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s dear delight, to wrangle. Hudibras. From her lifted hand Dangled a length of ribbon. Tennyson. To dangle about or after, to hang upon importunately; to court the favor of; to beset. The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle after them, are well inclined to pull down the present establishment. Swift.…

ns. Addison. The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night. Tennyson.

nd the last joy was dearer than the rest. Pope. Dear as remember'd kisses after death. Tennyson.

from death; a living death. [Poetic] "Lay lingering out a five years' death in life." Tennyson. -- Death knell, a stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death. -- Death rate, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths to the population. At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. Dar…

ng deathwatches. Addison. I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat. Tennyson.

insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor. Mitford. Debtors for our lives to you. Tennyson.

A decade. Averill was a decad and a half his elder. Tennyson.

to pass away. She's dead, deceased, she's dead. Shak. When our summers have deceased. Tennyson. Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature. Emerson.

ve the due reward of our deeds. Luke xxiii. 41. Would serve his kind in deed and word. Tennyson.

Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring. [R.] "A deedful life." Tennyson.

or maintain security; a guard; a protection. War would arise in defense of the right. Tennyson. God, the widow's champion and defense. Shak.

ar without a just defiance made. Dryden. Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down. Tennyson.

By delays. [R.] Tennyson.

Coleridge. One draught of spring's delicious air. Keble. Were not his words delicious Tennyson.

Inventions to delight the taste. Shak. Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds. Tennyson.

nt by the people. Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat. Tennyson.

In the manner of one denies a request. Tennyson.

lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes. "With lips depressed." Tennyson.

in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot. The vast design and purposTennyson. The leaders of that assembly who withstood the designs of a besotted woman. Hallam. A . . . settled design upon another man's life. Locke. How little he could guess the secret designs of the court! Macaulay.…

t. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson.