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Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.

Crosiered.

Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales." Shenstone.

Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.

Avowedly; explicitly.

The state of being declared.

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

n agent or factor, in consideration of an additional premium or commission (called a del credere commission), engages, when he sells goods on credit, to insure, warrant, or guarantee to his principal the solvency of the purchaser, the engagement of the factor being to pay the debt himself if it is not punctually discha…

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

Lamentably.

The state of being deplored or deplorable. [R.] Bp. Hail.

Liable to depredation. [Obs.] "Made less depredable." Bacon.

te; to prey upon. It makes the substance of the body . . . less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits. Bacon.

The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land.

One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.

Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.

To proclaim; to celebrate. [R.]

Altered in color;

The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.