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To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.

deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. "A deficiencyof blood." Arbuthnot. [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is sh…

nerate king. Shak. A degenerate and degraded state. Milton. Degenerate from their ancient blood. Swift. These degenerate days. Pope. I had planted thee a noble vine . . . : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me Jer. ii. 21.

A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third cousins might marry, being in the seventh degree according to the civil…

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland.

the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.

ities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse. To depurate the mass of blood. Boyle.

Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory. -- n.

Daring or warlike. [Obs.] Drad for his derring doe and bloody deed. Spenser.

A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.

determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution. So bloodthirsty a determination to obtain convictions. Hallam.

ne of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.

The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.

through the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate.

utritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.

ch and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.

An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink. There is no real diluent but water. Arbuthnot.

liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again. The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. Lev. iv. 6. [Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny deep. Pope. While the prime swallow dips his wing. Tennyson.

or qualification; to render legally incapable. An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood, and disables his children to inherit. Blackstone.

of; to disprove. Yet can they never Toss into air the freedom of my birth, Or disavow my blood Plantagenet's. Ford.