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riety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.

To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious. "Daintified emotion." Sat. rev.

l and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship. Clarendon.

To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.

To render dim; to deprive of vision. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Rom. xi. 10.

To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly. Deafened and stunned with their promiscuous cries. Addison.

The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.

Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine. There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. Acts vii. 11. He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. Shak. Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination. Dryden.

ion, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment concerning; to determine; to settle. So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it. 1 Kings xx. 40. The quarrel toucheth none but us alone; Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then. Shak.

to a duty or service. The profession of a soldier, to which he had dedicated himself. Clarendon.

The act of yielding; surrender. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads. Chaucer. The ways in that vale were very deep. Clarendon. A deep line of operations (Military), a long line. -- Deep mourning (Costume), mourning complete and strongly marked, the garments being not only all black, but also composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as…

To render infamous; to bring into disrepute. My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name. Dryden.

A rendering null or void.

To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate. He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. Tillotson. The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession. Hallam. In one instance he defeated his…

e city. Shak. God defend the right! Shak. A village near it was defended by the river. Clarendon.

To render or offer. [Obs.] Worship deferred to the Virgin. Brevint.

To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor. Above those passions that this world deform. Thomson.

many removes and degradations in all the other offices of which he had been possessed. Clarendon.

To deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol.