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One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. Whewell.

A maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia.

In general, the literature or history of the art.

A writer of dactylic verse.

A city of Syria. Damascus blade, a sword or scimiter, made chiefly at Damascus, having a variegated appearance of watering, and proverbial for excellence. -- Damascus iron, or Damascus twist, metal formed of thin bars or wires of iron and steel elaborately twisted and welded together; used for making gun barrels, etc.…

hat upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural. Any writer, therefore, who . . . furnishes us with data sufficient to determine the time in which he wrote. Priestley.

An umpire or arbiter; a mediator. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us. Job ix. 33.

A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist. [R.]

le to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.

e of strength; the decline of virtue and religion. Their fathers lived in the decline of literature. Swift.

or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. Decoration Day, a day, May 30, appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors, who fell in the Civil War in the United States; Memorial Day. [U.S.]

Profoundly book-learned. "Great writers and deep-read men." L'Estrange.

face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record. "This high face defaced." Emerson. So by false learning is good s…

act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.

more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b2c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2…

Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book. The deistical or antichristian scheme. I. Watts.

Adapted to destroy or obliterate. [R.] Evelyn.

lorence. The Dellacruscan School, a name given in satire to a class of affected English writers, most of whom lived in Florence, about a. d. 1785.