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DIE v. 2 definitions
al and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. To…
DIET n.
Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare. "No inconvenient diet." Milton.
DILUTE a.
Diluted; thin; weak. A dilute and waterish exposition. Hopkins.
DISEASE n.
ve, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. Madison. Disease germ. See under Germ.
DISENDOWMENT n.
The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments. [The] disendowment of the Irish Church. G. B. Smith.
DISESTABLISHMENT n.
f the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.
DISPATCH v.
to send away hastily. Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets. Walpole.
DISTASTE v.
end; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.] He thought in no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them. Sir J. Davies.
DODDER n.
itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root. is nourished by the plant that supports it.
DORMITORY n.
ffe. My sister was interred in a very honorable manner in our dormitory, joining to the parish church. Evelyn.
DROOP v.
r hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. "The purple flowers droop." "Above her drooped a lamp." Tennyson. I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.
DROWN v.
To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.
DUDEEN n.
A short tobacco pipe. [Written also dudheen.] [Irish]
DURABLE a.
Able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness. Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. Prov. viii. 18. An interest which from its object and grounds must be so dur…
DWELL v.
To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside. The parish in which I was born, dwell, and have possessions. Peacham. The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides. C. J. Smith. To dwell in, to abide in (a place); hence, to depend on. "My hope…
DYING a.
In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.
EARSH n.
See Arrish.
EARTHLINESS n.
The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.
EDDISH n.
Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish. [Eng.]
ELK n.
iti (Cervus Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti. Irish elk (Paleon.), a large, extinct, Quaternary deer (Cervus giganteus) with widely spreading antlers. Its remains have been found beneath the peat of swamps in Ireland and England. See Illustration in Appendix; also Illustration…
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