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Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.

With deference.

See Deflourer. Milton.

Same as Decastere.

gent 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 discharge…

One who delivers or rescues; a preserver.

A female de [R.] Evelyn.

To hurt; to harm; to injure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A straight wind without apparent cyclonic tendency, usually accompanied with rain and often destructive, common in the prairie regions of the United States.

Same as Darraign. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. Jer. Taylor.

g with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other powers. Burke.

To make irreligious; to turn from religion. [R.] He would dereligionize men beyond all others. De Quincey.

Darling. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synæresis.

Caustic. [Obs.]

Same as Diæresis.

The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty Differencies of administration, but the same Lord. 1…

Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison.

part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.