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Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages.

ically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay. Their martyred blood and ashes sow. Milton. The coffins were broken open. The ashes were scattered to the winds. Macaulay.

Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.

Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay; Basque [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap. A decaying pine of stately size, bleeding amber. H. Miller.

A form of decay in fruit which is overripe.

A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit. Lindley.

Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.

A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago.

se planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay. Burke. Fortune's buffets and rewards. Shak.

fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.

burying small dead animals by digging away the earth beneath them. The larvæ feed upon decaying flesh, and are useful scavengers. -- To bury the hatchet, to lay aside the instruments of war, and make peace; -- a phrase used in allusion to the custom observed by the North American Indians, of burying a tomahawk when t…

A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry. Dunglison.

See Cayman.

Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain.

s forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red of Cayenne pepper of commerce.

The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing. A rotten carcass of a boat. Shak.

Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth.

Dissolution; degeneration; decay. [R.] Sad catalysis and declension of piety. Evelyn.

coexisting together. Locke. So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so much decay and so many infirmities. Warburton.