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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.

An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.

Cylindrical, or approaching a cylindrical form.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large family of plants of which the sedge is the type.

A small European cyprinoid fish (Squalius leuciscus or Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dare.

ishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.

To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record. "This high face defaced." Emerson. So by fa…

The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures.

A tearing in pieces. [Obs.] Bailey.

To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne.

The act of rending asunder. Arbuthnot.

condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. Macduff lives in disgrace. Shak.

Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. -- Dis*grace"ful*fy, adv. -- Dis*grace"ful*ness, n. The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. B. Jonson.

One who disgraces.

To roam. [Obs.] In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser.

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.

Capable of being displaced.

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell.