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awhile. Shak. His dearest wish was to escape from the bustle and glitter of Whitehall. Macaulay.

rding to the laws of heraldry, they where debruised in token of his illegitimate birth. Macaulay.

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

decays. Herbert. His [Johnson's] failure was not to be ascribed to intellectual decay. Macaulay. Which has caused the decay of the consonants to follow somewhat different laws. James Byrne.

h with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny. Macaulay.

roversy; final; conclusive. "A decisive, irrevocable doom." Bates. "Decisive campaign." Macaulay. "Decisive proof." Hallam.

ed with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay.

iend -- any every foe. Pope. Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects. Macaulay.

nt strength; deficient in judgment. The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety. Macaulay. Deficient number. (Arith.) See under Abundant. -- De*fi"cient-ly, adv.

racy; disgrace; abasement; debasement. The . . . degradation of a needy man of letters. Macaulay. Deplorable is the degradation of our nature. South. Moments there frequently must be, when a sidegradation of his state. Blair.

d state reserved! Milton. He pride . . . struggled hard against this degrading passion. Macaulay.

ed she greet. Sir W. Scott. Round turned he, as not deigning Those craven ranks to see. Macaulay.

ment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay.

t Augustan delicacy of taste which is the boast of the great public schools of England. Macaulay.

th a second edition [Pilgrim's Progress] with additions; and the demand became immense. Macaulay.

Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien. His demeanor was singularly pleasing. Macaulay. The men, as usual, liked her artless kindness and simple refined demeanor. Thackeray.

To make a dent upon; to indent. The houses dented with bullets. Macaulay.

re or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. Macaulay.

ttle on political institutions, and much on the temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay. Heaven forming each on other to depend. Pope.

pon friends. England, long dependent and degraded, was again a power of the first rank. Macaulay. Dependent covenant or contract (Law), one not binding until some connecting stipulation is performed. -- Dependent variable (Math.), a varying quantity whose changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by changes…