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means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

danger; ready to do harm or injury. If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods. Milton.

or oppressive burden. Dryden. (b) (Shipping) A ship's lading, when it consists of heavy goods; or, the heaviest part of a ship's cargo. (c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live weight being the load. Knight. -- Dead wind (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship's course. -- To be dead, to di…

See Illust. of Dactylology.] Deaf-mutes are still so called, even when, by artificial methods, they have been taught to speak imperfectly.

sp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.

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

A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods. [Written also debage.]

A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation. Burrill.

Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.

debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.

A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods. The débouchés were ordered widened to afford easy egress. The Century.

That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability. Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt. Shak. When you run in debt, you give to another power over your liberty. Fran…

A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.

Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc. To declare off, to recede from an agreement, undertaking, contract, etc.; to renounce. -- To declare one's self, to avow one's opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses.

or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ. Deepens the murmur of the falling floods. Pope.

pen along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.

itional 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 discharged by the buyer when it becomes due.…

Formation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.

ce of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.