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.

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.

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.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.

Having ten angles.

Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side.

To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.

To decant.

The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.

A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors; a kind of glass bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled.

Having ten leaves.

To cut off the head of; to behead.

having had the head cut off.

The act of beheading; beheading.

A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively, as a decapod crustacean.

The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.

Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

To deprive of carbonic acid.

The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.

To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood.

He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.

The act, process, or result of decarburizing.

To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.

To discard.

To depose from the rank of cardinal.

A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.

A poem consisting of ten lines.

Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc. A portico having ten pillars or columns in front.

Having, or consisting of, ten syllables.

In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest consisting of a 100-meter run, a broad jump, putting the shot, a running high-jump, a 400-meter run, throwing the discus, a 100-meter hurdle race, pole vaulting, throwing the javelin, and a 1500-meter run.

Pertaining to, or derived from, decane.

Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay.

susceptible to decay.

Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman.

A causer of decay.

Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles.

To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.