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d to the hungry Is. lviii. 7. And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold. Tickell. The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. Gay. Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt. Dryden.

s supposed to forebode death. And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. Coleridge. -- Death grapple, a grapple or struggle for life. -- Death in life, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. [Poetic] "Lay lingering out a five years' death in life." Tennyson. -- Death knell,…

The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). Dr. Prior.

An act or occasion of debauchery. Silenus, from his night's debauch, Fatigued and sick. Cowley.

To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly. Macaulay.

ny mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. Decoration Day, a day, May 30, appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors, who fell in the Civil War in t…

Illustrious act; achievement; exploit. "Knightly deeds." Spenser. Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn. Dryden.

le; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss. Thy judgments are a great. Ps. xxxvi. 6. Deep of night, the most quiet or profound part of night; dead of night. The deep of night is crept upon our talk. Shak.

; to accuse. [R.] Rebecca is . . . defamed of sorcery practiced on the person of a noble knight. Sir W. Scott.

anses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups. Knight.

time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold. Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak. God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. Milton.

The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means. Knight.

ne's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop. He saw many removes and degradations in all the other offices of which he had been possessed. Clarendon.

rson has arrived; rank or station in life; position. "A dame of high degree." Dryden. "A knight is your degree." Shak. "Lord or lady of high degree." Lowell.

delights the ear. Inventions to delight the taste. Shak. Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds. Tennyson.

The drain on the land side of a sea embankment. Knight.

A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. Knight.

An ornamental tooling like lace. Knight.

ment which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone. Knight.

itreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.