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A writer of dactylic verse.

A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.

To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.

One dearly beloved; a favorite. And can do naught but wail her darling's loss. Shak.

A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.

Bold; spirited; showy. The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. T. Campbell.

that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural. Any writer, therefore, who . . . furnishes us with data sufficient to determine the time in which he wrote. Priestley.

A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist. [R.]

play; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant. Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act. Bancroft.

Profoundly book-learned. "Great writers and deep-read men." L'Estrange.

Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book. The deistical or antichristian scheme. I. Watts.

Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance. -- De*ject"ed*ly, adv. -- De*ject"ed*ness, n.

Florence. The Dellacruscan School, a name given in satire to a class of affected English writers, most of whom lived in Florence, about a. d. 1785.

To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame. [Obs.] If I have demerited any love or thanks. Udall. Executed as a traitor . . . as he well demerited. State Trials (1645).

who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps. Literary demimonde, writers of the lowest kind.

One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.

Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.

Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.

teth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John Gay deserved to be a favorite. Thackeray. Encouragement is not held out to things that deserve reprehension. Burke.

A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.