Search the Dictionary

Conformable to the will of God. [R.] Bp. Burnet.

; to accuse; to denounce. As men were delated, they were marked down for such a fine. Bp. Burnet.

trayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress. Other Delilahs on a smaller scale Burns met with during his Dumfries sojourn. J. C. Shairp.

or causes great destruction. "The deluge of summer." Lowell. A fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. Milton. As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge. F. Harrison. After me the deluge. (Aprés moi…

and departure in his grounds. Blackstone. A right to cut wood upon or departure land. Washburn.

ct to its cause). The cause of effects, and the dependence of one thing upon another. Bp. Burnet.

ts consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like. This earth and its dependencies. T. Burnet. Modes I call such complex ideas which . . . are considered as dependencies on or affections of substances. Locke.

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. [Obs.] T. Burnet.

To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report.

To explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate.

That which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery.

Trim; neat. [Scot.] Burns. -- Dink"ly, adv.

Full of din. [Scot.] Burns.

to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth. Shak. Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. Daniel. They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to disco…

The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. [R.] T. Burnet.

To clear from a bay. Sherburne.

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. T. Burnet.

ispose of a house; to dispose of one's time. More water . . . than can be disposed of. T. Burnet. I have disposed of her to a man of business. Tatler. A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize. Waller.

ance or lavish use; to squander. The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated. Bp. Burnet.

f the flood into those that belong to the heavens, and those that belong to the earth. T. Burnet.