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Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer. Tennyson.

x. 11. And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools among. Tennyson.

nal woe. Milton. Till the loathsome opposite Of all my heart had destined, did obtain. Tennyson. Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way. Longfellow.

m anything; to disengage. [A vapor] detaching, fold by fold, From those still heights. Tennyson.

tream Devolves its winding waters to the main. Akenside. Devolved his rounded periods. Tennyson.

dies upon their surfaces, particularly at night. Her tears fell with the dews at even. Tennyson.

Having no dew. Tennyson.

ving. "Diapered light." H. Van Laun. Engarlanded and diapered With in wrought flowers. Tennyson.

To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. Macaulay. She will die from want of care. Tennyson.

usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties. In days of difficulty and pressure. Tennyson.

ted; expansion; dilatation. Mrs. Browning. At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. Tennyson. A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. Dickens.

denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin. Babyisms and dear diminutives. Tennyson.

Shak. He knew the battle's din afar. Sir W. Scott. The dust and din and steam of town. Tennyson.

An entertainment; a feast. A grand political dinner. Tennyson.

on made by violence; a dent. Dryden. Every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]. Tennyson.

now dip their pinions in the briny deep. Pope. While the prime swallow dips his wing. Tennyson.

ecurity disarms the best-appointed army. Fuller. The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson.

To uncage. [R.] Tennyson.

scern the minute texture of visible objects. Beattie. I wake, and I discern the truth. Tennyson.

ate; to ventilate. "We sat and . . . discussed the farm . . . and the price of grain." Tennyson. "To discuss questions of taste." Macaulay.