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Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed. "A stale virgin." Spectator.

in; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle. Prudes decayed about may track, Strain their necks with looking back. Swift.

Cheerful; genial; as, a sunny disposition. My decayed fair A sunny look of his would soon repair. Shak.

So they prepared timber . . . to build the house. 1 Kings v. 18. Many of the timbers were decayed. W. Coxe.

A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.

Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk.

To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst.

One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.

r uneven in any way. A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. Milton. Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. Bryant. To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [Obs.] Marston.

A green or blue pigment produced by Peziza in certain kinds of decayed wood, as the beech, oak, birch, etc., and extracted as an amorphous powder resembling indigo.

A tribe or family of dipterous flies whose larvæ live in decayed wood. Some of the tropical species are very large.

One of a tribe of beetles (Xylophili) whose larvæ live on decayed wood.