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In a decursive manner. Decursively pinnate (Bot.), having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole; -- said of a leaf.

To cut short; to curtail. [Obs.] Bale.

Act of cutting short. [Obs.]

A set or squad of ten men under a decurion. Sir W. Raleigh.

The current flowing through a delta connection.

A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current.

To discover; to reveal; to discoure. [Obs.] I will, if please you it discure, assay To ease you of that ill, so wisely as I may. Spenser.

Not current or free to circulate; not in use. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. Coleridge.

A discourser. [Obs.] L. Addison.

from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.

Argumentative; discursive; reasoning. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning.

A stable.

An induced electric current circulating wholly within a mass of metal; -- called also Foucault current.

To inclose with curtains.

A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy. "The sect Epicurean." Milton.

Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.

Luxuriously. Nash.