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Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales." Shenstone.

Having no culture.

One who is an advocate of culture. The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does notJ. C. Shairp

a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve. Cowper. The elegant curvature of their fronds. Darwin.

A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.

Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.

A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.

The debt or series of debts, collectively, represented by a series of debentures; a debt secured by a trust deed of property for the benefit of the holders of shares in the debt or of a series of debentures. By the terms of much debenture stock the holders are not entitled to demand payment until the winding up of the…

Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.

A decree or sentence of a court. Stormonth.

The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.

A decoction. [R.]

Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness. Boyle.

Overthrow; defeat. [Obs.] "Nothing but loss in their defeature." Beau. & Fl.

Changed in features; deformed. [R.] Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.

That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot.

Delineation. [Obs.]

Having half the nature of another. [R.] Shak.

To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.

To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.