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To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm. The deluged earth would useless grow. Blackmore.

A small cup for, or of, black coffee.

A half-vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges. Blackstone.

Magic in which the aid of demons is invoked; black or infernal magic. Bp. Hurd.

r demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes. W. Black.

To blacken thoroughly; to make very black. Boyle.

The act of making black. Boyle.

One who, or that which, blackens.

; to graze; also, to use for pasture. [R.] Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds. Blackstone. A right to cut wood upon or departure land. Washburn.

hing attached a subordinate to, or contingent on, something else. Like a large cluster of black grapes they show And make a large dependence from the bough. Dryden.

or unto. Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not. Blackstone. His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other. Macaulay. Derogatory clause in a testament (Law), a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he…

g men. Ezek. xxiii. 12. As things desirable excite Desire, and objects move the appetite. Blackmore.

Detention. [R.] Blackstone.

. . . that at some time or other might influence or even determine her course of life. W. Black.

Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator. Blackstone.

the large kelp (Laminaria saccharina, and L. longicruris) of the Atlantic ocean, having a blackish, leathery expansion, shaped somewhat like an apron. -- Devil's coachhorse. (Zoöl.) (a) The black rove beetle (Ocypus olens). [Eng.] (b) A large, predacious, hemipterous insect (Prionotus cristatus); the wheel bug. [U.S.]…

h has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries.

The American black-throated bunting (Spiza Americana).

cine. Chaucer. That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself. Blackw. Mag.

son, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony. Blackstone.