variant of Dere, v. t. n.

Same as Deary.

A darling.

In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly.

Same as Darn.

The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.

Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

To disjoint.

Precious.

A dear; a darling.

See Dais.

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

A stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death; a knell{1}.

a list of persons killed in a war or other disaster.

A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.

The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).

The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.

Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.

A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.

Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.

Appearance of death.

Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.

Resembling death.

The quality of being deathly; deadliness.

Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.

An executioner; a headsman or hangman.

Toward death.

A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocid/, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.

To gild.

Act of gilding.

To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen.

To rave as a bacchanal.

Wild raving or debauchery.

A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other d/bris.

To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.

To deprive of the beard.

To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.

Disembarkation.

Hindrance from approach; exclusion.

To disembarrass; to relieve.

To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.

Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.

The act of debasing or the state of being debased.

One who, or that which, debases.

In a manner to debase.

Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question.

A fight or fighting; contest; strife.

Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome.

With contention.

Controversy; deliberation; debate.

One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.

The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.

In the manner of a debate.

Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.

Dissolute; dissipated.

In a profligate manner.

The state of being debauched; intemperance.

One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.

Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.

Debauchedness.

A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods.

To conquer.

To subdue; to conquer in war.

The act of conquering or subduing.

A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.

Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.

Weak.

Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug.

To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.

lacking strength or vigor; weakened.

causing weakness. Opposite of invigorating.

The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.

causing weakness.

The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.

To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.

a small usually plastic card with a magnetic coded number, similar to a credit card, which is used to pay for purchases by the electronic deduction of a sum of money (a debit) directly from the card-holder's bank account. Such cards do not require the establishment of a credit line, and such transactions do not incur any interest payments.

A debtor.

The act of depriving of bitumen.

To deprive of bitumen.

The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.

Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant.

Debonairness.

Courteously; elegantly.

The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.

To debauch.

Debauchment.

To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.

A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods.

to remove (e. g., dead tissue) surgically from a wound.

the surgical excision of dead, contaminated, or damaged tissue, and foreign matter, especially from a wound.

to interrogate (a person who has recently experienced an event), to obtain information about that experience; -- used especially of military pilots or diplomatic agents who have just returned from a mission.

Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.

Surmounted by an ordinary; as, a lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut.

That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability.

Indebted; obliged to.

One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.

Free from debt.

One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor.

To boil over.

A bubbling or boiling over.

To disburse.

A modification of the kaleidoscope; -- used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs.

A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.

A young woman making her first appearance in society, especially one who is one of the honorees at a debutante cotillion. See cotillion{4}.

A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public.

A prefix, from Gr. de`ka, signifying ten; a prefix signifying the weight or measure that is ten times the principal unit.

The division of Cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.

An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.

Having the point or top cut off.

A decade.

Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.

A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.

A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. /The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence./

One that is decadent, or deteriorating; esp., one characterized by, or exhibiting, the qualities of those who are degenerating to a lower type; -- specif. applied to a certain school of modern French writers.

A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist.

A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.

Pertaining to a decagon; having ten sides.

A mass in the metric system equal to ten grams, and equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois. See 3rd Gram.

A Linn/an order of plants characterized by having ten styles.