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.

The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop.

To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.

Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base.

Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.

causing humiliation or degradation; as, a degrading surrender.

In a degrading manner.

A semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for hides.

The act of making heavy.

To remove grease or fatty matter from, as wool or silk.

A step, stair, or staircase.

possessing a college degree or degrees.

going down by steps.

A small South American rodent (Octodon Cumingii), of the family Octodontid/.

To deprive of, or free from, gum; as, to degum ramie.

To taste.

Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.

To gape; to open by dehiscence.

The act of gaping.

Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.

To disparage.

A dishonoring; disgracing.

To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.

All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.

To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade.

Dissuasion; advice against something.

Dissuasive.

Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade.

A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.

To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.

to remove the moisture from (air or another gas); to reduce the humidity of; as, The air conditioner dehumidifies the air in the summer.

To remove the husk from.

to lose water or moisture.

thoroughly dried out.

The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.

To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.

The act or process of freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.

to remove ice or frost from.

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

The act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ.

Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.

In a manner to show or point out; directly; absolutely; definitely.

Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making.

The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.

Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.

One who deifies.

Godlike, or of a godlike form.

Likeness to deity.

To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius C/sar was deified.

To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend; - - followed by an infinitive.

Haughty; disdainful.

Devil; -- spelt also deel.

See Dinoceras.

See Dinornis.

See Dinosaur.

See Dinotherium.

To disintegrate.

Rare; excellent; costly.

the act or process of removing ions.

to remove ions from (a solution).

freed from ions by a process of deionization; as, deionized water.