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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.

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.

Of measureless depth; unfathomable. In clouds of depthless night. Francis.

expound one text twenty ways, as children make descant upon plain song. Tyndale. She [the nightingale] all night long her amorous descant sung. Milton.

Improperly, an heraldic bearing. Knights-errant used to distinguish themselves by devices on their shields. Addison. A banner with this strange device -Excelsior. Longfellow.

lly in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the ladies. "Do now your devoid, young knights!" Chaucer.

oisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night. Her tears fell with the dews at even. Tennyson.

law past all atonement; both diagonal contraries, as much allowing one another as day and night together in one hemisphere. Milton.

ibuting the current to a series of electric lamps so as to maintain equal action in all. Knight. Partial differential (Math.), the differential of a function of two or more variables, when only one of the variables receives an increment. -- Total differential (Math.), the differential of a function of two or more vari…

gold become dim! Lam. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth.