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motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton.

A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon. The demoniac in the gospel was sometimes cast into the fire. Bates.

An officer whose duty it was to announce the doom or sentence pronounced by the court.

One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

e connecting stipulation is performed. -- Dependent variable (Math.), a varying quantity whose changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by changes in another variable, which is called the independent variable.

To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness. [A Scotticism] The fairy Glorians, whose credibility on this point can not be called in question, depones to the confinement of Merlin in a tree. Dunlop.

To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt. Whose pride depraves each other better part. Spenser.

Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.

One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.

Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.

A Linnæan class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.

In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.

A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

tached to one leg of the tube. -- Differential windlass, or Chinese windlass, a windlass whose barrel has two parts of different diameters. The hoisting rope winds upon one part as it unwinds from the other, and a pulley sustaining the weight to be lifted hangs in the bight of the rope. It is an ancient example of a d…

nish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. Ezek. xxix. 15. O thou . . . at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads. Milton.

ering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.

A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst. Milton.

atever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt. Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Is. lvii. 20.

One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.

obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle.