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To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair. Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward.

ent in law to maintain the issue, and a reference to the court to determine the point. Bouvier.

the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier.

exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc. Saturday Review.

of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- De*scrip"tive*ly, adv. -- De*scrip"tive*ness, n.

, Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance. [Obs.] Near, and on speedy foot; the main descry Stands on the hourly thought. Shak.

isheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view. I should despair, or at least despond. Scott's Letters. Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty. Locke. We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that…

a mistake in an account. Plain good intention . . . is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last. Burke. Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. Pope.

to bring to an end; to finish. The knowledge of men hitherto hath been determined by the view or sight. Bacon. Now, where is he that will not stay so long Till his friend sickness hath determined me Shak.

To take away; to withdraw. Detract much from the view of the without. Sir H. Wotton.

That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification. Sir T. Browne.

misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator. Bouvier.

an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view. To develop a curved surface on a place (Geom.), to produce on the plane an equivalent surface, as if by rolling the curved surface so that all parts shall successively touch the plane.

A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr.)

rgument. To devise curious works. Ex. CCTV. 32. Devising schemes to realize his ambitious views. Bancroft.

A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point. Smart.

A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.

The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.

Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.

are many species. See Opossum. [Written also Didelphis.] See Illustration in Appendix. Cuvier.