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The removal of calcareous matter.

In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest consisting of a 100-meter run, a broad jump, putting the shot, a running high-jump, a 400-meter run, throwing the discus, a 100-meter hurdle race, pole vaulting, throwing the javelin, and a 1500-meter run.

Pertaining to, or derived from, decane.

ark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull. "Great barley dried and decorticated." Arbuthnot.

The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.

Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated. "Dedicate to nothing temporal." Shak.

One to whom a thing is dedicated; -- correlative to dedicator.

, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple.

One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.

Dedicatory.

Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental. "An epistle dedicatory." Dryden.

The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.

y of money, accounts, rents, income, etc. To show what may be practicably and safely defalcated from the [the estimates]. Burke.

A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set-off. Abbott.

A defaulter or embezzler. [Modern]

anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified. Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense. Bates.

The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.

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

The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.