A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.

The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms.

A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin, 1.

A system of calisthenics patterned on the theories of Fran/ois Delsarte (1811 -- 71), a French teacher of dramatic and musical expression.

The fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (/ /), corresponding to D. an object having the shape of the capital /.

The formation of a delta or of deltas.

Relating to, or like, a delta.

A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer.

Deltaic.

The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells.

A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron.

the deltoid muscle.

The deltoid muscles; -- a contraction used by body-building and health enthusiasts. Used similarly to abs and pecs. See deltoid muscle.

Capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on; gullible.

To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.

One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.

To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.

An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.

The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.

Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.

Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream.

Delusive; fallacious.

impressively expensive; notably exceeding typical price or quality.

A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.

One who digs, as with a spade.

the act or process of removing magnetization.

To deprive of magnetic properties; to render nonmagnetic. See Magnetize.

Demagogue.

Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious.

The practices of a demagogue.

A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.

impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace.

Demagogism.

Rule; management.

The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.

That may be demanded or claimed.

One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.

One who demands.

A woman who demands.

A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.

To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.

The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction.

A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece.

Same as Demarcation.

the act or process of demasculinizing; the removal of the testicles of a male animal.

to remove the testicles of a male animal.

To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.

A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township.

Demesne.

Demeanor.

Management; treatment; conduct.

Behavior.

Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.

Demented; dementate.

To deprive of reason; to dement.

The act of depriving of reason; madness.

Insane; mad; of unsound mind.

mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.

Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.

To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.

To deserve praise or blame.

To immerse.

Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.

The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.

To relieve from mesmeric influence. See Mesmerize.

A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.

Of or pertaining to a demesne; of the nature of a demesne.

See Demy, n.

Peninsula.

Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness. A work of sculpture of the above character. See Alto-rilievo.

A small cup for, or of, black coffee.

A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.

A half brigade.

An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.

A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds.

An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass.

A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.

To deify in part.

A half devil.

A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.

A female demigod.

Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.

To emigrate.

Emigration.

A half groat.

A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork.

A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.

A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance.

A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin.

A half man.

Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps.

Having half the nature of another.

A note of half the length of the quaver; a semiquaver.

Half relief. See Demi-rilievo.

A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.

The state of being demisable.

Capable of being leased; as, a demisable estate.

To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.

A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.

Cast down; humble; submissive.

The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection.

Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed.

Downcast; submissive; humble.

In a humble manner.

A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the thighs, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.

The act of demitting; also, a letter, certificate, or the like, certifying that a person has (honorably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.

That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light. The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. Also called half tint.

Semitone.

The chief magistrate in some of the Greek states.

Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.

A half vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges.

A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.

A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.

The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing.

To disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized.

the type genus of the Dermochelyidae, consisting of leatherback turtles.

Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.

One who is an adherent or advocate of democracy, or government by the people.

Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.