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That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time. Nor did Sabrina's p…

A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.

Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer.

A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers.

The removal of calcareous matter.

The removal or absence of color. Ferrand.

separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.

The removal of a crust.

cidental blowing off of, or other serious damage to, the breechblock of a gun; also, a removal of the breechblock for the purpose of disabling the gun.

es at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.

The act or process or freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.

A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him. Pothier.

A disengaging, or removal, of nitric acid.

The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.

bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.

Removal of whatever stops up the passages. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away. Departure from this happy place. Milton.

The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne. Fox.

e a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.

To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by player; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly. His purpose was deprecated by all round him, and he was with difficulty induced to adandon it. Sir W. Scott.