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.

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.

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.

Passed away; dead; gone.

To withdraw.

A deceased person.

An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.

Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.

With intent to deceive.

The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.

Free from deceit.

Fitted to deceive; deceitful.

Capability of deceiving.

In a deceivable manner.

To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare.

One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor.

to cause to reduce speed. Opposite of accelerate.

a decrease in velocity. Opposite of acceleration

The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice.

One of those who conspired for constitutional government against the Emperor Nicholas on his accession to the throne at the death of Alexander I., in December, 1825; -- called also Dekabrist.

Having ten points or teeth.

Cleft into ten parts.

Having ten cells for seeds.

Ten feet in length.

One of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome.

Pertaining to the decemvirs in Rome.

The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.

The office of a decemvir.

Decency.

The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.

One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H20, of the ethylene series.

A period of ten years.

A tenth year or tenth anniversary.

A period of ten years.

Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years.

Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.

same as decentralization.

same as decentralize. Opposite of centralize and concentrate

The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized.

to make less central; to prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.

causing a dispersion or movement away from the center; -- used especially of power or administrative functions. Opposite of centralizing.

Capable of being deceived; deceivable.

The act of deceiving or misleading.

Tending deceive; delusive.

Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.

In a manner to deceive.

The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive.

Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham.

Deceptive.

To perceive, discern, or decide.

A decree or sentence of a court.

To pluck off; to crop; to gather.

Plucked off or away.