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A writer of dactylic verse.

ance for leeway, etc., without the aid of celestial observations. -- Dead rise, the transverse upward curvature of a vessel's floor. -- Dead rising, an elliptical line drawn on the sheer plan to determine the sweep of the floorheads throughout the ship's length. -- Dead-Sea apple. See under Apple. -- Dead set. See…

Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.

The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness. The queen's declination from marriage. Stow.

To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply. Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself. Milton. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope.

She was delivered safe and soon. Gower. Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones. Peacham.

to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.

One versed in demonology. R. North.

One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.

One versed in the natural history of trees.

saying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet.

One versed in deontology.

y of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.

Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies.

One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology.

The tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth.

One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.

As remote as possible, as if at the opposite end of a diameter; directly adverse.

The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

quantities. Thus, since the unit of velocity varies directly as the unit of length and inversely as the unit of time, the dimensions of velocity are said to be length ÷ time; the dimensions of work are mass × (length)2 ÷ (time)2; the dimensions of density are mass ÷ (length)3. Dimension lumber, Dimension scantling, or…