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Procuring or causing loss; mischievous; injurious.

That which causes damage or loss.

To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to imparir. [R.] This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified. Milton.

Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.

A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.

One dearly beloved; a favorite. And can do naught but wail her darling's loss. Shak.

To flatter excessively or glossy. [R.] I can safely say, however, that, without any daubing at all, I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant. Smollett.

Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.

To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.

Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory. The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. J. Peile.

The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss. Twit me with the decrements of my pendants. Ford. Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. Woodward.

An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.

Overthrow; defeat. [Obs.] "Nothing but loss in their defeature." Beau. & Fl.

A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness. A defervescency in holy actions. Jer. Taylor.

Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.

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

A going away; departure; hence, death. [Obs.] At my depart for France. Shak. Your loss and his depart. Shak.

Loss; destruction. [Archaic] Sir T. Browne.

r; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over. To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss. Milton. As some sad turtle his lost love deplores. Pope.

A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. Thomas.