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, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness. Because they had no deepness of earth. Matt. xiii. 5.

One who defends; a defender. The rampiers and ditches which the defendants had cast up. Spotswood.

Same as Deflour. An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens. W. Montagu. If a man had deflowered a virgin. Milton.

state. Milton. Degenerate from their ancient blood. Swift. These degenerate days. Pope. I had planted thee a noble vine . . . : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me Jer. ii. 21.

l, or a bishop. He saw many removes and degradations in all the other offices of which he had been possessed. Clarendon.

representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates them excessively.

A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. Which to that shady delve him brought at last The very tigers from their delves Look out. Moore.

The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. Also called half tint.

lizing example of profligate power and prosperous crime. Walsh. The vices of the nobility had demoralized the army. Bancroft.

orous, or serious; making a show of gravity. A cat lay, and looked so demure, as if there had been neither life nor soul in her. L'Estrange. Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head. Miss Mitford.

ers, . . . to obtain from the king's subjects as much as they would willingly give, . . . had not to complain of many peremptory denials. Hallam.

Depth of shade. Abney.

A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.

uck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage. On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Fuller.

ne of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had been anulled. The word is inappropriate, as the ray does not return to the unpolarized condition.

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment. He told us he had been deported to Spain. Walsh.

, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation. In their deportations, they had often the favor of their conquerors. Atterbury.

As touching traditional communication, . . . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help of that derivation. Sir M. Hale.

is gone . . . to descry The strength o' the enemy. Shak. And now their way to earth they had descried. Milton.

d is the summer fair. Gower. A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay. Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton.