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.

The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.

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.

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.

Having ten sides.

A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.

The removal of calcareous matter.

To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.

The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.

A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons.

Decalogue.

One who explains the decalogue.

The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.

A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian.

A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.

To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly.

Departure from a camp; a marching off.

Pertaining to a dean or deanery.

A Linn/an class of plants characterized by having ten stamens.

Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens.