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To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner. If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colors, the vulgar admire it is an excellent piece. I. Watts. A lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over. Dryden.

One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit. (b) pl.

m of the ocean. -- Gone to Davy Jones's Locker, dead, and buried in the sea; thrown overboard.

stoppage; a complete obstruction of action. Things are at a deadlock. London Times. The Board is much more likely to be at a deadlock of two to two. The Century.

The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.

Dissolute; dissipated. "A coarse and debauched look." Ld. Lytton.

Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased. "Defunct organs." Shak. The boar, defunct, lay tripped up, near. Byron.

Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton.

A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.

The office of a deacon; deaconship; also, a body or board of deacons.

A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.

Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.

oints for drawing the spiral curve of the volute. Gwilt. -- Diminishing rule (Arch.), a board cut with a concave edge, for fixing the entasis and curvature of a shaft. -- Diminishing stile (Arch.), a stile which is narrower in one part than in another, as in many glazed doors.

Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar. Think you a little din can daunt mine ears Shak. He knew the battle's din afar. Sir W. Scott. The dust and din and steam of town. Tennyson.

The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. "The dip of oars in unison." Glover.

The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.

A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.

To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.

r interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.