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Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant. Was never prince so meek and debonair. Spenser.

The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy. Sterne.

One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H20, of the ethylene series.

One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H15, of the acetylene series; -- called also decenylene.

Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable. Negligent of the duties and decorums of his station. Hallam. If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you mu…

Deducibleness.

The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. What choice to choose for delicacy best. Milton.

Nimbleness; agility. [Obs.]

The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.

Deplorableness. Stormonth.

The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.

Despicableness. [R.] Carlyle.

The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness.

The quality of being determinable; determinableness. Coleridge.

t, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H10, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series.

The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.

A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.

Terribleness; horror; woefulness. Shak.

ay you, unto my sepulture To sing my dirige with great devotion. Lamentation of Mary Magdalene.

Unsuitableness; unadaptedness. [R.]