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Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.

Base timidity; cowardliness.

fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.

To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten. Some presences daunt and discourage us. Glanvill.

r fitted to the outside of the quarter-gallery door. -- Dead flat (Naut.), the widest or midship 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 por…

en to the lowest of his family. Lady Hutchinson. Disdaining to decline, Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries. Byron. The ground at length became broken and declined rapidly. Sir W. Scott.

Greek Deltoid leaf (Bot.), a leaf in the form of a triangle with the stem inserted at the middle of the base. -- Deltoid muscle (Anat.), a triangular muscle in the shoulder which serves to move the arm directly upward.

The Numidian crane (Antropoides virgo); -- so called on account of the grace and symmetry of its form and movements.

A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is of an inSydenham.

Having the middle lower than the border; concave. [Obs.] If the seal be depress or hollow. Hammond.

Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centers, as bromides, etc.

That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter. From you unclouded depth above. Keble. The depth closed me round about. Jonah ii. 5.

by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.

The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.

Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned. In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language. Earle. [Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect. Prescott.

laced at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.

A compound containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals, -- as contrasted with a diamide.

A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.

and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.

mperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away. Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness. Spectator.