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A decoction. [R.]

Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness. Boyle.

Failure. [Obs.] Barrow.

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

Changed in features; deformed. [R.] Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.

To delineate. [Obs.] These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.

A bending or turning aside; deflection. Bailey.

One who deflours; a ravisher.

That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot.

Delineation. [Obs.]

Behavior. [Obs.] Spenser.

Having half the nature of another. [R.] Shak.

composed and decorous in bearing; of modest look; staid; grave. Sober, steadfast, and demure. Milton. Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes. W. Black.

In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.

The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.

To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.

An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.

Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.] No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.

To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture. [R.] Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds. Blackstone. A right to cut wood upon or departure land. Washburn.

To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.