciously. Defamatory words written and published are called a libel.

Defamatory

DEFAMATORY, adjective Calumnious; slanderous; containing defamation; false and injurious to reputation; as defamatory words; defamatory reports or writings.

Defame

DEFAME,

1. To slander; falsely and maliciously to utter words respecting another which tend to injure his reputation or occupation; as to say, a judge is corrupt; a man is perjured; a trader is a knave.

2. To speak evil of; to dishonor by false reports; to calumniate; to libel; to impair reputation by acts or words.

Being defamed, we entreat. 1 Cor. Iv.

Defamed

DEFAMED, participle passive Slandered; dishonored or injured by evil reports.

Defamer

DEFAMER, noun A slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.

Defaming

DEFAMING, participle present tense Slandering; injuring the character by false reports.

DEFAMING, noun Defamation; slander.

Defaticate

DEFATICATE, verb transitive [Latin To tire.] To weary or tire.

Defatigable

DEFATIGABLE, adjective Liable to be wearied.

Defatigation

DEFATIGATION, noun Weariness.

Default

DEFAULT, noun

1. A failing, or failure; an omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governors default A default or fault, may be a crime, a vice, or a mere defect, according to the nature of the duty omitted.

2. Defect; want; failure.

Cooks could make artificial birds, in default of real ones.

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. It may be applied to jurors, witnesses, etc.; but a plaintiffs failing to appear by himself or attorney, is usually called a non-appearance.

To suffer default is to permit an action to be called without appearing or answering; applied to a defendant.

DEFAULT, verb intransitive To fail in performing a contract or agreement.

DEFAULT, verb transitive

1. In law, to call out a defendant, (according to 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 judgement against him; as, let the defendant be defaulted.

No costs are to be awarded for such town, if defaulted.

2. To call out a cause, in which the defendant does not appear, and enter judgment on the default; as, the cause was defaulted.

3. To fail in performance.

DEFAULT, verb transitive To offend.

Defaulted

DEFAULTED, participle passive

1. Called out of court, as a defendant or his cause.

2. adjective Having defect.

Defaulter

DEFAULTER, noun

1. One who makes default; one who 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 entrusted to his care; a delinquent.

Defaulting

DEFAULTING, participle present tense

1. Failing to fulfil a contract; delinquent.

2. Failing to perform a duty or legal requirement; as a defaulting creditor.

3. Calling out of court, and entering judgment against for non-appearance, as a defendant.

Defeasance

DEFEASANCE, , noun S as z.

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; or a collateral deed, made at the same time with a feoffment or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated. A defeasance on a bond, or a recognizance, or a judgment recovered, is a condition which, when performed, defeats it. A defeasance differs from the common condition of a bond, in being a separate deed, whereas a common condition is inserted in the bond itself.

3. The writing containing a defeasance

4. Defeat.

Defeasible

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

Defeasibleness

DEFEASIBLENESS, noun The quality of being defeasible.

Defeat

DEFEAT, noun

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; as the defeat of a title.

4. Frustration; prevention of success; as the defeat of a plan or design.

DEFEAT, verb transitive

1. To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse or ruin by victory; to overthrow; applies to an army, or a division of troops; to a fleet, or to a commander.

The English army defeated the French on the plains of Abraham. Gen. Wolf defeated Montcalm. The French defeated the Austrians at Marengo.

2. To frustrate; to prevent the success of; to disappoint.

Then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel. 2 Sam. Xv. And xvii.

We say, our dearest hopes are often defeated.

3. To render null and void; as, to defeat a title or an estate.

4. To resist with success; as, to defeat an attempt or assault.

Defeating

DEFEATING, participle present tense Vanquishing; subduing; opposing successfully; overthrowing; frustrating; disappointing; rendering null and void.

Defeature

DEFEATURE, noun

1. Change of feature.

2. Overthrow; defeat.

Defecate

DEFECATE, verb transitive [Latin Dregs.]

1. To purify; to refine; to clear from dregs or impurities; to clarify; as, to defecate liquor.

2. To purify from admixture; to clear; to purge of extraneous matter.

Defecated

DEFECATED, participle passive Purtified; clarified; refined.

Defecating

DEFECATING, participle present tense Purifying; purging of lees or impurities.

Defecation

DEFECATION, noun The act of separating from lees or dregs; purification from impurities or foreign matter.

Defect

DEFECT, noun [Latin To fail; to make or do.]

1. Want or absence of something necessary or useful towards perfection; fault; imperfection.

Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied.

We say, there are numerous defects in the plan, or in the work, or in the execution.

2. Failing; fault; mistake; imperfection in moral conduct, or in judgment.

A deep conviction of the defects of our lives tends to make us humble.

Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know,

Make use of every friend and every foe.

3. Any want, or imperfection, in natural objects; the absence of any thing necessary to perfection; any thing unnatural or misplaced; blemish; deformity. We speak of a defect in the organs of seeing or hearing, or in a limb; a defect in timber; a defect in an instrument, etc.

DEFECT, verb intransitive To be deficient.

Defectibility

DEFECTIBILITY, noun Deficiency; imperfection.

Defectible

DEFECTIBLE, adjective Imperfect; deficient; wanting.

Defection

DEFECTION, noun

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. Our defection from God is proof of our depravity. The cause of the king was rendered desperate by the defection of the nobles.

2. Revolt; used of nations or states.

Defective

DEFECTIVE, adjective

1. Wanting either in substance, quantity or quality, or in any thing necessary; imperfect; as a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or book; a defective account. defective articulation, in speaking, renders utterance indistinct.

2. Wanting in moral qualities; faulty; blamable; not conforming to rectitude or rule; as a defective character.

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.

Defectively

DEFECTIVELY, adverb In a defective manner; imperfectly.

Defectiveness

DEFECTIVENESS, noun Want; the state of being imperfect; faultiness.

Defectuosity

DEFECTUOSITY, noun Defectiveness; faultiness.

Defectuous

DEFECTUOUS, adjective Full of defects.

Defedation

DEFEDATION, noun Pollution.

Defend

DEFEND, verb transitive

1. To drive from; to thrust back; hence, to deny; to repel a demand, charge, or accusation; to oppose; to resist; the effect of which is to maintain ones own claims.

2. To forbid; to prohibit; that is, to drive from, or back. Milton calls the forbidden fruit, the defended fruit.

The use of wine in some places is defended by customs or laws.

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.

There arose, to defend Israel, Tola the son of Puah. Judges 10:1.

4. To vindicate; to assert; to uphold; to maintain uninjured, by force or by argument; as, to defend our cause; to defend rights and privileges; to defend reputation.

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. A garden may be defended by a wall, a hill or a river.

DEFEND, verb intransitive To make opposition; as, the party comes into court, defends and says.

Defendable

DEFENDABLE, adjective That may be defended.

Defendant

DEFENDANT, adjective

1. Defensive; proper for defense.

2. Making defense; being in the character of a defendant

DEFENDANT, noun

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 opposes the demand or charge, and maintains his own right. It is applied to any party of whom a demand is made in court, whether the party denies and defends, or admits the claim and suffers a default.

Defended

DEFENDED, participle passive Opposed; denied; prohibited; maintained by resistance; vindicated; preserved uninjured; secured.

Defender

DEFENDER, noun One who defends by oppostition; one who maintains, supports, protects or vindicates; an assertor; a vindicator, either by arms or by arguments; a champion or an advocate.

Defending

DEFENDING, participle present tense Denying; opposing; resisiting; forbidding; maintaining uninjured by force or by reason; securing from evil.

Defensative

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

Defense

DEFENSE, noun

1. Any thing that opposes attack, violence, danger or injury; any thing that secures the person, the rights or the possessions of men; fortification; guard; protection; security. A wall, a parapet, a ditch, or a garrison, is the defense of a city or fortress. The Almighty is the defense of the righteous. Psalms 59:16.

2. Vindication; justification; apology; that which repels or disproves a charge or accusation.

Men, brethren, fathers, hear ye my defense Acts 22:1.

3. In law, the defendants reply to the plaintiffs declaration, demands or charges.

4. Prohibition.

5. Resistance; opposition.

6. The science of defending against enemies; military skill.

7. In fortification, a work that flanks another.

DEFENSE, verb transitive To defend by fortification.

Defensed

DEFENSED, participle passive Fortified.

Defenseless

DEFENSELESS, adjective Being without defense, or without means of repelling assault or injury; applied to a town, it denotes unfortified or ungarrisoned; open to an enemy; applied to a person, it denotes naked; unarmed; unprotected; unprepared to resist attack; weak; unable to oppose; uncovered; unsheltered.

Defenselessness

DEFENSELESSNESS, noun The state of being unguarded or unprotected.

Defensible

DEFENSIBLE, adjective

1. That may be defended; as a defensible city.

2. That may be vindicated, maintained or justified; as a defensible cause.

Defensive

DEFENSIVE, adjective

1. That serves to defend; proper for defense; as defensive armor, which repels attacks or blows, opposed to offensive arms, which are used in attack.

2. Carried on in resisting attack or aggression; as defensive war, in distinction from offensive war, which is aggressive.

3. In a state or posture to defend.

DEFENSIVE, noun Safeguard; that which defends.

Wars preventive, upon just fears, are true defensives.

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 aggrression or attack.

Defensively

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

Defer

DEFER, verb transitive [Latin To bear.]

1. To delay; to put off; to postpone to a future time; as, to defer the execution of a design.

When thou vowest a vow, defer not to pay it. Ecclesiastes 5:4.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Proverbs 13:1.

2. To refer; to leave to anothers judgment and determination.

[In this sense, refer is now used.]

Deference

DEFERENCE, noun

1. A yielding in opinion; submission of judgment to the opinion or judgment of another. Hence, regard; respect. We often decline acting in opposition to those for whose wisdom we have a great deference

2. Complaisance; condescension.

3. Submission.

Deferent

DEFERENT, adjective Bearing; carrying; conveying.

DEFERENT, noun

1. That which carries or conveys. The deferent of a planet, is an imaginary circle or orb in the Ptolemaic system, that is supposed to carry about the body of the planet.

2. A vessel in the human body for the conveyance of fluids.

Deferential

DEFERENTIAL, , adjective Expressing deference.

Deferment

DEFERMENT, noun Delay.

Deferrer

DEFERRER, noun One who delays or puts off.

Deferring

DEFERRING, participle present tense Delaying; postponing.

Defiance

DEFIANCE, noun

1. A daring; a challenge to fight; invitation to combat; a call to an adversary to encounter, if he dare. Goliath bid defiance to the army of Israel.

2. A challenge to meet in any contest; a call upon one to make good any assertion or charge; an invitation to maintain any cause or point.

3. Contempt of opposition or danger; a daring or resistance that implies the contempt of an adversary, or of any opposing power. Men often transgress the law and act in defiance of authority.

Defiatory

DEFIATORY, adjective Bidding or bearing defiance.

Deficience

DEFICIENCE,

DEFICIENCY, noun [Latin To fail to do.]

1. A failing; a falling short; imperfection; as a deficiency in moral duties.

2. Want; defect; something less than is necessary; as a deficiency of means; a deficiency of revenue; a deficiency of blood.

Deficiency

DEFICIENCY, n. [L. To fail to do.] 1. A failing; a falling short; imperfection; as a deficiency in moral duties.2. Want; defect; something less than is necessary; as a deficiency of means; a deficiency of revenue; a deficiency of blood.

Deficient

DEFICIENT, adjective

1. Wanting; defective; imperfect; not sufficient or adequate; as deficient estate; deficient strength.

2. Wanting; not having a full or adequate supply; as, the country may be deficient in the means of carrying on war.

DEFICIENT numbers, in arithmetic, are those numbers, whose parts, added together, make less than the integer, whose parts they are.

Deficit

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

Defier

DEFIER, noun A challenger; one who dares to combat or encounter; one who braves; one who acts in contempt of opposition, law or authority; as a defier of the laws.

Defiguration

DEFIGURATION, noun A disfiguring.

Defigure

DEFIGURE, verb transitive To delineate.

Defile

DEFILE, verb transitive

1. To make unclean; to render foul or dirty; in a general sense.

2. To make impure; to render turbid; as, the water or liquor is defiled.

3. To soil or sully; to tarnish; as reputation, etc.

He is among the greatest prelates of the age, however his character may be defiled by dirty hands.

They shall defile thy brightness. Ezekiel 28:7.

4. To pollute; to make ceremonially unclean.

That which dieth of itself, he shall not eat, to defile himself therewith. Leviticus 22:8.

5. To corrupt chastity; to debauch; to violate; to tarnish the purity of character by lewdness.

Schechem defiled Dinah. Genesis 34:2.

6. To taint, in a moral sense; to corrupt; to vitiate; to render impure with sin.

DEFILE not yourselves with the idols of Egypt. Ezekiel 20:7.

He hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Numbers 19:20.

DEFILE, verb intransitive [Latin A thread.] To march off in a line, or file by file; to file off.

DEFILE, noun 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, etc.

Defiled

DEFILED, participle passive Made dirty, or foul; polluted; soiled; corrupted; violated; vitiated.

Defilement

DEFILEMENT, noun

1. The act of defiling, or state of being defiled; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness.

2. Corruption of morals, principles or character; impurity; pollution by sin.

The chaste cannot rake into such filth without danger of defilement

Defiler

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

Defiling

DEFILING, participle present tense

1. Polluting; making impure.

2. Marching in a file, or with a narrow front.

Definable

DEFINABLE, adjective

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. The extent of the Russian empire is hardly definable The limits are hardly definable

2. That may be defined or described; capable of having its signification rendered certain, or expressed with certainty or precision; as definable words.

3. That may be fixed, determined or ascertained; as, the time or period is not definable

Define

DEFINE, verb transitive [Latin To end, to limit, from finis, end.]

1. To determine or describe the end or limit; as, to define the extent of a kingdom or country.

2. To determine with precision; to ascertain; as, to define the limits of a kingdom.

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; as, to define the words, virtue, courage, belief, or charity.

5. To describe; to ascertain or explain the distinctive properties or circumstances of a thing; as, to define a line or an angle.

DEFINE, verb intransitive To determine; to decide.

Defined

DEFINED, participle passive

1. Determined; having the extent ascertained; having the signification determined.

2. Having the precise limit marked, or having a determinate limit; as, the shadow of a body is well defined

Definer

DEFINER, noun 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.

Defining

DEFINING, participle present tense Determining the limits; ascertaining the extent; explaining the meaning; describing the properties.

Definite

DEFINITE, adjective

1. Having certain limits; bounded with precision; determinate; as a definite extent of land; definite dimensions; definite measure.

2. Having certain limits in signification; determinate; certain; precise; as a definite word, term or expression.

3. Fixed; determinate; exact; precise; as a definite time or period.

4. Defining; limiting; determining the extent; as a definite word.

DEFINITE, noun Thing defined.

Definiteness

DEFINITENESS, noun Certainty of extent; certainty of signification; determinateness.

Definition

DEFINITION, noun

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

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.

Definitive

DEFINITIVE, adjective

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

2. Limiting; ending; determining; final; opposed to conditional, provisional, or interlocutory; as a definitive sentence or decree.

DEFINITIVE, noun In grammar, an adjective used to define or limit the extent of the signification of an appelative or common noun. Such are the Latin hic, ille, ipse; the, this and that, in English; le, la, les, in French; il, la, lo in Italian. Thus tree is an appellative or common noun; the tree, this tree, that tree, designate a particular tree, determinate or known. Homo signifies man; hic homo, ille homo, a particular man, etc. But in some languages, the definitives have lost their original use, in a great degree; as in the Greek and French. Thus La force de la vertu, must be rendered in English, the force of virtue, not the force of the virtue. The first la is a definitive; the last has no definitive effect.

Definitively

DEFINITIVELY, adverb

1. Determinately; positively; expressly.

2. Finally; conclusively; unconditionally; as, the points between the parties are definitively settled.

Definitiveness

DEFINITIVENESS, noun Determinateness; decisiveness; conclusiveness.

Defix

DEFIX, verb transitive To fix; to fasten.

Deflagrability

DEFLAGRABILITY, noun Combustibility; the quality of taking fire and burning away, as a metallic wire; a chimical term.

Deflagrable

DEFLAGRABLE, adjective Combustible; having the quality of taking fire and burning, as alcohol, oils, etc.

Deflagrate

DEFLAGRATE, verb transitive [Latin To burn.] To set fire to; to burn; to consume; as, to deflagrate oil or spirit.

Deflagration

DEFLAGRATION, noun A kindling or setting fire to a substance; burning; combustion.

The strength of spirit is proved by deflagration

A rapid combustion of a mixture, attended with much evolution of flame and vapor, as of niter and charcoal.

This term is also applied to the rapid combustion of metals by galvanism.

Deflagrator

DEFLAGRATOR, noun A galvanic instrument for producing combustion, particularly the combustion of metallic substances.

Deflect

DEFLECT, verb intransitive [Latin To turn or bend.] To turn from or aside; to deviate from a true course or right line; to swerve.

The needle deflects from the meridian.

DEFLECT, verb transitive To turn aside; to turn or bend from a right line or regular course.

Deflected

DEFLECTED, participle passive Turned aside, or from a direct line or course. In botany, bending downward archwise.

Deflecting

DEFLECTING, participle present tense Turning aside; turning from a right line or regular course.

Deflection

DEFLECTION, noun

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 opake body; inflection.

Deflexure

DEFLEXURE, noun A bending down; a turning aside; deviation.

Deflorate

DEFLORATE, adjective [Latin To deflour.] In botany, having cast its farin, pollen, or fecundating dust.

Defloration

DEFLORATION, noun

1. The act of deflouring; the act of depriving of the flower or prime beauties; particularly, the act of taking away a womans virginity.

2. A selection of the flower, or of that which is most valuable.

The laws of Normandy are, in a great measure, the defloration of the English laws.

Deflour

DEFLOUR, verb transitive [Latin A flower.]

1. To deprive a woman of her virginity, either by force or with consent. When by force, it may be equivalent to ravish or violate.

2. To take away the prime beauty and grace of any thing.

The sweetness of his soul was defloured.

3. To deprive of flowers.

Defloured

DEFLOURED, participle passive Deprived of maidenhood; ravished; robbed or prime beauty .

Deflourer

DEFLOURER, noun One who deprives a woman of her virginity.

Deflouring

DEFLOURING, participle present tense Depriving of virginity or maidenhood; robbing of prime beauties.

Deflow

DEFLOW, verb intransitive To flow down.

Defluous

DEFLUOUS, adjective [Latin To flow.] Flowing down; falling off.

Deflux

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

Defluxion

DEFLUXION, noun [Latin To flow down.]

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 of flowing off of humors; as a defluxion from the nose or head in catarrh.

Defly

DEFLY, adverb Dextrously; skilfully.

Defoliation

DEFOLIATION, noun [Latin Foliage; a leaf.] Literally, the fall of the leaf or shedding of leaves; but technically, the time or season of shedding leaves in autumn; applied to trees and shrubs.

Deforce

DEFORCE, verb transitive To disseize and keep out of lawful possession of an estate; to withhold the possession of an estate from the rightful owner; applies to any possessor whose entry was originally lawful, but whose detainer is become unlawful.

Deforced

DEFORCED, participle passive Kept out of lawful possession.

Deforcement

DEFORCEMENT, noun

1. The holding of lands or tenements to which another person has a right; a general term including abatement, intrusion, disseisin, discontinuance, or any other species of wrong, by which he that hath a right to the freehold is kept out of possession.

2. In Scotland, a resisting of an officer in the execution of law.

Deforciant

DEFORCIANT, noun He that keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate; he against whom a fictitious action is brought in fine and recovery.

Deforcing

DEFORCING, participle present tense Keeping out of lawful possession.

Deform

DEFORM, verb transitive [Latin Form.]

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; as, a hump on the back deforms the body.

2. To render ugly or displeasing, by exterior applications or appendages; as, to deform the face by paint, or the person by unbecoming dress.

3. To render displeasing.

Wintry blasts deform the year.

4. To injure and render displeasing or disgusting; to disgrace; to disfigure moral beauty; as, all vices deform the character of rational beings.

5. To dishonor; to make ungraceful.

DEFORM, adjective Disfigured; being of an unnatural, distorted, or disproportioned form; displeasing to the eye.

Sight so deform what heart of rock could long

Dry-eyed behold?

Deformation

DEFORMATION, noun A disfiguring or defacing.

Deformed

DEFORMED, participle passive

1. Injured in the form; disfigured; distorted; ugly; wanting natural beauty, or symmetry.

2. Base; disgraceful.

Deformedly

DEFORMEDLY, adverb In an ugly manner.

Deformedness

DEFORMEDNESS, noun Ugliness; a disagreeable or unnatural form.

Deformer

DEFORMER, noun One who deforms.

Deforming

DEFORMING, participle present tense Marring the natural form or figure; rendering ugly or disppleasing; destroying beauty.

Deformity

DEFORMITY, noun

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, etc. Hence, ugliness; as bodily deformity

2. Any thing that destroys beauty, grace or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order, or the established laws of propriety. Thus we speak of deformity in an edifice, or deformity of character.

Deforser

DEFORSER, noun One that casts out by force.

Defraud

DEFRAUD, verb transitive [Latin To cheat.]

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; as, to defraud; a man of his right.

We have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. 2 Corinthians 7:2.

The agent who embezzles public property, defrauds the state.

The man who by deception obtains a price for a commodity above its value, defrauds the purchaser.

2. To withhold wrongfully from another what is due to him. defraud not the hireling of his wages.

3. To prevent one wrongfully from obtaining what he may justly claim.

A man of fortune who permits his son to consume the season of education in hunting, shooting, or in frequenting horse-races, assemblies, etc., defrauds the community of a benefactor, and bequeaths them a nuissance.

4. To defeat or frustrate wrongfully.

By the duties deserted-by the claims defrauded.

Defrauded

DEFRAUDED, participle passive Deprived of property or right by trick, artifice or deception; injured by the withholding of what is due.

Defrauder

DEFRAUDER, noun One who defrauds; one who takes from another his right by deception, or withholds what is his due; a cheat; a cozener; an embezzler; a peculator.

Defrauding

DEFRAUDING, participle present tense Depriving another of his property or right by deception or artifice; injuring by withholding wrongfully what is due.

Defraudment

DEFRAUDMENT, noun Tha act of defrauding.

Defray

DEFRAY, verb transitive

1. To pay; to discharge, as cost or expense; to bear, as charge, cost or expense. It is followed chiefly by expense, charge or cost. The acquisitions of war seldom defray the expenses. The profits of a voyage will not always defray the charges, or even the cost of the first outfits.

2. To satisfy; as, to defray anger.

3. To fill; as, to defray a bottle.

Defrayed

DEFRAYED, participle passive Paid; discharged; as expense, or cost.

Defrayer

DEFRAYER, noun One who pays or discharges expenses.

Defraying

DEFRAYING, participle present tense Paying; discharging.

Defrayment

DEFRAYMENT, noun Payment.

Deft

DEFT, adjective Neat; handsome; spruce; ready; dextrous; fit; convenient.

Deftly

DEFTLY, adverb Neatly; dextrously; in a skilful manner.

Deftness

DEFTNESS, noun Neatness; beauty.

Defunct

DEFUNCT, adjective [Latin To perform and discharge.] Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.

DEFUNCT, noun A dead person; one deceased.

Defunction

DEFUNCTION, noun Death.

Defy

DEFY, verb transitive

1. To dare; to provoke to combat or strife, by appealing to the courage of another; to invite one to contest; to challenge; as, Goliath defied the armies of Israel.

2. To dare; to brave; to offer to hazard a conflict by manifesting a contempt of opposition, attack or hostile force; as, to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy the power of the magistrate.

Were we to abolish the common law, it would rise triumphant above its own ruins, deriding and defying its impotent enemies.

3. To challenge to say or do any thing.

DEFY, noun A challenge.

Defyer

DEFYER, [See defier.]

Degarnish

DEGARNISH, verb transitive

1. To unfurnish; to strip of furniture, ornaments or apparatus.

2. To deprive of a garrison, or troops necessary for defense; as, to degarnish a city or fort. Washingtons Letter. Nov. 11, 1778.

Degarnished

DEGARNISHED, participle passive Stripped of furniture or apparatus; deprived of troops for defense.

Degarnishing

DEGARNISHING, participle present tense Stripping of furniture, dress, apparatus or a garrison.

Degarnishment

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

Degender

DEGENDER, verb intransitive To degenerate.

Degeneracy

DEGENERACY, noun

1. A growing worse or inferior; a decline in good qualities; or a state of being less valuable; as the degeneracy of a plant.

2. In morals, decay of virtue; a growing worse; departure from the virtues of ancestors; desertion of that which is good. We speak of the degeneracy of men in modern times, or of the degeneracy of manners, of the age, of virtue, etc., sometimes without reason.

3. Poorness; meanness; as a degeneracy of spirit.

Degenerate

DEGENERATE, verb intransitive [Latin Grown worse, ignoble, base.]

1. To become worse; to decay in good qualities; to pass from a good to a bad or worse state; to lose or suffer a diminution of valuable qualities, either in the natural or moral world. In the natural world, plants and animals degenerate when they grow to a less size than usual, or lose a part of the valuable qualities which belong to the species. In the moral world, men degenerate when they decline in virtue, or other good qualities. Manners degenerate when they become corrupt. Wit may degenerate into indecency or impiety.

DEGENERATE, adjective

1. Having fallen from a perfect or good state into a less excellent or worse state; having lost something of the good qualities possessed; having declined in natural or moral worth.

The degenerate plant of a strange vine. Jeremiah 2:21.

2. Low; base; mean; corrupt; fallen from primitive or natural excellence; having lost the good qualities of the species. Man is considered a degenerate being. A coward is a man of degenerate spirit.

Degenerately

DEGENERATELY, adverb In a degenerate or base manner.

Degenerateness

DEGENERATENESS, noun A degenerate state; a state in which the natural good qualities of the species are decayed or lost.

Degeneration

DEGENERATION, noun

1. A growing worse, or losing of good qualities; a decline from the virtue and worth of ancestors; a decay of the natural good qualities of the species; a falling from a more excellent state to one of less worth, either in the natural or moral world.

2. The thing degenerated.

Degenerous

DEGENEROUS, adjective

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

2. Low; base; mean; unworthy; as a degenerous passion.

Degenerously

DEGENEROUSLY, adverb In a degenerous manner; basely; meanly.

Deglutinate

DEGLUTINATE, , verb transitive [Latin To glue.] To unglue; to loosen or separate substances glued together.