Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.

One who dares and defies; a contemner; as, a defier of the laws.

Disfiguration; mutilation.

To delineate.

To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.

The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected.

To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute.

morally blemished.

The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness.

One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes.

Abstraction of a child from its parents.

Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words.

To determine; to decide.

The act of defining; definition; description.

One who defines or explains.

A thing defined or determined.

In a definite manner; with precision; precisely; determinately.

The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.

The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, a telescope accurate in definition.

Relating to definition; of the nature of a definition; employed in defining.

A word used to define or limit the extent of the signification of a common noun, such as the definite article, and some pronouns.

In a definitive manner.

The quality of being definitive.

Definiteness.

To fix; to fasten; to establish.

The state or quality of being deflagrable.

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

To cause to burn with sudden and sparkling combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.

A burning up; conflagration.

A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.

To reduce from an inflated condition; used literally and metaphorically; as, to deflate a tire; to deflate expectations.

brought low in spirit.

the act or process of deflating.

of or pertaining to deflation; as, deflationary signs.

a statistical factor designed to remove the effect of inflation; inflation adjusted variables are in constant dollars; as, the GNP deflator..

To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected; to deflect a punch; to deflect criticism by acknowledging a mistake.

To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.

Capable of being deflected.

Turned aside; deviating from a direct line or course.

The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation.

The act of freeing from inflections.

To free from inflections.

Causing deflection.

That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).

Bent abruptly downward.

See Deflection.

A bending or turning aside; deflection.

Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen.

The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin.

Same as Deflower.

See Deflowerer.

To flow down.

To deprive of flowers.

One who deflowers; a ravisher.

Flowing down; falling off.

Downward flow.

A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation.

Deftly.

Defedation.

to cause (a plant) to shed its leaves.

The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty.

A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right. Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.

Same as Deforciant.

One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate. One against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought.

Same as Deforcement, n.

To clear of forests; to disforest.

Deformed; misshapen; shapeless; horrid.

The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed.

of or pertaining to deformation (in all senses).

Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head.

One who deforms.

The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.

A deforciant.

To tread down.

To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.

The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.

One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.

Privation by fraud; defrauding.

To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.

The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.

One who pays off expenses.

Payment of charges.

To divest of the frock, i. e. to deprive (a priest, minister, etc.) of official ecclesiastical authority; -- of church officials.

To become free of frost or ice; as, it took four hours for the refrigerator to defrost.

A device that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane).

Apt; fit; spruce; neat.

Aptly; fitly; dexterously; neatly.

The quality of being deft.

A dead person; one deceased.

Death.

Funereal.

To disorder; to make shapeless.

The act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb).

A challenge.

Unconstrained; easy; free.

To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc.

The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.

To make a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by applying an opposing magnetic field.

the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field.

To degenerate.

The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.

To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.

a person who has declined from a high standard, especially a sexual deviate; -- usually used disparagingly or opprobriously of persons whose sexual behavior does not conform to the norms of accepted morals.

In a degenerate manner; unworthily.

Degeneracy.

The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.

A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.

Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.

Degenerate; base.

Basely.

To extract the germs from, as from wheat grains.

A machine for breaking open the kernels of wheat or other grain and removing the germs.

To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish.

The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means.

Deprived of glory; dishonored.

To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.

The act of ungluing.

The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.

Pertaining to deglutition.