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charge; to inform against; to accuse; to denounce. As men were delated, they were marked down for such a fine. Bp. Burnet.

To clear or strip of wood (by cutting down trees). [R.] Fuller.

To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. [Obs.] The water in which it was demerged. Boyle.

To depreciate or cry down. [R.] Bp. Woolton.

Cast down; humble; submissive. [Obs.] He down descended like a most demiss And abject thrall. Spenser.

The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection. "Demission of mind." Hammond. Demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange.

Downcast; submissive; humble. [R.] They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord (1630).

To lay down, as an office; to resign. [Scot.] General Conway demitted his office. Hume.

To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall. I expected the fabric of my book would long since have been demolished, and laid even with the ground. Tillotson.

The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes.

The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.

To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. And ever-living lamps depend in rows. Pope.

The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

A thing hanging down; a dependence.

Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

To lay down. [R.] Southey.

To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside. [Obs.] Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. Dryden.

To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium. The fear is deposited in conscience. Jer. Taylor.

The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation. The deposition of rough sand and rolled pebbles. H. Miller.

To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes. "With lips depressed." Tennyson.