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A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.

Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.

To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt. Whose pride depraves each other better part. Spenser.

A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.

A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.

ella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable.

A plant with netveined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenæ, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceæ, Smilaceæ, Trilliaceæ, etc.

to difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; difform leaves. The unequal refractions of difform rays. Sir I. Newton.

The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.

To strike; to thump; to pound. [Obs.] Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves. Piers Plowman.

Having two leaves, as a calyx, etc.

Anything consisting of two leaves. Especially:

An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason.

t; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc. Rolling down, the steep Timavdisembogues his waves. Addison.

able in riches, how much more in poverty! Ecclus. x. 31. To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Shak. -- Dis*hon"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Dis*hon"or*a*bly, adv.

nstriction. Disjunct tetrachords (Mus.), tetrachords so disposed to each other that the gravest note of the upper is one note higher than the acutest note of the other.

To deprive of leaves. [R.] The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.

Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.

Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book. Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared. Ld. Mansfield.

, a small, bulbous herb of the Lily family (genus Erythronium). It has two shining flat leaves and commonly one large flower. [Written also dog's-tooth violet.]