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dance their wayward round. Wordsworth. To dance on a rope, or To dance on nothing, to be hanged.

eams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.

To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion. he'd rather on a gibbet dangle Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle. Hudibras. From her lifted hand Dangled a length of ribbon. Tennyson. To dangle about or after, to hang upon importunately; to court the favor of; to beset. The Presbyterians, and other fanatics…

A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.

ng or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis. John Wilson.

ssed to the understanding. Nervous deafness, a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve.

An executioner; a headsman or hangman. [Obs.] Shak.

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend. "With declining head." Shak. He . . . would decline even to the lowest of his family. Lady Hutchinson. Disdaining to decline, Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries. Byron…

To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn. [Obs.] Claudius . . . Was demed for to hang upon a tree. Chaucer.

Changed in features; deformed. [R.] Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.

Transformation; change of shape.

Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes; as, a delicate thermometer.

arming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing.

ere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.

To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.

To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. And ever-living lamps depend in rows. Pope.

The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

A thing hanging down; a dependence.

Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition. Depolarization of light (Opt.), a change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had been anulled. The word is inappropriate, as the r…