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rry or demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner befor a prince. Pope.

to, or in relation with, both dermal and neural structures; as, the dermoneural spines or dorsal fin rays of fishes. Owen.

Power of devising; invention; contrivance. I must have instruments of my own device. Landor.

A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained from starch by the action of heat, acids, or diastase. It is of somewhat variable composition, containing several carbohydrates which change easily to their respective varieties of suga…

To adorn with a diadem; to crown. Not so, when diadem'd with rays divine. Pope. To terminate the evil, To diadem the right. R. H. Neale.

A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.

Adorned with diamonds; diamondized. Emerson.

To set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich. [R.] Diamondizing of your subject. B. Jonson.

ear. Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous. Landor.

The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

A colorless, volatile, alkaline liquid, NH(C2H5)2, having a strong fishy odor resembling that of herring or sardines. Cf. Methylamine.

To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn. [Archaic] "She gan the house to dight." Chaucer. Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice. Fairfax. The clouds in thousand liveries dight. Milton.

Having two dorsal fins; -- said of certain fishes.

Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers.

To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle.

purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.

To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.

Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful. So disingenuous as not to confess them [faults]. Pope. -- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ly, adv. T. Warton. -- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ness, n. Macaulay.

To scatter; to sprinkle. [Obs.] Odorous water was Disperpled lightly on my head and neck. Chapman.

To discover; to descry. [Obs.] And from his seat took pleasure to display The city so adorned with towers. Chapman.