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s of modern poets] . . . without hearing. Pope. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. Pope.

Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.

The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.

ess; deep melancholy; deep horror. "Deep despair." Milton. "Deep silence." Milton. "Deep sleep." Gen. ii. 21. "Deeper darkness." Hoole. "Their deep poverty." 2 Cor. viii. 2. An attitude of deep respect. Motley.

One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer; a staghound.

Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified. Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense. Bates.

The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.

th so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet.

The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. Bp. Stillingfleet

ovinces . . . ordered public prayer to God, when they feared that the French and English fleets would make a descent upon their coasts. Jortin.

cial object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment.

That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service. Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments. Bancroft.

iguratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner. "The golden dew of sleep." Shak.

Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew. Dewy sleep ambrosial. Cowper.

o-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis). [Corruptly written dielytra.]

w is the gold become dim! Lam. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth.

incipal regular meal of the day; to take dinner. Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak. To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Du…

Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather. Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea. M. Arnold.

yrinth. Clarendon. A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To dislodge. [Obs.] Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime Had been dishabited. Shak.