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To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce. I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion. Shak. Our incomes have been curtailed; his salary has been doubled. Macualay.

To have a custom. [Obs.] On a bridge he custometh to fight. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time. Coleridge. Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle. -- Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan…

The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college. Shipley.

to forebode death. And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. Coleridge. -- Death grapple, a grapple or struggle for life. -- Death in life, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. [Poetic] "Lay lingering out a five years' death in life." Tennyson. -- Death knell, a stroke o…

h such trinkets Ready in the deck. Massinger. Between decks. See under Between. -- Deck bridge (Railroad Engineering), a bridge which carries the track upon the upper chords; -- distinguished from a through bridge, which carries the track upon the lower chords, between the girders. -- Deck curb (Arch.), a curb suppor…

grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming. Some delicious landscape. Coleridge. One draught of spring's delicious air. Keble. Were not his words delicious Tennyson.

Contempt. [R.] Coleridge.

er; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms. Coleridge. Trench.

The quality of being determinable; determinableness. Coleridge.

A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.

to be reconciled to; to brook. I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works. Coleridge.

Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive. Coleridge.

same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly. Dimorphism is the condition of the appearance of the same species under two dissimilar forms. Darwin.

self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink. The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out. Coleridge.

Funereal; moaning. Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge.

The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. Coleridge.

ngruity. [R.] A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature]. Coleridge.

A disjunctive proposition. Coleridge.

ing disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them. Coleridge.