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.

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.

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.

To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.

Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.

The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.

The upper border or part of a low-cut (i.e., d/collet/) dress.

Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.

Beheading.

same as decolonization.

the action of changing from colonial to independent status.

to release one's colonies and free them to become independednt nations; -- of nations.

To deprive of color; to bleach.

A substance which removes color, or bleaches.

To decolor.

The removal or absence of color.

To deprive of color; to whiten.

Repeatedly compound; made up of complex constituents.

Capable of being resolved into constituent elements.

To become resolved or returned from existing combinations; to undergo dissolution; to decay; to rot.

Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.

Anything decompounded.

The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.

causing organic decay.

A decomposite.

Capable of being decompounded.

to subject to the process of decompression.

the process of experiencing decompression; the act or process of relieving or reducing pressure.

the process of experiencing decompression; the act or process of relieving or reducing pressure.

To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize.

Act of deconcentrating.

To decompose.

To deprive of sacredness; to secularize.

To interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstruction.

A philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning. This method questions the ability of language to represent a fixed reality, and proposes that a text has no stable meaning because words only refer to other words, that metaphysical or ethnocentric assumptions about the meaning of words must be questioned, and words may be redefined in new contexts and new, equally valid and even contradictory meanings may be found. Such new interpretations may be based on the philosophical, political, or social implications of the words of a text, rather than solely on attempts to determine the author's intentions.

Same as decontruction{1}.

Of or pertaining to deconstruction or deconstructionism; as, deconstructionist criticism.

To remove contamination or contaminants from, by a cleansing process; -- usually used of radioactive, infectious, or toxic materials; as, to decontaminate clothing worn by persons with infective disease; decontaminate an area of PCB's after explosion of a transformer.

The removal of contaminants; as, the decontamination of a room after a spill of radioactive materials.

the layout, style, and furnishings of a livable interior.

Ornament.

To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.

having decorations.

The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.

Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning.

One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.

To decorate; to beautify.

Ornament.

Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.

To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.

The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.

Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.

Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.

A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger.

A man employed in decoying wild fowl.

One who decoys another.

A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.