made less in size or amount or degree. Opposite of increased.

Suffering no decrease.

Becoming less and less; diminishing.

Destruction; -- opposed to creation.

To make decrees; -- used absolutely.

Capable of being decreed.

One who decrees.

The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.

The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.

Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.

To crackle, as salt in roasting.

The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.

Decrepitude.

The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.

With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.

A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.

An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.

A decree.

A decrease.

One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the decretals.

Having the force of a decree; determining.

Decretory; authoritative.

In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree.

Established by a decree; definitive; settled.

To decrease.

A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.

One who decries.

To deprive of a crown; to discrown.

The removal of a crust.

To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage.

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

Act of lying down; decumbence.

An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus.

An accidental blowing off of, or other serious damage to, the breechblock of a gun; also, a removal of the breechblock for the purpose of disabling the gun.

Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively.

a woody climber of southeastern US (Decumaria barbara) having white flowers in compound terminal clusters.

The act or posture of lying down.

Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.

In a decumbent posture.

Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness.

To make tenfold; to multiply by ten.

A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers.

The office of a decurion.

The act of running down; a lapse.

Extending downward; -- said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem.

A flowing; also, a hostile incursion.

Running down; decurrent.

In a decursive manner.

To cut short; to curtail.

Act of cutting short.

A set or squad of ten men under a decurion.

To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; -- said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.

Crossed; intersected.

In a decussate manner.

Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.

Intersecting at acute angles.

Crosswise; in the form of an X.

A hydrocarbon radical, C10H21., never existing alone, but regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of the paraffin series.

Allied to, or containing, the radical decyl.

See D/dalian.

A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators.

Dead.

To bring to shame; to disgrace.

Disgrace; dishonor.

Disgraceful; unbecoming.

The shedding of teeth.

To set apart and consecrate, as to a divinity, or for sacred uses; to devote formally and solemnly; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple, or a church, to a religious use.

wholly committed to a purpose or cause; as, a dedicated musician.

One to whom a thing is dedicated; -- correlative to dedicator.

The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple.

One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.

Dedicatory.

Dedication.

A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc.

The act of yielding; surrender.

Feeling no compunction; apathetic.

To lead forth.

Inference; deduction; thing deduced.

Deducibleness.

Capable of being deduced or inferred; derivable by reasoning, as a result or consequence.

The quality of being deducible; deducibility.

By deduction.

That deduces; inferential.

To lead forth or out.

taken away. Opposite of added.

Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn.

Act or process of deducing or inferring.

Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible.

By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence.

The pilot whale or blackfish.

Delight; pleasure.

The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.

an electrode with a large interior cavity, shaped like the letter "D", used in opposed pairs to accelerate particles in a cyclotron.

To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son.

Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring.

Not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive.

performance of moral or religious acts; salvation is not by deeds, but by faith; to do good deeds.

Industrious; active.

Opinion; judgment.

A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process.

That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth.

Hot liquified fat used to deep-fry food. See deep-fry.

having eyes set well behind the brow; characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver.

To fry in deep fat.

Deeply fetched or drawn.

Fried in fat or oil deep enough to cover the object.

to cook by immersing in hot fat or oil.

Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; secretly and carefully planned; as, deep-laid plans.

taken from an undergrround mine; -- as contrasted with coal obtained from a strip mine; as, deep-mined coal.

Having a loud and sonorous voice.

Profoundly book- learned.

well-established; as, deep-rooted prejudice.

Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.

same as deep-rooted.

having a sunken area.

to discard in a deep body of water; -- also used figuratively, to discard contemptuously.

Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck.

having waters of great depth; as, a deep-water port.

To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens.

At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.