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Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.

eprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.

To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread. He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning his stockins. Swift. Darning last. See under Last. -- Darning needle. (a) A long, strong needle for mending holes or rents, especially…

of life; dyration. [Obs.] Good luck prolonged hath thy date. Spenser. Through his life's whole date. Chapman. To bear date, to have the date named on the face of it; -- said of a writing.

ing in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw. The loud daw, his throat displaying, draw The whole assembly of his fellow daws. Waller.

To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.

dship frame. -- Dead freight (Mar. Law), a sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity. Abbott. -- Dead ground (Mining), the portion of a vein in which there is no ore. -- Dead hand, a hand that can not alienate, as of…

und, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye. Totten.

he deals in flour. They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. South. This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels. Dr. H. More.

se of decay. [R.] He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers, is the decay of the whole age. Bacon.

the left of a decimal fraction. The figures at the left of the point represent units or whole numbers, as 1.05.

clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage. For small errors they whole plays decry. Dryden. Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried by the other. Addison.

To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

ing. "Defection and falling away from God." Sir W. Raleigh. The general defection of the whole realm. Sir J. Davies.

Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole. Degradation of energy, or Dissipation of energy (Physics), the transformation of energy into some form in which it is less available for doing work.

A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.

A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.

To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism. A sudden fall deranges some of our internal parts. Blair.

and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole. Arts of design, those into which the designing of artistic forms and figures enters as a principal part, as architecture, painting, engraving, sculpture. -- School of design, one in which are taught the invention and deline…

ness; destitution; gloominess. You would have sold your king to slaughter, . . . And his whole kingdom into desolation. Shak.