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ction. -- To sweep the deck (Card Playing), to clear off all the stakes on the table by winning them.

In a decursive manner. Decursively pinnate (Bot.), having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole; -- said of a leaf.

A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson.

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.

as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience. This, in our foresaid holy father's name, Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee. Shak.

Deprived of reason. Arise, thou dementate sinner! Hammond.

en there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. Prof. Wilson. Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. A. W. Ward.

stored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay. Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton.

the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner. "An 't please your honor," quoth the peasant, "This same dessert is not so pleasant." Pope. Dessert spoon, a spoon used in eating dessert; a spoon intermediate in size between a teaspoon and a tablespoon. -- Dessert-spoonf…

A condition of the score beginning whendeuce, which decides the game.

A Linnæan class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.

ated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.

A Linnæan class of plants having two stamens.

A Linnæan class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.

Day of wrath; -- the name and beginning of a famous mediæval Latin hymn on the Last Judgment.

n paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty Differencies of administration, but the same Lord. 1 Cor. xii. 5.

main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude. Holland. In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. Locke.

A Linnæan order of plants having two styles.

Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, esp. of water. Arbuthnot.

To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore.