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.

To cause to fail.

Failure; miscarriage.

Failure.

To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust.

A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.

A defaulter or embezzler.

To lop off; to abate.

Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

Dishonor.

One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.

In a defamatory manner.

Defamatory.

Capable of being wearied or tired out.

To weary or tire out; to fatigue.

Weariness; fatigue.

To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend.

One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.

A defeat; an overthrow.

Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.

Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title.

An undoing or annulling; destruction.

acceptance of the inevitability of defeat.

Overthrow; defeat.

Changed in features; deformed.

To become clear, pure, or free.

The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.

That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups.

To injure; to damage.

Deficiency; imperfection.

Liable to defect; imperfect.

Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding.

One who advocates or encourages defection.

Having defects; imperfect.

Anything that is defective or lacking in some respect.

Great imperfection.

Full of defects; imperfect.

The act of making foul; pollution.

See Defense.

The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger.

same as defenseless; as, a defenceless child.

To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.

Capable of being defended; defensible.

One who defends; a defender.

One who is defended.

One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.

A female defender.

to throw (something or someone) out of a window.

the act of throwing (something or someone) out of a window.

That which serves to protect or defend.

To furnish with defenses; to fortify.

Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected.

Defender.

Capability of being defended.

Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause.

Capability of being defended; defensibility.

That which defends; a safeguard.

On the defensive.

A defender.

Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations.

To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.

A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance.

That which carries or conveys.

Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.

With deference.

The act of delaying; postponement.

One who defers or puts off.

A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness.

To deprive of the feudal character or form.