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.

See D/dalous.

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.

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.

The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness.

Any animal; especially, a wild animal.

A deerlike, or thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse.

any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; it is widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of the US Pacific states.

A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla.

A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.

An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomace/ inhabiting a temperate clime.

One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer; a staghound.

A chevrotain. See Kanchil, and Napu.

The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it.

One who practices deerstalking.

The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.

A dais.

An invocation of, or address to, the Supreme Being.

A goddess.

See Dev.

To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record.

having the external appearance impaired, usually deliberately.

The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures.