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To madden; to rave. [Obs.] An infatuating and delirating spirit in it. Holland.

fits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, [they] acquired this reputation. Holland.

Demonstration; proof. [Obs.] Holland.

e. Spenser. In few words shall see the nature of many memorable persons . . . depainted. Holland.

That which depends; corollary; consequence. With all its circumstances and dependents. Prynne.

Driving or thrusting away; averting. [R.] Holland.

or fear it [water] choke up the pits . . . they [the workman] derive it by other drains. Holland. Her due loves derived to that vile witch's share. Spenser. Derived to us by tradition from Adam to Noah. Jer. Taylor.

Desirable. [R.] "Good and desiderable things." Holland.

A despising. [R.] Holland.

espite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous. [Obs.] "Despiteous reproaches." Holland.

To free from spume or scum. [Obs.] If honey be despumed. Holland.

Having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla.

A gentleman's shirt collar. [Local, U. S.]

r in form; -- opposed to uniform; anomalous; hence, unlike; dissimilar; as, to difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; difform leaves. The unequal refractions of difform rays. Sir I. Newton.

urse of argument, in writing or speaking. Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude. Holland. In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. Locke.

A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar. Dime novel, a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which is sold for a dime, or ten cents.

A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.

In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.

isagreeable to one is many times agreeable to another, or disagreeable in a less degree. Wollaston.

To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud. [R.] Holland.