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.

That may be plucked off, cropped, or torn away.

The act of plucking off; a cropping.

Contest for mastery; contention; strife.

Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion.

To turn from, or divest of, Christianity.

A measure of area, the tenth part of an are; ten square meters.

Capable of being decided; determinable.

To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the defendant.

Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided advantage.

In a decided manner; indisputably; clearly; thoroughly.

Means of forming a decision.

A falling off.

One who decides.

The inner layer of the wall of the uterus, which envelops the embryo, forms a part of the placenta, and is discharged with it.

A group of Mammalia in which a decidua is thrown off with, or after, the fetus, as in the human species.

Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua.

Deciduousness.

Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals, such as hair, teeth, antlers, etc.; also, shedding leaves or parts at certain seasons, stages, or intervals; as, deciduous trees; the deciduous membrane.

The quality or state of being deciduous.

A quantity of mass in the metric system equal to one tenth of a gram, and equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois. See 3rd gram.

An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36/.

A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.

According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.]

The quotient of unity divided by a decillion. One of a decillion equal parts.

A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.

same as decimalization.

same as decimalize.

The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights, measures, etc.

the act of changing to a decimal system; as, the decimalization of the British currency.

to convert the dominant units of measure (e.g. of currency) to a decimal-based system; to reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency.

By tens; by means of decimals.

To take the tenth part of; to tithe.

A tithing.

One who decimates.

A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about two cents (around 1900). In 2001 all previous French coins were superseded by the euro.

A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.

Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; as, a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size.

One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H15, of the acetylene series; -- called also decenylene.

To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.

One who deciphers.

A woman who deciphers.

The act of deciphering.

State of being deceived; hallucination.

A supposed rare element, said to be associated with cerium, yttrium, etc., in the mineral samarskite, and more recently called samarium. Symbol Dp. See Samarium.

Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.

Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

Able to decide or determine; having a tendency to decide.

The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.

To deprive of the rights of citizenship.

To reduce from civilization to a savage state.

The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.

a folding chair, usually having arms and a full-length leg rest; -- used for relaxing on the deck of a ship, at poolside, etc. Also called steamer chair

clothed or adorned with finery.

Same as Deckle.

One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker.

A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper.

having a rough edge; having a deckle edge; -- used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade; as, deckle-edged paper; a deckle-edged book.

To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.

A declaimer.

One who declaims; an haranguer.

The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students.

A declaimer.

Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.