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 free from a charm; to disenchant.

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.

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.

Capable of being declared.

One who declares.

The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.

The document promugated, July 4, 1776, by the leaders of the thirteen British Colonies in America that they have formed an independent country. See note below.

Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory.

By distinct assertion; not impliedly; in the form of a declaration.

A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.

In a declaratory manner.

Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature.

To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; -- often with for or against; as, victory declares against the allies.

made known or openly avowed; as, their declared and their covert objectives; a declared liberal. Opposite of undeclared.

Avowedly; explicitly.

The state of being declared.

Declaration.

One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits.

To remove from a class; to separate or degrade from one's class.

Reduced or fallen in status, social position, class or rank; fallen from a high status or rank to a lower one.

Reduction by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon.

having a security classification removed so as to be open to public inspection; -- of documents or information.

to lift the restriction on publication [of documents] by reducing or eliminating the secrecy classification of; -- usually applied to government documents classified as secret.

to remove the claws from, -- used especially with a cat as an object.

The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

Belonging to declension.

Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.

Declining; sloping.

Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.

The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.

An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.

Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.

The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.

A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.

Declinate.

He who declines or rejects.

decreasing; as, steadily declining incomes.

An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.

Declinate.

Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.

Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.

to disengage the clutch of a car.

To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.

Capable of being boiled or digested.

The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.

A decoction.

to convert from a coded form into the original form; -- of communications. Inverse of encode.

A device for restoring a coherer to its normal condition after it has been affected by an electric wave, a process usually accomplished by some method of tapping or shaking, or by rotation of the coherer.