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A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood.

mental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir. A much battered davenport in one of the windows, at which sat a lady writing. A. B. Edwards.

Precious. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

he bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull. "Great barley dried and decorticated." Arbuthnot.

The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.

To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade. [Obs.] The apostles vehemently dehort us from unbelief. Bp. Ward. "Exhort" remains, but dehort, a word whose place neither "dissuade" nor any other exactly supplies, has escaped us. Trench.

Dissuasion; advice against something. [R.]

Dissuasive. [R.]

Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade. Bp. Hall.

A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary. [Obs.]

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment. He told us he had been deported to Spain. Walsh.

The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation. In their deportations, they had often the favor of their conquerors. Atterbury.

Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carrige; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing. The gravity of his deportment carried him safe through many difficulties. Swift.

Deportment. [Obs.] Stately port and majestical deporture. Speed.

Precious. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

See Disport.

To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest. Hammond.

The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.

Relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective.