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The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits.

A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.

resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine. Dammar pine, (Bot.), a tree of the Moluccas (Agathis, or Dammara, orientalis), yielding dammar.

The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.

ger, do you not Shak. Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Not clear to the understanding; not easily The dark problems of existence. Shairp. What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain. Hooker. What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word Shak.

upon a party by the law. Burril. Bouvier. Dative executor, one appointed by the judge of probate, his office answering to that of an administrator.

The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem. Datum line (Surv.), the horizontal or base line, from which the heights of points are reckoned or measured, as in the plan of a railway, etc.

as from levers, pulleys, etc.; hence, an extreme emergency. "(As we say) at a dead lift." Robynson (More's Utopia). -- Dead line (Mil.), a line drawn within or around a military prison, to cross which involves for a prisoner the penalty of being instantly shot. -- Dead load (Civil Engin.), a constant, motionless load…

phrase, or a scientific term. They define virtue to be life ordered according to nature. Robynson (More's Utopia).

To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament. He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him. Jer. Taylor.

Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools." Shak.

me things too delicate and too sacred to be handled rudely without injury to truth. F. W. Robertson.

esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.

A robbing or embezzlement. [Obs.] Depeculation of the public treasure. Hobbes.

against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation. Humble deprecation. Milton.

One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.

Harm. [Obs.] Robert of Brunne.

ian religion. Locke. He counted it no derogation of his manhood to be seen to weep. F. W. Robertson.

- Descriptive geometry, that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- De*scrip"tive*ly, adv. -- De*scrip"tive*ness, n.