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In general, the literature or history of the art.

A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan. Judges xiii. 2.

A variety of nephelite from Vesuvius.

ble to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.

ne of strength; the decline of virtue and religion. Their fathers lived in the decline of literature. Swift.

or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. Decoration Day, a day, May 30, appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors, who fell in the Civil War in the United States; Memorial Day. [U.S.]

face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record. "This high face defaced." Emerson. So by false learning is good…

act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b2c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx…

Adapted to destroy or obliterate. [R.] Evelyn.

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

appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. Macaulay.

That which is attached to something else as its consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like. This earth and its dependencies. T. Burnet. Modes I call such complex ideas which . . . are considered as dependencies on or affections of substances. Locke.

The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.

to defame; -- often with from. It has been the fashion to detract both from the moral and literary character of Cicero. V. Knox.

That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification. Sir T. Browne.

glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products.

Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.

To compose literary works; to tell what shall be written or said by another. Sylla could not skill of letters, and therefore knew not how to dictate. Bacon.

The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.