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Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.

of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.

ngmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.

is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.

A descending surface; a sloping place. Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters. Derham.

The upper border or part of a décolleté corsage.

Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc.

; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result. Settled visage and deliberate word. Shak.

uxurious or voluptuous treatment. And to those dainty limbs which Nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy Milton.

Management; treatment. [Obs.] Vile demean and usage bad. Spenser.

To remove obstructions or impediments in; to clear from anything that hinders the passage of fluids; as, to deobstruct the pores or lacteals. Arbuthnot.

To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through. [Obs.] Boyle.

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

The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization.

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.

Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. Melloni.

To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.

Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect. A deserted and dilapidated buildings. Cooper.

A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group.

Pertaining to the sending of two messages in the same direction at the same time. Diplex and contraplex are the two varieties of duplex.