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A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods. [Written also debage.]

squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.

cennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy. [Written also decad.] During this notable decade of years. Gladstone.

A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. [Written also, less correctly, decaedron.]

The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.

A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian.

to sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 16mo or 16º.

slate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.

Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

To furnish with defenses; to fortify. [Obs.] [Written also defence.] Better manned and more strongly defensed. Hales.

A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch. [Written also delft, and delve.] [Obs.] The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could . . . keep them dry. Ray.

nted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use. [Written also demain.] Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill. Ancient demesne. (Eng. Law) See under Ancient.

One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. [Often written dæmon.]

A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. [Written also demi.] He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called "scholars," young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. Johnson.

oath; to bear testimony to; -- now usually said of bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use. Abbott. To depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands. Bacon.

To lay aside; to rid one's self of. [Obs.] If what is written prove useful to you, to the depositing that which i can not deem an error. Hammond.

An order of Mammalia; the Cheiroptera. [Written also Dermaptera, and Dermatoptera.]

ey have permanent gill openings, but no external gills; -- called also Cryptobranchiata. [Written also Derotrema.]

To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.