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Liable to undergo death; mortal. The deathless gods and deathful earth. Chapman.

The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.

decrees; -- used absolutely. Father eternal! thine is to decree; Mine, both in heaven and earth to do thy will. Milton.

th the decrements of my pendants. Ford. Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. Woodward.

tive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness. Because they had no deepness of earth. Matt. xiii. 5.

An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.

Same as Deflour. An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens. W. Montagu. If a man had deflowered a virgin. Milton.

ling a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ. [R.] Earth profaned, yet blessed, with deicide. Prior.

Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed earthenware made for table use, and the like.

cially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table. The merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. Rev. xviii. 3.

To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm. The deluged earth would useless grow. Blackmore.

The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.

attached to something else as its 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.

To hide; to skulk. [Scot.] He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth. H. Miller.

Dearth; scarcity. [Obs.] Spenser.

d, I think, is gone . . . to descry The strength o' the enemy. Shak. And now their way to earth they had descried. Milton.

To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.

plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair. Gower. A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay. Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton.

The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground. Woodward.

e of descent which occurs in a body falling freely, in consequence of the rotation of the earth. -- Deviation of the compass, the angle which the needle of a ship's compass makes with the magnetic meridian by reason of the magnetism of the iron parts of the ship. -- Deviation of the line of the vertical, the differen…