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ead aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off. [Colloq. New. Eng.] See Line, v. t.

till, in some burghs, chosen by the Guildry, whose duty is to superintend the erection of new buildings and see that they conform to the law. -- Dean of a monastery, Monastic dean, a monastic superior over ten monks. -- Dean's stall. See Decanal stall, under Decanal.

religion declines; business declines. That empire must decline Whose chief support and sinews are of coin. Waller. And presume to know . . . Who thrives, and who declines. Shak.

fining power of an optical instrument. Rings . . . very distinct and well defined. Sir I. Newton.

Description; sort. [R.] "A new creature of another definition." Jer. Taylor.

or Poetic] "The deftest way." Shak. "Deftest feats." Gay. The limping god, do deft at his new ministry. Dryden. Let me be deft and debonair. Byron.

That which gives great pleasure or delight. Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight. Milton.

Ambiguous; mysterious. "If he is silent or delphic." New York Times.

pirifer. Delthyris limestone (Geol.), one of the divisions of the Upper Silurian rocks in New York.

atively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question. I did demand what news from Shrewsbury. Shak.

Demented; dementate. [R.] J. H. Newman.

ectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic.

A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the "penny" of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.

To breed or cut new teeth. [R.] The old countess . . . did dentize twice or thrice. Bacon.

To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. [R.] To denunciate this new work. Burke.

relations of domestic life. H. G. Bell. The argument derivable from the doxologies. J. H. Newman.

zation of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.

Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous. Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him. John xvi. 19. Be not desirous of his dainties. Prov. xxiii. 3.

nce; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds. Atterbury. He [Goldsmith] knew nothing accurately; his reading had been desultory. Macaulay.

which would have demanded of him a most heroic faith and the detachment of a saint. J. H. Newman.