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.

Democratic.

In a democratic manner.

The principles or spirit of a democracy.

A democrat.

To render democratic.

Democracy.

An electronic device which extracts the modulation from a radio carrier wave, and outputs the original information-bearing signal.

A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon.

of or pertaining to demography; as, demographic surveys.

The study of vital statistics, such as births, deaths, marriages, mortality, health, etc., in populations and subgroups of populations.

A young lady; a damsel; a lady's maid.

To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.

One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns.

Demolition.

The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes.

A demolisher.

A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.

A female demon.

same as demonetization.

The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized; the declaration by a government that something (e.g. gold or silver) is no longer the legal tender of a country; as, the demonetization of gold.

To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money.

A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a demon or evil spirit; devilish; as, a demoniac being; demoniacal practices.

In a demoniacal manner.

The state of being demoniac, or the practices of demoniacs.

Of or pertaining to a demon.

The state of being possessed by a demon or by demons.

See Demonianism.

Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac.

The belief in demons or false gods.

A believer in, or worshiper of, demons.

To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.

The power or government of demons.

A demonologist.

The worship of demons.

One versed in demonology.

Of or pertaining to demonology.

One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.

A treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations.

Magic in which the aid of demons is invoked; black or infernal magic.

A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.

One in subjection to a demon, or to demons.

The dominion of demons.

Demoniacal influence or possession.

The state of a demon.

The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.

Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question.

The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrability.

In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly.

Demonstration; proof.

To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.

having been proved or verified beyond doubt; proved by demonstration.

See Demonstrator.

The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.

A demonstrative pronoun; as, /this/ and /that/ are demonstratives.

In a manner fitted to demonstrate; clearly; convincingly; forcibly.

The state or quality of being demonstrative.

One who demonstrates; one who proves anything with certainty, or establishes it by indubitable evidence. one who shows how a certain device operates or a procedure is performed.

Tending to demonstrate; demonstrative.

Demurrage.

The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.

To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency.

made less hopeful or enthusiastic; rendered pessimistic; as, the demoralized Iraqi ground troops put up little resistance.

discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.

a famous Grecian orator, born circa 385 BC, died circa 322 BC.

Pertaining to, or in the style of, Demosthenes, the Grecian orator.

To reduce to a lower grade or rank, as in the military, one's employment, or in school; to assign to a lower position.

Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.

The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing.

To dismount.

To damn; to condemn.

A deemster.

To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften.

A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting it from irritation. Gum Arabic, glycerin, olive oil, etc., are demulcents.

The act of soothing; that which soothes.

Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple.

To look demurely.

In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty.

The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.

Demureness; also, one who is demure.

That may be demurred to.

The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing. The allowance made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention.

Demur; delay in acting or deciding.

One who demurs.

Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy; as, a demy book.

same as demythologization.